... 117 Firat Kart, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Gengxin Miao, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA L E Moser, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA P M Melliar-Smith, ... University of California, Santa Barbara, USA L E Moser, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA P M Melliar-Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Chapter VIII Telepsychiatry Within ... Search was conducted on the following electronic databases: Pubmed Central, British Medical Journal, Journal ofthe American Medical Association (JAMA), Journal ofthe American Medical Informatics...
... 117 Firat Kart, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Gengxin Miao, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA L E Moser, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA P M Melliar-Smith, ... University of California, Santa Barbara, USA L E Moser, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA P M Melliar-Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Chapter VIII Telepsychiatry Within ... Search was conducted on the following electronic databases: Pubmed Central, British Medical Journal, Journal ofthe American Medical Association (JAMA), Journal ofthe American Medical Informatics...
... test for comparing the values at baseline and after respective therapy gastrointestinal tract damage, which may clinically manifest other than as angina-like chest pain The reported prevalence of ... tablets taken per day, the presence of heartburn episodes and the need to take antacid, the appearance of adverse reactions (with a detailed description), therapy tolerance and the score for their ... disease, including those ofthe gastrointestinal tract; (4) any change in pharmacological treatment for cardiovascular disease within one month ofthe start ofthe study; and (5) the administration...
... commercially available databases) Access to the Portal is free for academic groups and the continued expansion ofthe chemical database means that there is a valuable and growing coverage of chemical ... Vernonanthura Patens with Antifungal Bioactivity and Potential as Antineoplastic 503 Patricia Isabel Manzano Santana, Mario Silva Osorio, Olov Sterner and Esther Lilia Peralta Garc a Chapter 25 The ... Gonỗalo C Justino Chapter Analytical Methods for Isolation, Separation and Identification of Selected Furanocoumarins in Plant Material 57 Katarzyna Szewczyk and Anna Bogucka - Kocka Chapter Analytical...
... apparent Stage Increased intermetatarsal angle Sesamoid displacement to level of partial disarticulation with the metatarsal head Possible associated 2nd hammertoe and bony adaptation of metatarsal ... or health-related quality of life has been undertaken, the authors are not aware of any assessment ofthe effects on health status of hallux rigidus Furthermore, the authors are unaware of any ... health status is important, as accurate diagnosis and classification is not straight forward The pain and deformity of hallux rigidus can clinically mimic hallux valgus, and the deformity of hallux...
... test for comparing the values at baseline and after respective therapy gastrointestinal tract damage, which may clinically manifest other than as angina-like chest pain The reported prevalence of ... tablets taken per day, the presence of heartburn episodes and the need to take antacid, the appearance of adverse reactions (with a detailed description), therapy tolerance and the score for their ... disease, including those ofthe gastrointestinal tract; (4) any change in pharmacological treatment for cardiovascular disease within one month ofthe start ofthe study; and (5) the administration...
... conceived the study, analyzed and interpreted the data, and drafted the paper LM and VR participated in the interpretation ofthe data and in the drafting All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... yes theoretical and/or methodological all themes about transferability factors and quality of evidence Wang [3] 2006 yes theoretical and/or methodological all themes about limits of RCT model and ... 5: The absence ofa necessary cofactor in the causal chain ofthe intervention • category 6: The presence or absence of an external intervention that is synergistic with the objective of the...
... completeness and accuracy General themes and their associated codes were agreed upon by the data analysis team and thematic coding was used to analyze all qualitative data, according to assessment ... health care needs ofthe Tanzanian population Page of 10 Additional material Additional File 1: List of Programmes Surveyed forthe Assessment This file contains a table of all the programs that were ... in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who served as an assessment team member and made substantial contributions to the final report The authors would like to thank the Tanzanian MoHSW; the National AIDS...
... children was three Half ofthe participants were menopausal, of which most had natural menopause The median age at natural menopause was 49 years and at surgical menopause was 45.5 years; the median ... defining the standards of care at the local level The implementation of standards of care and evaluation activities should be tailored to the characteristics ofthe services that are being evaluated ... Kahn R, Robertson RM: Preventing cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes: a common agenda forthe American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association...
... ICU admissions are recorded in a database Approximately 360 patients are admitted annually, with an average age of 49.5 years and an average ICU length of stay (LOS) of 5.0 days Hospital mortality ... survivors of sepsis Short Form 36: a valid and reliable measure of health-related quality of life Crit Care Med 2000, 28:3599-3605 Pettila V, Kaarlola A and Makelainen A Health-related quality of life ... http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/2 Table 1: Age, severity, LOS, IPPV days Mean values for age and SAPS II and median values for *LOS and **IPPV days (hours/24) Comparison ofmedical and surgical ICU patients, and of ICU patients...
... psychometric analysis, participated in the interpretation of data, and critically reviewed the final manuscript SS provided statistical consultation and critically reviewed the final manuscript Additional ... contributed to conception and design ofthe study, provided the data on which this analysis was based, participated in the interpretation of data, and made substantial revisions to the manuscript PK provided ... subjects categorized as the 'same' relative to baseline These same results are presented again in an alternative format in Figure 3, showing categorical change in the RSDI versus categorical change...
... Interpretation of changes in health-related quality of life: the remarkable universality of half a standard deviation Med Care 2003, 41:582-92 Farivar SS, Liu H, Hays RD: Half standard deviation ... GB, Altman H: Cystic fibrosis: A 2002 update J Pediatr 2002, 140:156-164 American Medical Association: Profiles of Adolescent Health Series Chicago, IL: American Medical Association; 1990 Newacheck ... obtained from the patient If the patient was younger than 18 years, informed consent was obtained from the parent or guardian and assent was obtained from the patient The study was approved by the institutional...
... the SF-36 and the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) The German adaptation ofthe Lancashire Quality of Life Profile, a questionnaire designed specifically forthe mental health field, has also been ... Avenida Monforte de Lemos 28029-Madrid, Spain 5Fundación Andaluza para la Atención e Incorporación Social (FADAIS) Avda de Hytasa, edificio Toledo II Plt., 3ª, Ofic Domingo-Salvany et al Health and ... necessary to remember that the cross-sectional nature ofthe study precludes making causal inferences in most ofthe variables The variables that explained most ofthe global NHP score variability...
... survival was the primary end point and defined as the time interval between the date of first patient visit to the hospital and the date of death from any cause or the date of last contact/last ... clinical parameters in nearly all patients; and availability of mature and reliable survival data As is the case for all exploratory retrospective studies, the most important outcome that can be achieved ... health and global QoL) The raw scores are linearly Page of transformed to give standard scores in the range of 0-100 for each ofthe functioning and symptom scales Higher scores in the global and...
... socio-demographic characteristics ofthe adolescents and their parents, the disease-related characteristics ofthe adolescents measured through both the adolescent and parent questionnaire, and the health ... available and the other adolescents The same was true for mean age, gender and educational level The excluded sample contained a higher proportion of adolescents with non-Dutch surnames and of ... conditions and their parents in a sample of 584 pairs About half ofthe pairs agreed on adolescents’ HRQoL Forthe other pairs, statistically significant disagreement in either direction was found...
... Disability and Health Research, Queensland Health, Buranda Plaza, Corner of Ipswich Road and Cornwall Street, Brisbane, Australia, 2School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Biomedical ... the baseline assessment Patient perceived change adjusted for recall bias was calculated by first calculating the recall bias, then adjusting the patient perceived change by the recall bias amount ... investigation Participants and setting This investigation included a sample of 103 participants taking part in larger randomised controlled trial at a tertiary hospital in Brisbane, Australia The larger...
... that particular session Concordance rate between the audiotape and medical record review for that session was 100% Procedures Based on data generated from early stages ofthe formative evaluation, ... described further below Organizational innovation Although investigators have studied the implementation of EBP in health care, only a few have systematically assessed organizational variables that hinder ... state that organizational or environmental factors facilitated their work This finding suggests an interaction between activating and inhibiting variables at the clinician and organizational...
... spiritual and spiritual interaction domains) had a Page of 11 Cronbach’s alpha of 0.707 (fulfilling the Nunnaly’s criterion), an Eigenvalue of 1.987 and 66.3% explanation of variance by a single factor ... characteristics ofthe participants are summarized in Table for both cities A total of 353 respondents [100 stroke patients and 100 apparently healthy adults (AHAs) in Ibadan; and 103 stroke and ... scores are then transformed intoa scale with a maximum score of 100 (best health) each The score for each sphere is generated by averaging the scores ofthe constituent domains [11] Similarly, the...
... Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was applied to the data from the other half ofthe sample to verify the factor structure The goodness -of- fit ofthe model to the data was evaluated using the following ... manuscript AA and LJ made substantial contributions to the interpretation of data VP and GP performed the data analysis and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... scaling information of variables and can only be interpreted with reference to the scales ofthe variables, standardized parameter estimates are transformations of unstandardized estimates that remove...