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báo cáo hóa học: " The effects of high frequency subthalamic stimulation on balance performance and fear of falling in patients with Parkinson''''s disease" docx

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... Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2009, 6:13 Background Postural instability is one of the cardinal symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), and persons with PD run an increased risk of ... assessments of fear of falling have not previously been included in studies when investigating the effect of STN stimulation In the present study, the patients rated their fear of falling as less ... test: two patients) The patients rated their fear of falling as less severe with DBS ON as compared to DBS OFF, and the total score of FES(S) increased (p = 0.002) in median with 54 points (Table...
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Báo cáo y học: "The impact of infliximab treatment on quality of life in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases" ppsx

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... with RA to that of patients with PsA [4], the mean number of active joints in patients with PsA was 6, while the baseline mean number of tender and swollen joints for patients in the IMPACT II ... PsA and 19% of patients with AS were women Most patients had well-established disease, with average disease durations of 10.2 years for patients with AS, 10.0 years for patients with RA, and ... (b), and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) (c) in infliximab clinical trials patients with AS, the change from baseline to week 24 in PCS was 9.9 in the infliximab group compared with 0.7 in the placebo...
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báo cáo khoa học: "The importance of organizational characteristics for improving outcomes in patients with chronic disease: a systematic review of congestive heart failure" pdf

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... systematic review of interventions to improve outcomes of patients with CHF through changing care delivery processes in clinical settings is consistent with literature reporting that interventions ... nature of the disease or diseases of the patients being cared for Diseases may mediate the way that interventions influence a patient’s care The level of complexity of different diseases, and ... review of interventions to improve outcomes for patients with Type diabetes, expanding the data regarding the importance of considering health care settings as CAS beyond a single chronic disease...
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báo cáo khoa học:" Validation of the "World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule, WHODAS-2" in patients with chronic diseases" ppt

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... all subjects In addition, patients were clinically evaluated with disease- specific severity scales, and with standardised instruments measuring disability and quality of life Sample Patients had ... contains 36 items on functioning and disability with a recall period of 30 days[8] covering domains: Understanding and Communicating (6 items), Getting around (5 items), Self-care (4 items), Getting ... each domain by adding the item responses (the score computation allows for up to 30% of missing items per domain) and transforming them into a range from to 100, with higher scores indicating higher...
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báo cáo khoa học:" General and disease-specific quality of life in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media a prospective study" pot

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... [1]: disease of the middle ear and/or mastoid with irreversible mucosal damage or infection lasting more than months This definition covers adequately the clinical course and findings in our patients ... completed in July, 2008 Patients In this study, patients with chronic suppurative mesotympanic or epitympanic otitis media were included For the purposes of this study, the definition of CSOM according ... [3] was inapplicable This definition is accurate from the academic point of view but much too diversified for use in clinical studies Therefore, inclusion in the study was determined according to...
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Báo cáo y học: "Disease activity and low physical activity associate with number of hospital admissions and length of hospitalisation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis" pdf

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... classified in major categories, including: treatment for RA flare (including treatment for severe pain and joint aspiration and injection), single or multiple diagnostic tests requiring admission, ... hospital within one year The number and frequencies for hospital admissions appear in Table Regarding the length of hospitalisation, 32 patients (out of the 94 patients admitted) stayed as inpatients ... outcomes (by promoting beneficial body composition changes and reducing fatigue), inhibit progression of the disease (by reducing inflammation and increasing muscle mass and bone mineral density),...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Predictors of health-related quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer" doc

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... Only initial TOI was a clinically meaningful predictor of follow-up TOI, with a SD increase (12.7 points) in initial TOI scores corresponding to a 6.4 point increase in follow-up TOI scores Initial ... more patients had a meaningful improvement than decline in TOI scores, but fewer patients had a meaningful improvement than decline in SWB scores EWB scores were the most stable, with 47.6% of patients ... HRQL The percent of patients with a clinically meaningful decline in EWB scores from the initial to follow-up survey was exactly the same as the percent with a clinically meaningful improvement...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Adalimumab improves health-related quality of life in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis compared with the United States general population norms: Results from a randomized, controlled Phase III study" pdf

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... symptomatology, including pain and itching, combined with concerns about the appearance of one's skin can substantially affect a patient's psychological well-being and can result in emotional distress, ... Assessment of at least moderate disease The REVEAL study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and all study sites received approval from independent ... (Version 1), which was used in the MEPS survey included in this analysis, contains 12 items from the SF-36 Health Survey, with or items measuring each of the concepts included in the SF-36 SF-12 summary...
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báo cáo hóa học: " The longitudinal link between visual acuity and health-related quality of life in patients with diabetic retinopathy" doc

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... trial of oncedaily ruboxistaurin for vision loss in patients with diabetic retinopathy The clinical findings and characteristics of this trial have been reported previously [22] A total of 684 patients ... this link over time Thus, the purpose of the current study was to examine the degree of change in HRQL that is associated with visual acuity changes among patients with diabetic retinopathy Patients ... validated in samples combining patients with a range of eye conditions including cataracts, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, or low vision from any cause [25,35] In the current...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Disability and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia" doc

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... quality of life of patients participating in the current study seem to be in accordance with scores of patients with fibromyalgia participating in other studies For patients with fibromyalgia in the ... decreased pain tolerance and a higher level of disability Although the construct of fear of injury is also applicable in patients with fibromyalgia, the mean score on fear of injury of patients with ... pain and long term false straining of the muscles eventually can result in chronification of pain In accordance with the hypothesis of Hasenbring, Van Houdenhoven suggested that, especially in...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Quality of life in patients with psoriasis" pptx

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... psoriasis patients Various factors may be attributed to the lower QoL in psoriasis patients The chronic and recurring nature of this disease often brings about a feeling of hopelessness in terms of ... "Infliximab treatment results in significant improvement in the quality of life of patients with severe psoriasis: a double-blind placebo-controlled trial" (2005) [43] Intravenous infusions of ... a valid instrument for examination of social and psychic burdens of psoriasis The recording of stigmatization feeling and of quality of life determines different supplementary aspects of the illness-related...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Quality of life in patients with various Barrett''''s esophagus associated health states" ppt

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... and inform clinical decision making Utility assessment is a particularly appealing quality of life measure because it incorporates all aspect of health into a single number (between and 1) with ... endpoints of death and perfect health [16] Methods Patients Patients with documented (by histology) Barrett's esophagus over the age of 18 who were either having an endoscopy or a clinic visit within ... making them an informed and realistic patient population facing these decisions Although patients with HGD or prior HGD were excluded, patients with prior LGD were included The description of...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Health related quality of life in patients with anogenital warts" ppt

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... presented in Table The results of the scales of SF-36 between the two time intervals in patients with anogenital warts and in the control group are presented in Table In this Table, the scores of the ... participated in generating and gathering the data the data and in writing the manuscript EN participated in generating the data and in writing the manuscript MH participated in the design of the study ... participated in generating and in gathering the data of the study HP participated in generating and gathering the data of the study AK participated in the design and coordination of the study All authors...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Gender associated differences in determinants of quality of life in patients with COPD: a case series study" pdf

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... associated with health-related quality of life in patients with COPD Also, we also did not include generic questionnaires like the SF-36, in the evaluation of the QoL of these patients, as some investigators ... time in 2002, the number of women dying from this disease surpassed that of men Quality of Life has become an important measurable outcome in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ... in women Indeed, the early age of onset of impairment in QoL in women should raise alarm considering that most of the primary care physicians not think in COPD when they see females with typical...
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báo cáo hóa học:" The longitudinal link between visual acuity and health-related quality of life in patients with diabetic retinopathy pot

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... trial of oncedaily ruboxistaurin for vision loss in patients with diabetic retinopathy The clinical findings and characteristics of this trial have been reported previously [22] A total of 684 patients ... this link over time Thus, the purpose of the current study was to examine the degree of change in HRQL that is associated with visual acuity changes among patients with diabetic retinopathy Patients ... validated in samples combining patients with a range of eye conditions including cataracts, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, or low vision from any cause [25,35] In the current...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Health-related quality of life in patients with severe COPD hospitalized for exacerbations - comparing EQ-5D, SF-12 and SGRQ" potx

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... Results Patients A total of 117 patients with GOLD stages III and IV participated in the study Patient characteristics by disease stage are shown in Table A total of 71% of patients had stage IV disease ... to those with missing SF6D, but disease severity did not differ between patients with available and missing scores In all instruments, missing items were more frequent in women than in men (11% ... different disease severities The main problem of the SF-12 in this self-administered setting was the high proportion of missing values For less than 55% of all patients, a comparison of utility...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Prediction and prevention of suicide in patients with unipolar depression and anxiety" ppsx

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... while according to one study it is associated with alexythymia in cases of panic disorder [21] Suicidal ideation and thinking of death is nonetheless a common feature of the thinking of depressives ... (most of whom were treated with antidepressants) among patients having suicidal ideation at baseline, the decline in suicidal ideation was predicted by preceding declines in the levels of both ... obvious role of antidepressants in the background of declining suicide rates, the US Food and Drug Administration recently issued a warning concerning the use of antidepressants in children and...
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Báo cáo y học: "A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of tropisetron in patients with schizophrenia" pps

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... there was incomplete absorption of a single dose of varenicline, leading to insufficient levels of the drug in the brain [46] Furthermore, Freedman [47] reported the case of a patient with schizophrenia ... [11C]CHIBA-1001 [52,53] in the intact brains of patients with schizophrenia is currently underway Finally, several limitations of this study should be mentioned One of the main limitations of this trial ... gating P50 deficits in patients with schizophrenia, and that tropisetron had a significant impact on the sustained visual attention measured with the RVP subtest of CANTAB in non-smoking patients...
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Báo cáo y học: "Validation of a specific measure to assess healthrelated quality of life in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: the ‘Tolerability and quality of life’ (TOOL) questionnaire" doc

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... the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV, being clinically stable (defined as having had no changes in severity or new treatments initiated in the last month), and taking a single oral antipsychotic ... results with Page of the original version to ensure conceptual equivalence (intermediate version 2.0) Finally, all the expert translators participated in the proof reading test of the intermediate ... afford greater insight in describing and grading the impact of side effects associated to antipsychotic drugs [15,16] A brief instrument is preferred for use in clinical practice and in investigations...
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Báo cáo y học: "Clinical and immunological effects of Rituximab in patients with lupus nephritis refractory to conventional therapy: a pilot study" doc

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... improvements in different clinical parameters of most SLE patients included in this study Disease activity (MEX-SLEDAI index) significantly diminished in 90% of patients at days 60 and 90 of Rituximab ... enhancement of proteinuria was observed in two patients during Rituximab therapy Although an improvement in creatinine clearance was observed upon Rituximab administration in 72% of patients studied ... the possible in vivo effect of Rituximab on the apoptosis of PBMNCs in the patients included in this study Interestingly, we found an important and significant increase in the percent of TUNEL+...
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