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Treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders is complicated by their number, comorbidity, and the differential impact of a child's anxiety on the child and parents. AR-42 -based care, using patient-level rating scales, can guide clinical decisions, track symptom improvement, and monitor treatment response. We review instruments for measurement-based care in pediatric anxiety. #link# Measures used to track pediatric anxiety should be brief, accessible, sensitive to change, and reliable. Because parent-child agreement about a child's anxiety tends to be low, measures from both should be obtained. Measurements can also track functional improvement, expectancy related to treatment, and readiness to change.Measurement-based care is a helpful adjunct to clinical assessment in improving outcomes in depression in adults and adolescents. Measurement-based care principles are incorporated in current regulatory requirements for use of standardized instruments in efforts to improve care and prevent suicide. Challenges for child and adolescent psychiatrists and other clinicians in implementing measurement-based care include concerns about time and expense involved in administration and interpretation of results from rating scales and other instruments. Implementation can be facilitated by selection of instruments that are brief, easy to administer and score, compatible with electronic health record systems, and available in the public domain.Measurement-based care involves the practice of systematically administrating rating scales to patients in order to use the collected information to enhance clinical evaluation, monitor treatment progress, and directly inform decisions relating to each patient's treatment. Rating scales must be psychometrically validated and efficiently administered within the practice setting. Brief rating scales that are available within the public domain may help to optimize workflows and prevent response fatigue. Clinicians should also have a sufficient understanding of the underlying psychometric properties of rating scales to accurately interpret changes in scores over time and use these results to appropriately direct care.Measurement-based care (MBC) is the routine collection of data using standardized, validated measures and use of these data to guide treatment. MBC has been implemented throughout medicine to improve patient outcomes, but its use in mental health care remains low. This article summarizes the evidence of MBC's efficacy in adults then reviews the sparser data in youth mental health care. The literature indicates that MBC must be administered immediately before or during every encounter, results must be available to and reviewed by providers immediately, results must be shared with the patient, and results must be used to guide treatment.Measurement-based care (MBC) is recognized as a valuable component to maximize quality in psychiatric care; however, actual use of MBC by practitioners is poor. A host of implementation barriers have been noted, and are likely significant contributors to this poor adoption. Many of these barriers are related to work-flow issues that can be managed or mitigated by appropriate infrastructure considerations. This article offers an overview of the continuum of infrastructures to support MBC in clinical practice, delineating the tradeoffs between these infrastructures, and then identifying specific experience-based strategies for addressing several major patient-, provider-, and organization-level barriers to MBC implementation.
In this study, we analyzed the effects of histology subtypes, lymph node N-stages, and the presence of extrathyroidal extensions on cancer-specific survival (CSS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.

Cox proportional hazards regression analyses were carried out to evaluate the correlations between clinicopathological factors and CSS/OS. The combined effects of these factors on CSS and OS were then analyzed to determine the relative excess risk, attributable proportion, and synergy index. Kaplan-Meier curves were used to evaluate the mortality rate.

A total of 86033 cases were included in the analysis. Histology subtype, N-stage, and extrathyroidal extension were all found to be risk factors for CSS (hazard ratio [HR]=1.8, 95% confidence intervals [CI] 1.4-2.3, p<0.001; HR=1.9, 95% CI 1.6-2.3, p<0.001; HR=1.4, 95% CI 1.0-1.9, p=0.035, respectively). The risk factors for OS were histology subtype and N-stage (HR=1.3, 95% CI; 1.2-1.5, p<0.001; HR=1. 4, 95% CI 1fects on the increased risk of poor CSS in patients. This result can in the further development of treatment guidelines to improve the outcome of FTC patients.Gastric cancer is the third most common cause of cancer related death. Although its incidence is globally declined, prognosis remains dismal in the Western hemisphere, while better outcomes are evidenced in Asian countries. Endoscopic or surgical resection with or without lymphadenectomy represents the only chance of cure, with limited improvements of the prognosis in case of associated chemotherapy in a neoadjuvant or adjuvant setting. This could be mainly attributed to the uniform fashion of treatment of gastric cancer, mainly based on the histological features, that usually do not reflect the complexity of the disease. With the recent introduction of genomic technologies and new generation sequencing techniques, gastric cancer biology is now investigated in great details. This has brought to the publication of three main molecular classifications, based on the underlying molecular biology of gastric cancer. Although only few clinical reports are currently present in literature, the identification of gastric cancer molecular subtypes has shown interesting findings that may pave the way to a tailored clinical and surgical management. The aim of this review is, thus, to give a comprehensive overview of the current molecular classifications as compared to the available histopathological ones, also focusing on the potential clinical and surgical benefits and the future perspectives for a more personalized treatment of gastric cancer.AR-42

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