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Assessment of Patient Experience During Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer
Journal of Patient ExperienceActive surveillance is a preferred strategy for patients with low-risk prostate cancer to delay and/or avoid side effects of treatment. While its impact on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has been studied, factors influencing follow-up adherence ...
Devon M. Langston +8 more
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Systems Thinking Principles for Making Change
SystemsTraditionally, systems thinking support has relied on an ever-increasing plethora of systems tools, methods, and approaches. Arguably though, such support requires something different from, and more accessible than, detailed instruction on somewhat ...
Martin Reynolds
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Applying systems thinking to flood disaster management for a sustainable development
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2019 The rapid urbanization and environmental imbalance have significantly challenged Pakistan's organizational capacity to respond and initiate relief efforts and hence increasing its vulnerability to flood disaster situations.
J. Rehman +3 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Structural and biochemical characterisations show that the planar cell polarity (PCP) protein Inturned harbours a unique PDZ‐like domain that does not bind canonical PDZ‐binding motifs (PBMs) like that of another PCP protein Vangl2. In contrast, the apical‐basal polarity protein Scribble contains four PDZ domains that bind Vangl2, but one PDZ domain ...
Stephan Wilmes +4 more
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A Journey Through Grief: Experiences of Loss Among Patients With Long COVID
Journal of Patient ExperienceLong COVID is a growing health concern with data continuing to emerge about the psychosocial consequences of this new chronic condition. We aimed to improve understanding of the experiences of patients with Long COVID, focusing on emotional impacts ...
Ann Scheck McAlearney ScD, MS +4 more
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Care Management and Cost Control in Pediatric Accountable Care Organizations: A Comparative Case Study [PDF]
Health Economics and Management ReviewAs accountable care organizations have proliferated across the healthcare landscape, research into the factors contributing to accountable care organization development for adults has identified useful approaches to managing care under this care model ...
Ann Scheck McAlearney +3 more
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Syst., 2020 Systems thinking is an approach to reasoning and treatment of real-world problems based on the fundamental notion of ‘system.’ System here refers to a purposeful assembly of components.
Matthew Amissah +2 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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FORMakademisk, 2017 The resent movement of Systemic Design seeks for new synergies between Design and Systems. While the usefulness of systems approaches in design has been fairly obvious, this paper argues that many core concepts in design are beneficial in systems ...
Birger Sevaldson
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“If Thinking” Support System for Training Historical Thinking
Procedia Computer Science, 2015 AbstractHistorical thinking is the type of thinking that learns lessons from past historical events and applies them to the modern world. In order to apply lessons, the future situation after the lessons have been applied should be inferred. The future situation has been affected by the causal relationships between people and between properties of the ...
Yuta Miki, Tomoko Kojiri, Kazuhisa Seta
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