... telecommunications systems can play in the field Chapter XVIII TelemedicineConsultationsinDailyClinical Practice: Systems, Organisation, Efficiency 260 Anton V Vladzymyrskyy, Association for Ukrainian Telemedicine ... Greece Chapter XVIII TelemedicineConsultationsinDailyClinical Practice: Systems, Organisation, Efficiency 260 Anton V Vladzymyrskyy, Association for Ukrainian Telemedicine and eHealth Development ... biomedicine Her research interests include health informatics, e-Learning in medicine, software engineering, graphical user interfaces, (bio)medical databases, clinical decision support systems, ...
... telecommunications systems can play in the field Chapter XVIII TelemedicineConsultationsinDailyClinical Practice: Systems, Organisation, Efficiency 260 Anton V Vladzymyrskyy, Association for Ukrainian Telemedicine ... Greece Chapter XVIII TelemedicineConsultationsinDailyClinical Practice: Systems, Organisation, Efficiency 260 Anton V Vladzymyrskyy, Association for Ukrainian Telemedicine and eHealth Development ... biomedicine Her research interests include health informatics, e-Learning in medicine, software engineering, graphical user interfaces, (bio)medical databases, clinical decision support systems, ...
... placebo in the improvement of HRQL relating mainly to gastrointestinal symptom relief In a multivariate analysis, van Rossum et al also did not find any influence of clinical data on changes in the ... to take part in the investigation Subsequently, an in- depth interview was carried out with each patient, with special attention paid to baseline angina and gastrointestinal symptom intensity and ... have some clinical importance First, they show the possibility of improving impaired HRQL in patients with CAD through the treatment of coexisting but clinically occult gastrointestinal disorders,...
... scopolamine Other important alkaloids of plant origin include the addictive stimulants caffeine, nicotine, codeine, atropine, morphine, ergotamine, cocaine, nicotine and ephedrine (Fig 1) Amino acids ... application in the identification of an authentic drug, in excluding the adulterants and in maintaining the quality and consistency of the drug HPLC fingerprinting includes recording of the chromatograms, ... DNA-degradation in cancer Isothiocyanates and the indole-3-carbinols interfere categorically in the metabolism of carcinogens thus causing inhibition of procarcinogen activation, and thereby inducing the...
... dependent on a clinical diagnosis, including x-rays, made by the participating surgeons As there were seven surgeons involved in collecting data, some individual variation may have occurred in the accuracy ... set of instructions in respect of patient selection and assessment (clinical and radiological) An evaluation sheet was also provided for recording diagnosis Individuals were included in the study ... Thirdly, the findings from this study reflect the status of patients in Australia presenting to foot surgeons and caution is needed generalising these findings to the wider population Finally, Page...
... placebo in the improvement of HRQL relating mainly to gastrointestinal symptom relief In a multivariate analysis, van Rossum et al also did not find any influence of clinical data on changes in the ... to take part in the investigation Subsequently, an in- depth interview was carried out with each patient, with special attention paid to baseline angina and gastrointestinal symptom intensity and ... have some clinical importance First, they show the possibility of improving impaired HRQL in patients with CAD through the treatment of coexisting but clinically occult gastrointestinal disorders,...
... Heal Promot Int 2006, 21(1):66–69 37 Feldstein AC, Glasgow RE: A practical, robust implementation and sustainability model (PRISM) for integrating research findings into practice Joint Commission ... would inform decision-makers and health stakeholders in choosing a specific intervention in a particular setting or in performing the necessary and possible adjustments to achieve real efficiency ... sustainability in the RE-AIM key domains: the program (intervention), the external environment, the implementation and sustainability infrastructure, and the recipients Assessing each key domain...
... practical or clinical components of distance learning programmes To gain insight into the training needs of health care workers in Tanzania and to determine whether distance learning could meet ... distance learning upgrade programmes increases both the residential and classroom space available at health training institutions for pre-service training One health training institution principal ... coordinating centre for distance learning programmes for health care workers in Tanzania The CDE offers three in- service upgrading programmes for health care workers: Clinical Assistant to Clinical...
... conditions In addition, the probability of misclassifying the indicators for evaluating the appropriate oral and vaginal HT indication exists; each indicator combines two parts 1) appropriate indication ... as non-drinkers (never drink alcohol), occasional drinkers (drink rarely or less than once a week), moderate drinkers (from to 14 drinks per week) and heavy drinkers (more than 14 drinks per ... 50.1 points (SD 24.7) The analysis within the domains shows that more women in the couple relationship domain reported high HR-QoL (32.3%) compared with the other domains; in the sexual domain,...
... distribution of individual changes in summarized SF36 scores was close to the Normal distribution, with 92% of the changes being inside the interval from - 200 to + 250 The average increase in summarized ... Physical Functioning scores decreased in cardiovascular patients and increased in respiratory and neurological patients All categories show increases in Vitality scores and reductions in Mental Health ... to years, shown in intervals of 50 from -500 (maximum decrease recorded) to +400 (maximum increase recorded) Number of patients within each interval improve between and months in mixed cohorts...
... rhinitis or rhinosinusitis [5] The RSDI has subsequently been applied in larger populations across a spectrum of rhinologic diagnoses, ranging from allergic rhinitis to chronic sinusitis [6] In ... re-administering the same instrument within a short time interval during which the subject's health status remains unchanged In contrast, responsiveness is typically demonstrated over longer intervals ... judge whether the changes observed are in fact important to the patient or clinically meaningful Often this approach is used in clin- ical trials involving an intervention that is believed to be...
... differences in pain, coping, and mood in individuals having osteoarthritic knee pain: a within-day analysis Pain 2004, 110:571-577 Wilson G, Pritchard ME, Revalee B: Individual differences in adolescent ... have been proposed to estimate clinically important differences (CID) in HRQOL [40-43] In one approach, the minimal clinically important difference [MCID] is defined by an effect size of >0.20, ... patients with CF Accordingly, the generalizability of our findings is uncertain Because we examined HRQOL in two prior completed studies, we were unable to examine HRQOL differences in those who refused...
... An increase of one point in the score of SDS-H was associated with an increase of 1.8 points in the NHP global score, while having an overdose during the previous 12 months increased it by points ... retained in the female’s model, daily alcohol intake and length of cocaine use When doing the analysis with the total sample an interaction between gender and HIV infection was found, indicating ... same in both genders: the SDS-H and SDS-C accounted for 55.9% of the explained variance in women and for 52.9% in the model for men These findings are in accordance with results observed in an...
... give informed consent or were unable to understand or cooperate with study conditions A trained clinical coordinator was responsible for determining eligibility, describing the study, and obtaining ... fulfill the activities of daily life justifying its use inclinical trials investigating new drugs or novel combinations of agents Clinical practitioners and investigators need to know what happens ... worth further investigation Our unexpected finding regarding the social function scale stands in contrast with the finding reported by Efficace et al in advanced CRC, where a 9% decrease in patient’s...
... discrepancies between the two may complicate the use of HRQoL information inclinicalpractice – for instance, when determining if complementary interventions are needed [3] Discrepancies between child ... provides a singular index of global HRQoL [21, 24] Its 10 items are all scored on a 5-point scale ranging from ‘never/not at all’ to ‘always’ The item scores are combined into a final score on ... and “How annoying is this for you / your child?” (range: 1=not annoying at all, 2=not annoying, 3=a little annoying, 4=annoying, 5=very annoying) The sum score of these questions in both versions...
... Williams GR: Defining clinically meaningful change in health-related quality of life J Clin Epidemiol 2003, 56(5):395-407 Sullivan M: The new subjective medicine: taking the patient's point of view ... stroke using the EQ-5D and Health Utilities Index Stroke 2004, 35(2):607-612 27 McPhail S, Haines T: The Response Shift Phenomenon inClinical Trials Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices ... implications For an individual patient, inappropriate implementation, continuation or cessation of a health intervention may occur if a decision is reached based on clinical reasoning flawed by inaccurate...
... depression inclinical practice, and five (27%) Following training during the adolescent enrollment stage, intervention clinicians were asked to initiate screening for depression, introduce the intervention ... process, clinicians were randomized into CBT training versus usual care Training consisted of instruction in: components of motivational interviewing to engage the adolescent in CBT; educating the ... training Post-training surveys from intervention clinicians indicated that the majority understood the basics of CBT (62%), were aware of barriers that may occur in providing CBT in their settings...
... revealed aphasia in 31% in Ibadan and 38% in Berlin; sexual dysfunction in 45% in Ibadan and 80% in Berlin; and post stroke emotional disorder in 75% in Ibadan and 68% in Berlin In the subset of five ... adults (Berlin) Ph: Physical domain, Ps: Psycho-emotional domain, Co: Cognitive domain, EcI: Ecosocial Interaction domain, So: Soul domain, Sp: Spirit domain, SpI: Spiritual Interaction domain, H-p: ... similar in the physical sphere in Berlin and Ibadan, but higher in the spiritual sphere in Ibadan than Berlin (Tables and 3) Compared to AHAs, HRQOL was worse in stroke patients in both cities in...
... Impact 1 Social relations Smiling 1 esr Painful aching esm Uncomfortable eating PainDiscomfort Unsatisfactory diet Interrupt meals PainDiscomfort Eating Sleeping-relaxing 1 eea esl 1 Emotional state ... for speaking, cleaning and smiling, and mostly in the sleeping, emotion, occupational and eating items In children [16,17]eating and cleaning were found to belong to the same physical domain Our ... population, in which “oral pain-discomfort” was the most predominant cause of impact within those items [13] Notwithstanding, this fact was also evident in Tanzanian children [17] in whom pain-discomfort...