assessment of the pediatric surgical patient

... Mod (0–9% of the time) (10–39% of the time) (40–69% of the time) Max (>70% of the time) Eye squeeze None Min Mod (0–9% of the time) (10–39% of the time) (40–69% of the time) Max (>70% of the time) ... impact the assessment will be the age of the child, the family dynamics, the nature of the child’s illness, the setting in which the assessment takes place, and input from other member of the multidisciplinary ... the reticular activating system of the brainstem, just above the midbrain The assessment of consciousness is closely tied to the assessment of eye findings because of the anatomic proximity of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 22:20

... involved in patient safety We adopted a national perspective, the goal of which was to assess the progress of the AHRQ initiative and the activities of other federal agencies in the context of the larger ... other mechanisms used by AHRQ to strengthen patient safety practices Assessment of dissemination of new knowledge to stakeholders in the field Assessment of progress in adoption of effective patient ... standards of practice Recent Events Two major events during 2003–2004 either have altered the scope of the patient safety initiative or were expected to so One of these was the shift in focus of patient...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... engaged As the innovation matures, adoption then levels off After five years of the patient safety initiative, the United States stands at the threshold of the upward moving portion of the curve ... other mechanisms used by AHRQ to strengthen patient safety practices Assessment of dissemination of new knowledge to stakeholders in the field Assessment of progress in adoption of effective patient ... adoption of effective practices Chapter presents the results of the product evaluation, including our assessment of effects of the patient safety initiative on patient outcomes and other stakeholders...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... CFS Their training included assessing the activity pattern of the patient with the API During the second visit (diagnostic test session) patients completed the IPAQ and the CFS-AQ Additionally they ... table show the area under the curve (representing the validity) for the CFS-AQ, the IPAQ and the API As can be seen, the validity of the API (0.643) was somewhat smaller than that of the two questionnaires ... with a daily registration by the patient of physical activity Another option could be to include the opinion of a direct partner of the patients in the reporting of daily activities naires Secondly,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... dimensionality of the HADS and the behaviour of individual items The results of the current study generally provide support for the bi-dimensionality of the HADS, however the content of the factors ... undertaken to assess the structure of the HADS in the rehabilitation context, and to evaluate its psychometric properties The aim of this study therefore was to assess the suitability of the HADS as a ... on the findings of their study they propose that the assessment and identification of patients with high levels of anxiety and depression should be given high priority, particularly given their...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... in the decisions throughout the process of development and finalisation of the questionnaire They gave their approval at each of the milestones of the development and finalisation process The ... evaluation of the burden of the dry eye condition on patients The assumption about the pre-defined structure of the IDEEL as distinct modules and the lack of data from PCA and Multi-trait analyses on the ... Development and validation of the Impact of Dry Eye on Everyday Life (IDEEL) questionnaire, a patient- reported outcomes (PRO) measure for the assessment of the burden of dry eye on patients Linda Abetz*1,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... second hypothesis, we found an effect of subjects' degree of presence experienced in the VR condition on their level of perceived anxiety (STAI-S and VASA): the higher the sense of presence, the higher ... the room and to stand in front of the six plates covered by the red lids (the same used in the real food (RF) and photograph (PH) conditions) indicated by the yellow arrow on the right side of ... divided the ED samples (AN and BN) into quartiles and selected the first (25% with the lowest scores on the ITC-SOPI) and the fourth (25% with the highest scores) A simple effect of the degree of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... (1.7) Other Asian (1.5) (1.3) Half of the observed relapses occurred during the first months of the study The cumulative probability of relapse was 10.6% (95% CI: 8.2% to 13.6%) by the end of the ... of the follow-up period, the patient withdrew from the study, or the patient was lost to follow-up An exploratory analysis was conducted to evaluate the impact of RLAT discontinuation among patients ... if they deemed it necessary for their patients After enrollment, however, specific clinical interventions were not mandated other than the initiation of RLAT at the beginning of the study; therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... class R, 50%; class I, 66.6%; and class F, 72%; P < 0.0001) The majority of patients (95%) died in the ICU within the first month of hospitalization Multivariate regression analysis, including ... defined by means of the RIFLE criteria, is common among critically ill HIV-infected patients, and RIFLE seems a helpful tool in the prognostic stratification of ICU HIV-infected patients Authors’ ... approval of the version to be published Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests References Bellomo R, Ronco C, Kellum JA, Mehta, RL, Palevsky P and the ADQI...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... % of patients, out of 1,000 endured severe adverse events, and out of 10,000 died [2] There is no ideal gold standard for the assessment of liver histology Even liver biopsy is dependant on the ... expressed as multiples of the ULN (ULN units), variations in the definition of normal may have important practical consequences Results The main characteristics of the included patients are outlined ... Online assessment is available using the website http://www.biopredictive.com To guarantee the quality of this assessment, it was necessary to identify the factors associated with the variability of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... diagnosis of critically ill patients varied (Table 2) The majority of patients received at least one invasive procedure in the ED (Table 3) Of the 178 patients, 125 patients (125,178, 70.2%) required ... patients (31.5%) Only 17.9% (10/56) of patients who had a CVC inserted had this procedure performed in the ED The majority of patients requiring a central venous catheter (30/56, 53.6%) had the ... discharge The critical care procedures recorded During the study period, 68,765 patients presented to the ED and 178 patients met inclusion criteria (ICU admission rate 0.26%) The median age of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... all are there Another type of decision is one in which people are unsure of the importance of their criteria In this case to sharpen their knowledge of the criteria a wide selection of alternatives ... dependence of the priority of elements on the priority and number of other elements The principle of comparative judgments is applied to construct pair-wise comparisons of the relative importance of ... preparation of questionnaire, pre-testing of questionnaire for the confirmation and interpretation of the factors and then processing of the completed questionnaire and reporting The second part of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 10:29

... column to keep the moisture content inside the column uniform while water was sprinkled over the top of the medium until the outflow from the bottom of the column equaled the volume of the water input ... differences in the values of the distribution coefficient of two soils Given the fact that the distribution coefficient depends on the specific surface of the medium, Andisols provide the diversity of transport ... To compare the change of BTCs in the same flow condition of Reynolds number, the variation of first and second temporal moments as a function of the mixture ratio of - 358 - Journal of Water and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... arrays the factors into several levels in decreasing order in terms of their subordinate relationship, establishes the relationship of the factors of different levels, compares the importance of the ... increase the temperature of the biogas digester due to the presence of abundant solar energy in these two areas But the construction of a solar greenhouse enlarges the capital input Therefore, ... Table We applied the index system, index weight and the evaluation formula proposed above to evaluate the household biogas resources of each of the six areas The evaluation value of the indices was...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... high density of terminology Therefore, the focus of the comparison will be on (1) the translation of the topic and (2) how the translators handle the translation of different groups of terminology ... consists of transferring the meaning of the source language into the receptor language This is done by going from the form of the first language to the form of a second language by way of semantic ... II analyzes the source language text with focus on the pragmatic accuracy, or in other word the accuracy of meaning in context, of the US F& A application software The emphasis of the analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06

... placed on the capacity, reliability and the routing of the HVDC transmission facilities The effect of the grid on out of Northern Manitoba the system reliabilities for the other years and the sensitivity ... the possible Southern assistance from the Northern system to the South to 3668 MW which is the maximum capacity of the tie The load carrying capability of the Manitoba system obtained using the ... tie the Saskatchewan and Manitoba systems The between the Northern and Southern Manitoba HVDC systems constrains the LCC of the Manitoba system the whereas the grid tap at Saskatoon limits the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:36

... means of a comparison of the rates of the tively The rates of occurrence of tumors of 2.1–3.0 cm were occurrence of that disease during each of the first yearly in- 0.85 per 1000 women in the placebo ... levels of risk within the spectrum of risks associated with participants in the P-1 study Because of the importance of knowing whether or not the finding that tamoxifen reduces the incidence of tumors ... disease, they show that, at least during the duration of the P-1 study, the drug did not have a detrimental effect on the heart One of the original aims of the P-1 study was to determine whether...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 04:20

... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... rather than on innovation to enable future advances As in several other thrusts that the committee reviewed, there is a risk that the Navy will lose the 13 14 2001 ASSESSMENT OF THE OFFICE OF ... NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20

... list of critical shortfalls identified at the front part of the process Then, with the current state of the art and the capabilities of the organization in mind, they will propose a series of specific ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20

... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... on the methodologies developed for the review of the previous NRC assessment of the SBIR at the Department of Defense, SBIR: An Assessment of the Department of Defense Fast Track Initiative While ... improvements to the program will be considered The Objectives of the Study The objectives of the study are to: Satisfy the Congressional mandate for an objective, external assessment of the program;...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20