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• Health-related quality of life assessment using St. George's respiratory questionnaire in asthmatics on inhaled corticosteroids

  Authors:Thomas Sabin, Gurumurthy Parthasarathi, and Mahesh PadukudruFrom:Lung India (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  January-March 20123,755 words Clinical report 1600LByline: 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...

• Improving health outcomes for people with learning disabilities

  Authors:Ben Thomas and David AtkinsonFrom:Nursing Standard (Vol. 26, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 12, 20112,135 words Report 1570LAbstract 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...

• Presentation and outcome in cancer patients with extensive spread to the brain

  Authors:Carsten Nieder, Adam Pawiniski, and Astrid DalhaugFrom:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 12, 20092,583 words Clinical report Authors: 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...

• Pulmonary function in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a 25 year follow up after surgery or start of brace treatment

  Authors:K Pehrsson, A Danielsson, and A NachemsonFrom:Thorax (Vol. 56, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20014,145 words Article Abstract 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...

• The visiting preferences of patients in the intensive care unit compared to patients on a general care unit. (Poster Abstracts)

  Authors:D Carroll, C Gonzalez, J Elliott, P Fitzgerald, and H VallentFrom:American Journal of Critical Care (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2003300 words Author abstract, Bri... Purpose: 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...

• Changing the face of corporate health care

  Author:Connie R. CurranFrom:Nursing Economics (Vol. 16, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  September-October 19981,010 words Editorial Reorienting 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...

• Outcomes of surgery under Medicaid

  Authors:David Klingman, Penelope L. Pine, and James SimonFrom:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 19909,034 words Article Outcomes 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...

• Outcomes research - possible effects on clinical practice

  Author:Barbara G. VickreyFrom:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 159, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 1993725 words Article Over 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...

• An overview for medical directors

  Authors:Michael Pine and David W. SmithFrom:Physician Executive (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  March-April 19903,461 words Article An 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...

• Disability outcomes following inpatient rehabilitation for stroke

  Authors:Byron B. Hamilton and Carl V. GrangerFrom:Physical Therapy (Vol. 74, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 19945,851 words Article The 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....

• Using outcome research in clinical practice

  Author:Tony DelamotheFrom:British Medical Journal (Vol. 308, Issue 6944) Peer-Reviewed

  June 18, 19941,080 words Editorial Until 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...

• Physical therapy and health outcomes in patients with knee impairments

  Authors:Diane U. Jette and Alan M. JetteFrom:Physical Therapy (Vol. 76, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 19964,355 words Article Background 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...

• Patient outcomes: standards of perioperative care

  From:AORN Journal (Vol. 65, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 19974,418 words Article The 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...

• Outcomes research in the ICU setting. Is it worthwhile?

  Author:Marin H. KollefFrom:Chest (Vol. 112, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 19971,419 words Editorial The 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"...

• Use of risk-adjusted outcome data for quality improvement by public hospitals

  Authors:John M. Luce, Gregory D. Thiel, Michael R. Holland, Louise Swig, Susan A. Currin, and Harold S. LuftFrom:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 164, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 19963,885 words Article In 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...

• Back-transformation of treatment differences--an approximate method

  Authors:R.P. Laursen, S.-M. Dalskov, C.T. Damsgaard, and C. RitzFrom:European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Vol. 68, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20142,722 words Report 1790LBACKGROUND/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...

• Physicians prefer goal-oriented note format more than three to one over other outcome-focused documentation

  Authors:Catherine J. Klein, Julie B. Bosworth, and Charles E. Wiles, IIIFrom:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 97, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 19973,614 words Article To 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...

• The Achilles tendon Total Rupture Score (ATRS): development and validation

  Authors:Katarina Nilsson-Helander, Roland Thomee, Karin Gravare-Silbernagel, Pia Thomee, Eva Faxen, Bengt I. Eriksson, et al.From:The American Journal of Sports Medicine (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20074,180 words Clinical report 1450LBackground: 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...

• The impact of gender on outcome from mechanical ventilation

  Authors:Martin H. Kollef, Jeana D. O'Brien, and Patricia SilverFrom:Chest (Vol. 111, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 19974,657 words Article Objective: 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...

• Patterns of coordination and clinical outcomes: a study of surgical services

  Authors:Gary J. Young, Martin P. Charns, Kamal Desai, Shukri F. Khuri, Maureen G. Forbes, William Henderson, et al.From:Health Services Research (Vol. 33, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 19988,411 words Article Objective. 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...