Roberto Vasquez
Boston Children's Hospital
17 Papers
80 Citations
Roberto Vasquez is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 15 publications.
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Papers
Low Socioeconomic Status Is Associated with Prolonged Times to Assessment and Treatment, Sepsis and Infectious Death in Pediatric Fever in El Salvador
Ronald Gavidia,Soad Fuentes,Roberto Vasquez,Miguel Bonilla,Marie-Chantal Ethier,Caroline Diorio,Miguela A. Caniza,Scott C. Howard,Lillian Sung +8 more
TL;DR: Providing additional education to high-risk families and staying at a nearby guest house during periods of neutropenia may decrease sepsis and infectious mortality in pediatric leukemia.
Psychological referral and consultation for adolescents and young adults with cancer treated at pediatric oncology unit.
Carlo Alfredo Clerici,Maura Massimino,Michela Casanova,Graziella Cefalo,Monica Terenziani,Roberto Vasquez,Cristina Meazza,Andrea Ferrari +7 more
TL;DR: Managing older adolescents and young adults with cancer is a challenge: it is important to assess these patients' psychological issues and the type of services they need when deciding who should treat them, and where.
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Interventions targeting absences increase adherence and reduce abandonment of childhood cancer treatment in el salvador
Carmen Salaverria,Nuria Rossell,Angelica Hernandez,Soad Fuentes Alabi,Roberto Vasquez,Miguel Bonilla,Catherine G. Lam,Catherine G. Lam,Raul C. Ribeiro,Raul C. Ribeiro +9 more
TL;DR: A time sensitive adherence tracking procedure (TS‐ATP) was recently implemented to detect missed appointments, identify their causes, and intervene promptly in El Salvador.
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Predictors of outcome and methodological issues in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in El Salvador.
Miguel Bonilla,Sumit Gupta,Roberto Vasquez,Soad Fuentes,Gladis deReyes,Raul C. Ribeiro,Lillian Sung +6 more
TL;DR: Socioeconomic variables predicted worse EFS in standard-risk children while disease-related variables were predictive in high-risk patients while disease and nutritional variables were predictors of survival for children in El Salvador with ALL.
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Pediatric oncology research in low income countries: ethical concepts and challenges.
Avram Denburg,Steven Joffe,Sumit Gupta,Scott C. Howard,Raul C. Ribeiro,Federico A. Antillon,Roberto Vasquez,Lillian Sung +7 more
TL;DR: This paper investigates the relationship between pediatric oncology research in LICs and four core issues in the ethics literature: standard of care, trial benefits, ethics review, and informed consent.
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