Publications by authors named "Soman D"

Importance: Pediatric patients with cancer experience severely bothersome symptoms during treatment. It was hypothesized that symptom screening and provision of symptom reports to the health care team would reduce symptom burden in pediatric patients with cancer.

Objective: To determine if daily symptom screening and provision of symptom reports to the health care team was associated with lower total symptom burden as measured by the Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) compared to usual care among pediatric patients with cancer admitted to a hospital or seen in a clinic daily for at least 5 days.

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Background: Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS) is inferred as persistent sleepiness and often a general lack of energy during the day even after apparently adequate or even prolonged nighttime sleep. The subjects may not be identifying excessive daytime sleepiness but may present as feeling tired, lack of energy etc. They may seem apparently healthy and without any other systemic illness.

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Myxomas are a group of benign tumors that have a common histologic appearance of fibrous and myxoid ground substance. According to literature, myxomas often occur between the ages of 30 and 50 years. Very often, intraoral soft tissue myxoma can be misinterpreted as malignant and is difficult to differentiate from other tumors with myxoid stroma.

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This case report focuses on the clinical development of a 32-year-old female patient's lobular capillary hemangioma and provides valuable insights into the atypical nature of this tumor. Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) that follows diode laser intervention can be regarded as a novel and evidence-based approach to therapeutic management. The application of a diode laser causes the vascular elements that comprise the bulk of the lesion to coagulate, which in turn causes the lesion's size to decrease.

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Objectives: This narrative literature review aims to develop a framework that can be used to understand, study, and design maternal care environments that support the needs of women from diverse racial and ethnic groups.

Background: Childbirth and the beginning of life hold particular significance across many cultures. People's cultural orientation and experiences influence their preferences within healthcare settings.

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Introduction: Insomnia is common among cancer patients, affecting about 50% undergoing cancer treatment. Insomnia can be due to various reasons, such as physical-pain, psychological-distress and medication side-effects. Insomnia has significant impact on quality of life of cancer patients.

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Public and private institutions have gained traction in developing interventions to alter people's behaviours in predictable ways without limiting the freedom of choice or significantly changing the incentive structure. A nudge is designed to facilitate actions by minimizing friction, while a sludge is an intervention that inhibits actions by increasing friction, but the underlying cognitive mechanisms behind these interventions remain largely unknown. Here, we develop a novel cognitive framework by organizing these interventions along six cognitive processes: attention, perception, memory, effort, intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation.

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Despite their increasing use, choice architecture interventions have faced criticism for being possibly manipulative and unethical. We empirically explore how an intervention's acceptability differs by the type of intervention used, by the domain, and by the way in which its implementation and benefits are explained. We employ a 5 × 5 × 5 factorial design with three fully crossed predictor variables: domain, type of intervention, and explanation.

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Aim: To compare the effect of salivary contamination on the shear bond strength (SBS) of seventh- and eighth-generation adhesives.

Materials And Methods: Specimens were randomly divided into group I and group II, subdivided into three subgroups of 11 samples. Subgroup IA-seventh-generation uncontaminated (control); adhesive; air-dried; light cured.

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Cultural marginalization refers to the process of being on the fringe of two distinct cultures. Culture represents the values, beliefs, knowledge, and norms that are common to a group of people. Globalization contributes to an increasingly diverse population and leads to frequent interaction, collaboration, and sharing of space between various cultures.

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Individuals regularly struggle to save for retirement. Using a large-scale field experiment ( ) in Mexico, we test the effectiveness of several behavioral interventions relative to existing policy and each other geared toward improving voluntary retirement savings contributions. We find that an intervention framing savings as a way to secure one's family future significantly improves contribution rates.

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Objective: Primary objective was to determine the feasibility of three times weekly symptom reporting by pediatric cancer patients for eight weeks.

Methods: We included English-speaking patients 8-18 years of age with cancer. Patients were sent reminders by text or email to complete Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) three times weekly for eight weeks.

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Purpose: To evaluate if nudges delivered by text message prior to an upcoming primary care visit can increase influenza vaccination rates.

Design: Randomized, controlled trial.

Setting: Two health systems in the Northeastern US between September 2020 and March 2021.

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Background: In heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), abnormal regulation of skeletal muscle perfusion contributes to reduced exercise tolerance. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that improvement in functional status after permanent left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation in patients with HFrEF is related to improvement in muscle perfusion during work, which was measured using contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS).

Methods: CEUS perfusion imaging of calf muscle at rest and during low-intensity plantar flexion exercise (20 W, 0.

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Unlabelled: As companies increasingly conduct marketing research online (e.g., through social networking sites or their brand community platforms), the knowledge that others are also filling out the same surveys becomes increasingly salient to respondents.

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Objective: Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is used for the surveillance of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and its associated complications. The time interval gap for subsequent follow-up MRCP is variable depending on clinical practice patterns, therefore this study was done to assess the MRCP follow-up strategy used in our institution for screening PSC-associated hepatobiliary malignancies.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective observational cohort included MRCP studies in adult patients, with clinical and radiological diagnosis of PSC over the past 15-year period between January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2018.

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Background: Microleakage is a concern while restoring cervical lesions. Many products have attempted to minimize the interfacial gap between the tooth and restoration, the main pathway of microleakage.

Aims And Objective: To compare and evaluate the microleakage in Class V cavity restored with nanohybrid flowable composite, Resin modified Glass Ionomer and Cention N.

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Purpose: To measure the diagnostic accuracy and inter-observer agreement with the use of COVID-19 Reporting and Data System (CO-RADS) for detection of COVID-19 on CT chest imaging.

Methods: This retrospective study included 164 consecutive patients with clinical suspicion of COVID-19 in whom a CT chest examination was performed at a single institution between April 2020 and July 2020. Of them, 101 patients was RT-PCR positive for COVID-19.

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Objectives: Various aspects of aging in Ayurveda literature has been explored and correlated it with modern biological understanding.

Content: The concept of longevity is better understood upon the baseline understanding of Aging ie. or is synonymous with longevity.

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Objectives: Gout is an inflammatory response to the Monosodium urate crystals formed secondary to hyperuricaemia. The prevalence of gout has increased in recent years. The current conventional medical management aims at symptomatic management.

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Many Americans fail to get life-saving vaccines each year, and the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 makes the challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever. We present a large field experiment ( = 47,306) testing 19 nudges delivered to patients via text message and designed to boost adoption of the influenza vaccine. Our findings suggest that text messages sent prior to a primary care visit can boost vaccination rates by an average of 5%.

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Aim: The aim of this study is to clinically isolate and detect three anaerobic bacteria associated with endodontic-periodontal lesions in type-2 diabetic and nondiabetic patients using polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

Materials And Methods: Sixty patients presenting endodontic-periodontal lesions were divided into two groups. Thirty patients with type-2 diabetics (Group 1) and 30 nondiabetic patients (Group 2) were evaluated for the presence of three anaerobic bacteria.

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Purpose: Supportive care Prioritization, Assessment and Recommendations for Kids (SPARK) is a web-based application that enables symptom screening and access to clinical practice guidelines for symptom management. Objective was to determine the feasibility of a randomized trial of daily symptom screening for 5 days among children receiving cancer treatments.

Methods: We included English-speaking pediatric cancer and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients who were 8-18 years of age at enrollment and who were expected to be in the hospital or in clinic daily for five consecutive days.

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Background: Supportive care Prioritization, Assessment and Recommendations for Kids (SPARK) is a web application focused on improving symptom control. It enables pediatric cancer and hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients to self-report and track symptoms, and allows healthcare professionals to access guidelines for symptom management. Objective was to determine the feasibility of longitudinal collection of symptom data.

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