Multidisciplinary team meetings improve survival in patients with esophageal cancer.

Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTs) are recommended for patients with esophageal cancer. Improved staging, timeliness to surgery and better adherence to guidelines have been attributed to MDTs, but there are few studies published on the MDTs' effect on survival. All patients with esophageal cancer in Sweden between 2006 and 2018 were grouped according to whether they had been discussed at an MDT as part of their clinical pathway.

Influence of information sources on vaccine hesitancy and practices.

Introduction: Many factors influence vaccination practices and attitudes. This study aimed to identify vaccine information sources used by parents of children aged 1-15 years to get a better understanding of the relation between vaccine information sources, practices for two vaccines (MMR, HBV), vaccine acceptance, and vaccine hesitancy.

Methods: A total of 3938 parents, drawn by random sampling, were interviewed by telephone as part of the "2016 health barometer" survey.

Population perception of mandatory childhood vaccination programme before its implementation, France, 2017.

BackgroundVaccination policy in France was previously characterised by the coexistence of eight recommended and three mandatory vaccinations for children younger than 2 years old. These 11 vaccines are now mandatory for all children born after 1 January 2018.AimTo study the French population's opinion about this new policy and to assess factors associated with a positive opinion during this changing phase.

Recent vaccine mandates in the United States, Europe and Australia: A comparative study.

Background: In response to recent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases and concerns around vaccine refusal, several high-income countries have adopted or reformed vaccine mandate policies. While all make it more difficult for parents to refuse vaccines, the nature and scope of 'mandatory vaccination' is heterogeneous, and there has been no attempt to develop a detailed, comparative systematic account of the possible forms mandates can take.

Methods: We compare the construction, introduction/amendment, and operation of six new high profile vaccine mandates in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, California, and Washington.

Vaccine Hesitancy Among General Practitioners and Its Determinants During Controversies: A National Cross-sectional Survey in France.

Background: This study aimed to assess: 1) vaccine hesitancy (VH) prevalence among French general practitioners (GPs) through the frequency of their vaccine recommendations, and 2) the determinants of these recommendations.

Methods: Cross-sectional observational study in 2014 nested in a national panel of 1712 randomly selected GPs in private practice in France. We constructed a score of self-reported recommendation frequency for 6 specific vaccines to target populations.

How French physicians manage with a future change in the primary vaccination of infants against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis? A qualitative study with focus groups.

Background: As in other European countries, the French vaccination schedule changes according to epidemiological and socio-economic situations. Further changes are planned for 2013, including the withdrawal of one dose for primary vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, pertussis and Haemophilus influenzae. A partnership between the French Technical Vaccination Committee and the French Institute for Health and Medical Research designed a study to assess primary care physicians' agreement about this modification.

Hepatitis B knowledge, perceptions and practices in the French general population: the room for improvement.

Background: Little is known about the knowledge, perceptions and prevention practices of the French general population with respect to Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. This article describes this population's knowledge of HBV, their perceptions of the disease, and associated screening and vaccination practices. It compares these indicators with those observed in the same population for HIV, an infection with a chronic course and transmission modes resembling those of HBV.

The e-Bug project in France.

The high rates of antibiotic prescriptions and antimicrobial resistance in France motivated its participation in the European e-Bug school project concerning microbes, and infection transmission, prevention and treatment. The prospect of raising awareness among children, helping them to adopt suitable attitudes and behaviour towards infection transmission and treatment starting from childhood, generated enthusiastic support from relevant national educational and health institutions throughout the Project. France was actively involved in every stage: background research showed that the subject matter was best suited to the national science curricula of the fourth and fifth forms in junior schools, and the sixth and ninth forms in senior schools; a focus group study with junior and senior teachers elicited teachers' needs concerning teaching resources; and a qualitative and quantitative evaluation, after translation and pack review, enabled further adaptation of the packs.

Mandatory immunization: the point of view of the French general population and practitioners.

This survey studies the opinion of the French general population, general practitioners and pediatricians regarding mandatory immunization. Data were collected through standardized telephone questionnaires administered to representative samples of the French population (n=4112) and of French general practitioners and pediatricians (1285 general practitioners (GPs) and 742 pediatricians). 56.

Anal squamous intraepithelial lesions and condyloma in HIV-infected heterosexual men, homosexual men and women: prevalence and associated factors.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of and factors associated with squamous intraepithelial lesions and condyloma [human papillomavirus (HPV)-related lesions) in HIV-infected patients.

Design: A cross-sectional study in a tertiary-care university hospital conducted in 516 consecutive outpatients.

Intervention: A systematic examination for macroscopic HPV-related lesions through anoscopy with histological confirmation, evaluation of dysplasia and HPV typing.

Evaluation of a combined screening programme for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers in France.

A combined breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening programme was set up in 1990 in Isère, for women aged 50-69 years (target population 100,000) comprising an initial medical visit. The programme was evaluated in 1997. The evaluation covered uptake results, sensitivity, specificity, two opinion surveys among 1025 physicians and 400 women to measure the impact, and three surveys regarding radiologists', gastroenterologists' and pathologists' attitudes.

[Yield of colonoscopy by indication and consequences for colorectal polyp and cancer screening: a prospective survey in Isère, France].

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine yields of colonoscopy by indication, especially after a positive Hemoccult test, in the Isère area in southeastern France where a mass screening campaign for colorectal cancer using the Hemoccult test was conducted in women aged 50 to 69 years.

Method: This prospective survey was conducted with the participation of all gastroenterologists in the Isère department. Information about indications of all colonoscopies performed and their results were collected.