Patient’s KnowledgeSocio-Economic FactorsDisease Activity IndexBackground: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic and disabling disease that has a major impact on the lives of patients. Objectives: To test the patients' knowledge about their disease, its treatment, its complications, and if this ...
We have also tested the efficacy of the sampling for collecting microbial–viral load in the aerosol samples by using both the Trizol and a sterile phosphate buffer saline (PBS). From various runs, we have found a sampling period of 120 minutes to be sufficient in capturing enough aerosol sam...
For patients who had both inpatient and outpatient visits with a discharge diagnosis of COVID-19, only inpatient visits were included in the current analysis. If a patient had multiple inpatient or outpatient visits with a discharge diagnosis of COVID-19 during the study period, only the first...
Eight patients classified as Child–Pugh class B were enrolled: age was 52 ± 6 years; body mass index was 36.5 ± 19 kg/m2; and Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score was 13 ± 3. Mean estimates of kidney function did not differ significantly from mean renal 125I-iothalamate clearan...
The objective of this study was to expand the international psychometric validation of the Cancer Communication Assessment Tool for Patients and Families (CCAT-PF) within a sample of Australian cancer patients. Methods Survey data from 181 cancer patient-caregiver dyads ≥ 18 years of age with...
Improved surgical skill is generally associated with improved patient outcomes, although assessment is subjective; labour-intensive; and requires domain sp... A Das,B Sidiqi,L Mennillo,... 被引量: 0发表: 2024年 INSTRUMENT FOR AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF PATIENT SAMPLE An automated sample analysis instru...
Three primary endpoints are examined: overall patient survival, disease-free survival, and tumor response rate. There are striking trends for each endpoint, with small studies appearing to possess large treatment effects and large studies possessing relatively small effects. It is believed that these ...
Measures: clinical assessment All the patients were administered the BIS/BAS scales and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). BIS/BAS scales The BIS scale [32] includes seven items and measures the tendency to respond with negative affect, anxiety, or fear in response ...
Electron microscopy (EM) is widely used for nanoparticle (NP) sizing. Following an initial assessment of two sample preparation protocols described in the ... Agnieszka Dudkiewicz a b c,Angela Lehner d,Qasim Chaudhry e,... - 《颗粒学报(英文版)》 被引量: 0发表: 2019年 Standardisation--the...
Furthermore, as medical device helping clinical decision making, the prediction needs to be made for each single patient with a measure of its reliability. To address these issues, there is a need for flexible prediction method less sensitive to difference in experimental and analytical conditions,...