... instrumental, emotional, and informational support, members of both the formal and informal support networks form a convoy of social support for elderly people withchronicillness Existing community-based ... collaboration of formal and informal support network s In my view, a supportive social environment can be created for the chronically ill elderly through both formal and informal social support systems ... social support through the collaboration of formal and informal support networks Fostering a holistic and continuous care approach In Hong Kong, efforts have been made to provide a supportive social...
... concept in chronicdisease management, is of increasing interest for the assessment and management of patientswithchronic diseases First, measurement of self-efficacy is helpful for planning ... responsiveness of the Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire, St Georges Respiratory Questionnaire and four other health-related quality of life instruments forpatientswithchronic lung disease Respir ... included forpatientswith heart failure The 25 papers covered 23 different self-efficacy instruments For three instruments, different versions were developed: for the Self-Efficacy Score for Diabetes...
... used patientswith "average disease severity" as the reference group For continuous variables, such as age in years or scale scores, the odds ratio for a particular category, as well as for between-category ... reflecting working for pay or being retired (vs no substantial history of labor force participation) Subjective income was measured by a set of two dummy variables: comfortable income or not enough ... "somewhat better" for 385 (22.7%), "about average" for 684 (40.3%), "somewhat worse" for 400 (23.6%), and "much worse" for 121 (7.1%) Notably, there was a strong association between disease severity...
... concept in chronicdisease management, is of increasing interest for the assessment and management of patientswithchronic diseases First, measurement of self-efficacy is helpful for planning ... responsiveness of the Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire, St Georges Respiratory Questionnaire and four other health-related quality of life instruments forpatientswithchronic lung disease Respir ... included forpatientswith heart failure The 25 papers covered 23 different self-efficacy instruments For three instruments, different versions were developed: for the Self-Efficacy Score for Diabetes...
... materials for the professionals and patients There is a recommended protocol for multidisciplinary management and a template for clinical care presented as a guiding registration form Furthermore, ... Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease: a cross-sectional study Public Health 2005, 119:105-111 Van Lieshout J, Wensing M, Grol R: Improvement of primary care forpatientswithchronic heart ... registration form will have baseline data on treatment issues This also will allow for within group analyses, giving information about the effectiveness of both implementation strategies separately Unfortunately,...
... depicted recording is 1-min and 37-sec Table provides performance summaries for the LS system to detect cough during for night vs day and for low and high respiration rates, respectively Patients ... of respiratory rate for SN, SP, PPV, NPV; ‡ p-value = 0.004 for day vs night comparisons of respiratory rate for ACC Day period defined as 0600–1800; Night period defined as 1800–0600 Patients ... All values are for LS system compared to video documentation of cough events; * p-value < 0.0001 for night vs day comparisons of period for SN, SP, NPV and ACC; ¶p-value < 0.0001 for night vs day...
... impact on correlation coefficients line importance to patients whereas the majority of patients perceived a benefit for depressive symptoms For any treatment of depression and anxiety in diseases ... encountered in patientswithchronic disease. [26,27] A change of 1.5 points corresponds approximately to a 20% change from these baseline scores In patientswith substantially lower or higher scores, ... anxiety (for example "I feel tense and irritable") Response options for each question range from to and ask patients about their agreement with the statements or how often they apply (for example...
... respectively, and 0.93 for the total score of the SGRQ With regard to HADS, Cronbach's alpha was 0.85 for anxiety and 0.84 for depression Cronbach's alpha ranged from 0.77 to 0.90 for SF-36 subscales ... function tests Spirometry was performed with a Vitalograph Alpha spirometer, according to international guidelines [15] Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC) ... [1] COPD is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide Many people suffer from this diseasefor years and die from it or its complications [1] Hoogendoorn et al [2] estimated...
... in patientswith ECF In general, patientswith inflammatory bowel disease represent a high-risk group for the formation of ECF, as a result of both the process of their disease and the need for ... fistulas, with a safety profile consistent with previous studies on patientswith active CD [8] Adalimumab is also a well-tolerated treatment for CD in patients who are infliximab naive and for those ... closure in approximately twothirds of patients and has now become the cornerstone of medical therapy for FCD [2] However, some patientswith FCD are refractory or intolerant to this agent Recently,...
... incubated with mouse anti-human CD8 (Ced) for 10 and following with biotinylated rabbit anti-mouse IgG (Dako) for 10 Then the sections were incubated with streptavidin-HRP for and visualized with ... that biopsies from patientswithchronic bronchitis have more inflammation compared to patientswith COPD but without chorionic bronchitis This group of patients might have more IL-17 expression ... Respiratory Medication SABD 13 - LABD - ICS - Combination (LABD+ICS) - Theophylline - with the universal blocking solution (Dako) for 30 The sections for double labeling with IL-17A or IL-17F...
... maximum trough FEV effect, compared with 66% for indacaterol 37.5 μg, 79% for indacaterol 75 μg, 89% for indacaterol 150 μg, 94% for indacaterol 300 μg and 97% for indacaterol 600 μg Unlike the ... dose response for trough FEV1 at steady state in the study-level analysis with comparators horizontal dashed lines correspond to mean trough FEV1 responses for each of the comparators included ... index for patient and j for study day (14 or 15), E is the response to placebo, and E0i and E mi are random effects to account for inter-patient variation in response NLME models are often used for...
... perform all the analysis for each patient and therefore the cell stimulation experiments were performed only with a small group of them Indeed, performing all the experiments with the cells of the ... from COPD patients, either when clinically stable or during an exacerbation of the disease, as compared to never smokers or smokers with normal lung function Furthermore, upon stimulation with agonist ... stimulated with µg/ml of peptydoglycan (PGN) and supernatants were analyzed for TNFα(panel A) or IL-6 (panel B) Monocytes were stimulated with 100 ng/ml of LPS and supernatants were analyzed for TNFα(panel...
... Not stated * or equivalent; ATS: American Thoracic Society; ERS: European Respiratory Society; FEV1, forced expiratory volume in one second; FVC, forced vital capacity; OCS: oral corticosteroids; ... Initiative forChronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD): Global strategy for the diagnosis, management and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease NHLBI/WHO workshop report In Publication ... one exacerbation per year for the previous years Studies reported by Mahler, Hanania, Calverley and Boyd [10-12,14] included a requirement for cough and phlegm foror more months a year during...
... Figure 2) Therefore, ATB may be an early stage of IPA, and may exist either before orwith IPA For CORD patients, corticosteroids treatment is considered to be an important risk factor for IBPA Page ... our study, a median of three or more antibiotics for 10 days may have been a risk factor for IBPA for the critically ill CORD patients before their ICU admissions CORD patients are not immunocompromised, ... obtained for this study In the IBPA group, 13 patients had a length of ICU stay of more than day, 12 patientsfor more than days, and patientsfor more than days, respectively In the nonIBPA patients, ...
... Restrepo A, Ruhnke M, Segal BH, Sobel JD, Sorrell TC, Viscoli C, Wingard JR, et al.: Revised definitions of invasive fungal disease from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive ... Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) Consensus Group Clin Infect Dis 2008, 46:1813-1821 Bulpa P, Dive A, Sibille Y: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patientswithchronic obstructive ... obstructive pulmonary disease Eur Respir J 2007, 30:782-800 Guinea J, Torres-Narbona M, Gijón P, Muñoz P, Pozo F, Peláez T, de Miguel J, Bouza E: Pulmonary aspergillosis in patientswithchronic obstructive...
... Global Initiative forChronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) (2) This classification forms the basis for the Disease Management Program in Denmark as the patients are stratified for treatment and ... Participation Core-Set forpatientswithchronic pulmonary disease Figures Three levels of selecting participants for RCTs on rehabilitation COPD disease management program at Horsens Regional ... Characteristics of the patients were described using means with 95% confidence interval for normal distributed continuous variables and proportions for categorical variables Analysis were performed comparing...
... patientswith a high pain score (visual analog scale [VAS] score of greater than 40; ᭝) compared with healthy controls (❍) and with OA patientswith a low pain score (VAS score of less than or ... Fritsch E, Maniatis T: Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 1989 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Arthritis Research & ... expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean Comparisons of two groups were made using the Mann-Whitney U test for unpaired data and the Wilcoxon test for paired data For comparison of three different...
... an organizational level to improve delivery of care and outcomes forpatientswithchronicdisease has grown However, these care models and organizational strategies have not met with uniform ... characteristics associated with intervention effectiveness for CHF were compared with those previously reported for diabetes [22] Results Systematic review of organizational interventions for CHF Our search ... practice guidelines? A framework for improvement JAMA 1999, 282(15):1458-65 Bodenheimer T, Wagner EH, Grumbach K: Improving primary care forpatientswithchronic illness: the chronic care model, part...
... laboratory results were only recorded for a minority of patients Fasting, and if not possible nonfasting, blood samples were used in the study and normal ranges were defined by the laboratory ... of cardiovascular risk factors at baseline (for the group as a whole and for completers) and at the final (one year) consultation are shown in Table Results for laboratory tests completed on approximately ... that patients had an existing relationship with practitioners This is a population with extremely poor self esteem, therefore, discussing, and potentially being criticized for lifestyle behaviors...
... numbers are reported in this article and more patients need to be included for further study, one certain clue, which can be provided to clinical doctors, is that some patientswith HBeAg-positive ... either pegasys monotherapy or sequential therapy with pegasys and baraclude is efficacious and relatively safe for treating patientswith CHB Competing interests The authors declare that they have ... occurred in the patients treated with either pegasys monotherapy (the longest period of treatment was 40 weeks, the shortest period of treatment was 20 weeks) or sequential therapy with pegasys...