Outcome measurements
Frequency of personal recovery outcome measurements in clinical trials for bipolar disorder patients
... follow-up measurements. The follow-up measurements contained the same outcome measurements that were used during the intervention in order to analyse the progress and effects of the different ...
31
Effect of short-term heat acclimation on endurance time and skin blood flow in trained athletes
... acclimated outcome measurements during incremental leg cycling exercise in high ambient environment are: (1) 56%–100% reduction in cutaneous blood flow to the active limbs during leg cycling exercise; (2) ...
10
Comparison of tourniquet application only during cementation and long-duration tourniquet application in total knee arthroplasty: a meta-analysis
... (4) Outcome measurements should include at least one of these parameters (tourniquet time, surgery time, calculated blood loss, total measured blood loss, intraoperative blood loss, postoperative blood ...
10
The new era of minimally invasive interventions for prostate cancer: robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and focal therapy
... included 150 consecutive radical prostatectomies using the same inclusion and outcome measurements. The first 75 were done in an open fashion by three different surgeons with a prior experience of 100 cases ...
7
Collaborative care for patients with depression and diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta analysis
... of outcome measurements: the studies were included if one of the following outcomes were reported in the original article: a, depression treatment response; b, depression remission; c, hemoglobin A1c ...
11
Linking clinical quality indicators to research evidence a case study in asthma management for children
... Background: Clinical quality indicators are used to monitor the performance of healthcare services and should wherever possible be based on research evidence. Little is known however about the extent to which indicators ...
7
The Newborn With Hearing Loss: Detection in the Nursery
... ABSTRACT. Background. Early detection of hearing loss coupled with appropriate early intervention is criti- cal to speech, language, and cognitive development. These competencies serve as the foundation for later ...
11
Hysteroscopic sterilization with Essure® device in situ: a challenge?
... the outcome measurements were the placement rate of the devices, the number of IUDs which had to be removed during the procedure, and the outcome of the confirmation test at 3 ...
5
Improved Recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis From Children Using the Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility Method
... main outcome measurements were (1) proportion of specimens that were culture positive by Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility versus Lowenstein-Jensen and (2) days required for positive culture ...
9
Evaluation of the Single Port Laparoscopic Right Hemicolectomy Learning Curve
... operative measurements used in our study were: operative time, conversions to either multi-port laparoscopy or open surgery, and the estimated blood loss ...term outcome measurements were total ...
5
Rural retention of doctors graduating from the rural medical education project to increase rural doctors in Thailand: a cohort study
... Main outcome measurements were Cox proportional hazards ratios, comparative risk of CPIRD doctors leaving rural health facilities and the public service compared to normal track doctors and predicted median ...
8
Stability and Effects of Mandibular Symphyseal Distraction Osteogenesis: A Systematic Review
... Secondary outcome measurements were to evaluate adverse effects of mandibular symphyseal distraction osteogenesis on temporomandibular joint (assessed by TMD symptoms [r] ...
11
The Complication Rate after Hypospadias Repair and Correlated Preoperative Symptoms*
... The outcome measurements in this study included the frequencies of postoperative complications that were correlated with preoperative symptoms, the degree of hypospadias ...
9
Volume 9 | Issue 2 - 2019
... using the 10-cm Visual Analogue Scale for Pain. Problems in doing so arise from the uncertainty of the accuracy of a clinical interpretation of a score on the scale. It is not difficult to show a score on a VAS which is ...
6
Estimation of subcutaneous fat thickness using various anthropometric measurements and correlation of outcome variables with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A 1 year cross sectional study
... anthropometric measurements and to correlate them with type 2 diabetes ...anthropometric measurements, NC showed a moderate positive correlation with HOMA-IR and the blood glucose ...
5
Early discharge hospital at home (Review)
... combining outcome data was not possible because of differences in the population recruited, the reporting of outcomes and follow-up times, we reported the results as published in the individual ...
139
USP Compliance: A Hazardous Drug Safe Handling PPE Toolkit for Infusion Nurses
... To reduce the effects of potential bias, researchers used a propensity score matching system. Covariates, such as age, sex, and satisfaction with the quality of care were included. Researchers hypothesized that PHN ...
122
Combined Diffusion and Perfusion MR Imaging as Biomarkers of Prognosis in Immunocompetent Patients with Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
... The contrast-enhanced 3D spoiled gradient-recalled images and raw diffusion data were transferred to a commercially available workstation, aligned to the same axial location, and processed by using FuncTool software and ...
6
The potential role of three-dimensional surface imaging as a tool to evaluate aesthetic outcome after Breast Conserving Therapy (BCT)
... aesthetic outcome has, to date, remained a challenge for breast and plastic surgeons ...patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) [9–12] or panel assessment of appearance [13, ...aesthetic outcome ...
9
Emergency medical services key performance measurement in Asian cities
... Performance indicators are measurement tools that should be “specific, measurable, action oriented, relevant and timely” [11]. An indicator is a metric that reflects on the performance of a system or process. As the ...
6