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... educate patients and other health care practitioners about the complications and prevention of retinal disease andthe availability of treatment Statement ofthe Problem I STATEMENT OFTHE PROBLEM ... for followup by the optometrist depend on the type and severity ofthe break The frequency and composition of evaluation and management visits andthe prognosis for patients with specific conditions ... time The further into the vitreous cavity the retina floats, the more elevated it appears during ophthalmoscopy andthe greater the number and size of retinal folds in the detachment In longstanding...
... people with an advance directive in the Netherlands Furthermore, we investigated the content validity ofthe PDI by assessing the relevance andthe comprehensiveness ofthe PDI items withthe COSMIN ... Analysing the content validity ofthe PDI, we assessed the relevance ofthe PDI items for (1) the construct to be measured, (2) the study population, and (3) the purpose ofthe study Firstly, the majority ... one or more ofthe most common standard advance directives in the Netherlands provided by the Right to Die-NL andthe Dutch Patient Association During the first data-collection cycle the cohort...
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... appearance ofthe influenza pandemic related to the new strain ofthe H1N1 influenza virus The fist case in the north of Vietnam occurred on June 2009 Then this pandemic had rapidly spread to other ... the important information about the first pandemic influenza in the XXI century, the study "Epidemiological characteristics and some riskfactorsof pandemic influenza A/H1N1/2009 in the Northern ... caused by the pH1N1/2009 in the Northern areas of Vietnam 3.1.1 .The epidemiological development ofthe pH1N1/2009 in the Northern areas of Vietnam Figure 3.1 Development of pH1N1/2009 in Northern...
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... Venkatesh and Davis, 2000) The TAM model is grounded in the theory of reasoned action (TRA), but also contains traces ofthe expectancy theory (Robey, 1979), and self-efficacy (SE) theory (Bandura, ... other industries, andthe review of literature reveals that industries other than banking also grapple with understanding thefactors that influence users’ acceptance and use of their industry-specific ... Henry and Stone’s (1994) study examines the effect of PEU on CSE, thus changing the directionality ofthe relationship between these two variables Locus of control and computer self-efficacy LOC and...
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... broader aspects of health Assuming that knowledge of specific factors can further assist ophthalmologists in the care of their patients, the present study aims to create a risk profile ofpatient characteristics ... characteristics ofthe patients Ofthe visually impaired population, in more than 50% theprimary cause of vision loss was AMD Three patients (9.1%) who reported to suffer from the consequences of stroke ... in the USA [36] and in the Netherlands [9] With a risk profile, as presented in this study, a rehabilitation intervention or a specific referral to another sub-specialty may be of benefit for the...
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... of daily living, range of movement and power); the range of motion ofthe active external rotation in adduction and abduction; the presence of a hornblower’ sign [21] andthe feasibility ofthe ... MRI-scans with or without arthrography, interpreted by each ofthe responsible surgeons, taken in the transversal Page ofand sagittal plane ofthe shoulder The degree of fatty degeneration ofthe ... omarthrosis, the authors had access to the preoperative clinicaland radiological data and peroperative findings of a cohort of 307 patients treated with a shoulder prosthesis All of these patients...
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... (STEMI) Out ofthe 32 patients who presented to the ED within h after the onset of chest pain, 10 (31.2%) had AMI (group 1) Six ofthe 31 patients (19.3%) who presented after h but within 12 h of chest ... Page of Figure Flow chart ofthe study 24 h of onset of chest pain Figure shows the initial ECG findings in the ED The majority of patients (72.5%) in this study did not have an AMI Twenty-two patients ... About 2-8% of patients who presented with chest pains to the ED were misdiagnosed and sent home [5] The morbidity and mortality in these patients were high Patients could be misdiagnosed and inappropriately...