a prospective cohort study

... involved in critically revising the draft JG made substantial contributions to the data analysis GB was substantially involved in the analysis, interpretation and drafting the manuscript Acknowledgements ... physician rounds and adverse drug events in the intensive care unit JAMA 1999, 282:267-270 British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain: British National Formulary ... Pharmacist attendance at ward rounds has been associated with a reduction in adverse events [15] In this study the pharmacist attended the ward round throughout the study No other significant...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39

... greater Amsterdam area Medical, surgical and trauma patients and patients from all pediatric subspecialties are admitted In this study we only wanted to include previously healthy children that ... Normative data from the general Dutch population are available The instruments measure HRQoL on a group level in a reliable and valid way Reliability (Cronbach's alpha) in the general populations ... measure all aspects of QoL Mobility is the only physical aspect that is evaluated and social aspects, family functioning, and well being are not evaluated In a fifth study the Royal Alexandra...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... South Australia, Australia Authors’ contributions AP, VE and RS designed the study, accumulated data, analysed data, drafted manuscript and MH supervised the entire study All authors read and approved ... their fracture regained mobility after internal fixation This value was 38.3% among those who had a replacement arthroplasty (p = 0.028) Hence patients who had internal fixation had a statistically ... approximately equal distribution of intracapsular (48.5%) and extracapsular (51.5%) fractures 79.1% of patients with intracapsular fractures were Page of treated by a hemi or total arthroplasty...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... the National Health Laboratory Service database into the TherapyEdge-HIV database demonstrated high quality of data entry as 98.8% of values matched between the two databases Definitions Patients ... that rapid scale-up of HAART using a public health approach in sub-Saharan Africa, essential to confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic, can be accompanied by high quality care The analysis of 7536 patients ... accuracy of the data analysis Study concept and design: IMS, DW, APM, AVR Acquisition of data: IMS, DR, PM Analysis and interpretation of data: DW, AVR Drafting of the manuscript: DW, AVR Acknowledgements...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Lusaka District Health Management Team in Zambia and facilitated the study conduct and clinic staff availability in Lusaka BV assisted with data collection as the Study Physician in Zambia and ... Kigali and 663 Table Demographic characteristics of antenatal women and couples in Kigali, Rwanda and Lusaka, Zambia (n = 3625) Kigali Lusaka Individuals n = 984 mean (SD) Couples n = 956 mean ... Setting and population The capital cities of Rwanda in east-central Africa and Zambia in south-central Africa were the locations for this study The Rwanda Zambia HIV Research Group (RZHRG) had been...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... chair against other answer categories Step one in the multivariate analysis was a univariate analysis of all variables Any variable that had a P-value of < 0.25 was a candidate for the multivariable ... and TBH planned and performed the study KL made the analysis and KL, TBH, KS and HK all contributed to interpretation of the analysis and preparation of the manuscript All authors have read and ... population norm data are presented we believe that the SF-36 used population norm data is adequate and useful For HHS no normative data exist from Denmark, and we used data from a study from California...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... living arrangements one year after the baseline visit were available for all (Figure 1) The main characteristics of the participants at the baseline evaluation are summarised in Table One hundred and ... cases of about 10-15% It was therefore calculated that with a sample of 239 participants at baseline and about 200 subjects enrolled at a one-year follow-up the study would have obtained an almost ... shopping, Page of 10 preparing meals, housekeeping, doing laundry, taking medications, managing transportation and handling money [36] When any fall and any ED admission were taken as dependent variables,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... impact of blood pressure hemodynamics in acute ischemic stroke: a prospective cohort study Latha Ganti Stead *1,4, Sailaja Enduri1, M Fernanda Bellolio1, Anunaya R Jain1, Lekshmi Vaidyanathan1, ... lstead@ufl.edu; latha.stead@gmail.com SE: sailaja.enduri@ht.msu.edu MFB: bellolio.fernanda@mayo.edu ARJ: rabinstein.alejandro@mayo.edu LV: lekshmi.vaidyanathan@emory.edu RMG: gilmore.rachel@mayo.edu ... characteristics of the cohort are summarized in Table With 58.7% males, the cohort had a mean age of 74 years (SD = 15.0) A study of the TOAST classification of the type of strokes revealed an...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... median intake of each nutrient in each quintile as a continuous variable eAnimal and vegetable protein were adjusted for each other, total iron, and for the same variables adjusted for in all ... multivariate models fTotal iron was adjusted for total protein as well as for the same variables adjusted for in all the multivariate models gDietary and supplemental iron were adjusted for each ... supplemental iron, and heme iron until the date of first symptom of RA, rather than until the date of RA diagnosis We also performed lagged analyses such that the dietary intakes associated with RA cases...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) National Joint Replacement Registry (NJRR) – thus leaving 39,023 participants available for analysis Anthropometric measurements Height, weight, and ... respectively) The authors would especially like to thank data manager Lisa Ingerson and statistician Nicole Pratt from the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry, and Ms ... data, and drafted the manuscript JAS participated in the acquisition of data, helped to perform the statistical analysis, and reviewed the manuscript AEW and AJT helped the interpretation of data,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... Plasma phospholipid fatty acid composition as a biomarker of habitual dietary fat intake in an ethnically diverse cohort Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 2007, 17:415-426 Astrup A: The American paradox: ... a relationship between saturated fatty acid intake and the risk of OA Recently, it has been suggested that atheromatous vascular disease may be important in the progression of OA [16] and that ... incidence of bone marrow lesions Univariate analysis, OR (95% CI) P value Model Multivariate analysis, OR (95% CI )a P value Model Multivariate analysis, OR (95% CI)b P value Saturated fatty acids 1.08...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... were obtained by FACS analysis performed by the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, and plasma HIV viral load were measured by Chiron bDNA assay at the Central Public Health Laboratory ... correlation > 90% and coefficient of variation < 5% for repeat examinations [13,30] Statistical analysis Continuous variables are expressed as mean (standard deviation), while categorical variables ... = mean(standard deviation) Table 1: Baseline characteristics for extent data (n = 257) Table 4: Baseline characteristics of excluded cases (n = 89) Variable Variable Estimate Male* Age (years)#...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... Hospital Universitario Carlos Haya Avenida de Manuel Agustín Heredia, 34, 29001 Málaga Espa a, 3Biochemistry Laboratory Hospital Universitario de Canarias Ofra s/n, La Cuesta 38320 La Laguna Tenerife ... variables are reported as mean and standard deviation, or median and interquartile range as appropriate (intensive care unit length of stay) Nominal variables are reported as frequencies and ... blood samples during the study, statistical analysis, data interpretation, and drafting the manuscript DH: was responsible for the statistical analysis, data interpretation, and drafting the manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... StatsDirect statistical software package All continuous variables were analysed using basic descriptive statistics and univariate analysis was performed to obtain mean, standard deviation and/or confidence ... BV and PK were responsible for study design and data management RP recruited patients, carried out Protein C assays and recorded all clinical data RP and BV did statistical analysis and drafted ... Japanese Association for Acute Medicine Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (JAAM DIC) Study Group: A multicenter, prospective validation of disseminated intravascular coagulation diagnostic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... a a a a a a a a a Generalized SAD -0.22* a a a a a a -0.28* a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Benzodiazepine use 0.23* a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a SPS (total) a a a a a a a a a ... Age: 35 yrs or older a a a a a a 0.41* a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Living situation a a a a -0.32** a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Employment a a a a a a a a a a a a -0.30* a a a ... 0.39* a 0.29* a a a a a a a a a 0.49** a a SIAS (total) SCL-90-R depression a a a a a -0.44** a a a a a a a a a a a a a -0.64** a a a a a a a a a -0.46** a a a a a a a a a a a a -0.32* -0.41* a -0.61**...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... data analysis MTV developed research question and drafted manuscript which has been approved by all authors MP and KA supervised data collection TM performed or supervised all statistical analysis ... screening and enrollment process Of this cohort, analysis was restricted to the patients with quality of life and other co-variables available at one month and one year post-ICU discharge Data was collected ... total days of delirium, and APACHE II score [19] As depicted in Figure 1, our analytical sample was a fraction of the original cohort and subject to several causes of missingness not plausibly assumed...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... (no handicap) When a patient could not answer, the NPH score was not evaluated Statistical Analysis Quantitative variables were expressed as means ± standard deviation or as the median associated ... sequentially reassessed at Day and Day The duration of mechanical ventilation, the ICU and hospital length of stay, decision to activate care withdrawal and the discharge destination, were also recorded ... JL, Clarke C, Martin J, Solomon PJ: Mortality and cost outcomes of elderly trauma patients admitted to intensive care and the general wards of an Australian tertiary referral hospital Anaesth...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... King Fahad National Guard Hospital is a 550-bed tertiary care teaching centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia It is a transplant centre, and it therefore receives a large number of referrals of patients ... sepsis and septic shock, then they will have the advantage of being readily available and easily incorporated into general ICU databases without additional data collection Customized versions of SAPS ... Continuous variables were expressed as means ± standard deviation and were compared using standard t-test Categorical values were expressed in absolute and relative frequencies, and were analyzed...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... The hallmark of sepsis is increased capillary permeability, which manifests in the lungs as altered alveolar–capillary barrier function and is characterized by accumulation of extravascular lung ... score are initial values calculated from study day Values are expressed as means ± standard deviation or as median (interquartile range) ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome with chest radiography, ... greater in ARDS patients with chronic alcohol abuse (P = 0.03) Using a repeated measures ANOVA, chronic alcohol abuse was associated with higher EVLW over the 7-day study duration among all patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21