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September 05, 2024
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Multilevel intervention increases advance care planning for people with advanced cancer

Multilevel intervention increases advance care planning for people with advanced cancer

A multilevel care intervention increase advanced care planning versus clinician-level intervention alone for patients with genitourinary cancer, according to study results.

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August 29, 2024
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Insurance status may affect access to high-quality, guideline-concordant cancer care

Insurance status may affect access to high-quality, guideline-concordant cancer care

Insurance status contributes to considerable disparities in care quality for patients with head and neck cancer, according to retrospective study results.

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August 26, 2024
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Personal CGM use in hospitals feasible, preferred by nurses and patients

Personal CGM use in hospitals feasible, preferred by nurses and patients

A change to hospital policy allowing patients to use their own continuous glucose monitors instead of finger-stick blood glucose monitoring was met favorably by a majority of patients and nurses, according to study findings.

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August 09, 2024
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Q&A: Stanford Children’s heart transplant patients ‘not just surviving but thriving’

Q&A: Stanford Children’s heart transplant patients ‘not just surviving but thriving’

Stanford Medicine Children’s Health this year celebrated 50 years of pediatric heart transplants and more than 35 years of pediatric lung transplants, according to a press release.

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August 05, 2024
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Revisions to allocation policy did not lower pediatric heart transplant waitlist mortality

Revisions to allocation policy did not lower pediatric heart transplant waitlist mortality

The 2016 revisions to the United Network for Organ Sharing pediatric heart transplant allocation policy were not independently associated with a drop in waitlist mortality, researchers reported.

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August 03, 2024
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ASTRO members receive fellows designation

ASTRO members receive fellows designation

American Society for Radiation Oncology selected 48 members to receive ASTRO fellow designation.

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August 02, 2024
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Patients with low health numeracy may struggle to interpret visual displays of outcomes

Patients with low health numeracy may struggle to interpret visual displays of outcomes

According to published results, patients with limited ability to understand and work with numbers may struggle to correctly interpret visual displays of their patient-reported outcome measures in a clinical setting.

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July 23, 2024
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Female surgeons may spend more time on EHRs outside scheduled hours vs. male surgeons

Female surgeons may spend more time on EHRs outside scheduled hours vs. male surgeons

Published results showed female surgeons spent more time in electronic health record systems outside of scheduled hours and wrote longer documentation notes despite having fewer appointments and fewer records compared with male surgeons.

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July 16, 2024
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Study to assess sexual harassment training in medical research field

Study to assess sexual harassment training in medical research field

A new study funded by the NIH will assess a novel set of educational interventions around sexual harassment in the biomedical research field and how to incorporate those interventions into practice.

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July 14, 2024
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Adjuvant atezolizumab benefits PD-L1-selected patients with NSCLC

Adjuvant atezolizumab benefits PD-L1-selected patients with NSCLC

CHICAGO — Updated survival data from the randomized phase 3 IMpower010 continued to support adjuvant atezolizumab for patients with stage II to stage IIIA PD-L1-expressing non-small cell lung cancer, according to researchers.

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