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An overview of disparities and interventions in pediatric kidney transplantation worldwide
Pediatric Nephrology, ISSN 0931-041X, 7/2015, Volume 30, Issue 7, pp. 1077 - 1086
Despite the stated goals of the transplant community and the majority of organ allocation systems, persistent racial disparities in pediatric kidney...
Pediatrics | Nephrology | Socioeconomic status | Medicine & Public Health | Racial disparities | Organ allocation | Minority health | Urology | Kidney transplantation | UNITED-STATES | DONATION | ORGAN-TRANSPLANTATION | ETHNIC DISPARITIES | REPLACEMENT THERAPY | UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY | PEDIATRICS | US CHILDREN | STAGE RENAL-DISEASE | SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS | MEDICATION ADHERENCE | Minority Health | Healthcare Disparities - statistics & numerical data | Ethnic Groups | Humans | Kidney Transplantation - statistics & numerical data | Child | Socioeconomic Factors | Transplantation | Kidneys | Demographic aspects | Health aspects | Patient outcomes | Socio-Economic Status | Kidney Transplantation | Organ Allocation | Racial Disparities
Pediatrics | Nephrology | Socioeconomic status | Medicine & Public Health | Racial disparities | Organ allocation | Minority health | Urology | Kidney transplantation | UNITED-STATES | DONATION | ORGAN-TRANSPLANTATION | ETHNIC DISPARITIES | REPLACEMENT THERAPY | UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY | PEDIATRICS | US CHILDREN | STAGE RENAL-DISEASE | SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS | MEDICATION ADHERENCE | Minority Health | Healthcare Disparities - statistics & numerical data | Ethnic Groups | Humans | Kidney Transplantation - statistics & numerical data | Child | Socioeconomic Factors | Transplantation | Kidneys | Demographic aspects | Health aspects | Patient outcomes | Socio-Economic Status | Kidney Transplantation | Organ Allocation | Racial Disparities
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Liver Transplantation, ISSN 1527-6465, 11/2013, Volume 19, Issue 11, pp. 1172 - 1180
For patients with end‐stage liver disease, commonly used indices of nutritional status (ie, body weight and body mass index) are often inflated because of...
MORTALITY | SURGERY | AREA | CIRRHOSIS | VALIDATION | BODY-COMPOSITION | PREVALENCE | INDEX | NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT | GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY | COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY | TRANSPLANTATION | Body Composition | Length of Stay | Liver Transplantation | Humans | Middle Aged | Proportional Hazards Models | Adult | Female | Male | Aged | Muscle, Skeletal - pathology | Sex Characteristics | radiologic assessment | body composition | liver transplant outcomes | assessment of liver transplant candidates
MORTALITY | SURGERY | AREA | CIRRHOSIS | VALIDATION | BODY-COMPOSITION | PREVALENCE | INDEX | NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT | GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY | COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY | TRANSPLANTATION | Body Composition | Length of Stay | Liver Transplantation | Humans | Middle Aged | Proportional Hazards Models | Adult | Female | Male | Aged | Muscle, Skeletal - pathology | Sex Characteristics | radiologic assessment | body composition | liver transplant outcomes | assessment of liver transplant candidates
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Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, ISSN 0749-5978, 05/2000, Volume 82, Issue 1, pp. 117 - 133
Several experiments (see Hollingshead, 1998a; Moreland, 1999) have shown that groups perform tasks better if their members are trained together rather than...
PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL | WORK | MANAGEMENT | PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED | Memory | Corporations | Work groups | Research | Training | Performance evaluation | Studies | Teamwork | Organizational learning | Group dynamics
PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL | WORK | MANAGEMENT | PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED | Memory | Corporations | Work groups | Research | Training | Performance evaluation | Studies | Teamwork | Organizational learning | Group dynamics
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Pediatrics, ISSN 0031-4005, 10/2013, Volume 132, Issue 4, pp. e851 - e858
OBJECTIVE: To determine if race/ethnicity-based differences exist in the management of pediatric abdominal pain in emergency departments (EDs). METHODS:...
Abdominal pain | Disparities | Emergency department | Racial difference | disparities | RACE/ETHNICITY | QUALITY | CLINICAL-TRIAL | HOSPITALS | ANALGESIC TREATMENT | emergency department | CARE | CHILDREN | racial difference | abdominal pain | FRACTURES | PEDIATRICS | TRAUMA PATIENTS | Abdominal Pain - diagnosis | Health Care Surveys - methods | Emergency Service, Hospital | Abdominal Pain - therapy | Ethnic Groups - ethnology | Continental Population Groups - ethnology | Humans | Child, Preschool | Infant | Male | Young Adult | Adolescent | Female | Disease Management | Abdominal Pain - ethnology | Child | Care and treatment | Ethnicity | Emergency service | Hospitals | Demographic aspects | Influence | Research | Management | Pediatrics | Emergency medical care | Racial differences | Analgesics | Pain management
Abdominal pain | Disparities | Emergency department | Racial difference | disparities | RACE/ETHNICITY | QUALITY | CLINICAL-TRIAL | HOSPITALS | ANALGESIC TREATMENT | emergency department | CARE | CHILDREN | racial difference | abdominal pain | FRACTURES | PEDIATRICS | TRAUMA PATIENTS | Abdominal Pain - diagnosis | Health Care Surveys - methods | Emergency Service, Hospital | Abdominal Pain - therapy | Ethnic Groups - ethnology | Continental Population Groups - ethnology | Humans | Child, Preschool | Infant | Male | Young Adult | Adolescent | Female | Disease Management | Abdominal Pain - ethnology | Child | Care and treatment | Ethnicity | Emergency service | Hospitals | Demographic aspects | Influence | Research | Management | Pediatrics | Emergency medical care | Racial differences | Analgesics | Pain management
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Hepatology, ISSN 0270-9139, 02/2016, Volume 63, Issue 2, pp. 428 - 436
Recently approved, interferon‐free medication regimens for treating hepatitis C are highly effective, but extremely costly. We aimed to identify cost‐effective...
Quality-Adjusted Life Years | Sofosbuvir - therapeutic use | Veterans Health - economics | Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use | United States | Humans | Middle Aged | Fluorenes - therapeutic use | Hepatitis C, Chronic - drug therapy | Cost-Benefit Analysis | Aged | Antiviral Agents - economics | Drug Combinations | Benzimidazoles - therapeutic use | interferon-free | sofosbuvir | ledipasvir | Markov model | ombitasvir
Quality-Adjusted Life Years | Sofosbuvir - therapeutic use | Veterans Health - economics | Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use | United States | Humans | Middle Aged | Fluorenes - therapeutic use | Hepatitis C, Chronic - drug therapy | Cost-Benefit Analysis | Aged | Antiviral Agents - economics | Drug Combinations | Benzimidazoles - therapeutic use | interferon-free | sofosbuvir | ledipasvir | Markov model | ombitasvir
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JACC (Journal of the American College of Cardiology), ISSN 0735-1097, 2017, Volume 69, Issue 11, pp. 383 - 383
Background: Historically, women and minorities have been less likely to receive implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy than white men, despite...
Cardiovascular | Internal Medicine | Defibrillators | Implants, Artificial | Prosthesis | Heart failure | Osteoporosis | Gender | Patients
Cardiovascular | Internal Medicine | Defibrillators | Implants, Artificial | Prosthesis | Heart failure | Osteoporosis | Gender | Patients
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Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, ISSN 0885-3924, 2016, Volume 52, Issue 6, pp. 806 - 812
Abstract Objective Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important outcome for patients living with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and it is necessary to...
Anesthesia & Perioperative Care | Pain Medicine | Health-related quality of life | stress | chronic kidney disease | gender | coping | DEPRESSION | SURVEY SF-36 | MISSING DATA | DOPPS | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | STRATEGIES | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | DIALYSIS OUTCOMES | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | HEMODIALYSIS | PRACTICE PATTERNS | Prospective Studies | Cross-Sectional Studies | Humans | Middle Aged | Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - psychology | Male | Ethnic Groups - psychology | Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - epidemiology | Sex Factors | Stress, Psychological - epidemiology | Quality of Life | Female | Adaptation, Psychological | Medical colleges | Electrolytes | Chronic kidney failure | Stress (Psychology) | health-related quality of life
Anesthesia & Perioperative Care | Pain Medicine | Health-related quality of life | stress | chronic kidney disease | gender | coping | DEPRESSION | SURVEY SF-36 | MISSING DATA | DOPPS | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | STRATEGIES | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | DIALYSIS OUTCOMES | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | HEMODIALYSIS | PRACTICE PATTERNS | Prospective Studies | Cross-Sectional Studies | Humans | Middle Aged | Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - psychology | Male | Ethnic Groups - psychology | Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - epidemiology | Sex Factors | Stress, Psychological - epidemiology | Quality of Life | Female | Adaptation, Psychological | Medical colleges | Electrolytes | Chronic kidney failure | Stress (Psychology) | health-related quality of life
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American Journal of Kidney Diseases, ISSN 0272-6386, 04/2018, Volume 71, Issue 4, pp. 449 - 451
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Liver Transplantation, ISSN 1527-6465, 02/2008, Volume 14, Issue 2, pp. 159 - 172
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Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, ISSN 0147-8389, 09/2018, Volume 41, Issue 9, pp. 1150 - 1157
Background Clinical guidelines recommend cardioverter defibrillator implantation for patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction. Despite this,...
heart failure | defibrillators | sudden cardiac death prevention | UNITED-STATES | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | PRACTICE GUIDELINES | MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL | RACIAL-DIFFERENCES | AMERICAN-COLLEGE | RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY | SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH | ASSOCIATION TASK-FORCE | CONGESTIVE-HEART-FAILURE | PRIMARY PREVENTION | Heart failure | Heart | Medical research | Defibrillators | Implants, Artificial | Prosthesis | Comorbidity | Analysis | Cardiac patients | Medicine, Experimental | Medical records | Sex differences | Gender differences | Electronic medical records | Heart diseases
heart failure | defibrillators | sudden cardiac death prevention | UNITED-STATES | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | PRACTICE GUIDELINES | MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL | RACIAL-DIFFERENCES | AMERICAN-COLLEGE | RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY | SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH | ASSOCIATION TASK-FORCE | CONGESTIVE-HEART-FAILURE | PRIMARY PREVENTION | Heart failure | Heart | Medical research | Defibrillators | Implants, Artificial | Prosthesis | Comorbidity | Analysis | Cardiac patients | Medicine, Experimental | Medical records | Sex differences | Gender differences | Electronic medical records | Heart diseases
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General Hospital Psychiatry, ISSN 0163-8343, 2012, Volume 34, Issue 2, pp. 127 - 138
Abstract Objective Anxiety disorders are prominent in chronic lung disease; lung transplant recipients may therefore also be at high risk for these disorders....
Psychiatry | Depression | Anxiety | Risk factors | Lung transplantation | UNITED-STATES | PANIC DISORDER | INTERNATIONAL-SOCIETY | PSYCHIATRY | COMORBIDITY SURVEY REPLICATION | PSYCHOSOCIAL OUTCOMES | MAJOR DEPRESSION | FAMILY CAREGIVERS | HEART-TRANSPLANTATION | QUALITY-OF-LIFE | HEALTH-SERVICES | Depressive Disorder, Major - etiology | Humans | Middle Aged | Risk Factors | Proportional Hazards Models | Anxiety Disorders - epidemiology | Male | Anxiety Disorders - etiology | Depressive Disorder, Major - epidemiology | Age of Onset | Survival Analysis | Adult | Female | Lung Transplantation - psychology | Organ transplant recipients | Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc | Depressive Disorders | Adjustment Disorder | Comorbidity | Americans | Survivors | Organ Transplantation | Longitudinal Study | Males | PTSD (DSM-IV) | Panic Disorder | Anxiety Disorders | Etiology | Adults | Social Support Networks | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Coping Behavior | Females
Psychiatry | Depression | Anxiety | Risk factors | Lung transplantation | UNITED-STATES | PANIC DISORDER | INTERNATIONAL-SOCIETY | PSYCHIATRY | COMORBIDITY SURVEY REPLICATION | PSYCHOSOCIAL OUTCOMES | MAJOR DEPRESSION | FAMILY CAREGIVERS | HEART-TRANSPLANTATION | QUALITY-OF-LIFE | HEALTH-SERVICES | Depressive Disorder, Major - etiology | Humans | Middle Aged | Risk Factors | Proportional Hazards Models | Anxiety Disorders - epidemiology | Male | Anxiety Disorders - etiology | Depressive Disorder, Major - epidemiology | Age of Onset | Survival Analysis | Adult | Female | Lung Transplantation - psychology | Organ transplant recipients | Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc | Depressive Disorders | Adjustment Disorder | Comorbidity | Americans | Survivors | Organ Transplantation | Longitudinal Study | Males | PTSD (DSM-IV) | Panic Disorder | Anxiety Disorders | Etiology | Adults | Social Support Networks | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Coping Behavior | Females
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Transplantation, ISSN 0041-1337, 05/2015, Volume 100, Issue 5, pp. 988 - 1003
BACKGROUNDDepression and anxiety are common mental health problems in transplant populations. There is mixed evidence concerning whether they increase...
SURGERY | LIVER-TRANSPLANTATION | MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS | PROGNOSTIC ASSOCIATION | RENAL-TRANSPLANTATION | IMMUNOLOGY | TRANSPLANTATION | ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY | KIDNEY-TRANSPLANTATION | PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDERS | QUALITY-OF-LIFE | CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE | Patient Readmission | Risk Assessment | Humans | Risk Factors | Anxiety - psychology | Neoplasms - mortality | Male | Treatment Outcome | Depression - diagnosis | Depression - mortality | Time Factors | Graft Rejection - mortality | Organ Transplantation - adverse effects | Depression - psychology | Anxiety - diagnosis | Female | Anxiety - mortality | Odds Ratio | Communicable Diseases - mortality | Organ Transplantation - mortality
SURGERY | LIVER-TRANSPLANTATION | MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS | PROGNOSTIC ASSOCIATION | RENAL-TRANSPLANTATION | IMMUNOLOGY | TRANSPLANTATION | ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY | KIDNEY-TRANSPLANTATION | PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDERS | QUALITY-OF-LIFE | CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE | Patient Readmission | Risk Assessment | Humans | Risk Factors | Anxiety - psychology | Neoplasms - mortality | Male | Treatment Outcome | Depression - diagnosis | Depression - mortality | Time Factors | Graft Rejection - mortality | Organ Transplantation - adverse effects | Depression - psychology | Anxiety - diagnosis | Female | Anxiety - mortality | Odds Ratio | Communicable Diseases - mortality | Organ Transplantation - mortality
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Transplantation, ISSN 0041-1337, 04/2007, Volume 83, Issue 7, pp. 858 - 873
Background. Despite the impact of medical regimen nonadherence on health outcomes after organ transplantation, there is mixed and conflicting evidence...
Adherence | Heart | Liver | Lung | Transplantation | Pancreas | Kidney | SURGERY | LIVER-TRANSPLANTATION | METAANALYSIS | liver | adherence | RENAL-TRANSPLANTATION | IMMUNOLOGY | RECIPIENTS | heart | lung | kidney | ALCOHOL-USE | IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY | SUBCLINICAL NONCOMPLIANCE | HEART-TRANSPLANTATION | KIDNEY-TRANSPLANTATION | pancreas | transplantation | PSYCHOSOCIAL EVALUATION | Treatment Refusal - statistics & numerical data | Humans | Risk Factors | Adult | Organ Transplantation | Treatment Outcome | Retrospective Studies | Patient Compliance - statistics & numerical data | Patient Selection
Adherence | Heart | Liver | Lung | Transplantation | Pancreas | Kidney | SURGERY | LIVER-TRANSPLANTATION | METAANALYSIS | liver | adherence | RENAL-TRANSPLANTATION | IMMUNOLOGY | RECIPIENTS | heart | lung | kidney | ALCOHOL-USE | IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY | SUBCLINICAL NONCOMPLIANCE | HEART-TRANSPLANTATION | KIDNEY-TRANSPLANTATION | pancreas | transplantation | PSYCHOSOCIAL EVALUATION | Treatment Refusal - statistics & numerical data | Humans | Risk Factors | Adult | Organ Transplantation | Treatment Outcome | Retrospective Studies | Patient Compliance - statistics & numerical data | Patient Selection
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Transplantation, ISSN 0041-1337, 07/2019, p. 1
BACKGROUND:In a randomized controlled trial (RCT), lung transplant recipients (LTRs) using a mobile health intervention, Pocket Personal Assistant for Tracking...
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Value in Health, ISSN 1098-3015, 2016, Volume 19, Issue 4, pp. 326 - 334
Abstract Background Interferon-free hepatitis C treatment regimens are effective but very costly. The cost-effectiveness, budget, and public health impacts of...
Internal Medicine | interferon-free | cost-effectiveness | Medicare | Medicaid | hepatitis C | UNITED-STATES | VIRUS-INFECTION | ANTIVIRAL THERAPY | INTERFERON-FREE REGIMENS | COMPENSATED CIRRHOSIS | ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY | TREATMENT-NAIVE | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | GENOTYPE 1 INFECTION | HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES | ECONOMICS | ADVANCED LIVER-DISEASE | Anilides - therapeutic use | Markov Chains | Medicaid - economics | Hepatitis C - drug therapy | Fluorenes - economics | United States | Humans | Middle Aged | Fluorenes - therapeutic use | Hepacivirus - genetics | Hepatitis C - economics | Ritonavir - economics | Male | Uridine Monophosphate - economics | Benzimidazoles - economics | HIV Protease Inhibitors - economics | Health Services Accessibility - economics | Ritonavir - therapeutic use | Female | Macrocyclic Compounds - economics | Benzimidazoles - therapeutic use | Uridine Monophosphate - therapeutic use | Severity of Illness Index | Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use | Uracil - therapeutic use | Carbamates - economics | HIV Protease Inhibitors - therapeutic use | Macrocyclic Compounds - therapeutic use | Anilides - economics | Sulfonamides - therapeutic use | Cost-Benefit Analysis | Sulfonamides - economics | Uridine Monophosphate - analogs & derivatives | Uracil - economics | Antiviral Agents - economics | Carbamates - therapeutic use | Drug Combinations | Uracil - analogs & derivatives | Hepatitis C
Internal Medicine | interferon-free | cost-effectiveness | Medicare | Medicaid | hepatitis C | UNITED-STATES | VIRUS-INFECTION | ANTIVIRAL THERAPY | INTERFERON-FREE REGIMENS | COMPENSATED CIRRHOSIS | ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY | TREATMENT-NAIVE | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | GENOTYPE 1 INFECTION | HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES | ECONOMICS | ADVANCED LIVER-DISEASE | Anilides - therapeutic use | Markov Chains | Medicaid - economics | Hepatitis C - drug therapy | Fluorenes - economics | United States | Humans | Middle Aged | Fluorenes - therapeutic use | Hepacivirus - genetics | Hepatitis C - economics | Ritonavir - economics | Male | Uridine Monophosphate - economics | Benzimidazoles - economics | HIV Protease Inhibitors - economics | Health Services Accessibility - economics | Ritonavir - therapeutic use | Female | Macrocyclic Compounds - economics | Benzimidazoles - therapeutic use | Uridine Monophosphate - therapeutic use | Severity of Illness Index | Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use | Uracil - therapeutic use | Carbamates - economics | HIV Protease Inhibitors - therapeutic use | Macrocyclic Compounds - therapeutic use | Anilides - economics | Sulfonamides - therapeutic use | Cost-Benefit Analysis | Sulfonamides - economics | Uridine Monophosphate - analogs & derivatives | Uracil - economics | Antiviral Agents - economics | Carbamates - therapeutic use | Drug Combinations | Uracil - analogs & derivatives | Hepatitis C
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