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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Clinical Guidelines"”.
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Creating Appropriate Clinical Guidelines for The Bilingual Population with Acquired Brain Injuries
… the focus of this review was to provide clinical recommendations to clinicians performing assessments with bilingual individuals with acquired brain injuries. The goal was for the guidelines provided to aid in the augmentation of appropriate strategies for neurorehabilitation to maximize …
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An investigation into the implementation of clinical guidelines in the general dental services
<b>Background</b>: An evidence-based approach to clinical practice is advocated to improve the quality of patient care. However there is often a gap between research findings and clinical practice. To address this deficiency there is the need to assist clinicians in accessing and adopting research …
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Applying axiomatic design methodology to enable adaptation of clinical guidelines to local contexts
Background: Local adaptation of guidelines may increase compliance with guidelines that have been developed at a national level and are often not used in practice because of contextual factors. We have developed a representation scheme known as HieroGLIF, that facilitates a two-step approach to …
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Assessment of clinical guidelines used to predict impending fracture of bones with metastatic defects
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1991.
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Physicians’ Perceptions of the Utility of Clinical Guidelines in the Management of People with Type 2 Diabetes in Saudi Arabia
… assess physicians’ perception of the utility of clinical guidelines in the management of people with Type 2 diabetes in Saudi Arabia and how their perception is affected by different physicians’ characteristics and whether high perception would result in adherence to guidelines. Methods: This …
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Evaluating adherence to recommended clinical guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus at primary care level
… for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Evidence-based guidelines lower cardiovascular risk in diabetics. Adherence to clinical guidelines for the prevention of CVD in South African primary care public sector facilities is unknown. Aim: This study determined adherence of Cape Town primary care …
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New Clinical Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Screening and the Benefits of Implementing a Primary High-risk Human Papillomavirus Test in a High Volume Reference Laboratory
<p>In 2012, clinical guidelines for cervical cancer screening developed by a coalition of experts from several clinical societies such as the American Cancer Society(ACS), American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), American Society for Clinical Pathology(ASCP), and the United …
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Design of a goal ontology for medical decision-support
… focused primarily on representing content of clinical guidelines and their logical structure. The present study aims to develop a computable representation of health-care providers' intentions to be used as part of a framework for implementing clinical decision-support systems. Our goal is to …
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Development of a NASA Flight Surgeon Quick Reference Guide and Evaluation of the International Space Station Medical Kit: A Model for Resource-Limited Populations
… in an austere environment. Adapting terrestrial clinical guidelines for spaceflight requires not only reviewing both the current medical standard of care from various governing medical bodies, but also the pharmacologic and medical equipment armamentarium aboard the International Space Station. …
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Incidence of aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss in HIV positive and HIV negative multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients
… than HIV negative MDR-TB patients; To provide clinical guidelines to the medical fraternity on the use of aminoglycoside antibiotics with regard to the side-effect of ototoxicity.
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The Need, Value and Affordability of First-line Treatments for Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis in Alberta
Clinical guidelines have recommended exercise and education as first-line treatments for hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) for 25 years, but these proven treatments are underused globally. In Alberta, joint replacements are publicly funded. Meanwhile, first-line treatments are funded with private …
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Mental Health In The Primary Care Of Trans Patients
… on the mental health of their patients. Although clinical guidelines for care exist, most do not explicitly address this context of inequality. Placing guidelines in a framework of cultural safety will increase the likelihood that patient narrative, needs and culture are respected and taken into …
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Modern lightweight approach for design and implementation of workflow-based clinical guidance system
… healthcare practitioners have adopted the use of clinical decision support systems (CDSS) into their workflow in the past decades. However, there are still many existing challenges for developing a successful CDSS. We propose an XState-React-Redux framework for the design and development of …
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An analytics approach to hypertension treatment
… failure, stroke, and kidney disease. Current clinical guidelines have yet to achieve consensus and continue to rely on expert opinion for recommendations lacking a sufficient evidence base. In practice, trial and error is typically required to discover a medication combination and dosage that …
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Improving Provider Compliance With Adult Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patient Care Guidelines In The Ambulatory Setting Through The Use Of Electronic Health Records
… (IBD), using well-designed, evidence-based clinical decision tools or checklists within the workflow of the EHR system can improve provider compliance with IBD clinical practice guidelines. This initiative will result in adherence to population-based quality measures and will improve quality …
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Modeling the Muscle Relaxation Response to Succinylcholine for the Purpose of Controller Design.
… drug is usually determined by relatively simple clinical guidelines, such as patient weight, height, and girth. The level of relaxation is often monitored by observing the evoked response (twitch) to periodic peripheral nerve stimulation (Katz & Katz, 1975).Present procedures for the …
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Treatment response using CT-based rigidity analysis in an animal model of lytic musculoskeletal lesions subjected to systemic therapy
… through the use of imaging methods in current clinical practice. CTRA provides highly accurate monitoring of metastases progression and treatment through both Ibandronate and Paclitaxel therapies. Using computed tomography (QCT)-based analysis to calculate the load bearing capacity of bone …
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An investigation of basic science and clinical research methodologies to benefit clinical practice
… produce research that could inform and benefit clinical practice by exploring the application of basic science and clinical research methodologies to disorders in obstetrics and gynaecology. Chapter 1’s investigation of endometriosis is the first to 1) report detailed genetic mapping of …
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Using EMR transactional data for personalize clinical decision support
… information could be added to traditional clinical decision support tools to arrive at personalized recommendations based on empiric evidence. The aim of this work is to use the collective, de facto, clinical experience to augment clinical guidelines thereby providing physicians with …
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A Qualitative Exploration of How Young People Experience and Make Sense of Medically Unexplained Symptoms
… significant challenges to medical services. Clinical guidelines recommend the coconstruction of a shared understanding of difficulties. However, this is difficult when symptoms do not have an explanation, and experiences and perspectives of doctors and patients are mismatched. A qualitative …
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