... and demands of giving support to another Studies among elderly patientsand those with dementia have suggested that caregivers with higher levels of burden tend to be less in agreement withpatients' ... thank the patientsand caregivers who took part in the study, staff and volunteers at the six day hospice and associated palliative care services who recruited and interviewed patientsand caregivers, ... 2000 and 2002 using trained interviewers, usually meeting consenting patientsand caregivers, in their own homes, who were interviewed separately Clinical and demographic data of patients and...
... absence of bilateral lung involvement, and lower albumin levels were associated with extrapulmonary involvement in patientswith pulmonary TB Patientswith bilateral lung involvement were more likely ... tuberculosis DNA in patients (Table 2) We compared the clinical characteristics and laboratory results between the 40 pulmonary TB patientswith extrapulmonary involvementand the 280 patients without There ... cavities in patientswith pulmonary TB is Table Comparison of demographic and clinical characteristics between pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patientswith extrapulmonary involvementand without extrapulmonary...
... 32 patients was: a) between one to five days for eight patients (25% of the 32 patients) , b) between six and 10 days for six patients (19% of the 32 patients) , and c) above 10 days for 18 patients ... change with increased involvement in exercise and/ or physical activity The results from the present study may also suggest beneficial effects of physical activity, both to the individual patientsand ... because it is difficult to overcome the pain andphysical disability barriers that accompany this disease and convince patients that exercise and/ or increased physical activity will improve disease...
... iPod touch, and iPad Apps with Web Standards HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript From The Web Designer’s Guide to iOS Apps: Create iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps with Web Standards ... arranger, and stained glass artist elevated my ability to see patterns and beauty, and inspired my own creativity and desire to make things My lovely wife and daughters, who gave me the time and space ... client and collaborator Thanks for your patience and for believing in my work Shawn, my friend and legal counsel, whose advice and assistance calmed many a frayed nerve Tim, my friend and sailing...
... hills, they arrive at the beach laden with sand and alluvium, and at their junction with the ocean being met transversely by the gulf-streams, the sand and soil with which CHAPTER I 44 they are laden, ... own observations and impressions, with fidelity, andwith as much accuracy as may be expected from a person possessing, as I do, no greater knowledge of zoology and the other physical sciences ... them The rich and black soil to the south of the Nilgherries presents a strong contrast to the red and sandy earth of the opposite coast; and both in the flora and fauna of the island there are...
... Also Iran has worked on oocytes freezing and we had better consider young patientswith cervical cancer for oocytes conservative procedure and then pregnancy with surrogate uterus Endometrial Cancer ... The standard treatment for endometrial carcinoma includes staging laparotomy, total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectromy with pelvic washing and lymph node sampling and evaluation ... size< 2cm, tumor stage: IA1 with lymphovascular invasion (conization indicated) or IA2 and IB1 without lymphovascular invasion, endocervix upper intact, lymph nodes involvement ruled out by paraclinic...
... iPod touch, and iPad Apps with Web Standards HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript From The Web Designer’s Guide to iOS Apps: Create iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps with Web Standards ... arranger, and stained glass artist elevated my ability to see patterns and beauty, and inspired my own creativity and desire to make things My lovely wife and daughters, who gave me the time and space ... client and collaborator Thanks for your patience and for believing in my work Shawn, my friend and legal counsel, whose advice and assistance calmed many a frayed nerve Tim, my friend and sailing...
... problems with self-care Patients valued their own health as 0.86 with the TTO method and 0.62 with the VAS method on the 'Perfect Health' and 'Dead' scale In the pilot sample of patients, patients ... activities; interference of disease with social and family life; worry about the future due to health condition; discomfort associated with medical conditions and treatment, and the feeling of being at ... self care and routine activities; feelings of being a burden to family; and feeling sad, hopeless, and helpless Table includes the description of the transfusion independent state and transfusion...
... tests and liver biopsy consistent with HCV Minimum hematological criteria included hemoglobin >10 gm/dl for females and 11 for males, WBC counts >3000/ml and platelet count >70000/ml Patientswith ... enrolled in the study and randomized into the two arms After randomization, 13 patients withdrew from the study Ten of the 13 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life ... Asian and Hispanic patients HRQOL data was available from 108 patients during treatment and from 82 patients at the 24 week post treatment follow up The clinical characteristics of these 152 patients...
... problems with self-care Patients valued their own health as 0.86 with the TTO method and 0.62 with the VAS method on the 'Perfect Health' and 'Dead' scale In the pilot sample of patients, patients ... activities; interference of disease with social and family life; worry about the future due to health condition; discomfort associated with medical conditions and treatment, and the feeling of being at ... self care and routine activities; feelings of being a burden to family; and feeling sad, hopeless, and helpless Table includes the description of the transfusion independent state and transfusion...
... summary scores- the Physicaland Mental Composite Scores The Physical Composite Score comprises domains (physical functioning, role limitations due to physical problems, bodily pain, and general health) ... maximum amount of days and hours) The PASIPD has been found to be reliable and valid when used with individuals with disabilities (including 13 individuals with subacute and chronic stroke); test-retest ... Therapy, National Taiwan University, andPhysical Therapy Center and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College...
... was associated not only with performance on the chair rise test, but also with performance on the 8-foot walk andwith limitation in hip and knee flexion, when these physical performance tests ... doi:10.1186/1477-7525-8-84 Cite this article as: Louie and Ward: Association of measured physical performance and demographic and health characteristics with selfreported physical function: implications for the ... as the reference group The lock and key test, a test of eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills, was a timed test of unlocking a lock with a key Internal and external rotations of both shoulders...
... quality of life (QOL) and well-being in patientswith T2DM [11] Patientswith hypoglycemia tended to have a lower utility score from questions of the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D), a standardized measure of ... 0.0001) among those reporting moderate, and 16.09 (p < 0.0001) among those with severe symptoms Compared withpatients not reporting hypoglycemic symptoms, patientswith hypoglycemic symptoms also reported ... scores compared withpatients without symptoms, indicating worse patient-reported QOL Increasing hypoglycemic symptom severity was associated inversely with patient QOL Patientswith severe symptoms...
... excitation into attack and decay components for the first topology, as formerly proposed by Smith [19] and implemented by V¨ lim¨ ki and Tolonen in [13], reflects the a a wideband and high amplitude ... E1 electric, and (6) E2 electric Simulation parameters were BITSA = and BITSD = On the other hand, increasingly complex physical models can now reproduce many classes of instruments with excellent ... degrade gracefully with decreasing bit rate In the ideal case, we imagine that at the lowest bit rate, the guitar would be transmitted using only the physical model parameters and that with increasing...
... to the patients However, patientswith mild to moderate ID not usually accede to specialized therapists in CBT of psychotic symptoms and our team not meet a sufficient number of patientswith dual ... in which patients have to respond to the voices and disobey their orders To start with, the patient takes the place of the voice and the therapist answers to model effective responses, and then ... results, two single case studies of CBT of voices withpatientswith mild and moderate mental retardation are described in this paper Methods Setting Both patients have been treated by the team of the...
... acceptable and satisfactory for both patientsand staff Stevens et al [35] also conducted a pilot study of patient and clinician satisfaction with VC that included 19 patientswith psychosis and 21 ... doctors and six patients (three with schizophrenia and one with paranoid disorder) were included in the study The authors report that the VC condition was positively received by both patientsand ... satisfaction with VC increase over time Additionally, similar to findings with clinical interventions and assessment, higher bandwidth is associated with better outcome with satisfaction and acceptance...
... Materials and methods Patients For IVIG treatment we selected four patientswith juvenile idiopathic arthritis that had lasted for between 23 and 125 months and persistent B19 infection Patients ... immunoglobulin treatment [7] Stahl and colleagues reported a marked improvement after IVIG treatment in two of three young patientswith oligoarthritis and persistent infection with parvovirus B19 [8] Here ... genomes and anti-PL IgG Patient samples were analysed for IgG and IgM against the structural and non-structural proteins of parvovirus B19 by Western blotting and ELISA assays (RecomBlot and RecomWell;...
... demonstrated that quantitative and qualitative differences can be found between patientswith SSc-associated lung fibrosis andpatientswith SSc with no signs or symptoms of lung involvement At least 24 ... limited skin involvementwith limited systemic alterations to clinical pictures with diffuse skin sclerosis and severe visceral involvementwith fibrosis, microvascular abnormalities and mononuclear ... sclerosis patientswith functional lung fibrosis and signs of lung fibrosis on highresolution computed tomography; SScFib-, SSc patientswith no signs and symptoms of lung fibrosis; GM, gel matching with...
... adolescent and adult patientswith pineal parenchymal gland tumors treated with radiation therapy, to identify outcome, possible prognostic factors and patterns of failure in our patients Materials and ... treatment Fourteen patientswith PPT were treated between 1982 and 2003 patients suffered from a pineocytoma, from a PPTID andpatients from a pineoblastoma, of which were recurrences 10 patients were ... Radiotherapy All patients were treated with percutaneous fractionated radiotherapy, none with radiosurgery Single doses varied between 1,8 and Gy (median Gy) in all patients For the pineocytoma patients...
... methylation and IDH1 mutational status, we analyzed both markers in a homogenous group of 160 patientswith primary GBM treated with radiation and TMZ and correlated results with outcome Materials and ... Grade II and III as well as with secondary GBM, whereas primary GBM rarely show IDH1 mutations We have treated a large group of patientswith primary GBM with radiotherapy and chemotherapy with temozolomide ... complete in 51 patientsand subtotal in 66 patients, patients were treated with 3D-conformal radiation therapy based on CT- and MRI-based treatment planning The median age of the patients included...