Rehabilitation: A key service, yet highly underused, in the management of young patients with sickle cell disease after stroke in DR of Congo

PM Boma, J Panda, JP Ngoy Mande… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder that affects red blood cells, causing them
to take on a sickle-like shape. This condition can lead to cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) in …

The Impact of Meso-Level Factors on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Early Hesitancy in the United States

AR Kaliba, DR Andrews - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The extant literature on the US SARS-CoV-2 virus indicates that the vaccination campaign
was lagging, insufficient, and uncoordinated. This study uses the spatial model to identify the …

[HTML][HTML] Using the AllerSearch Smartphone App to Assess the Association Between Dry Eye and Hay Fever: mHealth-Based Cross-Sectional Study

T Inomata, J Sung, M Nakamura, M Iwagami… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Dry eye (DE) and hay fever (HF) show synergistic exacerbation of each other's
pathology through inflammatory pathways. Objective This study aimed to investigate the …

Patient-reported outcomes measurement in radiation oncology: interpretation of individual scores and change over time in clinical practice

JY Kwon, L Russell, T Coles, RJ Klaassen… - Current …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tools for measuring patients' perceived health and quality of life, such as patient-reported
outcome measures (PROMs), inform clinical decisions for patients requiring radiation …

Scaling-up integrated type-2 diabetes and hypertension care in Cambodia: what are the barriers to health system performance?

S Chham, J Van Olmen, W Van Damme… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as type-2 diabetes (T2D) and
hypertension (HTN) pose a massive burden on health systems, especially in low-and middle …

Power analyses for measurement model misspecification and response shift detection with structural equation modeling

MGE Verdam - Quality of Life Research, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Statistical power for response shift detection with structural equation modeling
(SEM) is currently underreported. The present paper addresses this issue by providing …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring and responding to signals of suicidal ideation in pragmatic clinical trials: Lessons from the GRACE trial for Chronic Sickle Cell Disease Pain

ES Swirsky, AD Boyd, C Gu, LA Burke… - Contemporary Clinical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hemoglobin disorder and the most common genetic disorder
that affects 100,000 Americans and millions worldwide. Adults living with SCD have pain so …

Improving Access to Cardiac Catheterization

S Dharman - 2023 - soar.usa.edu
Abstract The American Heart Association lists cardiovascular disease as the underlying
cause of death for 874,613 people who lost their lives in 2019 (Tsao et al., 2022). On …