The goal was to identify patients who recovered but were at high risk for relapse (the target population of this study) as well as those at high risk for persistent depression (the target population of a separate study12). The first-stage screen included the depression section of the ...
Dementias, with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) as the most common type, are often thought of solely as disorders of progressive cognitive decline [1]. However, over 90% of people with AD develop neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) during the disease process, and NPS are now considered a key component...
Problem-solving interventions require two considerations: the structure and features to support development of problem-solving strategies. Mason et al. (1985) provided a three-phase problem-solving process (i.e.entry,attackandreview) incorporating problem-solving strategies, aligned with Pólya (1945)....
This study sought to discern the ideal level of detail in a physician's summary, with the goal of breaking down the summarization process. We initially established three summarization units varying in granularity – whole sentences, clinical sections, and grammatical clauses – to assess the perform...
A major goal of future work in this area should be to develop, implement, and disseminate approaches to treatment of anxiety disorders that are maximally acceptable to patients, physicians, and payers. The latter will be particularly important in ensuring the sustainability of such programs in the...
Most through the volunteer database gave lack of patients with difficult or severe asthma were time and lack of interest in the study as unemployed or in low-income employment. 162 M. Moffat et al. Since our goal was to enhance understanding and generate hypotheses rather than achieve ...
Conclusion A decline in anticoagulation control after transfer to primary care was observed, which appeared to be driven by a greater proportion of subtherapeutic INRs.Thrombosis ResearchAlex PredyBen VandermeerTheresa EberhardtTammy J. Bungard
enable patients to achieve treatment goals.42 The dual concepts of asthma severity and asthma control have been widely discussed.43-45 Recent guidelines have changed their emphasis from classification of severity to the goal of achieving asthma control,12 prioritising the objective assessment of control...
Security threats that are out of the scope of our discussion may include attacks aiming the installation of malicious code in the cognitive radio devices, with the goal of subverting existing CR protocols. Such protocols are expected to assure that only vacant channels are accessed by the SUs ...
UCB has a rich heritage in epilepsy with over 20 years of experience in the research and development of anti-epileptic drugs. As a company with a long-term commitment to epilepsy research, our goal is to ad...