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Pichonnaz C, Ancey C, Mbarga J, Foley RA. Patients' expectations of physiotherapists before and after an intensive chronic low back pain rehabilitation programme: a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews and observations. Disabil Rehabil 2024; 46:1776-1786. [PMID: 37128151 DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2023.2205171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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PURPOSE To investigate the expectations regarding physiotherapists of patients attending an interdisciplinary CLBP rehabilitation programme and the response to these expectations. MATERIALS AND METHODS A thematic analysis was conducted, based on interviews of working-age patients with CLBP and without significant comorbidities. RESULTS Twenty patients participated (9 male, 11 female, aged 21-58 years; symptoms duration 4.3 ± 3.0 years; pain VAS 53 ± 21 mm). Patients expected to learn pain and activity management. Expected outcomes were a reduction of pain, increased well-being and a return to normality. A collaborative approach involving therapeutic and relational adaptation was expected. Despite divergences concerning emotional aspects, patients expected a large range of applied psychosocial skills.The programme met the expectations of most patients, especially when its goals matched those reported by the individuals. For most participants, the pain relief was below expectations. Active therapies were valued. After the programme, patients felt more ready to take responsibility for their back. CONCLUSION The expectation of developing self-management skills was prevalent. Expected treatments were mostly compatible with recommendations. Expectations to resume activities and decrease pain were in line with the rehabilitation goals, although the expected reduction in pain was overestimated. Relational expectations converged towards patient-centred care.
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- Claude Pichonnaz
- Department of Physiotherapy, HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Musculoskeletal Medicine, University Hospital and University of Lausanne (CHUV-UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Physiotherapy, HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of research and development, HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of research and development, HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Bessat C, Bingisser R, Schwendinger M, Bulaty T, Fournier Y, Della Santa V, Pfeil M, Schwab D, Leuppi JD, Geigy N, Steuer S, Roos F, Christ M, Sirova A, Espejo T, Riedel H, Atzl A, Napieralski F, Marti J, Cisco G, Foley RA, Schindler M, Hartley MA, Fayet A, Garcia E, Locatelli I, Albrich WC, Hugli O, Boillat-Blanco N. PLUS-IS-LESS project: Procalcitonin and Lung UltraSonography-based antibiotherapy in patients with Lower rESpiratory tract infection in Swiss Emergency Departments: study protocol for a pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial. Trials 2024; 25:86. [PMID: 38273319 PMCID: PMC10809691 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-023-07795-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) are among the most frequent infections and a significant contributor to inappropriate antibiotic prescription. Currently, no single diagnostic tool can reliably identify bacterial pneumonia. We thus evaluate a multimodal approach based on a clinical score, lung ultrasound (LUS), and the inflammatory biomarker, procalcitonin (PCT) to guide prescription of antibiotics. LUS outperforms chest X-ray in the identification of pneumonia, while PCT is known to be elevated in bacterial and/or severe infections. We propose a trial to test their synergistic potential in reducing antibiotic prescription while preserving patient safety in emergency departments (ED). METHODS The PLUS-IS-LESS study is a pragmatic, stepped-wedge cluster-randomized, clinical trial conducted in 10 Swiss EDs. It assesses the PLUS algorithm, which combines a clinical prediction score, LUS, PCT, and a clinical severity score to guide antibiotics among adults with LRTIs, compared with usual care. The co-primary endpoints are the proportion of patients prescribed antibiotics and the proportion of patients with clinical failure by day 28. Secondary endpoints include measurement of change in quality of life, length of hospital stay, antibiotic-related side effects, barriers and facilitators to the implementation of the algorithm, cost-effectiveness of the intervention, and identification of patterns of pneumonia in LUS using machine learning. DISCUSSION The PLUS algorithm aims to optimize prescription of antibiotics through improved diagnostic performance and maximization of physician adherence, while ensuring safety. It is based on previously validated tests and does therefore not expose participants to unforeseeable risks. Cluster randomization prevents cross-contamination between study groups, as physicians are not exposed to the intervention during or before the control period. The stepped-wedge implementation of the intervention allows effect calculation from both between- and within-cluster comparisons, which enhances statistical power and allows smaller sample size than a parallel cluster design. Moreover, it enables the training of all centers for the intervention, simplifying implementation if the results prove successful. The PLUS algorithm has the potential to improve the identification of LRTIs that would benefit from antibiotics. When scaled, the expected reduction in the proportion of antibiotics prescribed has the potential to not only decrease side effects and costs but also mitigate antibiotic resistance. TRIAL REGISTRATION This study was registered on July 19, 2022, on the ClinicalTrials.gov registry using reference number: NCT05463406. TRIAL STATUS Recruitment started on December 5, 2022, and will be completed on November 3, 2024. Current protocol version is version 3.0, dated April 3, 2023.
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- Cécile Bessat
- Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospital of Lausanne and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Emergency Department, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, Cantonal Hospital of Baden, Baden, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, Intercantonal Hospital of Broye, Payerne, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, Hospital Riviera-Chablais, Rennaz, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, Hospital Riviera-Chablais, Rennaz, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department and University Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department and University Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, St Claraspital, Basel, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, Cantonal Hospital of St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, Cantonal Hospital of St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
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- Health Economics and Policy Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Health Economics and Policy Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Qualitative research platform, social sciences sector, Department of Epidemiology and Health Services, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- School of Health Sciences HESAV, University of Applied sciences of Western Switzerland, HES-SO, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Qualitative research platform, social sciences sector, Department of Epidemiology and Health Services, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Intelligent Global Health Research Group, Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Clinical Research Center (CRC), University Hospital of Lausanne and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, University Hospital of Lausanne and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Health Economics and Policy Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, Cantonal Hospital St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
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- Emergency Department, University Hospital of Lausanne and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospital of Lausanne and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Pichonnaz C, Foley RA. In-between duty and hope for recognition, the experience of physiotherapists working in a university hospital during the COVID-19 first wave in Switzerland: a qualitative study based on focus groups. Arch Physiother 2023; 13:16. [PMID: 37592333 PMCID: PMC10436384 DOI: 10.1186/s40945-023-00169-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Learning more about the physiotherapists' experience, perceived role and perception of events during the COVID-19 crisis, as well as their recovery and projection into the post-crisis future, may be useful to inform stakeholders about the impact of the crisis. The objective of this study was to investigate the experience of physiotherapists working in a university hospital in Switzerland during the 1st wave of the COVID-19 crisis, more specifically their subjective experience, professional involvement, perception of management and perceived implications for the future. METHODS This interpretative qualitative study investigated the subjective experience of a purposeful sample of 12 physiotherapists using two 2 h semi-directive focus group interviews conducted by a physiotherapist in June 2020. Data were recorded, transcribed, and analysed using a thematic analysis approach. The report was approved by participants and the study was audited by a health anthropologist. RESULTS The most impressive points were the unprecedented nature of the crisis, the health threat, the hospital's capacity to reorganise on a large scale and the solidarity between colleagues. Participants expressed a high level of commitment to their role despite the potentially serious repercussions at an individual level. Pride and stress coexisted for those directly involved in the crisis, while those working in a reduced activity department felt anxious and idle. The need for immediacy in decision-making and action led to a flattening of hierarchies and an increase of uncertainties. Communication management was seen as the main area for improvement. Physiotherapists hoped that their involvement would improve recognition of the profession but feared that working conditions would deteriorate after the crisis. CONCLUSIONS The physiotherapists expressed high dedication to their profession and pride to be part of the "war effort" during the crisis. The stress level was partly tempered by the solidarity amongst health professionals and distraction by engaging in action. Despite the mental load, this situation was also seen as an opportunity to grow at a personal and professional level. The healthcare system capacity having not been exceeded in Switzerland, less distress related to death and powerlessness were expressed than in other studies investigating healthcare professionals' experience of the COVID-19 crisis.
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- Claude Pichonnaz
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Cateau D, Foley RA, Niquille A. [Deprescribing in nursing homes: comparative views of residents, their relatives, and healthcare professionals]. Rev Med Suisse 2020; 16:2169-2171. [PMID: 33174699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Deprescribing, in order to reduce both polypharmacy and the use of potentially inappropriate medications, remains a challenge, especially in nursing homes. Healthcare professionals perceive residents of these homes as wary of change and reluctant to take part in such endeavours. The results of two studies, one qualitative and the other quantitative, show that, on the contrary, nursing home residents and their relatives would be ready to consider a treatment reduction, provided that time is invested to explain the expected benefits of such changes.
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- Damien Cateau
- Pharmacie d'Unisanté, Centre universitaire de médecine générale et santé publique, Université de Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne
- Section des sciences pharmaceutiques, Université de Genève, 1211 Genève 4
- Institut des sciences pharmaceutiques de Suisse occidentale, Université de Genève, 1211 Genève 4 et Université de Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne
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- Secteur Systèmes et services de santé, Centre universitaire de médecine générale et santé publique, Université de Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne
- Unité de recherche en santé, Haute École de santé Vaud, 1011 Lausanne
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- Pharmacie d'Unisanté, Centre universitaire de médecine générale et santé publique, Université de Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne
- Section des sciences pharmaceutiques, Université de Genève, 1211 Genève 4
- Institut des sciences pharmaceutiques de Suisse occidentale, Université de Genève, 1211 Genève 4 et Université de Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne
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Mbarga J, Foley RA, Pichonnaz C, Ancey C. Trajectoires de personnes souffrant de lombalgie chronique : ruptures et reconstructions après un programme de rééducation. Sante Publique 2020; Vol. 32:19-28. [PMID: 32706223 DOI: 10.3917/spub.201.0019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Purpose of research: The objective of this article is to investigate, from the perspective of patients, the disruptions of the biographical trajectories induced by chronic low back pain and the impact of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program on their reconstruction. METHODS Based on an interdisciplinary qualitative research, we investigated the experience of 20 participants with chronic low back pain following a three-week rehabilitation program at the hospital. Semi-directive interviews were conducted before and after inclusion in the program. RESULTS Although affecting each person in a singular way, chronic low back pain induces biographical linearity disruptions related to the apparition of pain, and the disruption of daily and professional activities. For the majority of participants, the rehabilitation program provided a repairative space to restore continuity between past, present and future life. Whether or not there is a significant improvement in pain, most participants report benefits that give them the feeling of getting back to normality. Nevertheless, they identify those more for the domestic, family, and social spheres than at the professional level, effects remaining moderate to mitigated in that area. CONCLUSIONS The rehabilitation program influences the dynamics of biographical trajectories and promotes a return to what is perceived as normality. By providing individuals with theoretical and practical tools and increasing their functional capacities, it promotes autonomous pain and problem management. Immediate effects are seen as restorative for domestic, family and social activities, but remain limited on the professional level.
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Bourdin A, Dubois J, Foley RA, Schluep M, Bugnon O, Berger J. Satisfaction and experiences of patients taking fingolimod and involved in a pharmacy-based patient support program in Switzerland - a qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res 2020; 20:425. [PMID: 32410681 PMCID: PMC7227186 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-05278-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2019] [Accepted: 04/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Fingolimod is an oral multiple sclerosis drug that is considered a specialty drug due to its high cost and safety issues. The Fingolimod Patient Support Program (F-PSP) is a specialty pharmacy service developed to ensure the responsible use of fingolimod by promoting patient safety and medication adherence. This study aims to explore the satisfaction, experiences and perceptions regarding the F-PSP among patients currently involved in this program or recently withdrawn. METHODS A qualitative study was conducted via individual, face-to-face semistructured interviews with patients involved in the F-PSP. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, coded and analyzed via thematic content analysis. RESULTS The main themes identified from the interviews (n = 17) were overall perception of the F-PSP, perception of the pharmacist-led consultations, perception of the tools (electronic monitor and drug intake graph), reasons to participate or potentially withdraw, and suggestions for improvements. Participants perceived the F-PSP as a reassuring support that complemented their medical care, providing a more human, personalized and person-centered approach than usual pharmacy care. Pharmacist-led consultations were valued for the medication-related and holistic support they provided. The importance of the pharmacist's attitude was emphasized. The electronic monitor was valued for promoting daily medication adherence and allowing the involvement of relatives, which reassured participants and their relatives. The participants appreciated the drug intake graph because it provided an objective overview of medication adherence, thereby reassuring, rewarding, and motivating them. The main reason to join the program was to be supported, especially with respect to medication adherence. CONCLUSIONS Participants were satisfied with the F-PSP, each for different reasons. Their feedback enabled the identification of measures for the optimization of the F-PSP and should facilitate its dissemination and transfer to other drugs/diseases/populations. Essential elements of generic pharmacist-led patient support programs considered valuable from the patients' perspective were identified.
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- Aline Bourdin
- Community Pharmacy, Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, University of Geneva, University of Lausannee, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Qualitative Research Platform, Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Qualitative Research Platform, Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Community Pharmacy, Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, University of Geneva, University of Lausannee, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Community Pharmacy, Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, University of Geneva, University of Lausannee, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Foley RA, Hurard LL, Cateau D, Koutaissoff D, Bugnon O, Niquille A. Physicians', Nurses' and Pharmacists' Perceptions of Determinants to Deprescribing in Nursing Homes Considering Three Levels of Action: A Qualitative Study. Pharmacy (Basel) 2020; 8:pharmacy8010017. [PMID: 32046022 PMCID: PMC7151677 DOI: 10.3390/pharmacy8010017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2019] [Revised: 02/03/2020] [Accepted: 02/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Background: Polypharmacy and the use of potentially inappropriate medications are frequent safety issues among nursing home (NH) residents. Deprescribing can significantly reduce the number of drugs used, medication costs, and mortality. This qualitative study sought to understand and compare the perceptions and practices of nurses, pharmacists, and physicians regarding deprescribing in Swiss NHs, referring to an implementation approach on three levels of action: the individual, the institution, and the healthcare system. Methods: Two focus groups were held with 21 participants: one focus group with 11 pharmacists, another with 10 nurses and six semi-structured interviews with physicians were conducted and focused on their individual experience and practices. They were audiotaped and fully transcribed, and a content analysis was performed using to MAXQDA (Ver 12) software. Results: (1) At an individual level, physicians were concerned by consequences of deprescribing in terms of safety. Nurses were closest to residents and stressed the importance of finding the right time, creating a bond of trust before deprescribing and considering the purpose of the stay in the NH. Pharmacists relied on structured guides for deprescribing, which led their reflection and practice. All professionals saw the complexity of the clinical situations, as well as residents’ and relatives’ fears of interruption of care. (2) At an institutional level, the professionals stressed the lack of time to discuss patients’ health and treatment, while pre-existing interprofessional collaboration, specifically, quality circles, seemed useful tools to create common knowledge. In order to reduce prescriptions, better coordination between physicians, nurses, pharmacists and specialists seemed crucial. (3) At the health system level, funding still needs to be provided to consolidate the process, go beyond organisational constraints and ensure deprescribing serves the patient’s wellbeing above all. Conclusions: At the individual level of implementation, the different healthcare professionals expressed specific concerns about deprescribing, depending on their defined role in NHs. Their perspective about the different levers to promote deprescribing at institutional and healthcare system levels converge towards interprofessional collaboration supported by the healthcare system. Specific funding and incentives are therefore needed to support a sustainable interprofessional team.
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- Rose-Anna Foley
- Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; (R.-A.F.)
- School of Health Sciences (HESAV), University of Applied sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- School of Health Sciences (HESAV), University of Applied sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; (R.-A.F.)
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; (R.-A.F.)
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- Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; (R.-A.F.)
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; (R.-A.F.)
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +41-21-314-48-45
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Foley RA, Hurard LL, Anchisi A, Anchisi S. Rising to the medication's requirements: The experience of elderly cancer patients receiving palliative chemotherapy in the elective oncogeriatrics field. Soc Sci Med 2019; 242:112593. [PMID: 31629159 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2019] [Revised: 10/04/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A new subfield of oncology has emerged in the last twenty years to raise awareness and address the specific needs of elderly cancer patients, a population that was long neglected in oncology. We sought to understand the individual experiences, as well as moral and social implications of considering elderly cancer patients as "treatable". Following an anthropological critical interpretative approach focusing on practical and symbolic effects of chemotherapy in a rapidly evolving medical field, we conducted 20 semi-structured interviews and observations of medicine storage places at home among elderly cancer patients aged 70 and over in a clearly incurable situation receiving palliative chemotherapy. We used photographs representing paths as triggers in interviews, and compared the patients' views with those of 12 health professionals in oncology during a brief open-ended interview. Elderly cancer patients consider themselves to be survivors and fighters. Their long trajectory is a result of their successful struggle and tolerance of the treatments allowing them to carry on. They continually observe their physical ability and test their resistance, they resist complaining and are grateful to have cancer at a late stage of life. By highlighting their active life rather than the treatment inconveniences, they show they are "young elderly" persons, capable of keeping active physically. They are treated precisely because they demonstrated that they had the physical and moral capacity to take the hit of the chemotherapy to their bodies and had the will to fight. The development of oncogeriatrics has enabled the treatment of the fittest cancer patients over 70, but the ethical debate to treat some elderly patients and not others, and decisions of therapeutic abstention facing frail elderly cancer patients remains an issue rarely discussed. This aspect should not be eluded by the important progress achieved in medicine facing cancer.
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- Rose-Anna Foley
- School of Health Sciences (HESAV), University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Epidemiology and Health Services, Center for General Medicine and Public Health, Unisanté, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- School of Health Sciences (HESAV), University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- School of Health Sciences (HESAV), University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Oncology Service of the Hospital Center of Valais Romand (CHVR), Sion, Switzerland
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Anchisi A, Foley RA, Ansermet C, Anchisi S. [Oncology trajectories of elderly patients in a palliative situation : « The long and winding road »]. Rev Med Suisse 2018; 14:1042-1046. [PMID: 29767897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This paper focuses on trajectories of elderly patients with metastatic cancer who experience several lines of systemic palliative cancer treatments. Based on photographs representing paths, the representations between patients and professional caregivers vary. Where the latter see wearisome treatments and spaces of negotiation, the patients wish to be seen as fighters, a figure that ought to be adopted to face cancer and its treatments, day after day, to meet medical and social expectations.
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- Annick Anchisi
- Haute école de santé Vaud (HESAV), Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO), Avenue de Beaumont 21, 1011 Lausanne
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- Haute école de santé Vaud (HESAV), Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO), Avenue de Beaumont 21, 1011 Lausanne
- Institut universitaire de médecine sociale et préventive (IUMSP), Avenue de Beaumont 21, 1011 Lausanne
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- Haute école de santé Vaud (HESAV), Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO), Avenue de Beaumont 21, 1011 Lausanne
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- Service d'oncologie, Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand, Avenue du Grand-Champsec 80, 1950 Sion
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Mbarga J, Pichonnaz C, Foley RA, Ancey C. [Chronic low back pain: from the uncertain medical diagnosis to the profane etiologies]. Rev Med Suisse 2018; 14:850-853. [PMID: 29668149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This qualitative research article is based on interviews with 20 participants to a low back pain rehabilitation program in a Swiss hospital. It shows that, in the absence of the obvious cause that can explain pain, patients construct their own interpretations and explanations in order to give meaning to their experience. Their explanatory models mainly include the lifestyle and the physical aspects related to the body function, what leaves little room for the psychosocial component. Their interpretation is consequently discordant with the current medical approach, which considers that chronic low back pain results from bio-psycho-social factors. This discrepancy implies negotiation between patients and professionals about the objectives to achieve in order to treat pain.
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- Josiane Mbarga
- PhD Anthropologie médicale/adjointe scientifique HES, Haute école de la santé Vaud (HESAV)/Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO), Unité de recherche en santé, Avenue de Beaumont 21, 1011 Lausanne
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- MSc Physiothérapie/professeur associé HES, HESAV/HES-SO, Filière physiothérapie Physiothérapeute clinicien spécialisé, Département de l'Appareil Locomoteur, CHUV-UNIL, Avenue de Beaumont 21, 1011 Lausanne
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- PhD Anthropologie médicale/professeure associée HES, HESAV/HES-SO, Unité de recherche en santéInstitut Universitaire de Médecine Sociale et Préventive (IUMSP), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Avenue de Beaumont 21, 1011 Lausanne, 1012 Lausanne
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- MSc Physiothérapie/maître d'enseignement HES, HESAV/HES-SO, Filière physiothérapie, Avenue de Beaumont 21, 1011 Lausanne
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Mirazón Lahr M, Rivera F, Power RK, Mounier A, Copsey B, Crivellaro F, Edung JE, Maillo Fernandez JM, Kiarie C, Lawrence J, Leakey A, Mbua E, Miller H, Muigai A, Mukhongo DM, Van Baelen A, Wood R, Schwenninger JL, Grün R, Achyuthan H, Wilshaw A, Foley RA. Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya. Nature 2016; 529:394-8. [PMID: 26791728 DOI: 10.1038/nature16477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The nature of inter-group relations among prehistoric hunter-gatherers remains disputed, with arguments in favour and against the existence of warfare before the development of sedentary societies. Here we report on a case of inter-group violence towards a group of hunter-gatherers from Nataruk, west of Lake Turkana, which during the late Pleistocene/early Holocene period extended about 30 km beyond its present-day shore. Ten of the twelve articulated skeletons found at Nataruk show evidence of having died violently at the edge of a lagoon, into which some of the bodies fell. The remains from Nataruk are unique, preserved by the particular conditions of the lagoon with no evidence of deliberate burial. They offer a rare glimpse into the life and death of past foraging people, and evidence that warfare was part of the repertoire of inter-group relations among prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
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- M Mirazón Lahr
- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK.,Turkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- National Museums of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta House, PO Box 152-30500, Lodwar, Kenya
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- Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueologia, UNED, c/ Paseo Senda del Rey, 7, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Turkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Turkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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- National Museums of Kenya, PO Box 40658-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, PO Box 62000-00200, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Building 142, Mills Road, Acton, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
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- Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Building 142, Mills Road, Acton, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia.,Research Centre for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
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- Department of Geology, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600025, India
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK.,Turkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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Foley RA, Johnston WS, Bernard M, Canevascini M, Currat T, Borasio GD, Beauverd M. Attitudes Regarding Palliative Sedation and Death Hastening Among Swiss Physicians: A Contextually Sensitive Approach. Death Stud 2015; 39:473-482. [PMID: 26107119 DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2015.1029142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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In Switzerland, where assisted suicide but not euthanasia is permitted, the authors sought to understand how physicians integrate palliative sedation in their practice and how they reflect on existential suffering and death hastening. They interviewed 31 physicians from different care settings. Five major attitudes emerged. Among specialized palliative care physicians, convinced, cautious and doubtful attitudes were evident. Within unspecialized settings, palliative sedation was more likely to be considered as death hastening: clinicians either avoid it with an inexperienced attitude or practice it with an ambiguous attitude, raising the issue of unskilled and abusive uses of sedatives at the end of life.
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- Rose-Anna Foley
- a Institute of Health Research , University of Health Sciences (HESAV, HES-SO) , Lausanne , Switzerland
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The abundant evidence that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa within the past 200,000 years, and dispersed across the world only within the past 100,000 years, provides us with a strong framework in which to consider the evolution of human diversity. While there is evidence that the human capacity for culture has a deeper history, going beyond the origin of the hominin clade, the tendency for humans to form cultures as part of being distinct communities and populations changed markedly with the evolution of H. sapiens. In this paper, we investigate 'cultures' as opposed to 'culture', and the question of how and why, compared to biological diversity, human communities and populations are so culturally diverse. We consider the way in which the diversity of human cultures has developed since 100,000 years ago, and how its rate was subject to environmental factors. We argue that the causes of this diversity lie in the distribution of resources and the way in which human communities reproduce over several generations, leading to fissioning of kin groups. We discuss the consequences of boundary formation through culture in their broader ecological and evolutionary contexts.
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- R A Foley
- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Beauverd MA, Foley RA, Rossi I, Pereira J. Description of a Tertiary Swiss University Hospital Palliative Population Based on the International Classification of Disease (ICD): A Retrospective Pilot Study. J Palliat Med 2011; 14:77-81. [DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2010.0265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Michel Antoine Beauverd
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Palliative Care Service, Department of Medicine, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Palliative Care Service, Department of Medicine, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- School of Health Sciences, HECVSanté, Health Research Unit, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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- Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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- Division of Palliative Care, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Foley RA, Lahr MM. Ancient DNA closes on human uniqueness: The base nature of Neanderthals. Heredity (Edinb) 2007; 98:187-8. [PMID: 17389894 DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Underhill PA, Passarino G, Lin AA, Shen P, Mirazón Lahr M, Foley RA, Oefner PJ, Cavalli-Sforza LL. The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of modern human populations. Ann Hum Genet 2001; 65:43-62. [PMID: 11415522 DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-1809.2001.6510043.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 554] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2000] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Although molecular genetic evidence continues to accumulate that is consistent with a recent common African ancestry of modern humans, its ability to illuminate regional histories remains incomplete. A set of unique event polymorphisms associated with the non-recombining portion of the Y-chromosome (NRY) addresses this issue by providing evidence concerning successful migrations originating from Africa, which can be interpreted as subsequent colonizations, differentiations and migrations overlaid upon previous population ranges. A total of 205 markers identified by denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC), together with 13 taken from the literature, were used to construct a parsimonious genealogy. Ancestral allelic states were deduced from orthologous great ape sequences. A total of 131 unique haplotypes were defined which trace the microevolutionary trajectory of global modern human genetic diversification. The genealogy provides a detailed phylogeographic portrait of contemporary global population structure that is emblematic of human origins, divergence and population history that is consistent with climatic, paleoanthropological and other genetic knowledge.
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- P A Underhill
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, CA 94305-5120, USA.
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The origins of modern humans have been the central debate in palaeoanthropology during the last decade. We examine the problem in the context of the history of anthropology, the accumulating evidence for a recent African origin, and evolutionary mechanisms. Using a historical perspective, we show that the current controversy is a continuation of older conflicts and as such relates to questions of both origins and diversity. However, a better fossil sample, improved dates, and genetic data have introduced new perspectives, and we argue that evolutionary geography, which uses spatial distributions of populations as the basis for integrating contingent, adaptive, and demographic aspects of microevolutionary change, provides an appropriate theoretical framework. Evolutionary geography is used to explore two events: the evolution of the Neanderthal lineage and the relationship between an ancestral bottleneck with the evolution of anatomically modern humans and their diversity. We argue that the Neanderthal and modern lineages share a common ancestor in an African population between 350,000 and 250,000 years ago rather than in the earlier Middle Pleistocene; this ancestral population, which developed mode 3 technology (Levallois/Middle Stone Age), dispersed across Africa and western Eurasia in a warmer period prior to independent evolution towards Neanderthals and modern humans in stage 6. Both lineages would thus share a common large-brained ancestry, a technology, and a history of dispersal. They differ in the conditions under which they subsequently evolved and their ultimate evolutionary fate. Both lineages illustrate the repeated interactions of the glacial cycles, the role of cold-arid periods in producing fragmentation of populations, bottlenecks, and isolation, and the role of warmer periods in producing trans-African dispersals.
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- M M Lahr
- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
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Hominid evolution is marked by very significant increase in relative brain size. Because relative brain size has been linked to energetic requirements it is possible to look at the pattern of encephalization as a factor in the evolution of human foraging and dietary strategies. Major expansion of the brain is associated with Homo rather than the Hominidae as a whole, and the energetic costs are likely to have forced a prolongation of growth rates and secondary altriciality. It is calculated here that modern human infants have energetic requirements approximately 9% greater than similar size apes due to their large brains. Consideration of energetic costs of brain allow the prediction of growth rates in hominid taxa and an examination of the implications for life-history strategy and foraging behaviour.
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- R A Foley
- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, U.K
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Changes in social behavior were a key aspect of human evolution, and yet it is notoriously difficult for paleobiologists to determine patterns of social evolution. By defining the limited number of distributional strategies available to members of each sex of any species and investigating the conditions under which they may occur and change, the social behavior of different hominid taxa may be reconstructed.
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- R A Foley
- University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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