therapy for patients with coexisting diseases or target organ damage

... individual's perception of his or her ability to perform an action is an important mediator of health behaviors [3,5] Perception of self-efficacy is particularly important for complex activities and ... included for patients with heart failure The 25 papers covered 23 different self-efficacy instruments For three instruments, different versions were developed: for the Self-Efficacy Score for Diabetes ... input from experts and patients without literature searches (for instruments [21,28,33]) Overall, for the development of 12 instruments, patients' opinion was considered, for 10 instruments it...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... individual's perception of his or her ability to perform an action is an important mediator of health behaviors [3,5] Perception of self-efficacy is particularly important for complex activities and ... included for patients with heart failure The 25 papers covered 23 different self-efficacy instruments For three instruments, different versions were developed: for the Self-Efficacy Score for Diabetes ... input from experts and patients without literature searches (for instruments [21,28,33]) Overall, for the development of 12 instruments, patients' opinion was considered, for 10 instruments it...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... the intervention For example, a monitoring form was used to report patient performance (scoring 1– poor/good) and exercises were timed However, this was found to be ineffective without a sufficient ... pencil and paper and are given to the patient with instructions from the therapist A monitoring form was used to report patient performance (scoring 1– poor/good) and exercises were timed The patient ... therapy for schizophrenia and http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/6/1/14 adapted and expanded to form the core of the intervention Methods Participants Four patients signed up for...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... cholestatic patients with acute on chronic liver failure Artif Organs 2003, 27:565-569 Jalan R, Sen S, Steiner C, Kapoor D, Alisa A, Williams R: Extracorporeal liver support with molecular adsorbents ... Peszynski P, Schmidt R and Nôldge-Schomburg G: Extracorporeal detoxification using the molecular adsorbent recirculating system for critically ill patients with liver failure J Am Soc Nephrol 2001, 12:S75S82 ... author(s) declare that they have no competing interests References In patients with acute fulminant liver failure Several uncontrolled studies have been performed using MARS® in patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... these effective anti-Candida agents more affordable Additional data and improved estimates will help refine the best empiric anti-Candida strategy for ICU patients with sepsis Competing interests ... funding and is on the advisory board for Merck and Pfizer YG is also a consultant and on the speakers' bureau for Merck and Astellas Pharmaceuticals Page of (page number not for citation purposes) ... of an ICU survivor, the authors use actuarial tables that reflect life expectancy in the general population, and adjust them for increased mortality related to sepsis But survivors of an ICU-acquired...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... treatment with CMVALT with or without CMV-DCs pulsed with pp65 mRNA Patients will also receive standard of care radiotherapy and TMZ Interestingly, patients whose tumor recurs following experimental therapy ... tumor associated antigens; (TCR): T cell receptor; (TGF): transforming growth factor; (TMZ): temozolamide; (TNF): tumor necrosis factor; (Treg): T regulatory cell; (UCLA): University of California, ... Approaches to Therapy for Brain Tumors Current Neurol Neurosci Reports 2001, 1:238-44 Virasch N, Kruse CA: Strategies using the immune system for therapy of brain tumors Hematol Oncol Clin North Am...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... The scoring algorithm for the scales is similar to the scoring of the EORTC-C30 questionnaire RS are computed and linearly transformed to a - 100 scale For the scales and items, a higher score ... (EORTC-C30) before and during VMAT for Global Health Status, and physical, emotional and role functioning 3-months follow-up, patients had a significantly worse performance status Mean KPS scores ... by the EORTC-BN20 questionnaire (Table 4) The treatment of patients with BM can consist of best supportive care, surgery or radiosurgery with or without WBRT We have included patients with one...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... The overall local control for bulky tumors is poor Tumor size is a poor prognostic factor, and the patients for adjuvant chemotherapy need to be carefully selected Author details Department of ... larger doses should be delivered for T2 tumor Therefore, more works needs to be done in future clinical study to explore the optimal doses should be delivered for tumors of different size Based on ... mortality of the patients with chemotherapy was 3.659 times higher than that of the patients without chemotherapy (p = 0.042) In these 13 patients receiving chemotherapy, the number of cases with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... 45.5 36.9 43.4 Masticatory organ 30.3 12.4 25.3 38.6 27.5 Data presented as percentages unless stated otherwise for the items on the registration form, and recommendations for organ- specific diagnostic ... specialists who care for SSc patients are guided by current treatment practices for other autoimmune diseases when deciding for or against a therapeutic option The present study therefore underlines ... recent years in symptomatic organ- specific therapy [1] Only few controlled clinical studies, however, have been performed for drugs with anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive or anti-fibrotic properties...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... grants for participation in clinical trials TH has received honoraria from AstraZeneca for advisory work and presentations SQ has been on advisory boards for and has received speaker’s honoraria ... significant for GINA treatment Steps (P = 0.03) and (P < 0.01) The proportion of patients with Controlled asthma was similar for all GINA treatment steps when BUD/FORM maintenance and reliever therapy ... higher for GINA treatment Step patients (P = 0.011) When compared with higher maintenance dose ICS/LABA + SABA the proportion of patients with Controlled or Partly Controlled asthma was similar for...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... months for patients with AS and 6.1/2.0 months for patients with PsA The reason for discontinuation of the prior TNF antagonist was lack of response for 64 patients with AS and 14 patients with ... 50 responses were greatest for the 162 patients with AS with only prior IFX therapy compared with patients with only prior ETN therapy and those with prior treatment with both IFX and ETN In the ... for patients with a history of anti-TNF therapy (Figure 1) For patients with psoriatic nail dystrophy at baseline, the median change in NAPSI was similar in patients without and in patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:22

... the prognosis of patients with AMI, the inhospital mortality rate of AMI patients with cardiogenic shock remains as high as 55% [8] The main cause for early mortality (within 48 h of onset of AMI ... frequently the left anterior descending coronary artery in IABP therapy patients (49% vs 35%; P value not stated) Conversely, more standard therapy patients had the right coronary artery as the IRA ... However, significantly more IABP therapy patients had an inhospital stroke than those treated with standard therapy (2.4% vs 0, P = 0.03) PAMI-II concluded that major benefits or hazards of routine...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... of borderline personality disorder before (t1) and one year after therapy (t3) in the pilot study of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) Diagnostic DSM-IV Criteria of borderline ... for BPD while one patient (8%) met seven, four patients (25%) six, three patients (8%) five and two patients (33%) four criteria All in all, a diagnosis for BPD according to DSM-IV was made for ... completion rates for the DBT-A group Futhermore, DBT-A has been successfully implemented for an inpatient therapy setting for suicidal adolescents DBT-A has significantly reduced behavioral incidents...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... score by type of HCW (p = 0.19), with a mean post-training score of 87% for nurses, 86% for laboratory technicians, 89% for physicians and 92% for district supervisors The mean posttraining scores ... Supervision was an opportunity to correct errors because of incomprehension or unforeseen circumstances, and to morally support and motivate the HCW Supervision was done by a laboratory technician and ... testing for TB patients and HIV care and support for those co-infected with HIV [2,4] Other HCWs playing a key role in TB control, including laboratory technicians, physicians and district supervisors,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... different for each point of the IPSS QoL score and for the low medium and high impact categories on the BII The F statistics for the PPSM Total Score, PPSMGlobal and PPSM-Pain comparisons with the ... The total score for this 8-item measure is obtained by adding all the raw scores for items 1–7, which gives a score range of to 49 Responses to item 8, "Would you ask your doctor for the medication ... 87 to 91, with the cumulative percent of variation at 83% Therefore the final scoring algorithm for the 12 items consisted of 1) the Global score (items 1–4 and 9– 11), 2) the Pain score (items...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... in the form of visual or verbal cues through an augmented reality interface As a first step towards such a system, Chau et al [16] reported a desktop augmented reality system for patients with ... in a uniform manner In the present case, however, we intend to route patients, each with unique characteristics The minimum distance route assuming uniformly processed packets is therefore not ... structure for the proposed method A sample database structure for the proposed method Information from the patient and context tables are combined to generate a patient-specific weight for each...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... COPD, patients needed to be 50 years or older The 46 primary care physicians for these patients then reviewed the specific information for each of their patients and indicated whether or not the patients ... reflecting working for pay or being retired (vs no substantial history of labor force participation) Subjective income was measured by a set of two dummy variables: comfortable income or not enough ... used patients with "average disease severity" as the reference group For continuous variables, such as age in years or scale scores, the odds ratio for a particular category, as well as for between-category...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... eligible for the study and included in cohort and 2, respectively In both cohorts, patients with main diagnosis different to hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA), or with a malignant pathology or other organic ... goal is to involve as little effort as possible for both the patient and the physician Therefore, if using a shortened version the same information is collected but with little burden, the instrument ... the WOMAC short scales according to the pain and functional limitation short categorical scales The scores for the WOMAC domains range from to 100, with higher scores indicating worse health...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... function in AD patients receiving galantamine 24 mg/day for 12 months or placebo for months followed by galantamine 24 mg/day for months [51] Although patients who took galantamine 24 mg/day for 12 months ... several new agents in development with various mechanisms of action for the treatment of AD The identification of new targets for AD treatment may allow for combination therapy in the near future While ... as gingko biloba Therapy for AD is initiated by general practitioners in more than 40% of cases, as they are the clinicians providing the majority of medical care for these patients [5] It has...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... who discontinue therapy are likely to have a clinical relapse within several weeks to months Therefore, continuous therapy seems to be necessary for most patients with AS Importantly, however, ... need for an increased dose after the new start of infliximab therapy Thus, if for any reason discontinuation of anti-TNF therapy is considered necessary, that seems possible with no major problems ... long-term therapy with infliximab in patients with AS leads to a clinical relapse of the disease, with deterioration of signs and symptoms, after several weeks to months This indicates that the majority...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22