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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Clinical history"”.
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Is the Adams D-15 colour vision test a sensitive screening tool for ethambutol- and linezolid-induced optic neuropathy? A retrospective case series
… At screening and follow-up visits, a detailed clinical history was taken, a standard of care examination performed and a battery of side-room investigations conducted, including: Farnsworth Munsell D15 (FM D15) and Adams D15 colour vision tests, retinal nerve fiber layer optical coherence …
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The Pneumococcus Urinary Antigen Test Kit: Use in the laboratory for the presumptive diagnosis of pneumococcal bacteraemia
… in subsets with gram-positive cocci in pairs or clinical history compatible with respiratory illness or meningitis. Sensitivity and specificity of the antigen test when compared to Gram stain using gram-positive cocci in pairs (69%-75% and 81% respectively) were both higher. Discussion and …
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A Diagnostic and Prescriptive Conformal Prediction Framework: Applied to Sleep Disorders
… patients with sleep disorders, given their clinical history. Via the use of a conformal algorithm with a classifier as its base model, we are able to utilize a patients history of diagnoses, pharmacy dispensing, and other features to produce a set of possible final sleep disorder diagnoses …
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Η λήψη αντικειμενικών αποφάσεων στην τεχνητή διατροφή με την βοήθεια ηλεκτρονικού υπολογιστή (Computer assisted medical decision making)
… mortality. As in all branches of medicine the history is still the more important of diagnosis, so in nutritional assessment the clinical examination is used to identify patients likely to develop nutritionally associated complications (NAC). However to make explicit the implicit information …
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Evaluating the Felony Mental Health Court of Harris County, Texas
… The dynamic characteristics of contemporary clinical notions of mental illness and the accompanying landscape of ever-changing health policies can create unique challenges for research efforts. In spite of such difficulties, mental health research is ongoing at a national level. In 2004, the …
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Nutrition knowledge, dietary practice and vitamin B12 levels in patients living with type 2 diabetes mellitus on metformin in Thulamela Municipality
… data, anthropometric measurements, clinical history, and dietary intake were collected using structured questionnaires and 24-hour dietary recalls. Plasma vitamin B12 concentrations were measured using standard laboratory methods. Descriptive statistics, BMI classification, and …
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The role of the diagnostic radiographer in child safeguarding: Implications for education and practice. A multimethod exploration comprising quantitative and qualitative approaches to identify how diagnostic radiographers can contribute towards child safeguarding in an evolving clinical environment
… permit recognition of occasions when injury and clinical history disagree. Education should also include child safeguarding concerns commensurate with the modality utilised and as part of image reporting. Further research is needed to promote the role of the profession and to evaluate the impact …
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Modeling subconcussive and cumulative subconcussive impacts using a lateral fluid percusion injury device
… athletes that did not closely correlate with a clinical history of concussion. Thus, suggesting cumulative subconcussive insults may induce long-term damage. Investigating the etiology of subconcussive and cumulative subconcussive insults clinically is not feasible; however, understanding what …
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Prediction Of The Nerve Conduction Abnormalities Frequently Associated With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome From Clinical Features
This study was undertaken to develop a clinically useful model for predicting electrophysiological abnormality in the nerve conduction tests used in the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The prediction model combined commonly recorded clinical history, signs, and symptoms in a multivariate …
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Application of Informatics Tools to Facilitate the Practice of Precision Medicine with Genomic Testing and Clinical Data
… care. Factors such as patient demographics, clinical history, and lab test values have well understood effects on treatment outcomes and influence decision making. However, effective inclusion of biomolecular data such as protein expression and DNA sequencing data within the practice of …
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Targeting the tight junction : immunotherapy of colon cancer
… glycoprotein of colon epithelium with a long clinical history as a target in antibody-based cancer therapy. Despite being present in normal colon, radio-labeled antibodies against A33 are selectively retained by tumors at long time points. Accordingly, we have studied the trafficking and …
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Surgical margin evaluation in veterinary medicine: an assessment of canine skin shrinkage and histopathologic reporting of canine mast cell tumors
… While the majority of the reports contained a clinical history (85.9%), information to evaluate for prognostic indicators was lacking. Both Patnaik (Patnaik, Ehler, & MacEwen, 1984) and Kiupel (Kiupel et al., 2011) grading systems were described in 76.5% of reports with a single system being …
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Predicting Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography for Stable Angina
… models using patient demographics (age, sex), clinical history (chest pain duration, quality, location, associated symptoms, precipitants, relievers), and co-morbidities (hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, smoking, family history, cerebrovascular disease, peripheral vascular disease) to …
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Statistical methods for longitudinal medical data with applications
… joint model that incorporates all the patients clinical history. (III) Finally, the third one addresses the practical implementation of pre-existing methodologies discussed in the literature. Specifically, it focuses on adapting one of these methods to account for informative withdrawal in …
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Risk stratification in patients with heart failure and in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
… describes a series of studies examining the clinical factors that predict increased risk of short-term mortality in patients with a recent hospitalisation for heart failure. These include examination of patient demographics, clinical history and examination, blood tests, electro-cardiographic …
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Retrospective analysis of infection-related deaths of sudden unexpected death in infancy cases at Salt River Mortuary
… of death, scope of post-mortem investigation, clinical history and risk factors were collected from case files and assessed. Most infants (73.6%) demised within four months of age. The major modifiable risk factors were cosleeping (95.0%, n=264/278), side or prone sleeping position of the …
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FRATTURE DA STRESS NEI TERSICOREI: PREVENZIONE E ITER DIAGNOSTICO TERAPEUTICO. ANALISI DEI FATTORI DI RISCHIO MEDIANTE QUESTIONARIO 'SELF REPORTED INJURY' E DATABASE CLINICO
… USING A SELF REPORTED INJURY QUESTIONNAIRE AND CLINICAL HISTORY DATA BASE. STUDY DESIGN: RETROSPECTIVE DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OBJECTIVE: WE PERFORMED A STUDY TO DESCRIBE OUR DIAGNOSTIC AND CLINICAL APPROACH TO STRESS FRACTURES IN ELITE YOUNG BALLET DANCERS. THE STUDY LASTED ONE DANCE ACADEMIC YEAR. …
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Garlic and African olive used as traditional Herbs for hypertension in the Western Cape
… the participants‘ demographics, medical/clinical history, chronic illness and traditional herbal treatment. One hundred and eighty participants from Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiological study (PURE) cohort were administered questionnaires. Of the 180 participants, 139 indicated that …
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Garlic and African olive used as traditional Herbs for hypertension in the Western Cape
… the participants‘ demographics, medical/clinical history, chronic illness and traditional herbal treatment. One hundred and eighty participants from Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiological study (PURE) cohort were administered questionnaires. Of the 180 participants, 139 indicated that …
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