13 research outputs found
Pre-Post Intervention Evaluation on Human Trafficking Knowledge, Beliefs, and Awareness of Health Care Professionals and Students
No full textabstract: Human trafficking is not only a social injustice, but also a major global health problem, that our communities cannot ignore. Despite the common misconception that trafficking is only seen in foreign countries or is only related to immigrants, the U.S. is known to be a major trafficking market and destination, with trafficking reported in all 50 states (Bladwin et al., 2011; Shandro et al., 2016; Dovydaitis, 2010). Although trafficking victims are unlikely to have appropriate access to health care, as much as 80% of sex trafficking victims have reported that they encountered a medical professional while under their traffickers' control and went unidentified at the time (Baldwin et al., 2011; Shandro et al., 2016). This exemplifies a serious missed opportunity for intervention. Health care providers should be prepared to identify and care for victims of trafficking as part of their routine clinical practice. This thesis aims to describe trafficking victims' encounters in U.S. health care settings, to assess health care professionals' and students' awareness, knowledge, and beliefs on trafficking, to examine the impact of an educational intervention on this populations' knowledge/belief changes, and to ultimately spread education about this issue to a wide array of communities
P374 Sub-optimal vaccination uptake in high-risk patients with inflammatory bowel disease
No full textInvestigation into class II P-glycoprotein messenger RNA decay in normal liver and liver tumours.
No full textNo abstract available.The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b124477
P375 Patient perspectives on the use of social media in the management of inflammatory bowel disease
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P259 Abnormal pancreatic imaging and nutrition biochemistry predict response to pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy
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PTU-104 No surveillance or 5-year colonoscopy? the cost savings of discontinuing surveillance for low risk adenomas
No full textOptical Imaging Technology In Colonoscopy - Is There A Role For Photometric Stereo
No full textAbstractColonoscopy screening for the detection and removal of colonic adenomas is central to efforts to reduce the morbidity and mortality of colorectal cancer. However, up to a third of adenomas may be missed at colonoscopy, and the majority of post-colonoscopy colorectal cancers are thought to arise from these. Adenomas have three-dimensional surface topographic features that differentiate them from adjacent normal mucosa. However, these topographic features are not enhanced by white light colonoscopy, and the endoscopist must infer these from two-dimensional cues. This may contribute to the number of missed lesions. A variety of optical imaging technologies have been developed commercially to enhance surface topography. However, existing techniques enhance surface topography indirectly, and in two dimensions, and the evidence does not wholly support their use in routine clinical practice. In this narrative review, co-authored by gastroenterologists and engineers, we summarise the evidence for the impact of established optical imaging technologies on adenoma detection rate, and review the development of photometric stereo (PS) for colonoscopy. PS is a machine vision technique able to capture a dense array of surface normals to render three-dimensional reconstructions of surface topography. This imaging technique has several potential clinical applications in colonoscopy, including adenoma detection, polyp classification, and facilitating polypectomy, an inherently three-dimensional task. However, the development of PS for colonoscopy is at an early stage. We consider the progress that has been made with PS to date and identify the obstacles that need to be overcome prior to clinical application
PTH-125 The clinical utility and diagnostic accuracy of faecal calprotectin for IBD in paediatric patients
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