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The Sarcoma-Specific Instrument to Longitudinally Assess Health-Related Outcomes of the Routine Care Cycle

Diagnostics, 2023
Patient-based health related quality of life (HRQoL) measurements are associated with an improvement in quality of care and outcomes. For a complex disease such as sarcoma, there is no disease-specific questionnaire available which covers all clinically relevant dimensions.
Nasian Mosku, Philip Heesen, Salome Christen, Mario F. Scaglioni, Beata Bode, Gabriela Studer, Bruno Fuchs   +6 more
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Survival Outcomes and Complications Among Canadian Children With Retinoblastoma: A Population‐Based Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine, Ofélie Trudeau‐Ferrin, Caroline Laverdière, Patrick Hamel, Rosanne Superstein, Bénédicte Koukoui, Carole Provost, Paul C. Nathan, Vijay Ramaswamy, Furqan Shaikh, Brenda Gallie, Ashwin Mallipatna, Stephanie Kletke, Helen Dimaras, Hallie Coltin   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health literacy as a key for effective preventive medicine

Cogent Social Sciences, 2017
Background: A preventive approach in health care aims to anticipate the natural history of the diseases and to define break points where the procedures may act to change future events, on the limit of the patient’s free will.
Paulo Santos, Luísa Sá, Luciana Couto, Alberto Hespanhol   +3 more
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Venous ulcer healing treated with conventional therapy and adjuvant laser: is there a difference?

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021
Objectives: to evaluate the effects of venous ulcer healing in patients after six months of conventional treatment and adjuvant low-power laser therapy.
Viviane Maria Osmarin, Taline Bavaresco, Vania Naomi Hirakata, Amália de Fátima Lucena, Isabel Cristina Echer   +4 more
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Personalized Selumetinib Dosing in Pediatric Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Insights From a Pilot Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate selumetinib exposure using therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and plexiform neurofibromas (PN), assess interpatient pharmacokinetic variability, and explore the relationship between drug exposure, clinical response, and adverse effects.
Janka Kovács, Zoltán Köllő, Balázs Gellért Karvaly, Mahmoud Obeidat, Rita Nagy, Péter Hegyi, Brigitta Teutsch, Eszter Tuboly, Miklós Garami   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Mechanosensitivity of the Median Nerve in Pre-Surgical Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Patients: A Correlational Study

Brain Sciences
(1) Background: Neurodynamic tests are recommended for the diagnosis of entrapment neuropathies such as carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). However, their association with clinical variables in severe patients or patients with associated comorbidities is ...
Mar Hernández-Secorún, Hugo Abenia-Benedí, María Orosia Lucha-López, María Durán-Serrano, Javier Sami Hamam-Alcober, John Krauss, Christie Booth-Smith, César Hidalgo-García   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Variations in the Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratios in Korea [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2014
Objectives: The hospital standardized mortality ratio (HSMR) has been widely used because it allows for robust risk adjustment using administrative data and is important for improving the quality of patient care.
Eun-Jung Lee, Soo-Hee Hwang, Jung-A Lee, Yoon Kim   +3 more
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Adherence to Protocol Recommendations for Children With Wilms Tumour in Two Consecutive Studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland—Does Variation Matter?

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Wilms tumour (WT) has excellent event‐free and overall survival (OS). However, small differences exist between countries participating in the same international study. This led us to examine variation in adherence to protocol recommendations as a potential contributing factor.
Suzanne Tugnait, R. Al‐Saadi, A. Lopez‐Cortes, K. Dzhuma, M. Oostveen, J. Brok, S. Irtan, M. Weeks, J. Bate, S. Baker, R. Williams, M. Powis, D. Saunders, O. Olsen, T. Watson, S. Shelmerdine, S. Vaidya, L. Howell, C. Duncan, G. M. Vujanic, C. Stiller, G. P. Balchin, T. Chowdhury, K. Pritchard‐Jones   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hospital staff experiences of their relationships with adults who self-harm: a meta-synthesis [PDF]

, 2016
Purpose This review aimed to synthesize qualitative literature exploring inpatient hospital staff experiences of their relationships with people who self-harm.
Glover, Lesley, O'Connor, Sophie
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Quality of life as an instrument for need assessment and outcome assessment of health care in chronic patients [PDF]

Quality and Safety in Health Care, 1999
Introduction Quality of life is generally acknowledged as a central concept in health care, but its full application in healthcare research and clinical practice are still being debated. With an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and the focus of health care expanding from “adding years to life” to “adding life to years”, there is a growing ...
van den Bos, GAM, Triemstra, AHM
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