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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bora Kim, Kate White, Marguerite Tracy, Janani Mahadeva, Julie Marker, Cheri Ostroff, Louise Acret, Simon Willcock, Claudia Rutherford
BACKGROUND: Many colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors experience ongoing sequelae from their cancer treatment. Limited evidence exists regarding how CRC survivors and general practitioners (GPs) manage these sequelae in the community. This study aimed to explore the experiences and perspectives of CRC survivors and GPs on current approaches to monitoring and managing sequelae of CRC treatment. METHODS: We conducted a mixed-methods study using cross-sectional national surveys and qualitative interviews with CRC survivors and GPs to explore: (1) treatment sequelae experienced by CRC survivors, (2) how these were monitored and managed by general practitioners, and (3) suggestions to improve ongoing management of the treatment sequelae...
March 21, 2024: Australian Journal of Primary Health
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Judith Fethney, Bora Kim, Chantale Boustany, Heather McKenzie, Lillian Hayes, Keith Cox, Judy M Simpson, Lisa G Horvath, Janette L Vardy, Jodi McLeod, Simon Willcock, Natalie Cook, Louise Acret, Kate White
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January 17, 2024: Supportive Care in Cancer
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Judith Fethney, Bora Kim, Chantale Boustany, Heather McKenzie, Lillian Hayes, Keith Cox, Judy M Simpson, Lisa G Horvath, Janette L Vardy, Jodi McLeod, Simon Willcock, Natalie Cook, Louise Acret, Kate White
PURPOSE: The aim of this randomised controlled trial (RCT) was to explore whether a community nursing intervention for outpatients receiving systemic therapy reduced unplanned hospital presentations and improved physical and psychosocial health outcomes over the first three cycles of treatment compared to a control group receiving standard care. METHODS: The number of and reasons for unplanned presentations were obtained for 170 intervention and 176 control group adult patients with solid tumours starting outpatient chemotherapy...
January 3, 2024: Supportive Care in Cancer
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Claudia Rutherford, Angela Ju, Bora Kim, Lisette Wiltink, Louise Acret, Kate White
PURPOSE: Colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors experience treatment-effects such as symptoms and functional impairments. There is limited evidence about how these are managed and what services or supports are available in the community. We aimed to identify current practice and available supports for managing consequences of treatment from clinician and CRC survivor perspectives. METHODS: This qualitative study, informed by an interpretivist constructionist paradigm, included semi-structured interviews...
April 11, 2023: Supportive Care in Cancer
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Claudia Rutherford, Bora Kim, Kate White, Cheri Ostroff, Louise Acret, Marguerite Tracy, Janani Mahadeva, Simon M Willcock
BACKGROUND: Advances in screening and treatments for colorectal cancer (CRC) have improved survival rates, leading to a large population of CRC survivors. Treatment for CRC can cause long-term side-effects and functioning impairments. General practitioners (GPs) have a role in meeting survivorship care needs of this group of survivors. We explored CRC survivors' experiences of managing the consequences of treatment in the community and their perspective on the GP's role in post-treatment care...
March 6, 2023: Australian Journal of Primary Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Heather McKenzie, Lillian Hayes, Louise Acret, Chantale Boustany, Bora Kim, Judith Fethney, Judy M Simpson, Jodi McLeod, Simon Willcock, Natalie Cook, Kate White
PURPOSE: This paper reports on patient participant experiences of a larger randomised controlled trial evaluating a shared-care pathway intervention designed to support outpatients at home during their first three cycles of systemic anti-cancer therapies delivered in two large tertiary hospitals in Sydney, Australia. This qualitative study explores the perspectives of patient participants who received the intervention, which involved targeted home visits by community nurses post treatment administration...
May 16, 2022: European Journal of Oncology Nursing: the Official Journal of European Oncology Nursing Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Timothy Wand, Louise Acret, Natalie D'Abrew
Solution-focussed brief therapy (SFBT) can be applied to effectively address a broad range of mental health-, alcohol-, and substance-related challenges. The compatibility that SFBT has with mental health nursing practice has been widely recognized. The aim of the present mixed-methods study was to introduce and evaluate the utility of SFBT principles, strategies, and techniques to the clinical work of mental health nurses from a local health district in Sydney, Australia. Following a 4-hour introductory SFBT workshop, participants were invited to complete a one-page evaluation and undertake a follow-up individual telephone interview with a research assistant...
April 2018: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Timothy Wand, Natalie D'Abrew, Catherine Barnett, Louise Acret, Kathryn White
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a nurse practitioner (NP)-led extended hours mental health liaison nurse (MHLN) service based in the emergency department (ED) of an inner city teaching hospital in Sydney and to explicate a model of care that is transferable across a broad range of ED settings, both in metropolitan and rural contexts. METHODS: This mixed-methods evaluation encompassed descriptive data on ED mental health presentations, quantifying waiting times for MHLN involvement and interviews with MHLN team members at the commencement of the evaluation and 12 months later...
February 2015: Australian Health Review: a Publication of the Australian Hospital Association
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Timothy Wand, Natalie D'Abrew, Louise Acret, Kathryn White
BACKGROUND: Mental health nurse services have existed in Emergency Departments (ED) for many years. However, there is considerable variation in the way these services operate, and no standardised model of care has been articulated. AIM: To evaluate an extended hours nurse practitioner-led mental health liaison nurse (MHLN) service based in an ED in Sydney Australia. METHODS: As part of a larger mixed-methods study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of ED patients and nursing, medical and psychiatry staff (N = 46)...
January 2016: International Emergency Nursing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Humberto Hernández-Ojeda, Rosa María Torres-Hernández, Jorge Onasis Rivera-Hernández
The placenta praevia and acretism placental were concurrently and are conditions of abnormal placenta, in which the villus sampling invade the myometrium at the site of implantation and is associated with the partial or complete absence of the decidua. Clinical case: Patient's 32 years of age, with 34 weeks pregnancy. Obstetric history of previous cesarean section, transvaginal bleeding several times; the diagnosis by ultrasound showed placenta praevia occlusive. Surgical treatment was abdominal total hysterectomy...
August 2014: Ginecología y Obstetricia de México
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Roberto Carlos Ortiz-Villalobos, Israel Alejandro González-Gómez, Edith Esmeralda Luna-Covarrubias, Alberto Bañuelos-Franco, Raymundo Felipe Serrano-Enríquez
Acretismo is a condition of abnormal placentation, in which the villi invade the myometrium at the implantation site, Representing a risk of massive obstetric hemorrhage with possible alterations of the coagulation, besides to the damage to other organs. Moving forward even to his death, so it is a challenge for the obstetric services, to make a correct diagnosis and in a timely manner, along with the programming of the interruption of pregnancy, as well as the utilization of proper surgical techniques and the involvement of a multidisciplinary team to the possible complications...
March 2014: Ginecología y Obstetricia de México
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REVIEW
Ernesto Castelazo-Morales, Diana Elena Monzalbo-Núñez, Miguel de Jesús López-Rioja, Santiago Castelazo-Alatorre
The evolution of obstetrics has led us to beneficial discoveries, and to new pathologies. The increase of cesarean section is due to elective cesarean section and cesarean section on maternal request, which have increased in popularity over the last past few years. Without condemning them, we have to take into account the benefits, as well as the complications that may arise from them, leading us to pathologies that were not frequent before, such as placental acretism, which today, is the second cause of obstetric hemorrhage worldwide...
September 2013: Ginecología y Obstetricia de México
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Roberto Carlos Ortiz-Villalobos, Edith Esmeralda Luna-Covarrubias, Raymundo Felipe Serrano-Enríquez, Jorge Laureano-Eugenio, Martha Leticia Mejía-Mendoza, José Gilberto Rodríguez-Rodríguez
Placental acretism is the abnormal adherence beyond the underlying of the uterine muscle. The penetration of the serous is known as placenta percreta. The following is a clinical study of a 28 year old woman, who had undergone 2 previous C-Sections, who had been admitted to the hospital previously with ultrasounds suggestive of placental acretism. The magnetic resonance show with severe infiltration of the myometrium in the anterior and lateral right, extending until the mesentery of the abdomen, top of the bladder and the proximal portion of the urethra as well as the soft tissue of the perinea...
August 2013: Ginecología y Obstetricia de México
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Francisco Javier Haghenbeck-Altamirano, Teresa Leis-Márquez, Rodrigo Ayala-Yáñez, Luz del Carmen Juárez-García, Carla García-Moreno
Placental acretism is an adherencial pathology associated with a high maternal morbidity and mortality rates. Antepartum diagnosis is essential to plan a proper management and reduce serious complications. Risk factors in these patients include prior cesarean sections, uterine scars and placenta previa. Second level ultrasonography may detect placental acretism with high sensitivity and specificity; magnetic resonance imaging may play a complimentary role in the diagnosis of placental acretism when ultrasonographic findings are non-conclusive, specially when determining miometrium invasion in placental acretism (incretism, percretism)...
May 2013: Ginecología y Obstetricia de México
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