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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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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
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Validation of the 5-domain Niemann-Pick type C Clinical Severity Scale

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2021
Background Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is an ultra-rare, progressive, genetic disease leading to impaired lysosomal function and neurodegeneration causing serious morbidity and shortened life expectancy.
Marc C. Patterson, Lucy Lloyd-Price, Christina Guldberg, Helen Doll, Claire Burbridge, Michael Chladek, Christine íDali, Eugen Mengel, Tara Symonds   +8 more
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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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Conceptualizing outcomes for use with the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR): the CFIR Outcomes Addendum

Implementation Science, 2022
Background The challenges of implementing evidence-based innovations (EBIs) are widely recognized among practitioners and researchers. Context, broadly defined as everything outside the EBI, includes the dynamic and diverse array of forces working for or
L. Damschroder, C. Reardon, Marilla A. Opra Widerquist, J. Lowery   +3 more
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis, Okeleji Olayinka, Mariam Z. Quraishi, Lakshmi V. Srivaths, Deborah L. Brown, Neethu M. Menon, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Ashwin P. Patel, James M. Stark, Aravind Yadav   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of the Philippine National Unified Health Research Agenda 2023–2028

Discover Public Health
Background Effective health research priority-setting (RPS) is essential for directing resources toward the most pressing health challenges and ensuring that research efforts are aligned with national and global health goals.
Reneepearl Kim Sales, Lynnell Alexie Ong, Joseph Oraño, Ferlie Famaloan, Lionel Peters, Chiqui de Veyra, Kate Dunlao, Gillian Garcia, Kristine Alvina   +8 more
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Establishing clinically meaningful within-individual improvement thresholds for eight patient-reported outcome measures in people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2023
Background As disease-modifying therapies do not reverse the course of multiple sclerosis (MS), assessment of therapeutic success involves documenting patient-reported outcomes (PROs) concerning health-related quality of life, disease and treatment ...
Nupur Greene, Stéphane Quéré, Denise P. Bury, Flora Mazerolle, Manal M’Hari, Angély Loubert, Antoine Regnault, Keiko Higuchi   +7 more
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Decoherence and definite outcomes [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis has three aims: (1) to clarify in detail the relation between the decoherence mechanism and the problem of definite outcomes, (2) to dispel common misconceptions about the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, and (3) to present some ...
Colanero, Klaus
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Acute Kidney Injury Network: report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acute kidney injury

Critical Care, 2007
IntroductionAcute kidney injury (AKI) is a complex disorder for which currently there is no accepted definition. Having a uniform standard for diagnosing and classifying AKI would enhance our ability to manage these patients.
R. Mehta, J. Kellum, Sudhir V. Shah, B. Molitoris, C. Ronco, D. Warnock, A. Levin   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source