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... defining standards of care, but studies of the quality of care for patients with diabetes suggest less than optimum care in a number of areas [2] Quality and outcomes framework (QOF) data for 2004 and ... together explained 31% of the variance in diabetes management These authors, along with others [4,5], identified the need for a better understanding of the relationship between the quality of ... 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, team, and organisational factors that predict the implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... defining standards of care, but studies of the quality of care for patients with diabetes suggest less than optimum care in a number of areas [2] Quality and outcomes framework (QOF) data for 2004 and ... together explained 31% of the variance in diabetes management These authors, along with others [4,5], identified the need for a better understanding of the relationship between the quality of ... 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, team, and organisational factors that predict the implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... available for children with oedema, this programme's data showed that mortality among children with oedema was the same as for children with MUAC of 11 cm or less and with no oedema Our assumption of ... admissions accounted for 30% of the CTC costs Of Valid International's costs, 51% were for personnel, 42% were for travel and subsistence, and 7% were for other items The results of the Monte Carlo ... and children who defaulted, then either died or recovered For each option, the probability of each outcome was entered into the model to calculate expected rates of death or recovery For the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... Cough 2005, 1:8 Figure Chest x-ray of the child months before referral Chest x-ray of the child months before referral The CXR shows collapse and tram tracks of the right upper lobe and increased ... totally resolved upon removal of the tumour; i.e after the primary cause was successfully treated This report illustrates the importance of following-up children with chronic cough Cough was this ... and severe bronchiectasis of the right upper lobe before eventual diagnosis of the underlying cause of her cough and respiratory illness Also, radiological evidence of bronchiectasis was present...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... neuroprotective properties of progesterone in the patients with acute severe brain trauma The effects of progesterone on neurological outcome of the TBI patients remain unclear The purpose of the present pilot ... increase in the proportion of patients with a favorable outcome in the progesterone group compared with the placebo group up to months indicates the possibility of progesterone for treatment of acute ... patients received the standard treatment for management of severe TBI based on the guidelines for the management of severe head injury of the American Association of Neurologic Surgeons [20] Particular...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... the importance of caregivers as change agents of the child, in turn, children are reciprocally change agents of the caregiver and of family life in general Caregivers of children in the Ritalin ... account of the everyday impact of ADHD on the HRQL of the child http://www.capmh.com/content/3/1/39 option for their children with ADHD Further studies evaluating the long-term impact of MTS on ... skin [22] The dose of drug delivered depends on the surface area of the patch and the length of time that the patch is worn, which allows for tailoring the duration of medication effect with reductions...

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Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 13:50

... while the number of cellular therapy trials remained the same, the clear trend was towards an increase in the number of vaccine trials Perhaps the costs and the complex logistics associated with ... replacement of older historical control groups with newer ones will be required With the introduction of new therapies to standard of care for gliomas (i.e., temozolomide, bevacizumab), immunotherapy ... and quality of life to become integrated into the standard of care regime [5,52-54] The number of slots open for patient accrual to the immunotherapy protocols contained in our list of open trials...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... allow them to interact with the simulation within their current range of abilities During the simulation, one of the bubble targets starts blinking when the subject's impaired hand arrives at the ... or four of the other simulations depending on their therapeutic goals, tolerances and preferences for the remainder of the sixty minute session This resulted in an average of 23 minutes of activity ... adjusted to accommodate the participants' level of impairment and to meet the goals of the therapy A time bar indicating the time required to complete the task appears at the end of each trial to provide...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... engineering, for example, in the control of neural prostheses [49] and in the design of an intelligent wheelchair guidance system [50] For our experiments, the number of inputs to the network equaled the ... notification by the aspirometer, the caregiver may intervene in a variety of different ways, in accordance with recommendations by the clinical care team For example, the caregiver might encourage the child ... manner, the time code on the analog video corresponded to the time index of the digital recording of the vibration signal Methods Representation of swallowing activity Based on the clinical appeal of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... find out the reservation wage of the caregiver Estimating the opportunity cost of giving care by the caregiver takes into consideration the caregiver's educational status and the income the caregiver ... experienced while delivering care Other areas investigated were the quality of care provided and the facilities they were provided with for caring for the clients Answers to some of the questions were ... the value of time that a member of the household or volunteer caregiver spent taking care of the PLHIV; cost incurred in transport to and from the place of care giving and cost of the caregiver...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... beneficial for improving the delivery of eye care for patients with diabetes Neither of these conditions was sufficient, however, to overcome the pressure exerted by the existing demands on the eye ... extracted for this subset to determine the status of those in the high-risk group, such as whether a visit was made within the recommended timeframe The plan was for the eye clinic to use this information ... Accordingly, the planned change for the eye care project was to shift the coordination of diabetes eye care from primary care to the eye clinic, and to provide the eye clinic staff with automated...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... their training, the theories underpinning their profession and the types of interventions they provide [103] Therapists' perceptions of their therapeutic relationships with patients with schizophrenia ... Although 86% of the institutions offered psychoeducation, only 21% of patients with schizophrenia and 2% of their family members had received the intervention in the previous year Staff stated they lacked ... misuse and other challenging behaviours [3,8] Their illness impacts on their capacity to make informed choices for themselves and to actively participate in their care, putting them at risk of exploitation...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... However, the role of biomarkers in the evaluation of patients in the ICU setting remains largely unexplored Because hemodynamic monitoring is a frequent theme in the evaluation of patients in the ... removed because of lack of NT-proBNP data and two patients without BNP data in the prior analysis added, leaving the same number of patients for the present analysis In brief, the 49 patients ... further considered a subgroup of patients within the category of 'cardiac origin' of shock, namely those with cardiogenic shock, defined as having suffered a cardiac event associated with the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... types of programmes The objective of the current study was therefore to systematically review randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of parenting programmes for the treatment of children (≤ 18 yrs) with ... survey by the Office of National Statistics (UK) from 1999[1], 5.3% of all children and adolescents between the ages of 5–15 had clinically significant conduct problems, the commonest reason for referral ... Studies where children accompanied their parents to all or some of the sessions were included providing the main focus of treatment was on the parents (i.e children were present for parental skill...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... Elements of Care: Sickle Cell Disease  III GUIDELINES FOR CARE OF CHILDREN WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE Definition of Levels of Care This care plan assumes three levels of care for children with sickle ... follow the normal guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics Hematology care is not a substitute for well-child care The primary care provider should become familiar with the Management and Therapy ... The Critical Elements of Care (CEC) considers care issues across the life span of the child The intent of the document is to educate and support those caring for a child with sickle...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... change, and therefore the provision of primary health care should be expanded to help clinicians deal with the environmental threats to children and their communities Specialized children' s environmental ... and in the community There is a need to update providers and adequately inform children, parents, members of the community, and other key stakeholders at all levels about the importance of children s ... Global Plan of Action for Children s Health and the Environment (2010 - 2015) the increased the use of radiation in pediatric healthcare settings These may be linked to global...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... standard’ They should therefore be used as screening Diagnosis of tuberculosis in children Table Key features suggestive of TB The presence of three or more of the following should strongly suggest the ... formulations and dosing of first- and second-line TB drugs in children DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDREN The diagnosis of TB in children relies on careful and thorough assessment of all the evidence ... i.e., CXR: In the majority of cases, children with pulmonary TB have CXR changes suggestive of TB The commonest picture is that of persistent opacification in the lung together with enlarged hilar...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... The first term is of the form on the right side of (6.14) The terms in the sum become a sum of four terms of the form K1 h1 2,∞ h2 r+1,∞ multiplied by factors of the form fk 1,∞ Using (6.5) with ... using Sobolev’s lemma The proof of Theorem 2.4 takes up most of the manuscript The proof of (2.36) uses the symmetry and positivity of the normal operator (2.17) within the divergence-free class ... existence for the inverse of the modified linearized operator and the existence of the inverse of the linearized operator follows since the difference is lower order The main part of the typescript...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... explaining the aim of the study and asking their participation Parents decided themselves whether the mother or the father completed the questionnaire The letter was accompanied by the questionnaire, ... dependency of children on others for care, leads to a lower HRQoL in their parents The importance of care dependency was also seen in other studies [11,17] Unfortunately we not know whether it is the ... data of 543 (49%) parents was available for analysis Non-responders did not differ from responders (p < 0.1) with respect to the age and gender of the children, except for the children with asthma...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20