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Healthy school meals and educational outcomes [PDF]

, 2009
This paper provides field evidence on the effects of a diet on educational outcomes, exploiting a campaign lead in the UK in 2004, which introduced drastic changes in the meals offered in the schools of one Borough – Greenwich- shifting from low-budget ...
Belot, Michele, James, Jonathan
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Observational vignette study to examine patient and healthcare provider perceived impact of asthma-related exacerbations in the US

Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 2019
Background Little is known about how patients and healthcare providers (HCPs) perceive the impact of asthma-related exacerbations. This study examined the impact of asthma-related exacerbations on patients’ lives from these different perspectives ...
Phaedra T. Johnson, Christopher F. Bell, John White, Breanna Essoi, Linda Nelsen, Carlyne M. Averell   +5 more
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Key measurement concepts and appropriate clinical outcome assessments in pediatric achondroplasia clinical trials

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2022
Background This study aimed to identify fit-for-purpose clinical outcome assessments (COAs) to evaluate physical function, as well as social and emotional well-being in clinical trials enrolling a pediatric population with achondroplasia.
Natalie V. J. Aldhouse, Helen Kitchen, Chloe Johnson, Chris Marshall, Hannah Pegram, Sheryl Pease, Sam Collins, Christine L. Baker, Katherine Beaverson, Chandler Crews, Jill Massey, Kathleen W. Wyrwich   +11 more
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Qualitative research to explore the symptoms and impacts experienced by children with ulcerative colitis

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2020
Background Ulcerative Colitis (UC) is a chronic gastrointestinal disease that often presents during one’s most productive years and is characterized by colon inflammation.
Jason A. Randall, Aiste Guobyte, Laure Delbecque, Louise Newton, Tara Symonds, Theresa Hunter   +5 more
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Willingness of Greek general population to get a COVID-19 vaccine

Global Health Research and Policy, 2021
Background Epidemiological data indicate that a large part of population needs to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. Hence, it is of high importance for public health officials to know whether people are going to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
Georgia Kourlaba, Eleni Kourkouni, Stefania Maistreli, Christina-Grammatiki Tsopela, Nafsika-Maria Molocha, Christos Triantafyllou, Markela Koniordou, Ioannis Kopsidas, Evangelia Chorianopoulou, Stefania Maroudi-Manta, Dimitrios Filippou, Theoklis E. Zaoutis   +11 more
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Development of the Near Vision Presbyopia Task-based Questionnaire for use in evaluating the impact of presbyopia

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2021
Background Presbyopia is a progressive condition that reduces the eye’s ability to focus on near objects with increasing age. After a systematic literature review identified no existing presbyopia-specific patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments ...
Elaheh Shirneshan, Cheryl D. Coon, Nathan Johnson, Jonathan Stokes, Ted Wells, J. Jason Lundy, David A. Andrae, Christopher J. Evans, Joanna Campbell   +8 more
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Effectiveness of early intervention programs for parents of preterm infants: a meta-review of systematic reviews [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Various intervention programs exist for parents of preterm babies and some systematic reviews (SRs) have synthesised the evidence of their effectiveness.
A Spittle, A Talmi, AJ Ferrari, AJ Sameroff, BJ Shea, C Day, EM Boyle, EO Boundy, F Borrell-Carrio, H Blencowe, IH Ravn, IP Landsem, J Brett, J McGregor, J Orton, J Petrie, J Vanderveen, JE Lawn, JM Kerstjens, Jogesh Kapadia, KM Benzies, L Hartling, Lesley Kilby, M Forcada-Guex, M Herd, ME Feinberg, ML Wang, MS Miles, Muhammad Chutiyami, NK Goyal, Pei-Ching Tseng, PI Kaaresen, Shuby Puthussery, T Evans, TN Raju, V Smith, V Smith, X Zhang   +37 more
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Treatment Effects on Ordinal Outcomes: Causal Estimands and Sharp Bounds

, 2018
Assessing the causal effects of interventions on ordinal outcomes is an important objective of many educational and behavioral studies. Under the potential outcomes framework, we can define causal effects as comparisons between the potential outcomes ...
Dasgupta, Tirthankar, Ding, Peng, Lu, Jiannan   +2 more
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Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction: Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) offers superior voiding outcomes to traditional transurethral resection and less morbidity than open simple prostatectomy. Likewise, HoLEP has been determined to result in excellent outcomes
Krambeck, Amy E., Lingeman, James E., Rivera, Marcelino E.   +2 more
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A systematic review of goal attainment scaling implementation practices by caregivers in randomized controlled trials

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Background Goal attainment scaling (GAS), an established individualized, patient-centred outcome measure, is used to capture the patient’s voice. Although first introduced ~60 years ago, there are few published guidelines for implementing GAS, and almost
Kulpreet Cheema, Taylor Dunn, Chere Chapman, Kenneth Rockwood, Susan E. Howlett, Gunes Sevinc   +5 more
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