toward a systematic method of measurement

... HABAM, mobility, transfers and balance, each had high correlation with the HABAM total score and with each other [27] Cronbach's alpha for the HABAM total score, mobility, transfers and balance ... medical illness A summary of the characteristics of the HABAM are reported in Table A ceiling effect was identified for the HABAM in an older acute medical patient population Approximately 25% of ... 15%, 7% and 4% of the total scale variance respectively All of the HABAM items loaded on the first component Rasch analysis of the same data confirmed the unidimensionality of the HABAM after the...

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... properties is available in the supplementary material (additional File 1, additional File & Additional File 3.) absolute magnitude of correlations, a valid measure of PF was expected to correlate strongly ... PM, Taal E, van de Laar MA: Rasch analysis of the Dutch Health Assessment Questionnaire disability index and the Health Assessment Questionnaire II in patients with rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis ... WM, Lau CS: Translation and validation of Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales into Chinese: CAIMS2 Arthritis Rheum 2004, 51(1):20-27 55 Rosemann T, Szecsenyi J: Cultural adaptation and validation...

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... group an action or reaction among actors that is triggered by an CATALYSIS outside agent a very small amount of catalytic agent can facilitate a very large-scale reaction If we think of tools and ... go hand-in-hand, posing a choice at every juncture, a choice that arises because of a basic dilemma—traditionally framed as a social dilemma Social Dilemmas: The Problem of the One and the Many ... Kollock, author of Social Dilemmas: The Anatomy of Cooperation, explains that, Social dilemmas are situations in which individual rationality leads to collective irrationality That is, individual rational...

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... Primary outcomes: Health behaviours such as the type of care plan agreed, and adherence to care plans (medication, dietary advice etc.) Health care outcomes as assessed by a variety of measures ... Manandhar DS, Osrin D, Shrestha BP, Mesko N, Morrison J, Tumbahangphe KM, Tamang S, Thapa S, Shrestha D, Thapa B, Shrestha JR, Wade A, Borghi J, Standing H, Manandhar M, Costello AM; Members of ... 1970s the initiation and rapid expansion of LHW programmes in low and middle income settings was stimulated by the primary health care approach adopted by the WHO at Alma-Ata (Walt 1990) However,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... Matsuura A, Nakamura T, Shirai M, Nakamura S, Inuzuka K, Tominaga S Protective factor against progression from atrophic gastritis to gastric cancer data from a cohort study in Japan Int J Cancer ... M, Natsukawa S, Shaura K, Koizumi Y, Kasuga Y, Hanaoka T, Tsugane S Association of Helicobacter pylori infection and environmental factors in non-cardia gastric cancer in Japan Gastric Cancer ... LS, Inoue M, Tajima K, Yamamura Y, Kodera Y, Hirose K, Takezaki T, Hamajima N, Kuroishi T, Tominaga S Dietary factors and the risk of gastric cancer among Japanese women: a comparison between...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... evaluations of microfinance programmes within Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Uganda and Zimbabwe, and include both rural and urban initiatives ... 14 sub-Saharan African countries, namely Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe One study also included ... credit and savings interventions, and two were of savings schemes alone They include evaluations of programmes within Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania (Zanzibar),...

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... Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable ... compounds and Flavonoids • Strength of evidence Phenolic compounds all available data: Phenolic compounds satisfactory quality data: Flavonoids all available data: Flavonoids satisfactory quality data: ... Carbohydrates Total amino acids, total essential amino acids, alanine, β-alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartate, aspartic acid, cysteine, cystine, glutamate, glutamine, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:20

... unfolding narrative but on the ‘what happens next if I’ that places a player at the center of experience as its principle creator, necessarily engaged in an imaginative act, and always oriented toward ... video games as a primarily visual art, but we must at least acknowledge that the image is a central component of so many games that we study and play (p 130) Such is the frustrating state of theorizing ... trajectories for thinking about what I call a (kin)aesthetic of video gaming About DDR DDR is a dance video game More specifically, the game is of a particular genre called Bemani, a type of...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... the agrifood movement‐‐‐the pleasures of food and, by extension, the sensual and  relational qualities of an aesthetic of food.   SLOW FOOD AND HOME COOKING IN ITALY  Italy  and  the  United  States  are  paradigmatic  cases  with  which  to  analyze  gendered food practices in relationship to slow food and home cooking (Fischler  ... 2005,  Gaytán  2004).  However,  as  an  “imaginary” of everyday life, as opposed to a tourist attraction, the central figure  is  an  Italian  woman  preparing  a delectable,  made‐from‐scratch,  ... Abarca, Meredith E. Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working‐Class  Mexican and Mexican‐American Women (College Station, TX: Texas A& M University  Press).  Allen, Patricia 2004. Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American  Agrifood System (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press). ...

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... as calculated by the reviewers (mean of word recognition and word attack measures; also mean of comprehension measures, mean of spelling measures, and synthetic versus analytic, where applicable), ...  Table 2: Quality assessment of the included RCTs Author, date Reporting of method of allocation  Sample size justification  Intention to teach analysis  Blinded assessment of outcome ...  Reading and spelling et al. Total instructional time = specific data not N/S – whether supplementary or additional or part replacement etc  available (reviewer estimate = approx...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... measures No clinical audit of HR performance to assess EMOC quality was found in the literature Performance measures are often combined with an analysis of the availability of material and organizational ... Green A, Pearson S: The implications of shortages of health professionals for maternal health in sub-saharan Africa Reproductive Health Matters 2006, 14:40-50 Islam MT, Haque YA, Waxman R, Bhuiyan ... shows that data for evaluating the technical quality of EmOC are scarce Variations in quality are linked with rates of maternal mortality that differ significantly among countries with comparable...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Australia [14] and Canada [7] Generally male pharmacists predominated above the age of 50 Education One response to the shortage of pharmacists was found to be a planned expansion of the number of ... numbers of entrants to the profession However, this expansion presented many concerns regarding quality of teaching, the number of available pharmacy-trained faculty and the academic standard of applicants ... a lack of pharmacy students choosing to undertake postgraduate pharmacy education As academics are usually required to hold a postgraduate degree, this may worsen the pharmacy faculty shortages...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... South Africa (urban) Cohort 2,084 Nurse/pharmacist managed ART 75% of clients had undetectable viral load at 12 months Torpey et al 2008 [27] Zambia Cohort (quantitative and qualitative analysis) ... randomized trial in Uganda [59] comparing home-based and facility-based care also found similar rates of viral load suppression, failure and mortality A community-based program offering home-based ART ... Szumilin E, Kamoto K, Harries A: Nurses and medical assistants taking charge: task-shifting HIV care and HAART initiation in resource-constrained and rural Malawi Oral Abstract Session: AIDS 2008...

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... al.: Thirty years after Alma-Ata: a systematic review of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and ... comparisons (Table 1) Page of 11 It was a national programme of CHWs and traditional birth attendants (TBAs) delivering basic treatments, ITNs and health education in the Gambia which achieved a ... management of infectious diseases Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, 3, Art No.: CD004015 Chan M: Return to Alma-Ata Lancet 2008, 372:865-6 Horton R: Alma-Ata 30 years on: “Health for all...

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... [41] Finally, Type D was a strong predictor of adverse cardiac outcome after acute myocardial infarction, and the associated risk was similar to that of traditional cardiovascular risk factors ... [11] Type D was also associated with a differential activity of the amygdala in reaction to fearful versus neutral face and body expressions Emotion-evoked activation of the amygdala was present ... individuals (Table - section a) Regarding behavioral mechanisms, two studies showed that Type D personality was associated a decreased likelihood of getting appropriate medical care Female Type D teachers...

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... are subject to a range of methodological problems that are more severe, and far less tractable, than those affecting clinical trials Methodological checklists for case-control study quality assessment ... meta analysis of case control studies: Individual and pooled odds ratio, category "Working as a Figure and farmer for Multiple ten years" Farming and Multiple Myeloma, meta analysis of case control ... Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Additional material Additional file Table Farming and Multiple Myeloma, meta analysis of observational studies control...

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