... patients have also received little attention in the literature to date In one study, three district disease-control managers in Indonesia were interviewed on barriers to introducing HIV testing ... starting points of the data-gathering processes: In your view, what are the major factors deterring TB patients from undergoing [HCT]?’ and In your view, what are the major factors encouraging ... programs in relation to the number of nurses The clinics in general are inundated with clients with consequent queuing Counseling should include referral of patientsto nurses for further counseling...
... of GAD in primary care patients was around 8% In order to obtain a final sample size of 249 patientsin the comorbid group (GAD+MDD+), screening of 8650 patients was performed in order to adjust ... six questions including overall pain, headache, back pain, shoulder pain, pain interference with daily activities, and time experiencing pain while awake [25] The VAS overall pain severity score ... PPS in GAD patients with or without MDD [8] Briefly, the study was carried out in a primary care setting covering 87 sites in Spain during April-June, 2007 The study had stages in its design, including...
... 11–15 16 above Total Negative Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Positive Total 256 95.9% ... family history of diabetes FHOD 25–35 36–46 47–57 58–68 69 above Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status ... status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total No Yes Total Negative Total 255 95.5% 85.5% 12 4.5% 4.0% 267 100.0% 89.0% Count % within hcv status % Total Count...
... 11–15 16 above Total Negative Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Positive Total 256 95.9% ... family history of diabetes FHOD 25–35 36–46 47–57 58–68 69 above Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status ... status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total Count % within hcv status % Total No Yes Total Negative Total 255 95.5% 85.5% 12 4.5% 4.0% 267 100.0% 89.0% Count % within hcv status % Total Count...
... Respiratory Medicine, Rakuwakai Otowa Hospital, Kyoto, Japan; Kyoto-Katsura Hospital, Kyoto, Japan; and Department of Respiratory Care and Sleep Control Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto ... reported that indices relatedto hyperinflation, such as the inspiratory capacity (IC), are more closely relatedto exercise tolerance and dyspnea than the forced expiratory volume in second (FEV1) ... respiratory system In flow-limited patients, the mechanical time-constant for lung emptying is increased in many alveolar units, but the expiratory time available during quiet breathing is often insufficient...
... of Foshan in Guangdong Province, China SARS patients may present with a spectrum of symptoms and signs, ranging from relatively asymptomatic to fulminant pneumonitis and death [1] Lung injury caused ... Beijing Xiaotangshan Hospital, Beijing Armed Police Hospital, and Chinese 309 PLA Hospital, and all gave their informed consent Study Protocol The subjects of our investigation were 383 clinically ... femoral head necrosis was also investigated in those SARS patients who complained of chronic bone and joint pain during the one year follow-up after discharge from the hospital Methods All of the...
... cytokines secreted by phagocytes in response to infection include tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8 as well as IL-10 [14] Interleukins are increasingly recognized as early mediators ... l/minute/ m2, to 10 ug/kg/minute dobutamine was administered to maintain the cardiac index between 3.0 and 3.5 l/minute/m2 If mean arterial pressure was below the level of 70 mmHg, norepinephrine ... with lung instillation of a cytotoxic PA 103, which caused a significant bacterial-induced alveolar epithelial injury and a progressive increase in the circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-α...
... may sometimes be the only way to determine baseline HRQOL Response shift in critically ill patientsPatients become accustomed to their illness An important mechanism in this adaptive process is ... highlighted a way to identify patients with symptoms of PTSD and raised the possibility of scoring patients at risk before discharging them home, assessing their recovery environment and ensuring ... symptoms Conclusions Knowledge of conceptual issues pertaining to HRQOL measurement in critically ill patients appears to be essential for measuring the long-term impact of critical illness and intensive...
... from other hospitals Six patients had contraindications to treatment with ECMO and remained in the local hospital: three patients were terminally ill with a short life expectancy, two patients ... 45 mmHg we inserted a pulmonary artery catheter to monitor the pulmonary pressure According to our internal protocol, if there was inclusion criteria, ECMO was begun at the local hospital Patient ... H1N1-induced respiratory failure could be transferred, thereafter it developed criteria for the evaluation of ECMO need inpatients admitted to peripheral hospitals Following the Italian Ministry...
... values inpatients receiving intensive intravenous insulin therapy after cardiac surgery Am J Clin Pathol 2007, 127:919-926 32 Marik PE, Preiser JC: Toward understanding tight glycemic control in ... with insulin-independent glucose uptake may suffer from insufficient glucose availability at lower concentrations In our cohort, glucose variability increased with increasing glucose strata in ... may influence the relationship between mean glucose and mortality We await further studies, but according to these findings, we recommend treating hyperglycemia in the ICU in a moderately intensive...
... thrombomodulin expression that binds thrombin, thereby inhibiting fibrin generation from fibrinogen Moreover, the thrombomodulin-thrombin complex additionally activates protein C, which inhibits plasminogen ... monitoring, including point-of-care thromboelastography or thromboelastometry, may contribute to early diagnosis of coagulation disorders inpatients with isolated head injury Although data regarding ... INR: international normalized ratio; IQR: interquartile range; ISS: injury severity score; PAI-1: plasminogen activator inhibitor; OR: odds ratio; PT: prothrombin time; TBI: traumatic brain injury...
... Improvement’, Benou Publishing, Athens Vavra T.G (1997) Improving your measurement of customer satisfaction: A guide to creating, conducting, analyzing, and reporting customer satisfaction measurement ... Importance Source: ARBOR, Inc., 1991 Figure 5: Dual importance window 5.2 Customer Motivation Window (Lowenstain, 1995) In true mathematical terms, the Customer Motivation Window is a correlation ... by integrating Kano’s model of customer satisfaction into quality function deployment, Technovation, vol 18, no 1, pp 25-38 Matzler K., Hinterhuber H.H., Bailom F and Sauerwein E (1996) How to...
... translated to English Content analysis was performed on the data written in Persian, before translation The interview guide included a list of general questions used as a tool for initiating the interviews ... were, in some cases, transferred from the earthquake area to a specific city, and because of the inability to admit the casualties, they were referred to yet a second city“ according to another interviewee ... revision, editing and manuscript writing HK was involved in the conception and design of study and took an active part in the data analysis and results interpretation GO participated to the study...
... listening attentively to sound, have an-ing verb forms or a to- infinitive verb form However, including listen, hear, hearken, lend an ear to, to be all ears, prick up English is an inflecting language ... one word in each meaning syntactically namely hear and nghe in meaning 1, listen and l ng nghe in meaning 2, overhear and nghe l m in meaning and materials relatedto the study We tried to choose ... somebody/something + V-ing of hearing Hear + somebody + V – infinitive Hear + ADV Perceive + somebody + V-ing Perceive + NP Catch +N/NP Something reaches to one’s ears listening Listen + to + somebody + V-ing...
... shown in the table 2 IN ON in a car / in a taxi on a bus / on a train in a helicopter on a plane in a boat on a ship in a lift (elevator) on a bicycle, on a motorbike on a horse, on an elephant in ... restrict to errors caused by interlingual transfer, it also brings tolight many other types of errors such as intralanguage errors and some arising from the particular teaching and learning strategy ... For instance, we cannot think of the meaning of a spatial preposition without bearing in mind some place or thing The meaning of a preposition cannot be conceived without reference to the internal...
... a past history using anti-tuberculosis drugs Acknowledgements We thank the patients for consenting to participate in the study, the TB districts coordinators and nurses for enrolling patients ... loss of infectiousness of pulmonary tuberculosis patients during therapy does not occur rapidly in all patients [6,11,12] This finding has implications to those countries which practise patients ... remained consistent for several years since the beginning of the epidemic [14] The proportion of patients with past history of using anti-tuberculosis drugs was higher in HIV positive than in...
... within a “Council of Europe framework with a view to providing guidance to member states and/or to facilitating the elaboration of guidelines with and for private sector actors in order to define ... a measure ordering an ISP to install a system for filtering and blocking electronic communications in order to protect intellectual property rights in principle infringes on fundamental human ... participating States, in certain countries access to the Internet can be restricted to all users subject to various legal provisions In certain countries access can be restricted to individual...
... or participate in high-intensity strength-training programs [82] , report significantly better QoL These findings demonstrate the importance of integrating training programs into gynecological ... guidelines to accommodate and complete a rehabilitation plan in order to stay at work Otherwise, women may leave the work force Not being able to return to work following cancer may result in financial ... life as main outcome (cont.) QoL results Ref Factors relatedto quality of life in long-term survivors of gynecological cancer Review clinically effective and feasible to deliver in clinical practice,...
... many training programs to let accountants know how to make a perfect CSR reporting which stakeholders can believe in 21 To overall, applying CSR into business is important, making CSR reporting is ... questions (in appendix A) those questions mainly aims to find out the attitude of the managers toward implementing CSR into their business and the reality situation of implementing CSR in their business ... This is the reason for companies consider to implementing CSR into their business When they apply CSR into their business, investors will pay more attention to their companies, this will help them...
... and circumstances of patients on beginning hospitalization in NITRD in 1995 Int J Tubercul Lung Dis 1998;2(11):S243 Kumar P, Clark M Respiratory disease In: clinical medicine 4th edition Philadelphia: ... in 84.61% of patients; Phuc LT and colleagues19 reported similar results Weight loss was the presenting symptom in 53.84% of patients, tiredness in 44.23% of patients, and malaise in 50% of patients ... Ayub Teaching Hospitals The study period was from Jun 2005 to Dec 2006 Two hundred patients were included in the study All patients with age of 16 years and above, patients having clinical features...