outcomes in the population at risk

... notification [43] Implementation The intervention program is being put in place for one year in the primary care clinics of stations A and B in VISN 22 The three remaining stations in VISN 22 (stations ... at multiple administrative and clinical levels The VA PHSHG provided invaluable support by promoting HIV testing within the VA, and by developing the HIV Testing Clinical Reminder Their backing ... of the HIV Testing Clinical Reminder In contrast, no change in the reminder resolution rate was seen at the other VISN 22 stations where the intervention was not undertaken Actual monthly rates...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... notification [43] Implementation The intervention program is being put in place for one year in the primary care clinics of stations A and B in VISN 22 The three remaining stations in VISN 22 (stations ... at multiple administrative and clinical levels The VA PHSHG provided invaluable support by promoting HIV testing within the VA, and by developing the HIV Testing Clinical Reminder Their backing ... of the HIV Testing Clinical Reminder In contrast, no change in the reminder resolution rate was seen at the other VISN 22 stations where the intervention was not undertaken Actual monthly rates...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... maintaining the integrity of the intestinal barrier In addition, Yan et al reported the increase survival of intestinal cells in the presence of L rhamnosus GG through the prevention of cytokine-induced ... and an increasing problem not only in the West but also in an Asian population By comparing the data from phase I and phase III of the ISAAC surveys conducted in Singapore seven years later in 2001, ... immunomodulators which enhance both the innate and adaptive immunities in the host [64] as they adhere to epithelial cells and proliferate in the mucosa stimulating the gut immune responses The gut...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 21:39

... candidate genes in patients with atopy and allergic diseases in Singapore population One could argue that it is due to the possible difference in the study population, this clearly indicate that ... Candidate genes implicated in the pathophysiology of atopy Several candidate genes are believed to be implicated in the pathophysiology of atopic diseases Mutation of the genes might affect the atopy-related ... (Rothenberg, 1998) Once the late phase is initiated, eosinophages become one of the major mediators of chronic inflammation in allergic asthma (Maddox and Schwartz, 2002) In addition, interleukin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:58

... status in Round Chi-square test indicated that the postperiod health status was significantly associated with inappropriate prescription drug use in the preperiod (Po.001) Modeling Strategies In ... outcomes in the elderly based on a nationally representative population sample Strong evidence was obtained indicating that inappropriate drug use is associated with subsequent decrease in self-perceived ... Adding predisposing and enabling variables in Model C, the coefficient remained virtually the same as before, indicating that these two sets of variables would not confound or modify the estimates...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... years later The hypothesis was that a big increase in statin utilisation could be related to a decrease in AMI-mortality two years later, irrespective of the indication for statin treatment However, ... deprivation index, antidiabetic drugs, statin utilisation, x- and y-coordinates The multivariate model was used in analysing AMI-incidence vs statin utilisation In order to minimise the effect ... representing the change in statin utilisation and the change in AMI mortality were plotted against each other The utilisation of statins, AMI-mortality, AMI-incidence and coronary revascularisation rates...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:21

... for these subpopulations are shown in Table Compared with patients in the ≤2 subgroup, patients in the ≥3 subgroup site tended to be enrolled in countries other than the US and Canada (indicating ... enroll approximately 11,400 severe sepsis patients at 1,000 investigative sites in 35 countries The ADDRESS study was prematurely terminated at the recommendation of the safety monitoring board because ... enrolled at a site compared with the third and subsequent patients indicated that there were changes in the characteristics of patients enrolled in the study as the site gained experience with the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... illness increased risk of in- ICU mortality The use of initial broad spectrum antibiotics showed no survival benefit among SIRS patients but increased the risk of “collateral damage” by increasing incidence ... Tambyah PA Inappropriate Antibiotics Beyond 24 hours but not Initial Inappropriate Antibiotics associated with Increased Mortality in Critically Ill Patients  6th International Congress Of the Asia ... Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative Infection Introduction Results Score Formulation Segregation into Risk categories Prospective Validation External Validation Discussion Clinical Impact 7a, 7b: Impact...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:30

... one of the most common causes of drinking and recreational waterborne diseases in humans in the United States In the spring of 1993 in Milwaukee, municipal drinking water that was within bacterial ... photosynthesis, wave action, or other natural means The microorganisms instead deplete the oxygen of the receiving waters, doing grave harm to other living things in the water According to the EPA, ... associated with swimming in sewage-contaminated marine waters.59 The amount of human illness after exposure to marine water appears to be increasing, and there is evidence that the rate of infection...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... absolute risk due to incomplete or uncertain information • risk- reducing surgery does not eliminate all risk of breast cancer • the interventions themselves have other risks associated with them, ... partnership, patients should be offered individually tailored information, including information about sources of support (including local and national organisations) 1.1.3 Tailoring of information should ... breast cancer • Information about genetic testing, both predictive testing and mutation finding, including details of what the tests mean and how informative they are likely to be, and the likely...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... associated with HRQoL The sociodemographic categories are those used by the U.S Census Bureau to describe the U.S population and are utilized in SHIELD to demonstrate the representativeness of the ... [18,19], an ordinal variable for the EQ-5D index was created by categorizing the continuous variable into levels, and an ordered logit regression model was used to confirm the multivariate linear regression ... diabetes and evaluating healthcare interventions both clinically and economically Since SHIELD respondents are representative of the U.S population with or at risk for diabetes, the EQ-5D utility...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... the limitations of the study, it must be remarked that in the statistical models we found a rather large 95% confidence interval for the odds ratio of nursing home placement and death in relation ... investigated (please see the Discussion section) In order to justify the entry of the variables in the multivariate models, multi-collinearity was assessed by using the correlation matrices in the ... suffering from mild or moderate dementia in two studies addressing the association of QOL with both frailty status and living status in an older population referred to the same geriatric service in...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... negitna cS-PrP eht rof gniniatsonummi evitisop on elihW E&H htiw deniats eussit niarb eht fo snoitces eht ni devresbo erew snoisel lacigolohtap rehto on ,elttac owt fo segninem eht ni snoitartlifni ... tpecxE redlo dna shtnom-05 fo ega na ta erew %4.65 ,slamina eseht fO giF ni nwohs si slamina 024 eht fo noitubirtsid ega ehT erudecorp gniniats eht fo elcyc hcae ni dedulcni erew ,lortnoc evitagen ... sdohteM 591 tatS 2002 dna 1002 ni stluser dna noitatnemelpmi :peehs dna elttac tluda ni gnitset EST dipar s’noinU naeporuE MS driB secnerefeR yekruT ,asruB ,sdnuF hcraeseR ytisrevinU gadulU eht...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... success in assessing the efficacy of forensic services [59,60] including the fact that there may be bias in the prosecution of psychiatric patients which limits the accuracy of this data in assessing ... that suggested that the HCR-20 was useful in characterizing risk status in patients managed by community mentally health services in the UK [40], we examined its utility as an assessment tool in ... accuracy in their sample may reflect the clinical stability of those deemed suitable for discharge to the community as well as the differences in follow up time Our finding that the clinical and risk...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... strongly related to their progress in the outcomes of housing and income than to other program outcomes Making progress in these two outcomes, more than the others, generally requires either abstinence ... wants services can receive them Rather than having a single entry point, clients can join the program at any part of the organization, including the formal offices, the street-side service delivery ... progress in the outcome of housing (p ≤ 07) and significantly related to progress in the outcome of income (p ≤ 05) Discussion While the findings from the evaluation were positive overall in showing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... Mortality rates were much greater in the high -risk population than in the standard population Patients in the high -risk population were older, more likely to undergo emergency surgery and remained in ... surgical patients are at high risk of postoperative death Materials and methods Data were extracted from two large healthcare databases, one maintained by CHKS Ltd and the other maintained by the Intensive ... in each database were drawn from the same population Consequently, only a limited and cautious interpretation of the combined dataset has been performed The incidence of postoperative death in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... use siblings, parents and general population control groups It adds to similar findings from other regions of the world, indicating vitamin D deficiency in the population and especially in individuals ... (fish-eating) fish At each step in the food chain, the concentration of methylmercury in the organism increases (Figure 2) The concentration of methylmercury in the highest aquatic predators can ... autism in the general population, in all schools and all relevant registers Screen-positive cases were examined in depth, including collateral interviews with the parents using the Diagnostic Interview...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 16:45

... vasodilatation before undergoing their initial and final angiograms The glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor (Tirofiban) was administered at the operator’s discretion All patients maintained anti-platelet ... treating single de novo lesions in patients with symptomatic coronary artery disease has been examined in the first four trials of the ongoing ENDEAVOR clinical trials program The results of these ... that the use of antiplatelet agents decreases the risk of in- stent thrombosis in DES treated patients and have been used in most of the trials described earlier However when the antiplatelet therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... associated risk At a population level, the attributable risk must be small simply because it is an infrequent allele Finally, the major bur- Int J Med Sci 2007, den of lung cancer in the population ... polymorphisms across populations In a population where the prevalence of an "at- risk" genotype in a given polymorphism is very low, the "at- risk" allele or "at- risk" genotype may be too infrequent to ... adducts that are capable of inducing mutations and initiating carcinogenesis The capacity to repair DNA damage induced by activated carcinogens 61 appears to be one of the host factors that may influence...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 14:59