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Quality of life, burden of treatment, safety, and avoidance of future events (QBSAfe) protocol: a pilot study testing an intervention to shift the paradigm of diabetes care

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2021
Background Diabetes care has been traditionally focused on targeting certain levels of glycemic control. This narrow emphasis may impose burdens on patients, including high treatment costs, illness-related work, or side effects from medications, while ...
Jennifer E. Clark, Kasey R. Boehmer, Maggie Breslin, Shanzay Haider, Weronika Pasciak, Derek Gravholt, Brianna B. Sanchez, Sandra A. Hartasanchez, Omar M. El Kawkgi, Victor Montori, Kasia J. Lipska   +10 more
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The Effect of the Use of Hearing Aids in Elders: Perspectives

Audiology Research, 2022
Older adults with hearing loss have difficulties during conversation with others because an elevated auditory threshold reduces speech intelligibility, especially in noisy environments.
Daniele Monzani, Riccardo Nocini, Maria Teresa Presutti, Chiara Gherpelli, Federica Di Berardino, Silvia Ferrari, Gian Maria Galeazzi, Gaia Federici, Elisabetta Genovese, Silvia Palma   +9 more
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Shared decision making for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2017
Background Nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common ongoing health problem that places patients at risk of stroke. Whether and how a patient addresses this risk depends on each patient’s goals, context, and values.
Marleen Kunneman, Megan E. Branda, Peter A. Noseworthy, Mark Linzer, Bruce Burnett, Sara Dick, Gabriela Spencer-Bonilla, Cara A. Fernandez, Haeshik Gorr, Mike Wambua, Shelly Keune, Claudia Zeballos-Palacios, Ian Hargraves, Nilay D. Shah, Victor M. Montori   +14 more
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Texting and the brain: The time-course of social brain activation in face-to-face versus text-based computer-mediated-communication

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2023
Through evolution, humans have adapted their interactions to face-to-face communication, supported by a network of neural systems which facilitate the transmission and interpretation of social signals for successful communication.
Raul Sacristan, Sam Royle, Adam Galpin
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Fostering Choice Awareness for Shared Decision Making: A Secondary Analysis of Video-Recorded Clinical Encounters

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2018
Objective: To assess the extent to which (1) clinicians, using or not using conversation aids, foster choice awareness during clinical encounters and (2) fostering choice awareness, with or without conversation aids, is associated with greater patient ...
Marleen Kunneman, PhD, Megan E. Branda, MS, Ian Hargraves, PhD, Arwen H. Pieterse, PhD, Victor M. Montori, MD, MSc   +4 more
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MJM MedTalks (S02E01): DIY Automated Insulin Delivery

McGill Journal of Medicine, 2023
McGill Journal of Medicine (MJM) MedTalks is a Podcast series where members of the medical and health science communities from McGill are interviewed on topics related to career, research, advocacy and more.
Meryem K. Talbo, Kate Farnsworth, Ilana Halperin, Zekai Wu, Maha Lebbar, Renée-Claude Bider, Predrag Jovanovic, Masha sa, Katherine Lan, Neeti Jain, Khiran Arumugam, Dylan Langburt, Esther Kang, Susan Joanne Wang   +13 more
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Using Lip Reading Recognition to Predict Daily Mandarin Conversation

IEEE Access, 2022
Audio-based automatic speech recognition as a hearing aid is susceptible to background noise and overlapping speeches. Consequently, audio-visual speech recognition has been developed to complement the audio input with additional visual information ...
Muhamad Amirul Haq, Shanq-Jang Ruan, Wen-Jie Cai, Lieber Po-Hung Li   +3 more
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Technology-Supported Group Activity to Promote Communication in Dementia: A Protocol for a Within-Participants Study

Technologies, 2018
Computer Interactive Reminiscence and Conversation Aid (CIRCA)is an interactive conversation support for people living with dementia. CIRCA facilitates one-to-one conversations and caregiving relationships in formal care environments.
Sarah K. Smith, Arlene J. Astell
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Editorial Policy as Conversation Aid

Journal of the History of Economic Thought
The avowed challenges of editing the JHET during the years 2013-2018 included maintaining the journal’s broad historiographical embrace and protesting the ubiquitous references to 2-year impact factors as a measure of its scholarly relevance. The greater challenge, which the editor took up by habitude more than deliberation, was bringing authors ...
JHET Assistant, Stephen Meardon
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An Analysis of Off Record Strategies Reflecting Politeness Implicature in "Oprah Winfrey Show"

Arbitrer, 2017
This thesis discusses strategies off the record that describes implicatures modesty in a conversation. Off record strategy is one of the five strategies. This strategy is discussed for the use of the language used in the forms of direct.
Rahma Yanti
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