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<p>CAT Score and SGRQ Definitions of Chronic Bronchitis as an Alternative to the Classical Definition</p>
... the CAT score for de fi ning ...the CAT score can be adminis- tered more rapidly than the SGRQ, making it suitable for routine use in clinical ...the CAT score, as in our study, ...
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Physical frailty characteristics have a differential impact on symptoms as measured by the CAT score: an observational study
... The results of our study provide important aspects for clinical practice. On the one hand, because the presence of exhaustion in patients with COPD has a negative impact on the perception of their health sta- tus, it is ...
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Detection of acute deterioration in health status visit among COPD patients by monitoring COPD assessment test score
... mean CAT score change in stable COPD was not significant ...mean CAT score changes at worsening visit were significantly higher than baseline stable visit ...
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Independent determinants of disease-related quality of life in COPD – scope for nonpharmacologic interventions?
... (SD) CAT score of 17.9 (8.3). The reference values for CAT scores suggest that a score of ,10 indicates low impact, 10–20 moderate impact, and ...
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... The multivariate analysis in the present study found six parameters as predictors of impaired physical activity: CAT Score, BMI, MWD6, Depression (HAM D), quality of life (PCS SF36) and length of stay in ...
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The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease assessment test improves the predictive value of previous exacerbations for poor outcomes in COPD
... that CAT scores showed strong prediction for time to first exacerbation, but in multivariate analysis, only the higher category (30–40 points) was significantly associated with increased risk of moderate-to-severe ...
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MIOTIC study: a prospective, multicenter, randomized study to evaluate the long-term efficacy of mobile phone-based Internet of Things in the management of patients with stable COPD
... The MIOTIC study investigates the effect of mIoT in stable COPD patients, including the frequency and severity of acute exacerbation, symptomatic evaluation (CAT score), pre- and post-bronchodilator airflow ...
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COPD Assessment Test (CAT) score as a predictor of major depression among subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and mild hypoxemia: a case–control study
... and CAT were independent predictors of major depression (Table 3). The CAT score correlated well with the BDI score (r = ...if CAT would signifi- cantly correlate just in the case ...
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COPD assessment test score and serum C-reactive protein level in stable COPD patients
... Baseline characteristics are presented as medians and interquartile ranges (IQRs) for continuous variables and as numbers (%) for categorical variables. Spearman’s cor- relation and a linear model were used to assess the ...
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Association of High Sensitive CRP Level and COPD Assessment Test Scores with Clinically Important Predictive Outcomes in Stable COPD Patients
... The frequency of exacerbations (number of hospitalizations per year) did not indicate any statistically significant relationship with hs-CRP levels (r=0.10 and P=0.42) but had a statistically significant correlation with ...
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<p>Early Clinically Important Improvement (ECII) and Exacerbation Outcomes in COPD Patients</p>
... CAT score as endpoints. We recognize that there is no universal de fi nition of ECII and selection of endpoints may be a potential limitation. While SGRQ and CAT both assess impairment in health ...
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Cats that get stressed when visiting the veterinary practice: can gabapentin help improve their welfare?
... - Owner home reports were available for 15 of the 20 cats. Of these 15 cats, after receiving the gabapentin treatment, 12 appeared sedated on arrival home (three markedly so), six of these also exhibited ataxia. Four ...
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Teaching Writing with a Web Based Collaborative Learning
... This finding is in line with what Vygotsky (1978) said that CL is better than learning alone, especially for difficult subjects such as writing that has quite complex process (Nunan, 1999; Bitchener and Basturkmen, ...
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Contribution of individual COPD assessment test (CAT) items to CAT total score and effects of pulmonary rehabilitation on CAT scores
... the CAT item ‘ energy ’ showed the largest effect size indicating the strongest effect of PR on this ...respective CAT items are responsive to PR which is, in- deed, a comprehensive intervention with an ...
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Are persistent organic pollutants important in the etiology of feline hyperthyroidism? A review
... In an early North American study, it was found that cats with FHT more often used litter boxes, had been treated for ectoparasites and were fed canned food [4]. The more frequent use of litter boxes was also observed by ...
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Sublingual pythiosis in a cat
... The most effective treatment is surgical resection of the mass with complete removal of the oomycote affecting the tissue or organ [13, 20–23]. In human cases of vascular pythiosis, early treatment and com- plete removal ...
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Cat valued sheaves
... study Cat-valued sheaves over category ...define Cat-valued sheaves in terms of the categorical cover defined in this ...a Cat- valued sheaf on ...
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... Leopard Cat and Marbled Cat raises interesting questions related to ...Marbled Cat and Leopard Cat were found to have low activity overlap (Lynam et ...larger cat could also determine ...
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Predictive Factors of Multiple Hospitalizations for Acute Exacerbations of COPD
... There is emerging scores predicting readmission for AECOPD like The Readmission After COPD Exacerbation (RACE) Scale [32], LACE index (length of stay, acuity of admission, co-morbidities, and emergency department visits ...
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Inter-rater reliability and validity of good pharmacy practices measures in inspection of public sector health facility pharmacies in Uganda
... Another possible limitation is how we handled the miss- ing assessment of critical indicators. In view of the already limited sample size, we did not exclude the measure to- tally, but we calculated IRR based on seven ...
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