Effectiveness of telehealth in providing preventive oral health care: A pilot evaluation of patient, carer, and clinician experience.

Background: This pilot study aimed to characterize the experience, satisfaction, and views on feasibility of an oral health primary prevention telehealth service at a public dental hospital's department of pediatric dentistry, from the viewpoint of patients, carers, and clinicians.

Methods: Data were collected using an anonymous questionnaire for parents/guardians, a focus group for clinicians; and were summarized using descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, analysis of variance, and by thematic analysis for the qualitative data.

Results: Thirty-seven parents/guardians and four clinicians were included.

Factors Associated With Oral Mucositis Severity in Children Who Have Received Chemotherapy.

Oral mucositis (OM) is a major complication for pediatric oncology patients undergoing cancer therapy. This paper aimed to report on the relationship between OM severity and various patient factors as well as to compare 2 scales used to assess OM severity. The severity of 68 separate episodes of OM in 47 pediatric oncology patients who had received chemotherapy was regularly assessed using the Children's International Mucositis Evaluation Scale (ChIMES) and World Health Organization (WHO) scale.

The Management of Pediatric Oncology Inpatients With Oral Mucositis.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the management of chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis (OM) in pediatric patients. A total of 68 separate episodes of OM were assessed in 47 children who had received chemotherapy. The severity of the child's OM was assessed using 2 scales, and relevant clinical information was collected.

Pulmonary F-FDG uptake helps refine current risk stratification in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

Purpose: There is a lack of prognostic biomarkers in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) patients. The objective of this study is to investigate the potential of F-FDG-PET/ CT to predict mortality in IPF.

Methods: A total of 113 IPF patients (93 males, 20 females, mean age ± SD: 70 ± 9 years) were prospectively recruited for F-FDG-PET/CT.

The Biomolecular Interaction Network Database and related tools 2005 update.

The Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (BIND) (http://bind.ca) archives biomolecular interaction, reaction, complex and pathway information. Our aim is to curate the details about molecular interactions that arise from published experimental research and to provide this information, as well as tools to enable data analysis, freely to researchers worldwide.