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Validity of a Wearable Digital Insole for Assessing Gait ON and OFF in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Gait impairment is a distinctive symptom of Parkinson's disease that negatively impact mobility. We assessed the validity of wearable digital insoles against a validated reference gait analysis system for measuring select gait characteristics in patients with Parkinson's disease. Methods A comparative analysis between digital insoles
Deborah A. Hall, Kimberly Kwei, Rolando J. Acosta, Bharatkumar Koyani, Erin Robertson, Pratyush Rai, Roland Barge, Emily Timm, Nicollette L. Purcell, Natasha Desai, Dhanesh Patel, Ana‐Maria Visoiu‐Knapp, Samuel Stuart, Rinol Alaj, Matthew F. Wipperman, Oren Levy, Joan A. O'Keefe   +16 more
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Selecting Hospital\'s Key Performance Indicators, Using Analytic Hierarchy Process Technique

Journal of Community Health Research, 2013
Introduction: hospitals performance indicators will help monitoring, evaluation and decision making and therefore must be selected and ranked accurately.
Raana Gholamzadeh Nikjoo, Hossein Jabbari Beyrami, Ali Jannati, Mohammad Asghari Jaafarabadi   +3 more
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Vestibular Patient Journey: Insights From Vestibular Disorders Association (VeDA) Registry

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Vestibular symptoms impose a high burden of disability. Understanding real‐world diagnostic and treatment pathways can identify care gaps and guide interventions. We aimed to characterize symptom profiles, diagnostic trends, provider involvement, and treatment patterns in vestibular disorders.
Ali Rafati, Sami I. Nassar, Shaun A. Nguyen, Patricia L. Gerend, Michael C. Schubert, Michael T. Teixido, Frederick A. Godley, Joel A. Goebel, Cynthia A. Ryan, Habib G. Rizk, Amir Kheradmand   +10 more
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Health information system in primary health care units of the Central Zone, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Background Health information systems require the management of health information through health management information systems and research and knowledge management. In many low-income countries, including Ethiopia, poor data quality and limited use of
Letekirstos Gebreegziabher Gebretsadik, Abate Bekele Belachew, Gebregziabher Berihu Gebrekidan, Alemayohu Bayray, Akberet Lemlem, Lewtnesh Berihun Dangew, Haftom Temesgen Abebe   +6 more
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FDG‐PET Associations With Disease Severity and Outcomes in NMDA‐Receptor IgG Autoimmune Encephalitis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate (NMDA) receptor‐immunoglobulin G (IgG) autoimmune encephalitis (NMDAR‐IgG AE) demonstrate occipital lobe hypometabolism on baseline brain fluorodeoxyglucose‐positron emission tomography (bFDG‐PET).
Jonathan K. Lee, Jeffrey Lambe, Scott Johnson, Akua Abrah, Jennifer Bullen, Jeffrey A. Cohen, Tatchaporn Ongphichetmetha, Amy Kunchok   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assuring quality health care outcomes: lessons learned from car dealers?

Patient Related Outcome Measures, 2017
Joel E Dimsdale Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA Abstract: Health care systems want quality but struggle to find the right tools because, typically, they track quality in only one or two ways.
Dimsdale JE
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Quality Assurance Policies and Indicators for Long-Term Care in the European Union. Country Report: Estonia. ENEPRI Research Report No. 106, 20 March 2012 [PDF]

, 2012
The Ministry of Social Affairs (MOSA) is responsible for the quality of long-term care in Estonia, particularly in matters of development and control at national level.
Paat-Ahi, Gerli, Koppel, Agris
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Advancing the Big Five of user-oriented elderly care and accounting for its variations

, 2016
Purpose – Care process quality (i.e., how care is enacted by a care worker toward a client at the interpersonal level) is a strong predictor of satisfaction in a wide range of health care services.
Kajonius, Petri,, Kazemi, Ali,, Kajonius, Petri J.,   +2 more
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A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of the Recurrence of Autoimmune Encephalitis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a disease with a potential for recurrence, and patients receive immunotherapy to prevent it. However, there is no consensus on the duration of immunotherapy. This study aimed to determine the recurrence rate and identify the risk factors for AE to provide guidance on the duration of immunotherapy ...
Shangkai Bai, Sen Zhang, Haipei Zhang, Yating Zhang, Junhong Guo, Xiaoyan Yang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quality assurance of the assessment process in Brunei Darussalam vocational and technical education: stakeholders' perceptions and future challenges

, 2007
Quality and quality assurance in education have become global issues in the last decade. Educational institutions around the world are focusing on designing and implementing quality assurance systems to ensure students a high quality of education.
Haji Ahmad, Ashri
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