Study and patient characteristics
An observational study of patient characteristics and mortality following hypoglycemia in the community
... However, there are a number of limitations to this study that need to be acknowledged. First, some ambu- lance call-outs may not have been captured, as only patients who have been recorded are analysed and ...
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An observational study of patient characteristics and mortality following hypoglycemia in the community
... However, there are a number of limitations to this study that need to be acknowledged. First, some ambu- lance call-outs may not have been captured, as only patients who have been recorded are analysed and ...
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Socioeconomic patient characteristics predict delay in cancer diagnosis: a Danish cohort study
... the patient to complete the ...socioeconomic characteristics selected on the basis of critical literature studies, such as marital sta- tus, number of children, education, occupation, house- hold income and ...
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Cholecystectomy in Sweden 2000 – 2003: a nationwide study on procedures, patient characteristics, and mortality
... on characteristics of patients undergoing open or laparoscopic cholecystectomy are ...register study we examined characteristics and mortality of patients who underwent cholecystectomy during ...
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Association of admission and patient characteristics with quality of discharge letters: posthoc analysis of a retrospective study
... The study design was a posthoc analysis of a retrospect- ive patient record review study performed in a random sample of 20 Dutch hospitals: 4 university, 8 tertiary teaching and 8 general ...The ...
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The impact of preoperative patient characteristics on the cost effectiveness of total hip replacement: a cohort study
... this study, we identified the preoperative WOMAC score as a good predictor of QALY ...this study, can then show which patients benefit most and for which patients cost-utility is highest with conservative ...
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How do GP practices and patient characteristics influence the prescription of antidepressants? A cross-sectional study
... cross-sectional study was based on a sample of 816 GPs working within the main health care insurance system in the Seine-Maritime district of France during ...mean patient income, and number of patients ...
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Impact of patient characteristics, education and knowledge on emergency room visits in patients with asthma and COPD: a descriptive and correlative study
... Informed consent was obtained from the patients. Subjects One hundred and sixty-one consecutive patients ≥ 18 years with exacerbation of obstructive lung disease, who had ER visits, and had a previous physician diagnosed ...
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The Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Registry and Patient Survey: study design, methods and patient baseline characteristics
... and patient characteristics and outcomes in the registry will be examined using descriptive statistics and various statistical models that address the relationship between a response/outcome and various ...
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Evolution of psoriatic arthritis study patient population characteristics in the era of biological treatments
... second period consists of two more recent TNF inhibi- tors: golimumab and certolizumab pegol. The drugs in the third period have different modes of action and were most recently studied: ustekinumab, secukinumab and ...
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Tuberculosis mortality: patient characteristics and causes
... Our study has some limitations. First, we did not have autopsy reports, which are often considered the “gold standard” for underlying cause of death. However, mis- classification bias should have been minimized by ...
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The impact of patient-centered care on physician job satisfaction and patient satisfaction: the influence of physician and patient characteristics
... this study, patient involvement is defined based on Zaichkowsky (1985)’s definition of involvement as the degree of patient relevance to medical ...found patient involvement in the ...
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Patient experience in primary care: association with patient, physician and practice characteristics in a fee-for-service system.
... the study was cross-sectional and thus the causal nature of the associations cannot be ...our study, in Switzerland, with a liberal fee- for-services healthcare system and free choice of the physi- cian, ...
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Patient characteristics associated with differences in patients' evaluation of their general practitioner
... a patient evaluation study using a validated international questionnaire among voluntarily participating GPs and a large number of patients, thus producing results with high statistical ...
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Impact of patient characteristics on the risk of influenza/ILI related complications
... These data reflect patterns of care for influenza/ILI seen within the NEI health care system. NEI beneficiaries who sought medical care outside the NEI system would not be captured in the claims data and are not included ...
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Patient characteristics and outcome measurement in a low secure forensic hospital
... 15 The first (baseline) assessment for some patients did not occur until several months after admission. Therefore, this may not be classed as a true baseline measure. Our study is not, however, unique in this ...
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Patient characteristics associated with false arrhythmia alarms in intensive care
... individual patient needs; 1,2,14,20 regular reevalu- ation of each patient’s need for continuous monitoring; 1 and clarification of the clinician’s experience in using physiologic monitoring ...of patient ...
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Patient and treatment characteristics associated with patient activation in patients undergoing hemodialysis: a cross-sectional study
... the study has several ...this study, such as motivation, health literacy, hope, external control, cogni- tive impairment, genetics, life events, (the amount of ) comorbidities, predialysis education on ...
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Patient and provider characteristics associated with communication about opioids: An observational study
... each patient visit with each PCP separately; thus, the individual visit was the unit of analysis, and we coded for the presence of talk about each of these ...
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Social and Economic Characteristics of AIDS Patient in Jordan: A Descriptive Field Study
... physical characteristics (such as skin colour) or in terms of group culture, distinguishing one social group from another, and forming part of each group‟s distinct ...
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