severity scores
Pneumonia severity scores in resource poor settings
... into severity scores, such as indices of blood pressure, heart "I) \Q6* novel physiological risk factors will be found, although mid-upper arm circumference does show promise in the O B * to walk have ...
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Serum Ferritin and Severity Scores in Sickle Cell Disease Patients in Nnewi (South East Nigeria)
... Objective severity scores were also correlated with their SF levels, since increased levels of iron can add to the oxidative stress already present in this disease ...
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A Dead Sea Water Enriched Body Cream Improves Skin Severity Scores in Children with Atopic Dermatitis
... skin severity scores: SCORing Atopic Dermatitis (SCORAD), investigator’s global assessment (IGA) and patient global assessment (PGA) as well as by objective physiological pa- rameters: transepidermal water ...
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Clinical utility of metabolic syndrome severity scores: considerations for practitioners
... MetS scores is the complexity of calculating the ...MetS severity scores require waist circumference measurements (not frequently assessed in clinical encounters); in the case of our score, this ...
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Total knee arthroplasty: good agreement of clinical severity scores between patients and consultants
... Rating systems should provide an objective assessment of any given subject so that direct comparison can be made with other examples of the same condition [4]. A total of 34 different rating systems to assess patients ...
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Efficacy of the anti–IL-6 receptor antibody tocilizumab in neuromyelitis opticaA pilot study
... Clinical and laboratory assessment. As clinical outcome measures, we evaluated alterations in the number of relapses, Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) scores, and pain and fatigue severity ...
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Variation in Emergency Department Diagnostic Testing and Disposition Outcomes in Pneumonia
... APR-DRG severity scores cannot be accurately used for individual ED patient visits, we used the average of APR-DRG severity scores for all patients seen at each hospital as a proxy for ...
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A Home Exercise Programme Is No More Beneficial than Advice and Education for People with Neurogenic Claudication: Results from a Randomised Controlled Trial
... symptom severity in a typical group of primary care-based NHS patients, either in the short term or long ...symptom severity at eight weeks, there was no substantive difference between the two groups in the ...
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Trajectories of Autism Severity in Children Using Standardized ADOS Scores
... ASD severity over time (class 3: worsening; 9%), and a class that decreased in ASD severity over time (class 4: improving; ...recent severity scores higher than previous scores, whereas ...
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A new phototherapy regimen during winter as an add on therapy, coupled with oral vitamin D supplementation, for the long term control of atopic dermatitis: study protocol for a multicentre, randomized, crossover, pragmatic trial – the PRADA trial
... PO-SCORAD severity score over 1 year and (2) cumulate consumption of TAT (number of tubes) during the ...investigator-based severity scores, patient-reported severity and quality of life ...
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Trauma, PTSD, and self-reported physical health prior to and following counselling : longitudinal study
... The finding that longer-term counselling appeared to lead to a significant reduction in health scores, equating to more symptom reporting, and no change in PTSD severity scores, is conce[r] ...
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Association between Global Assessment of Functioning scores and indicators of functioning, severity, and prognosis in first-time schizophrenia
... First, we used logistic regression analysis to investigate dif- ferences in baseline characteristics between individuals with and without a measured GAF-F score. Second, regarding internal validity, that is the ...
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Comparative effectiveness of ultrasound and paraffin therapy in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized trial
... This study has several limitations. First, because this study was performed in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the patients usually suf- fered from mild to moderate symptoms. Therefore, we should ...
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What contributes to depression in Parkinson's disease?
... depression scores or resulted in significantly different depression ...disability scores, as measured by the Schwab and England scale by the clinician and by the patient, were ...QoL scores as the ...
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A validated severity score for haemorrhoids as an essential prerequisite for future haemorrhoid trials
... size scores and SRM calculations indicated a non-significant small amount of change ...change scores and the index of responsiveness were also higher for the HSS questionnaire than the Vaizey across both ...
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Route of administration for illicit prescription opioids: a comparison of rural and urban drug users
... This study offers valuable insight into the intricacies of nonmedical rural opioid use in particular. These find- ings suggest that alternative routes of administration are common among rural drug users, a phenomenon ...
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The Relationship between COPD Assessment Test (CAT) Scores and Severity of Airflow Obstruction in Stable COPD Patients
... The diagnosis of COPD was established based on a medical history of smoking, current symptoms of cough, dyspnea or sputum production and available standard pulmonary function test which was performed by a spirometer ...
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Quality of life evaluation in Japanese pregnant women with striae gravidarum: A cross sectional study
... mean scores of WHOQOL-BREF were ...general scores of WHOQOL-BREF are ...However, scores of emotion in the whole group of pregnant women and multiparae were significantly increased by the occur- rence ...
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Assessing the added predictive ability of a metabolic syndrome severity score in predicting incident cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study and Jackson Heart Study
... MetS severity a future disease diagnosis varied by the level of the comparator risk score) between the respective disease risk score (by quintiles) and MetS severity score (Model ...MetS severity ...
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Assessing ESL undergraduate performance in a group oral test: Rater orientations
... Group oral testing has attracted increasing interests in performance-based assessment, mainly due to its ability to measure interactional competence. Increasing attention has consequently been paid to the performance of ...
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