Publications by authors named "Chelsea Collins"

Emphasis by the American Nurses Association and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing regarding the importance of cultural competence in nursing education led to the development of a strategy to address personal bias in graduate nursing students. With the updated Essentials and a change to competency-based education, a need to address culturally congruent practices while increasing awareness of professional organization recommendations exists. Since Domain 2 of the Essentials highlights that culturally competent care is essential to person-centered care, a strategy that enhances knowledge by expanding the definition of culture beyond ethnicity and race was developed.

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  • Most adolescents and young adults (15-24 years old) with cancer primarily receive treatment from adult oncologists rather than pediatric ones, with 87.3% of patients seeing adult providers overall.
  • The study analyzed data from nearly 10,000 cancer patients, revealing that certain cancer types like acute leukemia and CNS malignancies are more frequently treated by pediatric oncologists, while adult providers oversee germ cell tumors and carcinomas.
  • Overall survival rates were similar regardless of provider type, but some specific cancers showed better survival with pediatric providers (CNS malignancies and rhabdomyosarcoma) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma with adult providers, emphasizing the need for collaboration between adult and pediatric oncology.
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Burkholderia contaminans is a member of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc), a pathogen with increasing prevalence among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and the cause of numerous outbreaks due to the use of contaminated commercial products. The antibiotic resistance determinants, particularly β-lactamases, have been poorly studied in this species. In this work, we explored the whole genome sequence (WGS) of a B.

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The spread of antibiotic resistance is rapidly threatening the effectiveness of antibiotics in the clinical setting. Many infections are being caused by known and unknown pathogenic bacteria that are resistant to many or all antibiotics currently available. Empedobacter falsenii is a nosocomial pathogen that can cause human infections.

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Background: Poor accrual to cancer clinical trials may contribute to the lower improvement in survival observed for adolescents and young adults (AYAs) (those aged 15-39 years) with cancer. This has been difficult to quantify without reliable mechanisms to link incident cases with study enrollments. Using unique resources available at their National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, the authors compared the percentage of AYAs, children, and older adults enrolled onto cancer clinical trials and determined predictors of enrollment.

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Background: Conflicting data regarding the impact of fellow involvement during colonoscopy on the adenoma detection rate (ADR) and polyp detection rate (PDR) have been reported in the literature.

Aims: Our aim was to perform a meta-analysis to determine the impact of fellow participation during colonoscopy on the ADR and PDR.

Methods: Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, pertinent articles that reported ADR and/or PDR between attending physicians alone compared to gastroenterology fellows with attending physicians were obtained through database searches.

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Primary cardiac sarcomas are rare and carry a poor prognosis. The standard of care is complete resection. Outcomes for patients without complete resection are dismal, and the benefit of adjuvant therapy is uncertain.

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Although rare, passive transfer of platelet antibodies through blood products can result in thrombocytopenia, acute transfusion reactions, and death. We report a case of severe alloimmune thrombocytopenia from a plasma transfusion. A postliver transplant patient with a normal platelet count received fresh frozen plasma before liver biopsy.

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Central nervous system (CNS) involvement is rarely observed in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML). Most cases of CNS involvement occur at relapse rather than at presentation. Because of the extremely low incidence of CNS disease, diagnostic lumbar puncture is not routinely required and prophylactic intrathecal chemotherapy is not routinely administered.

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Hyaluronic acid (HA; also called hyaluronan) is a naturally derived, nonimmunogenic, nonadhesive glycosaminoglycan that has important roles in several wound-healing processes. In previous work, we created photocrosslinkable glycidyl methacrylate-HA (GMHA) hydrogel biomaterials that were cytocompatible, biologically active, and had a decreased rate of hyaluronidase degradation compared with native HA. The goal of the studies presented herein was to explore peptide conjugation techniques to further adjust the material and biological properties of the GMHA hydrogels.

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