Báo cáo y học: " Health status measurement in COPD: the minimal clinically important difference of the clinical COPD questionnaire" ppt

... Research Open Access Research Health status measurement in COPD: the minimal clinically important difference of the clinical COPD questionnaire JWH Kocks 1 , MG Tuinenga 1 , SM Uil 2 , JWK van ... what is the minimal clinically important difference (MCID). This study aimed to identify the MCID for the clinical COPD questionnaire (CCQ) in terms...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... management of these tumors; this method is highly sensitive in its diagnostic efficacy. The cytologic findings in FNABs of ACCs are usually characterized by acinar differentiated tumor cells and by certain cytoarchitectural ... he participated in the editing of the article and in reviewing the literature. AAO was involved in data collection, literature review, and in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... conducted 7 years later. We excluded those who complained of depr essive symptoms in the baseline survey and analyzed data for the remaining 9,201 individuals. In the second-wave survey, the DSM-1 ... Psychiatry 1989, 146:220-225. 7. Kennedy GJ, Kelman HR, Thomas C: The emergence of depressive symptoms in late life: the importance of declining health and increasing d...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... physiological functioning, in this studyweonlyevaluatedthetensub-domainsofthe main domains Symptoms, Functional Impairment, and Quality of Life. See Table 1 for definitions of the sub- domains ... aspects of health status are not covered by the SGRQ. The sections of the SGRQ correlated significantly with most sub-domains of the NIAF, indicating that the SGRQ was re...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... known about factors that determine heal th status decline in clinical trials of COPD. Objectives: To examine health status changes over 3 years in the TORCH study of salmeterol+fluticasone propionate ... about the effe ct of therapy on the SGRQ domains, and an analysis of demographic and disease- related factors that may influence long-term changes in health s...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... history can be obtained by asking the indi- vidual “how many times do you laugh during your regular day?” and have the individual rate their level on a scale of one to ten. Furthermore, other ... completing the survey participants were given a briefing about the study. Any incomplete surveys of the relevant infor- mation were discarded. Survey The survey consisted of th...

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... were Asian and their mean age at the start of the study was 7.25 ± 0.92 years. Eight of them had obtained a clinical response to conventional therapy. Clinical response was defined as the absence of fever ... rise in serum albumin levels in these patients (data not shown). Identification of the other peaks is currently being investigated and may yield novel information...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... antibody synthesis to the pathogenesis of RA, their applicability in interventional biopsy-based clinical tri- als is limited. Synovial tissues obtained by arthroscopy or nee- dle biopsy typically ... 1a), sug- gesting that there were no intrinsic differences in antibody detectability between the two types of synovia. The large vari- ability observed in autoantibody concentr...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:21

... paraesthesiae (numbness, tingling) and pain in the hand distribution of the median nerve, more often occurring during night or in early morning waking up the patients. There may be also sensory loss ... actions by reducing inflammation, swelling and apoptosis, thereby increasing the survival of neurons, and by promoting the formation of new myelin sheaths [27]. Progesteron...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... monosomy (Turner syndrome) lead to premature ovarian failure by causing aberrations in pairing or X inactivation during folliculogenesis [2] rather than interrupting specific genes that are important ... important in ovarian development. The most common Robertsonian translocations appar- ently have the same breakpoints and arise mainly during oogenesis, predominantly during meiosi...

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