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... 49% in China to 99% in Singapore, ACE-inhibitor/ARB prescription rates ranged from 28% in China to 96% in Singapore, and lipid-lowering therapy rates ranged from 47% in China to 97% in Singapore ... from 28% in China to 96% in Singapore, and lipid-lowering therapy rates ranged from 47% in China to 97% in Singapore Aspirin/antiplatelet drug prescription rates ranged from 86% in Indonesia ... such drugs in the post-hospital setting.31 Singapore According to the Singapore Myocardial Infarction Registry, in 2010, ischaemic heart disease including acute MI was the second leading cause of

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2017, 06:45

... abdominal surgery, spinal surgery, and surgery big joints such as hip joints, knee joints Easy method of prolonging pain relief time by placing catheter in the epidural space for continuous anesthetic ... of pain relief Pain Trang 75 relief by intravenous morphine P CA, P CEA and 3-in-1 anesthesia In the study, the authors used 0.125% bupivacaine in combination with sulfet anin 1mcg/ml Maintenance ... Use the resistance test to determine the position of the needle inlet to the NMC cavity Using the pressure test pump, both insert the T uohy needle deep into the organization while keeping the

Ngày tải lên: 31/07/2021, 21:21

... about the state of health in rural areas of India, including Bihar, remains focused on communicable diseases Data from national surveys in India, including the India State-Level Burden Initiative ... on the current burden of disease The NFHS has been routinely conducted in India since 1992 and is now in its fifth iteration (NFHS-5) [15] The origi-nal ambition of the NFHS was to collect information ... representatives from the Ministry of Health Feedback from these community engagement activities and from the interviewers involved in data col-lection in the pilot study, were used to inform the content

Ngày tải lên: 29/11/2022, 00:18

... et al The effect... Pravastatin Atherosclerosis Intervention Program Circulation 1995; 92:2419-2425 13.Grundy SM, Cleeman JI, Rifkind BM, Kuller LH Cholesterol lowering in the elderly ... fecal occult blood testing and examination of the distal... and Treatment of Cancer in the Elderly New York: Raven Press, 1983 24.Triadafilopoulos G Gastrointestinal diseases and disorders ... average risk: summary of the evidence... examination and testing Ann Intern Med 2002 May 7 136:652-9 4.Goldberg TH, Chavin SI, Preventive Medicine and Screening in Older Adults, JAGS March

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... associated with the likelihood of not receiving VKAs in the multivariate analysis was increasing age No other single factor, including the presence of contraindications to oral anticoagulation influenced ... Assessment of the benefit-risk balance of anticoagulation is the key point when decisions are made about introducing and/or continuing such treatments in the individual elderly patient In order to ... specifically developed for AF patients, are discussed in more detail in the section on VKAs Another intuitive point, which has been largely demonstrated only for warfarin, is the increase in rates of hemorrhagic

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... thinning operations The uneven-age scenarios included two aimed at achieving high structural diversity in the remaining stand and two aimed at achieving limited structural diversity in ... in the remaining stand In the uneven-age scenarios, stems in a variety of diameters... in the U.S Congress 8 Woody Biomass for Bioenergy and Biofuels in the United ... primarily in the West, with some of the greatest volumes in the Pacic Coast States, Idaho, and Montana. Across all woody biomass feedstocks, the Intermountain and Great Plains regions have the least

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... i the southern Delta resin, the Northeast along the Pacific (Coast, and in the northern Lake States were projected o ave the greatest quanliies of forest biomass suplicd (BRDB 2008) Counts inthe ... Feedstock use in that region ‘One uncertainty for the Northeast and Midwest in regard to expanding harvest residue use for bioenergy is any signlfcat silts in Forest species composition in espouse ... biomss nse for these materials fs generally considered in the coment of creating value-added products, reducing ‘wasc, and creating markets for currenllynonmerchantable timber, rather than in consideration

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 20:20

... opinion on: • the extent and impact of the problem of protein-energy undernutrition • the methods of screening for protein-energy undernutrition • the possible intervention points for reducing ... and protein intake in the elderly are better than the usual nutritional policy in institutions and primary health care These initiatives have indeed caused more attention to the problem The Committee ... measures Screening methods should in the future be directed at identification of treatable forms of undernutrition For the purposes of improving the screening, the extent of the intended interventional

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... rankings to become 3 of the 4 leading causes of disease and injury burden by 2030 (1) ▪ In a study of individuals aged 65 and older in 7 low- and middle- income countries (including China, India, ... thrombolytic therapy in the elderly 20 2.5 Current recommendations for the elderly 25 3.1 Fundamentals of long-term post-stroke care 31 3.3 Challenges of rehabilitation and the elderly 41 Stroke in the Elderly ... adjusting for differences in prognostic The elderly are under-represented in clinical trials Trang 19World StrokeAcademy 2 Acute stroke care ▪ The unadjusted numbers for the modified Rankin scores are

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... are involved in falls among the elderly Many of these factors can be modified Figure 1 shows how intrinsic and extrinsic factors can combine to change the likelihood of falling in the elderly ... intervention to reduce the risk of falling among elderly people living in the community N Engl J Med 1994;331:821-7 TABLE 8 Critical Steps in Reducing the Risk of Falls in the Elderly Eliminate ... programs can reduce the rate of falls in the elderly In one study,34 the interactive group had a relative risk of falling of 0.39 compared with the control group Interventions included the modification

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... their disease rather than train them in the daily management* of their condition Therapeutic patient education* is designed therefore to train patients in the skills* of self-managing or adapting ... objective health needs* Training should be objective-based and the objectives* of two types: therapeutic, for the patients, and learning*, for the educators It includes training in the evaluation* of ... care providers* trained in the education* of patients Levels of training in therapeutic patient education As a prelude to formal training in therapeutic patient education* an introductory course

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:20

... minimize the injuries sustained from falls was recommended Williams-Johnson, Wilks, and McDonald further illuminate the situation regarding falls among the elderly in Jamaica [15] In examining ... preceding 1 year period, the expert provided further opinions, insights and data, based on experience at the University Hospital of the West Indies, the leading tertiary care and medical teaching institution ... of the West Indies Mona, Jamaica Trang 2Abstract Falls among the elderly is increasingly being recognized as an issue of concern in both developed and developing countries Falls in the elderly

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... exclusion in the study g *Percent of elderly having received influenza vaccination in the previous year; **percent of elderly having ever received influenza vaccination h Community living elderly; I: institutionalized ... markers in predicting responsiveness to influenza vaccination in elderly individuals J Virol 2001;75:12182–7 Beyer WE, Palache AM, Baljet M, Masurel N Antibody induction by influenza vaccines in the elderly: ... community Institutional living: elderly live in an institution and are dependent on care Mixed living: elderly live in either an institution or in the community Dichotomous; omitting ‘mixed’ residence

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... Increased fall risk in elderly individuals According to the World Health Organization, a fall is defined as the action of finding oneself involuntarily on the ground The prevalence of falls in ... elderly subjects in physical activity was their lack of interest in physical activity In view of these two difficulties, together with the high financial cost of setting up population-based intervention ... determines the genomic action [40,42,43] In this second case, the vitamin D/receptor complex formed induces the synthesis of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) which codes for a protein, Calcium Binding

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... differed only in the sequential ordering of MFC series Then the mean of the surrogate ApEn values were then calculated for the 10 surrogate data sets and compared to the ApEn of the original data ... mean MFC in the falls risk elderly group supports our previous findings [4] which showed that increasing the MFC height is one of the possible strat-egies used by elderly individuals to minimize ... intervention can improve the gait perform-ance of falls risk elderly by monitoring the change in lin-ear and nonlinlin-ear MFC variability indexes Different walking speeds may alter the MFC fluctuation

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... complement other works see, e.g., 8–20 and references therein for more general nonlinearities in the terms f and g which include the cases considered by them. The principal theorem in 7 considered, ... Problems The class of problems 1.1 appears in many nonlinear phenomena, for instance, in the theory of quasiregular and quasiconformal mappings 1–3, in the generalized reaction-diffusion theory ... 4, in the turbulent flow of a gas in porous medium and in the non-Newtonian fluid theory 5. In t he non-Newtonian fluid theory, the quantity p is the characteristic of the medium. If p<2, the

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... working within the existing structure of the network as we conducted the intervention Our original intent was to use a lagged design, introducing the intervention to the comparison half of the ... only in the intervention hospitals The reminders were installed in the intervention hospitals within a month after the kickoff meeting, although there was considerable variation among the intervention ... measure their perceptions of organizational readiness to change, and discussed the aggregate findings in the context of preparing system change They were trained in the installation and use of reminders...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... working within the existing structure of the network as we conducted the intervention Our original intent was to use a lagged design, introducing the intervention to the comparison half of the ... only in the intervention hospitals The reminders were installed in the intervention hospitals within a month after the kickoff meeting, although there was considerable variation among the intervention ... measure their perceptions of organizational readiness to change, and discussed the aggregate findings in the context of preparing system change They were trained in the installation and use of reminders...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... of daily living Feeding, Bathing, Dressing, Transferring, Toileting Instrumental activities of daily living Finances, Telephone, Medications, Shopping, Cooking Housework, Ambulating, Laundry ... Assessment ADLs • mobility, dressing, hygiene, feeding and toileting IADLs • independent living, shopping, cooking, telephone, housekeeping (light), medications, finances, transportation Evaluation ... overwhelmed Hotlines in every state Treatments Psychopharmacologic therapy Individual psychotherapy Supportive psychotherapy Cognitive behavioral therapy Group therapy Family therapy Caregiver...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... and deaths from in uenza Description of the intervention Vaccines have been the main global weapon to minimise the impact of in uenza in the elderly for the last four decades In the year 2000, ... Trevino SC, Ybarra D The effect of a multivitamin on the immunologic response to the in uenza vaccine in the elderly Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice Vol 10, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ... good coverage in those who most need it or the diluting effect on vaccines for in uenza of other agents circulating in the community (causing ILI, clinically indistinguishable from in uenza), might...

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