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Do flexible goal adjustment and acceptance help preserve quality of life in patients with Multiple Sclerosis? [PDF]

, 2015
Background Goal regulation strategies such as flexible goal adjustment and acceptance are believed to be protective factors in persons with chronic illness, but research on their relative contributions to quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS) is ...
De Waegeneer, Annelies, Debruyne, Jan, Van Damme, Stefaan   +2 more
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Utility of the Dependence Scale in dementia: validity, meaningfulness, and health economic considerations

Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 2018
Background The concept of dependence has been proposed as a unified representation of disease severity to quantify and stage disease progression in a manner more informative to patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers. Methods This paper provides a
Carolyn W. Zhu, Bote Gosse Bruinsma, Yaakov Stern   +2 more
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A Multivariate Timeseries Modeling Approach to Severity of Illness Assessment and Forecasting in ICU with Sparse, Heterogeneous Clinical Data

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015
The ability to determine patient acuity (or severity of illness) has immediate practical use for clinicians. We evaluate the use of multivariate timeseries modeling with the multi-task Gaussian process (GP) models using noisy, incomplete, sparse ...
M. Ghassemi, Marco A. F. Pimentel, Tristan Naumann, Thomas Brennan, D. Clifton, Peter Szolovits, M. Feng   +6 more
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Pre-existing traits associated with Covid-19 illness severity

PLoS ONE, 2020
Importance Certain individuals, when infected by SARS-CoV-2, tend to develop the more severe forms of Covid-19 illness for reasons that remain unclear. Objective To determine the demographic and clinical characteristics associated with increased severity
MD Joseph E. Ebinger, MD Natalie Achamallah, MD Hongwei Ji, P. B. L. Brian L. Claggett, Mps Nancy Sun, Msph Patrick Botting, BS Trevor-Trung Nguyen, Mph Eric Luong, BA Elizabeth H. Kim, BS Eunice Park, MS Yunxian Liu, PhD Ryan Rosenberry, MD Yuri Matusov, MD Steven Zhao, MD Isabel Pedraza, MD Tanzira Zaman, BS Michael Thompson, PhD Koen Raedschelders, MD Anders H. Berg, MD Jonathan D. Grein, MD Paul W. Noble, MD Sumeet S. Chugh, MD C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD Eduardo Marbán, PhD Jennifer E. Van Eyk, MD Scott D. Solomon, M. M. Christine M. Albert, MD Peter Chen, MD Mph Susan Cheng, Equal Contributions, Smidt Heart   +30 more
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Internet Searching About Disease Elicits a Positive Perception of Own Health When Severity of Illness Is High: A Longitudinal Questionnaire Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2016
Background The Internet is one of the primary sources for health information. However, in research, the effects of Internet use on the perception of one’s own health have not received much attention so far.
K. Sassenberg, H. Greving
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SNAPPE-II (Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology with Perinatal Extension-II) in Predicting Mortality and Morbidity in NICU [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Introduction: A number of illness severity scores have evolved which would predict mortality and morbidity in intensive care units. One such scoring system developed by Richardson was SNAPPE-II (Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology with Perinatal ...
Shivanna Sree Harsha, Banur Raju Archana
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Systematic review of β blocker, aspirin, and statin in critically ill patients: importance of severity of illness and cardiac troponin

Journal of Investigative Medicine, 2017
Non-cardiac critically ill patients with type II myocardial infarction (MI) have a high risk of mortality. There are no evidence-based interventions to mitigate this risk.
Florence G. Rothenberg, Michael B. Clay, Hina K. Jamali, Robin H. Vandivier-Pletsch   +3 more
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Influence of disease activity on functional capacity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2015
Background/Aim. Progressive erosive changes in cartilage and bone in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ultimately lead to joint deformities and disability which may be early, severe and permanent.
Jovanović Jelena, Stojanović Miodrag, Jovanović Vladimir, Dimić Aleksandar, Božilov Slađana, Stamenković Bojana, Milenković Saša   +6 more
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What are the determinants of quality of life in people with cervical dystonia? [PDF]

, 2002
Background: Little is known about the quality of life in patients with cervical dystonia, although pain and depression are relatively common. Objective: To test the hypothesis that an individual’s ability to cope with the disease will modify the ...
Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Camfield, Laura, Warner, Tom   +2 more
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Does vitamin D deficiency exacerbate hidradenitis suppurativa?

Medicine Science, 2023
In this study, we aimed to compare vitamin D (25 Hydroxy Vitamin D (25 OH D)) levels in Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) patients with healthy control groups, and to investigate its possible relationship with disease severity.
Erdal Pala, Omer Karasahin
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