outcome measures

The Pharmacists’ Potential to Provide Targets for Interventions to Optimize Pharmacotherapy in Patients With Asthma.

...  pharmacy dispensing data. Setting We performed a cross sectional retrospective analysis assessing the quality of asthma patients’ pharmacotherapeutic treatment. Method Drug dispensing data from 2008 to 2009 were retrieved from a Dutch pharmacy database. All asthma patients were screened… Continue reading

Thirty Years of Blackouts: A Case Report of Swallow Syncope.

...  and makes her feel fat. This study aimed to experimentally induce, study and compare TSF between patients with bulimia nervosa (BN) and patients with anorexia nervosa (AN). 31 patients diagnosed with a current eating disorder, of which 20 met… Continue reading

Assessment of the Escalating Growth of Facet Joint Interventions in the Medicare Population in the United States From 2000 to 2011.

...  E349-64Manchikanti L, Pampati V, Falco FJ, Hirsch JA Among the many diagnostic and therapeutic interventions available for the management of chronic pain, epidural steroid injections are one of the most commonly used modalities. The explosive growth of this technique… Continue reading

Relationship Between Tibial Acceleration and Proximal Anterior Tibia Shear Force Across Increasing Jump Distance.

...  95% CI -0.20 to 0.88, P = 0.21) assessed in two studies or social communication as related to the understanding of idioms (ES = 0.05, 95% CI -0.63 to 0.72, P = 0.89), which was assessed in only one… Continue reading

The Role of Platelet-Rich Plasma in Inducing Musculoskeletal Tissue Healing.

...  (N = 24) during development to confirm and enhance the content of the prototype manual. The Self-management Programme of Activity, Coping and Education for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (SPACE for COPD) manual was developed as the focus of a… Continue reading

Pure Laparoscopic Right Hepatectomy in a Living Donor.

...  this study is to determine the effect of accelerometer-based feedback of daily walking activity during rehabilitation on the frequency and duration of walking post-stroke.Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: feedback or no feedback. Participants will… Continue reading

Effects of Acculturation on Lifestyle and Health Status Among Older Vietnam-Born Australians.

...  for adults with head and neck cancer. For trials to be included the psychosocial intervention had to involve a supportive relationship between a trained helper and individuals diagnosed with head and neck cancer. Outcomes had to be assessed using… Continue reading

Comparative Durability of Nevirapine Versus Efavirenz in First-Line Regimens During the First Year of Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy Among Swaziland HIV-Infected Adults.

...  persist in taking lipid-lowering agents, and to compare this with rates reported from other countries.This was a retrospective study that utilized data from the Institutional Database of the National Health Insurance Fund to analyze persistence rates with statins and… Continue reading

Gang Membership, Violence, and Psychiatric Morbidity.

...  weeks to a possible maximum dose of 5 mg midmorning and 20 mg at bedtime for men and 2 mg midmorning and 10 mg at bedtime for women. Mean achieved bedtime doses were 15.6 mg of prazosin (SD=6.0) and… Continue reading

Rationale, Timeline, Study Design, and Protocol Overview of the Therapeutic Hypothermia After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Trials.

...  and inform development of rehabilitation programs; 2) to embrace mixed methodology as a new longitudinal study standard to facilitate detailed qualitative observations to augment insights from quantitative data; 3) to educate patients, families, colleagues and decision-makers about outcomes after… Continue reading