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Impact of a peer-review network on the quality of inpatient low secure mental health services: cluster randomised control trial

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Peer-review networks aim to help services to improve the quality of care they provide, however, there is very little evidence about their impact.
Lina Aimola, Sarah Jasim, Neeraj Tripathi, Paul Bassett, Alan Quirk, Adrian Worrall, Sarah Tucker, Samantha Holder, Mike J. Crawford   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Initiatives [PDF]

, 2019
The question often asked of a quality improvement initiative is whether the improvement process has been sustained within the organization. Rarely is the question answered satisfactorily.
Giardino, Angelo P, Giardino, Eileen R
core   +1 more source

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

Combined application of calcium fertilizer improves the immobilization of biochar-ferromanganese materials on cd/as co-polluted paddy soils under acidifying conditions

Scientific Reports
Soil acidification is an increasingly serious issue in southern China. A decrease in soil pH tends to interfere with the immobilization of heavy metals by amendments.
Jie Wang, Qi Sun, Maoyu Wang, Jiahao Wang, Yuxiang Yang, Jizi Wu, Keli Zhao   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Power Quality Improvement Wind Energy System Using Cascaded Multilevel Inverter [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper, a wind energy conversion system based on a cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter (CHBMLI) topology has been proposed to be used for the grid interface of large split winding alternators (SWAs).
A. S., Kumar, J.S., Sathiyanarayanan
core   +2 more sources

A High‐Sensitivity Circulating Nucleic Acid Sequencing Assay for Assessing Treatment Response to Alectinib in a Pediatric Patient With ALK‐Rearranged Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Alberto D. Guerra, Nicholas F. Evageliou, Vandana Batra, Kristen L. Dalton, Stephanie Ortel, Usman Ashraf, Tricia R. Bhatti, Lisa J. States, Lea F. Surrey, Theodore W. Laetsch   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter, Jens‐Peter Schenk, Jenny Wegert, Manfred Gessler, Leo Kager, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Marina Müller, Jean‐Michel Wolff, Joerg Fuchs, Steven W. Warmann, Clemens‐Magnus Meier, Jochen Hubertus, Christian Rübe, Christian Vokuhl, Patrick Melchior, Lena Tschirner, Norbert Graf, Rhoikos Furtwängler   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who’s at risk? Characterizing low achievers in a large-scale assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic using educational data mining

Large-scale Assessments in Education
Background: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools experienced repeated closures from spring 2020 onwards. Subsequent analysis of educational monitoring data has revealed significant learning losses for students.
Kristoph Schumann, Karoline A. Sachse, Rebecca Schneider, Stefan Schipolowski   +3 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

Effect of electric field frequency on phytoremediation efficiency and properties of Cd-contaminated soil

Environmental Sciences Europe
Electrochemical-phytoextraction is considered as an integrated technology for removal of Cd in contaminated soil. However, there is a lack of systematic studies on the how electric field frequency plant Cd enrichment and soil microbial properties, which ...
Xiaolan Xu, Chuikang Zhou, Jiaqing Mei, Zhansheng Mao, Dan Liu, Zhengqian Ye, Xianzhi Fang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source