... resulted in a final model in which delta lactate remained independently associated with in- hospital mortality (with equal hazard ratio, 95% CI and p value, data not shown) Subgroup of patients ... predictors of in- hospital death, adjusted for standard variables available in the pre -hospital setting, a multivariable Cox proportional hazards (PH) model was constructed The variables systolic ... two years of postgraduate training in a critical care setting (ICU, cardiac care unit, anaesthesiology or ED) and one year of training in EMSspecific procedures Selection of participants A convenience...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23
... Yekta ZP: Nursing experience in Iran Int J Nurs Pract 2003, 9:78-85 Adib Hajbaghery M, Salsali , Ahmadi F: The factors facilitating and inhibiting effective clinical decision-making in nursing: a ... situations [20] Organizational structure – such as the training nature of the hospitals, hospital equipment and facilities, hierarchy in organization, patients and patient companions – was another ... Nazari A, Salsali M, Ahmadi F, Adib Hajbaghery M: Iranian staff nurses' views of their productivity and management factors improving and impeding it: a qualitative study Nursing and Health Sciences...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo y học: "β A randomized, controlled trial of interferon-β-1a (Avonex®) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a pilot study [ISRCTN03626626]" pptx
... treatment with available disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) Materials and methods This study was approved by the investigational review board at each participating institution The study subjects ... drug; HAQ, Health Assessment Questionnaire; NSAID, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug; SD, standard deviation; VAS, Visual Analog Scale leaving the study early did so secondary to a perceived lack ... Treatments Patients were randomized to receive IFN-β- 1a (30 µg intramuscular weekly) or matched placebo in a 3:1 ratio at each of two sites (Stanford University and the University of Alabama at...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23
High rate of unintended pregnancy among pregnant women in a maternity hospital in Córdoba, Argentina: a pilot study docx
... Our findings show that almost two-thirds of the women interviewed in the largest maternity hospital in Cordoba, Argentina stated that their current pregnancy was unintended and it is not in agreement ... reason the fact that they "were unaware about contraception" This reason could be interpreted in a similar way as "did not believe I could become pregnant then" as the main reason for not having ... may become pregnant Another situation to take into account is that often the logistics of contraceptive supply are ineffective, and in many clinics certain contraceptive methods may be unavailable...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20
Assessment of medical waste management and treatment status in thai nguyen hospital of traditional medicine
... medical waste management and treatment status in Thai Nguyen Hospital of Traditional Medicine The main focus is in aspects: the current status of medical waste in Thai Nguyen Hospital of Traditional ... water containing the radioactive instruments - Radioactive waste gas, including clinical gases The gas released from the radioactive material storage/[5] 2.1.3 Chemical waste Chemical waste includes ... can cause illness isolated from drinking water, wastewater, and air and using her specialty in the hospital mainly intestinal bacteria b) Impact of economic waste to public health The study in...
Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2016, 13:37
Báo cáo y học: "The Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) in acutely hospitalised medical patients: a cohort study"
... counting data EpiData version 3.1 was used for data registration and STATA version (STATA Corporation®, Texas, USA) for statistical analysis Ethics In accordance with Danish regulations, the study ... related to increased survival, which makes severe sepsis a condition which is important to identify and treat as early as possible [2,12,13] days after arrival, including clinical examinations as ... the relevance of SIRS in predicting morbidity and mortality among patients in a medical emergency ward Materials and methods Patient population All acutely hospitalised medical patients admitted...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56
Báo cáo y học: "A pilot study of rizatriptan and visually-induced motion sickness in migraineu"
... 2001;41:604-5 Prakash S, Chavda BV, Mandalia H, Dhawan R, Padmanabhan D Headaches related to triptans therapy in patients of migrainous vertigo J Headache Pain 2008;9(3):185-8 Marcus DA, Furman JM Prevention ... sickness in migraine sufferers Headache 2005;45(6):653-6 Drummond PD, Granston A Facial pain increases nausea and headache during motion sickness in migraine sufferers Brain 2004;127(Pt 3):526-34 Brandt ... Female Female Female Female Female Female Female Aura Aura No Aura Aura Aura Aura Aura Vertigo Vertigo Non-Vertigo Non-Vertigo Vertigo Vertigo Non-Vertigo Motion Sickness History Actual Visual...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57
Livestock marketing in Kenya- Ethiopia border areas: A baseline study docx
... Addis Ababa along the main route to Moyale Infrastructural, policy-related and institutional constraints to livestock marketing in Ethiopia and Kenya include lack of access to formal financial ... goats are traded Harobake is located in the Borana zone in Yabello woreda, 13km north of Yabello town and 550km south of Addis Ababa, on the main asphalted road that links Addis Ababa and Moyale ... information remains a major constraint for livestock market actors, producers in particular Observations at market sites in Borana zone point to an imbalance in the bargaining power of traders and...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20
Asylum-Seeking Women, Violence & Health: Results from a Pilot Study in Scotland and Belgium docx
... Hossain Co-Investigator, Research Study Coordinator Ligia Kiss Data Analysis (Quantitative) Joelle Mak Data Entry Johna Hoey Data Entry, Policy Analysis Kathleen Weneden Data Analysis (Qualitative) ... Difficulty Remembering Fainting Gastrointestinal Digestive Problems Cardiovascular Breathing Difficulty Musculoskeletal Back Pain Tooth Pain Facial Injuries Infections Cold, Flu, Other Infections Weight ... wear headscarves I feel unsafe in this area, always scared I explained about the accommodation not being good, and feeling unsafe, but no one has helped “ 9|Page Asylum Process Main Findings •...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "A Pilot Study of Opinion Summarization in Conversations" docx
... require a large labeled data set for modeling training, as needed in some classification or feature based summarization approaches 4.1 summary annotation (Liu and Liu, 2008) The agreement on abstractive ... Processing Shih Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen, and Hsin Wang 2009 A comparative study of probabilistic ranking models for chinese spoken document summarization ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information ... − M in M ax − M in • sentiment(s) indicates the probability that utterance s contains opinion To obtain this, we trained a maximum entropy classifier with a bag-of-words model using a combination...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20
Spatial modelling of air pollution in urban areas with GIS: a case study on integrated database development doc
... values of variables are transferred and incorporated into the GIS database, which can be useful in managing data time series To accommodate large data sets and many variables such as air quality ... relational database, so that the geospatial coordinate data of the GIS data layers are stored in the relational data tables Since the relational database supports relationships between its tables, ... spatial and temporal data, complex analyses, and visualization, (Matejicek, 2002) Due to the ability to manage a number of spatial and temporal data formats, data structures created in the framework...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Mycophenolate pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in belatacept treated renal allograft recipients – a pilot study" doc
... restored by incubating the isolated cells in filtrated plasma originating from the same sample The IMPDH activity was determined in cell lysates using an HPLC-UV assay for determination of xanthine derived ... given as median (range) The belatacept group includes patients at week 13 and for the maximum, minimum and AUC calculations at week A0 , predose activity; Amax, maximum activity; Amin, minimum activity; ... immunosuppressive action by inhibiting IMPDH, and thereby the proliferation of activated lymphocytes [6] MPA demonstrates a narrow therapeutic range and substantial inter- and intraindividual variability...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo sinh học:" Health workforce development planning in the Sultanate of Oman: a case study" pdf
... planning team felt it necessary to maintain close linkage with other top- and mid-level management personnel in health affairs, planning affairs, education and training affairs and administrative ... organizational and managerial reforms leading to a re-engineering of hospital management in Oman [5,6] These guidelines have paved the way for effective decentralization of health administration ... health sector, as an integral part of the Omani economic and social development It has advocated a national self-reliance or Omanization policy as a political necessity and as the main underlying...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
báo cáo sinh học:" Key factors leading to reduced recruitment and retention of health professionals in remote areas of Ghana: a qualitative study and proposed policy solutions" doc
... metropolitan area like Accra or Kumasi In fact, while many doctors in GA had been abroad, many (especially the young) had never traveled as far north as Tamale, let alone the upper regions of Ghana “I ... qualitative study was to gather such data from rural and urban doctors, as well as medical leaders, on both the real and perceived challenges of rural medical service in Ghana We gathered data ... strengthening post-graduate training capacity in the country Expanding opportunities for post-graduate specialization may offer a significant return on investment; establishment of postgraduate training...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Testing a model of association between patient identified problems and responses to global measures of health in low back pain patients: a prospective study" pdf
... domains comprising the construct 2) determining where one stands on each domain 3) integrating the separate domain judgements into an overall assessment Self-rated recovery from back pain has ... based upon a broad amalgam of experiences e.g Assessment of general health status or overall change in condition Usual activities (spanning a range of functional tasks) Patient-identified single ... that they were prevented from doing At 12 months, data were available on 238 (76.3%) of these original 312 patients A cross-tabulation of these data can be seen in table At baseline, no statistically...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Body mass index and health related quality of life in elementary school children: a pilot study" pdf
... provided guidance on using SF-10 for Children TM related to data collection and analysis TK managed the database and did data entry All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements ... social, mental and emotional determinants of health are of interest Health indices are useful in health policy and economic evaluation, because a single score is useful in making choices and ... Medicare and Medicaid Services and the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Health Plan Employer Data Information Set (HEDIS 3.0) to evaluate the quality of care that is provided in managed...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Logistic feasibility of health related quality of life measurement in clinical practice: results of a prospective study in a large population of chronic liver patients" potx
... include several crucial specifications (instant scoring and graphical output of the data, instant availability of data to physicians, guaranteing patient privacy) b) by observing patients' ability ... is assessed by means of computers that can generate an output which can instantly be accessed by clinicians The aim of the present study was to gain more insight in the practical and attitudinal ... and by practical and attitudinal barriers that have been associated with the implementation of HRQoL measurement in clinical practice Practical barriers that have been reported include general...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Reduction of freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease by repetitive robot-assisted treadmill training: a pilot study" doc
... the training period Participants were given the calendar at baseline and it was collected and reviewed at each training session A fall was defined as an event resulting in a Lo et al Journal of ... or training effect, the trials conducted prior to training at session were used as baseline measurements for data analysis Data Analysis Self-reported freezing and falls data were each averaged ... current study and Frazzitta et al might be attributed to variations in both frequency and type of treadmill training paradigm Frazzitta et al incorporated a high intensity training protocol (20 min/day,...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " The Armeo Spring as training tool to improve upper limb functionality in multiple sclerosis: a pilot study" ppt
... (i.e grasping and moving a jar, pouring water from a jug into a cup, inserting coins in a slot, pinching and moving small objects) was registered The maximal time limit for each of the TEMPA tasks ... supplementary mechanical-assisted training had taken place The 9HPT outcomes approximated the post-training performance levels After finishing the training program, participants rated themselves ... training program for improving upper limb muscle strength and functional capacity in MS patients with paresis The gravity-supporting Armeo Spring was employed as a training tool assisting participants...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20