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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor, Flora Hoodin, Michelle Byrd, Kristin A. Kullgren, Leah LaLonde, Lauren Benkoske, Patrick Smith, Dawn Carson, Karen MacDonald, Susumu Inoue, Brenda Kitchen, Kate Gowans, Gregory A. Yanik   +12 more
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Systematic voiding programme in adults with urinary incontinence following acute stroke: the ICONS-II RCT

Health Technology Assessment, 2022
Background: Urinary incontinence affects around half of stroke survivors in the acute phase, and it often presents as a new problem after stroke or, if pre-existing, worsens significantly, adding to the disability and helplessness caused by neurological ...
Caroline Watkins, Svetlana Tishkovskaya, Chris Brown, Chris Sutton, Yvonne Sylvestre Garcia, Denise Forshaw, Gordon Prescott, Lois Thomas, Christine Roffe, Joanne Booth, Kina Bennett, Brenda Roe, Bruce Hollingsworth, Ceu Mateus, David Britt, Cliff Panton   +15 more
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If virtual gynecology clinics are here to stay, we need to include everyone

AJOG Global Reports, 2022
Before the COVID-19 pandemic virtual clinics in gynecology were not commonplace in the United Kingdom or most other countries. Owing to the need to reconfigure health provision to caring for COVID-19 patients, reducing footfall in hospitals and ...
Elizabeth Ball, PhD, MD, Carol Rivas, PhD, Rehan Khan, MRCOG   +2 more
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Predicting Chronicity in Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopenia at the Timepoint of Diagnosis Using Machine Learning‐Based Approaches

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser, Alice Bizeul, Meera Chitlur, Hugo Donato, Jelena Roganovic, Julia E. Vogt, Thomas Kühne   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urinary Tract Infections in Antenatal and Postnatal Women: Pathogen Profiles, Antibiotic Sensitivity Patterns, and Labor Outcomes at a Secondary Care Hospital in South India – A 3-year Retrospective Observational Study

Current Medical Issues
Background: Urinary tract infection is a common problem in antenatal women, associated with serious morbidity in mother and baby. This study aims to describe the uropathogen profile noted in pregnant women visiting a secondary hospital in Southern India ...
Andrew Moses, Anne George Cherian, Tobey Ann Marcus, Rani Diana Sahni, Jasmin Helan Prasad   +4 more
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Vertical integration of GP practices with acute hospitals in England and Wales: rapid evaluation

Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 2022
Background: Vertical integration refers to merging organisations that operate at different stages along the patient pathway. An organisation running an acute hospital and also operating primary care medical practices (i.e.
Manbinder Sidhu, Jack Pollard, Jon Sussex   +2 more
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Is maternity care in Scotland equitable? Results of a national maternity care survey [PDF]

, 2019
Objective High-quality maternity care is key to long-term improvements in population health. However, even within developed welfare systems, some mothers and babies experience poorer care and outcomes.
Cheyne, Helen, Elders, Andrew, Hill, David, Milburn, Emma   +3 more
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A Systematic Review of Evidence on the Clinical Effectiveness of Surveillance Imaging in Children With Medulloblastoma and Ependymoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surveillance imaging aims to detect tumour relapse before symptoms develop, but it's unclear whether earlier detection of relapse leads to better outcomes in children and young people (CYP) with medulloblastoma and ependymoma. This systematic review aims to identify relevant literature to determine the efficacy of surveillance magnetic ...
Lucy Shepherd, Melissa Taylor, Helen Fulbright, Bob Phillips   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collaborative challenges during transition of patients with severe depression from secondary mental health services to primary care and opportunities for improvement - a qualitative study

Frontiers in Psychiatry
IntroductionPatients with severe depression are treated across primary and secondary healthcare and receive employment support from municipal caseworkers (CWs). However, collaboration during the transition from outpatient secondary mental health services
Anne Sofie Aggestrup, Anne Sofie Aggestrup, Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard, Klaus Martiny, Klaus Martiny, Annette Sofie Davidsen   +5 more
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Protocol: Value Stream Maping in Healthcare. A systematic literature review

WPOM : Working Papers on Operations Management, 2019
Until 2016, very few works had investigated the use of the VSM. With this research, we will discover if the situation has changed in the last 3 years. In the lean manufacturing context, different techniques that help the continuous improvement process ...
Juan A. Marin-Garcia, Pilar I. Vidal-Carreras, Julio J. Garcia Sabater, Javier Escribano-Martinez   +3 more
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