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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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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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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
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A pilot study to assess the feasibility and impact of a brief motivational intervention on problem drug and alcohol use in adult mental health inpatient units : study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Substance misuse in those with severe mental health problems is common and associated with poor engagement in treatment and treatment outcomes.
Birchwood, M. J., Clarke, Latoya, Copello, Alex, Freemantle, Nick, Graham, Hermine L., Griffith, Emma, McCrone, Paul, Rana, Arsal, Stefanidou, Chrysi A., Walsh, Kathryn   +9 more
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Planned change and service quality in a health care environment: assessing outcomes

Corporate Ownership and Control, 2013
This study assesses the outcomes of a process of planned change undertaken in a health care hospital environment in Lesotho in terms of service quality. A sample of 143 clinical and non-clinical employees from three of the largest regional hospitals within the Ministry of Health in Lesotho was drawn using cluster sampling.
Lisebo Ntsatsi, Sanjana Brijball Parumasur   +1 more
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The Sarcoma-Specific Instrument to Longitudinally Assess Health-Related Outcomes of the Routine Care Cycle

Diagnostics, 2023
Patient-based health related quality of life (HRQoL) measurements are associated with an improvement in quality of care and outcomes. For a complex disease such as sarcoma, there is no disease-specific questionnaire available which covers all clinically relevant dimensions.
Nasian Mosku, Philip Heesen, Salome Christen, Mario F. Scaglioni, Beata Bode, Gabriela Studer, Bruno Fuchs   +6 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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Understanding the Mechanosensitivity of the Median Nerve in Pre-Surgical Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Patients: A Correlational Study

Brain Sciences
(1) Background: Neurodynamic tests are recommended for the diagnosis of entrapment neuropathies such as carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). However, their association with clinical variables in severe patients or patients with associated comorbidities is ...
Mar Hernández-Secorún, Hugo Abenia-Benedí, María Orosia Lucha-López, María Durán-Serrano, Javier Sami Hamam-Alcober, John Krauss, Christie Booth-Smith, César Hidalgo-García   +7 more
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