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Personalizing obesity assessment and care planning in primary care: patient experience and outcomes in everyday life and health [PDF]

Clinical Obesity, 2018
SummaryObesity is a complex, chronic disease, frequently associated with multiple comorbidities. Its management is hampered by a lack of translation of evidence on chronicity and pathophysiology into clinical practice. Also, it is not well understood how to support effective provider–patient communication that adequately addresses patients’ personal ...
T. Luig, R. Anderson, A. M. Sharma, D. L. Campbell‐Scherer   +3 more
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ASSESSING INTERPROFESSIONAL ORAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND PRACTICE FACILITATION OUTCOMES WITHIN LONG-TERM CARE

Innovation in Aging, 2022
Abstract Older adults residing in long-term care (LTC) settings are at an increased risk of poor oral health due to comorbidities and limited ability to provide self-care. Routine oral care is essential for maintaining overall health. Coupled with resident vulnerability is a traditional lack of training and focus on oral health care in ...
Crittenden, Jennifer, Coleman, Rachel, Wihry, David, Nelligan, Labrini, O'Connell, Denise   +4 more
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The Public Health Dimension of Disasters—Health Outcome Assessment of Disasters [PDF]

, 2017
A broad range of health problems are related to disasters. Insight into these health problems is needed for targeted disaster management. Disaster health outcome assessment can provide insight into the health effects of disasters.
Grievink, Linda, Gutschmidt, Kersten, Lang, Thierry, Palmer, Stephen, Ruijten, Marc, Stumpel, Rene, van den Berg, Bellis, Yzermans, Joris   +7 more
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Occupational therapy for people with psychotic conditions in community settings: a pilot randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2008
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effectiveness of a long established intervention, occupational therapy for people with psychotic conditions, and to inform future research designs. DESIGN: A pilot randomized controlled trial.
Andreasen NC, Brintnell ES, Cook S., Corporate Policy Unit SCC., Creek J., Department of Health., Eleni Chambers, Fitzpatrick R., Hayes RL, Julie H Coleman, Marshall M., Sarah Cook, Social Exclusion Unit., World Health Organization.   +13 more
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Current Physiotherapy Practices of Outcome Measures in the Management of Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study

Pakistan Journal of Medical Research, 2023
Background: The patients with low back pain have the frequency to seek physiotherapy. There are various outcome measures for low back pain with proven reliability and validity.
Aftab Ahmed Mirza Baig, Syed Abdul Wajid, Syed Irfan Haider Naqvi, Muhammad Nooruddin, Syed Shahzad Ali   +4 more
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Assessment of Health Care Exposures and Outcomes in Adult Patients With Sepsis and Septic Shock [PDF]

JAMA Network Open, 2020
Current information on the characteristics of patients who develop sepsis may help in identifying opportunities to improve outcomes. Most recent studies of sepsis epidemiology have focused on changes in incidence or have used administrative data sets that provided limited patient-level data.To describe sepsis epidemiology in adults.This retrospective ...
Fay, Katherine, Sapiano, Mathew R. P., Gokhale, Runa, Dantes, Raymund, Thompson, Nicola, Katz, David E., Ray, Susan M., Wilson, Lucy E., Perlmutter, Rebecca, Nadle, Joelle, Godine, Deborah, Frank, Linda, Brousseau, Geoff, Johnston, Helen, Bamberg, Wendy, Dumyati, Ghinwa, Nelson, Deborah, Lynfield, Ruth, DeSilva, Malini, Kainer, Marion, Zhang, Alexia, Ocampo, Valerie, Samper, Monika, Pierce, Rebecca, Irizarry, Lourdes, Sievers, Marla, Maloney, Meghan, Fiore, Anthony, Magill, Shelley S., Epstein, Lauren   +29 more
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Risk Adjustment In Neurocritical care (RAIN)--prospective validation of risk prediction models for adult patients with acute traumatic brain injury to use to evaluate the optimum location and comparative costs of neurocritical care: a cohort study. [PDF]

, 2013
OBJECTIVES: To validate risk prediction models for acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to use the best model to evaluate the optimum location and comparative costs of neurocritical care in the NHS. DESIGN: Cohort study.
Gomes, M, Grieve, R, Griggs, KA, Harrison, DA, Harvey, SE, Hutchinson, PJA, Lecky, FE, Menon, DK, Prabhu, G, Rowan, KM, Sadique, MZ, Smith, M, Walmsley, E, Yeoman, P   +13 more
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis, Okeleji Olayinka, Mariam Z. Quraishi, Lakshmi V. Srivaths, Deborah L. Brown, Neethu M. Menon, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Ashwin P. Patel, James M. Stark, Aravind Yadav   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health literacy as a key for effective preventive medicine

Cogent Social Sciences, 2017
Background: A preventive approach in health care aims to anticipate the natural history of the diseases and to define break points where the procedures may act to change future events, on the limit of the patient’s free will.
Paulo Santos, Luísa Sá, Luciana Couto, Alberto Hespanhol   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source