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Managing treatment complexity in cystic fibrosis: Challenges and OpportunitiesGregory S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Pediatr Pulmonol 47:523-33. 2012..Comparative effectiveness research is needed to simplify management and facilitate the implementation of appropriate treatment strategies. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2012; 47:523-533. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc...- Receipt of health care transition counseling in the national survey of adult transition and healthGregory S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 128:e521-9. 2011..The goal of this study was to examine factors associated with receiving health care transition counseling services as reported by young adults... - Reduced mortality in cystic fibrosis patients treated with tobramycin inhalation solutionGregory S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 47:44-52. 2012..This study aimed to assess the association between use of tobramycin inhaled solution and mortality in patients with CF and chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) infection... - Associations between illness perceptions and health-related quality of life in adults with cystic fibrosisGregory S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Psychosom Res 70:161-7. 2011..The objective of this work was to examine the relationship between illness perception, health status, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a cohort of adults with cystic fibrosis (CF)... - Longitudinal assessment of health-related quality of life in an observational cohort of patients with cystic fibrosisGregory S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 46:36-44. 2011..The Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire-Revised (CFQ-R) is a disease-specific, PRO measure of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). We evaluated associations between changes in health status over time and HRQOL in a national CF database... - Uncontrolled asthma in a commercially insured population from 2002 to 2007: trends, predictors, and costsGregory S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Asthma 47:574-80. 2010..Uncontrolled asthma leads to preventable morbidity and increased health care utilization. The authors examined trends, predictors, and costs of uncontrolled asthma over 5 years in a large health plan population... - Patterns of inhaled corticosteroid use and asthma control in the Childhood Asthma Management Program Continuation StudyGregory S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 104:30-5. 2010..Daily controller medication use is recommended for children with persistent asthma to achieve asthma control... - Measuring the transition readiness of youth with special healthcare needs: validation of the TRAQ--Transition Readiness Assessment QuestionnaireGregory S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 36:160-71. 2011..The aim of this study was to develop the Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire (TRAQ), a measure of readiness for transition from pediatric to adult healthcare for youth with special health care needs (YSHCN)... - Adults with cystic fibrosis report important and unmet needs for disease informationGregory S Sawicki
Children s Hospital Boston, Division of Respiratory Diseases, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
J Cyst Fibros 6:411-6. 2007..The informational needs of the growing population of adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) have not been previously assessed... - Advance care planning in adults with cystic fibrosisGregory S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Palliat Med 11:1135-41. 2008..Advance care planning (ACP) promotes alignment of patient care at the end of life with an individual's goals, however minimal research exists on ACP in CF... - Periodic use of inhaled steroids in children with mild persistent asthma: what are pediatricians recommending?Gregory S Sawicki
Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship Program, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 47:446-51. 2008..2-0.6) for mild persistent asthma. Further research is needed on the effectiveness of periodic ICS use for children with mild persistent asthma and on underlying reasons for differing provider practice patterns... - Self-reported physical and psychological symptom burden in adults with cystic fibrosisGregory S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Disease, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 35:372-80. 2008..These findings show that adults with CF have a high symptom burden, particularly with respiratory and psychological symptoms, and that the new MSAS CF-specific subscales are a reliable measure of symptom distress in the CF population... - Necrotising pneumonia is an increasingly detected complication of pneumonia in childrenG S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Dept of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Eur Respir J 31:1285-91. 2008..Despite the serious morbidity, massive parenchymal damage and prolonged hospitalisations, long-term outcome following necrotising pneumonia is excellent... - The impact of incident methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus detection on pulmonary function in cystic fibrosisGregory S Sawicki
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 43:1117-23. 2008..In conclusion, although MRSA in CF was a marker for more aggressive therapy and may reflect increased disease severity, incident MRSA detection was not associated with a changing rate of FEV(1)% predicted decline... - High treatment burden in adults with cystic fibrosis: challenges to disease self-managementGregory S Sawicki
Children s Hospital Boston, Division of Respiratory Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Cyst Fibros 8:91-6. 2009..More aggressive management of cystic fibrosis (CF), along with the use of new therapies, has led to increasing survival. Thus, the recommended daily treatment regimens for most CF adults are complex and time consuming... - Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of bronchus in a pediatric patient: (18)F-FDG PET findingsEdward Y Lee
Department of Radiology and Medicine, Pulmonary Division, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatr Radiol 37:1278-82. 2007..We report a mucoepidermoid carcinoma arising from the right upper lobe bronchus in a 15-year-old girl with an emphasis on the (18)F-FDG PET findings... - Asthma care quality for children with minority-serving providersAlison A Galbraith
Center for Child Health Care Studies, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:38-45. 2010..To compare asthma care quality for children with and without minority-serving providers... - Travel patterns to school among children with asthmaNicolas M Oreskovic
Department of Pediatrics, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital Boston, Massachusets, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 48:632-40. 2009..Active commuting to school provides regular exercise, which can improve asthma symptoms. Little is known about how children with asthma travel to school... - Self-reported involvement of family members in the care of adults with CFKimberly McGuffie
Center for Applied Ethics, Education Development Center, Inc, 55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458, USA
J Cyst Fibros 7:95-101. 2008..Few empirical studies have examined the role of family caregivers in the lives of adults with CF...