Article
Urology & Nephrology
Pilar Aunon, Natalia Polanco, Maria Jose Perez-Saez, Emilio Rodrigo, Asuncion Sancho, Julio Pascual, Amado Andres, Manuel Praga
Summary: The recurrence rate of FSGS after kidney transplantation is related to the presence of nephrotic syndrome at the time of diagnosis and the effectiveness of pre-emptive rituximab treatment.
CLINICAL KIDNEY JOURNAL
(2021)
Review
Urology & Nephrology
Tatsuhiko Azegami, Noriyuki Kounoue, Tadashi Sofue, Masahiko Yazawa, Makoto Tsujita, Kosuke Masutani, Yuki Kataoka, Hideyo Oguchi
Summary: This study found that pre-emptive kidney transplantation has potential benefits in terms of lower mortality and graft failure rates, and it is recommended for adults with end-stage kidney disease.
Article
Pediatrics
Hadas Shasha-Lavsky, Aviv Avni, Ziv Paz, Limor Kalfon, Amiel A. Dror, Orly Yakir, Tzipora Falik Zaccai, Irith Weissman
Summary: A study on patients with primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) showed that pre-emptive liver transplantation can preserve kidney function and delay the progression to end-stage renal disease in PH1 patients.
PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sima L. Sharara, Alicia Arbaje, Sara E. Cosgrove, Ayse P. Gurses, Kathryn Dzintars, Nicholas Ladikos, S. Sonia Qasba, Sara C. Keller
Summary: This qualitative study identified 5 barriers to antibiotic decision making at hospital discharge for healthcare workers and patients on oral antibiotics, including clinician perceptions of patient expectations, diagnostic uncertainty, culture differences between attending physician-led and multidisciplinary teams, lack of consideration of total antibiotic duration, and the need for discharge before complete data is available.
INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Juin-Han Chen, Hui-Chin Tang
Summary: This paper analyzes the properties of positively correlated weights related to a subset of finite criteria in a multi-attribute decision-making problem. It presents the exact constraints of these weights and introduces the concept of non-Archimedean number and bounded polyhedral-set. The paper also shows the increase in the number of extreme points in the bounded polyhedral-set as the number of criteria increases. It applies an efficient extreme-point method to obtain the optimal solution for pre-emptive-weights-goal-programming.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Gemma Cremen, Carmine Galasso
Summary: This study proposes a novel approach for decision making related to short-term earthquake risk management by combining earthquake engineering performance assessment procedures with multicriteria decision-making tools. The research demonstrates the optimal decisions for earthquake scenarios in a hypothetical school building, taking into account stakeholder preferences. The results show that the best action for a given ground-shaking intensity may vary depending on end-user preferences.
COMPUTER-AIDED CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Ursula Thiem, Veronika Buxhofer-Ausch, Wolfgang Kranewitter, Gerald Webersinke, Wolfgang Enkner, Daniel Cejka
Summary: Patients with CML treated with imatinib leading to deep molecular remission may not be considered an absolute contraindication to kidney transplantation.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Sandra R. Dewar, Huibrie C. Pieters, Itzhak Fried
Summary: The process of consenting to surgery for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy is a significant treatment milestone for patients, involving understanding and overcoming risks, family-centered decision-making, and building decisional confidence. Despite challenges, patients often express satisfaction with the information provided during the surgical visit, highlighting the importance of informed consent as a systematic, structured interdisciplinary process over time.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jeffrey M. Keisler, Igor Linkov
Summary: Recent guidelines for risk-informed decision making provide a standard for incorporating probabilistic risk models with other considerations, but quantifying risk is difficult when threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences are highly uncertain. Decision making informed by risk (DMIR) can be used as a flexible approach that combines risk and decision analytics. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is commonly used as a basis for DMIR to accommodate varying levels of analytical detail.
Review
Immunology
Laura J. James, Germaine Wong, Allison Tong, Jonathan C. Craig, Kirsten Howard, Martin Howell
Summary: Understanding patient preferences and values are crucial in providing care for transplant recipients, as it supports shared decision making and self-management. Choice experiments, such as discrete choice experiments (DCEs), are increasingly used to quantify patient and community preferences in transplantation, playing a key role in organ allocation and determining core outcomes.
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Jesse D. Schold, Anne M. Huml, Emilio D. Poggio, Peter P. Reese, Sumit Mohan
Summary: The study conducted a retrospective analysis of outcomes for kidney transplant candidates in the United States, finding that for certain patient groups, especially older, diabetic, blood type B and O, and those with shorter pre-listing dialysis time, the cumulative incidence of death or waitlist removal exceeded that of deceased donor transplantation with accrued time on the waiting list. Therefore, TiTER may be a useful tool to quantify the benefits of accepting relatively high-risk donor organs.
KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Review
Nursing
Mari-Louise Mcpeake, Neal Cook, Sonja Mcilfatrick, Felicity Hasson
Summary: This literature review found that adults with end-stage kidney disease undergoing haemodialysis (HD) and their family members welcome shared decision-making (SDM), although their experiences are often limited to treatment decisions and the role of family/caregivers as active participants needs to be recognized.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
(2023)
Review
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
S. Listl, R. Baltussen, A. Carrasco-Labra, F. C. Carrer, J. N. Lavis
Summary: Despite the need for improvement in oral health systems, progress in oral health system transformation has been slow. However, there is an opportunity for the oral health community to learn from previous successes and failures in evidence-informed health policy making.
JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Stacy Cooper Bailey, Emma N. Andrews, Candida C. Halton, Michael S. Wolf
Summary: The study found that providing a health literacy-appropriate discussion guide significantly improved women's understanding of menopause symptoms and treatment options compared to traditional standard educational materials. The majority of women preferred the discussion guide and rated it highly in terms of appearance and content.
JOURNAL OF WOMENS HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Andres Blanco-Di Matteo, Nuria Garcia-Fernandez, Aitziber Aguinaga Perez, Francisco Carmona-Torre, Amaya C. Oteiza, Jose Leiva, Jose Luis Del Pozo
Summary: This study aimed to prove that pre-emptive antimicrobial locks in patients at risk of bacteremia decrease infection. The results showed that patients treated with antimicrobial lock had a relative risk of bloodstream infection of 0.19 when compared with heparin lock within three months of treatment. Additionally, using antimicrobial lock for every ten catheter-critical colonizations can prevent one catheter-related bloodstream infection.
Article
Economics
Paul Mark Mitchell, Rachael L. Morton, Mickael Hiligsmann, Samantha Husbands, Joanna Coast
Summary: Substantial losses in capability wellbeing were observed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands. Future research is needed to understand the specific impact of different COVID-19 restrictions on individuals' capabilities.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Chandana Guha, Anita van Zwieten, Rabia Khalid, Siah Kim, Amanda Walker, Anna Francis, Madeleine Didsbury, Armando Teixeira-Pinto, Belinda Barton, Chanel Prestidge, Emily Lancsar, Fiona Mackie, Joseph Kwon, Kirsten Howard, Kylie-Ann Mallitt, Martin Howell, Allison Jaure, Alison Hayes, Rakhee Raghunandan, Stavros Petrou, Suncica Lah, Steven McTaggart, Jonathan C. Craig, Germaine Wong
Summary: This multi-center longitudinal cohort study aimed to assess the trajectories of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) over time. The results showed that the HRQoL scores differed between children with different CKD stages, and the transition from dialysis to transplantation was significantly associated with the improvement in HRQoL. Children with CKD stage 1-5 and transplant recipients at baseline had stable HRQoL over time.
KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Pediatrics
Chandana Guha, Rabia Khalid, Anita van Zwieten, Anna Francis, Carmel M. Hawley, Allison Jaure, Armando Teixeira-Pinto, Alistair R. Mallard, Amelie Bernier-Jean, David W. Johnson, Deirdre Hahn, Donna Reidlinger, Elaine M. Pascoe, Elizabeth G. Ryan, Fiona Mackie, Hugh J. McCarthy, Jonathan C. Craig, Julie Varghese, Charani Kiriwandeniya, Kirsten Howard, Nicholas G. Larkins, Luke Macauley, Amanda Walker, Martin Howell, Michelle Irving, Patrina H. Y. Caldwell, Reginald Woodleigh, Shilpanjali Jesudason, Simon A. Carter, Sean E. Kennedy, Stephen Alexander, Steven McTaggart, Germaine Wong
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a patient navigator program in children with chronic kidney disease. A total of 162 patients were enrolled and randomized into immediate intervention and waitlisted groups. The results of the study will be completed by October 2022.
PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Economics
Jake T. W. Williams, Katy J. L. Bell, Rachael L. Morton, Mbathio Dieng
Summary: This study aimed to integrate environmental impacts into a cost analysis and estimated the costs and environmental impacts of melanoma surveillance. The results showed that the environmental impact from patient transport to melanoma clinics was estimated to be 10 kg CO2e per participant. The study also found substantial health system costs associated with melanoma surveillance.
APPLIED HEALTH ECONOMICS AND HEALTH POLICY
(2023)
Article
Economics
Karan K. Shah, Melina Willson, Blaise Agresta, Rachael L. Morton
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the cost effectiveness of different blood pressure monitoring methods in diagnosing hypertension in Australia. The results showed that ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) had lower total costs compared to home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) and clinic blood pressure monitoring (CBPM), and it led to a small but significant improvement in the quality and quantity of life for people with suspected hypertension. ABPM was identified as the dominant strategy for confirming the diagnosis of hypertension among Australian adults.
PHARMACOECONOMICS-OPEN
(2023)
Correction
Economics
Karan K. Shah, Melina Willson, Blaise Agresta, Rachael L. Morton
PHARMACOECONOMICS-OPEN
(2023)
Review
Pediatrics
James X. Sotiropoulos, Georg M. Schmoelzer, Ju Lee Oei, Sol Libesman, Kylie E. Hunter, Jonathan G. Williams, Angela C. Webster, William O. Tarnow-Mordi, Maximo Vento, Elizabeth Asztalos, Prakesh S. Shah, Anup Katheria, Anna Lene Seidler
Summary: This study aims to explore the efficacy and safety of high (60%) or low (30%) oxygen in the immediate resuscitation of preterm infants. A prospective meta-analysis will be conducted using individual participant data. Subgroup and interaction analyses will be performed to examine potential heterogeneity and the differential effect of high or low oxygen. The primary outcome is all-cause mortality prior to hospital discharge.
Letter
Dermatology
Yuan Ni, Caroline G. Watts, Richard A. Scolyer, Christine Madronio, Bruce K. Armstrong, Rachael L. Morton, Scott W. Menzies, Graham J. Mann, John F. Thompson, Serigne N. Lo, Anne E. Cust
Summary: This cross-sectional survey identified risk factors for developing a second primary melanoma. Patients with melanoma who had characteristics such as male sex, older age, high naevus count, or melanoma on the trunk or upper limbs had a substantially higher risk of subsequent melanoma and should therefore be more intensively monitored.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Immunology
Jake R. Thompson, Julia Lai-Kwon, Rachael L. Morton, Alexander D. Guminski, Maria Gonzalez, Victoria Atkinson, Shahneen Sandhu, Michael P. Brown, Alexander M. Menzies, Grant A. McArthur, Serigne N. Lo, Georgina Long, Iris Bartula
Summary: This study investigated the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of melanoma brain metastasis (MBM) patients undergoing ipilimumab-nivolumab or nivolumab treatment for 18 weeks. The results showed that there was no significant deterioration in HRQoL for MBM patients treated with either ipilimumab-nivolumab or nivolumab within the first 18 weeks of treatment initiation.
Meeting Abstract
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Danielle Muscat, Stephanie Zwi, Jennifer Jennifer Isautier, Angela Webster, Kelly Lambert, Heather Shepherd, Kirsten McCaffery
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
(2023)
Review
Urology & Nephrology
Roshana Kanagaratnam, Stephanie Zwi, Angela C. Webster, Jennifer Isautier, Kelly Lambert, Heather L. Shepherd, Kirsten McCaffery, Kamal Sud, Danielle Marie Muscat
Summary: Optimal patient care is directed by clinical practice guidelines, but these guidelines and interventions often fail to meet the needs of ethnic minorities with chronic kidney disease (CKD), who experience disparities in prevalence and outcomes. This review aims to describe interventions that promote decision-making, self-management, and health literacy for ethnic-minority people with CKD, as well as explore their impact on patient outcomes.
CLINICAL KIDNEY JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Ann Livingstone, Kirsten Howard, Alexander M. Menzies, Georgina V. Long, Martin R. Stockler, Rachael L. Morton
Summary: This study aimed to quantify adult preferences for adjuvant immunotherapy for resected melanoma and the influence of varying levels of key attributes and baseline characteristics. The study found that 70% of respondents chose adjuvant immunotherapy over no adjuvant immunotherapy, preferring treatment that improved efficacy and safety. The importance of this study is rated 8 out of 10.
PATIENT-PATIENT CENTERED OUTCOMES RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Abby Haynes, Kirsten Howard, Liam Johnson, Gavin Williams, Kelly Clanchy, Sean Tweedy, Adam Scheinberg, Sakina Chagpar, Belinda Wang, Gabrielle Vassallo, Rhys Ashpole, Catherine Sherrington, Leanne Hassett
Summary: This study successfully developed a discrete choice experiment survey tool through discussions and interviews with patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury. The tool aimed to understand the preferences for physical activity among these patients and improve the World Health Organization guidelines for physical activity in traumatic brain injury. The formative co-development process significantly improved the relevance and comprehensibility of the survey tool.
PATIENT-PATIENT CENTERED OUTCOMES RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Economics
Tessa Peasgood, Martin Howell, Rakhee Raghunandan, Amber Salisbury, Marcus Sellars, Gang Chen, Joanna Coast, Jonathan C. Craig, Nancy J. Devlin, Kirsten Howard, Emily Lancsar, Stavros Petrou, Julie Ratcliffe, Rosalie Viney, Germaine Wong, Richard Norman, Cam Donaldson
Summary: This study aimed to synthesize knowledge on the social value of child and adult health and found that the majority of studies supported prioritizing children. However, not all studies were consistent with this view, and there are research gaps in understanding the value of health gains for very young children and the motivations behind the public's views.