Lucy Maurice
Boston Children's Hospital
7 Papers
44 Citations
Lucy Maurice is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications.
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Papers
Parental grieving after a child dies from cancer: is stress from stem cell transplant a factor?
TL;DR: Routine psychosocial screening, especially for families undergoing SCT, may contribute usefully to a proactive model of palliative care in identifying parents at risk for complicated bereavement outcomes.
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Adequacy of nutritional support in pediatric blood and marrow transplantation.
Jennifer Cohen,Lucy Maurice +1 more
TL;DR: It was shown that although frequent rate reductions in nutrition infusions did occur, most patients still received the majority of their nutritional requirements.
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Management of fever and neutropenia in children with cancer
Aditi Vedi,Aditi Vedi,V. Pennington,Matthew W O'Meara,Kylie Stark,Anne Senner,Paul Hunstead,K. Adnum,W. Londall,Lucy Maurice,Claire E. Wakefield,Claire E. Wakefield,Richard J. Cohn,Richard J. Cohn +13 more
TL;DR: The introduction of an algorithm-based approach to the management of fever in immunocompromised children resulted in an improvement in practice, meeting international guidelines and achieving sustained results at 5 years after introduction at a tertiary hospital.
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Central venous access and handwashing: variability in policies and practices.
Robyn Galway,Mary Ellen Harrod,Jackie Crisp,Robyn Donnellan,Jan Hardy,Alice Harvey,Lucy Maurice,Sheila Petty,Anne Senner +8 more
TL;DR: Variation in handwashing policy between hospitals, variability in hand washing practices in nurses and how practice differed from policy in tertiary paediatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand were examined.
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Handwashing practice and policy variability when caring for central venous catheters in paediatric intensive care
Mary Lou Morritt,Mary Ellen Harrod,Jackie Crisp,Anne Senner,Robyn Galway,Sheila Petty,Lucy Maurice,Alice Harvey,Jan Hardy,Robyn Donnellan +9 more
TL;DR: The study found an enormous level of variation among and between nurses' reported practices and local policies, which substantiate the need for standardisation of practice in line with the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines, including the introduction of alcohol handrub.
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