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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

Providing nursing support within residential care homes [PDF]

, 2009
This study examines a joint NHS-Local Authority initiative providing a dedicated nursing and physiotherapy team to three residential care homes in Bath and North East Somerset.
Nelson, S. (Sara), Szczepura, Ala, Wild, Deidre   +2 more
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Conceptualising a model to guide nursing and midwifery in the community guided by an evidence review [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Successful models of nursing and midwifery in the community delivering healthcare throughout the lifespan and across a health and illness continuum are limited, yet necessary to guide global health services.
Benefield, Lazelle, Bradley, Colin, Coffey, Alice, Donohoe, Ann, Fitzgerald, Serena, Frawley, Tim, Healy, Elizabeth, Healy, Maria, Kelly, Marcella, Leahy-Warren, Patricia, McCarthy, Bernard, McLoughlin, Kathleen, Meagher, Catherine, Mulcahy, Helen, O'Connell, Rhona, O'Mahony, Aoife, Paul, Gillian, Phelan, Amanda, Savage, Eileen, Stokes, Diarmuid, Walsh, Jessica   +20 more
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Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles, Greg Russell, Leila H. DeWitt, Kimberly Montez, Callie L. Brown   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic development of CHEMO-SUPPORT, a nursing intervention to support adult patients with cancer in dealing with chemotherapy-related symptoms at home

BMC Nursing, 2018
Background Given the great symptom burden associated with chemotherapy on the one hand and generally poor self-management of symptoms by cancer patients on the other hand, our aim was to develop a nursing intervention to reduce symptom burden in adult ...
Annemarie Coolbrandt, Hans Wildiers, Bert Aertgeerts, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé, Theo van Achterberg, Koen Milisen   +5 more
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Primary health care nurses caring for people with diabetes: An integrative review of the literature [PDF]

, 2010
The aim of this integrative literature review was to analyse and synthesize findings from primary empirical studies concerning how nurses in primary care, care for people with diabetes (PWD). Diabetes is a recognized health priority in United Kingdom
Cowley, Julie
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Context makes a difference: a qualitative study exploring how to implement a multifactorial falls prevention intervention in the community

BMC Public Health
Background Falls are a major problem in community-dwelling older people. Multifactorial falls prevention interventions are recommended as intervention.
Sara Vandervelde, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé, Ellen Vlaeyen, Johan Flamaing, Sien Valy, Goedele Belaen, Koen Milisen   +6 more
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On the Job: Eleanor Fitzpatrick, RN, MSN, CCRN [PDF]

, 2013
Eleanor “Elly” Fitzpatrick joined Jefferson in 1987 as a clinical nurse specialist. Initially serving in the Intermediate Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ISICU), she soon became clinical nurse specialist for the Surgical ICU (SICU), as well.

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Blinatumomab Utilization in Pediatric B‐Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Experience From the Mountain West

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Blinatumomab is a bispecific T‐cell engager approved for the treatment of pediatric B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL). Outpatient home infusion reduces hospitalization burden and optimizes resource utilization, but is logistically challenging.
Angela Parra del Riego, Kellee Parker, William C. Thomsen, James B. Ford, Mallorie B. Heneghan, David Spencer Mangum, Jennifer L. McNeer, Luke D. Maese, Claire E. F. Miller, Richard Lemons, Taumoha Ghosh   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source