overview of evidence base for falls interventions

... could suffer if the truism that "the absence of evidence of effectiveness does not imply evidence of absence of effectiveness" is not recognized The need for expanded rehabilitation-focused health ... clinically relevant outcomes Johnston et al [7] called for a method of grading the strength of evidence for and validity of PAC measures Evidence is needed to support measures' content validity, ... policy decisions, and to provide emphasis for the need for an evidence base for rational policymaking Symposium organizers sought balance in perspectives of key stakeholders, including Congress,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... different methods for countries at different stages of health development, often largely determined by the availability of data [51] For example, age-sex-specific death rates for countries were ... dead and what they died of: an assessment of the global status of cause of death data Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2005, 83:171-177 Snow RW, Armstrong JRM, Forster D, et al.: Childhood ... true pattern of disease and injury in the community due to biases arising from the nature of conditions typically treated in hospitals and the ability of sectors of the population to afford tertiary...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... substantial evidence supporting this type of treatment [22-24] and spinal manipulation for back pain is recommended in several guidelines[25,26] The research forming this evidence base relates ... have been performed in this area If the chiropractic profession wishes to undertake the task of caring for children's musculoskeletal problems, an important area for which no other profession has ... opinion to promote evidence- based treatment of children for the common good Authors' contributions Both authors independently performed the literature search and the screening of titles and abstracts...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... Figure four c of Johnson et al [7], to the upper left of the photomicrograph.) The work of Generoso et al [80] Page of 20 informs of the gross effects on oocytes of a single administration of BU (or ... colonisation of the ovary, proliferation of oogonia, proliferation of granulosa cells, and recruitment of thecal cells.) For humans also, there is evidence for paracrine and autocrine roles of this ... destruction of surviving follicles; and (C) after BMT and establishment of haematopoietic chimaerism, restoration of tolerance and resumption of development of surviving follicles Evidence for these...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... parameters evidence Based on the observable parameters evidence, the instantaneous (conditional) probabilities for the utility value are calculated The next step of this procedure is the calculation of ... as input in a decision-making mechanism for deciding, for instance, on the most appropriate configuration of user’s device An overview of the process for learning user preferences is depicted ... an overview of applications of machine learning for building knowledge on environment characteristics (context) and user preferences In particular, the article provided an extended overview of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... the decision for no further treatment in case of a negative result, was made Indeed the histology of the breast and of the 17 lymph nodes removed during the ALND showed no evidence of residual ... brief overview of evidence World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2011 9:52 List of abbreviations MDT: Multidisciplinary Team; ALND: Axillary Lymph Node Dissection Author details Department of Obstetrics ... in the view of avoiding radiotherapy Brief overview of evidence Primary carcinoid tumors of the breast are considered rare, representing less than 1% of the breast tumors [3] Atypical carcinoid...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... industry to quantify performance of light sources 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 750 Wavelength(nm) Lumen: The luminous flux accounts for the sensitivity of the eye by weighting ... Types: Pin -base for dedicated fixtures Screw -base self-ballasted Efficacy: 25 to 60 lm/W Color CRI = 82 typical CCT = 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4100K, 5000K Life 6,000 to 10,000 hours Frequent on-off switching ... mixture of gases, which causes a metallic vapor to produce radiant energy It contains a high-pressure mixture of argon, mercury, and a variety of metal halides in a compact arc tube About 24% of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2015, 21:53

... Page of 12 Table Selected examples of evidence- based treatments for substance use problems Evidence- based treatment Brief description and citation • Contingency management Provide positive reinforcement ... emergence of a number of evidence- based treatments (EBTs; described further below) [34] that, while holding substantial promise for improving services for AI/ANs with substance use problems (as they for ... This lack of evidence and longstanding wariness of research further contributes to the hesitancy of programs serving AI/AN communities to implement these treatments [33,38] Efforts of policymakers...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... while limiting to year ‘2000’ forward yielded no articles Changing databases to Medline (1996-2006) yielded no citations for nursing but provided 786 for ‘Chief Executive Officers Hospital’ A further ... particularly significant because fourteen percent of those surveyed in the AONE study reported forced termination [10] CNE Forced Termination Forced termination of key nurse executives can have more than ... also a concern for the nurse executive since approximately 75% of the hospital workforce is directly under the CNE’s authority [20] Former studies calculated the replacement costs of bedside nurses...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 08:57

... whereas for off-shore wind systems the FiT is higher and it accounts to 18.6€c/kWh for any capacity size of wind systems In the case of PV systems, the Netherlands has a FiT of 45.9€c/kWh for ISSN ... RES It sets mandatory national targets for each Member State for the overall share of energy from RES in gross final consumption of energy and for the share of energy from RES in transport Also, ... minimum capacity limit A guarantee of origin shall be of the standard size of 1MWh No more than one guarantee of origin shall be issued in respect of each unit of energy produced In line with the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... trademark of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and is registered in the U.S Patent and Trademark Office © Crown copyright material reproduced with the kind permission of OGC and the Controller of ... and often increasing the frequency, complexity and the volume of Change The main method of realising this goal is the operation of effective processes and the provision of appropriate, value for ... eventually their review and closure One of the key deliverables of the process is the Forward Schedule of Change (FSC) a central programme of Change agreed by all areas, based on business impact and urgency...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 09:15

... the calculation of the LOLE is the unit FOR This is sometimes replaced by the DAFOR for large generating units which tends to give a pessimistic appraisal of the unit and therefore of the system ... data base provides all the basic generating unit information required for the calculation of the conventional LOLE index Loss of Energy Expectation ( ) Several Canadian utilities use loss of energy ... provides a breakdown of the primary causes of interruption CONCLUSION This paper has presented an overview of the CEA reporting procedures for assessing overall power system performance and providing...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:36

... enhancement of procedures for the collection and sharing of credit information, an establishment of legal framework for modern financial products and services, and the implementation of risk-based ... identification of the procedures through which information sharing may be made; identification of the types of information and assistance that can be provided; safeguards of the confidentiality of information ... 26.7 2.6% Source: HOSTC, MOF, IMF and World Bank * As of October 21, 2005 GDP for 2005 is an IMF projection 15 based credit allocation as well as equity base reinforcement of Vietnamese industries...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 12:59

... and cisplatin with a HR of 0.83 (95% CI, 0.74 to 0.93) over single-agent 5FU-based chemotherapy Response rates (RR) using ECF are 40%, median survival of 9.4 months and 40% of patients alive at ... Connection 2010 | 29 There is no standard second or third-line of chemotherapy for advanced GC; less than 40% of patients may be fit for treatment in that setting One small phase III study, demonstrated ... both groups Subgroup analysis (site of tumor, performance status, fluoropyrimidine used, histology, age, region, prior gastrectomy and number of metastatic sites) for survival favored trastuzumab...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... funding for the purpose of domestic payments The fourth phase of forex operations was determined by the Central Bank’s decision to increase the level of foreign exchange reserves through foreign ... PURCHS stand for, all in millions of USD, central bank intervention, sales of foreign exchange, and purchases of foreign exchange, respectively.14 SIGN is a dummy variable with a value of unity on ... demand for foreign bonds, will cause a depreciation (appreciation) of the exchange rate Since interventions are small relative to the stock of outstanding bonds most authors, including Rogoff (1984),...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... standard for VOCs; a new source performance standard for sulfur dioxide; an air toxics standard for major sources of oil and natural gas production; and an air toxics standard for major sources of ... segments of the oil and gas industry The final rules are the result of the review of four air regulations for the oil and natural gas industry required by the Clean Air Act: a new source performance ... the environment In 2011, for example, the Agency signed a memorandum of understanding with the departments of Interior and Agriculture establishing a common process for the agencies to follow...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... the performance of TransCont we note that much of the loss is a result of the lack of variability in the translations which is a key factor in the performance of the algorithm For example for the ... The coverage for SV2AW is 98.17% losing some of the verb and adverb target words Our overall results on all the data sets clearly outperform the baseline as well as state -of- theart performance using ... inconsistencies in the annotations of nouns in SemCor or the very fine granularity of the nouns in WN We know that 72% of the nouns, 74% of the verbs, 68.9% of the adjectives, and 81.9% of the adverbs directly...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... set of discourse referents of K in to M s.t (i) it is a homomorphism for the atomic conditions of the IRS and (il) - for the c~se of a complex condition K(1) > I((2) every proper embedding of ... graphs The semlntin structures are the result of a translation procedure which is based on the association of formulas of intensional logic to the semantic forms appearing in the functional structure ... role of the hierarchical order of the BRS's is to build a base for the definition of truth conditions But furthemnore the hierarchy defines an accessibility relation, which restricts the set of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:21

... Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade – DakLak Branch 1.2.1 The process of formation and development of Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade - DakLak Branch Vietinbank Dak Lak is a member of VietinBank ... object of VietinBank, about over 32% in total volume of short term lending in 2008 Next was joint-stock company with the volume of lending of 24,73% and limited company with the volume of lending of ... growth’s speed of 72,6% compared with 2008 It was the highest in the increase of volume of lending to the total economic sectors The volume of collecting depends on the volume of lending Therefore, as...

Ngày tải lên: 21/05/2014, 10:17