... with a mean age of 34.3 years, and a slight predominance of women There were no missing responses on any of the CQ7 items in any of the study visits (see Table 2) The majority of respondents (controls ... diagnosis of AR Variables collected at baseline were: age, gender, educational level, time from diagnosis of allergic rhinitis, frequency and duration of nasal symptoms associated with AR, presence of ... Medical Outcomes Study; mCSA: minimum cross-sectional area; TSS: Total Symptom Score Valero et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011, 9:14 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/14 Page of Figure...
... limitation of this new technology The long-term outcomesof Turkish patients treated with the SES vs the PES in real-world practice are not well reported Therefore, we report the 24-month outcomesof ... clinical outcomes compared with the PES; rates of MACE were 9.7% vs 17.8% (P:.04) The superiority of the SES over the PES in clinical outcomes resulted mainly from differences in rates of late ... long-term safety of drug-eluting stents has been questioned.17-19 Despite the results of meta-analyses of randomized studies that refute these concerns,20 the possible association of the stents...
... activity of 370 MBq (10 mCi) in a disk shape (having overall diameter of mm, overall thickness of mm, active diameter of 4.2 mm, beryllium window with thickness of mm) is placed in well of the ... of Science, Mathematics - Physics 26 (2010) 43-49 47 Proccessing of the measured results and drawing of graphs are done by software of Origin The fitted equations and saturation thicknesses of ... having outer diameter of 60 mm, inner diameter of 15 mm, thickness of mm, and aluminum incident window with thickness of 0.3 mm, and a photomultiplier working at high voltage of 1300 V; Am-241 source...
... Analysis One of the criticisms of traditional accounting is that it focuses on short-term financial results like profits and revenues, providing little insight into the success of an enterprise ... Setups/Changeovers Percent of demand/supply on Setup/Changeover costs VMI/CRP Unplanned stockroom issues Percent of customers sharing Bill -of- materials accuracy forecasts Routing accuracy Percent of suppliers ... Percent of sales from new products Time-to-market Percent of products representing 80% of sales Repeat versus new customer sales APICS trained personnel Patents awarded Employee turnover Number of...
... as area, perimeter, moments, of the objects are often of interest, for the tasks of shape analysis, classification, etc • Accurate and precise perimeter estimates of the real objects, based on ... Empirically observed values of εn (k) for straight edges y = kx + m of length l = 1000 for 10 000 values of k and random m, superimposed on the theoretical results Measuring perimeter of a discrete object ... Department of Mathematics Faculty of Engineering University of Novi Sad, Serbia Slopes and difference of column sums Optimization Local computations Rotations of the plane Length estimation Complete...
... irrespective of the type of GPM or the type of BPI D Evaluate influences of individual cognitive differences (i.e., mental workload, cognitive styles, and cognitive abilities) on outcomesof user ... Impacts of the Type of Graphical Process Model 112 3.7.2 Hypothesis Analyses – Impacts of the Type of Business Process Information 112 3.7.3 Hypothesis Analyses – Impacts of the Type of User ... One-way ANOVA of the MBTI Cognitive Styles of the participants in context of the type of GPM (n = 87) 149 Table 4-19 One-way ANOVA of the MBTI Cognitive Styles of the participants...
... further tested by measuring the "known-groups" construct validity The pres- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:75 ence of painful crises ... further study of their possible weaknesses and strengths Therefore, the specific aims of this study are to: i) assess the properties of WHOQOL-BREF in SCD; and ii) compare the properties of the WHOQOL-BREF, ... The main purpose of this paper was to assess the utility of this instrument in patients with SCD living in Jamaica In all of its performance measures, the WHOQOL-Bref has Page of (page number...
... Exp:1 5of 33 Con:21 of 77 Exp:15 of 33 Con:29 of 77 Exp:14 of 80 Exp:17 of 80 Con:12 of 40 Jadad’s grades (year) Exp:18 of 73 Stage III ATC-BCG Con:31 of 109 Exp:16 of 73 [22] ATC Follow up Con:17 of ... Exp:1 6of 44 [23] ATV-NDV Stage I-IV Exp:20 of 44 Con:16 of 25 NO C Exp:1 2of 25 [24] 17-1 [25] Antibody ATC Stage III Con:48 of 76 Con:54 of 76 B Stage I-IV Exp:39 of 90 Con:146 of 257 Exp:50 of ... trials of ASI in suspected minimal residual CRC Ref ASI Stage of patient Overall Survival Disease-free Survival No of events/no of subjects [21] Con:35 of 109 Stage II Con:26 of 44 Con:28 of 44...
... cohort consisted of 414 patients with a mean age of 60.5 years (SD = 9.5 years) The mean duration of diabetes was 6.6 years (SD = 4.4 years) The mean A1C at the point of addition of either SU or ... Thiazolidinedione ‡H/O: history of Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:88 http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/88 Table 2: Description of Patient Clinical ... Management of hyperglycemia in type diabetes: A consensus algorithm for the initiation and adjustment of Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008,...
... demonstrating canal stenosis Absence of significant vascular impairment to the lower extremities, absence of peripheral neuropathy, absence of severe DJD of hips, and absence of cardiopulmonary insufficiency ... back pain) and/or multiple levels of anatomic involvement (+/- degenerative instability) which may have had an affect on surgical outcomes independent of the degree of stenosis The question is an ... aspects of stenosis and may have prognostic importance If these are negative, a realistic picture regarding potential outcomesof surgical intervention should be presented - Table 4: Outcomes...
... group C, those above the age of 85 The type of surgery and post operative care determined by the type of fracture, age, co-morbid medical status and general level of mobility The data was analysed ... total number of people in this group in the general population with a resulting lower number of patients developing a hip fracture Proportionally, majority of patients with neck of femur fractures ... number of patients developing a hip fracture in the elderly A previous meta-analysis of 16 case series has demonstrated that in females between the ages of 50 and 60, and in men over the age of 70,...
... patients with a minimum follow-up of years (11 of the 25 patients) The diagnosis of recurrent, anterior shoulder instability was made on the basis of a history of recurrent anteroinferior dislocation ... surface of the humeral head defect At the 26th Annual Meeting of the Arthroscopy Association of North America, Wolf et al reported on an unpublished study of 24 patients with a minimum of 2-year ... glenoid bone loss (
... patients with a minimum follow-up of years (11 of the 25 patients) The diagnosis of recurrent, anterior shoulder instability was made on the basis of a history of recurrent anteroinferior dislocation ... surface of the humeral head defect At the 26th Annual Meeting of the Arthroscopy Association of North America, Wolf et al reported on an unpublished study of 24 patients with a minimum of 2-year ... glenoid bone loss (
... Johannesburg, South Africa, we evaluated the outcomesof the first four years of activity (> 160,000 person months follow-up) of a South African Department of Health program by comprehensively assessing ... high mobility of the population Generalizability of results may be limited because of the use of data from a single clinic located at a tertiary care hospital, the dominant use of EFZ-containing ... use of time-to-event analysis instead of cross sectional assessment, thus overcoming the limitation of overrepresentation of patients with short follow-up Our analysis also has a number of limitations,...
... therapy had been treated for a median of 7.1 months (IQR 5.9-9.6) A total of 67.4% (60 of 89) of these patients were in HIV clinical stage or 2, with median CD4 count of 292 cells/mm3 (IQR 201-454), ... results were Page of robust to the sensitivity analyses using the alternative definitions of NP failure and success (data not shown) Discussion In this evaluation of nutritional outcomesof HIVinfected ... evidence of the effectiveness of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) for treatment of acute malnutrition in HIV-infected and uninfected children [6,7] However, few data evaluating the effect of RUTF...
... further tested by measuring the "known-groups" construct validity The pres- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:75 ence of painful crises ... further study of their possible weaknesses and strengths Therefore, the specific aims of this study are to: i) assess the properties of WHOQOL-BREF in SCD; and ii) compare the properties of the WHOQOL-BREF, ... The main purpose of this paper was to assess the utility of this instrument in patients with SCD living in Jamaica In all of its performance measures, the WHOQOL-Bref has Page of (page number...
... activity of 370 MBq (10 mCi) in a disk shape (having overall diameter of mm, overall thickness of mm, active diameter of 4.2 mm, beryllium window with thickness of mm) is placed in well of the ... of Science, Mathematics - Physics 26 (2010) 43-49 47 Proccessing of the measured results and drawing of graphs are done by software of Origin The fitted equations and saturation thicknesses of ... having outer diameter of 60 mm, inner diameter of 15 mm, thickness of mm, and aluminum incident window with thickness of 0.3 mm, and a photomultiplier working at high voltage of 1300 V; Am-241 source...
... attrition among their subject population The third set of limitations involves measurement ofoutcomes Although questionnaire-based self-reports ofoutcomes might be considered to be as informative ... longitudinal studies [8,9] Limitations of observational studies 42 One of the biggest criticisms of observational databanks results from potential bias in assignment of treatment by a physician ‘Confounding ... inevitable, and selective attrition of subjects can result in biased (often exaggerated) estimates of drug effectiveness Very few databanks have formally reported the issue of attrition among their subject...