Decision aids can support cancer clinical trials decisions: Results of a randomized trial [PDF]
BACKGROUND. Cancer patients often do not make informed decisions regarding clinical trial participation. This study evaluated whether a web-based decision aid (DA) could support trial decisions compared with our cancer center’s website. METHODS.
Byrne, Margaret M +5 more
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Implications of customer participation in outsourcing noncore services to third parties [PDF]
Purpose Focal service providers increasingly involve customers in the decision-making about outsourcing parts of the service delivery process to third parties.
De Pourcq, Kaat +4 more
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Background Patient and family engagement in health care has emerged as a critical priority. Understanding engagement, from the perspective of the patient and family member, coupled with an awareness of how patient and family members are motivated to be ...
Tamara L. McCarron +8 more
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Perceived barriers to pediatrician and family practitioner participation in pediatric clinical trials: Findings from the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative. [PDF]
Despite legislation to stimulate pediatric drug development through clinical trials, enrolling children in trials continues to be challenging. Non-investigator (those who have never served as a clinical trial investigator) providers are essential to ...
Benjamin, Daniel K +12 more
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More than cost‐effectiveness? Applying a second‐stage filter to improve policy decision making
Background Apart from cost‐effectiveness, considerations like equity and acceptability may affect health‐care priority setting. Preferably, priority setting combines evidence evaluation with an appraisal procedure, to elicit and weigh these ...
Kaying Kan +6 more
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Plain English summary The 2011 standards for trustworthy development of healthcare guidelines published by the United States-based Institute of Medicine recommend that guideline developers involve patients and public representatives in the development ...
Melissa J. Armstrong, Joshua A. Bloom
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous studies have been conducted to identify interventions that could contribute to alleviating the burden it has caused.
Catherine Olivier +13 more
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RESPOND – A patient-centred program to prevent secondary falls in older people presenting to the emergency department with a fall: Protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial [PDF]
Introduction: Participation in falls prevention activities by older people following presentation to the Emergency Department (ED) with a fall is suboptimal.
A Forbes +53 more
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Molecular-genetic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains spread in different patient groups in St.Petersburg (Russia) [PDF]
Molecular epidemiological features of M.tuberculosis strains spread among different patient groups in Russia is not studied well. The aim of our study was to compare genotypes of M.tuberculosis strains circulating among TB patients from different groups:
Andrei Kozlov +5 more
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Functioning and disability in multiple sclerosis from the patient perspective [PDF]
Multiple sclerosis (MS) has a great impact on functioning and disability. The perspective of those who experience the health problem has to be taken into account to obtain an in-depth understanding of functioning and disability.
Alarcos Cieza +13 more
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