... Further refinements in microarrays and microfluidics are anticipated to bring handhand and point-of -care systems into use in the near future Point-of -care and rapid laboratory based technologies ... intensive care, and few are traditional ‘devices’ that can be physically handled or attached to a patient However, critical care is a distillation of acute hospital practice, and any health care technology ... of this is relevant to critical care or to other countries? First, ICUs provide complex, time-sensitive care to highly dependent patients They therefore require the Available online http://ccforum.com/content/9/1/12...
... dissected out and separated from their muscle attachments The anterior chamber is then dissected away leaving the posterior chamber and retina and Bruch’s-choroid-sclera Retinal layer is then carefully ... other conditions The use of FFA has enabled sub-classification of wet AMD according to the appearance of the lesions andthe location of choroidal neovascularisation in relation to the fovea The ... to cover the new findings from basic and translational research on the biological and genetic mechanism of AMD, andthe new interventions to prevent and treat this disease. The book has a total of 15 chapters, grouped into two sections. Section one includes six ...
... CAM focuses more on thepatientand less on the therapy, giving patients the perception that they are more in control of their own health and that they can help themselves There is something inherently ... chapters, patients frequently not raise or discuss their CAM use with their physicians CAM use raises a host of ethics issues for patients and physicians, and questions about how thephysicianandthe ... and clinician satisfaction with care, quality of care, and can create ethics, communication, and other concerns in thepatientphysician relationship How to “focus on preserving thepatient physician...
... capacity, while the fifth clinician practiced in a teaching capacity Two of the physicians worked in both inpatient and outpatient care settings, while the other worked solely with an outpatient population ... psoriasis in the literature review and included as one of the patient- reported symptoms of psoriasis in the disease model The majority of physicians and patients indicated that itch was the most ... purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:62 nosis How these signs and symptoms are interpreted by thepatientandthe clinician is dependent upon their frequency, duration, and severity...
... connector to them.) Unfortunately, the wires in the cable tend to leak signals to one another The closer the wires are bound andthe longer they get, the worse the interference Therefore, parallel ... including the nature of the transmission media, the amount of traffic on the network, andthe speeds of the hardware manipulating the network In addition, an Ethernet that supports between 30 and 60 ... the network The server processes the request and sends back unformatted, raw data to the client The client's software then formats the data for display to the end user In other words, the data manipulation...
... the UW Hospital complex • The new macro site provided coverage for the top five floors of thehospital complex However, the macro site could only penetrate so many feet of concrete, leaving the ... the few turnkey solutions on the market ADC provided design and installation of both fibers and equipment for the Digivance in-building and macro system The installation went very smoothly There ... CASE STUDY With the macro site covering the top five floors andthe Digivance in-building system covering the bottom three floors, cell phones could operate at lower power, reducing the risk of cellular...
... pattern: the recovery from the Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s andthe present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s ... pattern: the recovery from the Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s andthe present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s ... characteristics of the recessions and recoveries Column reports the date of the cyclical peak, as determined by the NBER Column measures the steepness of the drop, and column shows the BORDO AND HAUBRICH...
... months Prognosis and Followup The prognosis for thepatient with a retinal break andthe need for followup by the optometrist depend on the type and severity of the break The frequency and composition ... degeneration, and they occur in the same region of the retina, usually between the equator andthe ora serrata Approximately 80 percent of them occur in a zone between the ora serrata and DD anterior to the ... time The further into the vitreous cavity the retina floats, the more elevated it appears during ophthalmoscopy andthe greater the number and size of retinal folds in the detachment In longstanding...
... another There is mathematics and there is natural science The key point is that there can be no proof in natural science, only hypothesis testing But where the hypotheses come from? Surely they ... reported, The more we dug into the hillside, the more bones we found” Almost every bone in the skeleton was preserved, from the tip of the nose, to the tip of the tail The bones were excavated and carefully ... out the basic biology of the ancient beast The teeth hint at what the animal ate, andthe jaw shape shows how it fed The limb bones show how the dinosaurs moved You can manipulate the joints and...
... in these KOOS subscale scores therefore, supports the validity of these concerns and their importance to patients because they mirror the surgical and early rehabilitation focus Just like the ... component andthe Participation component of the ICF [12-14,27] While the WHO decided not to distinguish between these two components; others have stressed the importance of their differentiation if the ... to patients The majority of patients in this study received their initial therapy at home after acute care discharge until approximately three weeks following surgery Then they continued therapy...
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... complete the additional survey items after completing the PedsQL™ 4.0 In order to assure the anonymity and confidentiality of the respondent's answers andthe neutrality of the organization gathering ... access to healthcare at the time of their enrollment In fact, the similarity of these findings to children newly-referred to a hospital- based psychiatry clinic in The Netherlands suggests that ... comparison to healthy children These findings are consistent with PedsQL™ ADHD findings from The Netherlands [22] and Thailand [44] These multinational consistencies support the potential international...
... participated in the development of the design andthe coordination the study, carried out the linking procedure and participated in the analysis of the data and writing of the paper All authors read and ... ‘others’, ‘sport and school’ and ‘treatment’ Age groups II and III have in addition the domains ‘perceived support’ and ‘dealing with haemophilia’ and for adolescents the domains ‘future’ and ... haemophilia The analysis was based on the ICF andthe ICF-CY and provided relevant information on the contents of these instruments The results can guide researchers in selecting and reporting...
... in the same health care plan prior to and 12 months after the date of the index prescription Given the duration of the preindex and postindex periods, as well as the data collection period, the ... interpretation of the data, and drafting of the manuscript MJL made substantial contributions to the analysis of the data, interpretation of the data and drafting of the manuscript Acknowledgements The authors ... contains information on patient demographics and hospitalizations, outpatient service utilization, and outpatient pharmacy data from over 75 different managed care organizations and more than 55 million...
... from thepatient perspective While thepatient perspective has been implicitly included in the development of ICF Core Sets [22], the patients now will be explicitly involved in the process of the ... which they were a member had been named by the patients Accuracy of the analysis To audit the accuracy of the analysis, 15% of the transcribed text was randomly selected, analyzed according to the ... establish the standards of 'what to measure' in patients with RA independent of the treatment (one could even say independent of 'fashionable treatment') On the other hand, the intake of medication and...
... contributor to the margin is the combined systematic error Using the van Herk formula [7] with the assumption to cover the PTV with ≥95% of the prescribed dose in 90% of the patients, the SM of the different ... of the quadratic sum of the standard deviations of all contributing systematic errors, s the square-root of the quadratic sum of the standard deviations of all contributing random errors, and ... balancing the “cost” of online verification (machine-time and imaging dose to the patient) with the risk of radiation toxicity related to the size of the PTV Siemens Medical, Germany) The IMRT and...