Screening Tools
Predicting clinical outcome of cardiac patients by six malnutrition screening tools
... The availability of different malnutrition screening tools leads to the necessity of deriving the best tool in predicting clinical outcome in a target population. Con- troversy has persisted throughout on ...
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Assessing the value of screening tools: reviewing the challenges and opportunities of cost-effectiveness analysis
... abstract screening stage (Fig. 1). Finally, 68 economic evaluations of screening tools were narratively synthesized (Table ...the screening tools for cancer, 6 ...no screening” ...
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Performance of User-Friendly Screening Tools for Elevated Blood Pressure in Children
... The sensitivity of the diagnostic criteria formulas and the table of Chiolero et al may improve after 3 repeated BP measurements. Because children with a missed diagnosis had slightly elevated BP (BP level relatively ...
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Efficacy of TEOAEs and BERA as screening tools for deafness in newborn
... The identification of all newborns with hearing loss before the age of six months has now become an attainable realistic goal .In the past parents and pediatrician often did not suspect a hearing loss until the age of 2 ...
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Assessment of two screening tools to identify psoriatic arthritis in patients with psoriasis
... © 2018 European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Coates, L. , Savage, L. , Chinoy, H. , Laws, P. , Lovell, C. , Korendowych, E. , Mahmood, F. , ...
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Understanding what impacts on disclosing anal incontinence for women when comparing bowel-screening tools: a phenomenological study
... different screening tools from the afflicted person’s ...bowel screening tools, the Self-Administered Faecal In- continence Questionnaire (SAFIQ) and the Cleveland Clinic Florida Faecal ...
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Mental health screening tools in correctional institutions: a systematic review
... while screening tools have improved the identification of individuals with mental disorder, they tend to screen in a large number of offenders without mental health needs ...tiered screening system ...
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The Application of Self-Administered Nutrition Screening Tools and Evaluations of the Impact of Malnutrition on Quality of Life in Individuals with Head and Neck Cancer
... nutrition screening has been outlined as a top priority of the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force (Laporte et ...current screening tools would be beneficial in terms of efficiency, safety, healthcare ...
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Sensory dominance and multisensory integration as screening tools in aging
... within healthy older individuals. More generally, it will be important for future research to establish reliable and practical ways of assessing sensory dominance in order to determine its precise age-dependency and ...
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The Use of Biochemical Parameters as Nutritional Screening Tools in Surgical Patients
... of screening for those at risk [2,3, ...sessment tools have been validated and used pre-op to allocate appropriate nutritional support to at risk patients and have been shown to reduce post-op mortality ...
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Screening Tools for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Primary Care: A Systematic Evidence Review
... these screening studies have (1) involved research opt-in follow-up procedures, which may skew the sample; (2) experienced significant attrition; and (3) excluded patients previously referred for concerns based on ...
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Predictive performance of four frailty screening tools in community-dwelling elderly
... frailty screening tools have been described in the litera- ture [11, 12, 32–36]; however, the results have been ...the screening tools ...five screening tools for frailty: the ...
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Screening Tools as a Predictor of Injury in Dance: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis
... musculoskeletal screening tools may predict in- jury proved difficult due to the lack of standardisation of methods and reporting of ...musculoskeletal screening tools may predict injury is ...
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Congenital cytomegalovirus infection : disease burden and screening tools : towards newborn screening
... ondervinden. Van de congenitaal geïnfecteerde pasgeborenen zonder afwijkingen bij geboorte, zal ongeveer 1 op de 10 in de eerste levensjaren alsnog afwijkingen krijgen (geduid als ‘late-onset’). Het meest voorkomend is ...
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Noninvasive screening tools for Down syndrome: a review
... of “no-call” would require a repeat sample to be drawn. For these reasons, noninvasive prenatal testing is not intended to serve as a replacement for amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling, but rather a methodology ...
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Comparing the Cognitive Screening Tools: MMSE and SLUMS
... The primary measurement tools used in this study were the MMSE and SLUMS. The MMSE is an 11 question cognitive measure that evaluates five areas of functioning: orientation, registration, attention and ...
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Accuracy of screening tools for Pap smears in general practice
... determined using only immediately available electronic medical records (EMRs) indicated a low screening rate in participating practices (45%). However, telephone follow-up and adjustments to the denominator ...
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Accuracy of Screening Tools for Pap Smears in General Practice
... This appears to be a more significant problem with Pap smear data than other pathology tests, and accuracy of general prac- tice records in terms of Pap smears has been previously ques- tioned. Laurence et al. 11 found ...
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Developmental Surveillance and Screening of Infants and Young Children
... periodic screening neces- sary to detect emerging disabilities as a child ...Developmental screening tests have inherent lim- itations that have led to controversy regarding their ...for screening or ...
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Visual-spatial perception: a comparison between instruments frequently used in the primary care setting and a computerized cognitive assessment battery
... existing screening tools for the early detection of cognitive impairment) is of value for the determination of cognitive impairment, as compared to the visual-spatial component of a more comprehensive ...
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