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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"delayed diagnosis"”.
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Voices of Endo: Cultural Factors Influencing Delayed Diagnosis of Endometriosis
… shows that there is an average ten-year delay to diagnosis even though diagnostic technology is widely used in the United States. Scholarship about endometriosis has predominantly focused on medical diagnosis and treatment options and the public literature about endometriosis has presented …
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FACTORS RELATED TO SEX DIFFERENCES IN AGE OF DIAGNOSIS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
… of severity is also required when making a diagnosis. Early intervention has been shown to be most effective when started as early as two years old. Boys are diagnosed more frequently than girls, and at earlier ages, though it is not clear what causes this discrepancy in prevalence and age …
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FACTORS RELATED TO SEX DIFFERENCES IN AGE OF DIAGNOSIS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
… of severity is also required when making a diagnosis. Early intervention has been shown to be most effective when started as early as two years old. Boys are diagnosed more frequently than girls, and at earlier ages, though it is not clear what causes this discrepancy in prevalence and age …
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Social determinants of health in patients with congenital rare disease
… patients also navigate fragmented care, delayed diagnosis, variable insurance coverage, geographic barriers, and inconsistent access to specialty services. This research examined these issues using a multi-method framework that combined large-scale real-world inpatient data with an …
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Executable clinical models for acute care
… lapses, which include, but are not limited to delayed diagnosis, delayed or ineffective therapeutic interventions, and unintended deviation from the best practice guidelines. These situations may occur more often in acute care settings, where the staff are overloaded, under stress, and must …
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A comparative cost analysis of the pathway to diagnosing lymphoma in a tertiary hospital, Western Cape, South Africa
… of lymphadenopathy (LAP), which can lead to delayed diagnosis of lymphoma (Antel et al., 2019). A significant gap exists in the lack of costing of the diagnostic pathway to diagnosing lymphoma. The study aimed to cost the diagnostic pathways, namely FNA, core-needle biopsy (CNB), and surgical …
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Birth prevalence of ano-rectal malformations for the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… the patients there was an initial delay in the diagnosis. Conclusion: This study has provided some recent data for ARMs for the Western Cape Province. There was no statistical significant change in the prevalence of ARMs over the eight year period for the Western Cape Province as well as in any …
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Systemic analysis and modelling of diagnostic errors in medicine
… quality of health care service. Missed, wrong or delayed diagnosis has a direct effect on patient safety. Diagnostic errors have been discussed at length; however it still lacks a systemic research approach. This thesis takes the diagnostic process as a system and develops a systemic model of …
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An Existential Punchline: How Humor Functions in a Young Adult Friendship Facing Advanced Cancer
… stages due to situational factors influencing delayed diagnosis including access to healthcare, quality health insurance and competing life demands that may hinder prioritization of healthcare. Young adults with cancer also face unique challenges including higher rates of psychological …
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Spiritual Direction with Women Who Have Autoimmune Diseases: A Model of Psychospiritual Care
… Common autoimmune illness experiences include delayed diagnosis; chronic pain, fatigue, depression; and liminality (being neither healthy nor sick). Women with RA, MS, and lupus also experience ongoing losses (which may be disenfranchised), such as losses of identity, relationships, …
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The Voice of people living with mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer) disease: a grounded theory to understand the illness experience and support needs of people living with mycobacterium ulcerans disease in a rural district of central Ghana.
… in central Ghana in order to understand their diagnosis and support needs. The study was qualitative in design and used Glaser‟s version of grounded theory. It consisted of semi-structured and unstructured interviews, participant observation, conversation with opinion leaders, traditional …
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The Epidemiology and Management of Hypothyroidism in General Practice
… a first-line TSH strategy was not the cause of delayed diagnosis but indicated a reliance on biochemical results over manifest signs and symptoms. Survival analysis comparing patients with thyroid dysfunction against cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality found that patients with both …
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Optimal Data-driven Methods for Subject Classification in Public Health Screening
… genetic diseases in the United States. Early diagnosis of cystic fibrosis can substantially improve health outcomes, while a delayed diagnosis can result in severe symptoms of the disease, including fatality. We demonstrate our framework on a five-year newborn screening data set from the North …
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Use of Bioinformatics to Investigate Abiotic Stress in Arabidopsis and to Design Primers for Pathogen Detection
… compared with quantitative RT-PCR data. Rapid diagnosis of disease-causing agents is extremely important since delayed diagnosis can result in disease spread and delayed prophylaxis. It is even more important in an era where disease-causing agents are used as bioterrorism agents. Rapid advances …
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Healthcare Disparities Among Ethnic Minorities in the UK
… manifest themselves in poorer health outcomes, delayed diagnosis and less positive experiences with healthcare services. The NHS Race and Health Observatory highlighted specific areas of concern, such as access to healthcare services and specialist testing. This systematic review examines …
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A Transnational Syndemic: Cook Islanders and their experiences of TB and diabetes
… conclude that poverty, poor nutrition, stigma, delayed diagnosis and household overcrowding are significant factors that act synergistically within this syndemic to exacerbate illness. Central to this research are the health and mobility stories of Cook Islanders who have experienced either or …
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An Examination of Lumbar and Ventricular Cerebrospinal Fluid Findings in Children with Tuberculous Meningitis and Hydrocephalus
… poor outcomes. These are often associated with delayed diagnosis because early diagnosis and treatment is challenging. Existing diagnostic criteria use CSF characteristics to suspect TBM. However, lumbar and ventricular CSF may differ. These differences have not been well characterised Sometimes …
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Augmented Conversation and Cognitive Apprenticeship Metamodel Based Intelligent Learning Activity Builder System
… preventive strategy (or intervention) and to aid diagnosis of learners’ cognitive process—was investigated in relation to other constructs from the literature (such as detection of misconception, feedback generation and perceived learning effectiveness). Thus, the conceptualisation and …
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A study to understand the experiences of adolescents and young adults living with cancer in a northern cape public health setting
… representative of the sample and their cancer diagnosis included many diverse tumour types that ranged from Hodgkin's lymphoma, breast cancer, testicular cancer, larynx cancer, melanoma, and colon cancer, to Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome-related malignancies …
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Exploring Structural Factors that Influence Black Maternal Morbidity: A Case Study of Illinois Hospitals
… care, quality, and level of care, a missed or delayed diagnosis, or not recognizing warning signs (CDC, 2019). Severe maternal morbidities (SMM) such as preeclampsia, hypertension and hemorrhage represent some of the leading causes of maternal death and significantly disproportionately affect …
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