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screening for colorectal cancer in the elderly patient

Screening for Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly pot

Screening for Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly pot

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... E R Screening for Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly MANEUVER EFFECTIVENESS LEVEL OF EVIDENCE RECOMMENDATION Screening with short mental status instruments The Mini Mental State examination ... of acetyl choline Tacrine (tetrahydroaminoacridine), has been approved for use in the United States and is available in Canada Modest but definite improvements in cognitive performance have been ... 1990; 323: 445-448 Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination: The periodic health examination, 1991 update: Screening for cognitive impairment in the elderly Can Med Assoc J 1991; 144:...
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Attitudes, barriers and facilitators for health promotion in the elderly in primary care doc

Attitudes, barriers and facilitators for health promotion in the elderly in primary care doc

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... Discussion Main findings Among the participating GPs, definitions of health promotion interventions in the elderly widely varied The opinion regarding the effectiveness of health promotion in the elderly ... well as regarding the content of the programme Providing information over the internet for instance, may not reach a substantial proportion of the target group To increase the interest for health ... health promotion in the elderly H Incentives for GPs to provide health promotion in the elderly I Incentives for patients to accept health promotion in the elderly J Possible interventions to...
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Health services research on endoscopic surveillance for gastric cancer in the singapore chinese population   experience of the gastric cancer epidemiology clinical and genetic program

Health services research on endoscopic surveillance for gastric cancer in the singapore chinese population experience of the gastric cancer epidemiology clinical and genetic program

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... development, intuitively, eradicating this infection would eliminate cancer risk before precancerous lesions develop Therefore, screening for H pylori and treating those with a positive finding is ... Gastric cancer mortality Following the downward trend seen in incidence, GC mortality has also declined over time globally The declining mortality has been attributed to the declining incidence as there ... trends in gastric cancer mortality and incidence for males 11 Figure 1-7 Declining trends in gastric cancer mortality and incidence for females 12 Figure 2-1 Carcinogenesis for Gastric Cancer...
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Bóa cáo y học: "Could CT screening for lung cancer ever be cost effective in the United Kingdom" pot

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... £12,186 The two changes combined produce a 15 per cent fall in the baseline ICER, to £11,764 Other things remaining equal, the cost effectiveness of screening increases as the prevalence of cancer in ... definition Second, attending for screening inevitably entails the incurring of time and travel costs on the part of those being invited These costs can be sizeable: in a trial of clinic-based screening ... of the contemporary tariff price for sigmoidoscopy estimated in general settings [53] Were the costs of investigation in lung cancer screening to follow the same pattern, the ICER for screening...
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Tài liệu Vaccines for preventing influenza in the elderly (Review) docx

Tài liệu Vaccines for preventing influenza in the elderly (Review) docx

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... and deaths from in uenza Description of the intervention Vaccines have been the main global weapon to minimise the impact of in uenza in the elderly for the last four decades In the year 2000, ... interest in influenza vaccines and Vaccines for preventing in uenza in the elderly (Review) Copyright © 2010 The Cochrane Collaboration Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd their performance How the intervention ... good coverage in those who most need it or the diluting effect on vaccines for in uenza of other agents circulating in the community (causing ILI, clinically indistinguishable from in uenza), might...
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Tài liệu Screening for Breast Cancer: Systematic Evidence Review Update for the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force doc

Tài liệu Screening for Breast Cancer: Systematic Evidence Review Update for the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force doc

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... them including when to discontinue screening Studies on the role of MRI in screening are required in order to incorporate this technology appropriately in the screening process More information ... of a woman developing breast cancer in her forties is in 69, in her fifties in 38, and in her sixties in 27.10 Although the incidence rate of breast cancer has increased since the 1970s and 1980s, ... recommend for or against routine CBE alone to screen for breast cancer The USPSTF also concluded that the evidence was insufficient to recommend for or against teaching or performing routine breast...
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Tài liệu Evidence-based Series 15-1 IN REVIEW : Screening for Skin Cancer doc

Tài liệu Evidence-based Series 15-1 IN REVIEW : Screening for Skin Cancer doc

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... effects of screening for skin cancer As experts in the treatment and epidemiology of skin cancer, the guideline panel members were aware that some individuals are at increased risk for skin cancer ... systematic review of the evidence conducted by the Skin Cancer Screening Guideline Panel) The guideline panel reviewed three evidence-based guidelines on screening for skin cancer (1-3), results ... evidence for or against skin cancer screening of the general population at average risk of developing skin cancer Based on the limited evidence available at present, routine total body skin examination...
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American College of Gastroenterology Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening 2008 pdf

American College of Gastroenterology Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening 2008 pdf

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... Americans, screening should begin at age 45 years A family history of polyps need not invoke earlier onset of screening or other adjustment in screening, unless there is convincing evidence that the ... supporting the increased risk in these groups is given in Appendix A The current evidence supports a decision by clinicians in individual patients with an extreme smoking history or obesity to begin ... et al Colorectal cancer screening: clinical guidelines and rationale Gastroenterology 1997;112:594–642 Byers T, Levin B, Rothenberger D et al American Cancer Society guidelines for screening and...
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BEST PRACTICES in the Management of Elderly Disaster Victims doc

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BEST PRACTICES in the Management of Elderly Disaster Victims doc

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... advocate for getting evacuees the services they require They also need to keep evacuees informed about the progress being made in resolving their problems This process should continue even when the ... living The plan for the administration of the SWiFT tool was to pair social workers with either a doctor or nurse Each of these pairings walked among the cots on the Astrodome floor looking for ... evacuation to the RAC The trauma resulting from the disaster, the process of evacuation, the disruption of regular care, and the stress of residing in the shelter complex further increased their vulnerability...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Prognostic impact of clinical course-specific mRNA expression profiles in the serum of perioperative patients with esophageal cancer in the ICU: a case control study" potx

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... prognostic indicator in fulminant hepatitis in patients without encephalopathy upon admission [10,11] In the present study, we examined 11 proinflammatory genes in patients receiving therapy in the ... GPIb-IX-V Therefore, upregulated VWF may represent unstable hemostasis and reflect damage to endothelial megakaryocytes expressing VWF In the signaling pathway, VWF interacts with integrins in the ... functions in the complement and coagulation cascades, linking downstream to the inflammatory process or to B cell receptor signaling NAMPT is another indicator for prognosis It is the rate-limiting...
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báo cáo khoa học: "Vaginal treatment of endometrial cancer: role in the elderly" doc

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... Nevertheless, these procedures could be often severely contra-indicated in endometrial cancer patient, since they require a general anesthesia, which is contra-indicated in endometrial cancer patients ... morbidities These results show how vaginal approach had a similar outcome in selected patients We compared the clinical outcome of the vaginal versus the abdominal hysterectomy in a population of elderly ... V) included medically compromised women undergoing vaginal hysterectomy for cancer A second group (group A) included patients who underwent abdominal surgery for cancer Group V considered patients...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Predictive factors for breast cancer in patients diagnosed atypical ductal hyperplasia at core needle biopsy" doc

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... excision, including DCIS and invasive cancer All patients in this study underwent clinical and radiological examination, including mammography and ultrasound The radiological appearance of the lesion ... or invasive cancer in a case of ADH Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions BJC carried out the statistical analysis, participated in ... determined to be an independent predictive factor for breast cancer at surgical excision in patients with diagnosed ADH at CNB Consistent with our findings, Ko et al [18] observed an increase in...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "High-dose rate brachytherapy (HDRB) for primary or recurrent cancer in the vagina" docx

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... Discussion Radiotherapy is the main therapeutic modality in the management of primary or recurrent vaginal cancer Brachytherapy remains integral part of definitive radiation therapy for these patients ... years) The recurrence was marginal (within cm of previous field) in patients and within the previous field in patients The sites of disease were proximal vagina patients, distal vagina patients ... findings and imaging were also taken for reference for defining the target volume The median number of needles used were 14 (range 7–18) The dose of interstitial brachytherapy was 18.75 Gy in...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " RapidArc, intensity modulated photon and proton techniques for recurrent prostate cancer in previously irradiated patients: a treatment planning comparison study" doc

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... and femoral heads The non-target tissue was defined as the patient' s volume covered by the CT scan minus the planning target volume (PTV) For all patients, GTV was outlined using the signal-tobackground ... D5%-D95% The conformality of the plans was measured with a Conformity Index, CI90% defined as the ratio between the patient volume receiving at least 90% of the prescribed dose and the volume of the ... choline PET/CT for localizing occult relapse of prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy in 49 patients Focally increased 11C-choline uptake in the prostatic fossa was observed in 70% of patients...
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Báo cáo y học: " Pre-treatment mortality and loss-to-follow-up in HIV-1, HIV-2 and HIV-1/HIV-2 dually infected patients eligible for antiretroviral therapy in The Gambia, West Africa" doc

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... ART to patients in the cohort and assessing them for ART eligibility at the planning phase for introduction of ART in June 2004 Adult patients were considered eligible for ART based on the Gambian ... Nabiryo C, Coutinho A: Use of WHO clinical stage for assessing patient eligibility to antiretroviral therapy in a routine health service setting in Jinja, Uganda AIDS Research and Therapy 2008, ... sensitivity of WHO clinical staging in assessing patient s eligibility for ART [17,18], our data suggest that it is an important clinical assessment tool and we therefore advocate for the development...
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Báo cáo y học: " Using patient and physician perspectives to develop a shared decision-making framework for colorectal cancer" pptx

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... validity by maintaining internal consistency The main objectives of the patient interviews are to explore: patients' perceptions of the information they received and were asked to provide during treatment ... important by the healthcare team also influenced colorectal cancer patients desire for involvement in treatment decision making, and was considered as important as the cancer information they received ... shared decision making in the setting of colorectal cancer; to identify and explore the enablers and barriers to the use of shared decision making in the setting of colorectal cancer; and identify...
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Báo cáo y học: "A cluster randomized trial of standard quality improvement versus patient-centered interventions to enhance depression care for African Americans in the primary care setting: study protocol NCT00243425" doc

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... administrative assistants) at Johns Hopkins, the staff at all of the participating clinical sites, all of the participating clinicians, the organizational leaders, and the patients, for making the ... participating in the study During registration, patients were given a card that informed them their clinician was participating in a study to improve emotional health in African Americans, and they ... arrived at their next appointment If they agreed, a field research assistant met the patient at the clinic prior to their next appointment The research assistant administered the brief screening questionnaire,...
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báo cáo khoa học: " Using patient and physician perspectives to develop a shared decision-making framework for colorectal cancer" docx

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... validity by maintaining internal consistency The main objectives of the patient interviews are to explore: patients' perceptions of the information they received and were asked to provide during treatment ... important by the healthcare team also influenced colorectal cancer patients desire for involvement in treatment decision making, and was considered as important as the cancer information they received ... shared decision making in the setting of colorectal cancer; to identify and explore the enablers and barriers to the use of shared decision making in the setting of colorectal cancer; and identify...
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Near infrared autofluorescence imaging and spectroscopy for early detection of precancer and cancer in the colon

Near infrared autofluorescence imaging and spectroscopy for early detection of precancer and cancer in the colon

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... globin [18] Since globin does not survive in the passage through the upper gastrointestinal tract, the FIT’s detection of globin is specific for occult bleeding from the large bowel Therefore, ... diagnosis of colon cancer [33] During colonoscopy screening, the stains can be sprayed using specially designed catheters through the instrument channel Then the effect of these stains on the subtle ... mortality [16] In the past 20 years, there are drastic progresses in the development of new screening methods for colon cancer [17] In the next two sections, the conventional screening methods and...
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