Báo cáo y học: "Health status in COPD cannot be measured by the St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire alone: an evaluation of the underlying concepts of this questionnaire" ppt

... Access Health status in COPD cannot be measured by the St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire alone: an evaluation of the underlying concepts of this questionnaire Leonie Daudey 1,2* , Jeannette B ... for definitions of the sub- domains and corresponding instruments. Statistical Analyses The relationships between the sections of the SGRQ...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... ct of therapy on the SGRQ domains, and an analysis of demographic and disease- related factors that may influence long-term changes in health status. Methods Details of the TORCH study design and ... Health status in the TORCH study of COPD: treatment efficacy and other determinants of change. Respiratory Research 2011 12:71. Submit your next manuscript to BioMed...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... number of patients in this preliminary study may be a limitation in that we may have coincidentally recorded 10 FM patients with a type-B response to occlusion of the blood flow. Further studies ... changes in FM support the hypothesis of increased sympathetic activity, and hence a functional hyperexcitability of the sympathetic nervous system [4]. Conclusion We have s...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... radio- graphicdamagescoredbytheSvdHmethodat5and 10 years [7]. We did not attempt to study the implication of late DXR-BMDlossinthisstudy,sinceweaimedtofind early predictors of outcome. On the other hand, the clinical ... However, in the Larsen scoring system, as in the SvdH scoring system, the feet do not have the same number o f joints as the hands, thus giving a c ei...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... 4). The SEM has not been used in many studies for establish- ing the MCID of PRO questionnaires. For the CRQ, one- SEM appears to be closely related to the MCID of the CRQ[15]. In this study the ... (GRC change +1) and most (GRC change +6 to +7) clinical improvement was of little importance in the setting of the present analysis, as the change in health...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... were within the limits of the MCID of the scor es of the treat- ing clinician in 62% and the mean score of the reviewing clinicians in 63%. The proportion of cases within the MCID of 0.4 (CP 0.4 ) between ... interest regarding this manuscript. None of the authors have any financial interests with any commercial entity that has interest in the subject...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... involved in data analysis and interpretation of the results, in addition to writing the manuscript. YS and SS established the concept and design of the Komo-Ise cohort study and carried out the ... 6 of 10 activities significantly increase the risk of depression [6-8]. Other studies using a diagnostic evaluation based on the diagnostic criteria of the Diagnosti...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... trust in physi- cians and wanted to supervise the surgery on their leader. I pretended to be angry and demanded that they leave the hospital. In response, they pointed their guns at me saying me ... around 19,300 in 1991 to 11,857 in 1996 [10]. By the end of the war in the south-west part of the country, the number of local physicians and nurses had decreased...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:21

... Coincidence of pro- and anti -in ammatory responses in the early phase of severe sepsis: longitudinal study of mononuclear histocompatibility leukocyte antigen-DR expression, procalcitonin, ... severe sepsis and septic shock, the number of signifi cant diff erences in terms of the number of circulating NK cells, CD4 + T lymphocytes, CD8 + T lymphocytes, and B lymph...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... participated in the design of the study, performed the statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript. AP helped to draft the manuscript. BDJ participated in the design of the study and helped ... circulating concentrations of insulin-like growth factors-I and -II, alterations in insulin-like growth factor binding proteins, and induction of an insulin-li...

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