Descriptive review
A descriptive review on hypothyroidism
... This review describes the epidemiology, causes and symptoms of hypothyroidism, summarise the diagnosis and management and also how to overcome the complications of thyroid ...
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Psycho-oncology in Australia: a descriptive review
... In addition to resources made available via the website (e.g. email forums, upcoming events, research news items, online seminars), there are a number of core ac- tivities which mark the PoCoG year. Concept Develop- ment ...
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The Performance and Strategy of Indonesian’s Fisheries: A Descriptive Review
... qualitative descriptive approach, in addition also, for strategy mapping through the SWOT analysis approach by evaluation of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the fisheries ...
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Unsolved matters in leprosy: a descriptive review and call for further research
... Indeed, the current epidemiology of the persistent transmission of leprosy along with collected evidence made since the 19th Century suggest that environmental factors such as soil a[r] ...
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A descriptive review of the methodologies used in household surveys on medicine utilization
... Additional file 1 summarizes the 61 studies included in our review, [4-64] whereas Additional files 2 and 3 present detailed characteristics of each article. Most stud- ies were carried out in Europe and North ...
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Chiropractic and CAM Utilization: A Descriptive Review
... Benefits Review Committee [27], which had suggested "that upon application, the Com- monwealth fund on a salaried or sessional basis, a limited number of appointments of chiropractors in public hospi- tals ...
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Implementing exercise programs to prevent falls: systematic descriptive review
... Methods: Using a qualitative approach, we reviewed the literature to determine how exercise programs to prevent falls are implemented from the vantage point of a health care setting. We synthesized descriptive ...
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Prevalence and Pharmacotherapeutic Management of Pediatric Psoriasis–A Descriptive Review
... this review, therefore, is to provide an update on the prevalence and the pharmacotherapeutic management of pediatric psoriasis, which could be beneficial to clinical pharmacists and other healthcare ...
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Fidelity of Intervention Implementation: A Review of Instruments
... In this descriptive review, we examined existing instruments measuring fidelity of intervention implementation to determine aspects of fidelity that they assess, and reported on the reli[r] ...
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Pathophysiology, risk factors, and screening methods for prediabetes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome
... this review, we summarize several mechanisms that can explain the IR which leads to glucose intolerance among women with PCOS, other risk factors for the devel- opment of diabetes, and the screening methods used ...
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Challenges in the management of extremity vascular injuries: A wartime experience from a tertiary centre in Sri Lanka
... Methods: A retrospective descriptive review of eighty one consecutive extremity vascular injuries in seventy patients during a seven month period was performed with regards to the cause [r] ...
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Descriptive analysis of clavicle hook plate for the fractures of the lateral end of clavicle and acromioclavicular joint disruptions
... MATERIAL AND METHODS This study is a descriptive analysis, approved by the Institution Review Board and the Ethic Committee for the evaluation of the results of hook plate fixation for a[r] ...
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Programme for Research and Actions on the Development of the Labour Market Analysis of the Experiences of and Problems Encountered by Worker Take overs of Companies in Difficulty or Bankrupt Main Report
... The aims of the study were i to provide a review of the experience of WTOs, and attempted WTOs, in 6 member states, that would incorporate - simple descriptive statistics on the scale of[r] ...
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Reviewing the Quality of Discourse Information Measures in Aphasia
... organised within the text’ (Armstrong, 2000, p878). Between these categories, is a group of measures which both describe the transactional success of a speaker and also quantify the language used in discourse. Examples ...
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Breast cancer screening practices for women aged 35 to 49 and 70 and older
... The descriptive variables concerned breast cancer screening practices (review of family history of breast cancer, instruction in breast self-examination [BSE], performing clinical breast examination [CBE], ...
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Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics of Persons Presenting with Deliberate Self-harm to the Accident and Emergency Department of the University Hospital of the West Indies | WIMJ Open
... This was a retrospective descriptive study consisting of a review of dockets of all patients who presented with deli- berate self-harm including attempted suicide and parasuicide to the [r] ...
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The cost of caring:what contributes to compassion fatigue
... therapeutically with others, and a number of descriptive terms have emerged in the literature, including compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, and burnout. This meta-synthesis sought to understand the lived ...
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How do older people discuss their own sexuality? a systematic review of qualitative research studies
... This study captured older people’s attitudes and concerns about sex and sexuality in later life by synthesising the qualitative research published on this issue. The systematic review was conducted between ...
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Providing information about options in patient decision aids
... Our supplementary review identified five studies that compared simple to more-detailed PtDAs. Of these, three found some statistically significant evidence of higher knowledge scores for the more-detailed PtDA. ...
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The epidemiology of low back pain in primary care
... systematic review of the Austral- ian LBP prevalence literature 1966–1998, and also con- cluded that the true prevalence of LBP in Australia remained confounded by methodological flaws in previ- ous ...This ...
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