Crews Brun

BACKGROUND Treatment for breast cancer can be stressful for patients. Cognitive-behavioral stress management (CBSM) interventions aim to improve patients’ skills in coping with stress and buffer against the negative effects of cancer. OBJECTIVES This meta-analysis aimed to demonstrate the impact of CBSM on breast cancer patients. METHODS We…[Read more]

ormulating recommendations. In this case, clinical guidelines may not be reliable decision-support tools for facilitating clinical decision making. © 2020 The Authors. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have become a common feature in…[Read more]

Several studies have now shown that chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) patients in deep molecular remission may discontinue tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatment with a treatment free remission (TFR) rate of approximately 40-60 %. Some factors influencing the possibility of TFR have been described but better tools are needed for individual…[Read more]

BACKGROUND While there is widespread recognition of global health failures when it comes to infectious disease outbreaks, there is little discussion on how policy-makers and global health organizations can learn to better prepare and respond. Serious games provide an underutilized tool to promote learning and innovation around global health…[Read more]

7%) and co-trimoxazole (n = 143, 33.5%) being the most widely implicated drugs. Among patients with reported outcomes, 73 (28.7%) SJS and 3 (10.0%) TEN cases recovered without sequelae, at the time of reporting. Severity of the SCAR was reported for only 171 (69.0%) cases, of which 12 (4.7%) and 8 (26.7%) resulted in death (Grade 5) among SJS and…[Read more]

The aim of this pragmatic intervention study was to investigate changes in cardiometabolic outcomes, irisin plasma concentration, and body composition during a 4-month intervention in unselected obese individuals.

In 111 obese women aged 36.73 ± 7.2years, we measured changes in weight, lipid profiles, glucose, insulin, Homeostatic Mode…[Read more]

Implication statementFabric filter is one of the most used Particulate Matter (PM) control devices in industry. The pulse-jet cleaning system is the most used method for the cleaning of the bags, which must be carried out frequently. The flow patterns of the cleaning pulse seems to be an important parameter that must be better understood in order…[Read more]

The results confirm that the proposed AR platform will boost the profitable adoption of AR HMDs to guide high precision manual tasks in the peripersonal space.This study aims to develop and validate the Scale for Partnership in Care between staff and families of older adult nursing home (NH) residents-for Family (SPIC-F). The components of…[Read more]

782 ± 0.097, 95% CI [0.777-0.787]; 100% 0.869 ± 0.064, 95% CI [0.864-0.872]), and with increasing number of data sources (2 0.788 ± 0.102, 95% CI [0.787-0.790]; 3 0.808 ± 0.092, 95% CI [0.807-0.810]; 4 0.821 ± 0.085, 95% CI [0.819-0.823]). Different cohorts show varying levels of generalization to other cohorts.

Automatic sleep stage scor…[Read more]

Executive functions (EF) may be significantly impaired following low-grade glioma (LGG) surgery, especially in the event of white matter (WM) disruption. The aim of this study was to identify the connective tracts associated with EF impairments after LGG surgery, and to provide new insights into the WM network architecture of EF. EF measurements…[Read more]