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Approaching the end of life and dying with dementia in care homes : the accounts of family carers. [PDF]
, 2010 Research into end of life and dying with dementia in care homes from the family carer's perspective is limited. From the available evidence, it appears that family carers find themselves in an unfamiliar situation about which they lack knowledge and ...
Froggatt, Katherine +2 more
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PLOS Global Public Health, 2021 Community-based active case-finding (ACF) may have important impacts on routine TB case-detection and subsequent patient-initiated diagnosis pathways, contributing "indirectly" to infectious diseases prevention and care. We investigated the impact of ACF
Helena R A Feasey +13 more
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The effectiveness of a multidisciplinary foot care program for children and adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: an exploratory trial [PDF]
, 2013 Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of multidisciplinary foot-care, and to evaluate the methodological considerations of a trial of multidisciplinary care in juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Design: Exploratory randomised controlled trial.
Brandon, Mhairi +8 more
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Developing a proxy version of the Adult social care outcome toolkit (ASCOT)
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017 Background Social care-related quality of life is a key outcome indicator used in the evaluation of social care interventions and policy. It is not, however, always possible to collect quality of life data by self-report even with adaptations for people ...
Stacey Rand +3 more
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Social Sciences, 2020 Humanitarian interventions have often been employed to promote the intervener’s political and economic interests. Given the issues around intervention’s morality, this article explores Michael Walzer’s humanitarian intervention theory in order to unravel
Miguel Paradela-López +1 more
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Frontiers in Digital Health, 2022 BackgroundDigital health interventions are increasingly used for patient care, yet little data is available on the phone access type and usage preferences amongst medical ward inpatients to inform the most appropriate digital interventions post-discharge.
Maryam AboMoslim +9 more
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Foreign Exchange Intervention: A Dataset of Public Data and Proxies
IMF Working Papers, 2021 Foreign exchange intervention (FXI) is a highly debated topic. Yet, comprehensive and comparable data on FXI is hard to find. This paper provides a new dataset of FXI covering a large number of countries over the period 2000-20 at monthly and quarterly frequencies.
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Validation of survey effort measures of grit and self-control in a sample of high school students.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Personality traits such as grit and self-control are important determinants of success in life outcomes. However, most measures of these traits, which rely on self-reports, might be biased when used for the purpose of evaluating education policies or ...
Gema Zamarro +3 more
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Wiring optimization explanation in neuroscience: What is Special about it? [PDF]
, 2019 This paper examines the explanatory distinctness of wiring optimization models in neuroscience. Wiring optimization models aim to represent the organizational features of neural and brain systems as optimal (or near-optimal) solutions to wiring ...
Barberis, Sergio Daniel
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Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2020 Abstract We analyze the history of Japanese foreign exchange interventions from 1971 to 2018. First, we provide the best proxy for monthly interventions for the period from 1971 to 1990, when the intervention timings and amounts were not officially disclosed.
Takatoshi Ito, Tomoyoshi Yabu
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