the oral cavity in primary care

... and around the home • keeping safe in the community • keeping safe in the home Personal circumstances • dealing with finance • social relationships and maintaining friendships • dining as an activity ... activities are intended as starting points; they should be tailored to meet the needs of the participants, as opposed to the activities dictating the group The organisation of themes within the manual ... Fieldwork findings Fieldwork aimed to test the relevance, usefulness and the feasibility of implementing the recommendations and the findings were considered by PHIAC in developing the final recommendations...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... SYMPTOM-TRIGGERED DOSING Although there are studies of the efficacy of symptom-triggered dosing and/or loading dosing in inpatients, there is no evidence regarding the use of these methods in primary care. 92,108-110 ... the individual counselling and therapy for the family treatment options including medication to relieve the physical effects of stopping drinking and to help to reduce the incidence of drinking ... establish the effectiveness of routine brief intervention in the A&E setting compare outcomes for in/ outpatient detoxification study the use of oral vitamin preparations in primary care, and whether...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... 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 ... group interviews in Geneva, the interview guide was translated into French As an introduction to the discussion, we asked questions concerning the opinion of the GPs about health promotion in the ... promotion programmes for the elderly This contains the accessibility in a regional sense as well as regarding the content of the programme Providing information over the internet for instance, may not...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... enough for the monitoring of individual patients in ordinary health care [2] Limitations To evaluate the stability of the CCQ, it was tested in the target context under realistic primary care conditions, ... for use in COPD [12,13] The SF-36 was included in the study as a means of characterising the study population As instructed by the developers, SF-36 was always administered first [10,11] The SF-36 ... according to their professional expertise The only restrictions made to the ratings were that the patients' individual scores on the QoL questionnaires were blinded for the patient and the GP...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... for the effects of clustering as well as adjusting for multiple covariates, including the variables used in the minimization (baseline values for BP, LDL, the composite process score, and the ... of the clinics are involved in other quality improvement interventions Thus, these clinics may be more innovative and may also be achieving a higher level of evidence-based care than most other ... participating to date in EMRALD Funding for the study includes: The development and testing of the intervention and the qualitative aspect of the project is supported by a Canadian Institutes...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... studying changes in the behaviour of health professionals [22] According to the Theory of Planned Behaviour, intention is the immediate determinant of behaviour It is driven by the will of the individual ... pilot study in Québec, Canada, in 2007 and 2008 [10] We will begin by contacting the person in charge of the CME activities in each FMG (the contact person) to plan a meeting during which the researchers ... consequently increases patients’ participation in the decisionmaking process In spite of the growing interest in SDM, few health professionals practice it, and only a few studies on implementing SDM in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... outdated [15] The main difficulty in recruitment appeared during the initial contact by the principal investigator with the medical director of the FMG Twelve FMGs (57%) declined the invitation ... combining patients’ and their physicians’ perspectives could enlighten the relational process occurring in the encounter [12-14] These findings suggest the need for a better understanding of the ... concerning the evaluation of an intervention targeting the improvement of the SDM process among family physicians and their patients regarding the use of antibiotics for treating ARIs in primary care...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... improvement interventions selected for use in the intervention group We evaluate the experiences of GPs in the intervention group, the GP Page of visitors and the experts with the tailoring process, the ... from the contacts between the GP and the interviewer Data about the experiences of participants in the tailoring process, the implemented changes in practice, and their ideas about influencing ... optimise the tailoring process All contacts between the experts, the GP visitor, and the GP are reported Training GPs in both conditions received one day of training by experts in (a) the early...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... managed by the integrated activities of clinical and non-clinical members of the primary care team There are National Institute for Health and Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) guidelines defining standards ... health care organizations in primary and secondary care [31-33] Aim The aim of this study is to improve the quality of care for patients with diabetes cared for in primary care by identifying individual, ... relating to individual staff's perceptions of the clinical care of their patients with type diabetes, team functioning, and practice organisation Choosing theories The theoretical frameworks included...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... for studying ways to improve care for diabetes patients in the primary care setting During the A-TRIP project, making the patient-level SQUIDs available to the clinicians responsible for the patients' ... the study, thus reducing the values of the overall practice-level SQUIDs When the SQUID algorithm and preliminary findings were presented to clinicians participating in site visits or attending ... track them over time Because the denominator (referred to as 'E' in the algorithm) used in calculating the SQUID reflects the total number of relevant indicators for a given patient, a rather intuitive...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... managed by the integrated activities of clinical and non-clinical members of the primary care team There are National Institute for Health and Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) guidelines defining standards ... health care organizations in primary and secondary care [31-33] Aim The aim of this study is to improve the quality of care for patients with diabetes cared for in primary care by identifying individual, ... relating to individual staff's perceptions of the clinical care of their patients with type diabetes, team functioning, and practice organisation Choosing theories The theoretical frameworks included...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... package The aims of the training are outlined in Table The content of the training package was developed by TB, CCG, LG, AK, and JP, and the preliminary format for the training sessions in the exploratory ... going.’ Patient: ‘They stop?’ Clinician: ‘They stop doing what they because they’re frightened of getting breathless, and then the less they the more breathless they become when they something ... refining the training package to better ensure the WISE approach can be adopted in practice, two key issues emerged: one related to implementing the training, and the other to the use of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... were included in the final version The McNemar test or binomial distribution was used to compare the "prevalence" of symptoms at self-report and after clinical validation The cut-off point for the ... turned to unexplained As reported for false-positives, the clinical interview setting also seemed to interfere in the opposite way, leading some participants to enhance their complaints This problem ... symptoms, since they need a thorough investigation involving their doctors in order to decide the nature of symptoms This group of somatizers blurs the distinction between MUS and medically explained...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... by interviewers not involved in patients treatment and trained to the use of instruments and scales Research personnel was trained to the use of study instruments in investigator’s meetings, in ... patterns in interpersonal interactions This inventory assesses the severity of interpersonal problems in domains: domineering or controlling, vindictive or self-centred, cold and distant, socially inhibited, ... statistical advice in the design of the study and its on-going evolution PS, MM and BB participated in the design and in the planning of the interventions PR, BB and AB managed the trial data All...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... were achieved in patients treated with the oral hypoglycemic agents (OHA) mono-therapy if compared to those treated with insulin or combination therapy [32] On the other hand, insulin was associated ... diabetes The instrument was designed to assess the efficacy of new measures The inclusion of a positive well-being dimension was designed to increase the sensitivity of the instrument The positive ... and creatinine) and microalbuminuria in the spot urine were performed for all patients in the study The Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire (DTSQ) Questionnaires WHO-Well-Being Questionnaire...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... done to determine the HPV prevalence and concurrent infection in the cervix and oral cavity of 577 pregnant women, found 29% positivity in the cervix and 2.4% positivity in the oral cavity No association ... Firstly, oral cavity is in direct contact with carcinogens present in tobacco and alcohol, making them the primary cause of oral carcinogenesis This is not the case with cervical region, where there ... its cleansing and lubricating properties, may reduce the possibility of virus entry into the oral epithelial cells by reducing the contact period of the virus with the oral mucosa [28] Finally,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... antibodies against actinobacilli present in the oral cavity of the mare would provide the foal with protection against infection with these strains The aim of this study was to establish whether specific ... of the AGID test The presence in the mare sera of antibodies to some Actinobacillus strains indicates that these strains were a persistent part of the oral flora of the horses in question The ... against infection with Actinobacillus strains provoking a transferable immune response in the mare, while remaining unprotected against other strains All foals sampled in the study remained healthy...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... The spirometers and their use, including calibration, had to meet the American Thoracic Society's criteria [16] Spirometry training was given prior to initiating the study and a repeat training ... response at the end of the 12-week treatment period Trough FEV1 response was defined as the change from baseline at the end of the 24-hour dosing interval (i.e 10 minutes prior to drug administration) ... for secondary care, neither the patients nor the treatment practices are representative of experiences in primary care The current study was designed to assess the effects of introducing tiotropium...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... more informative The same principle can be applied to other dimensions of the LBP experience, for example, measuring the number of days in pain over a period, instead of those still in pain at the ... increases in pain and progressive increases in activity limitation However, the mean scores for the variables measured were around 50% at the beginning of the study and did not improve over the ... extracted and interpreted the data, wrote the paper, and approved the final manuscript JLK conceived of the study, participated in its design, interpreted the data, and revised and approved the final...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22