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From:Lung India (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Thomas. Sabin, Gurumurthy. Parthasarathi, Mahesh. Padukudru Context : Chronic diseases like asthma have significant effects on patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL). HRQoL measures additional...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 26, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Modern healthcare policy is driven by an emphasis on the philosophy of inclusion, yet in the past decade there has been increasing recognition that people with learning disabilities experience a range of...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthors: Carsten Nieder (corresponding author) [1,2]; Adam Pawiniski [1]; Astrid Dalhaug [1] Findings In patients with brain metastases, median overall survival typically is limited to 4-6 months after...
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From:Thorax (Vol. 56, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Background--Pulmonary function in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis many years after posterior spinal surgery or brace treatment has not been documented. Methods--A consecutive group of...
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From:American Journal of Critical Care (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: The purpose of this study is to examine patient's preferences for visitors in the intensive care unit (ICU) and on a general care unit (GCU). Background/Significance: As knowledge of environments that support...
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From:Nursing Economics (Vol. 16, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedReorienting corporate health care to focus on issues of common good requires a proper balance between cost containment and patient outcomes. This can be achieved through relating personal experiences, addressing staff...
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From:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOutcomes of surgery under Medicaid Introduction The growing interest in assessing and assuring the quality of health care has spurred the search for efficient methods of measuring the numerous dimensions of that...
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From:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 159, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOver the past two decades, there has been a great expansion in neuroscientific knowledge and techniques that are expected to improve the health of patients with neurologic disease. This research has focused on the...
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From:Physician Executive (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAn Overview for Medical Directors--Part One Outcome monitoring in the delivery of health care services addresses the critical concerns of effectiveness, appropriateness, and efficiency. Effectiveness is the...
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From:Physical Therapy (Vol. 74, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation and the Functional Independence Measure have been utilized to evaluate outcomes of patients undergoing initial comprehensive inpatient medical rehabilitation for stroke....
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 308, Issue 6944) Peer-ReviewedUntil recently the usual surgical response to urinary symptoms and an enlarged prostate has been to recommend prostatectomy. What are the risks of adopting instead a policy of watchful waiting? We did not know. Which...
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From:Physical Therapy (Vol. 76, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground and Purpose. Physical therapy is usually initiated with the belief that treatment will improve patients' health, particularly the ability to perform daily activities and function in expected roles. The purpose...
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From:AORN Journal (Vol. 65, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Association of Operating Room Nurses's perioperative care patient outcome standards expressly interpret the kinds of nursing and medical care results patients are entitled to expect during surgical or other invasive...
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From:Chest (Vol. 112, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe complexity of modern ICUs and the patients they serve, along with the escalating costs associated with providing intensive care, have been factors motivating critical care clinicians to identify and implement "best"...
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From:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 164, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn 1993 the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) began public release of risk-adjusted monitoring of outcomes (RAMO) under the California Hospital Outcomes Project. We studied how 17...
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From:European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Vol. 68, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Transformation of outcomes is frequently used in the analysis of studies in clinical nutrition. However, back-transformation of estimated treatment means and differences is complicated by the...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 97, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedTo assess preference for outcome-focused nutrition notes, two note formats were selected from the literature and tested against a modified, goal-oriented format. Focus charting and intervention, evaluation, and revision...
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From:The American Journal of Sports Medicine (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground: There is a need for a patient-relevant instrument to evaluate outcome after treatment in patients with a total Achilles tendon rupture. Purpose: To develop and validate a new patient-reported instrument...
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From:Chest (Vol. 111, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective: To determine the relation of gender to outcome for patients requiring mechanical ventilation. Design: A prospective cohort study. Setting: Medical and surgical ICUs in two university-affiliated teaching...
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From:Health Services Research (Vol. 33, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To test the hypothesis that surgical services combining relatively high levels of feedback and programming approaches to the coordination of surgical staff would have better quality of care than surgical...