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Home healthcare agencies provide interdisciplinary care to millions of individuals annually. Care is typically led by registered nurses who often determine additional disciplines need to be included in the plan of care. We found that, although persons living with dementia represent about 30% of the home healthcare population, data from our home healthcare system showed that over a 1-year period with 36,443 home care episodes, only 29.
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April 2024
Department of Clinical Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Chromosome 17p deletion (del[17p]) is associated with poor prognosis in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Venetoclax is approved for treatment of previously untreated and relapsed/refractory (R/R) CLL, including patients with del(17p), based on the open-label, multicenter, phase 2 M13-982 trial (NCT01889186). Here, we detail the 6-year follow-up analysis for M13-982.
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May 2023
Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HR, UK.
Gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma is a disease of older adults that is associated with a very poor prognosis. It is less common and has better outcomes in females. The reason for this is unknown but may relate to signalling via the main oestrogen receptors (ER) α and β.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Palliat Nurs
February 2023
Nurse Practitioner, Albury Wodonga Health, Australia.
Without objective screening for risk of death, the palliative care needs of older patients near the end of life may be unrecognised and unmet. This study aimed to estimate the usefulness of the Criteria for Screening and Triaging to Appropriate aLternative care (CriSTAL) tool in determining older patients' risk of death within 3-months after initial hospital admission. A prospective cohort study of 235 patients aged 70+ years, who presented to two rural emergency departments in two adjacent Australian states, was utilised.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Gynecol Cancer
May 2023
Gynecologic Oncology, Levine Cancer Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Objective: The goals of this study were to describe opioid and benzodiazepine prescribing practices in the gynecologic oncology patient population and determine risks for opioid misuse in these patients.
Methods: Retrospective study of opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions for patients treated for cervical, ovarian (including fallopian tube/primary peritoneal), and uterine cancers within a single healthcare system from January 2016 to August 2018.
Results: A total of 7643 prescriptions for opioids and/or benzodiazepines were dispensed to 3252 patients over 5754 prescribing encounters for cervical (n=2602, 34.
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