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Screening for Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly pot

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 14:20

... of acetyl choline Tacrine (tetrahydroaminoacridine), has been approved for use in the United States and is available in Canada Modest but definite improvements in cognitive performance have been ... Screening for Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly Prepared by Christopher Patterson, MD, FRCPC1 Cognitive impairment is a common finding in older people, as the prevalence of dementia increases ... method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician J Psychiatr Res 1975; 12: 189-198 Pfeiffer E: A short portable mental status questionnaire for the assessment of organic brain...

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Attitudes, barriers and facilitators for health promotion in the elderly in primary care doc

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 14:20

... Discussion Main findings Among the participating GPs, definitions of health promotion interventions in the elderly widely varied The opinion regarding the effectiveness of health promotion in the elderly ... well as regarding the content of the programme Providing information over the internet for instance, may not reach a substantial proportion of the target group To increase the interest for health ... health promotion in the elderly H Incentives for GPs to provide health promotion in the elderly I Incentives for patients to accept health promotion in the elderly J Possible interventions to...

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Health services research on endoscopic surveillance for gastric cancer in the singapore chinese population experience of the gastric cancer epidemiology clinical and genetic program

Ngày tải lên : 10/09/2015, 09:07

... Gastric cancer mortality Following the downward trend seen in incidence, GC mortality has also declined over time globally The declining mortality has been attributed to the declining incidence as there ... development, intuitively, eradicating this infection would eliminate cancer risk before precancerous lesions develop Therefore, screening for H pylori and treating those with a positive finding is ... trends in gastric cancer mortality and incidence for males 11 Figure 1-7 Declining trends in gastric cancer mortality and incidence for females 12 Figure 2-1 Carcinogenesis for Gastric Cancer...

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Tài liệu Vaccines for preventing inﬂuenza in the elderly (Review) docx

Ngày tải lên : 13/02/2014, 18:20

... and deaths from in uenza Description of the intervention Vaccines have been the main global weapon to minimise the impact of in uenza in the elderly for the last four decades In the year 2000, ... interest in inﬂuenza vaccines and Vaccines for preventing in uenza in the elderly (Review) Copyright © 2010 The Cochrane Collaboration Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd their performance How the intervention ... good coverage in those who most need it or the diluting effect on vaccines for in uenza of other agents circulating in the community (causing ILI, clinically indistinguishable from in uenza), might...

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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BEST PRACTICES in the Management of Elderly Disaster Victims doc

Ngày tải lên : 28/03/2014, 16:20

... advocate for getting evacuees the services they require They also need to keep evacuees informed about the progress being made in resolving their problems This process should continue even when the ... living The plan for the administration of the SWiFT tool was to pair social workers with either a doctor or nurse Each of these pairings walked among the cots on the Astrodome floor looking for ... evacuation to the RAC The trauma resulting from the disaster, the process of evacuation, the disruption of regular care, and the stress of residing in the shelter complex further increased their vulnerability...

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Báo cáo hóa học: "Prognostic impact of clinical course-specific mRNA expression profiles in the serum of perioperative patients with esophageal cancer in the ICU: a case control study" potx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 16:20

... prognostic indicator in fulminant hepatitis in patients without encephalopathy upon admission [10,11] In the present study, we examined 11 proinflammatory genes in patients receiving therapy in the ... GPIb-IX-V Therefore, upregulated VWF may represent unstable hemostasis and reflect damage to endothelial megakaryocytes expressing VWF In the signaling pathway, VWF interacts with integrins in the ... functions in the complement and coagulation cascades, linking downstream to the inflammatory process or to B cell receptor signaling NAMPT is another indicator for prognosis It is the rate-limiting...

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báo cáo khoa học: "Vaginal treatment of endometrial cancer: role in the elderly" doc

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 02:20

... study: 31 had vaginal surgery (group V); 37 underwent abdominal surgery (group A) Vaginal surgery was performed in 45.6% (31/68) of patients, abdominal surgery in 54.4% (37/68) Group V patients’ age ... was 83% and 87% for group A Table Clinical and pathologic data relating to 68 patients undergoing vaginal or laparotomic surgery for endometrial cancer Abdominal surgery Vaginal surgery p (n = ... V) included medically compromised women undergoing vaginal hysterectomy for cancer A second group (group A) included patients who underwent abdominal surgery for cancer Group V considered patients...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Predictive factors for breast cancer in patients diagnosed atypical ductal hyperplasia at core needle biopsy" doc

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 04:21

... excision, including DCIS and invasive cancer All patients in this study underwent clinical and radiological examination, including mammography and ultrasound The radiological appearance of the lesion ... or invasive cancer in a case of ADH Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions BJC carried out the statistical analysis, participated in ... determined to be an independent predictive factor for breast cancer at surgical excision in patients with diagnosed ADH at CNB Consistent with our findings, Ko et al [18] observed an increase in...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "High-dose rate brachytherapy (HDRB) for primary or recurrent cancer in the vagina" docx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 09:22

... Discussion Radiotherapy is the main therapeutic modality in the management of primary or recurrent vaginal cancer Brachytherapy remains integral part of definitive radiation therapy for these patients ... years) The recurrence was marginal (within cm of previous field) in patients and within the previous field in patients The sites of disease were proximal vagina patients, distal vagina patients ... findings and imaging were also taken for reference for defining the target volume The median number of needles used were 14 (range 7–18) The dose of interstitial brachytherapy was 18.75 Gy in...

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Báo cáo khoa học: " RapidArc, intensity modulated photon and proton techniques for recurrent prostate cancer in previously irradiated patients: a treatment planning comparison study" doc

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 10:20

... and femoral heads The non-target tissue was defined as the patient' s volume covered by the CT scan minus the planning target volume (PTV) For all patients, GTV was outlined using the signal-tobackground ... D5%-D95% The conformality of the plans was measured with a Conformity Index, CI90% defined as the ratio between the patient volume receiving at least 90% of the prescribed dose and the volume of the ... choline PET/CT for localizing occult relapse of prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy in 49 patients Focally increased 11C-choline uptake in the prostatic fossa was observed in 70% of patients...

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Báo cáo y học: " Pre-treatment mortality and loss-to-follow-up in HIV-1, HIV-2 and HIV-1/HIV-2 dually infected patients eligible for antiretroviral therapy in The Gambia, West Africa" doc

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 05:22

... ART to patients in the cohort and assessing them for ART eligibility at the planning phase for introduction of ART in June 2004 Adult patients were considered eligible for ART based on the Gambian ... Nabiryo C, Coutinho A: Use of WHO clinical stage for assessing patient eligibility to antiretroviral therapy in a routine health service setting in Jinja, Uganda AIDS Research and Therapy 2008, ... sensitivity of WHO clinical staging in assessing patient s eligibility for ART [17,18], our data suggest that it is an important clinical assessment tool and we therefore advocate for the development...

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Báo cáo y học: " Using patient and physician perspectives to develop a shared decision-making framework for colorectal cancer" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:21

... validity by maintaining internal consistency The main objectives of the patient interviews are to explore: patients' perceptions of the information they received and were asked to provide during treatment ... the various elements of shared decision making or associated outcomes that have been discussed in the context of colorectal cancer Therefore, we have combined these factors within the following ... barriers to the use of shared decision making in the setting of colorectal cancer; and identify and explore strategies to promote shared decision making in the setting of colorectal cancer Methods...

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Báo cáo y học: "A cluster randomized trial of standard quality improvement versus patient-centered interventions to enhance depression care for African Americans in the primary care setting: study protocol NCT00243425" doc

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:21

... administrative assistants) at Johns Hopkins, the staff at all of the participating clinical sites, all of the participating clinicians, the organizational leaders, and the patients, for making the ... participating in the study During registration, patients were given a card that informed them their clinician was participating in a study to improve emotional health in African Americans, and they ... within each intervention group for a binary outcome, after adjusting for other covariates in the model The evalution of patient- centered intervention effects will be conducted by testing the...

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báo cáo khoa học: " Using patient and physician perspectives to develop a shared decision-making framework for colorectal cancer" docx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 16:20

... validity by maintaining internal consistency The main objectives of the patient interviews are to explore: patients' perceptions of the information they received and were asked to provide during treatment ... the various elements of shared decision making or associated outcomes that have been discussed in the context of colorectal cancer Therefore, we have combined these factors within the following ... barriers to the use of shared decision making in the setting of colorectal cancer; and identify and explore strategies to promote shared decision making in the setting of colorectal cancer Methods...

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Near infrared autofluorescence imaging and spectroscopy for early detection of precancer and cancer in the colon

Ngày tải lên : 10/09/2015, 08:29

... globin [18] Since globin does not survive in the passage through the upper gastrointestinal tract, the FIT’s detection of globin is specific for occult bleeding from the large bowel Therefore, ... tests could result from either upper gastrointestinal bleeding or lower gastrointestinal bleeding, thus they warrant further investigation for colon cancer or gastric cancer The sensitivity of FOBT ... diagnosis of colon cancer [33] During colonoscopy screening, the stains can be sprayed using specially designed catheters through the instrument channel Then the effect of these stains on the subtle...

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Báo cáo y học: "Comparison between single antiplatelet therapy and combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy for secondary prevention in ischemic stroke patients with antiphospholipid syndrome"

Ngày tải lên : 26/10/2012, 09:48

... hemorrhage was noted in the single antiplatelet therapy group, and one subcutaneous hemorrhage was found in the combination therapy group As for the patient in the single antiplatelet therapy group ... However, the patient who had recurrent thrombotic infarction in the combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy group showed an INR before the recurrence of 2.0, so the possibility of inadequate ... randomized to the combination therapy group, and the other to the single modality group Kaplan-Meier survival curves are shown in Figure The mean follow-up time was 3.9±2.0 years The cumulative incidence...

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5000 Vocabulary List for Visiting Scholars in the USA

Ngày tải lên : 05/11/2012, 14:32

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Tips for Teaching Conversation in the Multilingual ESL Classroom

Ngày tải lên : 06/09/2013, 11:10

... that in today's global society, the chances are that they will find themselves conversing, doing business, or otherwise interacting in English with other non-native speakers Have Fun • One of the ... cognate for one linguistic group follow it up with one for another group This will help teach the students to be patient with each other's linguistic limitations, as they learn that while the problems ... listening, not just to the video or to native speakers, but to each other as well For those students who think it is pointless or even detrimental to listen to other non-native speakers, remind them...

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Tài liệu Water environmental conservation for improved lihelihood in the Mekong delta, Vietnam doc

Ngày tải lên : 09/12/2013, 22:15

... problems The beginning of the rainy season is the problematic period The main concern in the village level was the water quality, especially, the water supply for domestic usage For the interviewed ... river springs from Cambodia, meets the sea at Xoai Rap estuary, is affected by saline intrusion up to the Cambodia border, including the Plain of Reeds The most saline intrusion was in 1977 up ... October In the year 2004, the curve of flood was very strange, it quickly increased to the peak and drained The officers explain that the flood was depend on rain in the upstream areas Deforestation...

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