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The prevalence of frailty is somewhat difficult to determine, but of those living outside of institutions, 5 to 8% of persons over 65 and more than 33% of those over 85, need assistance with at least one basic activity of daily living. In 1997, there were over 4.5 million (14.2%) elders who[r]

REF: Knowledge Bases for Clinical Decisions3. The nurse is participating in an activity that is the first step of the ACE Star Model of KnowledgeTransformation. Which of the following is the nurse doing?1. Creating evidence summaries2. Evaluating outcomes3.[r]

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employees, and physicians. The physicians were the most difficult and mostimportant change agents. At times they acted as desperate victims as the coreof their power was diminished.EmployeesAnother key to the process was the employee. Change at the staff leve[r]

teeth 15 and 27 (Fig. 1). Being a disabled and non-collaborating patient, the Authors prepared oral surgery under general anesthesia. In the 24 hours before surgery, the patient was monitored with hematological examinations (Com-plete blood count, hemocoagul[r]

undertaken to see whether there were specific indications or patient types whobenefited most form the use of abciximab. For all others, the preferred agent wouldbe eptifibatide (or bivalirudin, if the clinical situation was appropriate). At the sametime, a nati[r]

stop bicalutamide treatment in men with metastatic prostate cancer who are taking bicalutamide monotherapy and who do not maintain satisfactory sexual function. 12 For example, RADICALS; www.ctu.mrc.ac.uk/studies/PR10.asp 13 NICE interventional procedures guidance 118,119 and 145 evaluated <[r]

needs assessment reviews, First series, 2nd edition. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, p141–244. 3 National Audit Office (2005) Reducing brain damage: faster access to better stroke care. (HC 452 Session 2005–2006). London: The Stationery Office. NICE clinical guideline 68 – Stroke 5 Dr[r]

Health CareIn contemporary health care, patient education is a patient’s right and a health care provider’sresponsibility. U.S. governmental efforts regarding health and patient education are illus-trated in the Healthy People 2000 and Healthy People 2010 in[r]

knowledge on TB, reported adherence to TB treatment, and health centre care received during treatment toconsenting respondents.Results: We identified that respondents delayed to seek treatment (68%) even when knowledge of TB symptomswas high (78%) or when they suspected that they had TB (73%)[r]

Oral ExaminationTwodentists (RR, MJ) at the Washington, DC, VA Medical Center andone dentist (GG) at the Dallas VA Medical Center, masked to the rheumatologic diagnoses, performed the examinations independently. Patient with &lt;4 teeth were excluded fro[r]

ing treatment option is always related to the choice between surgery and non-operative care. However, the literature is equally sparse on such comparisons.These findings greatly limit treatment recommendations. In this section, wetherefore try to provide as best evidence-enhance[r]

and multi-agent technologies in health care in order to make patient emergency care as more efficient and risk-free, by providing doctors with as much information about a patient as quickly as possible. The proposed RFID-based system could be used to ensure[r]

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each category is divided into one or more sub-categoriesthat specify its content or focus on related themes. Thechecklist's author doesn't provide any specific answer pro-cedure. A dichotomised answer procedure was then cho-sen in order to evaluate the "satisfaction" or "notsatisfaction" of e[r]

rates. However, because of the high amount of resourcesin men-power, time and funds needed, this approach maynot be feasible in routine practice.The overall satisfaction of inpatients with acute coronarysyndrome in Bulgaria is associated with the type of hospi-tal, the nu[r]

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany and 3Department of Medicine/Psychosomatics, Charité – School of Medicine, Free University and Humboldt University, Berlin, GermanyEmail: Stefanie Mache* - stefanie.mache@charite.de; Cristian Scutaru - cristian.scutaru@cha[r]

Women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) report poor patient-clinician communication, and longlasting confusion and anxiety about their treatment and prognosis. Research shows that patient-centred care (PCC) improves patient experience and outcomes.

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