training procedures casting and training the standardized patients

... – the more courses that have been run, the fewer the courses that have been cancelled, the more tutors affiliated with the PCT to deliver courses, and the more significant the planning for the ... running the lay-led self-care training courses for patients, and secondly, action-linking this to other practice and policies related to the management of long-term conditions already provided by the ... substantially to the design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, and drafted the manuscript AK contributed to the design, analysis and interpretation of data, and revised the manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... Proof: The proof for this theorem is very similar to the proof of theorem for Viterbi training and therefore omitted The key differences are, first, that l here corresponds to the state at the previous ... is derived from the counts of emissions and transitions in the Viterbi paths [17] of the training sequences The iterations are terminated as soon as the Viterbi paths of the training sequences ... in the training set  and maxi {Li} the length of the longest sequence in training set  However, for many bioinformatics applications where the number of states in the model M is large, the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... was defined as the time from hospital admission to patient discharge The critical care procedures recorded During the study period, 68,765 patients presented to the ED and 178 patients met inclusion ... as physicians and other health care members have divided priorities in the management of other ED patients ED physicians and nurses may not possess the skill sets to allow for the provision of ... JM reviewed and extracted patient data Both RG and JM analyzed the data RG prepared the manuscript, and both authors have read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors would...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... the Expertise Needed to Coach Standardized Patients Chapter Overview: The Art and Practice of Coaching Standardized Patients The Collaboration in Standardized Patient Work The Uniqueness of Standardized ... Summary 106 Looking Ahead 106 PART TWO Training Procedures: Casting and Training the Standardized Patients Chapter Casting: Finding the Right Standardized Patients Recruitment Recruitment Principles ... standards, and then monitored and given feedback on their portrayals and their checklists throughout their training and during all of the administrations of the clinical skills examination Otherwise,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... so they don’t shade the lower limbs Thin out the branches of the mature trees and the heaviest pruning in the tops Remove the long shoots in the center and top, but leave some short shoots and ... the center of the tree should be fairly free of limbs Don’t head shoots—remove them entirely or let them bear fruit and rely on the weight of the fruit to bring them down Thin off shoots on the ... limbs of many other fruit trees Remove the excess scaffold limbs in the spring of the second year and again in the third year if necessary Head the scaffold limbs in the first and second dormant...

Ngày tải lên: 20/04/2014, 14:11

... represented by box and whisker plots, with upper and lower limits of the boxes indicating the 75th and 25th percentiles, respectively, and the central, horizontal line representing the median Outliers ... metastatic and primary tumors, and there was no significant difference in IGFBP-3 sera levels between metastatic and primary patients In fact, IGFBP-3 sera levels of the majority of the melanoma patients ... Wilcoxon rank-sum test) The boxes represent the inter-quartile distances with upper and lower limits of the boxes indicating the 75th and 25th percentiles, respectively, and the central, horizontal...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... between the HADS anxiety domain and the CRQ emotional function and mastery domains and between the HADS total score and the CRQ emotional function and total score None of the correlations between the ... follow-up for HADS, CRQ and Feeling Thermometer scores and the correlations between outcomes The change scores for the CRQ and Feeling Thermometer both exceeded the threshold of their minimal important ... participated in the design of the study, performed the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript MF participated in the design of the study, collection of the data and revised the manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... getting in the snowshoes, fastening them, securing the patient lifter's belt to the harness, standing up with the assistance of the therapist, and a last check before starting therapy The trajectories ... regularization of the jerk [21], the third derivative of the position information The data relative to the marker placed on the metatarsale V provided the information for the up- and down movement and the ... corresponded to the patient's metatarsale V The therapist could further adapt the excursions of the CoM in the vertical and horizontal directions and the relative position of the suspension point...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... participated in the design of the study and assisted in the drafting of the manuscript VL participated in the design of the study and assisted in the drafting of the manuscript CM participated in the design ... design of the study, performed the statistical analysis and assisted in the drafting of the manuscript Acknowledgements All the authors would like to thanks the patients who took part in the study ... factors to the instrument These were interpreted as depression and two distinct factors of psychic anxiety and psychomotor agitation [12] However, the utility of the instrument is based on the theoretical...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... used to examine whether there were differences in the effect of these scales in the ACRE data as compared to the other studies Interaction terms between ETT, CCS and SAQ and the disease stage ... of the variability was explained The addition of the ECS scale of the SAQ to the model accounted for the greatest variability in the EQ-5D index (43%) and gave the lowest RMSE (0.179) of all the ... singly As the ASS and AFS scales were the only SAQ scales available from the ACRE study, and the ACRE data were therefore no longer included in the multiple variable models once the other scales...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Potential subjects of the study were patients who presented to the DEM with an acute exacerbation of asthma The inclusion criteria were adult patients, aged between 18 and 65 years, and self-reported ... or nursing staff at the DEM The blood sample was then centrifuged, and the plasma harvested and stored at -20°C until analysis History of rac-albuterol use by subjects within the previous 24 h ... coordinated the study patient recruitment, data collection and undertook the laboratory analysis KYC and GAJ performed the statistical analysis All authors helped draft the manuscript All authors read and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... the patient and should spend most of their time to look after patients, especially the spouses of the patients were more psychologically vulnerable than other groups and theybare themselves higher ... between patients with and without the ability to selfreport the quality of life There were 95 patients (79.2%) self-report of their quality of life, 25 (20.8%) patients did not answer the question ... were translated and adapted toVietnamese and appliedsuccessfully to Vietnamese patients and their caregivers These tools would be applied to evaluate the quality of life of patients andcaregivers’...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 11:36

... admission patients and their aggressive behaviour, which have recently been the object of a specific publication [4] The present paper focuses mainly on the management of SPDC patients and their ... 2003 and April 2004 were enrolled into the study All patients were admitted to the study only once over the enrolment period The subjects were evaluated at admission, and then daily for the first ... psychiatric inpatients (up to 98% among schizophrenics) and 67–75% among outpatients, with 45 and 28% of combination therapies in in- and outpatients being reported, respectively [28-30] The rates...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... Carried out the biochemical analysis SP-Carried out the statistical analysis AS, ACD, IH and BD- Took part in and contributed the discussion All authors have read and approve of the final manuscript ... VEGF-A, VEGF-C), midkine and hormones (adiponectin, leptin and ghrelin) in a population of newly diagnosed colon cancer patients Materials and methods Patients A total of 126 patients with colon cancer ... between CRP and circulating IL-8, midkine, which both have pro-angiogenic properties [38] Similarly CRP and VEGF correlation has been determined and these results may further support this hypothesis...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:22

... of the patients and response to rituximab therapy The clinical and laboratory characteristics of the RA patients who were treated with rituximab are summarized in Table Patients had longstanding ... drafted the manuscript PS participated in the design of the study, performed the statistical analysis of the data and drafted the manuscript GB performed the statistical analysis of the data and ... in the design of the study and drafted the manuscript HK participated in the design and conduction of the study, was involved in patient care and reviewed the manuscript DTB conceived of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... contributions WWC, LXL and WLL participated in the design and coordination of the study, HSW and TDL participated in the data collection, SX and JY revised the manuscript, WH and BZG performed the statistical ... the CRV group was higher than that in the other groups Infective endocarditis patients were younger than those in the other groups, and there was a higher incidence of abnormal echo than in the ... Histological appearance and echocardiogram of the MV and chordae tendineae A: Myxomatous degeneration The structure of the valve is crumbly and the main changes are myxoid degeneration and no inflammation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... family genes of the mitochondrial pathway, and the TRAIL (TNFSF10) gene of the death receptor signaling pathway [22], furthermore, in our previous study, the genes (SPP1 and CREBBP) of the TGF-b pathway ... 0.995) The amplification efficiencies of BCL2L1 and the b2M control gene were 95.30% and 95.16%, respectively, and the melting curves are shown in Figure 2C PCR products from the b2M control gene and ... conception and design laboratory study XH, SHC, QS, LJY, and BL performed the laboratory technique process and the laboratory analyses LYZ, SXG and XD were responsible of the patient’s treatment and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:21

... seek help [4] The non-help seekers did not consider the episode serious or recognize it at as an illness and believed that they could handle the episode themselves On the other hand, those who ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/9/56 The conjoint scientific and ethics board of the University of Calgary granted approval for the study Procedures The design involved the development and the psychometric assessment ... analysis, and factor analysis For the patients, each item on the MCQ test was scored correct (1) or incorrect (0) and then summed for a total score Results The demographics of the patients are...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... article, and the organization and implementation of the study AK and AB contributed to the design and implementation, reviewed the workbook and manual, and revised earlier versions of the manuscript ... psychiatric hospitals in The Netherlands, both in -patients and outpatients A smaller sample is recruited from the existing pool of patients already in treatment and who were referred to the program due ... for their alcohol problems It also provides means to discuss the training and exchange information The website hosts a message board Further information about the training can be found in the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... between the three baseline control levels and are therefore presented altogether The proportion of patients using LABA was similar for the Internet and usual care group at months (63% Internet and ... from the first month (88%) to the seventh month (60%) and then remained stable up to year Monitoring in the three subgroups was 71%, 68% and 58% during the oneyear follow-up for well, partly and ... general practitioners) in and around Leiden, The Netherlands, and from the outpatient department of Pulmonology of the Leiden University Medical Center We included patients with physician diagnosed...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22