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Telehealthcare for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease of irreversible airways obstruction in which patients often suffer exacerbations. Sometimes these exacerbations need hospital care: telehealthcare has the potential to reduce admission
Car, Josip, Liu, Joseph L. Y., McLean, Susannah, Nurmatov, Ulugbek, Pagliari, Claudia, Sheikh, Aziz   +5 more
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A systematic review of interventions in primary care to improve health literacy for chronic disease behavioral risk factors [PDF]

, 2012
Background: To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions used in primary care to improve health literacy for change in smoking, nutrition, alcohol, physical activity and weight (SNAPW).
Dennis, S, Denny-Wilson, E, Harris, M, Newall, A, Shortus, T, Taggart, J, Williams, A, Zwar, N   +7 more
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Patient and public involvement in the design of clinical trials: An overview of systematic reviews [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUNDFunders encourage lay-volunteer inclusion in research. There are controversy and resistance, given concerns of role confusion, exploratory methods, and limited evidence about what value lay-volunteers bring to research.
Albarqouni, Loai, Burls, Amanda, Clarke, Mike, Kirkpatrick, Jo, Liew, Su May, Price, Amy, Roberts, Nia W   +6 more
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Reporting participation rates in studies of non-pharmacological interventions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review [PDF]

, 2012
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
Hames, R, Hooper, R, Priebe, S, SOHANPAL, R, Taylor, S   +4 more
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The nursing contribution to chronic disease management: a whole systems approach: Report for the National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation programme [PDF]

, 2010
Background Transforming the delivery of care for people with Long Term Conditions (LTCs) requires understanding about how health care policies in England and historical patterns of service delivery have led to different models of chronic disease ...
Brooks, Fiona, Bunn, Frances, Gage, Heather, Kendall, Sally, McNeilly, Elaine, Procter, Susan, Wilson, Patricia M.   +6 more
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The association of physical function and physical activity with all-cause mortality and adverse clinical outcomes in non-dialysis chronic kidney disease : a systematic review [PDF]

, 2018
Objective: People with nondialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD) and renal transplant recipients (RTRs) have compromised physical function and reduced physical activity (PA) levels.
MacKinnon, Heather J., Wilkinson, Thomas J., Clarke, Amy L., Gould, Douglas W., O'Sullivan, Thomas F., Xenophontos, Soteris, Watson, Emma L., Singh, Sally J., Smith, Alice C.   +8 more
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Interventions for treating depression after stroke [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Depression is an important consequence of stroke that impacts on recovery yet is often not detected or inadequately treated. This is an update of a Cochrane review first published in 2004.
Agnoli, Ahrens, Aizawa, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Association, Andersen, Andersen, Andersen, Andersen, Andersen, Anderson, Annonymous, Astrom, Atarashi, Balunov, Bao, Battaglia, Battaglia, Bautz-Holter, Beck, Berrol, Burvill, Burvill, Burvill, Carson, Casella, Chan, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Cheng, Cheng, Choi-Kwon, Choi-Kwon, Christie, Corr, Corr, Cui, Cullum, Davis, Deans, Dennis, Dennis, Desrosiers, Deutsch, Dong, Drummond, Du, Duval, Ebrahim, Evans, Evans, Feng, Feng, Fengqi, Folstein, Fruehwald, FX Project for Phase III Study, Gekht, Gekht, Gill, Goldberg, Gompertz, Gonzalez-Torrecillas, Green, Guan, Guan, Hackett, Hackett, Hackett, Hackett, Hamilton, He, He, He, Herrmann, Hollis, Hong, House, House, House, House, Hu, Hu, Huang, Huang, Hui, Hunt, Ji, Jia, Jiang, Jiang, Johnson, Johnson, Jongbloed, Jorge, Joubert, Juby, Katona, Katz, Keller, Kendall, Kimura, Kirsch, Kumar, Kwon, Lai, Lai, Laska, Latow, Lauritzen, Leff, Lehmann, Leijon, Li, Li, Li, Li, Li, Li, Li, Li, Li, Li, Liang, Liang, Lima, Lin, Lincoln, Lincoln, Lipsey, Lipsey, Liu, Liu, Liu, Liu, Liu, Lu, Mahoney, Mant, Mant, Martucci, Marui, McCusker, Meara, Meng, Miao, Min, Min, Mittmann, Miyai, Moher, Montgomery, Morris, Murray, Murray, Niedermaier, Niedermaier, Nir, Normand, Nour, Ohtomo, Ohtomo, Ostwald, Otomo, Parikh, Pearson, Ponzio, Rampello, Rampello, Rankin, Reding, Ricauda, Ricauda, Roberts, Robinson, Rodgers, Rudd, Ruddell, Rønning, Sandberg, Shan, Sharpe, Sinyor, Sivenius, Smedley, Smith, Snow, Song, Stenager, Su, Su, Sulch, Sulch, Suskin, Tan, Taragano, Taragano, Thomas, Towle, Towle, Towle, Turner-Stokes, Verhagen, Wade, Wade, Walker-Batson, Walsh, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Ware, Watkins, Werner, Wheeler, Wiart, Wiart, Wilkinson, Williams, Wolfe, Wu, Xia, Xiaoying, Xie, Xie, Xie, Xing, Xu, Yang, Ye, Yi, Yoneyama, You, Young, Yu, Yu, Yu, Zhang, Zhang, Zhang, Zhang, Zhang, Zhang, Zhao, Zhao, Zhao, Zhao, Zhou, Zhou B. Xiao, Zhu, Zifko, Zigmond, Zimmerman   +254 more
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The Effect of Telephone Follow-Up on Pain Experienced by Patients After Knee Replacement Surgery [PDF]

, 2014
Hospital length of stays are decreasing throughout the U.S. in an effort to contain healthcare costs, but these measures can be detrimental to patients. Those who get knee replacement surgery are finding their length of stay reduced from an average of 3 ...
Jones, Laurie J.
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Dietary Docosahexaenoic Acid and Arachidonic Acid in Early Life:What Is the Best Evidence for Policymakers? [PDF]

, 2018
Background: A wealth of information on the functional roles of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA) from cellular, animal, and human studies is available.
Amuna, Paul, Calder, Philip C., Forsyth, Stewart, Holub, Bruce, Meyer, Barbara, Zotor, Francis   +5 more
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Surgical trainee research collaboratives in the UK: an observational study of research activity and publication productivity. [PDF]

, 2016
OBJECTIVES: To analyse the research activity and publication output of surgical trainee research collaboratives in the UK. SETTING: Surgical trainee research collaboratives in the UK. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 24 collaboratives were included in this study
Hutchinson, Peter J, Jamjoom, Aimun AB, Kolias, Angelos G, Phan, Pho NH   +3 more
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