experiences from a systematic review for the cochrane collaboration

... affected the activities of lysosomal enzymes, decreasing the activities of arylsulfatase A and arysulfatase B, an N-acetylgalactosaminidase-4-sulfatase, but increasing the activity of acid phosphatase ... [104] Uncaria tomentosa and Uncaria guianensis (cat's claw) Cat's claw is a vine from the basin of the Amazon River There are two species, U tomentosa and U guianensis, that are traditionally used ... South America for their anti-inflammatory properties The bark and the root are prepared as an extract in hot water Product standardisation is based on alkaloid content, although U guianensis extracts...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... trials phase II', 'clinical trials phase III', and 'clinical trials phase IV' We searched even in the abstract databases of both the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) and the ACR from 1996 ... data acquisition and analysis, and in manuscript preparation EG and AZ participated in data acquisition and in manuscript preparation All authors read and approved the final manuscript 14 15 References ... databases A study was included in the systematic extraction of the data if (a) it was published before December 2008, (b) it was about patients with RA, (c) a biological agent was used and failed...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... fibroelastoma On echocardiography papillary fibroelastoma usually arise via a pedicle from mitral valve tissue or adjacent endocardium, and have a characteristic frond-like appearance [31] A remarkable ... history and the echocardiographic appearance of the tumor the initial working diagnosis was papillary fibroelastoma Laboratory findings are shown in Table The patient was diagnosed with primary APS ... GR: Association of antibodies against phospholipids with heart valve disease in systemic lupus erythematosus Lancet 1990, 335:1541-4 Takayama T, Teramura M, Sakai H, Tamaki S, Okabayashi T, Kawashima...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... rehabilitation; rehabilitat*; activities of daily living; art therapy; bibliotherapy; dance therapy; exercise therapy; music therapy; occupational therapy; rehabilitation, vocation*; physical restrain*; ... that warrant the use of seclusion or restraint and provide a clear algorithm are recommended in studies as well as clinical guidance from Canada, New Zealand and Australia, the USA and the UK [17,22,43,91,96] ... relevant to arts therapies can be found in Table A Cochrane review and meta-analysis of two RCTs of art therapy for people with schizophrenia found marginally beneficial effects on mental state...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... of the AIMS2 and AIMS2-SF concerned translated versions Users of translated versions are therefore advised to examine if a validation study is available for their language version, rather than ... the available evidence for the utility of available scales for patients with RA and may inform the appropriate selection of selfreported PF scales for various purposes in clinical practice and ... functional capacity, since it cannot measure improvement in a substantial proportion of patients Both the MDHAQ (14 ADL) and the HAQ-II were rated favorably for all aspects of validity as well and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20

... hypoglycaemic episodes We provide recommendations for a feasible and reliable insulin/ glucose algorithm Materials and methods We performed a search of the PubMed, Embase and Cochrane databases ... to achieve tight glycaemic control) were included if they satisfied the inclusion criteria The abstracts and the abstracts of 'related papers' were evaluated by two researchers (SM and JJML); all ... evidence that regulation between and mmol/l is more beneficial then regulation between and mmol/l Most studies apparently aimed for a somewhat higher, probably more feasible, target On the other hand,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... facial and peripheral paresthesia, partial deafness, visual disturbances, vertigo, confusion, hallucinations, seizures, ataxia, and neuromuscular blockade The last of these usually produces a ... the fact that the available formulation of colistimethate sodium for intramuscular administration was used intravenously in the old studies until a new formulation was prepared In addition, the ... IU/kg/day in children for to 10 days 9/25 pts had an increase in plasma creatinine levels Perioral paresthesia, numbness in the hands, weakness, ataxia, lightheadedness, shortness of breath, apnea...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... Search strategy We searched the databases Medline, Embase, AMED, and Chinese Biomedical Database (CBM) in March 2009 The search strategy for the English language databases was an “OR” combination ... sufficient to affect the interpretation of results, the risk of bias for the outcome across trails was classified as high [15] Data analysis The trial data were tabulated and then qualitatively analyzed ... conceived the study, did the literature search, performed data extraction and drafted the manuscript ZXL and ZXB verified the extracted data and assisted in the manuscript preparation All authors read...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... relational database technology is prevalent in the health care and life science domains, many of the CM databases are currently in the relational format While these relational databases serve the specific ... local queries against the underlying relational databases DartGrid [18] is a system demonstrating the use of this semantic web approach to integrate CM databases The advantage of this approach ... relational databases Semantically rich queries (based on meaningful relationship names) can be formulated at the semantic layer (built using the Semantic Web technology) and then be mapped to the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... proprioception associated with ageing may add to the alterations caused by the neck pain Overall, the lack of data available, no conclusions can be drawn regarding a possible relationship between postural ... Western Australia, Australia Authors’ contributions AR and Tino Bos (TB) carried out the literature search and both participated in the selection of the included papers AR drafted the manuscript and ... ScienceDirect and the Cochrane library The date range of publications searched was from January 1980 to January 2011 The following key words were used in the search strategy: “neck pain”, “cervical pain”,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... Matsuura A, Nakamura T, Shirai M, Nakamura S, Inuzuka K, Tominaga S Protective factor against progression from atrophic gastritis to gastric cancer data from a cohort study in Japan Int J Cancer ... may be related to salt and NOC, in enhancing carcinogenesis after the epithelium is damaged[8] The aim of this article is to review and evaluate the available epidemiological evidence about the ... Inoue M, Tajima K, Yamamura Y, Kodera Y, Hirose K, Takezaki T, Hamajima N, Kuroishi T, Tominaga S Dietary factors and the risk of gastric cancer among Japanese women: a comparison between the differentiated...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... paper Authentication paper Authentication paper Authentication paper Authentication paper Authentication paper Authentication paper Authentication paper (comparing isotopes) Authentication paper ... Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable ... were applied as the review was designed to make the best use of all available data and to present the data in a standardised form • The authors understand that combining all crops and all animal...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:20

... as calculated by the reviewers (mean of word recognition and word attack measures; also mean of comprehension measures, mean of spelling measures, and synthetic versus analytic, where applicable), ...  Reading and spelling et al. Total instructional time = specific data not N/S – whether supplementary or additional or part replacement etc  available (reviewer estimate = approx ... Recommendations For teaching  Since there is evidence that systematic phonics teaching benefits children’s reading accuracy, it should be part of every literacy teacher’s repertoire and a routine part...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... Nicaragua, Niger, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Tanzania [22-35] Key interventions that were most often absent included assisted vaginal delivery and manual removal of the placenta Among the explanations ... s’ assessment Addr essed aspects Hospital-based morbidity and mortality Acceptability, patients’ satisfaction Caesarean rates, case fatality rates Services utilisation rates Health Perinatal ... remainder of the analysis was carried out using the data extraction form and the analytical framework presented in the following section Analytical framework The concept of "quality of care" was defined...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... rural areas in Australia [23] Pharmacy technicians The relative importance of pharmacy technicians within the contemporary pharmacy workforce has been amplified, largely as a reaction to pharmacist ... Abstracts, PubMed and The Cochrane Library The search terms used were "pharmacy workforce", "pharmacy manpower", "human resources for health AND pharmacy", "human resources AND pharmacy" and "pharmacist ... training The Pharmaceutical Journal 2006, 277:164-165 Canadian Pharmacists Association: Vision for Pharmacy Optimal Drug Therapy Outcomes for Canadians Through Patient-Centred Care Ottawa 2008...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... al.: Thirty years after Alma-Ata: a systematic review of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and ... health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, 3, Art No.: CD004015 Chan M: Return to Alma-Ata Lancet 2008, ... mortality regions The Gambian studies provide evidence that in a rural African setting affected by seasonal malaria, a national CHW programme delivering either ITNs or malarial chemoprophylaxis...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... SB, Derosa AM, Licata AA, Shewmon DA, Harrington JT, Broy SB, Derosa AM, Licata AA, Shewmon DA: Hip fracture patients are not treated for osteoporosis: a call to action Arthritis & Rheumatism 2002, ... 272 Median age: 60 years 77% female Family practices in Kingston, Ontario and the surrounding southeastern Ontario region drawn from the Canadian Medical Association directory; postmenopausal women ... Alberta, Canada Primary care (patients all beneficiaries of HBCBSNJΔ health care insurer); New Jersey, USA All women and men ≥ 60 years residing in Vancouver admitted with a minimal trauma hip fracture...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... Where a study described a framework or approach that appeared to be theoretically based, but the authors had not explicitly stated that they had used a theory, a decision was made by two reviewers ... Ottawa ON K1Y 4E9, Canada Authors’ contributions PD, AW, JG conceived the study PD and AW abstracted data from paper PD wrote first draft of paper AW and JG commented on drafts of paper All authors ... years that there has been greater discourse about the role of theory in implementation research [2,73] We would encourage researchers to treat this as baseline data and replicate this review for...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... Where a study described a framework or approach that appeared to be theoretically based, but the authors had not explicitly stated that they had used a theory, a decision was made by two reviewers ... Ottawa ON K1Y 4E9, Canada Authors’ contributions PD, AW, JG conceived the study PD and AW abstracted data from paper PD wrote first draft of paper AW and JG commented on drafts of paper All authors ... years that there has been greater discourse about the role of theory in implementation research [2,73] We would encourage researchers to treat this as baseline data and replicate this review for...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... codon)-3’ and the “second round PCR” (one -for- all) primer set: One -for- all-forward: 5’-GGGGACAAGTTTGTACAAAAAAGCAGGCT-3’ and One -for- all-reverse: 5’-GGGGACCACTTTGTACAAGAAAGCTGGGTC-3’ PCR products containing ... in large scale as described by Soutscheck et al [12], rearranged in line assay format and validated with a number of pre-characterized serum samples These validation data confirmed the seroreactivity ... of an indicated therapy After establishing of mass vaccination programmes within many industrialized countries, primary and secondary vaccine failures have occurred in parallel with the observation...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20