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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
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Effects of cinnamaldehyde on growth performance, serum parameters, ruminal fermentation, and bacterial community in Hu sheep

Animal Nutriomics
A total of 60 healthy lambs were randomly assigned to three treatment groups: control (CON), and groups receiving basal diet (dry matter base) supplemented with 400 mg/kg (CA400) and 800 mg/kg (CA800) of cinnamaldehyde (CA), the CA additive used silicon ...
Deshuang Wei, Qi Yan, Qin Zhang, Xin Gao, Cunyu Zhang, Ruizhanghui Wang, Bo Lin   +6 more
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Venous Thromboembolism in Pediatric Bone Sarcoma Patients: A 10‐Year, Single‐Institution Experience Encompassing the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Osteosarcoma (OS) and Ewing sarcoma (EWS) are the most common primary bone cancers in children, but acute thrombosis is poorly characterized in this population. Our study evaluated the rates of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and associated risk factors in pediatric patients with bone sarcomas treated over a 10‐year period encompassing
Sarah Kappa, Shou Xu, Mark Zobeck, Sarah E. Sartain, Nino Rainusso, Lisa Wang, Nicole Montgomery, Paige Wheaton, Sarah Whittle   +8 more
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A birth cohort study in the Middle East: the Qatari birth cohort study (QBiC) phase I

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background The latest scientific reports raise concerns about the rapidly increasing burden of chronic diseases in the state of Qatar. Pregnant Qatari women often confront complications during pregnancy including gestational diabetes, hypertension ...
Eman Sadoun, Vasiliki Leventakou, Maribel Casas, Heba Fawzy Ahmed, Manolis Kogevinas, Eleni Fthenou   +5 more
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Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook, Veerain Gupta, Nicholas J. Clark, Vijay Rings, Lauren E. Corona, Douglass B. Clayton, Daniel J. Benedetti   +6 more
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Use of social adaptability index to explain self-care and diabetes outcomes

BMC Endocrine Disorders, 2017
Background To examine whether the social adaptability index (SAI) alone or components of the index provide a better explanatory model for self-care and diabetes outcomes. Methods Six hundred fifteen patients were recruited from two primary care settings.
Jennifer A. Campbell, Rebekah J. Walker, Brittany L. Smalls, Leonard E. Egede   +3 more
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Heterogeneity in the Global Practice of Central Nervous System Staging in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is assessed by cell counting and cytomorphology from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and is used for treatment stratification worldwide. The ratio of “CNS2” patients in clinical trials ranges from 3% to 40%, with unclear prognostic significance ...
Laura Almási, Bernadett Borbála Huszti, Gábor Barna, Marko Kavcic, Janez Jazbec, Lennart Lenk, Vera Münch, Sophia Polychronopoulou, Ágnes Márk, Maria Thastrup, Lüder H. Meyer, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Cornelia Eckert, Christina Halsey, Dániel J. Erdélyi   +14 more
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A prospective cluster randomized trial of an interventions bundle to reduce inappropriate antibiotic use for upper respiratory tract infections in the outpatient setting

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Antibiotic overuse and increasing antimicrobial resistance are global public health threats. We determined the impact of a multicomponent intervention in reducing inappropriate antibiotic use for upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) in ...
Adeel A. Butt, Sherin Shams, Atika Jabeen, Asma Ali Al-Nuaimi, Jeyaram Illiayaraja Krishnan, Aimon B. Malik, Samah Saleem, Maryam Hassan Abdulaziz, Naheel Ismail Seyam, Kamran Aziz, Dalia Kandil, Anil G. Thomas, Hanaa Nafady-Hego, Muzna I. Lone, Jameela Al Ajmi, Zain A. Bhutta, Noora AlSulaiti, Wael E. Said Hussein, Sandy Semaan, Samya Ahmad Al-Abdulla, Mohamed Ghaith Al-Kuwari, Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra   +21 more
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Characterising the nature of primary care patient safety incident reports in the England and Wales National Reporting and Learning System: a mixed-methods agenda-setting study for general practice

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2016
Background: There is an emerging interest in the inadvertent harm caused to patients by the provision of primary health-care services. To date (up to 2015), there has been limited research interest and few policy directives focused on patient safety in ...
Andrew Carson-Stevens, Peter Hibbert, Huw Williams, Huw Prosser Evans, Alison Cooper, Philippa Rees, Anita Deakin, Emma Shiels, Russell Gibson, Amy Butlin, Ben Carter, Donna Luff, Gareth Parry, Meredith Makeham, Paul McEnhill, Hope Olivia Ward, Raymond Samuriwo, Anthony Avery, Antony Chuter, Liam Donaldson, Sharon Mayor, Sukhmeet Panesar, Aziz Sheikh, Fiona Wood, Adrian Edwards   +24 more
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Managing diagnostic uncertainty in primary care: a systematic critical review

BMC Family Practice, 2017
Background Diagnostic uncertainty is one of the largest contributory factors to the occurrence of diagnostic errors across most specialties in medicine and arguably uncertainty is greatest in primary care due to the undifferentiated symptoms primary care
Rahul Alam, Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Maria Panagioti, Aneez Esmail, Stephen Campbell, Efharis Panagopoulou   +5 more
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