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Mashup Score: 0Guide to the classics: written more than 2000 years ago, Cicero’s On Old Age debunks stereotypes that persist today - 1 month(s) ago
On Old Age, the Roman politician, orator, and philosopher Cicero advocates for the dignity and value of growing old. But his is a voice of privilege, which discounts women and the enslaved.
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Mashup Score: 3Optimal Stopping Ages for Colorectal Cancer Screening - 2 month(s) ago
This economic evaluation uses community-based data to estimate outcomes, costs, and life-years gained associated with additional fecal immunochemical testing or colonoscopy for colorectal cancer.
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Mashup Score: 3The value and effectiveness of geriatric assessments for older adults with cancer: an umbrella review - BMC Geriatrics - 2 month(s) ago
Purpose This umbrella review aimed to summarise and synthesize the evidence on the outcomes reported and used to assess the value and or efficacy of geriatric assessments (GAs) for older adults with cancer. Methods Six electronic databases, PsycINFO, MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane Library and Web of Science databases, were searched to identify systematic reviews with or without meta-analyses that described the value or outcomes of GAs for older adults with cancer. Results Twenty-six systematic reviews were included, of which six included a meta-analysis of the data. Thirteen associations and or outcomes were identified. Overall geriatric impairments predicted or were associated with majority of identified outcomes. However, the type of domains associated with outcomes differed within and across reviews. Only treatment toxicity was statistically significantly lower for patients allocated to the GA intervention group compared to standard care. Systematic reviews without meta-analyses
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Soaring heat and compounding natural disasters are triggering fatal heart-related illnesses, mosquito-borne viruses and other fetal abnormalities.
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Mashup Score: 0Hospital CMO: Adoption of Age-Friendly Care Is Essential - 7 month(s) ago
The older adult population is growing sharply, and patients over the age of 65 are high utilizers of healthcare services.
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Mashup Score: 1ASCP Partners With the Lamy Center at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy to Spread the Adoption of Age-Friendly Health Systems - 11 month(s) ago
As the older adult population continues to grow exponentially, the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) and The Peter Lamy Center on …
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Mashup Score: 3Prevalence of frailty and pain in hospitalised cancer patients: implications for older adult care - 11 month(s) ago
The Internal Medicine Journal (IMJ) is a leading internal medicine publication from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians publishing original medical research.
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You cannot afford to underestimate the severity of the looming skills shortage. Photo: TND/Getty In a previous column I discussed the prolonged skills shortage that Australia is facing in the coming decade and argued that this alone will guarantee the continuation of the current high migration scenario. Today we are exploring this issue from a slightly different angle. Let’s start with a quick analysis of how important foreign-born workers are for each of the 19 industries above. Industrywide one in
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Patient perspectives on functioning are often overlooked in oncology practice. This study externally validates the ELderly Functional Index (ELFI), a …
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Mashup Score: 1Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) | March 2024 - PBAC Meeting - 1 year(s) ago
Note: The closing date for consumer comments is Wednesday 31 January 2024. Your comments are welcome whether you are a patient, carer, member of the public, health professio nal or member of a consumer interest group. The company applying for subsidy under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme has already provided the PBAC with detailed clinical and economic data in support of the application. You are welcome to provide comments, for consideration by the PBAC, from a personal or group perspective on the
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