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Acceptance of Digital Health Technologies in Palliative Care Patients

Palliative Medicine Reports
Background: Digital health technologies have potential to transform palliative care (PC) services. The global aging population poses unique challenges for PC, which digital health technologies may help overcome.
Wicki, Stefan, Clark, Ian C, Amann, Manuel, Christ, Sebastian M, Schettle, Markus, Hertler, Caroline, Theile, Gudrun, Blum, David   +7 more
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Why and When Are Evidence‐Based Interventions Adopted in Paediatric Supportive Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Determinants of Photobiomodulation Implementation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie, Kara A. Gray‐Burrows, Peter F. Day, Bob Phillips, Carl A. Thompson   +4 more
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Dexamethasone for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Prevention in Pediatric Patients: International Consensus

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background An international Delphi panel of experts developed consensus statements to delineate the circumstances where the risks of dexamethasone as an antiemetic do and do not outweigh its benefits. Procedure Experts in supportive care of pediatric patients were invited to participate.
Negar Shavandi, Paula D. Robinson, Shana Jacobs, L. Lee Dupuis, the International Pediatric Dexamethasone Panel, Sameer Bakhshi, Tiene Bauters, Eva Brack, Simone Cesaro, Claire Fosbrook, Jason Freedman, Tamara MacDonald, Eloise Neumann, Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, Rod Rassekh, Florian Slimano, Johnathan Soggee, Joel Thompson, Marianne van de Wetering, Milena Villarroel, Jasper Wong   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical pharmacy activities in chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease patients: a systematic literature review [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) represent worldwide health problems with an epidemic extent. Therefore, attention must be given to the optimisation of patient care, as gaps in the care of CKD and ESRD patients ...
Gunar Stemer, Rosa Lemmens-Gruber
core   +2 more sources

Factors influencing government insurance scheme beneficiary acceptance of the gatekeeper policy: a cross-sectional study in Wuhan, China

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Gatekeeper policy, requiring a patient to visit a primary care provider first, and the patient needs to get his or her primary care provider’s referral before seeing a specialist or going to a hospital, has been implemented in China for about ...
Wenzhen Li, Dongming Wang, Yong Gan, Yanfeng Zhou, Yawen Chen, Jing Li, Naomiem Kkandawire, Sai Hu, Yan Qiao, Zuxun Lu   +9 more
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Primary care patients with depression are less accepting of treatment than those seen by mental health specialists [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2003
This study examined whether depressed patients treated exclusively in primary care report less need for care and less acceptability of treatment options than those depressed patients treated in the specialty mental health setting after up to 6 months of treatment.Cross-sectional study.Forty-five community primary care practices.A total of 881 persons ...
Benjamin W, Van Voorhees, Lisa A, Cooper, Kathryn M, Rost, Paul, Nutting, Lisa V, Rubenstein, Lisa, Meredith, Nae-Yuh, Wang, Daniel E, Ford   +7 more
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Real‐World Pediatric Blinatumomab Administration: Access to Outpatient Care Delivery and Impact of a Hospital‐Dispensed Model

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Blinatumomab has been shown to be highly effective for patients with pediatric B‐ALL and has recently become standard of care therapy. Due to its past use in the clinical trial setting, there is limited information available about real‐world administration.
Katelyn Oranges, Kelly A. Duffy, Sara McDonough, Evelyn Kurpiewski, R. Jennifer Randall, Allison Barz Leahy, Haley M. Newman, Joyce P. Lee, Stephen P. Hunger, Anne F. Reilly, David T. Teachey, Susan R. Rheingold, Daniel J. Zheng   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘I’ve put diabetes completely on the shelf till the mental stuff is in place’. How patients with doctor-assessed impaired self-care perceive disease, self-care, and support from general practitioners. A qualitative study

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2018
Objective: This paper investigated patients’ experiences of disease and self-care as well as perceptions of the general practitioner’s role in supporting patients with impaired self-care ability.
Mads Aage Toft Kristensen, Ann Dorrit Guassora, Anne Beiter Arreskov, Frans Boch Waldorff, Bibi Hølge-Hazelton   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of a terrorist attack on emergency department inflow: an observation study using difference-in-differences methodology

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2019
Study objective The objective of this study was to investigate how the terrorist attack in Stockholm, Sweden affected patient inflow to the general emergency departments (EDs) in close proximity of the attack.
Andreas Ekström, Fredrik Eng-Larsson, Olov Isaksson, Lisa Kurland, Martin Nordberg   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quali-quantitative analysis of adherence and perceived satisfaction of individuals with COPD after high-intensity training on land and in water: additional analysis from a randomized clinical trial

Fisioterapia e Pesquisa, 2021
Although patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) benefit in many ways after participating in pulmonary rehabilitation programs, high dropout rates are still observed among participants. This study aims to analyze the adherence rate and
Débora Rafaelli de Carvalho, Larissa Araújo de Castro, Myriam Fernanda Merli, Josiane Marques Felcar, Lais Silva Vidotto, Dirce Shizuko Fujisawa, Vanessa Suziane Probst   +6 more
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