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Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions (Review) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Background Decision aids prepare people to participate in ’close call’ decisions that involve weighing benefits, harms, and scientific uncertainty. Objectives To conduct a systematic review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the efficacy ...
Adab   +170 more
core   +3 more sources

Clinical Insights Into Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Childhood

open access: yesPediatric 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

Combating Diabetes in Chittenden County: A Healthcare Provider Referral Campaign to Increase Patient Participation in the Vermont Diabetes Prevention Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
As of 2016, diabetes affects more than 29 million people in the United States and is the 7th leading cause of death nationwide. In Vermont, 1/10 people are diagnosed with either diabetes or prediabetes, with 6% of Vermonters affected by prediabetes and 5%
Magier, Samantha
core   +1 more source

Barriers to cardiac rehabilitation delivery in a low-resource setting from the perspective of healthcare administrators, rehabilitation providers, and cardiac patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: Despite clinical practice guideline recommendations that cardiovascular disease patients participate, cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs are highly unavailable and underutilized. This is particularly true in low-resource settings, where the
Britto, Raquel   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Survival Outcomes and Complications Among Canadian Children With Retinoblastoma: A Population‐Based Report From CYP‐C

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

A patient and community-centered approach selecting endpoints for a randomized trial of a novel advance care planning tool

open access: yesPatient Preference and Adherence, 2018
John FP Bridges,1,2 Norah L Crossnohere,2 Anne L Schuster,1 Judith A Miller,3 Carolyn Pastorini,3,† Rebecca A Aslakson2,4,5 1Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD ...
Bridges JFP   +5 more
doaj  

Usability and feasibility of multimedia interventions for engaging patients in their care in the context of acute recovery: A narrative review

open access: yesHealth Expectations, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this narrative review was to examine the usability and feasibility of multimedia intervention as a platform to enable patient participation in the context of acute recovery and to discover what outcomes have been measured.
Jo McDonall   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Oncology: Question Prompt Lists in Healthcare—A Scoping Review Protocol

open access: yesMethods and Protocols, 2020
Question prompt lists (QPL) are an instrument to promote patient participation in medical encounters by providing a set of questions patients can use during consultations. QPL have predominantly been examined in oncology. Less is known about their use in
Matthias Lukasczik   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nurses’ Experiences Empowering Hospitalized Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Four focus groups were conducted to explore acute care nurses’ experiences empowering patients and the facilitators and barriers they encountered during the process.
Bull, Margaret J., Jerofke-Owen, Teresa
core   +2 more sources

Personalized Selumetinib Dosing in Pediatric Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Insights From a Pilot Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Study

open access: yesPediatric 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   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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