toward an evidence based model

... general, there is an increase in distribution volume, which is most prominent in water soluble drugs, and a decrease in drug clearance Whether to initiate any treatment is a decision balanced by a cost-benefit ... have undergone ECMO treatment, and the implementation of population pharmacokinetic models can further increase both the feasibility of such studies and the relevance of the results obtained, ... of Mulla [5,6] and Peters [7] and their groups Following documentation of the advantages of using ECMO to manage neonatal respiratory insufficiency in terms of both mortality and morbidity, the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... of practice and models of care, and limits on education and training places) and demand distorted by pervasive knowledge failures and third-party payment This means that expressed demand will not ... the model for those seeking an evidence- based approach to health workforce and health services planning The South Australian Department of Health is already using the WEB model to inform the planning ... 3301.0] Canberra, Australia: Australian Bureau of Statistics; 2008 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-6-93 Cite this article as: Segal and Leach: An evidence- based health workforce model for primary and community...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... Canada Available at: 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 T Kadhiravan and S Deepanjali http://retroconference.org/2009/Abstracts/34429.htm [Accessed May 25, 2010] Schoeman JF, Elshof JW, Laubscher JA, Janse ... Enhancing effect of cortisone on tuberculosis in the mouse Lancet 1950;2:391-5 American Trudeau Society Bull Natl Tuberc Assoc 1951, p4 (Cited in: Capon AW ACTH, cortisone and tuberculosis Can ... MB Corticosteroids for managing tuberculous meningitis Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2008;1:CD002244 Afghani B, Lieberman JM Paradoxical enlargement or development of intracranial tuberculomas during...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... select and modify DNA sequences for a specific genetic trait (e.g insect resistance) from a donor organism (microorganism, plant or animal), and transfer the sequence to the recipient organism ... use and traded on the international food and feed markets These include herbicide- and insect-resistant maize (Bt1 maize), herbicide-resistant soybean, rape (canola) oilseed, and insect- and ... herbicide-resistance traits in a broader range of varieties of maize, soybean and canola; broaden the range of herbicides that can be used in combination with the transgenic herbicideresistant crop,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:48

... hypnotic language pa�erns modelled by Bandler and Grinder32 on the work of Milton Erickson and known as Miltonmodel language With Milton -model language the coach uses artfully vague language that can ... feeling, and creates new mental maps, language skills are crucial in NLP coaching.6 The NLP model of precision questioning, the Meta Model, is based on Bandler and Grinder’s modelling of the language ... representations and thereby changes in external states and behaviours Thus CATCHING A COACH AT WORK 31 both Meta -model and Milton -model language enhance the communication between clients’ conscious and unconscious...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20

... Netherlands; Ibadan, Nigeria; Mainz, Germany; Manchester England; Nagaski, Japan; Paris, Framce; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Santiago, Chile; Seattle, Wash; Shanghai, China and Verona, Italy Ustin and Sartorius ... declining health and human development in many Sub Saharan African countries Armed conflict and economic stagnation and decline were also powerful antagonists to the goals of human development ... Canada Norway Sweden Iceland USA France Finland New Zealand Australia 10 Denmark 10 14 18 -1 -4 1 10 middle ranking GDI countries GDI rank HDI rank HDI rank minus GDI rank 48 Malta 49 Bulgaria...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 12:20

... Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An EvidenceBased Approach was the need to examine research evidence and claims purported by advocates, clinicians, and researchers of complementary and alternative ... complete analysis of all data, and (6) listing of potential nuisance variables and limitations.74 The relevance of meta-analysis to CAM is that it can become an acceptable format for including and ... designing a molecule based on an understanding of biologic mechanisms and chemical structure A variety of biologic in vitro and in vivo assays (at the molecular, cell, organ, and whole-animal levels)...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... patients under the age of 18 J Can Chiro Assoc 1999, 43:50-57 Delaney PM, Fernandez CE: Toward an evidence- based model for chiropractic education and practice J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1999, ... implementation, and evaluation of an evidence- based skills course: a lesson in incremental curricular change J Chiro Educ 2004, 18:116-126 Fernandez CE, Delaney PM: Applying evidence- based health ... knowledge based on anecdote and tradition Diagnostic and therapeutic intervention decisions are often made with little to no attention to evidencebased methods Instruction in evidence- based methods...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... above requires a dynamic analysis This type of analysis cannot be conducted quantitatively in a living organism, but it can be conducted virtually using an agent -based model of the immune system ... quantity of time represented by ticks based upon the known duration of immunological events in human systems The virus and the tissue are generic in the model and the space was based on human ... appear and one must click on the folder on the left A “Load Model panel will appear, and in the “Demo Models” list one must scroll down and choose “Other Models”, then “Add” The “Open” panel allows...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... autoimmune diseases, cancer and transplant rejection Both the innate and adaptive components of the host response are complex, and the interaction between the two represents another level of intricate, ... as "individual -based modeling", "bottom-up modeling" [20] and "pattern-oriented modeling" [22] Agents and signals are used to represent the basic elements of a complex system, and the agents ... some signals to Zone Portals are a means of transferring agents and signals from one zone to another They are randomly placed in Zones and The variation and uncertainty of the time spent by immune...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... intranet, and poster displays A ‘sepsis team’ (mentioned above) consisting of an ICU physician and an infectiologist, who were available 24 hours a day, was introduced to support the ICU staff and ... improved adherence to evidence- based recommendations, but also was accompanied by a simultaneous significant decrease of inhospital mortality Even after multivariate regression analysis, bundle implementation ... management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008 Intensive Care Med 2008, 34:17-60 Nguyen HB, Rivers EP, Abrahamian FM, Moran GJ, Abraham E, Trzeciak S, Huang DT, Osborn T, Stevens D, Talan...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... for the emergency management of asthma were set up by members of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) and the Canadian Thoracic Society (Guidelines for Canadian Clinical Practice ... However, more recent and current evidence suggests that in many patients, asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways Pathologic evidence shows that many inflammatory cells and mediators take ... diagnosis and management of asthma in 1991.The guidelines were based on expert opinion and experience The purpose of the guidelines was to provide assistance to clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 11:07

... purposively to change [2] 10 11 12 • Strategic: Refers to planned, organizational approaches to change and its deliberate management • Sustainability: Changes (practice and outcomes) based on evidence ... Transformational change in health care systems: an organizational model Health Care Manage Rev 2007, 32(4):309-320 Stetler CB: Role of the organization in translating research into evidence- based ... Excellence in evidence- based practice: organizational and unit exemplars Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am 2005, 17(2):127-142 x Gerrish K, Clayton J: Promoting evidence- based practice: an organizational...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... immunization and cancer screening services: a meta-analysis Ann Intern Med 2002, 136(9):641-651 Iles V, Sutherland K: Managing Change in the NHS: Organisational Change: A Review for Health Care Managers, ... Institutionalization • "Strategic": Refers to planned, organizational approaches to change and its deliberate management • Sustainability: Changes (practice and outcomes) based on evidence that continue over time ... this explanatory case approach is Pettigrew and Whipp's Content, Context, and Process model of strategic change [17], or more specifically the strategic management of change [13] This model has...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... to exploring the anti-anginal use of an antihypertensive drug without any understanding of the pharmacodynamics of the drug or the pathophysiology of angina or hypertension, and without Phase ... Framework, and the subject of our previous work [20]) The other is to develop an understanding of how the elements of the interventions work and can therefore be optimised (the modeling and exploratory ... use of antibiotics in the community in England and Scotland in 1980-1993 BMJ 1996, 312:613 Del Mar CB, Glasziou PP, Spinks AB: Antiobiotics for sore throat The Cochrane Library 2004 Standing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... purposively to change [2] 10 11 12 • Strategic: Refers to planned, organizational approaches to change and its deliberate management • Sustainability: Changes (practice and outcomes) based on evidence ... Transformational change in health care systems: an organizational model Health Care Manage Rev 2007, 32(4):309-320 Stetler CB: Role of the organization in translating research into evidence- based ... Excellence in evidence- based practice: organizational and unit exemplars Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am 2005, 17(2):127-142 x Gerrish K, Clayton J: Promoting evidence- based practice: an organizational...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... previouslydetected symbols is removed and, like before, the user can take a break and then the system continues with the next epoch Language Modeling Language modeling is important for many text processing applications, ... assumes the EEG -based information and the language model information are statistically independent given the class label) is used to combine the RDA discriminant score and the language model score ... language modeling can become much more significant BCI-spellers, including the RSVP Keyboard paradigm presented here, can be extremely low-speed, letter-by-letter writing systems, and thus can...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:20

... to develop and evaluate coherence metrics on manually annotated corpora For instance, Miltsakaki and Kukich (2000) annotate a corpus of student essays with transition information, and show that ... straw-man baseline; it correlates reliably with human judgments and has been used to analyze discourse structure, and (c) it models an aspect of coherence which is orthogonal to ours (their model ... lexical chains (Morris and Hirst, 1991) An entirely different approach is to develop fully lexicalized models, akin to traditional language models Cache language models (Kuhn and Mori, 1990) seem...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 15:20

... present an enhanced model of planbased dialogue understanding Our analysis demonstrates that the joint-plan assumption employed in the [Litman and Allen, 1987] model is too restrictive to track an ... segment: • When Sp-X makes an utterance that instantiates a discourse plan based on his or her domain plans and Sp-Y replies with an utterance that instantiates a discourse plan, then Sp-X maintains ... current plan -based model of dialogue understanding [Litman and Allen, 1987] assumes a single plan library that contains the domain plans of the two speakers, and a shared plan stack mechanism to...

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