case based reasoning for customizing treatment processes

... Case Based Reasoning for Customizing Treatment Processes 351 Carolin Kaiser, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany This chapter introduces a case based reasoning (CBR) system for customizing ... Grande Sul, Brazil Section VII Medical Decision Support Systems Chapter XXIV Case Based Reasoning for Customizing Treatment Processes 351 Carolin Kaiser, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany ... for customizing treatment processes According to the CBR paradigm, which solves problems based on past experience, the proposed system uses old treatment processes of similar, former patients...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 12:20

... Case Based Reasoning for Customizing Treatment Processes 351 Carolin Kaiser, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany This chapter introduces a case based reasoning (CBR) system for customizing ... Grande Sul, Brazil Section VII Medical Decision Support Systems Chapter XXIV Case Based Reasoning for Customizing Treatment Processes 351 Carolin Kaiser, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany ... for customizing treatment processes According to the CBR paradigm, which solves problems based on past experience, the proposed system uses old treatment processes of similar, former patients...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 12:20

... number and percentage Before the analysis, a test for the carryover effect of each health concept defined in the SF-36 survey using a two-stage Grizzle model was performed The treatment influence ... omeprazole) A washout period between the two treatment phases was not applied The patients were asked to take capsules for 14 days, twice a day, 30 minutes before a meal from their respective box Patients ... 23) 20 mg am + 20 mg pm for weeks Placebo (n = 25) caps am + caps pm for weeks Symptom assessment; completion of the SF-36 Health Survey Placebo (n = 23) caps am + caps pm for weeks Omeprazole (n...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... are used as healing agents in a number of diseases In Ayurveda, formulations based on tannin-rich plants have been used for the treatment of diseases like leucorrhoea, rhinnorhoea and diarrhea ... polyphenon E (a formulation of green tea extract with 53% EGCG), the oral no effect level (NOEL) values are 90 mg/kg/day for rats and 600 mg/kg/day for dogs (Boocock et al., 2007) For curcumin given ... bonds are the preferred ones For these two bond types, the Y0+/Y1+ is always larger for a 12 bond than for a 16 bond the Y0+ ion is more abundant than the Y1+ ion for glycosides with a 12 bond,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 11:20

... 74.7 for function, 25.1 for shoe fit and 35.5 for general foot health) Similarly, for hallux rigidus the mean scores were also well below the ideal (46.9 for pain, 59.7 for function, 24.8 for ... median stage of deformity (as defined by Root [18]) for participants presenting with hallux valgus was (range – 4) The median grade of deformity (as defined by Regnauld [19]) for participants ... accurate diagnosis and classification is not straight forward The pain and deformity of hallux rigidus can clinically mimic hallux valgus, and the deformity of hallux valgus can result in arthrosis,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... number and percentage Before the analysis, a test for the carryover effect of each health concept defined in the SF-36 survey using a two-stage Grizzle model was performed The treatment influence ... omeprazole) A washout period between the two treatment phases was not applied The patients were asked to take capsules for 14 days, twice a day, 30 minutes before a meal from their respective box Patients ... 23) 20 mg am + 20 mg pm for weeks Placebo (n = 25) caps am + caps pm for weeks Symptom assessment; completion of the SF-36 Health Survey Placebo (n = 23) caps am + caps pm for weeks Omeprazole (n...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20

... Trials), but that this was not the case for criteria relating to external validity [26,28,30-32,34-39,54] Nonetheless, the authors offered some frameworks for the analysis of external validity ... PRISM elements are most important for particular settings and clinical targets Actually, the tool is intended more for translating research into practice than for assessing external validity Transferability ... criteria for external validity, evaluation, or processes to adapt existing interventions, elements that could be used to build a typology of transferability factors A first cornerstone is based...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21

... the cost to the MoHSW for maintaining one distance learning student for one year is TSH 172 000 (US $ 143), compared with TSH 300 000 (US$ 250) for one student for one year for the residential ... print -based distance learning, or as advanced as computer -based (e-learning) or internet -based (on-line) distance learning Médecins Sans Frontières cited the Nartker et al Human Resources for Health ... handle cases for which they are not trained [10] Health care workers in these settings saw the solution as not hiring more qualified staff: they wanted more training for themselves in order to perform...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... 155 (37.8) Screening for overweight/obesity 14 (3.4) Screening for hypertension Screening for diabetes 407 (99.3) 362 (88.3) Screening for breast cancer 173 (42.2) Screening for cervical cancer ... of the treatment/ Total number of women in the sample receiving oral HT × 100 Information on risks and benefits of oral HT Number of women who were prescribed oral HT and who received information ... purpose of the study and of the interview, and asked for her signed informed consent If the candidate agreed to participate, the nurse performed the interview The questionnaires used during the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... similar for medical and surgical patients, except for higher scores in the Physical Functioning and Role Physical dimensions for medical patients The 26 patients that did not answer for the second ... SPSS 11.0 was used to perform t-tests and paired t-tests for SF-36 scores The results were controlled with Wilcoxon signed rank sum test The Mann-Whitney test was used for skewed continuous data ... not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/2 Table 1: Age, severity, LOS, IPPV days Mean values for age and SAPS II and median values for...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... made using t test for continuous variables, Chisquare test for dichotomous variables, and Chi-square test for trend for ordinal variables Mean (±SD) summary scores were calculated for each health ... $1,000', or 'more than $1,000' For the purpose of our analysis, we assigned subjects to the median value for each response category (e.g $45 for '$10 to $99'), using $1000 for the highest category ... 10 subjects: (6%) subjects for the symptom severity (RSS-4), (9%) subjects for physical functioning (SF-12 PCS), (13%) subjects for mood (CES-D), and (10%) subjects for perceived control (PCRQ)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... multivariable methods We also performed the regressions with the outcome log transformed and the results were qualitatively identical The non-transformed results are presented for ease of interpretation ... 0.21 * Somers' D, used for logistic procedure; multivariable model controlling for age and FEV1 males than females perceived their weight status as underweight and therefore, were more likely ... manuscript for important intellectual content Statistical analysis performed by RA, MY, and JM MY, JT, JM, RW and MB provided administrative, technical, or material support Study supervision was performed...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... somewhat accounting for another substance used and where, for the total sample and for women, daily alcohol intake was an independent factor positively associated with impaired HRQL For males, recent ... we used NHP Spanish norms for ages 41 to 49 There is no normative data available for younger ages but as from HRQL studies we know that generic HRQL scores are better for younger age groups[31], ... Drug use treatment Never 84 (31.7) 213 (29.7) 297 (30.2) Before last year 40 (15.1) 141 (19.7) 181 (18.4) Methadone last year 108 (40.8) 262 (36.5) 370 (37.7) Other last year Psychiatric treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Review Board at Cancer Treatment Centers of America® QoL Assessment QoL was assessed at baseline and after months of treatment using the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer ... increment for QoL scores • sets of multivariate models were constructed: one for global QoL and other for all general function and symptom variables combined • Multivariate model (for general ... combined) adjusted for age, gender, stage at diagnosis, prior treatment history and all baseline QoL variables excepting role function • Multivariate model for global QoL adjusted for age, gender,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... difference was 1.3 (SD=17.1); for DCGM-10 the mean difference was 3.7 (SD=15.1) The threshold for agreement was around points for the KIDSCREEN-10 HRQoL scores and around points for the DCGM-10 HRQoL ... disagreement group ADOL HIGH on a p

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... point (e.g pre -treatment) and then again at a later time point (e.g post treatment) [3,5] Conventional measurement of change in the self-reported outcome involves subtracting the pre -treatment from ... conventional change and patient perceived change as well as for conventional change and patient perceived change adjusted for recall bias (for EQ-5D utility and VAS) To examine the magnitude of discrepancy ... after adjusting for recall bias this reduced to (7.9%) Agreement between patient perceived change scores with and without adjustment for recall bias was not strong Agreement statistics for this relationship...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... development and dissemination, leaving the field uninformed about patient preferences for specific treatments [34] Innovation in mental health services for youth Despite progress in defining the parameters ... productivity was allotted for cancellations, no shows, or training Actual caseloads varied from 35 to 60 clients Formative evaluation Qualitative and quantitative data were collected to inform the implementation ... experience with a treatment manual for CBT, 12 (66%) had no formal CBT training, and 16 (88%) had no prior CBT supervision Twelve clinicians (66%) indicated they intended to use CBT treatment manuals...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... implications for evidence -based rehabilitation service planning and health resource allocation (e.g., amount of specialists and services needed for rehabilitation of stroke survivors) [2,6,7,13] For instance, ... have implications for the processes of internal adaptation in diverse settings Owolabi Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011, 9:81 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/81 [6,7,29,30] For instance, ... power) which drives the processes of role and need re-prioritisation resulting in internal adaptation This culminates in the formulation and deployment of coping strategies based on residual and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20

... them only for a part of this 6-month period, then the duration of this event was recorded, coding the responses as follows: for days or less = 1; for more than days, up to a month = 2; for more ... conceived as pain-discomfort, eating performance and aesthetics because we had observed that individuals seemed to understand these dimensions to be distinct aspects of oral wellbeing For example, visibly ... OIDP (Oral Impacts on Daily Performances) questionnaire assesses the impacts of oral conditions on the abilities of individuals to perform eight daily activities For each dimension (eating, speaking,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21