Báo cáo y học: "The assessment of quality of life in acute cough with the Leicester" pot

... Validity The s uitability of the wording and content of the LCQ for detecting health related QOL in patients with acute cough was assessed by: a. A literature review of QOL assessment in acute cough. b. ... Access The assessment of quality of life in acute cough with the Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ -acute) Nadia Yousaf 1 , Kai K Lee...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... easier. In our study only 10.7% of participants withdrew from the study: this surprisingly positive finding may be explained in terms of perceived quality of care related to the offering of custom-made ... inactivity secondary to treatment. The reduction in cardiopulmonary capacity may lead to reductions in quality of life [25, 26]. Research has provided p...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 16:23

... that blockade of these cytokines did not fully control arthritis in all patients. Our study demonstrated the potency of cytokine combination at low concentrations. Accordingly, combination therapy acting ... directly or by acting on their upstream kinases may have an increased effect when compared with a single cytokine inhibition. Conclusion These findings indicate that interaction...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... Barofsky I., 2003. Patients’ rights, quality of life, and health care system performance. Quality of Life Research. 10. Baker DC: Studies of inner life: The impact of spirituality on quality of life. ... question of how meaning- ful their life is. In the qualitative interviews most said they suffered greatly from boredom and unhappiness as they had no possibilit...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... venti- latory support exceeding six hours using either invasive Figure 1 Flow-chart of study population for quality of life and cost-utility evaluation. ARF, acute respiratory failure; QALY, quality- adjusted ... dif- ferences in cost per QALY with increasing age and dis- ease severity. Our finding is in parallel with the study by Hamel and colleagues in patients wit...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... Inhalation injury was defined by the follow- ing: history of burn occurring in an enclosed space; singe- ing of facial hair; soot in the oral pharynx; inflammation of the lower airway on fiberoptic ... which clinical factors at the time of injury would predict in- hos- pital mortality. The second objective was to determine their health related quality of life (HR-...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:21

... neurotoxic syndromes. This author recommends the immediate withdrawal of the offending agent and the administration of benzodiazepines in the early stages in both these syndromes. Further studies, ... by other authors, has an inherent bias. The major limitation of this study stems from the lack of detailed information provided regarding the SS clinical symptoms, sinc...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... indicate that intracellular GLUT4 remained preferentially in vesicle storage without being translocated into the sarcolemma. The preliminary findings of this investigation, as they relate to ... training in diabetic patients. Based on our findings, the co-localization of hSGLT3 with the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in skeletal muscle at baseline prior to any exe...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:08

... several cytokines, with the cytokine profile dependent on the nature of the immune response. They also produce a panel of chemokines that may attract inflammatory cells within damaged epithelium ... populations of these cells are known to be involved in the initiation of acute inflammatory responses and in the persistence of chronic inflammation in several skin d...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... exert many of its action through interaction with a specific intracel- lular receptor. At the molecular level, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 inhibits the accumulation of mRNA for interleukin (IL)-2, inter- feron ... manifestations or laboratory profiles. In our study, the BB genotype is low in both 194 healthy controls and 101 patients with SLE. However, this is in accordance...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20