báo cáo hóa học: " Validation of a core outcome measure for palliative care in Africa: the APCA African Palliative Outcome Scale" pptx

... RESEARC H Open Access Validation of a core outcome measure for palliative care in Africa: the APCA African Palliative Outcome Scale Richard Harding 1* , Lucy Selman 1 , Godfrey Agupio 2 , Natalya ... s- rand, the Ugandan National Coun cil for Science and Technology, Hospice Africa Uganda and the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa....

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... among providers in today's healthcare marketplace has elevated the importance of patients' assessments of the quality of their healthcare [19]. Patient satisfaction measures have been studied for ... of treating anemia in cancer patients, there is no assessment tool for evaluating cancer patients' satisfaction with anemia treatment. Defined as a patient-re...

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... development/pre -validation studies. Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and assay validation plans with acceptance criteria are followed in validation studies to further assess assay performance characteristics. ... cytometry assay, IFNγ real-time RT- PCR, and INFγ ELISPOT met validation criteria. Validation approaches provide a guide for others in the field to validate th...

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... individuals where assessed using the internalization assay. The assay varia- bility in the placebo data is 15.5% over the 113 days of sampling (day-3 time point included for a total of 528 samples) ... cytometry-based pharmacodynamic assays. Here we report the validation of a flow cytometry-based chemokine internalization assay for use in evaluating the effect...

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... studied, and the linguistic and health value orientations of the population sampled. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, there are no gold stand- ards for identifying, classifying, or assessing acute ... indicate the last actual data point within 1.5 (IQR) from the 25%ile and 75%ile. The symbols above and below these lines are actual outlying data points. Health and Quality...

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... statisti- cal software (version 16.0) (SPSS Inc., Chicago) was used for data analysis and the significant level was set up at p < 0.05. An intra-class correlation (ICC) approach was used to examine the ... embarrassment and somatic discomforts, including interference with vision, eye irritation, tearing, difficulty in reading and driving, dysarthria, facial paresthesia, hearing of...

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... with us in the validation of the French version of the scale. In addition, the authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for this ... and clinic-based samples. In all cases the mean scores of the clinic-based sample were higher than those of the com- munity-based sample. Multi-linear reg...

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... and interpretation of data, and has been involved in drafting the manuscript; JMQ and AE have participated in the conception, design and coordination of the study, have helped to draft the manuscript ... The Bland-Altman plot shows the difference in the WOMAC long and short pain scales plotted against the mean value of these two scales. The three horizontal lines...

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... consisted of: i) the examination clinics of the Dental Schools of Athens and Thessaloniki ii) dental clinics of the Social Insurance Fund of Greece (IKA) in Athens and Thessaloniki and iii) a selected ... examining the relationship among the OHIP-14 total score and each domain score with self-assessment of oral satisfaction. According to Table 7, in which the...

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... from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health. NCCAM also supported a randomized trial that was run concurrently with and shared ... indicate the last actual data point within 1.5 (IQR) from the 25%ile and 75%ile. The symbols above and below these lines are actual outlying data points. Health and Quality...

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