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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient decision aids for cancer treatment [PDF]

open access: yesCancer, 2012
AbstractBACKGROUND:Although patient decision aids (pDAs) are effective, widespread use of pDAs for cancer treatment has not been achieved. The objectives of this study were to perform a systematic review to identify alternate types of decision support interventions (DSIs) for cancer treatment and a meta‐analysis to compare the effectiveness of these ...
Gillian, Spiegle   +6 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design a decision-making aid: "alternative treatment for breast cancer: what option do you prefer?"

open access: yesPsicooncologia, 2010
Purpose: To design a Decision-making Aid within the ‘Breast cancer’ healthcare process modelling of the Andalusian Public Health System (SSPA) for the therapeutic approach of early-stage disease.
Carmen Pérez   +12 more
doaj  

The Effect of Patient Narratives on Information Search in a Web-Based Breast Cancer Decision Aid: An Eye-Tracking Study

open access: yesJournal of Medical Internet Research, 2013
BackgroundPrevious research has examined the impact of patient narratives on treatment choices, but to our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of narratives on information search.
Shaffer, Victoria A   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of a decision aid about heart disease prevention on patients' discussions with their doctor and their plans for prevention: a pilot randomized trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Background Low utilization of effective coronary heart disease (CHD) prevention strategies may be due to many factors, but chief among them is the lack of patient involvement in prevention decisions.
Stacey L Sheridan   +33 more
core   +1 more source

Decision aids for patients facing health treatment or screening decisions [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1999
To conduct a systematic review of randomised trials of patient decision aids in improving decision making and outcomes.We included randomised trials of interventions providing structured, detailed, and specific information on treatment or screening options and outcomes to aid decision making.
A M, O'Connor   +8 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘A good decision is the one that feels right for me’: Codesign with patients to inform theoretical underpinning of a decision aid website

open access: yesHealth Expectations
Introduction Patient decision aids (PtDA) complement shared decision‐making with healthcare professionals and improve decision quality. However, PtDA often lack theoretical underpinning.
Kelly Kohut   +30 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural adaptation of a patient decision-aid for insulin therapy

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Patient decision-aids (PDAs) support patients in selecting evidence-based treatment options. PDA is useful only if the user understands the content to make personalised decisions. Cultural adaptation is a process of adjusting health messages
Josip Car   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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