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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

Analysis of Regional Medical Supply and Demand Network Characteristics Based on “Patient Flow Phenomenon”: A Case Study of the Core Area of the Wuhan Metropolitan Area

Land
Examining medical supply–demand imbalances, as revealed through patients’ cross-boundary treatment behaviors, is vital for reducing a metropolitan area’s medical supply–demand gap and furthering sustainable development goals.
Fang Guo, Wei Wei, Bowen Xiang, Mengyao Hong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association Between the Emergency Department Length of Stay and in-Hospital Mortality: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Open Access Emergency Medicine, 2023
Hadiki Habib,1– 3,* Mondastri Korib Sudaryo4,* 1Doctoral Program of Epidemiology, Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia; 2Emergency Unit, Dr.
Habib H, Sudaryo MK
doaj  

Overcrowding in emergency departments: A review of strategies to decrease future challenges

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2017
Emergency departments (EDs) are the most challenging ward with respect to patient delay. The goal of this study is to present strategies that have proven to reduce delay and overcrowding in EDs.
Mohammad H Yarmohammadian, Fatemeh Rezaei, Abbas Haghshenas, Nahid Tavakoli   +3 more
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Mode of Arrival Aware Models for Forecasting Flow of Patient and Length of Stay in Emergency Departments

Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022
Aim:Flow of patients to emergency departments (EDs) and their stays in EDs (ED-LOS) depend significantly on their arrival modes. In this study, developing effective models for forecasting patient flow and length of stay (LOS) in EDs by considering ...
Mustafa Gökalp Ataman, Görkem Sarıyer
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Insights Into Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Childhood

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is a rare but life‐threatening metabolic emergency in children that occurs in less than 1% of pediatric cancer cases, with a reported incidence ranging from 0.4% to 1.0% across different studies. While it is observed in 10%–20% of adult malignancies, pediatric HCM remains relatively uncommon.
Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz
wiley   +1 more source

Arrival time pattern and waiting time distribution of patients in the emergency outpatient department of a tertiary level health care institution of North India

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2014
Background: Emergency Department (ED) of tertiary health care institute in India is mostly overcrowded, over utilized and inappropriately staffed.
Yogesh Tiwari, Sonu Goel, Amarjeet Singh
doaj   +1 more source

The perfect crime? : CCSVI not leaving a trace in MS [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, believed to be triggered by an autoimmune reaction to myelin.
Mayer, Christoph, Pfeilschifter, Waltraud, Lorenz, Matthias, Nedelmann, Max, Bechmann, Ingo Jürgen, Steinmetz, Helmuth, Ziemann, Ulf   +6 more
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Personalized Selumetinib Dosing in Pediatric Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Insights From a Pilot Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate selumetinib exposure using therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and plexiform neurofibromas (PN), assess interpatient pharmacokinetic variability, and explore the relationship between drug exposure, clinical response, and adverse effects.
Janka Kovács, Zoltán Köllő, Balázs Gellért Karvaly, Mahmoud Obeidat, Rita Nagy, Péter Hegyi, Brigitta Teutsch, Eszter Tuboly, Miklós Garami   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Room for improvement: One third of Lynch syndrome patients presenting for genetic testing in a highly specialised centre in Stockholm already have cancer

Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice, 2021
Background Lynch syndrome is caused by germline mutations in the mismatch repair genes and is characterised by a familial accumulation of colorectal and other cancers.
Sophie Walton Bernstedt, Jan Björk, Kaisa Fritzell, Allan D. Spigelman, Erik Björck, Ann-Sofie Backman   +5 more
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