... arthritis The results show that the progression of the radiographic damage after year of follow up did not differ between the whole group of patients and the subgroup of patients with RA, whether the ... 196R allele and RA diagnosis and prognosis The results of this prospective longitudinal study suggest an association between the TNFRII 196R allele and diagnosis of RA Patients carrying the TNFRII ... value and are not routinely used in the diagnosis of RA because they are not part of the ACR criteria for the diagnosis of RA Taking into account a single genetic marker for RA diagnosis and/ or...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02
Who Pays for Medical Errors? An Analysis of Adverse Event Costs, the Medical Liability System, and Incentives for Patient Safety Improvement ppt
... merited under the compensation rules of the health court The health court would be notified of all claims If either the patient or the provider was dissatisfied with the initial determination, they could ... Lost household production The loss of the injured patient s contribution toward household duties was calculated to the end of the patient s injuryrelated disability or the patient s expected death, ... supplies required by the injury and the number of months the patient would require each These estimates were multiplied by standard equipment costs per month Burial costs Standard burial costs...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20
Geriatrics and the Law: Understanding Patient Rights and Professional Responsibilities ppt
... Geriatrics and the Law efforts to refer the patient to another competent health care professional, who agrees to care for the patient and whom the patient and family are willing to accept as their ... explanation to the anesthesia specialist The anesthesiologist should separately discuss the risks of anesthesia and alternative types and methods of administration and obtain the patient' s consent ... to the patient and family, in a gentle and warm way, why the particular intervention is imperative If that fails, the patient and family should be reminded that by refusing they now accept the...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20
Assessment and Management of the Elderly Patient with Multiple Sclerosis pot
... classification, and treatment approaches for managing both the MS disease p rocess and ssociated conditions, and to discuss these a approaches in the context of the aging MS patient An Overview ... weighed These synergistic effects of age and neurological illness present a unique challenge for the clinician and patient. 1–4 MS Classification The diagnosis of MS is usually clinical and defined ... simplify the diagnostic work-up and allow a more rapid diagnosis of MS while maintaining the specificity and/ or sensitivity ultimately resulting in the need for fewer MRI studies Based on the revised...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20
Authoring and Generating Health-Education Documents That Are Tailored to the Needs of the Individual Patient doc
... information about the individual patient: both the selection of content and the manner of expression of that content may be determined by the patient s medical condition and their personal and cultural ... individual patient The selection of content of the brochure and manner of expression of that content may be determined by both the patient s medical condition and any other personal and cultural ... which is mentioned in some other sentence The other elements in the list represent the other two references in the sentence, i.e., to high blood cholesterol levels and to the risk of heart disease...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21
ILLINOIS BOARD OF ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR FINANCIAL AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE EXAMINATION For the Two Years Ended September 30, 2005 Performed as Special Assistant Auditors for the Auditor General, State of Illinois_part1 docx
... Members of the Board President Mr David W Andich Secretary/Treasurer Mr Donald H Funk Member of the Board Mr Neil K Quinn Member of the Board Mr Richard J Prendergast Member of the Board Mr Theodore ... ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR COMPLIANCE REPORT SUMMARY The compliance testing performed during the examination was conducted in accordance with the Illinois State Auditing Act AUDITOR’S REPORTS The Independent ... www.adultpdf.com Our examination was conducted in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; the Illinois State Auditing Act (Act); and the Audit...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 19:20
ILLINOIS BOARD OF ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR FINANCIAL AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE EXAMINATION For the Two Years Ended September 30, 2005 Performed as Special Assistant Auditors for the Auditor General, State of Illinois_part2 potx
... ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS For the Two Years Ended September 30, 2005 Current Findings There were no current findings noted during our compliance testing for the two years ... ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR SCHEDULE OF FINDINGS For the Two Years Ended September 30, 2005 Prior Audit Findings Not Repeated There were no findings noted during the compliance testing for the two years ... of Admissions to the Bar Statement of Activities For the Years Ended September 30, Revenues and Reclassifications Examination Fees Character and Fitness Review Fees Application on Motion Investment...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 19:20
ILLINOIS BOARD OF ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR FINANCIAL AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE EXAMINATION For the Two Years Ended September 30, 2005 Performed as Special Assistant Auditors for the Auditor General, State of Illinois_part3 docx
... includes the processing of examination applications; the collection of examination and law student registration fees; and the administration and grading of the exams Additionally the Board has responsibility ... counsel and legal service program, licenses, and the collection of related fees The Illinois Supreme Court also established the Committee on Character and Fitness (the Committee) The Committee has the ... over the shorter of their useful lives or the term of the related leases by use of the straight line method The estimated useful lives of property and equipment are as follows: Buildings and Improvements...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 19:20
ILLINOIS BOARD OF ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR FINANCIAL AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE EXAMINATION For the Two Years Ended September 30, 2005 Performed as Special Assistant Auditors for the Auditor General, State of Illinois_part4 pot
... fiscal year 2005 the Board hosted a two day seminar for all members of the Board and the five character and fitness committees to promote and insure uniformity in the character and fitness process ... processing of exam applications, the collection of exam fees, the administration of the examination and the supervision of exam grading Additionally, the Board has the responsibility of processing ... licenses and collecting the related license fees The Illinois Supreme Court also established the Committee on Character and Fitness (the Committee), the expenses of which are paid from receipts of the...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 19:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Determinants of agreement between self-reported and parent-assessed quality of life for children in Germany - Results of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS)" pptx
... background If mother and father respond to the questionnaire together then there is a lower change of underestimating the quality of life in the sectors ‘Self-esteem’, ‘Friends’ and in the ‘Total’ ... conducted the statistical analyses and has conceptualised and written the manuscript BK and URS were the principal investigators of the study and have advised the writing of the manuscript and have ... 6388 children and adolescents filled in the questionnaire while their parents answered the proxy version Means and standard deviation for the self- and proxy ratings, and also the Pearson und...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo hóa học:"Personality and the physician-patient relationship as predictors of quality of life of cardiac patients after rehabilitation" pptx
... both the influence of these personality variables and the influence of the physician -patient relationship on the HRQOL of CHD patients after rehabilitation Of the studies mentioned above, only the ... analyzed the data and prepared the manuscript MM assisted in the analysis of the data Both authors contributed to the conception and design of the study Both authors read and approved the final ... Table provides information on the patients in the study Instruments At the beginning and end of the inpatient rehabilitation lasting an average of 21 (+/-3.1) days, the patients were asked to fill...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS: THE ROLE OF GENETICS IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT pot
... that the ADI-R and the ADOS have been well validated and are the instruments to accurately diagnose ASDs as early as years The combination of the ADOS and the ADI-R in conjunction with clinical diagnosis ... group The scores in the factors 1, 2, 5, and were significantly higher in the PDD-NOS group compared to the ADHD group Inversely, the scores in the factors 3, 4, and were significantly higher in the ... studies These studies investigate significant genetic differences between large groups of patients, on the one hand, and groups of healthy individuals, on the other hand (Vorstman et al., 2006a) The...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo y học: "Panallergens and their impact on the allergic patient" ppt
... participated in its design and discussion ME wrote the introduction, participated in the design and discussion, and coordinated and drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... with the capacity to induce severe symptoms by surviving food processing and the harsh environment of the gastrointestinal tract [51] due to their high resistance to heat and proteolysis In the ... consumption and pollen exposure, e.g birch pollen in Northern and Central Europe, and pollen of olive, plane tree, and pellitory in Mediterranean countries However, the question whether pollen...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Successful radiation treatment of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma metastatic to the right cardiac atrium and ventricle in a pacemaker-dependent patient" pps
... Authors’ contributions TD, IJB and MR III were the radiation oncologists involved in caring for the patient discussed in this the case report They designed and delivered the radiation treatment plan ... direct or indirect damage to the circuit (if the pacemaker is out of the treatment field) by the electromagnetic field is the proposed mechanism of damage Therefore, while there is no consensus for ... with coplanar beams and mV photons The actual maximum dose to the tumor from all beams was 43.1 Gy (Figure 1) The patient had previously received radiation to the mediastinum, and his prior treatment...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo y học: "Menopause, postmenopausal hormone use and serum uric acid levels in US women – The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey" pot
... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 10 No Hak and Choi sample of women (the US Third National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey [NHANES III]) [6,7] age at the time of the last menstrual period ... contributions AEH and HKC contributed to the conception of the study, statistical analyses, interpretation of the results and preparation of the article Acknowledgements Dr Choi holds the Mary Pack ... after the date of the last menstrual period were classified as naturally menopausal The amount of time since menopause was estimated as the difference in years between age at the time of the NHANES...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22
Báo cáo y học: "The feasibility of axial and coronal combined imaging using multi-detector row computed tomography for the diagnosis and treatment of a primary spontaneous pneumothora" pps
... evaluate ELCs from the apex to the hilar regions of the lung However, less than one-third of the images are necessary using the coronal view, and the image quality is better [19] The addition of ... sec gantry rotation time and a table speed of 15 mm per rotation All patients were scanned in the cranial to caudal direction from the lung apex to the lung base The patients were instructed ... scans and mm thick coronal images The axial images of the upper and lower lung fields were obtained at mm and 10 mm intervals and reconstructed using a high spatial frequency algorithm The ELCs...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21
Báo cáo y học: "The effect of tight glycaemic control, during and after cardiac surgery, on patient mortality and morbidity: A systematic review and meta-analysis" pptx
... median and range, and asked if they could provide their data as means and standard deviations, unfortunately, these data were not available Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis of the three ... these studies presented their results in median number of days [14,13], and three of them presented their data as mean hours or days We wrote to the authors of the two papers that presented their ... meeting all criteria and were included in the meta-analysis The two studies that were excluded at the end of the process presented only data on inflammatory markers and cytokines rather than clinical...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:23
báo cáo khoa học:" Analysis of the construct of dignity and content validity of the patient dignity inventory" doc
... developed from the themes and sub-themes in the model, and terminally ill cancer patients were asked how much they thought that these items could influence their sense of dignity In this way the dignity ... advance directive in the Netherlands Furthermore, we investigated the content validity of the PDI by assessing the relevance and the comprehensiveness of the PDI items with the COSMIN Page of checklist ... or more of the most common standard advance directives in the Netherlands provided by the Right to Die-NL and the Dutch Patient Association During the first data-collection cycle the cohort consisted...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22