Absence of Survival Impact from Hepatitis During Immunotherapy in 193 Patients with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma - An Observational Study from Taiwan.

Background: Hepatitis often occurs after initiating immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment. The time and grade of hepatitis after ICI starts and the prognostic role of immune-related hepatitis in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (aHCC) remain unclear.

Methods: In this real-world analysis, we enrolled aHCC patients receiving ICIs, documented the highest level of liver enzymes during/after ICIs, and analyzed the survival impact of different hepatitis patterns.

Integrative Nutritional Counseling Combining Chinese Medicine and Biomedicine for Chinese Americans with Type 2 Diabetes: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study.

This study describes the development and feasibility of Integrative Nutritional Counseling (INC), a Chinese medicine (CM)+biomedicine-based nutrition curriculum for Chinese Americans with type 2 diabetes. Although Chinese Americans often incorporate CM principles into their diet, scant research has explored how to integrate CM with biomedical nutrition standards in a culturally appropriate manner or if such a program could improve diabetes self-management. This is a 1-month pre-post study design including three points of contact: baseline, in-person class, and 1-month follow-up.

Comparative efficacy of social media delivered health education on glycemic control: A meta-analysis.

Objective: To compare outcomes associated with patient education about glycemic control via group chat versus patient education as usual among individuals with diabetes in China.

Methods: We searched the following databases both in English and in Chinese languages: PubMed, CNKI, Wanfang database, VIP database, and CBM for articles published up to Jan 1, 2018. The studies were screened by two independent reviewers.

Please Ask Gently: Using Culturally Targeted Communication Strategies to Initiate End-of-Life Care Discussions With Older Chinese Americans.

Background: Health-care providers (HCPs) find facilitating end-of-life (EOL) care discussions challenging, especially with patients whose ethnicities differ from their own. Currently, there is little guidance on how to initiate and facilitate such discussions with older Chinese Americans (≥55 years) and their families.

Objective: To explore communication strategies for HCPs to initiate EOL care discussions with older Chinese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Can We Talk About It Now? Recognizing the Optimal Time to Initiate End-of-Life Care Discussions with Older Chinese Americans and Their Families.

Introduction: Older Chinese Americans often defer end-of-life care discussions. Researchers sought to explore how to engage older Chinese Americans and their families in end-of-life care discussions and to understand the optimal timing to initiate such discussions.

Methods: Individual, semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 community-dwelling older Chinese Americans, 9 adult children, and 7 clinicians.

Cultural Adaptation of the Group Lifestyle Balance Program for Chinese Americans.

Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study was to develop and evaluate a culturally adapted, language-translated diabetes prevention program for Chinese Americans.

Methods: This pilot study had a single-group repeated-measures design. Participants were 25 first-generation (n = 20) or second-generation (n = 5) Chinese Americans at risk for diabetes because of overweight (using the Asian-specific criterion of body mass index ≥ 23) and either prediabetes or metabolic syndrome.