Tracking Survivors With Long COVID: Method, Implementation, and Results of an Observational Study.

While the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has declined, many survivors continue to suffer debilitating symptoms, such as fatigue, pain, and foggy thoughts. Sustained COVID-19 symptoms, or Long COVID, challenge health care resources and economic recovery. This article describes the methodology, implementation, and results of an observational study investigating how time since diagnosis may affect lingering symptoms among the adult COVID-19 population.

Symptom management interventions influence unscheduled health services use among cancer survivors and caregivers.

Purpose: Three sequences of telephone symptom management interventions were tested on use of unscheduled health services among cancer survivors with depressive or anxiety symptoms during treatment (N = 334) and their informal caregivers (N = 333).

Methods: The three 12-week intervention sequences were as follows: (1) Symptom Management and Survivorship Handbook (SMSH), (2) a combined 8-week SMSH + Telephone Interpersonal Counseling (TIPC) followed by SMSH for 4 weeks, and (3) SMSH for 4 weeks followed by a combined SMSH + TIPC if no response to SMSH alone. Survivor-caregiver dyads were first randomized to SMSH or a combined SMSH + TIPC.

Treatment of Unruptured Small and Medium-Sized Wide Necked Aneurysms Using the 64-Wire Surpass Evolve: A Subanalysis From the SEASE International Registry.

Background: Flow diversion has revolutionized the management of wide-necked intracranial aneurysms (IAs). We aimed to assess the effectiveness and safety of the new generation 64-wire Surpass Evolve for the treatment of unruptured small/medium-sized IAs.

Methods And Results: This is a subanalysis from the SEASE (Safety and Effectiveness Assessment of the Surpass Evolve) registry, an observational cohort study including 15 academic institutions in North America and Europe between July 2020 and October 2022.

A sequential multiple assignment randomized trial of symptom management for cancer survivors during treatment and their informal caregivers.

Context: Many cancer survivors and their informal caregivers experience multiple symptoms during the survivor's treatment.

Objective: Test relative effectiveness and optimal sequencing of two evidence-based interventions for symptom management.

Methods: In this sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART), survivors of solid tumors with elevated depression or anxiety and their caregivers as dyads were initially randomized after baseline assessment in a 3:1 ratio to the Symptom Management and Survivorship Handbook (SMSH, N = 277 dyads) intervention or SMSH plus 8 weeks of telephone interpersonal counseling (TIPC, N = 97 dyads).

Predictors of persistence of post-chemotherapy symptoms among survivors of solid tumor cancers.

Context: Late or residual symptoms diminish quality of life for many cancer survivors after completion of treatment.

Objectives: Examine risk factors associated with persisting symptom burden after chemotherapy and the lack of symptom improvement over time.

Methods: Survivors who completed curative-intent chemotherapy within two years for solid tumors were enrolled into a symptom management trial.

Effects of chronotype-tailored bright light intervention on post-treatment symptoms and quality of life in breast cancer survivors.

Purpose: Bright light therapy holds promise for reducing common symptoms, e.g., fatigue, experienced by individuals with cancer.

Effects of Chronotype-tailored Bright Light Intervention on Symptoms and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Survivors.

Purpose: Bright light therapy holds promise for reducing common symptoms, e.g., fatigue, experienced by individuals with cancer.

High variability in physician estimations of flow-diverting stent deployment versus PreSize Neurovascular software simulation: a comparison study.

Background: Physician variablity in preoperative planning of endovascular implant deployment and associated inaccuracies have not been documented. This study aimed to quantify the variability in accuracy of physician flow diverter (FD) planning and directly compares it with PreSize Neurovascular (Oxford Heartbeat Ltd) software simulations.

Methods: Eight experienced neurointerventionalists (NIs), blinded to procedural details, were provided with preoperative 3D rotational angiography (3D-RA) volumetric data along with images annotated with the distal landing location of a deployed Surpass Evolve (Stryker Neurovascular) FD from 51 patient cases.

Perceptions of families with adolescents utilizing augmentative and alternative communication technology: A qualitative approach.

Purpose: Although family involvement is critical to successful augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device utilization, little is known about how families adapt to technology. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore parent-reported factors contributing to family adaptation among families with adolescents diagnosed with autism and/or Down syndrome (DS) utilizing AAC technology. This study describes families' experiences related to several interacting variables of the Resiliency Model, including demand, type, appraisal, resources, and problem-solving/coping, that helped shape the outcome of adaptation to AAC technology.

Preceding Host History of Conjugative Resistance Plasmids Affects Intra- and Interspecific Transfer Potential from Biofilm.

Conjugative plasmids can confer antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to their host bacterium. The plasmids disperse even between distantly related host species, rescuing the host from otherwise detrimental effects of antibiotics. Little is known about the role of these plasmids in the spread of AMR during antibiotic treatment.

A Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial of Symptom Management After Chemotherapy.

Context: Many cancer survivors experience a lingering symptom burden after chemotherapy.

Objectives: In this sequential multiple assignment randomized trial, we tested optimal sequencing of two evidence-based interventions for symptom management.

Methods: Survivors of solid tumors (N = 451) were interviewed at baseline and stratified as high or low need for symptom management based on comorbidity and depressive symptoms.

Living as a Survivor: Sleep Disturbance, Fatigue, Depressive Mood, and Cognitive Dysfunction After Breast Cancer Treatment.

Background: Many cancer survivors endure multiple symptoms while striving to return to a normal life. Those symptoms often co-occur and exacerbate one another; however, their interplay is not fully understood.

Objective: This study aimed to examine the occurrence and concurrence of sleep disturbance, fatigue, depressive mood, and cognitive dysfunction in posttreatment breast cancer survivors.

Barriers to Implementation of Music Listening Interventions for Cancer-Related Phenomena: A Mapping Review.

Despite music listening interventions (MLIs) being recommended in multiple clinical practice guidelines, implementation into oncology clinical practice sites has been slow. This mapping review aimed to critique and identify barriers to MLI clinical implementation, as well as offer practical solutions for both clinicians and researchers. A PRISMA-based mapping review of MLI literature was performed using CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases.

Patient Reported Outcomes and Unscheduled Health Services use During Oral Anti-Cancer Treatment.

Context: People on oral anti-cancer agents must self-manage their symptoms with less interaction with oncology providers compared to infusion treatments. Symptoms and physical function are key patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and may lead to unscheduled health services uses (urgent care and emergency department [ED] visits, hospitalizations), which in turn lead to increased health care costs.

Objectives: To evaluate the prediction of unscheduled health services uses using age, sex, and comorbidity, then determine the extent to which PRO data (symptoms and functioning) improve that prediction.

A literature review of coping strategies and health-related quality of life among patients with heart failure.

Aims: To identify and provide clarity on factors that influence coping and the type of coping strategies used by patients with heart failure (HF) to improve health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

Methods And Results: The Arksey and O'Malley template framed this scoping review guided by the stress and coping model. Five databases were explored: PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane, CINAHL, and PsycINFO.

Plasmid Viability Depends on the Ecological Setting of Hosts within a Multiplasmid Community.

Plasmids are extrachromosomal genetic elements, some of which disperse horizontally between different strains and species of bacteria. They are a major factor in the dissemination of virulence factors and antibiotic resistance. Understanding the ecology of plasmids has a notable anthropocentric value, and therefore, the interactions between bacterial hosts and individual plasmids have been studied in detail.

Evaluating chronotypically tailored light therapy for breast cancer survivors: Preliminary findings on fatigue and disrupted sleep.

More than one-third of cancer survivors experience significant residual symptoms after treatment completion. Fatigue and sleep disruption often co-occur and exacerbate each other. The purpose of this preliminary analysis was to examine the effect of a chronotypically tailored light therapy on fatigue and sleep disruption in female survivors 1-3 years post-completion of chemotherapy and/or radiation for stage I to III breast cancer.