clinical assessment of renal function

... 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 ... complaint of severe fatigue was indicated by 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 ... 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...

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... 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 ... produced by the result of using HMD However, there were a few limitations of this study There was the possibility of low validity of the results because of the small number of subjects There was...

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... al [18], there is wide variation in the psychosocial functioning of children with a chronic illness In this study, assessment of psychosocial functioning was achieved by CBCL We found that children ... by semi-structured clinical interviews conducted by clinical professionals Although the patients who had Page of higher scores on CBCL scales were recommended for further assessment in psychiatric ... received scores in the clinical range are considered clinical Reference values are provided by a healthy community sample of 24013 Chinese children and adolescents between the age of and 16 years The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... 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...

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... (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 clinical assessment of 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...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... immunogenicity: pre -clinical assessment of 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...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... 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 clinical assessment ... 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, ... examination List of abbreviations OSCE: Objective Structure Clinical Examination; CASC: Clinical Assessment of Skills and Competencies; MRCPsych: Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... identifying risk of death prospectively: a clinical assessment of risk of death or APACHE II scoring? The PROWESS trial had no inclusion criteria related to clinical assessment of 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 of clinical assessment of risk of death in the ... enrollment of patients with a clinical assessment of a low risk of death, the mortality was 25% in the APACHE II ≥ 25 group [4,6] This suggests that the key is clinical assessment of death and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... Master of Arts - Counseling Psychology Adler School of Professional Psychology (APA Accredited) Bachelor of Science - Psychology major/Theology minor Loyola University Chicago PROFESSIONAL /CLINICAL ... assumption of an intact RAS functioning Again, given the importance of working memory highlighted by Knudsen (2007), the current study utilized an appropriate measure of working memory, often used in clinical ... the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) Submitted for presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, Boston,...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 13:42

... study The draw back of the studies in this area of VTE include the variability of type of MP studied, the techniques employed for measurement of MP and retrospective nature of investigations undertaken ... detection and measurement of MP The methods are usually based on the ability of the assay to either enumerate or assess functional activity of the MP 4.1 Functional assays Most of the assays under ... concentration of serum folic acid may occur in 80% of alcohol abusers and this can lead to serious clinical consequences 24 Pathophysiology and Clinical Aspects of Venous Thromboembolism in Neonates, Renal...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 23:20

... 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 Assessment of Clinical 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,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... roles of everyday life The functional assessment is one of the trademarks of the geriatric assessment, distinguishing it from the evaluation of a younger person Achieving a complete cure is often ... aspects of the functional assessment that can be performed in the office and can help older patients add quality to their lives Office Assessment of the Frail Elderly Patient I Source of Referrals ... satisfaction and quality of life A functional assessment is often used to determine the current and future health care and psychosocial needs of frail elderly The comprehensive assessment of the frail elderly...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... measure of the disease burden and functional status of a patient that has closely correlated with prognosis for patients with all stages of RCC Clinical and Biological Indicators A variety of clinical ... real risk of cancer progression, possible loss of window of opportunity for NSS, lack of curative salvage therapies if metastases develop, limitations of renal mass biopsy and deficiencies of the ... management of clinical T1 renal masses nephron-sparing approaches should be used whenever feasible Reports comparing renal functional outcomes between patients undergoing PN or RN for clinical T1 renal...

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... treatment of selected RDQ scales; 2) assessment of the concordance between RDQand physician-generated ratings of disease severity; and 3) assessment of the internal consistency reliability of the ... terms of stability, the test-retest reliability coefficients ranged from 0.80 to 0.88 An assessment of change scores among a subset of patients provided initial evidence of the responsiveness of ... Endoscopic assessment of esophagitis: clinical and functional correlates and further validation of the Los Angeles classification Gut 1999, 45:172-180 Jaeschke R, Singer J, Guyatt G: Measurement of health...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State (MEAMS) The MEAMS requires the patient to perform a number of simple tasks, each of which is designed to test some aspect of current cognitive functioning ... sub-tests each of which has a 'pass score' (Table 2) A screening score of either (fail) or (pass) is assigned to each subtest These subtests are sensitive to the functioning of different areas of brain, ... form) is a logistic function of the difference between the person's ability [θ] and the difficulty of the item [b] (i.e the ability required to affirm item i), and only a function of that difference...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20