... rather than individuals, and the sequence will be concealed until the intervention is assigned Thus, generation of the allocation sequence and assigning of ASUs to either intervention or control ... co-ordinator at all ASUs and others identified as key champions at the first multidisciplinary workshop Thus, it can be seen that our intervention is both organisational, inter-professional (involving ... outcomes (Table 2) Estimated ICCs range from 0.01 to 0.03 [52] We anticipate a design effect of 1.85, thus aim to recruit 520 patients per group (1,040 in total) Ethical Approval This CRCT has been...
... frequent ALT flare, easy progression to cirrhosis, low HBV DNA titer and curative difficulty, and thus hepatic steatosis will definitely increase the difficulty of therapy in HBeAg-negative HB patients ... patients with hepatic steatosis, these parameters are more likely related to hepatic steatosis Thus, for the treatment of HBeAg-negative CHB with hepatic steatosis, in addition to antivirus therapy...
... medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, and osteopathic medicine, respectively The following is a thumbnail sketch of the principles underlying the concept of the medical home, but you can read ... interrupting your telephone conversation 22 William A Norcross Welcome your doctor with the same enthusiasm and attentiveness you hope to receive from him or her You’ll have your vital signs taken, ... your own health care decisions, but the directive will take effect only if you lose that capacity Thus, even if you execute a living will, you’re still the primary decision maker as long as you...
... to an unknown stimulus and makes too many antibodies, or proteins directed against body tissue Thus, lupus is called an autoimmune disease (auto meaning self) IS THERE AN ‘‘OFFICIAL’’ DEFINITION ... diseases) surveys assumed that all lupus patients were hospitalized over a 7- to 10-year period and thus gathered their data from hospital discharge diagnoses only But other groups have shown that ... production of growth factors which, in turn, make more white blood cells and other growth factors, thus amplifying or ‘‘gearing up’’ the immune system Interferons were originally described as proteins...
... ratings of patients and their significant others on QOL assessed with the EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ-BN20 Thus, we addressed the following questions: 1.) To what degree self- and proxy-ratings on QOL correlate? ... informed consent, patients were not fluent in German and patients had severe visual disorders) Thus, data from 110 patients were available Additional ratings from significant others could be...
... 0.80 that is commonly considered acceptable [36] This indicates high inter-item correlation and thus high internal consistency of the HABAM However, a Cronbach's alpha value that is greater than ... Evidence of content validity for the HABAM was obtained by the data fitting the Rasch model and thus indicating that the HABAM is a unidimensional measure of mobility Two studies have provided ... validity for the HABAM The internal structure of the EMS or PPME has not been investigated and thus the validity of item score summation to obtain a total mobility score for these instruments...
... three point difference due to imperfect recall would bias a patient's currently perceived change Thus a third approach to calculating change would be to adjust the patient's currently perceived...
... Nthumba World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2010, 8:108 http://www.wjso.com/content/8/1/108 Page of ... scarring effectively obliterates lymphatics to injured area, preventing normal immunosurveillance and thus permitting neoplastic growth These tumors initially grow slowly, but quickly overwhelm the ... ulcer and sinuses The margins of the ulcers were of normal appearance, (not elevated), and would thus not suggest malignancy to the casual observer (Figure and 2) The excised surgical margins on...
... the colon, patients who declined to participate, and patient was excluded due to logistic reasons Thus, the study cohort comprised 53 patients, 36 (67.9%) males and 17 (32.1%) females Patients were...
... contouring methods is the resultant difficulty in interpreting the outcomes of different studies Thus, we planned to compare four different rectal volume definition techniques and dependent irradiated ... for beam penumbra in all directions, except for the posterior margin, which overlaps the rectum; thus, posteriorly, a 0.5-cm margin was added for reducing rectal toxicity The isocenter was positioned ... 1) than with contouring techniques that resulted in average and large rectal volumes (method 3) Thus, for example, the mean rectum dose and V70 were higher in method (57.5 Gy and 32.9%, respectively)...
... pain [22] but are expensive and generally unavailable to small companies and the self-employed Thus many such patients seek the help of chiropractors These, however, may be different to patients ... completed the week follow-up However, 29 patients failed to provide full details at this stage, thus reducing the number of participants to 101 (64%) At years, only 55 (54%) of these 101 subjects...
... marked depressive symptoms were 22% to 27% and 21% to 22% at year by Zung self Rating scale and Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale respectively Stefano et al 51 in their case control study...
... program in Japan This frequency means that the observation day of the week shifts successively, thus, allowing us to observe changes in patterns of factory production and lifestyle as point pollution...
... reefs were designed to prevent the migration of sea urchins by being detached from the bottom and thus, allowing the recovery of U pinnatifida and other non-encrusting macroalgae Both buoyed reefs ... occurred at the surveyed section with 30.0 to 40.6 m away from the shore in Line in 2003 (Table 1) Thus, in addition to the population of sea urchin as the algal herbivores, other factors might be ... the bay was mainly composed by bed rock, isolated rock, boulder, cobble and pebble (Table and 2) Thus, the bottom sediment was not a major factor leading to the different distribution of sea urchin...
... dynamics of nutrients in the soil layer and resultant rice growth The purpose of this study is thus to clarify the effects of the water supply rate on the dynamics of nitrogen in VF constructed ... experimental soil column of 4.92 cm in diameter, and the water was supplied at a rate of 1.0±0.1 mL/min Thus, the water supply rate was comparable to that in our study The other experimental conditions...
... C5H7O2N + 59 H2O + 117 NO2- + 35 H2CO3 + HCO3- (3) In each process, nitrate is removed biologically thus, alkalinity can increase The observation results also showed that M-alkalinity increased from...