translation of evidence to improve clinical outcomes

... designed to improve clinical decision-making at the point of care, are one form of knowledge translation found to be effective [18-20] The objective of this study was to determine if incorporation of ... other than to provide funding support Author details Foothills Medical Center, 1403-29th Street NW, Calgary, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, ... orthopedic wards for five months prior to implementation (October 2008 to March 2009) of the Page of care pathway and then for five months post-implementation (March 2009 to August 2009) The care pathway...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... ability of mobile telephone interventions to improve long-term adherence to medicines in chronic disease is unknown but could be of major benefit Such interventions must be part of a repertoire of ... point of view, mobile telephone companies make their profit in the private sector They are only likely to invest in such technology in the public research sector for reasons of – for want of a ... to make definitive conclusions about the cost-effectiveness of such interventions to enhance adherence to medicines " due to the heterogeneity of the studies found and incomplete reporting of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... exercises will be focused: exercises to improve voice, exercises to improve voice and body language, exercises to improve speaking on stage 3.1 Exercises to Improve Voice Voice is an important ... one of the oldest human activities, and the role of an interpreter is arguably one of the oldest of professions” He finds out the way of interpreting is orally and emphasizes the position of interpreting ... with their translation they are not still able to a good job at interpreting because they fail to give notice to other important issues such as tone of voice, pronunciation and intonation Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2013, 20:21

... guaranteed to offend no one are doomed to fail to reduce tobacco use ® 29 SAMPLE JOB DESCRIPTION From the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Editor’s ... Department of Public Health Mike Newton-Ward, Social Marketing Consultant, North Carolina Division of Public Health Sylvia Pirani, Director, Office of Local Health Services, New York State Department of ... principles to influence human behavior to improve health or benefit society You don’t have to be a marketing expert to integrate social marketing into your public health practice, but it helps to understand...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20

... institutional factors need to be taken into account as we amass evidence either from one-off case studies or in the ongoing work of emerging health systems observatories Knowledge Networks of the Commission ... the private sector and with communities: to act on key determinants of health; to protect workers’ health; to ensure the health needs of the most vulnerable are properly addressed; to anticipate ... role of co-ordinator of external health aid organizations Support countries’ monitoring of trends in health systems and performance The generation and use of information is at the heart of WHO’s...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... slip from the top to the bottom of the vertical specimen or fall off the specimen While substantial parts of the foam sometimes fell off, the base of the foam layer remained attached to the plywood ... the property of a material to withstand fire or give protection from it Fire resistance of elements of buildings is characterized by the ability to confine a fire or to continue to perform a ... contrast, 75 mm of intumescence was observed with five coats of Coating B The main observation with some of the fire resistive coatings was failure of the adhesion of the coating to the plywood...

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 12:10

... one-third of the studies were likely to be at low risk of bias Effects of interventions Review outcomes and study primary outcomes of included studies are reported in Table With regards to the main ... overall summary measure of effectiveness, the risk ratio and RDs were calculated using meta-analysis for both of the main outcomes of the review Page of 17 2010 yielded a total of 2,814 potentially ... Other outcomes considered were: diagnosis of osteoporosis, prescribing of calcium and vitamin D, and economic variables A study was required to report on at least one of the main review outcomes to...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... said to be the product of educators and linguists who had grown dissatisfied with the audio-lingual and grammar -translation methods of foreign language instruction It can be understood as a set of ... listening  To stimulate discussion of attitudes and feelings  To encourage creativity and use of imagination  To provide a relaxed classroom atmosphere  To bring variety and fun to learning ... Most of them were aware of the importance of listening skill and tried hard to improve their teaching of listening, motivate students and help them over come those difficulties However, not all of...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:29

... is to improve listening skill None of them listens to English songs to stay awake or for professional reasons 20 2.6.8 Teachers’ opinion about advantages and disadvantages of using songs to ... factor to the success of a listening lesson Secondly, most of the students realized the fact that English songs were not only a tool to help them relax but it could be used a powerful tool to ... 57% To relax 85% Table 2: Reasons that students listen to English songs When mentioning the amount of time students spend listening to English songs, most of them said that they often listened to...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:30

... Effect of Stability of Inclusion Complexes on Concentration Factor……………………………………………………………………… 67~69 2.3.4 Effect of Displacer plug on Concentration Factor…………………69~73 2.3.5 Optimization of Injection ... proven a powerful method for the studies of many groups of compounds The improvement of sensitivity and the miniaturization of CE technique are two major trends of capillary electrophoresis which have ... on-capillary preconcentration of neutral stabilizers in pharmaceutical products and improvement of the concentration limit of detection (LOD) in micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) In this...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 10:36

... either to increase the amount of analyte added to the capillary or to improve the sensitivity of the detector, may be applied However, due to the characteristics of the CE technique, both of these ... such as GC, supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and HPLC It is because of the plug-like profile of electrokinetic flow in contrast to the parabolic profile of laminar flow Thirdly, the peak ... One of the greatest shortcomings of CE is the general lack of sensitivity due to the short optical path length of detection and the low sample injection volume which just ranges from to 20 nl To...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 10:37

... each combination of four constraint groups 89 6.4 Results to study the effect of ML and CL 90 6.5 Results to study the effect of CLA and MLS 91 -6- Incorporation of constraints to improve machine ... text tokenization system and toolset which enables users to produce a swift and individually-tailored tokenization of text, is used to tokenization and sentence segmentation It uses a set of hand-craft ... set of rules Almost no linguistic rule can be guaranteed to be 100% accurate Hence, rule-based approaches are subject to three disadvantages as follows: - 12 - Incorporation of constraints to improve...

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:24

... 4Division of Cardiology, St Page of Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 5Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ... Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 10 Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital Toronto, Canada 11Faculty of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, ... Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 6Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 7Department of Emergency Medicine and Critical...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... demographic predictors We will evaluate the role of these previously studied predictors However, we also wish to identify unknown predictors To fully address KT mediators, it is important to have an ... number of different contexts [55] The elaboration of information that occurs in tutorial discussion, the use of problems to match new knowledge to the clinical context, and the activation of prior ... blocks to interventions and to balance professions and clinical areas evenly, we expect to accommodate 24 participants per intervention group, per site These will consist of three tutorial groups of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... access to blood monitoring tools for selfmanagement Professional Lack of adherence to guidelines and clinical inertia related to: e.g Overestimation of care actually delivered, a failure to identify ... study Our program goal is to improve adherence to evidencebased guidelines and to reduce clinical inertia in primary care physicians, and to therefore improve the management of glycemic control and ... quality improvement program (AQIP) Physicians can make use of program services on a voluntary basis The UQIP arm will aim to improve adherence to evidencebased guidelines and to reduce the rate of clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... criteria to select best practices: potential to improve clinical outcomes (based on existing evidence) ; applicable to most patients; feasible to implement and measure process of care indicators or ... process of care indicators Best practice Process of care indicator Unit of measurement Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia ▪ head of bed elevation(≥ 30°) ▪ route of intubation - Number of ... a baseline survey of the directors and nurse managers of participating ICUs to understand their organizational structure, quality improvement culture, and to obtain estimates of patient characteristics...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... score [1] 34 SOFA score values [2] at inclusion SOFA maximum SOFA mean during study period ICU duration of stay (days) Hospital duration of stay (days) 15 Dr Arthur Slutsky from Toronto, Canada ... during systole As such, decreased calcium availability during diastole leads to better diastolic relaxation by avoiding diastolic calcium overload Both of these phenomena result in improved contractility ... The study was conducted to identify whether these potential benefits might translate into improvement in renal and patient outcomes The aim of the study was therefore to compare both strategies...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... no evidence and where, due to accepted practices, it will be difficult to get evidence c Develop tools to standardize the management of AKI d Develop evidence through clinical research where feasible ... the biology and mechanism of ARF in animal models, translation of this knowledge into improved management and outcomes for patients has been limited Representatives of the major critical care ... community and to address this limitation Future clinical and translational research in AKI will require the development of collaborative networks of investigators drawn from various disciplines to facilitate...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... affliction of low back pain A secondary purpose of this review is to present the concepts of evidence- based practice to aid the chiropractor or osteopath in looking for health-related evidence ... of the literature that due to lack of evidence, body weight should be considered a possible weak risk indicator and suggested that there is insufficient data to assess if it is a true cause of ... references of papers retrieved were also reviewed, as were key texts and references This section is devoted to presenting the concepts of evidence- based practice (EBP) to demonstrate to the reader...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... The seven features used to train SYS1 are: • The ratio of number of good words to total number of words (1 feature) • The ratio of number of good nouns to total number of nouns The similar ones ... systems as they belong to top at the bottom of the lists In addition, in Figure 3, when the size of feature set is small (from to 7), we can observe sharply the growth of system scores for both ... maximum number of iterations (-maxiter), the stop window size (–stopwin) and the stop epsilon (–stopeps) to 200, and 0.00005 respectively We also http://www.knime.org/knime-desktop N.Q Luong et...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2015, 10:00