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Targeted Quality Measurement of Health Care Providers [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Assessing the quality of cancer care administered by US health providers poses numerous challenges due to meaningful heterogeneity in patient populations. Patients undergoing oncology treatment exhibit substantial variation in disease presentation among other crucial characteristics.
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Clinical significance of stratifying prostate cancer patients through specific circulating genes

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We tested a specific panel of genes representative of luminal, neuroendocrine and stem‐like cells in the blood of prostate cancer patients, showing predictive value from diagnosis to late stages of disease. This approach allows monitoring of treatment responses and outcomes at specific time points in trajectories.
Seta Derderian, Edouard Jarry, Arynne Santos, Quentin Vesval, Lucie Hamel, Rafael Sanchez‐Salas, Alexis Rompré‐Brodeur, Wassim Kassouf, Raghu Rajan, Fadi Brimo, Marie Duclos, Armen Aprikian, Simone Chevalier   +12 more
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The impact of accreditation on health care quality in hospitals [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2018
Background/Aim. Accreditation is considered to be the oldest and most widespread mechanism of independent external evaluation of health care quality and is implemented in over 70 countries worldwide. Despite numerous studies in this field, there is still
Marković-Petrović Gordana, Vuković Mira, Jović-Vraneš Aleksandra   +2 more
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Peripheral blood leukocyte signatures as biomarkers in relapsed ovarian cancer patients receiving combined anti‐CD73/anti‐PD‐L1 immunotherapy in arm A of the NSGO‐OV‐UMB1/ENGOT‐OV30 trial

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Using mass cytometry, we analyzed serial blood samples from patients with relapsed epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) treated with oleclumab–durvalumab combination immunotherapy in the NSGO‐OV‐UMB1/ENGOT‐OV30 trial. Our analysis identified potential predictive, monitoring, and response biomarkers detectable through liquid biopsy. These findings facilitate
Luka Tandaric, Annika Auranen, Katrin Kleinmanns, René DePont Christensen, Liv Cecilie Vestrheim Thomsen, Cara Ellen Wogsland, Emmet McCormack, Johanna Mäenpää, Kristine Madsen, Karen Stampe Petersson, Mansoor Raza Mirza, Line Bjørge   +11 more
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Comparative analysis of quality assurance in health care delivery and higher medical education

Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 2012
Jamiu O BusariDepartment of Educational Development and Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The NetherlandsAbstract: Quality assurance (QA) in higher medical education involves the development ...
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Evaluation of prenatal care in Primary Health Care in Brazil

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil
Objectives: to evaluate prenatal care in Primary Care by identifying the aspects that influence structural and operational adequacy. Methods: evaluation research with analysis of 4,059 municipalities that joined the 2nd cycle of the Program for ...
Ana Carolina Cunha, Josimari Telino de Lacerda, Mônica Teresa Ruocco Alcauza, Sônia Natal   +3 more
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Measuring care coordination in German primary care – adaptation and psychometric properties of the Medical Home Care Coordination Survey

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Continuity of care is associated with many benefits for patients and health care systems. Therefore measuring care coordination - the deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants - is especially needed to
Aleida Ringwald, Katja Goetz, Jost Steinhaeuser, Nina Fleischmann, Alexandra Schüssler, Kristina Flaegel   +5 more
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From Requirements to code: an Architecture-centric Approach for producing Quality Systems [PDF]

arXiv, 2009
When engineering complex and distributed software and hardware systems (increasingly used in many sectors, such as manufacturing, aerospace, transportation, communication, energy, and health-care), quality has become a big issue, since failures can have economics consequences and can also endanger human life.
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Response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in early breast cancers is associated with epithelial–mesenchymal transition and tumor‐infiltrating lymphocytes

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and tumor‐infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are associated with early breast cancer response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). This study evaluated EMT and TIL shifts, with immunofluorescence and RNA sequencing, at diagnosis and in residual tumors as potential biomarkers associated with treatment response.
Françoise Derouane, Jérôme Ambroise, Cédric van Marcke, Mieke Van Bockstal, Martine Berlière, Christine Galant, Hélène Dano, Médina Lougué, Elena Benidovskaya, Guy Jerusalem, Vincent Bours, Claire Josse, Jérôme Thiry, Aurélie Daumerie, Caroline Bouzin, Cyril Corbet, François P. Duhoux   +16 more
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Molecular and functional profiling unravels targetable vulnerabilities in colorectal cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We used whole exome and RNA‐sequencing to profile divergent genomic and transcriptomic landscapes of microsatellite stable (MSS) and microsatellite instable (MSI) colorectal cancer. Alterations were classified using a computational score for integrative cancer variant annotation and prioritization.
Efstathios‐Iason Vlachavas, Konstantinos Voutetakis, Vivian Kosmidou, Spyridon Tsikalakis, Spyridon Roditis, Konstantinos Pateas, Ryangguk Kim, Kymberleigh Pagel, Stephan Wolf, Gregor Warsow, Antonia Dimitrakopoulou‐Strauss, Georgios N. Zografos, Alexander Pintzas, Johannes Betge, Olga Papadodima, Stefan Wiemann   +15 more
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