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1. Mesothelioma and Radical Surgery 2 (MARS 2): protocol for a multicentre randomised trial comparing (extended) pleurectomy decortication versus no (extended) pleurectomy decortication for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma

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Liz Darlison, John Edwards, Apostolos Nakas, Nick A Maskell, Wendy Underwood, Chris Rogers, Matthew Callister, David Waller, Richard Milton, Victoria Ashford-Turner, Paul Taylor, Claire Matthews, Victoria Hughes, Kelvin Lau, Alan Kirk, Robert C Rintoul, Elizabeth A Stokes, Kate Ashton, Daisy Elliott, Rosie Harris, Marie Kirwan, Juliette Novasio, Sara Waplington, Eric Lim, Holly Mckeon, Charlotte Jacobs, Laura White, Mary O’Brien, Judith Moore, Louise Li, Nicola Mills, Sanjay Popat, Suzanne Miller, Nadia Yousaf, D A Fennell, Clinton Ali, Andrea Bille, Liz Fuller, Andreea Ionescu, Manjusha Keni, Pek Koh, Talal Mansy, Dakshinamoorthy Muthukumar, Tony Pope, Amy Roy, Riyaz Shah, Jonathan Shamash, Zacharias Tasigiannopoulos, Sarah Treece, Katherine Joyce, Barbara Warnes, Athanasia Gravani, Rachel Brophy, Nicola Farrar, Jane Elliott, Philip Noyes, Louise Nelson, Sara Tenconi, Laura Socci, Hilary Wood, Helena Hanratty, Helena Stanley, Robert Rintoul, Amy Gladwell, Jenny Castedo, Amanda Stone, Charlotte Ingle, Hayley Hewer, Eleanor Aynsley, Andrea Watson, Alison Hassall, Masuma Begum, Christopher Worth, Ellie Piggott, Elizabeth Nadin, Yvonne Summers, Raffaele Califano, Laura Cove-Smith, Matt Evison, Maria Blinston, Amal Ismail, Rachel Chant, Asmita Desai, Ian Morgan, Victoria Lake, Nichola Harris, Simon Hodge, Nadza Tokaca, Adam Januszewski, Avani Athauda, Anisha Ramessur, Emily Grist, Niamh Colman, Michael Flynn, Joan Joyce, Sarah Vaughan, Maria Piga, Derya Sahin, Agnieszka Yongue, Emma Turay, Jaishree Bhosle, Rajiv Kumar, Charlotte Milner-Watts, Jessica Brown, David Walder, Alexandros Georgiou, Xiaorong Wu, Naila Kaudeer, Kroopa Joshi, Michael Davidson, Shelize Khakoo, Bee Ayite, Kathryn Priest, James Dobbyn, Vasanthi Prathapan, Deborah McCrimmon, Natalie Ash, Alison Norton, Bianca Peet, Libby Hennessy, and Rosemary Johnson

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Medicine
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Introduction Mesothelioma remains a lethal cancer. To date, systemic therapy with pemetrexed and a platinum drug remains the only licensed standard of care. As the median survival for patients with mesothelioma is 12.1 months, surgery is an important consideration to improve survival and/or quality of life. Currently, only two surgical trials have been performed which found that neither extensive (extra-pleural pneumonectomy) or limited (partial pleurectomy) surgery improved survival (although there was some evidence of improved quality of life). Therefore, clinicians are now looking to evaluate pleurectomy decortication, the only radical treatment option left.Methods and analysis The MARS 2 study is a UK multicentre open parallel group randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of surgery—(extended) pleurectomy decortication—versus no surgery for the treatment of pleural mesothelioma. The study will test the hypothesis that surgery and chemotherapy is superior to chemotherapy alone with respect to overall survival. Secondary outcomes include health-related quality of life, progression-free survival, measures of safety (adverse events) and resource use to 2 years. The QuinteT Recruitment Intervention is integrated into the trial to optimise recruitment.Ethics and dissemination Research ethics approval was granted by London – Camberwell St. Giles Research Ethics Committee (reference 13/LO/1481) on 7 November 2013. We will submit the results for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.Trial registration numbers ISRCTN—ISRCTN44351742 and ClinicalTrials.gov—NCT02040272.

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2020
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2. Wodka, or Tea with Milk

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Rosemary Johnson and Rosemary Johnson

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Wodka, or Tea with Milk'takes the reader on an immersive, rollercoaster ride into the Solidarnosc years in 1980s Poland. Marya Weiclawski is second-generation British, the daughter of Polish refugees who fled during World War Two. When her Cambridge University interview goes wrong – her fault actually – she resolves to seek out her Polish family whom no one speaks of, and her father's RAF comrade, Pyotr Murkowski, whom her beloved dad, Jerzy, has suddenly stopped talking about. Marya becomes involved in the shipyard strikes in Gdansk in 1980 and falls in love with Jan, a shipyard worker. Jan is well liked by colleagues, unflappable and down-to-earth - a bit too much so for volatile Marya – but he appears to have no family and in Poland family is everything.

Published
2023

3. Transitions Between Healthcare Settings Among Hospice Enrollees at the End of Life

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Maureen E. Canavan, Rosemary Johnson-Hurzeler, Shi-Yi Wang, Emily Cherlin, Cary P. Gross, Melissa D. Aldridge, and Elizabeth H. Bradley

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Patient Transfer, Gerontology, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Palliative care, Medicare, Article, Odds, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Home health, Health care, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Aged, 80 and over, Terminal Care, business.industry, digestive, oral, and skin physiology, Medicare beneficiary, Retrospective cohort study, Continuity of Patient Care, United States, Hospitalization, Hospice Care, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Family medicine, Healthcare settings, Female, Geriatrics and Gerontology, business, End-of-life care
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Objectives To characterize the number and types of care transitions in the last 6 months of life of individuals who used hospice and to examine factors associated with having multiple transitions in care. Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting One hundred percent fee-for-service Medicare decedent claims data. Participants Medicare beneficiaries aged 66 and older who died between July 1, 2011, and December 31, 2011, and were enrolled in hospice at some time during the last 6 months of life. Measurements Hierarchical generalized linear modeling was used to identify individual, hospice, and regional factors associated with transitions. The sequence of transitions across healthcare settings was described. Healthcare transitions after hospice enrollment included from and to the hospital, skilled nursing facility, home health agency program, hospice, or home without receiving any service in these four healthcare settings. Results Of 311,090 hospice decedents, 31,675 (10.2%) had at least one transition after hospice enrollment, and this varied substantially across the United States; 6.6% of all decedents had more than one transition in care after hospice enrollment (range 2–19 transitions). Of hospice users with transitions, 53.4% were admitted to hospitals, 17.7% were admitted to skilled nursing facilities, 9.6% used home health agencies, and 25.8% had transitions to home without receiving the services from the healthcare settings examined. In adjusted analyses, decedents who were younger, nonwhite, enrolled in a for-profit or small hospice program, or had less access to hospital-based palliative care had significantly higher odds of having at least one transition. Conclusion A notable proportion of hospice users experience at least one transition in care in the last 6 months of life, suggesting that further research on the effect of transitions on users and families is warranted.

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2016

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