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International Journal of Gerontology, 2012 Background: This study was conducted to investigate the knowledge and attitude toward hospice palliative care (HPC) among the elderly, defined as 65 years of age and older, living in the metropolitan area of Taiwan.
Ching-Ping Hsu +3 more
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The pearls and pitfalls of setting high-quality multiple choice questions for clinical medicine
South African Family Practice, 2023 Multiple choice question (MCQ) examinations have become extremely popular for testing applied knowledge in the basic and clinical sciences. When setting MCQ examinations, assessors need to understand the measures that improve validity and reliability so ...
Mergan Naidoo
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Neuroblastoma (NB) with central nervous system (CNS) metastases is rare at diagnosis, but occurs more often during relapse/progression. Patients with CNS metastases face a dismal prognosis, with no standardized curative treatment available.
Vicente Santa‐Maria Lopez +13 more
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Investment in family medicine to improve health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family MedicineFamily physicians (FPs), as educators, capacity builders and clinical governance leaders of primary care (PC) teams, work to make them more effective and responsive to the needs of their patients.
Sunanda C. Ray +4 more
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National Health Insurance – a Bill too far?
South African Family Practice, 2019 No abstract available.
Bob Mash
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Pathogenic Germline PALB2 and RAD50 Variants in Patients With Relapsed Ewing Sarcoma
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Approximately 10% of patients with Ewing sarcoma (EwS) have pathogenic germline variants. Here, we report two cases: first, a novel germline pathogenic variant in partner and localizer of BRCA2 (PALB2) in a patient with a late EwS relapse. Its impact on homologous recombination is demonstrated, and breast cancer risk is discussed.
Molly Mack +12 more
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Doctors’ experiences when treating doctor–patients: a scoping review
BJGP Open, 2023 Background: To work effectively, doctors need to look after themselves. They often delay seeking medical care for a range of reasons. Once they do, there is evidence that the doctors treating them (’treating doctors’) can struggle to provide optimal ...
Claire J Hutton +3 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Despite their increased risk for functional impairment resulting from cancer and its treatments, few adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with a hematological malignancy receive the recommended or therapeutic dose of exercise per week during inpatient hospitalizations.
Jennifer A. Kelleher +8 more
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Association Between Sleep Duration and Health Outcome in Elderly Taiwanese
International Journal of Gerontology, 2011 Background: The aim was to assess the relationship between sleep duration and self-rated health outcome in the elderly Taiwanese. Methods: The data were drawn from the National Survey on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Health Promotion 2002 (HPKAP ...
Meng-Ting Tsou
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BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Background Asylum evaluations are highly specialized medico-legal encounters to collect physical or mental health evidence for use in immigration proceedings.
Ranit Mishori +5 more
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