Maternal, child, and newborn health is a priority area in Canada and around the world. The work of public health nurses (PHNs) is often invisible and misunderstood. The purpose of this qualitative research project was to explore how universal and targeted home visiting programs for mothers and babies were organized, delivered, and experienced through the everyday practices of PHNs (n = 16) and ...

In September 2008, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes was launched to “improve clinical decision making, population health and healthcare policy.”1 This statement affirmed unambiguously that health and clinical care, medicine, and policy were tightly interwoven. Three years later, during times marked by unprecedented healthcare challenges and a global epidemic of obesity and diabe...

The holy grail of pediatric medicine has been to design the definitive study that will ultimately resolve the question of the relationship between breastfeeding and cognitive development in otherwise healthy term infants. Unfortunately, by definition such a quest is doomed to fail, as a grail is something very much wanted, but very hard or impossible to achieve. A corollary is that, despite the...

INTRODUCTION Self-management has been identified as an important opportunity to improve health outcomes among cancer survivors. However, few evidence-based interventions are available to meet this need. METHODS The effectiveness of an adapted version of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program for cancer survivors called Cancer Thriving and Surviving was evaluated in a randomized trial. Ou...

Acute renal failure (ARF) is associated with morbidity and mortality in excess of 50% in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. A variety of outcome measures have been described in published reports of ARF, however, the studies often do not distinguish between clinical outcomes and surrogate endpoints. Multiple factors can influence these outcomes, including variations in practice. It is import...

The following are highlights from the new series, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes Topic Review. This series will summarize the most important manuscripts, as selected by the Editor, which have published in the Circulation portfolio. The objective of this new series is to provide our readership with a timely, comprehensive selection of important papers that are relevant to the q...

CHRISTIAN BADR, PHD Massachusetts General Hospital, Charleston, MA American Brain Tumor Association Basic Research Fellowship in Honor of Susan Kramer Project Title: “Multiplex Assay to Monitor Viability, Self-Renewal and Differentiation of Glioma Stem Cells” Summary: Glioma stem cells (GSCs) represent a subset population within malignant gliomas. Recent evidence suggests that those cells might...

The paper define the problem situation of digital identification in ICT infrastructures from three perspectives: systems, end user and technology. It details the research agenda and outcomes in terms of: a collaborative research cycle, the project goals, high level requirements and features of the proposed system. Finally, the FeGIMa vision is elaborated in terms of two impacts, that outlines t...

1. Methods in Epidemiologic, Clinical and Operations Research–MECOR–program, American Thoracic Society/Asociación Latinoamericana del Tórax, Montevideo, Uruguay. 2. Divisão de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração – InCor – Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil. 3. Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern...