... form of a dichotomous outcome, namely 'passive' or 'active' These topics are: the routine pattern of activities and the amount of time laying or sitting during the day of yesterday, the number of ... scores of 35 or higher on the Checklist Individual Strength (CIS) subscale 'fatigue severity' [19] Severe impairment was defined by a cut off score of 700 or higher on the Sickness Impact Profile ... seen, the validity of the API (0.643) was somewhat smaller than that of the two questionnaires (0.710 and 0.711) Following the method of Hanley and Mc Neil [22], the validity of the three instruments...
... of low validity of the results because of the small number of subjects There was also a limitation about discussion of concerning the mechanism of USN because of the damaged part of the brain and ... midline of As the common clinical test for USN, in the first evaluation of the frequency of presence of neglect for ADL (Table 3), 75 percent of all subjects admitted a USN symptom in activities of ... Percentage of correct answers (%) Correct answers of left-left Correct answers of right-left Correct answers of mid-left Correct answers of mid-right Correct answers of left-right Correct answers of...
... from the end of the Evaluation of dosimetric and technical data For each group of patients, technical parameters of delivery were scored in terms of number of arcs, total number of monitor units ... demonstration of the clinical feasibility of SBRT treatments with FFF beams, the demonstration of short term safety of these 0.4 ± 1.0 Gy [%] Stomach Table Main Technical features of delivered ... case of respiratory gated treatments where the trade-off of low duty cycle might be efficiently compensated Another possible and relatively obvious immediate advantage of high dose rate of FFF...
... was added in case of doubt concerning the type of the detected finding or for confirmation of an erosion Additional views were radial view of the 2nd MCP joint, ulnar view of the 5th MCP joint, ... calculation of the sensitivity and specificity of US, x-ray, and clinical examination [12] The statistical software used was SPSS version 12.0 for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) Results A total of ... 38% (6 of 16) and Wakefield and colleagues [16] in 1% (1 of 100) of the examined MCP joints Five of the erosion-like changes found in our study were located at the radial or ulnar side of the...
... (right) out of foot but Position of the intersection point (IP) and of the center of the first metatarsophalangeal arc circumference (right) out of the foot but within a distance of a foot width ... mm of DL increase, the HVA decreases 0.8°, IMA decreases 0.5°, and PPAA increases 0.01° In the multivariate analysis, an increase of 10 mm of DL causes decreases of 0.531° of HVA and 0.07° of ... also to clinicalassessmentof severity of bunion deformity according to VAS for visual inspection of photographs by three independent observers Conclusion The IP is a useful indicator of hallux...
... immunogenicity: pre -clinical assessmentof the efficacy of a Listeria vaccine in the induction of immune responses against HIV Journal of Immune Based Therapies and Vaccines 2011 9:2 Page of Submit your ... Published: 18 January 2011 References Belyakov IM, Berzofsky JA: Immunobiology of mucosal HIV infection and the basis for development of a new generation of mucosal AIDS vaccines Immunity 2004, 20:247-253 ... Institutes of Health Grant AI054183 to R.M.R, National Institutes of Health Grant AI078779 to F.R.F and National Institutes of Health Grant AI054558 to J.L., F.R.F and R.M.R Author details Division of...
... that have investigated the validity of the use of OSCEs in clinical examinations of medical students and a full review of all of these is outside the scope of the current discussion In the main, ... validity of an assessment is intricately linked to and a function of context It is therefore doubtful that a single or a number of 10 minute OSCE stations can represent the depth of a hour clinicalassessment ... examination List of abbreviations OSCE: Objective Structure Clinical Examination; CASC: ClinicalAssessmentof Skills and Competencies; MRCPsych: Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists...
... identifying risk of death prospectively: a clinicalassessmentof risk of death or APACHE II scoring? The PROWESS trial had no inclusion criteria related to clinicalassessmentof risk of death In ... clinicians could have clinically assessed as being at high risk of death and others at low risk of death Perhaps if there had been an a priori assignment ofclinicalassessmentof risk of death in the ... enrollment of patients with a clinicalassessmentof a low risk of death, the mortality was 25% in the APACHE II ≥ 25 group [4,6] This suggests that the key is clinicalassessmentof death and...
... level of understanding of the study or treatment procedures, although a high proportion of parents showed no understanding of the risks and of the research nature of the clinical trials Randomization, ... feasibility of providing information about clinical trials according to informed consent criteria and the understanding of information related to clinical trials The appreciation of children ... Instrument The MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Clinical Research (MacCAT-CR) is one of the standard international tools for the assessment and evaluation of competences for consent [29,31]...
... Professor of Medicine and Director of Curricular Resources and Clinical Evaluation at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, where she is responsible for the teaching, assessment, ... 1990s, Dr Wallace became one of the founding directors of what ultimately became the California Consortium for the AssessmentofClinical Competence (CCACC), a consortium of all eight medical schools ... desire, some quirk of fate, some longing perhaps to participate in some kind of healing yourself THE EVOLUTION OF THIS BOOK For a number of years, with the encouragement of some of my colleagues,...
... Liberia: An Exploratory Assessmentof Living and Working Conditions, with Special Attention to Forced Labor A Profile of Major Plantations in the Sector The production and processing of rubber is an ... Exploratory Assessmentof Living and Working Conditions, with Special Attention to Forced Labor 49 22 See: S Ellis (1999) The Mask of Anarchy – the Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of ... Exploratory Assessmentof Living and Working Conditions, with Special Attention to Forced Labor 11 Tapping rubber trees The clearing of land, breeding in the nursery, and the weeding and pruning of fields...
... treatment of selected RDQ scales; 2) assessmentof the concordance between RDQand physician-generated ratings of disease severity; and 3) assessmentof the internal consistency reliability of the ... result of therapy in a large clinical population of patients diagnosed as having GERD The concordance between the RDQ evaluations of symptom severity was compared to those offered by specialty ... terms of stability, the test-retest reliability coefficients ranged from 0.80 to 0.88 An assessmentof change scores among a subset of patients provided initial evidence of the responsiveness of...
... intensities of grade 1, grade and grade cartilage (48%, 43% and 30% of that of grade cartilage, respectively) decreased earlier with a shorter time than that of grade cartilage, detection of irregularity ... the speed of sound in degraded cartilage [7,25,26] The speed of sound is dependent on the cartilage water content, and an increase of water content induces the decrease of the speed of sound [25] ... comparison among the grades Because 11 out of the 20 knees had all the data of grade cartilage at sites A, B and E, the signal intensity of the grade cartilage of sites A, B and E was also compared...
... hours of admission are associated with the outcome of complicated forms of cryptococcal meningitis assessed weeks from antifungal therapy initiation These findings underscore the importance of quantitative ... Cite this article as: Cachay et al.: Utility ofclinical assessment, imaging, and cryptococcal antigen titer to predict AIDS-related complicated forms of cryptococcal meningitis AIDS Research and ... week of hospitalization (median: day 21, range: day to 30) The Cachay et al AIDS Research and Therapy 2010, 7:29 http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/7/1/29 Page of Table Distribution of Complicated...
... integrity of longitudinal studies and the validity of their conclusions [69] This is especially true of observerdependent methods of data-gathering In the clinicalassessment phase of the study, the clinical ... after their baseline clinicalassessment The focus of follow-up will be clinical (severity of pain and functional limitation) change and possible determinants of this The content of this survey is ... be obtained Roddy et al Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2011, 4:22 http://www.jfootankleres.com/content/4/1/22 Page of 16 Table Content ofclinical assessment: clinical interview, physical examination...
... Sequential analysis of BALF and IS Analysis of the single fractions of BALF showed an increase of IgG levels and concomitantly a decrease of IgA levels, resulting in an increase of the IgG to IgA ... process of optimization of the vaccination strategy The use of IS for detection of vaccine induced antibodies has limitations A major drawback of the IS technique is its age restriction [23] Assessment ... responder rate of this anti pseudomonal vaccination strategy Assessmentof pulmonary antibodies showed a comparable sensitivity of BAL and IS However, the different proportions of the isotypes...
... available for bedside assessmentof alveolar recruitment Physiological meaning of alveolar recruitment Recruitment is a physiological process that refers to the reaeration of a previously gasless ... ‘magic’ point reflecting the opening pressure of the lung Moreover, the clinical relevance of the study is high since the lower inflexion point of the zero end-expiratory pressure–volume curve ... physiological principle of the multiple pressure–volume method initially proposed by Ranieri and colleagues seems to allow a reliable assessmentof alveolar Mathematical model of the pressure–volume...
... analyses of CAP patients' data include an additional hazard: they lack assessmentof adequacy of antimicrobial therapy As is typical of retrospective subgroup analyses, this analysis of a small ... Belgium) Initial analyses of the TFP007 patient subgroup with pneumonia used a programmatic definition of CAP that allowed a maximum of days of hospitalization prior to the start of study drug for the ... pneumonia (HAP), or other diagnoses, and (c) the level of evidence of a microbiological etiology of CAP Materials and methods A detailed description of the study was previously published [15] The OPTIMIST...