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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: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: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: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: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:Applied Clinical Trials (Vol. 23, Issue 6-7) Peer-Reviewed[PER REVIEW] Clinical trials often fail to reach desired goals due to poor recruitment outcomes, including low participant turnout, high recruitment cost, or poor representation of minorities. At present, there is...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 48, Issue 13)ORLANDO -- Research suggests that HIV-positive people who take the latest generations of AIDS medications are living almost as long as everyone else. But they still face special medical challenges, and an...
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From:Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (Vol. 72, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjectives. The aim was to estimate the recurrence rate and to define subgroups at increased risk for recurrent cerebral ischaemia in patients with patent foramen ovale (PFO) and so called cryptogenic stroke due to...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthors: Hanneke Andriesse (corresponding author) [1]; Gunnar Hägglund [1]; Per-Erik Isberg [2] Background The Clubfoot Assessment Protocol (CAP) [1, 2] (Table 1) was developed for follow-up of children treated...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground Cochrane reviewers are strongly encouraged to evaluate the quality of evidence for the most important outcomes by using the GRADE approach and to report these results in a Summary of Findings (SoF) table....