... in a patientcare team [16,17] Pilot studies have examined the feasibility and relevance of network analysis for studying patientcare teams in chronic illness care [18,19] In these pilots, interactions ... testing, i.e., monitoring of kidney functioning Clinical research has confirmed the relevance of this in both diabetes patients and CHF patients In diabetes, testing for creatinine is important in ... included inthe other activity-specific networks of this patient as well If the response of a health professional was missing, it was substituted by the response of the other individuals inthe practice...
... translation Pre-testing of the checklist and the schedule were done inthe gynecology out -patient clinic of the same hospital before starting of the study on 10 patients and accordingly necessary ... (9.2) (0.4) Figures inthe parentheses indicate percentages *Multiple responses; @includes bleeding during examination and sexual intercourse; #include dysfunctional uterine bleeding, fibroid uterus, ... micturition, pain in urination, difficulty in urination, haematuria, true incontinence of urine Out of these 29 patients who had miscellaneous symptoms, 17 patients (58.6%) had ovarian cancer and patients...
... test The third step is to incorporate the physician into the evaluation of the imaging intervention by evaluating the effect of the use of the particular imaging intervention on physician certainty ... imaging? The evidence-based imaging process A Formulating the clinical question B Identifying the medical literature C Assessing the literature What are the types of clinical studies? What is the ... other Using the bull’s-eye analogy, the larger the sample size, the less the random error and the larger the chance of hitting the center of the target (Fig. 2.1) Systematic error, on the other...
... Radiation Oncology 2009, 4:40 Background Patient information inoncology has recently received increasing attention Providing adequate information to the cancer patient can reduce anxiety ... an individual cancer patient than the mere quantity of information [7] New media have been introduced for providing information to cancer patients Written information supplied routinely during ... of the items on information in other areas asked if the patients had received written information or information on CD (yes/no) For quantitave questions, patients were asked to indicate if they...
... someone coming from a lower baseline, even if the patients have reached the same unsatisfying endpoint This might, at least in part, explain this paradox In RA, therapy steered by an index has ... methodology of looking at all treatment terminations and then at only those terminations for the reason of ineffectiveness and terminated for the reason of toxicity This was done by censoring patients ... reached the end of observation without reaching the outcome [7] In this way, the observed period that was eventfree (that is, no ineffectiveness of the drug) can inform the analysis In contrast...
... were not included inthe analysis only contained information regarding the category of HCW and the area they worked in, the rest of the questionnaire was not filled in Of the remaining 94 questionnaires, ... of the information received, whether they found that the information provided was useful and whether they felt the availability of the hotline benefited their patientThe respondents’ willingness ... TX, USA) Results There has been a steady increase inthe number of calls to the hotline since its inception, with over 300 calls per month in May 2010 During the two months of the study, 511 calls...
... healthcare policy without provoking confusion and outright anger in both the medical establishment and many of the patients who actually benefit (or inthe latter case think they benefit) from the ... [5] Their fine book demonstrates that all of the proposals emanating from the gaseous environment on Capital Hill have been considered over and over again in previous adminis rations None of them ... http://genomemedicine.com/content/1/10/94 Starr P: The Social Transformation of American Medicine New York: Basic Books; 1982 Sutherland JM, Fisher ES, Skinner JS: Getting past denial the high cost of health careinthe United States...
... responsible for the changes inthe doctor -patient relationship These were patients’ loss of trust in their doctors, changes in financing systems of health care and lastly the changes in organization ... and outpatient services, this study would at least find out dissatisfaction level among inpatients and inpatient services inthe NRH The other areas of patient dissatisfaction including outpatients ... categories of patients are complaining regarding the services Few instances of grievances had focused both inpatient and outpatient services The few complaints represent only the tip of the iceberg...
... (MDS) [7] In order to eradicate minimum residual CML cells which survived long-term imatinib therapy, we started WT1 peptide vaccination therapy in combination with imatinib in a CML patient who ... cells increased and maintained a high level during the entire period of the culturing (data not shown) Considering that the same phenomenon could occur in vivo, we changed WT1 peptide administration ... prote ein have be een demonstrated to induce antigen-specif CTLs again a fic nst leukemia cel in preclini lls ical studies [10-13] Prelim minary clinical trials using peptide vaccines of the l...
... constant without increasing Table shows the results of examining the minimum fluidization by 12-minute air wash or 20-minute water wash In order to reach the minimum fluidization at the L water position, ... also increases; therefore, it's necessary to advance the date of backwashing, to observe if backwashing is going well, and to take care of the existing process including a sand filter basin - ... needs backwashing on the 5th or 6th day; winter needs backwashing on the 4th or 6th day of operation In spring, HPC begins to increase on the 4th day, but spring has much more flowing-out germs,...
... key points of the novel process, which determine the wastewater treatment efficiency and the net energy production of the whole process Therefore, the key techniques of the novel process are indentified ... obtained after the filtration processInthe novel process, nitrogen and phosphorus would not be removed through A2O method (anaerobic-anoxic-oxic process) as the conventional one does The inorganic ... ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NOVEL PROCESS Key techniques needed for the novel process At the moment, the novel process is just a concept, and there is limited research on its key techniques for both the wastewater...
... bargaining position within the household Taking these two issues together, leads to the following hypothesis: Hypothesis Class bargaining power In households in which the wife is in a more privileged ... of the persistent images in popular culture is the contrast between the middle-class husband with an apron helping inthe kitchen, and the working-class husband tinkering with the car or drinking ... within the household The more economically dependent a wife is on her husband, the weaker will be her bargaining position within the household and thus the more inegalitarian the gender division...
... each component into the shaping of the syntactics, semantics and pragmatics of MAs inthe MenP: which element is the core of the e) Discussing the findings meaning of MAs and which is the specifier ... probability, intensity and certainty and were found to share the same semantic ingredients such as the status of the Chart 4.2: The Occurrence of MAs inthe MenP in English information inthe addresser’s ... Discussing the findings and suggesting some implications for teaching language and newspaper readers 11 CHAPTER FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS 4.1 MODAL ADJUNCTS USED INTHE MENTAL PROCESSIN ENGLISH...
... resource development in elderly care Governments should include strengthening caregiving service industry in their national development plans and promote caregiving as an attractive career opportunity ... for the training of caregivers, in particular, to support training programmes for informal caregivers inthe elderly care service sector Governments should develop regulations and guidelines ... training is often hospital-based, and the support for community-based care is lacking There is also a need for specialized aged -care managers Currently there are MBAs trained in business administration,...
... space The MPI model used here [26] includes showering of the MPI process, which is interleaved with the ISR The tunes of the models vary mainly inthe MPI regularization parameters, p0T and , inthe ... pseudorapidity || < The particle and energy densities are corrected using a bin-by-bin technique Inthe bin-by-bin technique, the correction factor is calculated by taking the bin-by-bin ratio of the particle ... uncertainty on the data whereas the outer band represents the total uncertainty the activity is higher inthe transverse region than the to- activity inthe transverse region is the same as that in the...
... Cancer screening in older women Cancer 1994 (suppl) :200915 13.Finison KS, Wellins CA, Wennberg DE, Lucas FL , Screening mammography rates by specialty of the usual care physicain Eff Clin Pract ... physical examination and testing Ann Intern Med 2002 May 136:652-9 4.Goldberg TH, Chavin SI, Preventive Medicine and Screening in Older Adults, JAGS March 1997, vol 45, no 27 Data from Mayo Clinic, ... 1995;92)suppl):1672 12.Byrington RP, Jukema JW, Salonen JT et al Reduction in cardiovascular events during pravastatin threapy: Pooled analysis of clinical events of Pravastatin Atherosclerosis Intervention...
... translated in English to check the translation Pre-testing of the checklist and the schedule were done inthe gynecology out -patient clinic of the same hospital before starting of the study on 10 patients ... participate inthe research were included Care has to be taken not to extrapolate the findings of this study to all women suffering from gynecological malignancies inthe community Results During the ... among the cervical cancer patients inthe study done by Were and Buziba (2001), in comparison to 42.9% inthe present study This difference in observations may be due to the differences in the...
... Slapping, hitting, punching, beating, burning, sexual assault and rough handling Name calling, yelling, insulting, threatening, imitating, swearing, ignoring, isolating, excluding from meaningful ... done? 2.2 Findings The following are a summary of the findings of the research 2.2.1 Role and importance of the Elderly inthe Community Despite the changing socio-economic structures of the African ... medical fields, they reckoned that: the quality and depth of training in geriatrics was equal to the training in other specialized fields such as pediatrics Yet they felt that their training for pediatrics...
... by health care providers* trained inthe education* of patients Levels of training in therapeutic patient education As a prelude to formal training in therapeutic patient education* an introductory ... tools 12 use and integrate these tools inthecare of patients and inthe patients’ learning* process (contract* with patients) 13 take account in therapeutic patient education* of the educational, ... disease rather than train them inthe daily management* of their condition Therapeutic patient education* is designed therefore to train patients inthe skills* of self-managing or adapting treatment...
... apical infiltrates, HIV infection, haemoptysis and fever) We identified the LCA model providing the best fit to the data by comparing the difference in likelihood statistic (L ), the Bayesian Information ... account the existing uncertainty surrounding the performance of the so-called reference standard Clinical decisions regarding TB status should be made taking into account the final post-test probability ... post-test probability after exploring all findings, and comparing this probability with the therapeutical threshold LCA as such has no direct role in patient- by -patient clinical case management of TB,...