results of a comprehensive systematic review of the literature

... and adaptation 1.9% Adaptation and literature (systematic search) 1% Adaptation and experts 1% Patients and adaptation and literature (unsystematic search) 1% Patients and experts and adaptation ... 13 Kozaki K, Murata H, Kikuchi R, Sugiyama Y, Hasegawa H, Igata A, Toba K: ["Activity scale for the elderly" as a measurement for the QOL of local elderly individuals and the assessment of the ... Lurie A, Bean K, Mesbah M, Venot A, Strauch G, Grandordy BM, Chwalow J: The Asthma Impact Record (AIR) index: a rating scale to evaluate the quality of life of asthmatic patients in France European...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 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 ... patients varied from one to five hours; the greatest part of that delay was attributed to the purchase of therapeutic material by patients and their families [48] The overall evaluation of professional ... Green A, Pearson S: The implications of shortages of health professionals for maternal health in sub-saharan Africa Reproductive Health Matters 2006, 14:40-50 Islam MT, Haque YA, Waxman R, Bhuiyan...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... [9], Australia [14] and Canada [7] Generally male pharmacists predominated above the age of 50 Education One response to the shortage of pharmacists was found to be a planned expansion of the ... to become an ageing profession Finally, the death of pharmacists was another factor in the permanent attrition of pharmacists from the workforce Although the death of pharmacists was not reported ... Potential areas of recruitment to the pharmacist workforce Potential areas of recruitment to the pharmacist workforce Another important issue in the recruitment of pharmacists was the lack of male...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... quotient in anorexia nervosa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature Annals of General Psychiatry 2010 9:40 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: ... including a meta-analysis for estimated IQ data in AN compared with the average IQ obtained from normative data Studies included in this review were selected on the basis of quality of the data and validity ... between the results of the various studies and an estimate of the overall effect size of all the studies together considering the data available for each study included in the meta-analysis [25] Each...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... 'clinical 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 ... 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 ... tocilizumab and placebo, with a minimal impact of C-reactive protein on clinical disease activity measures The introduction of anti-TNFα marked the beginning of a new era in the treatment of RA Nonetheless,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... lupus erythematosus Lancet 1990, 335:1541-4 Takayama T, Teramura M, Sakai H, Tamaki S, Okabayashi T, Kawashima T, Yamamoto T, Horie M, Suzuki T, Asai T: Perforated mitral valve aneurysm associated ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... PF scales that are validated for use in patients with RA The results of this review provide a comprehensive assessment of the available evidence for the utility of available scales for patients ... aspects of content validity, indicating that all their items are relevant to the assessment of PF of patients with RA and all three relevant ICF chapters are measured by the items making up the ... that deserve attention First, we used the ICF as an external standard to evaluate the content validity of the included scales, as have a number of previous similar systematic reviews [49,50] The...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20

... 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 ... and audit of the Bath insulin protocol Anaesth Intensive Care 2004, 32:311-316 Dazzi D, Taddei F, Gavarini A, Uggeri E, Negro R, Pezzarossa A: The control of blood glucose in the critical diabetic ... (personnel, fast and accurate point -of- care blood glucose determination, among other factors) and on the prevailing mean blood glucose level before starting a protocol Acceptance of the protocol...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... intra-assay CV of less than or equal to 7% and an interassay CV of less than or equal to 10%, and at concentrations greater than 0.3 ng/ml the intra-assay CV is less than or equal to 3% and the interassay ... contributions All authors participated in the design of the study CS and YS contributed to data collection and drafted the manuscript KR and FB revised the article All authors read and approved the final ... demonstrate any agreement between standard definitions of sepsis syndromes and those incorporating PCT levels as part of the diagnostic criteria Comparative data with other markers of tissue inflammation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... that report hemodynamic goals of therapy, there are wide variations in the measures followed and the goals chosen If hemodynamic goals are related to outcomes and to specific agents, the variation ... of the trial, and mortality rates To summarize the hemodynamic goals of each trial, both measure(s) of the blood pressure and/or filling pressure used and/ or the cardiac index, and the target ... performed the literature review JES, SN, DMN, and SH performed the data analysis JES drafted the manuscript and all other authors critically revised it for important intellectual content All authors approved...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... the date of publication, the setting of the study, the patient population, details of the medical treatment (monotherapy, Highly Active AntiRetroviral Therapy – HAART), data relevant to SES, the ... dT4 = stavudine, DLV = delaviridine, IDV = indinavir, 3TC = lamivudine HAART HAART HAART HAART HAART, mainly HAART Antiretroviral treatment, not specified HAART Antiretroviral treatment (HAART 31%) ... important strategies Additionally, the physician being consistent, vigilant, available, and explanatory can motivate the patient to adhere more to the antiretroviral treatment [1,38] Warning the patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 06:20

... taken in account Further studies are warranted to validate clinical criteria against pathological diagnosis The role of bacteriological data in improving the accuracy of a clinical diagnosis of ... specimens, and biomarkers of host response Due to the lack of an acceptable gold standard, the accuracy of these methods in diagnosing VAP is controversial The aim of this qualitative review was, therefore, ... of VAP Many studies have evaluated the value of bacteriological data in establishing the diagnosis of VAP compared to pathological, clinical, or other bacteriological diagnostic criteria (Tables...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... 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 ... several important limitations to the application of COP measures in the assessment of postural sway in a clinical setting: Although the results tempt us to hypothesize a correlation between the magnitude...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... our case, the lack of a previous history of trauma, infection and head surgery leads us to believe that the AC was due to a congenital anomaly Mirror images in MZ and AC are not relatively rare ... the cerebral hemispheres AC result from accumulation of CSF surrounded by an arachnoid membrane Vernooij et al 15 found that AC has a prevalence of approximately 1% in the normal population There ... temporal fossa AC Helland et al 20 found the Na+–K+–2Cl− cotransporter NKCC1 gene was escalated in AC and NKCC1 was present in the AC wall These finding indicated NKCC1 gene might play an important...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... Transport Research Library and is Australia’s major transport database As well as the holdings of the ARRB Transport Research Library collection, it also includes the holdings of a number of other ... drivers Casualty crash analyses, even those encompassing casualties of all severity, have a sampling bias: the so-called ‘frailty bias’, which exaggerates any apparent age-related risk increase The ... Newstead and O’Hare (2003) As noted by these authors: “… it may not be entirely accurate to label such behavioural adaptations as ‘compensation’ While these changes may reflect a behavioural adaptation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... Psychiatric Research, USA; Faiza Anwar, Women’s Health Educator, Australia; Victor Aparicio Basauri, WHO Collaborating Centre, Spain; Lara Asuncion Ramon de la Fuente, National Institute of Psychiatry, ... Ahmed G Abou El-Azayem, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Council of the World Federation for Mental Health, Egypt; Mlay Akwillina, Reproductive Health Project, Tanzania; Mary Jane Alexander, Nathan ... Mental health aspects of women’s reproductive health A global review of the literature WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Mental health aspects of women’s reproductive health : a global...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... that battle fatigue and other stress reactions may account for as many as 50 percent of the casualties in a given war As a result of the effect that stress can have on service members and their ... Hosek, Laura Miller, Laura Castaneda, and Terri Tanielian for their comments throughout the writing process Bryan Hallmark and Brad Stein gave constructive reviews of an earlier draft of the report ... (NSRD) of the RAND Corporation NSRD conducts research and analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Commands, the defense agencies, the Department of the Navy,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... according to the characteristics of the activity they carry out, but rather on the basis of the location of their workplace To exemplify, in the NIPA, a marketing manager working in a car factory will ... (which are higher in these industries) 17 on the basis of the Comparative German American Database For the sake of comparability, this database classifies occupations and industries in the US and ... distinctively information-processing economy The United Kingdom, Canada and France have nearly the same ratio as the US, and although Germany and Italy have substantially lower ratios, their informationprocessing...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... patients carried a preliminary diagnosis of osteoarthritis (via MRI and plain radiograph) and were candidates for primary arthroscopic treatment of a unilateral knee secondary to a meniscal pathology, ... femoral tibial joint were systematically evaluated All compartments were graded using the ICRS grading scale: Grade I was assigned to cartilage that appeared nearly normal and had superficial lesions ... patellofemoral joint had the greatest amount of involvement with an average grade of 3.1 +/- 0.5 The medial compartment revealed an average ICRS grade of 2.8 +/- 0.8 and the lateral compartment...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... GA: Bilateral carpometacarpal dislocations of the thumb Am J Orthop 2003, 32:38-41 11 Kural C, Malkoc M, Ugras AA, Sen A: Isolated carpometacarpal dislocation of the thumb: a case report Acta ... trapezium and trapeziometacarpal joint J Hand Surg [Am] 1999, 24(4):786-798 Strauch RJ, Behrman MJ, Rosenwasser MP: Acute dislocation of the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb: an anatomic and cadaver ... anchor loaded with a 2-0 suture material (Ethibond) Furthermore, the CMC joint capsule was repaired in an Page of Figure Intraoperative photograph of the dorsal aspect of carpometacarpal joint The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20