How Patients With Cancer Use the Internet to Search for Health Information: Scenario-Based Think-Aloud Study.

Background: Patients with cancer increasingly use the internet to seek health information. However, thus far, research treats web-based health information seeking (WHIS) behavior in a rather dichotomous manner (ie, approaching or avoiding) and fails to capture the dynamic nature and evolving motivations that patients experience when engaging in WHIS throughout their disease trajectory. Insights can be used to support effective patient-provider communication about WHIS and can lead to better designed web-based health platforms.

Multidisciplinary care pathways for falls prevention in older adults: visualizing the needs of primary care-based health care professionals.

Purpose: Multidisciplinary care pathways for falls prevention, which include falls risk stratification, multifactorial falls risk assessment, and management of multidomain interventions, can reduce falls in older adults. However, efficient multidisciplinary falls prevention care is challenging due to issues such as poor communication and role allocation. This study aimed to identify and visualize the multidisciplinary care needs of primary care-based health care professionals (HCPs) for falls prevention in the Netherlands using the novel co-design approach of journey mapping.

Efficient Production and Purification of Bioactive E50-52-Class IIa Peptidic Bacteriocin Is Achieved through Fusion with the Catalytic Domain of Lysostaphin-Class III Bacteriocin.

E50-52, a class IIa-peptidic bacteriocin produced by a strain of , has broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity against various foodborne pathogens. However, effective utilization of the E50-52 has been limited by low production yields and challenges associated with separation and purification of this 39-amino acid antimicrobial peptide. In this study, we have successfully produced a biologically active recombinant form of E50-52 by fusing it with the 16-kDa catalytic domain of lysostaphin-class III bacteriocin (LssCAT), which resulted in high-yield production.

The immediate, intermediate, and long-term effectiveness of audiovisuals for providing pre-treatment information to patients with cancer: A systematic review.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of audiovisuals in providing pre-treatment information to patients with cancer. Following the Six Function Model of Medical Communication, we distinguish between immediate, intermediate, and long-term outcomes.

Methods: A systematic search was performed in five electronic databases for quantitative studies comparing the addition of audiovisuals with standard care or alternative interventions.

Development of the ADFICE_IT clinical decision support system to assist deprescribing of fall-risk increasing drugs: A user-centered design approach.

Introduction: Deprescribing fall-risk increasing drugs (FRIDs) is promising for reducing the risk of falling in older adults. Applying appropriate deprescribing in practice can be difficult due to the outcome uncertainties associated with stopping FRIDs. The ADFICE_IT intervention addresses this complexity with a clinical decision support system (CDSS) that facilitates optimum deprescribing of FRIDs by using a fall-risk prediction model, aggregation of deprescribing guidelines, and joint medication management.