... applied forand managed. Number of days delinquent % Up to 30 days 5 30 days and less than 60 days 20 60 days and less than 90 days 40 90 days and less than 120 days 60 120 days and less ... (group savings with credit) and ENOWID (group and individual savings with credit) (Chord 2000). G. Informal Finance Moneylenders By the mid-1960s, moneylending had become more of a part-time ... both individual and group savings accounts are used as collateral, the individual account includes the member’s additional personal savings. Loan repayments are made by individuals but handled...
... health- related qualityoflife instrument: A sum-mary. Healthandqualityoflife outcomes 2004, 2(1):3.22. Dixon T, Lim LL, Oldridge NB: The MacNew heart disease health- related qualityoflife instrument: ... socio-demographic and clinical variables for all responders and non-responders are given in Table 1. Reasons for notreturning the questionnaires included death (14.7%),incorrect address (5.2%), and unknown ... and RM designed the study protocol.MW, AG, MK, HL, CM and HS organized and carried outthe original study. All authors read and approved the finalmanuscript.Additional materialAcknowledgementsThe...
... are employees of PfizerInc.Authors' contributionsPvK, CK, KC, ZK, MB, and JTW participated in the concept and design, interpretation of data, and the drafting and revising of the manuscript. ... age.Antimuscarinics, such as tolterodine, are first-line treat-ments for OAB and have proven efficacy and tolerability[6].Bladder diaries are traditionally used to quantify OABsymptoms and provide information ... providedetailed and multidimensional information concerningpatient outcome or condition that is not captured by a sin-gle-item measure. The choice of questionnaires adminis-tered in clinical...
... participated in the design of the study,collected data, advised on the statistical analyses, and helped to interpret the data; JGJH drafted a preliminaryversion of the manuscript and performed data analyses;PJR ... characteristics and self-reported co-existing conditions which predict arelatively rapid deterioration in health- related QOL.MethodsDesignSecondary analyses were performed on data from a non-randomized ... multimorbidity and health- related qualityoflifeof patients in primary care. Qual Life Res2006, 15:83-91.5. Fortin M, Lapointe L, Hudon C, Vanasse A, Ntetu AL, Maltais D: Mul-timorbidity and quality...
... collection and analysis, and draft-ed the manuscript. HF participated in the design and co-ordination of the study, and has read, approved and contributed to the final manuscript.AcknowledgementsWe ... IPPV days Mean values for age and SAPS II and median values for *LOS and **IPPV days (hours/24). Comparison of medical and surgical ICU patients, andof ICU patients with increasing and patients ... 25. Eddleston JM, White P and Guthrie E Survival, morbidity, and qualityoflife after discharge from intensive care Crit Care Med2000, 28:2293-229926. Ridley SA and Wallace PG Qualityof life...
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... agreement regard-ing the content of the interviews. In addition, the validitycheck offered each individual an opportunity to considerthe observed interview material and add any informationthey ... these individuals and the life domains theyreported were affected. As described in the introductionthe domains, which appear in the majority of HRQoLmeasures that have been applied in schizophrenia ... not detailed as problematic for thisgroup: health, religion, safety and objective living condi-tions alongside many of the somatic domains detailed in the introduction. Many of the domains in...
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