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Feasibility, factor structure and construct validity of the easy-read Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT-ER)

Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: The ASCOT-ER is an adapted easy-read version of the ASCOT-SCT4, a self-report measure of social care-related quality of life (SCRQoL) for social care evaluation.
Stacey Rand, Ann-Marie Towers, Agnes Turnpenny   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Exploring the structural characteristics of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) and ASCOT-Carer

NIHR Open Research, 2022
Background: Measurement models inform the approach to assess a measure’s validity and also how a measure is understood, applied and interpreted. With preference-based measures, it is generally accepted that they are formative; however, if they are ...
Stacey Rand, Ann-Marie Towers, Juliette Malley   +2 more
exaly   +1 more source

The relationship of baseline high-sensitivity C-reactive protein with incident cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality over 20 yearsResearch in context [PDF]

EBioMedicine
Summary: Background: The prediction of future cardiovascular events in those with risk factors is important for the appropriate optimisation of preventative therapies for those at greatest risk.
Adam Hartley, Somayeh Rostamian, Amit Kaura, Paris Chrysostomou, Paul Welsh, Cono Ariti, Naveed Sattar, Peter Sever, Ramzi Khamis   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Enhancing quality of life measurement: adapting the ASCOT easy read for older adults accessing social care. [PDF]

Qual Life Res
This study aimed to adapt and assess the content validity of the ASCOT Easy Read (ASCOT-ER) for older people accessing social care. A co-production working group of 8 older social care users and their supporters was established to evaluate the ...
Caiels J, Rand S, Mikelyte R, Webster L, Field E, Towers AM.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

ASCOT: Assisting search and creation of clinical trials

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, 2012
In this paper we present ASCOT, an efficient search application for clinical trials that is designed to aid writing new trials. Clinical trials are protocols describing medical research on humans.
Ananiadou, Sophia; id_orcid, Korkontzelos, Ioannis, Ioannis Korkontzelos, Sophia Ananiadou   +3 more
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Long-term mortality after blood pressure-lowering and lipid-lowering treatment in patients with hypertension in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT) Legacy study: 16-year follow-up results of a randomised factorial trial

Lancet, The, 2018
BACKGROUND In patients with hypertension, the long-term cardiovascular and all-cause mortality effects of different blood pressure-lowering regimens and lipid-lowering treatment are not well documented, particularly in clinical trial settings.
Ajay K Gupta, Andrew J O Whitehouse, Thomas Godec   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Japanese translation and cross-cultural validation of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) in Japanese social service users

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2019
Background The aim of this study was to develop and perform cross-cultural validation of a Japanese version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) four-level Self-Completion questionnaire (SCT4) instrument to measure Social-Care Related ...
Hiromi Nakamura-Thomas, Mie Morikawa, Yoko Moriyama, Takeru Shiroiwa, Makoto Kyougoku, Kamilla Razik, Juliette Malley   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

BMJ Open
Objectives To assess the feasibility of capturing older care home residents’ quality of life (QoL) in digital social care records and the construct validity (hypothesis testing) and internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) of four QoL measures.Design ...
Claire Goodman, Julienne Meyer, Karen Spilsbury, Barbara Hanratty, Rachael Carroll, Adam L Gordon, Gizdem Akdur, Anne Killett, Jennifer Burton, Ann-Marie Towers, Stacey Rand, Nick Smith, Sinead Palmer, Stephen Allan, Lucy Anne Webster   +14 more
doaj   +2 more sources

ASCOT identifies key regulators of neuronal subtype-specific splicing

Nature Communications, 2020
The increasing amount of raw RNA-seq data calls for new computational methods to mine information. Here, the authors present ASCOT, a computational resource to identify splice variants in RNA-seq data, and apply it to splicing patterns in neurons and ...
Jonathan P. Ling, Christopher Wilks, Rone Charles, Patrick J. Leavey, Devlina Ghosh, Lizhi Jiang, Clayton P. Santiago, Bo Pang, Anand Venkataraman, Brian S. Clark, Abhinav Nellore, Ben Langmead, Seth Blackshaw   +12 more
doaj   +2 more sources

“Decir” de Jomí García Ascot [PDF]

, 2022
Paulatinament, estan proliferant els estudis d'alguns dels escriptors en llengua hispana que van condensar la seva creació literària a païssos estrangers donada la seva condició d'exili. Els anomenats "nens de la guerra" comencen a ressorgir amb interès
Varela Rodríguez, Mireia
core   +3 more sources