the development of a health data quality programme

... using data from the medical chart review Using Spearman non-parametric tests, the correlations between the RARBIS and various forms of administrative data variables were then analysed Data taken ... extra-articular manifestations (subcutaneous nodules and vasculitis) and X-rays (C1–C2 subluxation, erosions) from all available data in the medical record Potential health care utilisation data ... convergent validity with the DAS28 [16,17] Because health care utilisation databases are a valuable source of data for studying health outcomes, other investigators have also used medical records-based...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... Journal of Intellectual Disability Research Comparing patients' experience of mental health services in England: a five-Trust survey International Journal of Health Quality Assurance 13(6): What's ... Journal 325: Long term care for serious mental illness outside the NHS: a study of out of area placements Journal of Mental Health 13: A census day audit of mental health out of sector placements ... Phase Value for money Analysis of Delphi exercise data of 1–5 Overall ratings are then re-rated by participants Items rated in the top two categories ("essential" and "very important") are collated...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... pretreatment; H + ParA1, ParA1 infiltration after H2O treatment; A4 00, 400 lM ABA pretreatment; A + ParA1, ParA1 infiltration after ABA treatment All the spectra were representative of at least three ... suppressed as compared with that in the ParA1 zone In the ParA1 zone, the ion leakage increased dramatically within 12–24 h, whereas in the PR zone the ion leakage rose to a peak of  25% at 12 h and then ... sites at the 5¢ and 3¢ ends, respectively, was obtained by PCR with the following oligonucleotide primers: 5¢-TGAATTCAATAATGTCTAACTTCCGCGCTCTGTTC-3¢ and 5¢-AGGTACCTCAATGATGATGATGAT GATGATGCAGTGACGCGCACGTAGA-3¢...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... feedback about impossible word candidates • We have been able to incorporate the durational information from Bear and Price quite easily into our framework An advantage of our approach is that the ... incremented by this amount In contrast, Bear and Price, by doubling the size of the grammar are multiplying the processing time by a factor of when no prosodic information is available (assuming (2n) ... Harper Parsec: An architecture for parallel parsing of constraint dependency grammars In Submitted to The Proceedings o /the ~9th Annual Meeting o.f ACL, June 1991 [3] H Maruyama Constraint dependency...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... respond to items and talk about all aspects of their health and well-being in meaningful ways They are able to comprehend varying response options on a categorical scale, and can accurately respond ... using a 7-day recall period Feedback from the children who participated was valuable in creating a set of items to be administered to a wide age range of children The final item set generated as a ... for an interview date At the time of the interview, a trained research assistant obtained parental informed consent and the children signed an assent document All child participants received a...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... TA, Mensah GA, Alexander RW, Anderson JL, Cannon RO, Criqui M: Markers of inflammation and cardiovascular disease: application to clinical and public health practice: A statement for healthcare ... factors and disease, than actual physical activity level [25,26] As a consequence it has been shown that it is only those individuals who increase their VO2 max, rather than their actual physical activity ... design, carried out the testing, performed statistical testing and drafted the manuscript MM carried out the immunoassays GPW participated in the coordination of the study and drafting of the manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... dietary practices and mother and child care practices that would help eliminate the many diseases that impact on the health and well-being of Ghanaians The concept of regenerative health and ... electronic media serves as a means of reaching the population with the messages of the program In this paper the authors compare the prevalence of unhealthy lifestyle behaviours among Ghanaian adults ... physical activity that lasted for at least 10 minutes in the last days preceding the survey In the multivariate model the index was treated as a continuous linear variable At the bivariate stage of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... PSW and the participant will take place on-site with the case manager and the peer support coordinator present The nature of the intervention will be explained again and both the participant and ... in a treatment questionnaire (see below) and via a telephone call made by the RA to the new treating clinician asking about attendance at appointments and medication adherence These treatment adherence ... This questionnaire will also assess participants views of the quality and quantity of relevant information received at the point of discharge It will be administered at the end of the interview...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... kind of study, the data may be biased by an excessive number of patients included and lost of contact To limit this bias and improve the data quality, the participants remained lost of contact ... salary from an organization that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of this manuscript - They doesn’t hold any stocks or shares in an organization that may in any way ... statistical analysis will be performed: - Control and descriptive analysis of data: numerical parameters will be summarized by their mean, standard deviation and median The frequencies Vaiva...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... conceived of the study and participated in its design and coordination AG administered the instruments and collected the data CV directed and oversaw the statistical analysis which was conducted ... occasions to review the items for the following: 1) appropriateness of difficulty and relevancy for patients as examinees, 2) concise, clear language at the appropriate level (Grade 9) and was as ... Knowledge of Biological treatments (antidepressants) Knowledge of the delayed onset of the action of antidepressants Ability to act appropriately to failed response to antidepressants Q17 Q21 Ability...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... baseline values of an outcome measure as the covariate It is assumed (conservatively) that the covariate would explain 5% of the variance in the dependent variable Based on previous research at ... substantial Safety and supervision The research assistant received training in the administration of the measures and in the assessment of suicide risk The research assistant will make contact ... by a grant from the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund Orygen Youth Health Research Centre is affiliated with Melbourne Health and the University of Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... sequence data from the PRRSV N protein gene The partial sequence of the N gene of PRRSV strain ch- 1a was downloaded from GenBank (accession no AY032626) and was aligned (using Clustal W program in the ... viral RNA of all field samples was extracted by using QIAamp Viral RNA Mini Kit (Qiagen) In brief, after lysis of the specimens, the mixture was applied to a spin column as described by the manufacturer's ... and avoids potential cross contamination during sample preparation for post-PCR analysis Real-time RT-PCR assays have been widely utilized for early diagnosis of many other animal viral diseases...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... Kawai J, Nakamura M, Hirozane-Kishikawa T, Kanagawa S, Arakawa T, Takahashi-Iida J, Murata M, Ninomiya N, Sasaki D, Fukuda S, Tagami M, Yamagata H, Kurita K, Kamiya K, Yamamoto M, Kikuta A, Bito ... A [TC]G [AT ]A [CT]CT AATATATTT TGTCTC TGACGTGG CCA [ACGT]TG CACCC CC [AT]{6}GG AATAAA [CT]AAA CGTG [TC]G [GC] [GC] [GA]CGCC AGCCGCC CCAAT TATA [AT ]A [TA]AAAG CA [ACGT] [ACGT]TG HSF Helix-turn-helix(HTH) ... corresponding to Aux/IAA genes Motif Transcription Factor Family*1 ([ACGT]GAA [ACGT]){3} TGACAGGT CCAC [AC ]A [ACGT] [AC] [ACGT] [CT] [AC] GG [ACGT]CCCAC GTGG [ACGT]CCC CAACA [ACGT]*CACCTG A [TC]G [AT ]A [CT]CT...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:20

... meeting of the Formal Consensus Process Ana Arrobas Ana Todo-Bom Ângela Gaspar Aurora Carvalho Carlos Alves Carlos Lopes Fernando Calvário Authors' contributions LNS participated in data collection, ... Luciano Margarida Trindade Rita Câmara Rodrigo Alves Additional file CARAT – Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test This is a translation to English of the of the preliminary version of ... impairment of health related quality of life in asthma: Development of a questionnaire for use in clinical trials Thorax 1992, 47(2):76-83 Marks GB, Dunn SM, Woolcock AJ: An evaluation of an asthma quality...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... AAA GGA CCA GCA AAG CTC CTC TGG AAA GGT 3') and WS3 (5'TAG AAT TCA AAC TAG GGT ATT TGA CTA AT) The same PCR was performed on DNA from a vpU-deletion construct [pDR2484, [39]] The PCR fragments ... (vpU startcodon inactivation) and rtTAΔ6B (vpU deletion) As part of the vpU inactivation strategy, the Y2 6A inactivating mutation in the tat gene of HIV-rtTA is replaced by the wt tat gene of the ... left panel) Surprisingly, replication of the minimized rtTAΔ 6A and rtTAΔ6B variants is significantly faster than that of the parental HIV-rtTA virus and even faster than the wild type LAI virus...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:20

... resistors and 12 capacitors The ground planes are replaced by the image elements The partial inductance, partial potential coefficient (reciprocal of capacitance) and resistance values are obtained ... typical of the PEEC topology The nodes are separated by the partial inductance L p11 and partial resistance R The excitation and the load currents are I S respectively The partial coefficients of ... [19]-[55] The availability of better CAD tools for the extraction of inductances and capacitances makes the PEEC models attractive PEECs are equivalent to Maxwell’s equations in the limit of an infinite...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 14:24

... pilot data in each centre clarified any coding queries Double data entry was completed for 10% of the toolkit data using a separate database and the study statistician carried out data validation ... on the two databases for each centre The maximum error rate was set at 5% Any centre that had an error rate above this was required to complete double data entry for all their data Inter-rater ... questions, the ease of completion and the time taken to complete Data management and analysis A common SPSS database was developed in the lead centre and distributed to all centres A test entry of pilot...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... that these results are related to the fact that many experts are programme leaders and thus, are more aware of practices that pertain to Leadership Also, experts may have been aware of the fact ... Pedro Soares pedromortaguasoares@gmail.com Rute Santos rutemarinasantos@hotmail.com António Oliveira-Tavares oliveiratavares@netvisao.pt Jorge Mota jmota@fade.up.pt Joana Carvalho jcarvalho@fade.up.pt ... editing the manuscript AOT and RS managed the data collection and analysis JC participated in the coordination of the study and supervised the drafting and editing of manuscript All authors reviewed...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... Background The measurement of health- related quality of life (HRQL) is increasingly becoming part of the overall assessment of a patient's health both in the clinical and the research setting, as it provides ... than 16 years of age), following oral and written explanation of the study Analysis Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 11.4 Assessing internal ... information is available to support the validity of the proxy ratings [16] Even when a child's responses are available, the perspective of the parent has an important bearing on health care decisions...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General Rockville, Md: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, US Dept of Health Divaris et al Health ... Reducing oral health disparities: a focus on social and cultural determinants BMC Oral Health 2006, 6(Suppl 1):S4 National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of Health, ... would lead to better oral health status and subjective oral health Although education and income arguably remain the strongest correlates of oral health and disease, and literacy is one of numerous...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20