Publications by authors named "Z Antal"

As the learning health network known as the T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Collaborative (T1DX-QI) has expanded on a significant scale to provide care for more than 120,000 people since its inception in 2016, assessing the quality improvement (QI) culture and monitoring clinical outcome improvements of participating centers has become vital to understanding the network's progress and success. Centers participating in the T1DX-QI complete regular QI culture self-assessments to quantify four evidence-based areas of culture: QI team structure, QI foundation, QI capacity, and QI success. This study builds on a previous baseline analysis to demonstrate self-reported improvements in T1DX-QI centers' QI culture from 2021 to 2022 and summarizes QI successes experienced by participating centers.

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Background: Late morbidity after childhood cancer may be mitigated by healthy lifestyle behaviors. We piloted a game-based, parent-child digital intervention to increase activity in sedentary survivors.

Methods: Survivors aged 10-16 treated with cardiotoxic therapy and not meeting US physical activity guidelines were enrolled in a single-arm study with a parent.

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Introduction: Data on ovarian function in neuroblastoma survivors are limited. We sought to determine the prevalence of ovarian dysfunction in a cohort of high-risk neuroblastoma survivors and compare outcomes among survivors treated with and without autologous stem cell rescue (ASCR) preceded by myeloablative chemotherapy.

Methods: Retrospective review of female survivors of high-risk neuroblastoma ≥5 years from diagnosis, diagnosed between 1982 and 2014, and followed in a tertiary cancer center.

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Background: As the number and longevity of childhood cancer survivors increases, assessing treatment-associated late effects remains crucial. We longitudinally examined the incidence of and associated risk factors for Leydig cell dysfunction (LCD) and Leydig cell failure (LCF) in men treated for pediatric cancers at our institution.

Procedure: We performed a retrospective longitudinal cohort study of adult male survivors treated for various childhood cancers who are at risk for LCD.

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