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Improving research to protect vulnerable populations [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2016
Protecting vulnerable populations is a common theme in medical journals. It is also an objective of the Declaration of Helsinki, which was first adopted by the World Medical Association in 1964 and sets out guidelines for research on human participants.
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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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What are the priorities of consumers and carers regarding measurement for evaluation in mental healthcare? Results from a Q-methodology study

Health Research Policy and Systems
Background The purpose of this study was to identify and describe common views of people with lived experience of mental health challenges – consumers and carers, families and supporters – of what they consider the most important measures to include in ...
Rachel O’Loughlin, Caroline Lambert, Gemma Olsen, Kate Thwaites, Keir Saltmarsh, Julie Anderson, Nancy Devlin, Harriet Hiscock, Kim Dalziel   +8 more
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Effectiveness of suicide means restriction: an overview of systematic reviews

BMJ Mental Health
Question Means restriction for suicide prevention at a population level typically involves policy or environmental changes to limit access to suicide methods. Several systematic reviews of suicide means restriction exist.
Rina Dutta, Ann John, Nav Kapur, Sarah Steeg, Lisa Marzano, Sarah Ledden, Leah Quinlivan, Roger Thomas Webb   +7 more
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Pulmonary Dysfunction Is Associated With Sleep Study Abnormalities in Children With Sickle Cell Disease: A Multicenter Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash, Anis Rabbani Nourani, A. K. M. Fazlur Rahman, Dima Ezmigna, Tarig Ali‐Dinar   +4 more
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Isoenzymatic variability in tropical maize populations under reciprocal recurrent selection

Scientia Agricola, 2003
Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the crops in which the genetic variability has been extensively studied at isoenzymatic loci. The genetic variability of the maize populations BR-105 and BR-106, and the synthetics IG-3 and IG-4, obtained after one cycle of ...
Pinto Luciana Rossini, Vieira Maria Lúcia Carneiro, Souza Jr. Cláudio Lopes de, Silva Rainério Meireles da   +3 more
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Data Accuracy and Completeness of Monthly Midwifery Returns Indicators of Ejisu Juaben Health Directorate of Ghana [PDF]

, 2019
The broad range of activities contained in the provision of Primary Health Care (PHC) places a burden on providers to make optimal use of limited resources to achieve maximal health benefit to the population served.
Agyei-Baffour, P. (Peter), Boadu, R. O. (Richard), Edusei, A. K. (Anthony)   +2 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

Estimating the epidemic risk using non-uniformly sampled contact data

, 2017
Many datasets describing contacts in a population suffer from incompleteness due to population sampling and underreporting of contacts. Data-driven simulations of spreading processes using such incomplete data lead to an underestimation of the epidemic ...
Barrat, Alain, Fournet, Julie
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Cancellation of the collisional frequency shift in caesium fountain clocks [PDF]

, 2006
We have observed that the collisional frequency shift in primary caesium fountain clocks varies with the clock state population composition and, in particular, is zero for a given fraction of the |F = 4, mF = 0> atoms, depending on the initial cloud ...
Chalupczak, W., Szymaniec, K., Tiesinga, E., Weyers, S., Williams, C. J., Wynands, R.   +5 more
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