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Parents of Youth With Cancer Report on Their Psychosocial Care: iSTEPPP Survey Finds Alignment and Gaps With Standards

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Standards for Psychosocial Care for Children with Cancer and Their Families guide the provision of comprehensive psychosocial care. Parallel to research characterizing implementation of the Standards from the perspective of providers, this study examines implementation of the Standards from the perspective of parents of youth ...
Emily M. Pariseau, Kimberly Buff, Michele A. Scialla, Kimberly S. Canter, Lori Wiener, Victoria Sardi‐Brown, Julia B. Tager, Kamyar Arasteh, Anne E. Kazak   +8 more
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If you can’t measure it- you can’t change it – a longitudinal study on improving quality of care in hospitals and health centers in rural Kenya

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The Kenyan Ministry of Health- Department of Standards and Regulations sought to operationalize the Kenya Quality Assurance Model for Health.
Michael Marx, Christine Nitschke, Maureen Nafula, Mabel Nangami, Marc Brodowski, Irmgard Marx, Helen Prytherch, Charles Kandie, Irene Omogi, Friederike Paul-Fariborz, Joachim Szecsenyi   +10 more
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Investigating the knowledge of and public attitudes towards genetic testing within the Visegrad countries: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Previous studies have investigated various factors that can determine the attitudes of the citizens considering genetic testing. However, none of them investigated how these attitudes may differ between the Visegrad countries.
Klára Bíró, Viktor Dombrádi, Zita Fekete, Gábor Bányai, Klára Boruzs, Attila Nagy, Róza Ádány   +6 more
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Exercise Capacity, Physical Activity, Fatigue, and Neurocognitive Function in Adult Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk of reduced exercise capacity, decreased physical activity levels, persistent fatigue, and neurocognitive deficits. The aim was to investigate exercise capacity and physical activity levels of adult survivors of childhood ALL and their associations with ...
Laura Jess, Gustaf Glavå, Simon Skau, Hans‐Georg Kuhn, Maria Bäck, Marianne Jarfelt   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The DMP atlas for North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: results of the disease management programmes on district level

Research in Health Services & Regions
Disease Management Programmes (DMP) in Germany were initiated to enhance the quality of ambulatory health care for specific chronic diseases. They aim to prevent the progression of the disease and comorbidity as well as to improve quality of life.
Sabine Groos, Jens Kretschmann, Arne Weber, Michaela Assheuer, Bernd Hagen   +4 more
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“We Cannot Talk as a Family”: Complexities of Survivorship Communication Among Hispanic/Latino Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer, Parents, and Clinicians

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Young adult childhood cancer survivors (YA‐CCS) have an increased risk of treatment‐related health complications throughout their lives. Lifelong survivorship care is recommended, yet many YA‐CCS experience disruptions in care during pediatric‐to‐adult transitions and do not receive recommended survivorship care.
Kevin Shanchen Pu, Nicole Fernández‐Viña, Briana C. Martin‐Villa, Daniela Ramirez, Rebecca M. Lewinsohn, Mary Smith, Heidi Boynton, Lidia Schapira, Stephanie M. Smith   +8 more
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Identifying Patterns of Hospitalizations Among Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Population‐Based Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) experience more hospitalizations than the general population. We aimed to identify distinct hospitalization patterns among Queensland CCSs and the associated characteristics. Methods Cases (aged ≤14 years) diagnosed between 1995 and 2019 while residents of Queensland were identified through the ...
Hai Pham, Teyl Engstrom, Peter Baade, Natalie Bradford, Sarah Pont, Louise Marquart‐Wilson, Natasha Nassar, Jason D. Pole   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Searching for non-English literature may be unnecessary for German HTA Reports [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]

F1000Research
Background Health technology assessment (HTA) reports are based on comprehensive information retrieval. Current standards discourage the use of search restrictions, such as publication date and language.
Stefan Sauerland, Wiebke Sieben, Lisa Schell, Sandra Molnar, Sibylle Sturtz, Elke Hausner   +5 more
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Evidence‐Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pediatric Febrile Neutropenia: Resource‐Sensitive Recommendations for the Asian Continent

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a frequent and serious complication in children receiving cancer therapy. Standardizing FN management across Asia is challenging due to variable healthcare infrastructure, diagnostic capacity, and infection patterns; however, it could improve resource use and patient outcomes.
Joliza Patricia Cañeba, Shweta Bansal, Tea Reljic, Allyne Montecillo‐Aguelo, Hamidah Alias, Farrah Amaranto, Maria Stella Aquino‐Calingasan, Bambang Ardianto, Eggi Arguni, Sally Blair, Thi Tam Dang, Maria Beatriz Gepte, Samanmalee Gunasekara, Andini Handayani, Miriam Kimpo, Catherine G. Lam, Nawachai Lertvivatpong, Sergio Licona, Ana Loseo, Ratha Mlis, Vivian Moreno Berrio, Nguyen Hoai Anh, Anna Lisa Ong‐Lim, Ha Thu Pham, Krishna Sagar Sharma, Bun Sereyleak, Sally Jane G. Velasco‐Aro, Su Yadana, Ambuj Kumar, Sheena Mukkada   +29 more
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Causal effects of wildfire PM2.5 on hospital costs and length of stay in Brazil

Nature Communications
To quantify the hospital burden of short-term wildfire-specific fine particulate matter (PM2.5), we linked 184.5 million patient-level hospitalizations across 449 Brazilian regions from 2000–2019 with daily wildfire-specific and non-wildfire PM2.5 ...
Ke Ju, Rongbin Xu, Wenzhong Huang, Yiwen Zhang, Tingting Ye, Wenhua Yu, Zhengyu Yang, Gongbo Chen, Yanming Liu, Pei Yu, Shuang Zhou, Yao Wu, Bo Wen, Zhihu Xu, Paulo H. N. Saldiva, Micheline S. Z. S. Coelho, Jiangning Song, Shanshan Li, Yuming Guo   +18 more
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