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Palliat Support Care
January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Objectives: Explore humanitarian healthcare professionals' (HCPs) perceptions about implementing children's palliative care and to identify their educational needs and challenges, including learning topics, training methods, and barriers to education.
Methods: Humanitarian HCPs were interviewed about perspectives on children's palliative care and preferences and needs for training. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and arranged into overarching themes.
World J Gastrointest Endosc
January 2025
Department of Frontier Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba 260-8670, Japan.
Background: Early anal canal cancer is frequently treated with endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) to preserve anal function. However, if the lesion is in the anal canal, then significant difficulties such as bleeding and challenges associated with scope manipulation can arise.
Case Summary: A 70-year-old woman undergoing follow-up after transverse colon cancer surgery was diagnosed with anal canal cancer extending to the dentate line.
Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational assistive technology for people with visual impairments (VI), where remote sighted agents provide realtime navigational assistance to users with visual impairments via video-chat-like communication. In this paper, we conducted a literature review and interviewed 12 RSA users to comprehensively understand technical and navigational challenges in RSA for both the agents and users. Technical challenges are organized into four categories: agents' difficulties in orienting and localizing the users; acquiring the users' surroundings and detecting obstacles; delivering information and understanding user-specific situations; and coping with a poor network connection.
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January 2025
Johnson and Johnson Limited, Statistical Modeling and Methodology, Statistical Decision Sciences, Raritan, USA.
During randomized controlled trials, it is critical to remain vigilant in safety monitoring. A common approach is to present information over time, such as frequency tables and graphs, when analyzing adverse events. Nevertheless, there is still a need for developing statistical methods for analyzing safety data of a dynamic nature.
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January 2025
Department of Social Sciences and Guidance, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, University of Inland Norway, Elverum, Norway.
Background: Providing quality palliative care during a pandemic was challenging. Both specialist and community healthcare services cared for patients that faced life-threatening illness and who were influenced by the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Little knowledge has yet been provided on how registered nurses (RNs) experienced the palliative care quality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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