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How does biographic-narrative intervention influence identity negotiation and quality of life in aphasia? - The participants' perspective

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Problem Many persons with aphasia experience a loss of Quality of Life (QoL). Although life story work supports processes of sense-making and by this QoL improvement, only a few studies made use of the “talk-based” approach in aphasic patients because of
Jürgen Konradi, Friedericke Hardering, Annerose Keilmann, Sabine Corsten   +3 more
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Tom Regan on Kind Arguments against Animal Rights and for Human Rights [PDF]

, 2015
Tom Regan argues that human beings and some non-human animals have moral rights because they are “subjects of lives,” that is, roughly, conscious, sentient beings with an experiential welfare.
Nobis, Nathan
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Prolonged Corrected QT Interval as an Early Electrocardiographic Marker of Cyclophosphamide‐Induced Cardiotoxicity in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cyclophosphamide (CY) is associated with potentially fatal cardiotoxicity, yet no electrocardiographic indices have been established for early detection of CY‐induced cardiomyopathy. This study aimed to determine whether corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation can predict early onset of CY‐related cardiac dysfunction in pediatric ...
Junpei Kawamura, Kentaro Ueno, Takuro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Koji Nakae, Yasuhiro Okamoto   +5 more
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Validation of a composite outcome measure for inpatient psychiatry using scales from the interRAI-MH

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundInpatient psychiatry is a critical service in a community-based care system for persons with serious mental illness (SMI). Currently, there are few generally accepted or widely used outcomes to assess the effectiveness of inpatient treatment ...
Howard E. Barbaree, Christopher Perlman, Elke Ham, Gregory P. Brown, John P. Hirdes   +4 more
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Are there more personality disorders in treatment-seeking patients with eating disorders than in other kind of psychiatric patients? A two control groups comparative study using the IPDE

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 2007
The aims of this ex post facto study were to determine the comorbidity of personality disorders (PD) with eating disorders (ED), to establish the prominent characteristics of eating disorders subtypes and to compare PDs appeared in patients with EDs with those in other clinical and normal samples.
Izaskun Marañón, Enrique Echeburúa, Jorge Grijalvo   +2 more
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Metacognitive function and fragmentation in schizophrenia: Relationship to cognition, self-experience and developing treatments [PDF]

, 2019
Bleuler suggested that fragmentation of thought, emotion and volition were the unifying feature of the disorders he termed schizophrenia. In this paper we review research seeking to measure some of the aspects of fragmentation related to the experience ...
Bonfils, Kelsey, Hasson-Ohayon, Ilanit, Hochheiser, Jesse, Lysaker, John T., Lysaker, Paul H., Minor, Kyle S., Vohs, Jenifer L.   +6 more
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Predicting Chronicity in Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopenia at the Timepoint of Diagnosis Using Machine Learning‐Based Approaches

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser, Alice Bizeul, Meera Chitlur, Hugo Donato, Jelena Roganovic, Julia E. Vogt, Thomas Kühne   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Systematic Review of Evidence on the Clinical Effectiveness of Surveillance Imaging in Children With Medulloblastoma and Ependymoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surveillance imaging aims to detect tumour relapse before symptoms develop, but it's unclear whether earlier detection of relapse leads to better outcomes in children and young people (CYP) with medulloblastoma and ependymoma. This systematic review aims to identify relevant literature to determine the efficacy of surveillance magnetic ...
Lucy Shepherd, Melissa Taylor, Helen Fulbright, Bob Phillips   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pharmacological and non- pharmacological treatment of hypertension: A review article

ARYA Atherosclerosis, 2013
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is a worldwide epidemic disease. It is more common and more severe in elderly persons. Various studies however have estimated 41.9 million men and 27.8 million women to have prehypertension.
Marjan Seyedmazhari
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An overview of compensated work-related injuries among Korean firefighters from 2010 to 2015

Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2018
Background Although one in two firefighters in South Korea have experienced work-related injuries, there are few studies which show the overview description on work-related injuries and its analysis regarding such causes.
Hyung Doo Kim, Yon Soo An, Dong Hyun Kim, Kyung Sook Jeong, Yeon Soon Ahn   +4 more
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