... Assessment of CareforChronic Conditions (PACIC) 2010 [http:// www.improvingchroniccare.org] 22 EQ-5D A standardised instrument for use as a measure of health outcome 2010 [http://www.euroqol.org /home. html] ... for primary care GPs will be informed about the project, and when they agree to participate they will be instructed to send in an admission form with data on practice organization necessary for ... educational materials for the professionals and patients There is a recommended protocol for multidisciplinary management and a template for clinical care presented as a guiding registration form Furthermore,...
... concept in chronicdisease management, is of increasing interest for the assessment and management of patientswithchronic diseases First, measurement of self-efficacy is helpful for planning ... instruments varied across the different disease groups For example, self-efficacy scales for diabetes patients were most frequently correlated with physiological outcomes (for example HbA1c as a measure ... responsiveness of the Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire, St Georges Respiratory Questionnaire and four other health-related quality of life instruments forpatientswithchronic lung disease Respir...
... concept in chronicdisease management, is of increasing interest for the assessment and management of patientswithchronic diseases First, measurement of self-efficacy is helpful for planning ... instruments varied across the different disease groups For example, self-efficacy scales for diabetes patients were most frequently correlated with physiological outcomes (for example HbA1c as a measure ... responsiveness of the Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire, St Georges Respiratory Questionnaire and four other health-related quality of life instruments forpatientswithchronic lung disease Respir...
... 26% of all patients had any contact with health care services [4] In Germany, the German Health Interview and Examination Survey showed health care utilization of 30% forpatients without co-morbidity ... health care in the field of mental diseases consists of psychotherapeutic practices for outpatient care, specialised clinics or departments in hospitals for inpatient treatment, and also day care ... König J, Gerlach FM, PRoMPT (PRimary care Monitoring for depressive Patients Trial): Case management for depression by health care assistants in small primary care practices: a cluster randomized...
... doi:10.1186/cc8955 Cite this article as: Afessa B, Keegan MT: Critical caresupport of patientswith nicotine addiction Critical Care 2010, 14:155 ... nicotine withdrawal in neuro-ICU patients Neurology 2001, 57:551-553 Tran-Van D, Herve Y, Labadie P, Deroudilhe G, Avargues P: [Restlessness in intensive care unit: think to the nicotinic withdrawal ... therapy for smoking cessation Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2004:CD000146 10 Lee AH, Afessa B: The association of nicotine replacement therapy with mortality in a medical intensive care unit Crit Care...
... factors like chronic inflammation and malnutrition as predictors of the CVD in chronic kidney disease This multifactorial disease introduces new challenges in predicting and treating patients early ... factor for cardiovascular disease in CKD patients is highlighted by our results on 376 patientswith CKD II to IV in whom low serum albumin was significantly associated with CVD irrespective of ... of cardiovascular disease in chronic renal disease Am J Kideny Dis 1998; 32 (Suppl 3): S112-119 Coresh J, Astor BC, Greene T, Eknoyan G, Levey AS Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and decreased...
... effect of donepezil treatment on caregiver burden used a survey of AD caregivers of patients treated with donepezil matched to AD caregivers of patients not treated with donepezil [31] In the survey, ... function in AD patients receiving galantamine 24 mg/day for 12 months or placebo for months followed by galantamine 24 mg/day for months [51] Although patients who took galantamine 24 mg/day for 12 months ... Treatment with galantamine has also been shown to ease caregiver burden [55] Caregiver burden is defined as the amount of time patients require supervision and assistance with ADL When caregiver...
... than (Fig 1d and Table 1) The median increase forpatientswith PsA was 4.7, forpatientswith SpA 5.0, forpatientswith JIA 6.4 and forpatientswith RA 3.7; P values are given in Table The ... cells by flow cytometry Information about the 26 patientswith PsA, the 10 patientswith SpA, the 21 patientswith JIA and the 135 patientswith RA are provided in Table For comparison, peripheral ... The patientswith JIA were all adults and had a polyarticular disease Of the 135 patientswith RA, 26 were seronegative for rheumatoid factor (RF) The synovial samples were obtained from the patients...
... Factors associated with serum alanine transaminase activity in healthy subjects: consequences for the definition of normal values, for selection of blood donors, and forpatientswithchronic hepatitis ... biopsy both for the initial decision of liver biopsy and for the follow-up of chronic hepatitis C patients To date, liver biopsy has been considered mandatory for the management of patients infected ... excellent for the three proteins with only one decrease for apolipoprotein A1 in a single center using the ADVIA analyzer For total bilirubin, there was only one center with a higher slope For the...
... involves patient treatment with CMVALT with or without CMV-DCs pulsed with pp65 mRNA Patients will also receive standard of care radiotherapy and TMZ Interestingly, patients whose tumor recurs ... (NCT00293423) or newly diagnosed (NCT00905060) patientswith GBM Enrolled patients are being vaccinated with the heat shock protein peptide complex (HSPPC)-96 with or without concurrent TMZ therapy Heat ... pulsed with autologous tumor cell lysates with or without intratumoral Gliadel wafer recently were closed for accrual At Duke University (NCT00890032), recurrent GBM patients are treated with autologous...
... materials for provider-initiated HIV counseling and testing, HIV prevention and integrated primary HIV care and supportfor HCWs involved in the care of patientswith TB at the primary health care ... the burden of TB among people living with HIV/ AIDS are therefore urgently needed [3] HIV counseling and testing of patientswith TB and carefor co-infected patients are key activities in the ... ART were not included because of the policy to refer patientsfor ART and the extremely limited access to and experience with ART forpatientswith TB in the DRC [1] Topics were introduced using...
... individuals withchronic stroke to: isokinetic training for lower extremities [37], home- based exercises [38], treadmill and overground walking without BWS [39], treadmill with BWS [40], and treadmill with ... Therefore, our hypothesis that six weeks of gait training with BWS during overground walking would improve walking performance of individuals withchronic stroke was partially confirmed with ... combined with overground without BWS [41] Our results suggest that training with BWS during overground walking effectively increases walking speed of individuals withchronic stroke Individuals with...
... chronic pain in patients suffering from OA Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Materials and methods Patients and tissue preparation Synovial tissues were obtained from patientswith ... significantly lower in OA patientswith a high pain score (visual analog scale [VAS] score of greater than 40; ᭝) compared with healthy controls (❍) and with OA patientswith a low pain score (VAS ... 23/53 OA patients DREAM mRNA was significantly reduced by 63% in PBMCs from OA patients, with a pain score on the VAS (0 to 100) of greater than 40 (n = 14) compared with healthy controls OA patients...
... level to improve delivery of care and outcomes forpatientswithchronicdisease has grown However, these care models and organizational strategies have not met with uniform success [4-14] We believe ... guidelines? A framework for improvement JAMA 1999, 282(15):1458-65 Bodenheimer T, Wagner EH, Grumbach K: Improving primary careforpatientswithchronic illness: the chroniccare model, part JAMA ... cared for Diseases may mediate the way that interventions influence a patient’s care The level of complexity of different diseases, and the ways that chronic diseases Page of 10 impact patients ...
... the primary care team There are National Institute for Health and Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) guidelines defining standards of care, but studies of the quality of careforpatientswith diabetes ... secondary care [31-33] Aim The aim of this study is to improve the quality of careforpatientswith diabetes cared for in primary care by identifying individual, team, and organisational factors that ... caring forpatientswith diabetes in Newcastle We have also conducted research in organizational development and behavioural change related to health care organizations in primary and secondary care...
... satisfaction withcare by both patients and informal caregivers Finally, we aim for a positive effect on attitudes, knowledge and skills of nurses Collaborative Careforpatientswith severe borderline ... are indicative for positive or negative outcomes Informal carers Participants Patients This Collaborative Care Program is developed to improve the quality of careforpatientswith severe personality ... Questionnaires for informal carers Process indicators Carer satisfaction withcareFor the measurement of carer satisfaction an adapted version of the CQ-index is used [67] Involvement/social support...
... until now no studies have been performed on the effects of CC forpatientswith bipolar disorder The current study will be the first to implement CC forpatientswith bipolar disorder, and moreover, ... program forpatientswith bipolar disorder We set out the following three research questions to answer: A What are the effects of a CC program, compared to Care as Usual (CAU), forpatientswith ... available about care provided in some highly specialized centres forpatientswith bipolar disorder that may resemble CC In the Netherlands, about 20.000 patients receive carefor bipolar disorder...
... the primary care team There are National Institute for Health and Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) guidelines defining standards of care, but studies of the quality of careforpatientswith diabetes ... secondary care [31-33] Aim The aim of this study is to improve the quality of careforpatientswith diabetes cared for in primary care by identifying individual, team, and organisational factors that ... caring forpatientswith diabetes in Newcastle We have also conducted research in organizational development and behavioural change related to health care organizations in primary and secondary care...
... in patientswith SMI is important Although lifestyle risk factors for cardiovascular disease were common in the sample, rates are lower than might be anticipated in a population of patientswith ... nurse advisors who provided Well-Being support as an adjunct to routine care Program development, supportfor the nurse advisors and subsequent evaluation was supported by the pharmaceutical company ... an average of patients Around in of the patients on an average practitioners’ caseload All patients that were enrolled in the WSP consented to participate and for data being used for the purposes...
... continued the administration of pegasys For the reason that sequential therapy could effectively evade the Table 1: Therapeutic efficacy of pegasys in patientswithchronic hepatitis B Characteristics ... reported in this article and more patients need to be included for further study, one certain clue, which can be provided to clinical doctors, is that some patientswith HBeAg-positive CHB could ... Peginterferon Alfa-2a HBeAg-Negative Chronic Hepatitis B Study Group Peginterferon alfa-2a alone, lamivudine alone, and the two in combination in patientswith HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B N Engl...