The role of medical social workers in cancer clinical trial teams: A group case study of multidisciplinary perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 688-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily B. Peterson ◽  
Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou ◽  
Angela Falisi ◽  
Rebecca Ferrer ◽  
Michelle A. Mollica
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Cancer Clinical Trial ◽  
Group Case

Dissemination and Cultural Change as an Alternative Business Value Proposition in the Construction Industry: Manni Group Case Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 239496432110497
Author(s):  
Umberto Tinazzi
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Business Value ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Group Case ◽  
The Right

There is a gap of knowledge between practitioners about the off-site construction. For this reason, the Manni Group case study presented in this article highlights the positive role of dissemination as business value proposition support in the context of off-site construction industry. The Manni Group involved opinion leaders, professionals, universities and industrial partners in a network of dissemination that, going beyond the concept of advertising, it generated a multiple effect of value creation between the direct and indirect involved stakeholders. Dissemination emerges as a model of action that creates impacts on cultural change. It is scalable and applicable in many areas where actors have the right competences to manage the dissemination. Wherever there is a knowledge gap or friction towards new techniques and methodologies, the model is able to create value for companies and stakeholders involved in the emerging network.

‘[W]e Find Families for Children, Not Children for Families’: An Incident in the Long and Unhappy History of Relations between Social Workers and Adoptive Parents

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Quartly
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adoptive Parent ◽  
Inclusive Practice ◽  
Australian State ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Relatively little work on adoption focuses on the role of social workers. This article gives an account of the conflict between social workers and prospective adoptive parents which developed in Australia in the 1970s, taking as a case study the conflicting roles of adoptive parent advocates and professional social workers within the Standing Committee on Adoption in the Australian state of Victoria. Its overarching concern lies with the historical attitudes of the social work profession towards adoption, both domestic and intercountry, as these have changed from an embrace of both adoption and adoptive parents to mutual alienation. It concludes that the inclusive practice of radical social work could only briefly contain contesting client groups.

Social work post-disaster response in Iran: A case study of the 2019 mass flooding in Poldokhtar, Lorestan

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110187
Author(s):  
Masoomeh Maarefvand ◽  
Maziyar Ghiabi ◽  
Fatemeh Nourshargh
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Outreach Services ◽  
New Material ◽  
Community Volunteers ◽  
Post Disaster

Flash-flooding affected Iran in March 2019 causing the displacement of thousands of people. Social workers established a Child Friendly Space (CFS) and applied comprehensive case management to provide psychosocial support for people who were affected by flooding (PWAF) (n = 565) in a community in Poldokhtar, covering a period of 3 months. Outreach services, involving community-volunteers, providing counseling, establishing CFS, training PWAF for reducing violence, and preventing child abuse were essential social work post-disaster interventions to support vulnerable populations. The article reflects upon the often-neglected role of social workers in post-disaster settings, and brings new material for discussion from the unexplored field of Iranian social workers.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF SOCIAL WORKERS IN CURBING GIRL MARRIAGES: A FAMSA CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thalem Adua Salim ◽  
Antoinette Lombard
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers

Prostate cancer clinical trial completion: The role of geography

2021 ◽  
pp. 106600
Author(s):  
KristianD. Stensland ◽  
Samuel D. Kaffenberger ◽  
Arvin K. George ◽  
Todd M. Morgan ◽  
David C. Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Cancer Clinical Trial

scholarly journals The Role of Clinical Trial Participation in Cancer Research: Barriers, Evidence, and Strategies

2016 ◽  
pp. 185-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Unger ◽  
Elise Cook ◽  
Eric Tai ◽  
Archie Bleyer
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Treatment Decision ◽  
Cancer Clinical Trial ◽  
Trial Participation ◽  
Treatment Decision Making ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
To Receive

Fewer than one in 20 adult patients with cancer enroll in cancer clinical trials. Although barriers to trial participation have been the subject of frequent study, the rate of trial participation has not changed substantially over time. Barriers to trial participation are structural, clinical, and attitudinal, and they differ according to demographic and socioeconomic factors. In this article, we characterize the nature of cancer clinical trial barriers, and we consider global and local strategies for reducing barriers. We also consider the specific case of adolescents with cancer and show that the low rate of trial enrollment in this age group strongly correlates with limited improvements in cancer population outcomes compared with other age groups. Our analysis suggests that a clinical trial system that enrolls patients at a higher rate produces treatment advances at a faster rate and corresponding improvements in cancer population outcomes. Viewed in this light, the issue of clinical trial enrollment is foundational, lying at the heart of the cancer clinical trial endeavor. Fewer barriers to trial participation would enable trials to be completed more quickly and would improve the generalizability of trial results. Moreover, increased accrual to trials is important for patients, because trials provide patients the opportunity to receive the newest treatments. In an era of increasing emphasis on a treatment decision-making process that incorporates the patient perspective, the opportunity for patients to choose trial participation for their care is vital.

Personalized Medicine in Practice: Postgenomics from Multiplicity to Immutability

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-54
Author(s):  
Nadav Even Chorev
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Personalized Medicine ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cancer Clinical Trial ◽  
Social Data ◽  
Personalized Cancer

This article explores the ways in which predictive information technologies are used in the field of personalized medicine and the relations between this use and how patients and disease are perceived. This is examined in a qualitative case study of a personalized cancer clinical trial, where oncologists made clinical decisions for each patient based on drug matchings and efficacy predictions produced by bioinformatic technologies and algorithms. I focus on personalized practice itself, as a postgenomic phenomenon, rather than on epistemic, ethical and institutional critiques. Personalized medicine aims to process molecular, clinical, environmental and social data into individually tailored decisions. In this case, however, the engagement of clinicians with data and digital artefacts that processed multiple information sources resulted in treatment choices that were paradoxically both immutable and uncertain. In contrast to the situatedness of the body in postgenomics, this practice subverted the personalized medical approach while decontextualizing both cancer and patients.

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