báo cáo hóa học:" Health status in routine clinical practice: validity of the clinical COPD questionnaire at the individual patient level" potx

... article as: Kocks et al.: Health status in routine clinical practice: validity of the clinical COPD questionnaire at the individual patie nt level. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:135. Submit ... new method, using patient interviews, to validate a short health status questionnaire, the Clinical COPD Questionnaire (CCQ), at the i...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... education, employment status and the number of persons living in the house- hold. About 20% of the individuals had missing values in any of the summands. Missing data were imputed by means of conditional ... mean of the general population norm, indicat- ing markedly impaired physical health status, the mean MCS score was similar to the general population norm,...

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... - timated the effects of AT and PRT on health status. The sustained effect of exercise on health status over time and the combined effect of aerobic and resistance exer- cise on health status ... contributed to the study design. H-LW contributed to the interpretation of the data and the editing of the manuscript. All the authors read and approved the...

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... generation is involved in epidermal growth factor receptor transactivation through the transient oxidization of Src homology 2-containing tyrosine phosphatase in endothelin-1 signaling pathway ... (Figures 6A and 6B). These data further indicate that NSC-741909-induced generation of ROS may con- tribute to the sustained activation of JNK in oncrasin- sensitive cells, which...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... should be tested in larger samples in the future. Taking into account the study limitations, we never- theless believe that our findings indicate that the Spanish version of the CQ7 questionnaire ... 7 points would optimize sensitivity and specificity [3]. The similarity of the results adds to therobustnessofourfindingsastheyareindicativeof an instrument that works consi...

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... sprouting. In the developing human brain, migrating pericytes are found in front of growing ves- sels and pericyte-driven angiogenesis participates in the organization of growing vessels [58]. Another ... vasodilation. The thickness of the vSMC layer dif- fers according to the size of the vessels. In the brain, pial arteries invade the brain parenchyma and redu...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... sequence in H. Then the sequence {x n } converges weakly to a minimizer of f. Proof. We can obtain the desired result readily from the proof of Theorems 3.5 and 4.1. 18 Fixed Point Theory and Applications mappings,” ... Point Theory and Applications exactly is either impossible or has the same difficulty as the original problem 1.1. Therefore, one of t he most interesting an...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... of the probability of going from state s to state s  , the probability that the HMM outputs the symbol e when being in state s, and the probability that the initial state of the HMM is s, respectively. ... coding of the source S 1 . The joint decoder uses an iterative scheme where the unknown parameters of the correlation model are estimated jointly within...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... changes. Introduction Health status questionnaires are increasingly used in med- ical research and clinical practice. They are attractive because they provide a self-report of patients' perceived health status. ... management of the patient [2,3]. As a yardstick for clinical relevance one is interested in the minimally important change (MIC) of health status...

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