... Page of Table Univariate Cox Regression Models of Relapse-free Survival and Overall Survival No of events/No ofpatients Median Relapse- free Survival (months) P value No of events/No ofpatients ... influences of the CTLA-4 genotype upon the outcome of IFN adjuvant therapy, on the basis of prior suggestions of the role of certain polymorphisms of the CTLA-4 gene and other immunotherapies for patients ... variety of autoimmune phenomena have been reported to occur during adjuvant therapy with HDI In a substudy of a large randomized trial of HDI in patients with stage IIB/III melanoma, 26% of 200 patients...
... the pain of FM Participants also spoke of no longer feeling refreshed upon awakening since having FM, regardless of the amount of sleep that they received When discussing the impact of FM on ... out of bed" could be added To aid interpretation of the results for each measure, one supplemental question was added after completion of the fourth interview (and thus asked of only 16 of the ... they would eliminate "a good bit of the time" and a "little bit of the time," stating that they were too similar to "most of the time" and "some of the time," Page of (page number not for citation...
... 6:113 three categories of severe pain were defined as patients with a score of 6.01 through 7.00, patients with a score of 7.01 through 8.00, and patients with a score of 8.01 through 10.00 As ... "quantity of sleep" dimension is the average number of hours of sleep per night reported by the patient and the "optimal sleep" is a dichotomized version, that is "yes" when the number of hours of sleep ... define groups ofpatients differing in severity Since patients had to have pain at baseline to qualify for the present study, the majority of the population tended to be in the most severe of the groups...
... necessary for an overall estimation of a patient's outcome Such important aspects of interest for the outcome of PKU patients are quality of life and social outcome Quality of life (QoL) is a multidimensional ... table Data on school and professional education are summarised in table A great percentage ofpatients still lived with their parents (48% of the male and 46% of the female patients) in contrast to ... the Profile of Quality of Life in the Chronically Ill (PLC) In this questionnaire the two aspects of QoL, performance capacity and well being, are weighted equally resulting in an evaluation of...
... function of cerebral palsy patients This study is limited by a low recruitment rate of 70% Thirty percent of guardians who initially gave consent were not present during the appointed evaluation ... objectives of generating a comprehensive description of upper limb deformity and hand function in the present population For practical evaluationof hand function in cerebral palsy patients, the ... palsy patients aged years or older with preserved visual and auditory senses were screened at the Neuromuscular Clinic of the Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital at Sandy Bay in Hong Kong Patients...
... identified patients with viral failure >1000 copies/mL with sensitivity of 67% and specificity of 82%, and identified 22% ofpatients for viral load testing Thirty-three percent ofpatients with ... practice Patients with acute illness were excluded from the study Data collection and study variables From February 2006 to June 2006, 500 patients were enrolled at a rate of approximately 10 patients ... development and accumulation of drug resistance [4-6] A number of alternative measures of viral load for use in RLS are being investigated [1] These include: direct measures of viral load, including...
... impact of gender and predominant bowel pattern Scand J Gastroenterol 2001;36:545-552 Kolawole BA, Mosaku SK, Ikem RT A comparison of two measures of quality of life of Nigerian clinic patients ... impact on the health related quality of life (QOL) of the patients [4] The use of health related QOL assessments have come to interest for better understanding of the biopsychosocial model in the ... gastrointestinal diseases, 2) history of abdominal trauma, surgery, or hospital admission for evaluationof abdominal pain, 3) exacerbation of bowel symptoms with consumption of milk or milk products, 4)...
... the pain of FM Participants also spoke of no longer feeling refreshed upon awakening since having FM, regardless of the amount of sleep that they received When discussing the impact of FM on ... out of bed" could be added To aid interpretation of the results for each measure, one supplemental question was added after completion of the fourth interview (and thus asked of only 16 of the ... they would eliminate "a good bit of the time" and a "little bit of the time," stating that they were too similar to "most of the time" and "some of the time," Page of (page number not for citation...
... The purpose of this study was to compare the diagnostic performance of the three software packages 4DM, ECTb, and QPS for quantification of MPS using a large group of consecutive patients All ... classifications showed ischemia in 257 patients and infarction in 150 patients Eighty-nine of these patients had both ischemia and infarction, and the number ofpatients with either ischemia or infarction ... included 13% of the study group (328 out of 2,450) and Guner et al [7] included 12% (283 out of 2,430) of the patients referred for MPS In both these studies, they included MPS patients who had...
... Therapeutic monitoring of vancomycin in adult patients: a consensus review of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Society of Infectious ... studies have determined Spapen et al Annals of Intensive Care 2011, 1:26 http://www.annalsofintensivecare.com/content/1/1/26 Page ofPatients evaluated n = 4128 Patients not selected n = 3999 no Gram-positive ... detected a striking difference in incidence of nephrotoxicity at a vancomycin cutoff serum level of 28 μg/mL during continuous infusion [15] Above this level, ofpatients (71.4%) experienced a significant...
... Therapeutic monitoring of vancomycin in adult patients: a consensus review of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Society of Infectious ... studies have determined Spapen et al Annals of Intensive Care 2011, 1:26 http://www.annalsofintensivecare.com/content/1/1/26 Page ofPatients evaluated n = 4128 Patients not selected n = 3999 no Gram-positive ... detected a striking difference in incidence of nephrotoxicity at a vancomycin cutoff serum level of 28 μg/mL during continuous infusion [15] Above this level, ofpatients (71.4%) experienced a significant...
... concomitant loss of cartilage volume [13] A large clinical trial assessing the effects of a bisphosphonate on knee OA structural changes was recently completed A subset of 110 of these patients underwent ... applicability of MRI cartilage volume quantification to the day-to-day reality of a clinical trial Materials and methods Patient selection A subset of 110 patients was selected from 1,232 patients ... impact of a bisphosphonate on knee OA This specific subset ofpatients was recruited from the outpatient Rheumatology Clinic at the Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) University of...
... results of this study may be limited because of small study population and non-representation ofpatients with all the grades of RTOG scoring Our study has a low incidence of other grades of reactions ... include direct evaluationof the mechanical properties of irradiated skin by the measurement of tensile strength of skin specimens or healing wound scars [15,16], measurement of skin erythema ... properties of the skin [8,9] Acute skin complications in postmastectomy patients have been well studied [10-12], but little is known about risks of long term skin complications and cosmesis of these patients...
... provides an evaluation not only of the concept of 'feeling good' but also of 'feeling good as soon as possible.' Time taken to achieve sustained satisfaction combines the concept of 'feeling ... percentile of the change in score among patients whose evaluationof response to treatment was 'good') were reported as -19.9, -18.3, and -9.1 mm, respectively [3] As for PASS, Page of 11 (page ... statistical significance It is often difficult for clinicians to interpret clinical relevance of results obtained using conventional approaches The presentation of the percentage ofpatients who consider...
... of life (Table 4) Discussion With the enormous growth of interventional cardiology in recent years, patients coming to surgery for coronary artery bypass grafting are often at the end-stage of ... to the high risk of preoperative severely impaired LV function, the mortality is rather high for the series ofpatients Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Cardiothoracic ... incidence of acute renal dysfunction and the need for hemofiltration, which supports the finding of Vohra, et al [19] It has been proposed that the use of preoperative IABP may lead to minimization of...
... their provider A majority ofpatients (82.9%) believed the letter was a positive instrument for initiating Page of 11 Table Patients reported perception of letter Opinion of Letter (N = 41)^ Positive* ... provider perspectives of the same intervention [20] These patients and providers were part of a randomized control trial that found the intervention increased the likelihood ofpatients discussing ... objective of this study is to determine participants’ perceptions of a patient-activated intervention, particularly its acceptability and effectiveness through the eyes of the patients Understanding patients ...
... their provider A majority ofpatients (82.9%) believed the letter was a positive instrument for initiating Page of 11 Table Patients reported perception of letter Opinion of Letter (N = 41)^ Positive* ... provider perspectives of the same intervention [20] These patients and providers were part of a randomized control trial that found the intervention increased the likelihood ofpatients discussing ... objective of this study is to determine participants’ perceptions of a patient-activated intervention, particularly its acceptability and effectiveness through the eyes of the patients Understanding patients ...
... forms were collected Patients A total of 242 patients would be required to detect an effect size of 0.18 using the SF-36 [22] with a significance level of 0.05 and the power of 0.8 [23] The inclusion ... duration of 7.8 years and the mean body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) of Xie et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:87 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/87 Page of Table Characteristics of the patients ... demographic characteristics of the patients at sixmonths and two-years follow-up were comparable to those of the patients at baseline (Table 1) The observed mean scores of SF-36 physical functioning,...
... in patients with rheumatoid arthritis J Rheumatol 2005, 32:1219-1223 Gonzalez-Juanatey C, Llorca J, Martin J, Gonzalez-Gay MA: Carotid Page of intima-media thickness predicts the development of ... management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of inflammatory arthritis Ann Rheum Dis 2010, 69:325-331 doi:10.1186/ar3186 Cite this article as: Gonzalez-Gay MA, et al.: Role of carotid ... this article as: Gonzalez-Gay MA, et al.: Role of carotid ultrasonography in the evaluationof cardiovascular risk in patients with rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Research & Therapy 2010, 12:409...