Vulnerability to climate change of United States marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean.

Climate change and climate variability are affecting marine mammal species and these impacts are projected to continue in the coming decades. Vulnerability assessments provide a framework for evaluating climate impacts over a broad range of species using currently available information. We conducted a trait-based climate vulnerability assessment using expert elicitation for 108 marine mammal stocks and stock groups in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea.

Prognosis does not change the landscape: palliative home care clients experience high rates of pain and nausea, regardless of prognosis.

Background: Most individuals who typically receive palliative care (PC) tend to have cancer and a relatively short prognosis (< 6 months). People with other life-limiting illnesses can also benefit from a palliative care approach. However, little is known about those who receive palliative home care in Ontario, Canada's largest province.

Symptom trajectories of non-cancer patients in the last six months of life: Identifying needs in a population-based home care cohort.

Introduction: The end-of-life symptom prevalence of non-cancer patients have been described mostly in hospital and institutional settings. This study aims to describe the average symptom trajectories among non-cancer patients who are community-dwelling and used home care services at the end of life.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective, population-based cohort study of non-cancer patients who used home care services in the last 6 months of life in Ontario, Canada, between 2007 and 2014.

Trajectory of End-of-Life Pain and Other Physical Symptoms among Cancer Patients Receiving Home Care.

Purpose: To describe the trajectory of physical symptoms among cancer decedents who were receiving home care in the six months before death.

Patients And Methods: An observational cohort study of cancer decedents in Ontario, Canada, who received home care services between 2007 and 2014. To be included, decedents had to use at least one home care service in the last six months of life.

Trajectory of psychosocial symptoms among home care patients with cancer at end-of-life.

Purpose: Understanding the end-of-life psychosocial needs of cancer patients at home is a knowledge gap. This study describes the trajectory of psychosocial symptoms in the last 6 months of life among cancer decedents who were receiving home care.

Methods: Observational population-based cohort study of cancer decedents who were receiving home care services between 2007 and 2014.

Cross-Sectional Nutrition Profile of Palliative Home Care Clients in Ontario and Performance of the interRAI Palliative Care Nutrition Clinical Assessment Protocol.

Background: The nutrition profile of palliative home care clients is unknown. This study describes this group and their nutrition issues and evaluates the performance of the interRAI nutrition Clinical Assessment Protocol (CAP).

Methods: This was a cross-sectional secondary analysis using Ontario interRAI Palliative Care (interRAI PC) Assessment data.

Care Coordination with Schools: The Role of Family-Centered Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs.

Objectives Family-centered care has been associated with positive outcomes for children with special health care needs. The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship of family-centered care as associated with care coordination with schools and school absences (e.g.

The importance of ADHD subtype classification for educational applications of DSM-V.

Objective: An examination of the academic achievement of children with ADHD by stimulant treatment status must consider this heterogeneity of the disorder. With the dissemination of the final wave of data, the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study presents an opportunity to examine the academic achievement of students with ADHD using a large, community-based, and nationally representative sample over 4 years.

Method: In Study 1, the association between stimulant treatment and academic achievement is examined over 4 years.

There is no meaningful relationship between television exposure and symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Objective: The recent but methodologically limited longitudinal study of the adverse attentional effects of television viewing in early childhood suggests a possible association. The purpose of the present study was to extend this investigation to a more current sample of kindergarten students using structural equation modeling, which allows for the simultaneous evaluation of predictors.

Methods: Two samples were randomly selected from nationally representative data collected from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study.