... beginning the study medication, and 91.9% were satisfied with the efficacy of the study medication on their child's attention The majority of caregivers (93.1%) indicated a high level of satisfaction ... satisfaction with the duration of effect of the study medication on their child's ADHD symptoms Regarding medication satisfaction with tolerability of MTS, at study endpoint the majority of caregivers ... the effect of treatment on the everyday lives of children and families living with ADHD In recent years, the development of multidimensional HRQL questionnaires has afforded clinicians the opportunity...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06
... the first effect of a three-effect evaporator The rectification column reflux condenser provides heat for this first effect After the first effect, solids are separated using a centrifuge and dried ... Feedstock Costs The corn stover feedstock is the most expensive raw material by far A yield of 72 gallons of fuel ethanol per dry ton of corn stover was calculated from the model At a cost of ... significant credit of $0.11 per gallon of fuel ethanol The electricity is produced from a steam turbine in the plant Because of the site-specific nature of electricity credits, it is difficult...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Quality of life data as prognostic indicators of survival in cancer patients: an overview of the literature from 1982 to 2008" pot
... interpreting the findings from studies of the relationship between quality of life data and survival duration Quality of life data might be markers of the socio-economic status of cancer patients ... Health Profile; PAIS: Psychological Adjustment to Illness Scale; POMS: Profile of Mood States; QLI: Quality of Life Index; QOL: quality of life; QOL-ACD: Quality of Life Questionnaire for Cancer ... overall quality of life was a significant independent predictor of survival Global quality of life is a straightforward measure, asking people to evaluate their own health status or quality of life...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
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
... derived from the more recent MEPS survey Assessing the impact of treatment on health-related quality of life in psoriasis SF-36 scale score norms for men and women 45 to 54 years of age from the NSFHS ... of to points for the individual normed scales, equivalent to a 0.2 to 0.3 effect size, can be used as guidelines to interpret clinically meaningful differences; differences of to points for the ... scores for the REVEAL study were calculated from the SF36, whereas the PCS and MCS scores for the MEPS were calculated from the SF-12 Results Demographics and clinical characteristics A total of 1,205...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Comparing a disease-specific and a generic health-related quality of life instrument in subjects with asthma from the general population" pot
... 32-52720.97, 32-4253.94), the Federal Office for Forest, Environment and Landscape, the Federal Office of Public Health, the Federal Office of Roads and Transport, the canton's government of Aargau, Basel-Stadt, ... performance of the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire Respirology 2007, 12(2):227-233 Juniper EF, Buist AS, Cox FM, Ferrie PJ, King DR: Validation of a standardized version of the Asthma Quality ... and SF-36 domain scores The figure shows the distributions of the respondents' AQLQ (Likert type scale from to 7) and SF-36 scores (from to 100) For the AQLQ all domain scores are left-skewed For...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Using individual growth model to analyze the change in quality of life from adolescence to adulthood" potx
... DDFM = BW asks SAS to use the "Between/Within" method for computing the denominator degrees of freedom for tests of the fixed effects NOTEST prevents the printing results of type tests of fixed ... age rather than secular time is the focus of the investigation allows data collected at a series of time-points from individuals from a range of birth cohorts to be combined in the analysis of age ... differ as a function of the individual's age at the first occasion of measurement, which would require adding age1 as a predictor in the model to test the cohort effects In a clinical sample The...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo hóa học:" The impact of iron overload and its treatment on quality of life: results from a literature review" pptx
... [2,3,28,29] All of the evaluated studies focused on the impact of thalassemia, SCD or MDS on patient QoL rather than the impact of ICT on patient QoL However, mention of the impact on QoL of infusion ... elderly adult), the length of time on ICT, and by the condition (thalassemia, SCD, MDS) Figure provides an overview of the hypotheses for the impact of infusion ICT on the QoL of patients with ... overview of the impact of iron overload on their lives We reviewed the transcripts from these historical interviews in order to Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Respiratory symptoms in adults are related to impaired quality of life, regardless of asthma and COPD: results from the European community respiratory health survey" docx
... hypertension-high blood presure Suffer with deafness Suffer with varicose veins Suffer from cataracts Suffer from heart disease Suffer from depression Suffer from diabetes Suffer from migraine/recurrent ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:107 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/107 Page of Table Association (coefficient and 95% confidence interval) of the respiratory symptom factors with the physical ... adjusted for age, gender, smoking, comorbidity, and country Acknowledgements The coordination of ECRHS II was supported by the European Commission, as part of their Quality of Life programme The following...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: " quality of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb) Franco) from three stands in the Netherlands*" pptx
... the Dutch standard NEN 5468 for sawn timber (1988) The stems were then cut into logs The material for the physical-mechanical tests was sawn from the first m of the log from the lower part of ... measured from cores at breast height ranged from 2.2 to 4.9 mm and therefore met the criteria for the quality class A of the Dutch standard NEN 5468 (see table IV) Differences in frequencies of the ... of the trees was examined with regard to height on the stem and its effect on the quality of sawn wood The relationship between branch diameters and location and their effect on the quality of...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Recommendations for implementing stereotactic radiotherapy in peripheral stage IA non-small cell lung cancer: report from the Quality Assurance Working Party of the randomised phase III ROSEL study" pps
... decided that for type A models, a standard fractionation schedule of fractions of 20 Gy or fractions of 18 Gy and a conservative fractionation schedule of fractions of 12 Gy or fractions of 11 Gy ... which is in fact only influencing the display of the dose distribution, can be left to the institutions preference RTOG trial 0236 defined a set of parameters to quantify the conformity of the dose ... structure The superior aspect (or base) for purposes of contouring will begin at the level of the inferior aspect of the aortic arch (aorto-pulmonary window) and extend inferiorly to the apex of the...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22
Báo cáo y học: "A vertebrate case study of the quality of assemblies derived from next-generation sequence" doc
... BACs We found 16.3% of the novel sequences from the Illumina/SOAP assembly and 9.0% from the 454/Newbler assembly matched cDNA/mRNA sequences Approximately 41.6% of the novel sequences from the 454/Newbler ... sufficiently covered if the percentage identity (95%) and length of the mapped portion was over the indicated cutoff The alignment length cutoffs shown are 90%, 50%, and 20% Blue represents the ... to the reference were composed of contamination, as opposed to 0.4% from the Illumina/SOAP assembly Most of the contamination (83.3%) in the 454/Newbler assembly is from Escherichia coli After...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:24
báo cáo khoa học: " Validity and usefulness of members reports of implementation progress in a quality improvement initiative: findings from the Team Check-up Tool (TCT)" pot
... 0.13) None of these changes were statistically different from zero, except: not enough buy-in from other unit staff; not enough Page of 13 buy-in from physician staff; not enough leadership from nurses; ... buy-in from other staff members -0.374 < 0.001** f Not enough buy-in from other physician staff g Not enough buy-in from other nursing staff -0.343 -0.361 < 0.001** < 0.001** h Burden of data ... was used.) for insufficient buy-in from other staff members (r = -0.37), other nursing staff (r = -0.36), and other physician staff (r = -0.34) and insufficient leadership support from nurses...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20
báo cáo khoa học: " Evaluating the effectiveness of a tailored multifaceted performance feedback intervention to improve the quality of care: protocol for a cluster randomized trial in intensive care" pps
... disagree with the relevancy of some of the indicators in the set This would hinder the use of the feedback as input for local QI activities, potentially decreasing the effectiveness of the intervention ... However, the number of studies comparing the effect of feedback alone with the effect of feedback combined with other strategies was limited and relatively few evaluations regarded the ICU domain ... performance data and how they are targeted by the feedback intervention Additional file 2: Content of the feedback reports Summary of the content of the quarterly and monthly InFoQI feedback reports...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo y học: " Learning from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Quality Enhancement Research Initiative: QUERI Series Ian D Graham* and Jacqueline Tetroe" potx
... adequately funded There also is a need for more funding for fundamental research on the science of implementation, such as research on the determinants of knowledge use, the effectiveness of interventions ... framework This thumbnail sketch of the QUERI Series reveals that the concentration of effort has focused on Steps 1–5 of the QUERI process model and Stages 1–2 of the QUERI pipeline, although work ... very practical framework that should be transferable to other settings and contexts The only potential deficit of the current version of the framework is that it lacks explicit reference to a step...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Learning from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Quality Enhancement Research Initiative: QUERI Series" pdf
... adequately funded There also is a need for more funding for fundamental research on the science of implementation, such as research on the determinants of knowledge use, the effectiveness of interventions ... framework This thumbnail sketch of the QUERI Series reveals that the concentration of effort has focused on Steps 1–5 of the QUERI process model and Stages 1–2 of the QUERI pipeline, although work ... very practical framework that should be transferable to other settings and contexts The only potential deficit of the current version of the framework is that it lacks explicit reference to a step...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: " Influence of gender, sexual orientation, and need on treatment utilization for substance use and mental disorders: Findings from the California Quality of Life Survey" pot
... evidence of the differential effects of gender and sexual orientation minority status on the receipt of mental health and substance abuse treatment, beyond the influence of the presence of a diagnosable ... of professional help for problems that are assumed to derive from individual distress, or from the internalization of the stigma ascribed to homosexuality by some [58] Further, the culture of ... contributed to the interpretation of findings and writing of the paper; VMM collaborated on the design of the original survey study and contributed to the interpretation of findings and writing of the paper;...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20
báo cáo khoa học:" Multimorbidity and health-related quality of life in the older population: results from the German KORA-Age study" ppsx
... (Oxf) 2005, 27(2):156-164 Soltoft F, Hammer M, Kragh N: The association of body mass index and health-related quality of life in the general population: data from the 2003 Health Survey of England ... and the history of stroke caused greater impairments in HRQL measured by the EQ-5D than could be expected from the separate effects of these conditions Our findings emphasise the importance of ... around a BMI of about 24.8 kg/m2 It indicates that an increase of the BMI from 24.8 to 35 was ˆ ˆ Figure Estimated smooth functions fage and fBMI showing the nonlinear effects of age and body...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo y học: "Quality of life effects of antithrombin III in sepsis survivors: results from the KyberSept trial [ISRCTN22931023]" potx
... trial To the best of our knowledge, limited information on the effects of sepsis treatment on QoL has been reported [2,3] The report focuses on the effects of antithrombin (AT) III therapy related ... statistically significant survival advantage over placebo at 90 days of follow-up The purpose of this investigation was to establish whether these trends also held for the subjective effects of AT III ... data for the six attributes of the visual analog scale and the Karnofsky scale (objective physical performance and dependency) measured from baseline to 90 days Assessment of the changes among the...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo y học: "Health related quality of life in trauma patients. Data from a one-year follow up study compared with the general population" potx
... In the present study, patients were included regardless of the ISS score and of the localization of the injuries This provided the opportunity to study the relative magnitude of the effect of ... regarded as serious The ISS yields scores from to 75 for the overall severity of injuries and is the sum of the square of the AIS for the three most serious injuries in different ISS body regions ... months revealed the presence of statistically significant differences only for the physical function and role physical subscales (Figure 3) Predictors of health-related quality of life The variables...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20
kwon et al - 2014 - the effect of mandatory audit firm rotation on audit quality and audit fees empirical - evidence from the korean audit market [mafr]
... variable to identify the extent to which auditors expend additional effort to reduce any adverse effects of lack of client familiarity on audit quality, and to identify the effects of the rotation ... inform the debate about the economic impact of the introduction of mandatory audit firm rotation We use the following model8 to test the effects of mandatory audit firm rotation on audit fees The ... Most of the financial data used in the present study are available from the KIS Value database The data for audit hours and fees were drawn from statements of operating results filed with the Financial...
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:43