Association between adjuvant radiation treatment and breast cancer-specific mortality among older women with comorbidity burden: A comparative effectiveness analysis of SEER-MHOS.

Background: The National Comprehensive Cancer Network suggested that older women with low-risk breast cancer (LRBC; i.e., early-stage, node-negative, and estrogen receptor-positive) could omit adjuvant radiation treatment (RT) after breast-conserving surgery (BCS) if they were treated with hormone therapy.

The association between sociodemographic, clinical, and potentially preventive therapies with oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy in colorectal cancer patients.

Purpose: The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to evaluate whether several potentially preventive therapies reduced the rate of oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy (OIPN) in colorectal cancer patients and to assess the relationship of sociodemographic/clinical factors with OIPN diagnosis.

Methods: Data were obtained from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database combined with Medicare claims. Eligible patients were diagnosed with colorectal cancer between 2007 and 2015, ≥ 66 years of age, and treated with oxaliplatin.

Association of Demographics and Hospital Stay Characteristics With Patient Experience in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients.

There is limited research on patient experience in hospitalized pediatric patients. Our aim was to investigate the association of patient demographics and hospital stay characteristics with experience in a tertiary-care, freestanding children's hospital. We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study of patient experience surveys.

Evaluation of Diet Quality Among American Adult Cancer Survivors: Results From 2005-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Background: Diet quality among adult cancer survivors is low, and there is minimal information on the Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2015 score, a measure of diet quality and adherence to the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, in this population.

Objective: This study aimed to examine HEI-2015 total and component scores and associated factors among adult cancer survivors. Also, this study examined which dietary components needed the most change to improve diet quality in this population.

Surveillance Colonoscopy in Older Stage I Colon Cancer Patients and the Association With Colon Cancer-Specific Mortality.

Objectives: Guideline-issuing groups differ regarding the recommendation that patients with stage I colon cancer receive surveillance colonoscopy after cancer-directed surgery. This observational comparative effectiveness study was conducted to evaluate the association between surveillance colonoscopy and colon cancer-specific mortality in early stage patients.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database combined with Medicare claims.

Impact of deep oropharyngeal suctioning on microaspiration, ventilator events, and clinical outcomes: A randomized clinical trial.

Aims: To evaluate a deep oropharyngeal suction intervention (NO-ASPIRATE) in intubated patients on microaspiration, ventilator-associated events and clinical outcomes.

Design: Prospective, two-group, single-blind, randomized clinical trial.

Methods: The study was conducted between 2014 - 2017 in 513 participants enroled within 24 hr of intubation and randomized into NO-ASPIRATE or usual care groups.

Nursing oral suction intervention to reduce aspiration and ventilator events (NO-ASPIRATE): A randomized clinical trial.

Aim: The primary aim of this study is to compare an oropharyngeal suction intervention versus usual care on microaspiration in intubated patients. Secondary aims are to evaluate the intervention on ventilator-associated condition rates, time to occurrence and compare tracheal-oral α-amylase ratios between groups.

Design: Prospective randomized clinical trial.

Post-treatment surveillance testing of patients with colorectal cancer and the association with survival: protocol for a retrospective cohort study of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database.

Introduction: Although the colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality rate has significantly improved over the past several decades, many patients will have a recurrence following curative treatment. Despite this high risk of recurrence, adherence to CRC surveillance testing guidelines is poor which increases cancer-related morbidity and potentially, mortality. Several randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with varying surveillance strategies have yielded conflicting evidence regarding the survival benefit associated with surveillance testing.