proper placement of the patient

... consider-ing the patient’s opinion, (C) the patient makes the deci-sion together with the clinician, (D) the patient makes the decision after considering the doctor’s opinion, and (E) the patient makes the ... regarding the treatment Self- reported lack of knowledge about the advantages and disadvantages of the treatment options was present in 18% of patients in the surgery group and in 22% of patients in the ... ob-tained by summing the items together within a domain, dividing this outcome by the range of scores and then transforming the scores to a scale from 0 to 100 [30] The mean score of the PCS and MCS

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2020, 00:19

... drafting of the paper KOD - Contributed to the design of the study and reviewed the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Acknowledgements We acknowledge the extensive work of the ... isnot surprising given the complexity of the task One of the primary reasons for this complexity is the de-gree of cultural diversity within the Australian Indigenous population The need to accommodate ... was made by the principal investigator [AB] and/or the Indigenous Research Fellow [RM], the broad objectives of the study were outlined, and an over-view of the proposed process of translation

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 09:26

... 4Proper Use of the ETS Professional Educator Programs Assessments 4 Proper Uses of the Professional Educator Programs Assessments This section describes the intended and acceptable uses of the ... validity evidence on the part of the program may not be necessary, as the state, through its adoption of the assessment for licensure purposes, has Trang 6Proper Use of the ETS Professional Educator ... means there is adequate evidence to support the intended use of the assessment and to support the decisions and outcomes rendered on the basis of candidates’ assessment scores Proper use, therefore,

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2022, 18:54

... evaluated these modifying agents have studied patients with a mean age of 34–47, and have followed these patients for only a few years Very little work has examined the effects of these medications ... and the addition of hand brakes, a seat, and a basket can be beneficial It is important to educate each patient on their needs and how to utilize the assist device properly As patients age, their ... mobility in patients with MS.5 Furthermore, exercise can help counteract the effects of disuse atrophy Given the potential implications of serious falls, many older patients may develop a “fear of falling”

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... contains a list of the patient conditions that the author is using to specify the selection of pieces of text The right-hand portion of the screen contains a window on the text of the master document ... are persuasive to the patient For more discussion, see DiMarco, et al (1995) other parts of the system—i.e., the user interface for the clinician, the software interface to the online medical-records ... simplest kind of tailoring is inclusion of simple numerical or alphabetic data from the patient’s record, such as the name of the patient or of a prescribed medication—in effect, filling in the blanks

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... generate the laser beam It is the responsibility of the owner of the equipment to drain the equipment and arrange for disposal of the hazardous materials through EHS before requesting the system ... inoperable d It is the responsibility of the owner of the equipment to drain the equipment and arrange for disposal of the hazardous materials through EHS before requesting the system be picked ... acknowledging their experience and awareness of the hazards associated with the equipment This letter must include information as to the intended use of the equipment and contact information for their

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... have any constraints with respect to the position of nodes marking a verb within the tree. Only the syntactic structure of the sentence restricts the distance of the linguistically moti- vated verb ... German, the finite verb can sometimes be the last element of the verbal complex, while in English, the finite verb is al- ways the first verb in the verbal complex. In terms of positions, the verbs ... In the baseline translation, only the translation of the finite verb was, namely war, is placed correctly, while the translation of the main verb (diagnosed → festgestellt) should be placed at the

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... mucosal bleeding The degree of bleeding throughout the course of the dis-ease is largely dependent on the patient's platelet count, although other factors certainly contribute Those with the lowest ... immunosuppressive agents can subject the patient to increased risk of infection [1] Patients and physicians need to consider both the impact of symptoms of ITP as well as the impact of treatment side effects ... It is, therefore, impor-tant to incorporate the patient's perspective in decisions regarding the management of their ITP Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) provide information from the patient's

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... appearwhile transposing the upper body of the patient (3.3 kN) and laying back the patient (5.5 kN) Also in the seg-ments “bending” and “grasping the upper part of the body of the patient” the compressive ... to patient’s shoulder (lower trace) and a component “to the right” of -60 N (middle trace) In the following phase “transposing the upper part of the body of the patient”, the direction of the ... posture, bending, grasping the upper part of the body of the patient, transposing the upper body of the patient, holding the patient, laying back the patient, straighten up and basic posture again

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... presented as posters [4,5] The objective of the present study was to further validate the questionnaire by investigating the psy-chometric properties of the EAPIQ in a sample of patients with ocular ... frequency as the more pertinent index of severity, whereas patients consider intensity of bother to be of greater salience Consequently, instead of deleting either the 'intensity of bother' or 'frequency ... excluded from further analyses because of the high frequency of missing data for these items The high frequency of missing data for these items is likely due to a large number of patients (for example,

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Sample characteristics The flow of patients initially enrolled in the study is depicted in Figure 1 Note that by week 9, only 80% of the patients remained in the study Of the 284 patients enrolled ... for the PSQ-An if they could be modified to capture 1 of the 4 preselected domains of patient satisfaction for anemia treatment (general patient satisfaction, convenience of treatment for the patient ... times the upper limit of the normal range or serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times the upper limit of the normal range), and able to complete ques-tionnaires Patients were excluded from the trials if they

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... modification of the German coding schedule was made to account for a distinction between oiliness of the 'side of nose' versus the 'nose', the US moderator on the other hand, used only the 'nose' ... during which they provided written responses to questions contained in the Topic Guide, follow-up probes from moderators, and the comments of other participants The thematic content of these responses ... rea-sons for these differences could be explored; some of which could be attributable to the effects of culture Table 4 presents a truncated example of the frequency counts of the number of unique

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... context of fatigue, the Rasch model simply states that the probability of a person affirming an item is a logistic function of the symptom severity the person experiences and the severity of the ... assess patient perception of fatigue in MND A sample of 10 patients who had reported experiences of fatigue were interviewed at the time of their clinical visit Participants all had a diagnosis of ... priori sample of ten patients was hypothesised to be sufficient to investigate the phenomenon of fatigue in patients with MND All patients who completed the qualitative interviews were then presented

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... in the decisions throughout the process of development and finalisation of the questionnaire They gave their approval at each of the milestones of the development and finalisation process The ... comprehensive evaluation of the burden of the dry eye condition on patients The assumption about the pre-defined structure of the IDEEL as 3 distinct modules and the lack of data from PCA and Multi-trait ... more highly correlated with the items of the DEQ (range: -0.05-0.83), indicating the concurrent validity of the IDEEL (Table 3) The strength of the associations between the IDEEL dimensions and

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... review to the first validations of the instruments as part of the development process. In this paper we focused on the methods used in the development of the physical activity instruments. The content ... to patients. It is currently unclear whether available instruments to measure physical activity fulfil these requirements. Therefore, the aim of this systematic review, which is part of the ... Capturing dimensions of physical activity relevant to patients may provide a unique perspective for clinical studies of chronically ill patients. However, the quality of the development of existing

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... families of orthogonal polynomials of a discrete variable, constructed from theso-called local spectrum of the graph The members of one of these families are calledthe “proper polynomials,” and can ... .) Notice that the value of p u0 is a consequence of the fact that the weight function is normalized, since then kp u 0k2 =Pd i=0 ρ i = 1 = p u 0(λ). Using the above property of the weight function, ... applications of these polynomials, deriving new bounds for the radius of a graph and the “weight k-excess” of a vertex Generalizing these results, and grouping ideas of Van Dam[10] , and Garriga and the

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:20

... 0.005). Further analysis of the distribution of individual Vκ genes in the productive Vκ gene repertoire revealed a significantly higher frequency of the gene A27 in the parotid gland of the patient ... beendetected in the salivary glands of patients with SS [3,6], but it is not known whether the microenvironment of these cell clusters is sufficient for the induction of a germinal center response Of note, ... ratio Because of the significant differences in the mutational frequencies of productively rearranged VL genes from the peripheral blood and from the parotid gland of the SS patient, further analysis

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... to the short life of IgA (30) Nevertheless even this parameter alone does not match accurately the status of exposure of the patients to C pneumoniae measured by cell culture test with further ... According to the results diagnostically relevant levels of IgG for C pneumoniae were found in 34.2% of the patients with ACS, whereas IgA positive were seen just in 19.7% of the ACS patients Simultaneous ... of serum specimens Therefore, in the current attempt to evaluate the prevalence of C pneumoniae bacteremia in cardiovascular patients we used a combination of cell culture technique with further...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 08:57

... analyze the data and has the capability of sending them on to the physician's office Data are being gathered on the utility of these more sophisticated devices One of the goals is to reduce the need ... wave) on the other side Although the heights of the objects are fixed, the height of the fence can be varied By lowering the fence (from 4.0 to 0.5 mV/cm), the sensitivity is increased and the object ... dislodgement of the lead The relatively thin wall of the myocardium in the pediatric patient represents a particular problem for the use of screw-in electrodes because the screw tends to go through the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 01:20

... indepth appreciation of the complexities of patient safety coming out of the program, but they underscored a need for continued training beyond the end of the third week of training The Year trainees ... skills and tools The goal of the train -the- trainer portion of the PSIC is to broaden the reach of the PSIC to more individuals and organizations EVALUATING THE PSIC ROLE IN THE AHRQ PATIENT SAFETY ... Content of the PSIC Training Both groups of trainees interviewed felt that the content of the training was targeted at the appropriate level Of the skills and tools taught during the course, the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20