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Báo cáo y học: "What is the clinical and ethical importance of incidental abnormalities found by knee MRI" docx

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... obvious, the appropriate management of incidental findings in research studies has not been raised in musculoskeletal imaging It is important given the increasing use of MRI in the investigation of ... of such lesions; a much larger study would be required to give a more precise prevalence estimate However, this is the first study in this area Our findings raise issues for the planning of studies ... an MRI radiologist or other suitably trained specialist review all the images or just the baseline images in a longitudinal study This will also add to the cost of the research study Despite the...
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báo cáo khoa học: "What is the value and impact of quality and safety teams? A scoping review" potx

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... participants themselves, such as what actions senior leaders did to assure the team was successful and what role physicians and nurse champions played in winning the support of their colleagues [18] ... quality and safety teams addressed in this scoping review Across the studies, authors seldom provided essential elements of SQUIRE reporting More specifically, efforts to address a number of issues ... missing data (n = 10) Only one-half of the authors contextualized findings within existing literature The weakest section of reporting across studies was planning of the interventions, with less...
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báo cáo hóa học: " The longitudinal link between visual acuity and health-related quality of life in patients with diabetic retinopathy" doc

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... possibly because the SF-36 assesses a wide range of characteristics that are not directly related to visual acuity This distinction between the two instruments is consistent with previous research ... when assessing functional impairment associated with visual acuity, and separate assessment of binocular acuity is not required [32] Statistical analyses The health outcomes measures used in the ... performed with the subset of patients who had at least one VFQ-25 subscale present at both baseline and month 18 (this subset is called the "change analysis sample") Analyses were conducted to assess...
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báo cáo hóa học: " The effects of high frequency subthalamic stimulation on balance performance and fear of falling in patients with Parkinson''''s disease" docx

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... assessments The patients were assessed as inpatients Demographic data were collected at admission The patients were asked to estimate their fall incidence during the past six months, and if they ... destabilizing visual tilts [9,15-17] In some cases, assessment of quiet stance on a firm surface lacks the sensitivity to distinguish healthy subjects from patients with balance disorders [18] A method ... was irrespective of visual input and sway direction (Table 4) Discussion The main finding of this study is that STN stimulation alone improves clinical performance tests that mimic activities of...
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báo cáo hóa học:" The longitudinal link between visual acuity and health-related quality of life in patients with diabetic retinopathy pot

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... possibly because the SF-36 assesses a wide range of characteristics that are not directly related to visual acuity This distinction between the two instruments is consistent with previous research ... when assessing functional impairment associated with visual acuity, and separate assessment of binocular acuity is not required [32] Statistical analyses The health outcomes measures used in the ... performed with the subset of patients who had at least one VFQ-25 subscale present at both baseline and month 18 (this subset is called the "change analysis sample") Analyses were conducted to assess...
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Báo cáo y học: "Validation of a specific measure to assess healthrelated quality of life in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: the ‘Tolerability and quality of life’ (TOOL) questionnaire" doc

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... populations to test its psychometrical properties Secondly, it is necessary to analyse the sensitivity of the TOOL in detecting changes in longitudinal studies Conclusions The Spanish validation of the ... comparisons considering the skewed distribution of data Reliability The internal consistency of the questionnaire was analysed using Cronbach s a Test-retest reliability of the scores was also examined ... tested in further investigations with schizophrenic and bipolar patients showing a worse health status in order to test discriminative power The characteristics of the sample may limit the scope of...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Comparison of CT and integrated PET-CT based radiation therapy planning in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma" pot

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... border of the pelvis as in the CT scan, using multiple-bed position Attenuation was corrected by using the CT images The processed images were displayed in coronal, transverse, and saggital planes ... pelvis was acquired with 5-mm slice thickness, using a standardized protocol with 140 kV and 80 MA with contrast injection The subsequent PET scan was acquired from the base of the skull to the inferior ... improvements in diagnosis, accurate staging, RTP, and assessment of tumor response to the prescribed treatment in a variety of tumor sites including the MPM [10-16] PET imaging is based on biochemical...
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Báo cáo y học: " Decreased respiratory system compliance on the sixth day of mechanical ventilation is a predictor of death in patients with established acute lung injury" ppt

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... illnesses, the use of glucocorticoids or other causes of immunosuppression, fluid intake/output and balance, vital signs, and chest radiographic findings The clinical disorder associated with ... because the sickest patients who present with severe shock, catastrophic injury, or refractory hypoxemia die during the first days of ALI and thus were not included in this analysis Previous studies ... per standard deviation increase or decrease in each variable to allow for equal comparisons between different variables The goodness -of- fit of the logistic-regression model was assessed with the...
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Báo cáo y học: "The association between systemic glucocorticoid therapy and the risk of infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: systematic review and metaanalyses" pptx

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... ascertainment of the exposure/outcome for the cases and controls exposed and comparison cohorts Conclusions Given these numerous problems with both study designs in assessing the infection risk with ... Nonetheless, most analyses of observational studies reported an increased risk of infection, which conflicts with the result of the RCTs The dose of GC therapy varied both within and between RCTs ... effects in both directions are a consequence of low numbers of events, despite a meta-analysis of all existing studies Inconsistent capture or reporting of infections has an impact on the weighting...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Tracheostomy timing and the duration of weaning in patients with acute respiratory failure" pdf

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... by other investigators as 'early' Nonetheless, the findings of our study provide the basis for re-examining whether the timing of tracheostomy may impact clinical outcomes In patients with resolving ... our observations, it is important to address the limitations of this study First, this was a retrospective analysis of a dataset that, while prospectively collected, was used to address a separate ... spontaneous respiratory rate of 20–28/min and involved a step-wise reduction in the level of pressure support The protocol permitted overnight resting at the discretion of the attending intensivist In addition...
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Báo cáo y học: "Improved functionality, health related quality of life and decreased burden of disease in patients with ADHD treated with OROS® MPH: is treatment response different between children and adolescents" docx

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... [parents’ assessment], p = 0.032 [patients assessment]), global QoL (p = 0.012 [parents’ assessment]) and interests and hobbies (p = 0.023 [patients assessment]) With the exception of ‘interests and ... dose of OROS® MPH and had safety data reported Other assessments Results Problems concerning social interactions and tasks were assessed via several non-validated questions At each of the study ... twothirds of individuals with persistence of symptoms associated with continued clinical and psychosocial impairments [5] A detailed longitudinal study of remission in boys with ADHD showed that syndromatic...
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Báo cáo y học: "Segment-orientated analysis of two-dimensional strain and strain rate as assessed by velocity vector imaging in patients with acute myocardial infarction"

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... infarction by strain, sSR, dSR or S after AMI The main finding of this study is the significant difference of strain, SRe and tissue velocities between infarcted and non-infarcted segments demonstrated ... patients with vessel disease a stenosis > 50% was found in the circumflex artery in patients and in the right coronary artery in patients Complete revascularization in the patients with 2-vessel disease ... according to 2DS, dSR and tissue velocities, which is depicted in Table and Figures 2, Infarcted segments demonstrated significantly decreased 2DS as well as tissue velocities in comparison to...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Crystal structure of the second PDZ domain of SAP97 in complex with a GluR-A C-terminal peptide ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: Crystal structure of the second PDZ domain of SAP97 in complex with a GluR-A C-terminal peptide ppt

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... visible in either of the two chains, and 11 (chain A) or 13 (chain B) C-terminal residues including the hexahistidinyl tags also appear unstructured The binding site region of chain B contains ... PDZ domain structures Figure shows a superposition of SAP97PDZ2 C37 8S structure with the NMR structure of PSD-95PDZ2 and the crystal structure of SAP102 The backbone structures are highly similar, ... contacts at the bottom of the ligand-binding pocket, there is a correlation between binding of ligand, changes in cell dimensions, and the opening and closing of the pocket; whenever the ligand is...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Adalimumab improves health-related quality of life in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis compared with the United States general population norms: Results from a randomized, controlled Phase III study" pdf

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... to severe plaque psoriasis (Table 1) Assessing the burden of psoriasis on health-related quality of life SF-36 summary scores Based on the 2002 MEPS data, baseline PCS scores for patients in the ... populations [9] The SF-36 was included in both the REVEAL and NSFHS studies The Short Form-12 Health Survey (SF-12) (Version 1), which was used in the MEPS survey included in this analysis, contains ... understand the impact that psoriasis and its treatments have on a patient 's functioning and well-being, it is important that clinical trials of new psoriasis treatments assess patient HRQOL Successful...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Disability and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia" doc

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... addition to patients using avoidance strategies as a coping mechanism, other patients with pain will have the tendency to cope with pain using persistent strategies [8] These patients persist in the ... Netherlands Instruments For all participating patients: Psychological distress The Dutch Version of the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90) was used to assess psychological distress The SCL-90 is a multidimensional ... profiles of patients with fibromyalgia and other pain syndromes (CRPS and CLBP) are presented in Table Since the distribution of scores for the total score of psychological distress including several...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Health-related quality of life in patients with severe COPD hospitalized for exacerbations - comparing EQ-5D, SF-12 and SGRQ" potx

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... disease-specific instrument For the analyses, the total score was used instead to assess the SGRQ 's properties Statistical analysis Differences between baseline characteristics were tested using t-tests for ... patients The ability of an instrument to discriminate between disease stages was analyzed using linear mixed regression models, adjusting for age, sex, smoking status and time of assessment (admission ... disease severities The main problem of the SF-12 in this self-administered setting was the high proportion of missing values For less than 55% of all patients, a comparison of utility values...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Prediction and prevention of suicide in patients with unipolar depression and anxiety" ppsx

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... losses such as the death of a person close to us or loss of work role or income These losses, when accompanied with chronic stress, may result in social isolation that is turn worsens depression ... Necessity of hospital admission and degree of disability caused are also possible indices of severity Most of these considerations, however, yield circular reasoning as definition of disability includes ... declines in the levels of both depressive symptoms and hopelessness [55] The presence of mixed symptoms (pseudo-unipolar depression) or agitation substantially increases the risk of attempted and...
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Báo cáo y học: "Clinical and immunological effects of Rituximab in patients with lupus nephritis refractory to conventional therapy: a pilot study" doc

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... Effect of Rituximab therapy onlupus erythematosusand clinical parameters in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus Twenty-two systemic lupus erythematosus patients with active disease and ... with systemic lupus erythematosus nuclear cells (PBMNCs) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus Freshly isolated PBMNCs from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus were fixed, stained ... unexpected induction of apoptosis of T cells upon Rituximab therapy Since only B cells express CD20, it is evident that this induction of apoptosis is not due to the direct action of this chimeric...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Long-term outcome and patterns of failure in patients with advanced head and neck cancer" pps

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... months in patients with multiple locations, 13 months with metastases to the skeletal system, 21 months with liver metastases, months with brain metastases and 15 months with skin metastases There ... regarding overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), locoregional progression-free survival (LPFS), distant metastases-free survival (DMFS) and causes of death Statistical analyses were ... disease (7 months) Distant metastases and distant metastases-free survival Distant metastases-free survival was median 66 months (range, 2-156 months) Forty-five of our patients (35%; 41 male and...
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