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Anticancer Drugs
January 2025
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Unità Operativa Complessa Ginecologia Oncologica, Dipartimento per la Salute della Donna e del Bambino e della Salute Pubblica.
The aim of this study was to present a nationwide survey on the specialist's attitudes towards stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) combined with poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) with oligometastatic/oligoprogressive/oligorecurrent ovarian cancer (oMPR-OC) patients. The 19-item questionnaire was developed by specialists and distributed online. Replies were stratified by categories and analyzed using descriptive statistics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Manag Care Spec Pharm
January 2025
University of Colorado, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora.
Background: Improved medication adherence, represented as an increase in the proportion of days covered (PDC), to chronic medications is associated with better patient outcomes, yet effective strategies to improve adherence are often resource intensive. To quantify the impact of a pharmacist-supported electronic outreach initiative on medication adherence measures and to qualitatively evaluate patient engagement with and response to electronic messaging.
Methods: This retrospective cohort evaluation used mixed methods to assess the impact of a population health quality improvement program to address medication adherence for Medicare Advantage enrollees.
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg
November 2024
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
In 2008 the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) Review of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) recommended that OMFS specialty training should start with second-degree studies. This recommendation has not yet happened. Currently, no OMFS controlled places at medical/dental schools are directly linked to OMFS Specialty Training (ST) posts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJMIR Form Res
November 2024
Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
Background: Weight stigma is a fundamental cause of health inequality. Body positivity may be a counterbalance to weight stigma. Social media is replete with weight-stigmatizing content and is a driver of poor mental health outcomes; however, there remains a gap in understanding its potential to mitigate the prevalence and impact of harmful messaging and to promote positive effects on a large scale.
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September 2024
Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, GBR.
Aim To assess the effect of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) in relieving the biliary type symptoms in patients with gallbladder polyps (GBPs) and to determine the positive and negative predictive values (PPV, NPV) of abdominal ultrasound (US) for the pre-operative detection. Methods The data were retrieved from our tertiary hepatobiliopancreatic (HPB) center database for all patients who had an LC as a treatment for symptomatic GBPs between 2013 and 2022. The pre-operative US and postoperative histology reports were reviewed.
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