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Patient decision aids in knee replacement surgery

The Knee, 2012
Arthroplasty is an effective intervention for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis refractory to conservative therapy. However, recent data highlights regional variations in service provision unrelated to disease severity and a low, but not insignificant, rate of patient dissatisfaction.
Jayadev, C, Khan, T, Coulter, A, Beard, D, Price, A   +4 more
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Decision Aids [PDF]

Medical Decision Making, 2015
Background. Conscious and unconscious biases can influence how people interpret new information and make decisions. Current standards for creating decision aids, however, do not address this issue. Method. Using a 2×2 factorial design, we developed surveys that contained a decision scenario (involving a choice between aspirin or a statin drug to lower
James G, Dolan, Olena A, Cherkasky, Nancy, Chin, Peter J, Veazie   +3 more
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Developing a decision aid to guide public sector health policy decisions: A study protocol [PDF]

, 2011
Background Decision aids have been developed in a number of health disciplines to support evidence-informed decision making, including patient decision aids and clinical practice guidelines. However, policy contexts differ from clinical contexts in terms
Peggy Tso, Anthony J Culyer, Melissa Brouwers, Mark J Dobrow   +3 more
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Imaging of High‐Risk Neuroblastoma: Recommendations From SIOPEN Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Specialty Committees

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in early childhood. Its clinical behavior is highly variable, ranging from spontaneous regression to fatal outcome despite intensive treatment. The International Society of Pediatric Oncology Europe Neuroblastoma Group (SIOPEN) Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Specialty Committees ...
Annemieke Littooij, Catia Olianti, Herve Brisse, Pier Luigi Di Paolo, Maria Garganese, Tejas Kapadia, Jurgen Schaefer, Hugh Wallace, Simon Wan, Bart de Keizer, Irmina Sefic Pasic, Julian Rogasch   +11 more
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Development and application of patient decision aids [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2015
With the current overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer resulting from routine screening in Korea, it is necessary to educate the public that not all cancers are malignant. The exposure to patient decision aids (PtDAs) compared to usual care reduced the number of people choosing to undergo prostate-specific antigen screening.
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Effectiveness of the Chest Pain Choice decision aid in emergency department patients with low-risk chest pain: study protocol for a multicenter randomized trial [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Chest pain is the second most common reason patients visit emergency departments (EDs) and often results in very low-risk patients being admitted for prolonged observation and advanced cardiac testing.
Annie Leblanc, Carlos A Torres, Deborah B Diercks, Erik P Hess, Henry H Ting, Jason T Schaffer, Jeffrey A Kline, Jeph Herrin, Judd E Hollander, Laurie J Pencille, Megan Branda, Michel Demers, Nilay D Shah, Ryan T Anderson, Victor M Montori   +14 more
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Nursing and euthanasia : a narrative review of the nursing ethics literature [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Medical Assistance in Dying, also known as euthanasia or assisted suicide, is expanding internationally. Canada is the first country to permit Nurse Practitioners to provide euthanasia.
Burgess, Michael, Chambaere, Kenneth, Greig, Madeleine, Janke, Robert, Pesut, Barbara, Storch, Janet, Thorne, Sally, Tishelman, Carol   +7 more
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Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Sabine Irtan, Yves Reguerre, Malgorzata Krawczyk, Ewa Bien, Tal Ben‐Ami, Maja Cesen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Dominik T. Schneider, Abbas Agaimy, Constantin Lapa, Hubert Ducou le Pointe, Rainer Claus, Catherine Daniel, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +19 more
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Individualized decision aid for diverse women with lupus nephritis (IDEA-WON): A randomized controlled trial. [PDF]

, 2019
BackgroundTreatment decision-making regarding immunosuppressive therapy is challenging for individuals with lupus. We assessed the effectiveness of a decision aid for immunosuppressive therapy in lupus nephritis.Methods and findingsIn a United States ...
Alarcón, Graciela S, Barton, Jennifer L, Caro, Brennda, Chatham, W Winn, Dall'Era, Maria, Eakin, Guy S, Fraenkel, Liana, Garcia, Salvador R, Green, Candace, Grossman, Jennifer, Hanrahan, Leslie M, Jandali, Bochra, Kimberly, Robert P, Leong, Amye L, Marrow, Laura, Meara, Alexa, Morgan, Charity J, Raymond, Sandra C, Reyes, Elyse, Rizvi, Tara, Saag, Kenneth G, Singh, Jasvinder A, Sloan, Jeffrey A, Street, Richard L, Suarez-Almazor, Maria E, Trupin, Laura, Winthrop, Kevin L, Yazdany, Jinoos   +27 more
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Results of the Childhood Cancer and Leukaemia Group's United Kingdom Relapsed Wilms Tumour Trial

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The United Kingdom relapsed Wilms tumour (UKW‐R) trial aimed to improve the historically low survival rates after relapse of Wilms tumour (WT) through a prospective national risk‐stratified protocol. The trial also evaluated efficacy and toxicity of high‐dose melphalan.
Sucheta J. Vaidya, Veronica Moroz, Juliet Hale, Vesna Pavasovic, Rachel Hobson, Patricia Sartori, Daniel Saunders, Mark Powis, Gordan M. Vujanic, Stephen Baker, Kathy Pritchard‐Jones   +10 more
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