Instruments for Assessing Family Functioning in Adults Patients with Cancer: A Systematic Review of Measurement Properties.

Objectives: To identify instruments for assessing family functioning in adults patients with cancer and summarize their psychometric properties.

Methods: Psychometric systematic literature review was conducted to June 2023 using four databases: PubMed, CINAHL, Psych INFO, and Web of Science. The psychometric properties of the instruments and the methodological quality of the studies were evaluated using the Consensus-based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) checklist.

Validity of Major Osteoporotic Fracture Diagnoses in the Danish National Patient Registry.

Objective: To evaluate the validity of diagnosis codes for Major Osteoporotic Fracture (MOF) in the Danish National Patient Registry (NPR) and secondly to evaluate whether the fracture was incident/acute using register-based definitions including date criteria and procedural codes.

Methods: We identified a random sample of 2400 records with a diagnosis code for a MOF in the NPR with dates in the year of 2018. Diagnoses were coded with the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10).

Development and Preclinical Evaluation of [At]PSAt-3-Ga: An Inhibitor for Targeted α-Therapy of Prostate Cancer.

The application of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted α-therapy is a promising alternative to β-particle-based treatments. At is among the potential α-emitters that are favorable for this concept. Herein, At-based PSMA radiopharmaceuticals were designed, developed, and evaluated.

Digital solutions for decision support in general practice - a rapid review focused on systems developed for the universal healthcare setting in Denmark.

Background: Digital health solutions hold the potential for supporting general practitioners in decision-making, and include telemedicine systems, decision support systems, patient apps, wearables, fitness trackers, etc. AIM: This review aimed to identify digital solutions developed for, tested, or implemented in general practice to support the decisions of GPs in disease detection and management, using Denmark as an example country of a universal healthcare setting.

Methods: This study was conducted as a rapid review.

Excess mortality following a first and subsequent osteoporotic fracture: a Danish nationwide register-based cohort study on the mediating effects of comorbidities.

Objectives: This study aimed to examine the risk of mortality following incident and subsequent osteoporotic fractures, the effect of different fracture type combinations, and the mediating role of postfracture morbidity in a Danish population.

Methods: We used the National Patient Registry to identify patients ≥60 years with incident major osteoporotic fracture of the hip, vertebrae, wrist or humerus between 2013 and 2018, and controls matched 1:10 on age and sex. Possible mediators were identified using International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision codes registered in the 6 months following index fracture.

Targeted imaging of uPAR expression in vivo with cyclic AE105 variants.

A comprehensive literature reports on the correlation between elevated levels of urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) and the severity of diseases with chronic inflammation including solid cancers. Molecular imaging is widely used as a non-invasive method to locate disease dissemination via full body scans and to stratify patients for targeted treatment. To date, the only imaging probe targeting uPAR that has reached clinical phase-II testing relies on a high-affinity 9-mer peptide (AE105), and several studies by positron emission tomography (PET) scanning or near-infra red (NIR) fluorescence imaging have validated its utility and specificity in vivo.

An enhanced version of FREM (Fracture Risk Evaluation Model) using national administrative health data: analysis protocol for development and validation of a multivariable prediction model.

Background: Osteoporosis poses a growing healthcare challenge owing to its rising prevalence and a significant treatment gap, as patients are widely underdiagnosed and consequently undertreated, leaving them at high risk of osteoporotic fracture. Several tools aim to improve case-finding in osteoporosis. One such tool is the Fracture Risk Evaluation Model (FREM), which in contrast to other tools focuses on imminent fracture risk and holds potential for automation as it relies solely on data that is routinely collected via the Danish healthcare registers.

Major Cardiovascular Events After Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage by Hematoma Location.

Importance: Survivors of spontaneous (ie, nontraumatic and with no known structural cause) intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) have an increased risk of major cardiovascular events (MACEs), including recurrent ICH, ischemic stroke (IS), and myocardial infarction (MI). Only limited data are available from large, unselected population studies assessing the risk of MACEs according to index hematoma location.

Objective: To examine the risk of MACEs (ie, the composite of ICH, IS, spontaneous intracranial extra-axial hemorrhage, MI, systemic embolism, or vascular death) after ICH based on ICH location (lobar vs nonlobar).

Association Between Statin Use and Intracerebral Hemorrhage Location: A Nested Case-Control Registry Study.

Background And Objectives: A causal relationship between statin use and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is uncertain. We hypothesized that an association between long-term statin exposure and ICH risk might vary for different ICH locations.

Methods: We conducted this analysis using linked Danish nationwide registries.

Protective Buffering: Nurses Facilitating Communication Between Adults With Cancer and Their Adult Family Caregivers Who Overprotect One Another-An Integrative Review.

The aim of this study was to explore how nurses can alleviate protective buffering between adult patients with cancer and their adult family caregivers (PROSPERO No. CRD42020207072). An integrative review was conducted.

3D blood-brain barrier-organoids as a model for Lyme neuroborreliosis highlighting genospecies dependent organotropism.

Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB), a tick-borne infection caused by spirochetes within the sensu lato (s.L.) complex, is among the most prevalent bacterial central nervous system (CNS) infections in Europe and the US.

Association of Prior Intracerebral Hemorrhage With Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events.

Importance: Patients with stroke due to nontraumatic (spontaneous) intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) often harbor vascular risk factors and comorbidities, but it is unclear which major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) occur more frequently among patients with a prior ICH than the general population.

Objective: To evaluate the risk of a MACE for patients with a prior ICH compared with the general population.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This cohort study identified 8991 patients with a first ICH in the Danish Stroke Registry from January 1, 2005, to June 30, 2018, who were aged 45 years or older and survived more than 30 days after an ICH.

Development of a Cu-labeled CD4 T cell targeting PET tracer: evaluation of CD4 specificity and its potential use in collagen-induced arthritis.

Background: CD4 T cells are central inflammatory mediators in the pathogenesis of autoimmune rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as they are one of the dominating cell types in synovial inflammation. Molecular imaging of CD4 T cells has potential role for early detection and monitoring of RA. Here, we developed a new radiotracer for in vivo immunoPET imaging of murine CD4 T cells and tested it in the collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) mouse model of human RA.

Validation of the Fracture Risk Evaluation Model (FREM) in predicting major osteoporotic fractures and hip fractures using administrative health data.

Background: Prevention of osteoporotic fractures remains largely insufficient, and effective means to identify patients at high, short-term fracture risk are needed. The FREM tool is available for automated case finding of men and women aged 45 years or older at high imminent (1-year) risk of osteoporotic fractures, based on administrative health data with a 15-year look-back. The aim of this study was to validate the performance of FREM, and the effect of applying a shorter look-back period.

Corrigendum to 'quantitative determination of 64Cu-liposome accumulation at inflammatory and infectious sites: Potential for future theranostic system': [journal of controlled release 327 (2020) 737-746].

Background: Therapeutic interventions for infectious and inflammatory diseases are becoming increasingly challenging in terms of therapeutic resistance and side-effects. Theranostic systems to ameliorate diagnosis and therapy are therefore highly warranted. The pathophysiological changes in inflammatory lesions provide an attractive basis for extravasation and accumulation of PEGylated liposomes.

Nurses' attitudes regarding the importance of families in nursing care: A cross-sectional study.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate attitudes towards family involvement in care among a broad sample of Danish nurses from all sectors and healthcare settings.

Background: Evidence suggests that nurses hold both supportive and less supportive attitudes about involvement of family members in the care of patients, and the existing findings are limited to specific healthcare contexts.

Design: A cross-sectional study adhering to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology for reporting observational studies.