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Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior, Edmara Bazoni Soares Maia, Soad Fuentes‐Alabí, Courtney E. Sullivan, Monnie Abraham, Mauricio Maza, Liliana Vásquez Ponce, Regina Aparecida Garcia Lima   +7 more
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Educational attainment and mortality: results from the Sixth Population Census in China [PDF]

, 2019
Background Health and education are two closely related factors that affect human development. A limited number of studies have been conducted in China, most of which have been based on small sample sizes and with inconsistent results.
Case, Cutler, Gong, Grossman, Guang-Zong, House, Kabir, Krueger, Luo, Meara, Moen, Montez, Naing, Silles, Smith, Song, Stevenson, Xue, Zhai, Zhang, Zhang   +20 more
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Population-based study of wake-up strokes [PDF]

Neurology, 2011
Previous studies have estimated that wake-up strokes comprise 8%to 28% of all ischemic strokes, but these studies were either small or not population-based. We sought to establish the proportion and event rate of wake-up strokes in a large population-based study and to compare patients who awoke with stroke symptoms with those who were awake at time of
J, Mackey, D, Kleindorfer, H, Sucharew, C J, Moomaw, B M, Kissela, K, Alwell, M L, Flaherty, D, Woo, P, Khatri, O, Adeoye, S, Ferioli, J C, Khoury, R, Hornung, J P, Broderick   +13 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Chennai glaucoma study: Prevalence and risk factors for glaucoma in cataract operated eyes in urban Chennai

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2010
We report the prevalence and risk factors for glaucoma among aphakes and pseudophakes in 3850 subjects who participated in a population-based study in urban south India.
George Ronnie, Arvind Hemamalini, Baskaran M, Ramesh S, Raju Prema, Vijaya Lingam   +5 more
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A population-based study of glutathione-S-transferase M1, T1 and P1 genotypes [PDF]

, 2008
A retrospective study on healthy, unrelated subjects was conducted in order to estimate population glutathione-S-transferases (GST) genotype frequencies in Slovak population of men and compare our results with already published data (GSEC project)^1^.
Duš, Iveta Waczulí, Já, Jozef Hatok, Monika Sivoň, Peter Rač, Tatiana Matá   +6 more
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Population Structure and Cryptic Relatedness in Genetic Association Studies [PDF]

, 2009
We review the problem of confounding in genetic association studies, which arises principally because of population structure and cryptic relatedness. Many treatments of the problem consider only a simple ``island'' model of population structure. We take
Astle, William, Balding, David J.
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Severe neonatal hypernatraemia: a population based study [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 2013
Aims To describe incidence, presentation, treatment and short term outcomes of severe neonatal hypernatraemia (SNH, sodium ≥160 mmol/l). Methods Prospective, population based surveillance study over 13 months using the British Paediatric ...
Oddie, S.J., Craven, V., Deakin, K., Westman, J., Scally, Andy J.   +4 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of associations between alcohol consumption and metabolic syndrome according to three definitions: The Swedish INTERGENE study

Metabolism Open
Background: While prevalence estimates differ by definition of metabolic syndrome (MetS), it is less clear how different definitions affect associations with alcohol consumption.
Alina Skultecka, Fredrik Nyberg, Lauren Lissner, Maria Rosvall, Dag S. Thelle, Anna-Carin Olin, Kjell Torén, Lena Björck, Annika Rosengren, Kirsten Mehlig   +9 more
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