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Showing 1 to 20 of 192 for “"Clinical management"”.
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Clinical management of patients with persistent dyspeptic symptoms.
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Prediabetes: Clinical Management and Nutrient Patterns Related to Diabetes Development
… Limited data exist regarding contributors to clinical decision-making when prediabetes develops. Diet is a modifiable risk factor influencing the risk of diabetes. Assessing patterns of intake enables the study of potential synergistic effects of habitual dietary consumption rather than …
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Cytomegalovirus retinitis at Groote Schuur Hospital : clinical management and outcomes
Objectives 1. To review the clinical presentation, management and outcomes of patients who were diagnosed and treated for cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis at Groote Schuur Hospital over a 10 year period 2. To review and compare the treatment protocols of thirteen public hospital centres in South …
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Diagnosing the Self: An Ethnography of Clinical Management of Gender in Children
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the clinical practices emerging around gender non-conforming children in the U.S. It explores the epistemic, techno-scientific and socio-cultural conditions of the emergence of these clinical practices, their related diagnostic categories, and their …
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Applications of Hybrid Diffuse Optics for Clinical Management of Adults After Brain injury
… about cerebral blood flow (CBF) is valuable for clinical management of patients after severe brain injury. Unfortunately, current modalities for monitoring brain are often limited by hurdles that include high cost, low throughput, exposure to ionizing radiation, probe invasiveness, and increased …
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Unravelling the potential applications of extracellular vesicles for the clinical management of melanoma patients
Metastatic melanoma is the third most common cancer in Australia with global incidence increasing. After decades without effective systemic treatments for advanced melanoma, the advent of targeted and immune therapies has substantially improved patient survival. While this is encouraging, further …
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Medicalization and Mother-Blame: A Study in the Clinical Management of Deviance in Mexico
… many of the important variables that influence clinical constructions of, and responses to, maternal and child deviance. To the extent that the findings are reflective of larger social processes, a principal conclusion is that medicalization, strictly defined, does not operate within the urban …
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Community acquired bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia amongst adults in England and Wales : epidemiology and clinical management
… routine surveillance data (laboratory reports, clinical notifications, hospital activity, mortality data) to examine the epidemiology and determine the changing trends. I undertook a capture-recapture study to quantify the underreporting through the routine surveillance. I conducted a …
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Balance and gait problems in people with hereditary spastic paraplegia: patient experience, underlying mechanisms, and clinical management
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Inter- and intra-examiner reliability of lumbar spine radiograph analysis by chiropractors and its impact on clinical management
Submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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The impact of chest radiography on the diagnosis, clinical management and outcome of acute lower respiratory infections in children
… infections in children. Its impact on clinical outcome is unknown. Methods. A randomised controlled trial was performed of 522 children aged 2 to 59 months who met the World Health Organisation case definition for pneumonia. The main outcome was time to recovery, measured in a subset of …
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The role of health apps in glycemic control and dietary-related outcomes in the clinical management of adults with type 2 diabetes
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Non-communicable diseases in public sector primary care clinics in South Africa: multimorbidity, control, treatment, socioeconomic associations, and evaluation of educational outreach with a clinical management tool
… for NCDs. It comprises a comprehensive clinical management tool implemented in primary care services using educational outreach training. It was evaluated using a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial: 38 clinics in the Eden and Overberg districts of the Western Cape were …
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Factors Predicting Return to Play in Sports-Related Concussion: An Empirical Evaluation
Sports-related concussion and its subsequent management have become a top priority within the sports medicine research spectrum. In order to properly understand the complex nature of concussion management, multiple aspects of the injury were explored including the psychobiological nature of the …
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The Achilles tendon : an evaluation of the healing processes occuring with chronic pathology; using a prospective comparison study of conservative treatment regimes and micro-current application
… not well understood and the difficulty In the clinical management of pathology reflects this. Current treatment of this type of Injury Is dependent upon the severity of the injury, its site of occurrence and the practitioners preference of treatment modality. The purpose of the study was to …
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Clinical Reasoning in the Use of Slings for Stroke Patients with Shoulder Subluxation: A Practice Phenomenon in California
… by occupational therapy practitioners for the management of post-stroke shoulder subluxation despite the low evidence for its efficacy. We investigated the prevalence and clinical reasoning in the use of shoulder sling in order to understand the clinical context that defies the current research …
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Inter-organ Communication in the Gut: Elucidating Electromechanical Coupling across the Gastroduodenal Junction
… (GDJ) has been indicated as a target for clinical management of disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI) and dysmotililty conditions. Rhythmic ‘slow waves’, generated by interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC), and myogenic ‘spikes’ are bioelectrical mechanisms underpinning gastrointestinal …
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Redefining and Reclassifying Acute Traumatic Cervical Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury with Special Reference to Central Cord Syndrome: Implications for an Aging Population
… is a critical need to revisit the definition and clinical management of central cord syndrome (CCS). This dissertation investigated the hypothesis that the neurological outcomes of patients with ‘central cord syndrome’ are heterogeneous and predicted more accurately by acute clinical variables and …
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