... guideline offers best practice advice on the classification and care of women atriskof familial breast cancer Treatment and care should take into account patients’ needs and preferences People at raised ... indicated From 30–39 years: • to women ata 10-year riskof greater than 8% From 40–49 years: • to women ata 10-year riskof greater than 20%, or • to women ata 10-year riskof greater than 12% ... second-degree relative diagnosed with breast cancer at younger than an average age of 60 years or • Families containing male breast cancer at any age and on the same side of the family, at least: − one...
... counselling about fall prevention and intake of calcium and vitamin D; educational materials from osteoporosis Canada provided and patients asked to discuss the material with their PCP Canadian guidelines ... to PCP and discussed at meeting; printed educational materials and letter from HBCBSNJ to patient; automated phone call invitation for BMD scan Two arm RCT; patient randomised Power calculation ... commenced; patient review and bisphosphonate commenced as appropriate; monitoring of adherence to medication and complications; transfer of responsibility for medication adherence and patient management...
... design and date of publication Effects of pre-natal maternal smoking Pooled estimates from the ten studies of pre-natal maternal smoking showed a statistically significant increase in the odds of ... were categorised by methodological quality, date of publication, and by study design Effects of paternal smoking Meta-analysis of the 21 studies of paternal smoking demonstrated a statistically ... be of lower quality primarily due to a combination ofa lack of biochemical validation of passive smoke exposure, lack of representativeness of the study sample, and/ or lack of adjusted analyses...
... 3.2.1.4 Data and data analysis …………………………………… 3.2.1.4.1 What are the attitudes of teachers and students toward reading comprehension? …………………………… 3.2.1.4.2 What are the attitudes of teachers and ... Chapter III aims at identifying and analyzing both strong points and weak points of the teaching and learning of reading ESP in Department of Linguistics and Vietnamese Studies at USSH – VNU based ... the advantages of skill-integration in teaching and learning reading and relationship between this skill and the other language skills Part C is the main part of the study It consists of two chapters...
... is also of great importance ata time when Americans are being targeted because of their nationality and other identity characteristics We have also added a new chapter, a second one by Andrea ... A great deal of practice experience teaches that categorical diagnoses are often inaccurate predictors of how people can and will act in groups Also, although individual “intake” interviews are ... skill attainment in the case of socialization, and social control and rehabilitation in the case of resocialization By emphasizing the importance of agency processes and structure to what happens...
... details Geography and Population Department, Mahendra Ratna Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal 2Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand Authors’ ... Nepal Kathmandu 2003 UNAIDS and World Health Organization: AIDS Epidemic Update Geneva 2009 National Centre for AIDS and STD Control: Cumulative HIV and AIDS Situation of Nepal (as of 17 October, ... independent variables were categorized in the same way Methods of analysis All completed survey questionnaires were entered into a database after manual coding and validation Data entry and validity...
... Norwegian by a professional translator, using a forward and backward translation procedure Socio-demographic variables and diagnosis of LQTS and HCM Data were obtained on gender, age, having children, ... population with a mean score of 50 anda 10 points standard deviation The questionnaire is generic and multidimensional, and suitable for administration to large populationsand also to patient subgroups ... socio-demographic variables, and measuring general anxiety and depression, physical health, and symptoms of heart-focused anxiety (avoidance, attention, and fear), whereas information about diagnosis was...
... Internal Compensator Head Internal Head scatter leakage scatter leakage the occurrence of contralateral breast cancer at 15 years in a retrospective series of 2,416 patients treated with breast conserving ... location of Figure Relative head leakage and room back scatter contributions measured in a solid water phantom the surgical cavity for brachytherapy techniques, and the patient body shape and ... simulation and the data analysis He realized the experimental water phantom measurements of the head leakage and room back-scatter He carefully reviewed the manuscript AR did the planning of the...
... data, and drafted the manuscript JAS participated in the acquisition of data, helped to perform the statistical analysis, and reviewed the manuscript AEW and AJT helped the interpretation of data, ... health department data Validation of registry data against health department recorded data involves a sequential multilevel matching process Following the validation process and the retrieval of ... respectively) The authors would especially like to thank data manager Lisa Ingerson and statistician Nicole Pratt from the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry, and Ms...
... flyers, and removal of organizational barriers) are the same at all stations The audit feedback program is directed at all providers in every primary care clinic Evaluation plan The primary endpoints ... support, audit/feedback as a clinical information system, and organizational change to achieve an appropriate delivery system design These activities are complemented by academic-detailing and social ... 46% and 69% of patients seen in primary care clinics at Facilities Aand B, respectively The other, smaller and geographically distant sub-stations differ in that e-mail and telephonic outreach...
... flyers, and removal of organizational barriers) are the same at all stations The audit feedback program is directed at all providers in every primary care clinic Evaluation plan The primary endpoints ... support, audit/feedback as a clinical information system, and organizational change to achieve an appropriate delivery system design These activities are complemented by academic-detailing and social ... 46% and 69% of patients seen in primary care clinics at Facilities Aand B, respectively The other, smaller and geographically distant sub-stations differ in that e-mail and telephonic outreach...
... 461 aripiprazole and ziprasidone patients; 737 aripiprazole and olanzapine patients; 770 aripiprazole and quetiapine patients; and 771 aripiprazole and risperidone patients Baseline characteristics ... significantly associated with riskof hospitalization Gender and age were not associated with riskof hospitalization in any cohort There was variability among matched cohorts regarding the association ... in patients with positive post-index healthcare costs First, we calculated the mean for each of the numeric covariates, and gave equal share of the categorical covariates, and then calculated...
... time a patient has presented with P aeruginosa and C parapsilosis endocarditis Optimal treatment options and cure rate remain to be evaluated We present a man who had successful treatment with a ... use At day of hospitalization, he underwent aortic and mitral valve replacement Cultures from the valves also grew P aeruginosa and C parapsilosis All blood cultures drawn after day were negative ... ciprofloxacin, imipenem, piperacillin/tazobactam and tobramycin Serology was positive for Hepatitis C infection and negative for HIV infection At day of hospitalization, a transesophageal echocardiogram...
... data collection, analysis, interpretation of data and writing of the manuscript FM actively participated in the conception and design of the study, interpretation of data and drafting the manuscript ... distribution of samples, and Spearman's Rho coefficient to assess the relationship between two quantitative variables As visual representations of data, box -and- whisker plots were chosen for handling many ... correlation between CPP and PtiO2, with a peak of PtiO2 ata CPP value around 78 mmHg [15] The importance of CPP for maintaining an adequate level of tissue oxygenation is a point of clinical relevance...
... cured of TB The parameters μ anda are the natural and additional constant mortality rates and j is the overall input rate, which describes changes in the population due to birth and net migration ... increased, say above a factor P’ (p’ = 1/P’), this amount can overcome the immune response and lead to primary TB In terms of parameters we have ϱs=P’ϱ, and we assume again that that all other factors ... unique attractor; and (b) for > cq , we have two basins of attraction containing the stable equilibrium points P0 and P+, separated by a surface generated by the coordinates of the unstable...
... Goodman on reading, especially on the act of reconstruction as Goodman Clearly, there is a great deal of defining reading and no definition can capture all the ideas and features of what reading ... the language, the presentation have been assessed for the analysis of materials Reading materials must be used for a given purpose Hutchinson and Waters (1987:107) state that a good ESP material ... teacher doesn‟t give us sufficient practice of grammar and vocabulary Teachers are too strict and demanding I lack confidence and motivation I lack vocabulary especially ESP vocabulary I lack...
... a What are pre-departure trainees‟ attitudes towards the implementation of information-gap activities in speaking lessons? b What are teachers‟ attitudes towards the implementation of information-gap ... pre-departure trainees and teachers anda class observation are also carried out to investigate how information-gap activities are implemented in speaking lessons at FICT – HaUI and the trainees‟ participation ... teachers and pre-departure trainees from Faculty of International Cooperation and Training, Hanoi University of Industry Pre-departure trainees are from six classes K15VAT1, K15VAT2, K15VAT3 and...
... understand of what language leaning is Davies and Pearse (2000) affirm that language learning is a long process of acquiring a language through exposure to the language and its use to communicate and ... Attitudes towards the course, the teacher, and learning a language are typical examples of educational attitudes while social attitudes concentrate on the cultural implications of acquiring a ... attitudes can be positive or negative in spite of the fact that they can potentially have ambivalent attitudes (both positive and negative attitudes) or claim that they have no attitudes (Baker and...