patient populations
Sequence Variation within Three Important Cytomegalovirus Gene Regions in Isolates from Four Different Patient Populations
... FIG. 1. Distributions of nt substitutions and aa alterations within MIE exon 4 (nt positions 1702 to 1982) (1), DNA polymerase (nt positions 2797 to 3046) (13), and gB (nt positions 1698 to 1884) (16) gene sequences ...
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The Universal Patient Centeredness Questionnaire: reliability and validity of a one-page questionnaire following surveys in three patient populations
... on patient centeredness, namely, preferences, needs, and values of individual patients and is therefore of added value to the generic range of patient-experience ...
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Predictors of hospitalization and institutionalization in Medicaid patient populations with Alzheimer’s Disease
... Medicaid patient populations and found that among individuals who received 1 unique AD medication, total health care expenditures decreased significantly compared to those receiving no pharmacotherapy (p ...
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A consumer register: an acceptable and cost-effective alternative for accessing patient populations
... A register can be defined as “an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, ...
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Redefining Success in the PICU: New Patient Populations Shift Targets of Care
... Over the last 3 decades, mortality rates of children admitted to PICUs in North America have declined signi fi cantly. 1 By this measure alone, PICUs have been extremely successful, offering children the best possibility ...
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Three-dimensional Ultrasound Measurements of Carotid Atherosclerosis in Vulnerable Patient Populations
... The primary objective of this thesis was to establish the relationship between 3D ultrasound measurements and traditional risk factors for stroke. We hypothesized that we would observe a similar relationship of VWV with ...
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Success of patient training in improving proficiency of eyedrop administration among various ophthalmic patient populations
... Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the success and usefulness of patient education in eyedrop self-administration technique via an educational handout and a short instructional video. Patients and ...
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Assessing the impact of heart failure specialist services on patient populations
... to patient popula- tions with previous low uptake of b-blockers and no pre- vious uptake of N-LEI can potentially help prevent or postpone approximately four times as many readmissions and at least twice as many ...
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A targeted screening method for non-invasive vascular assessment of the lower limb
... for populations at risk of PAD [3, ...specific populations including those at risk of medial arterial calcification (MAC), par- ticularly when co-existing with PAD and of a more distal distribution of ...
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Rapid identification of fungi in culture negative clinical blood and respiratory samples by DNA sequence analyses
... to patient information (such as age and gender) to identify associations between potential fungal pathogens and subsets of heterogeneous, randomized patient populations, and finally to perform ...
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Which thiazide to choose as add-on therapy for hypertension?
... Diverse Patient Populations) was a multicenter, prospective, open-label, single-arm study that aimed to determine the efficacy and safety of a fixed combination of irbesartan and HCTZ in patients with ...
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Population genetic structuring of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone EMRSA 15 within UK reflects patient referral patterns
... MRSA populations with similar spa types [19] and an increased proportion of genetically nearly identical isolates within a single clonal complex [20], indicating an effect of patient transfers on genetic ...
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Patient adherence to prescribed artemisinin based combination therapy in Garissa County, Kenya, after three years of health care in a conflict setting
... Interventions aiming to improve patient adherence to a treatment regime have been numerous and varied. From improving adherence to short-term treatments, such as anti-malarials, to treatments for chronic condi- ...
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<p>Patient experiences with interdisciplinary treatment for substance dependence: an assessment of quality indicators based on two national surveys in Norway</p>
... for patient char- acteristics and other individual-level ...on patient-experience surveys among inpatients receiving interdisciplinary treatment for substance dependence, and to establish whether the ...
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Rifampicin-resistant <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> among tuberculosis-presumptive cases at University of Gondar Hospital, northwest Ethiopia
... In Ethiopia, TB-case detection is mainly comprised of passive case finding, which is able to detect up to two-thirds of the annually estimated TB cases. TB screening among close and household contacts is one of the new ...
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Expanded Access Programme: looking for a common definition
... individual patient ExpandedAccess requests have been submitted, FDA may ask the sponsor to submitan IND or protocol for the use under an Expanded Access for an intermediate-size patient population or ...
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The management of populations
... Foucault emphasizes that the Christian pastorate does not disappear at the end of the sixteenth century – indeed, some of its characteristics become intensified – but it does mutate in important ways. Most significantly, ...
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Relationship between spinal magnetic resonance imaging findings and candidacy for spinal surgery
... This study found that specific findings on MRI reports were independent predictors of surgical candidacy. These results might enable physicians without specialty training in spinal disorders to more effectively use MRI ...
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The effects of financial incentives for case finding for depression in patients with diabetes and coronary heart disease: interrupted time series analysis
... The impact of this policy has been uncertain. The effectiveness of fi nancial incentives in changing clinical behaviour is limited 12 and pay-for-performance schemes often have unintended adverse consequences. 13 More ...
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A comprehensive evaluation of the impact of telemonitoring in patients with long term conditions and social care needs: protocol for the whole systems demonstrator cluster randomised trial
... Data on health, social care and other support service use for participants will be collected using the CSRI [30]. Unit costs will be attached to service use data to calculate a total cost per patient at baseline, ...
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