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Bladder Cancer Patient Advocacy: A Global Perspective

Bladder Cancer
Over the past 20 years, cancer patient advocacy groups have demonstrated that patient engagement in cancer care is essential to improving patient quality of life and outcomes.
Diane Zipursky Quale, Rick Bangs, Monica Smith, David Guttman, Tammy Northam, Andrew Winterbottom, Andrea Necchi, Edoardo Fiorini, Stephanie Demkiw   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring Healthcare Workers' Workplace Violence Exposure Over Time Using Workers' Compensation Claims

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Workplace violence towards healthcare workers impacts workforce stability and patient care delivery. California passed a workplace violence prevention standard, phased in during 2017‐2018, requiring enhanced tracking and training in healthcare workplaces.
Rachel Odes, Soo‐Jeong Lee, OiSaeng Hong, Wan‐chin Kuo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the perspectives of new-in-practice specialists about the Health Advocate role: “I didn’t even know where to start”

Canadian Medical Education Journal
Introduction: Current approaches to health advocate (HA) training leave many physicians feeling ill-equipped to advocate effectively. Likewise, faculty perceive the HA role as challenging to teach, role model, evaluate and assess.
Jacqueline Dorothy Cochrane , Nancy Dudek, Kelsey Crawford, Lindsay Cowley , Kori A LaDonna   +4 more
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The 9th International RASopathies Symposium

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The RASopathies are a group of congenital disorders with overlapping clinical manifestations that are caused by pathogenic germline or early somatic variants that result in the hyperactivation of the RAS/mitogen‐activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway.
Pau Castel, Lisa Schoyer, Beth Stronach, Raya Bogdanova, Anton M. Bennett, Jaishri Blakeley, Miriam Bornhorst, Tammy Bowers, Saskia M. Brachmann, Emma Burkitt‐Wright, Kathryn Chatfield, Alessandro De Luca, Khalil El‐Chammas, Abdul Elkadri, John E. Fortunato, Bruce D. Gelb, Anne Goriely, Karen Gripp, Kassidy Grover, Lindsay Homan, Kenneth A. Kern, Maija Kiuru, Charles (Chuck) Lawson, Yong‐Seok Lee, Frank McCormick, Gina Ney, Cristina Nuevo‐Tapioles, Sara Pardej, Elizabeth I. Pierpont, Julia Plank, Nancy Ratner, Katherine A. Rauen, J. Elliott Robinson, Les Rogers, Sarah E. Sheppard, Keir Shiels, David Stevenson, Dagmar Tiemens, Matthew Traylor, K. Nicole Weaver, Marielle Yohe, Tamar Green   +41 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phenotype Expansion of Malan Syndrome: New Cases and a Review of the Literature

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Malan syndrome is an ultra‐rare overgrowth syndrome caused by pathogenic variants or deletions in nuclear factor one X (NFIX) located at 19p13.2. Here, we report a comprehensive literature review and phenotyping of known patients with Malan syndrome and present a novel cohort of eight patients.
Alex F. Nisbet, Sylvie A. Adams, Zoe S. Katz, Christal G. Delagrammatikas, Kosuke Izumi, Winifred Sigal, Kim Ventarola, Elaine H. Zackai, Julia E. Reid, Grant T. Liu, Jennifer M. Kalish   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Through a Tainted Lens: A Qualitatve Study of Medical Learners’ Thinking About Patient ‘Deservingness’ of Health Advocacy

Perspectives on Medical Education
Introduction: While health advocacy is a key component of many competency frameworks, mounting evidence suggests that learners do not see it as core to their learning and future practice.
Ian Scott, Maria Hubinette, Theresa van der Goes, Renate Kahlke   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient Perspectives on Psychiatric Polygenic Risk Scores in Reproductive Decision‐Making and Polygenic Embryo Screening

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate individuals' genetic risk for developing multifactorial conditions. Recent genome‐wide association studies have enabled development of psychiatric PRS, which hold potential to streamline diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions.
Lauren A. Ginn, Amanda R. Merner, Page M. Trotter, Kaitlynn P. Craig, Abigail C. Martinez, Ana Lucía Battaglino, Dorit Barlevy, Daphne M. Ayton, Takahiro Soda, Eric A. Storch, Gabriel Lázaro‐Muñoz, Stacey Pereira   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking the Barriers to Specialty Care: Practical Ideas to Improve Health Equity and Reduce Cost - Striving for Equity in Specialty Care Full Report [PDF]

, 2016
Tremendous health outcome inequities remain in the U.S. across race and ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and geography—particularly for those with serious conditions such as lung or skin cancer, HIV/AIDS, or cardiovascular
Chris Carlson, Jared Sholk, Jennifer Nanni, Kyle Peterson, Lauren A. Smith, Neeraja Bhavaraju   +5 more
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Genetic Risk and High Burden of Depression and Suicide in the Maya‐Mestizo Population of Yucatán, México

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Major depression and suicide are critical public health concerns, particularly in underrepresented populations with unique genetic and sociocultural contexts. The Maya‐mestizo population presents the highest suicide rates in the country but remains understudied in psychiatric genetics. This study evaluated the association between three genetic
Marta Menjivar, Erandi Bravo, Margarita Rivera‐Balancan, Barbara Itzel Pena Espinoza   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Diagnosis That Arrived Decades Late: Living Without and Then With Myhre Syndrome

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome (MIM #139210) is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1981, characterized by short stature, neurodevelopmental delay, joint contractures, and cardiopulmonary complications. Its molecular basis, recurrent pathogenic variants in SMAD4, was not discovered until 2011. This narrative is based on a review of medical records,
Abdallah F. Elias
wiley   +1 more source