Lim, Daniel Yan Zheng Wong, Ting Hway Feng, Mengling Ong, Marcus Eng Hock Ho, Andrew Fu Wah
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Socioeconomic status (SES) is an important determinant of health, and SES data is an important confounder to control for in epidemiology and health services research. Individual level SES measures are cumbersome to collect and susceptible to biases, while area level SES measures may have insufficient granularity. The ‘Singapore Housing I...
Mann, Jim Bishop, Roberta Bond, Graham Forbes, Faye Kieloch, Barbara Thelker, Christine Chamberlain, Stephanie A.
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Research Involvement and Engagement
Engaging people with lived experience on research teams is becoming more of an expectation for researchers. Published research on this type of engaged research often focuses on the researcher experience with partnered research and neglects the citizen perspective. We are the citizen members of the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program o...
Edwards, Jeffrey G. Barry, Michele Essam, Dary Elsayed, Mohammed Abdulkarim, Mohamed Elhossein, Basamat M. A. Mohammed, Zahia H. A. Elnogomi, Abdelmunim Elfaki, Amna S. E. Elsayed, Ahmed
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Global Health Research and Policy
Background Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa despite widely available preventive therapies such as prophylactic benzathine penicillin G (BPG). In this study, we sought to characterize facilitators and barriers to optimal RHD treatment with BPG in Sudan. Methods We conducted a mixe...
Hugar, Lee A Yabes, Jonathan G Filippou, Pauline Wulff-Burchfield, Elizabeth M Lopa, Samia H Gore, John Davies, Benjamin J Jacobs, Bruce L
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Urologic oncology
To quantify the proportion of patients receiving high-intensity end-of-life care, identify associated risk factors, and assess how receipt of palliative care impact end-of-life care; as the delivery of such care, and how it relates to palliative care, has not been reported in bladder cancer SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort ...
Blinder, Victoria S Eberle, Carolyn E Tran, Christina Bao, Ting Malik, Manmeet Jung, Gabriel Hwang, Caroline Kampel, Lewis Patil, Sujata Gany, Francesca M
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Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice
Racial/ethnic minorities experience greater job loss than whites during periods of economic downturn and after a cancer diagnosis. Therefore, race/ethnicity-matched controls are needed to distinguish the impact of illness on job loss from secular trends METHODS: Surveys were administered during and 4-month post-completion of breast cancer treatment...
Buckingham, Pip Amos, Natalie Hussainy, Safeera Y Mazza, Danielle
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Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP
Community pharmacy contraception services are thought to improve access, with the potential to reduce the persistent sexual and reproductive health inequities observed globally. We aimed to identify the range of pharmacy-based initiatives addressing unintended pregnancy in the primary literature and examine their feasibility, acceptability and effe...
Sprague, Brian L O'Meara, Ellen S Lee, Christoph I Lee, Janie M Henderson, Louise M Buist, Diana SM Alsheik, Nila Macarol, Teresita Perry, Hannah Tosteson, Anna NA
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The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted breast cancer screening and diagnostic imaging in the United States. We sought to evaluate how medical facilities prioritized breast imaging services during periods of reduced capacity or upon re-opening after closures. In fall 2020, we surveyed 77 breast imaging facilities within the Breast Cancer Surveillance Conso...
Shahid, Anmol Rosgen, Brianna K. Krewulak, Karla D. Lorenzetti, Diane L. Foster, Nadine Sept, Bonnie G. Leigh, Jeanna Parsons Stelfox, Henry T. Fiest, Kirsten M.
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Systematic Reviews
Background Citizen engagement in research is an emerging practice that involves members of the general public in research processes such as priority setting, planning, decision-making, research conduct, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination. Engaging citizens in research, particularly health research, increases the relevance of study findin...
Konerding, Uwe Redaèlli, Marcus Ackermann, Karolin Altin, Sibel Appelbaum, Sebastian Biallas, Bianca Bödecker, August-Wilhelm Botzenhardt, Suzan Chermette, Chloé Cichocki, Martin
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Trials
Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and coronary heart disease (CHD) are two chronic diseases that cause a tremendous burden. To reduce this burden, several programmes for optimising the care for these diseases have been developed. In Germany, so-called disease management programmes (DMPs), which combine components of Disease Management and ...
Massi, Luciana Hickey, Sophie Maidment, Sarah-Jade Roe, Yvette Kildea, Sue Nelson, Carmel Kruske, Sue
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Background The Australian Nurse Family Partnership Program (ANFPP) is an evidence-based, home visiting program that offers health education, guidance, social and emotional support to first-time mothers having Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) babies. The community-controlled sector identified the need for specialised support ...
