Iowa’s Title V Block Grant Executive Summary, 2013 [PDF]
Title V of the Social Security Act is the longest-standing public health legislation in American history. Enacted in 1935, Title V is a federal-state partnership that promotes and improves maternal and child health (MCH). According to each state’s unique
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Interrogating the immune landscape of microsatellite stable RAS‐mutated colon cancer
COLOSSUS project RAS‐mutated MSS colon cancer study explored transcriptomics and immune cell density by immunohistochemistry (IHC), Immunoscore (IS), ISIC/TuLIS scores, mutation counts, and detected different prevalences but similar microenvironment composition across immune markers with clinical relevance for future immunotherapy combination ...
Rodrigo Dienstmann +61 more
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Common Foreign Quality Evaluation Tools of Primary Health Care and Their Implications for China [PDF]
Primary health care (PHC) is the bottom of the health care system, and its quality not only relates to the construction of hierarchical medical system, but also affects the health level of residents. Scientific and reasonable evaluation of PHC quality is
LIU Lidi, LIAO Xiaoyang, ZHAO Qian, GUO Yiming, WEN Yuqi, LIU Changming, FANG Xiang
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Commentary: Public Health and Health Care Quality Assurance—Strange Bedfellows? [PDF]
What is the role of governmental public health in ensuring the quality of medical care? With some notable exceptions, state and local public health departments have taken a passive role in medical care system quality assurance. Yet medical care can contribute much to improving the health of populations and at least some to reducing health disparities ...
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Evaluation of Two Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests Quality Assurance (mRDT’s QA) Methods in Peripheral Health Facilities, Rural Tanzania. [PDF]
\ud WHO recommends confirming suspected malaria cases before initiation of treatment. Due to the imited availability of quality microscopy services, this recommendation has been followed with increased use of antigen-detecting malaria rapid diagnostic ...
Kachur, Patrick +6 more
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Validity and interpretation of spirometric recordings to diagnose COPD in UK primary care. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of COPD is dependent upon clinical judgment and confirmation of the presence of airflow obstruction using spirometry. Spirometry is now routinely available; however, spirometry incorrectly performed or interpreted can lead to ...
Chandan, Joht S +4 more
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Keratin 19 (KRT19) is overexpressed in high‐grade serous ovarian cancer with high levels of Kallikrein‐related peptidases (KLK) 4–7 and is associated with poor survival. In vivo analyses demonstrate that elevated KRT19 increases peritoneal tumour burden.
Sophia Bielesch +13 more
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Health (including Clinical Studies) [PDF]
Politics, science, research and the public base their discussions on comprehensive, valid and systematic health care data. Data based information is needed in order to measure the results or success of a policy of procedure.
Bertram Häussler, Elke Hempel
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AUTOMATED APPOINTMENT REMINDERS AND NO-SHOW RATES AT APPLETREE BAY PRIMARY CARE: A QUALITY ASSURANCE PROJECT [PDF]
This quality assurance project is aimed to determine how effective a specific primary care office’s current method of reminding patients of scheduled appointments is in reducing the percentage of no-shows.
Clark, Kathleen Margaret
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Somatic mutational landscape in von Hippel–Lindau familial hemangioblastoma
The causes of central nervous system (CNS) hemangioblastoma in Von Hippel–Lindau (vHL) disease are unclear. We used Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) on familial hemangioblastoma to investigate events that underlie tumor development. Our findings suggest that VHL loss creates a permissive environment for tumor formation, while additional alterations ...
Maja Dembic +5 more
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