Publications by authors named "R Nordgren"
Objective: Well-designed patient education materials (PEMs) increase health literacy, which has been linked to better surgical patient outcomes. The quality of lung cancer surgery PEMs is unknown, however. Here we assessed printed lung cancer surgery PEMs for readability, understandability, actionability, and accessibility.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) in children is uncommon, resulting in a paucity of data describing the disease process in this population. Herein, in an effort to bridge the information gap, we review our experience with pHPT in adolescent patients under 20 y of age at a specialized tertiary referral center.
Methods: A retrospective chart review included all adolescent patients with pHPT, who underwent surgery at our institution between 2004 and 2023.
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- The study investigates how social vulnerability affects breast cancer stage at diagnosis and mortality, highlighting persistent disparities despite advancements in screening and treatment.* -
- Researchers analyzed data from 3,499 women diagnosed between 2012 and 2019, using the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to assess risk based on their home addresses.* -
- Results show that higher SVI scores correlate with greater odds of advanced-stage breast cancer and increased all-cause mortality, particularly for those in the most vulnerable communities.*
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- This study examines whether surgery prior to peptide receptor radionuclide therapy improves outcomes for patients with metastatic gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
- A total of 89 patients were analyzed, with 56 undergoing surgery before receiving therapy, leading to a median progression-free survival of 26.1 months versus 15.6 months for those who did not have surgery.
- Results indicated that surgical intervention, particularly liver debulking, resulted in lower tumor volumes and significantly better progression-free survival outcomes, suggesting a potential benefit of timing in treatment approaches.
Importance: Data on the performance of traumatic brain injury (TBI) biomarkers within minutes of injury are lacking.
Objectives: To examine the performance of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), and microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP-2) within 30 and 60 minutes of TBI in identifying intracranial lesions on computed tomography (CT) scan, need for neurosurgical intervention (NSI), and clinically important early outcomes (CIEO).
Design, Setting, And Participants: This cohort study is a biomarker analysis of a multicenter prehospital TBI cohort from the Prehospital Tranexamic Acid Use for TBI clinical trial conducted across 20 centers and 39 emergency medical systems in North America from May 2015 to March 2017.