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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Clinical performance"”.
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Ocular compatibility of hydrogel contact lenses:deposition and clinical performance
… project used carefully controlled, randomized clinical studies to study the interactive effects of contact lens materials, care systems, replacement periods and patient differences. Of principal interest was the influence of these factors on material deposition and their subsequent impact on …
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Anesthesia Clinical Performance Outcomes: Does Teaching Methodology Make A Difference?
… safety. Educational methodologies used by both clinical and didactic instructors that will improve teaching effectiveness need to be investigated to ensure that patient safety content is being delivered to nurse anesthesia students in a manner consistent with the American Association of Nurse …
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Development and clinical performance of nucleic acid amplification techniques for the diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis
… (S. stercoralis) at the Department of Clinical Parasitology (DCP) by the routine methods of microscopy and Strongyloides culture is not sensitive due to the, usually, low parasite load and intermittent larval excretion of the parasite. Serology (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) …
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Predictors of positive clinical performance evaluations of new graduate nurses participating in preceptor orientation programs
… of this study was to assess relationships in clinical performance evaluations by new graduate nurses participating in six orientation programs with program components and new graduate characteristics. Some orientation programs offered formal support groups while others offered no support …
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The Impact of a Computer Simulated Case Study on Nurse Practitioner Students' Declarative Knowledge and Clinical Performance
… no difference in either declarative knowledge or clinical performance between those students who completed a text based case study and those students who completed a computer simulated case study. Based on the outcome of this study, it was determined that the media used in content presentation is …
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The Effect of Nursing Faculty Presence on Students' Level of Anxiety, Self-Confidence, and Clinical Performance During a Clinical Simulation Experience
Nursing schools design their clinical simulation labs based upon faculty's perception of the optimal environment to meet the students' learning needs, other programs' success with integrating high-tech clinical simulation, and the funds available. No research has been conducted on nursing faculty …
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Nursing Ethics and Failure to Fail in Clinical Nursing Education
… to fail students performing poorly during a clinical preceptorship (Duffy, 2013). In the United States (US), most undergraduate nursing programs utilize full-time faculty to teach in the classroom and clinical settings. Clinical nursing faculty (CNF) are responsible for training, evaluating, …
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Assessing Blood-Based Laboratory Diagnostics for Alzheimers’s Disease: A Systems Approach
… alternative, yet they remain underutilized in clinical practice. By conducting a literature review, stakeholder interviews, and a Kano analysis, the thesis identifies and evaluates the key stakeholder needs to support the widespread adoption of these tests, such as the need for demonstrated …
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Performance-Based Quality Specifications: The Link between Product Development and Clinical Outcomes
… product development functions supported by clinical pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) data. Largely, the importance of variance and covariance in product and patient attributes is poorly understood. The existence of PK/PD diversity among myriad patient sub-populations further …
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The Green Lane Valve: a Novel Decellularised Heart Valve
… Unfortunately, early models have proceeded to clinical use with catastrophic outcomes. The clinical performance of contemporary decellularised heart valves remains unknown. A novel, decellularised scaffold that outperforms standard, glutaraldehyde-treated bioprosthetic valves, in vivo, remains …
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Evaluation of Negative Energy and Mineral Balance in Periparturient Holstein-Friesian Cattle
… of hematocrit and sample temperature on the clinical performance of the meter. A novel equation was developed that accounted for differences in the intra-erythrocyte to plasma ratio of glucose. This equation demonstrated that the algorithm used by the glucometer is optimized for use in human …
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Improving Performance of Open Access Clinics
… different management options to improve clinical performance in terms of patient waiting time, doctor idle time and clinic overtime. Other factors studied with a simulation model include client load and placement of pre-booked slots. Results show that a proper panel size is critical to …
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Benefits derived from capturing consumable supply costs by DRG as an input to physician practice pattern programs in military treatment facilities
… be combined with severity of illness adjusted clinical performance data, available through the facility's utilization management program, thus providing data required to execute a physician practice pattern program. Direct financial benefits can be derived from a physician practice pattern …
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Clinical characteristics of acute brain swelling in patients with successfully resuscitated from non-traumatic out of hospital cardiac arrest
… brain swelling were significantly young and high clinical performance catery score. Initial serum lactic acid level showed good correlation with brain swelling. Urgent study of CT and aggressive treatment should be conducted when brain swelling is suspicious after consideration of various …
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Signal Processing Techniques Applied to Biomedical Diagnostics
… DNA/RNA amplification to detect clinically relevant targets with high specificity. Finally, we evaluate the clinical performance of our systems in detecting target genes for (1) SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, and (2) Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), the …
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Investigation of the Efficacy of Various Proteinase-Treated "Serpula (Treponema) Hyodysenteriae" Vaccines
… morbidity incidence and duration scores, lower clinical days, and lower clinical index scores than the control or papain group. The pepsin group had a significantly higher average daily weight gain pre-challenge as compared to all the other groups. Both of these groups had a greater than …
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The effect of organisational structure and managerial practices on the clinical behaviour and job satisfaction of primary health care doctors, as knowledge workers, in the managed health care industry in South Africa
… investigated the effect of managed care on their clinical performance and job satisfaction. A cross-sectional survey on a probability sample of 2023 general practitioners throughout South Africa was conducted using a mailed questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency …
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The osteogenic effects of zirconia and titanium surfaces on human osteoblasts
… implant materials with improved biological and clinical performance.
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The Development and Evaluation of Non-invasive Methods to Characterise the Disease States of Patients Utilising Selective Discrimination, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and Chemometrics
… of the thesis was to develop and evaluate the performance of analytical methods to characterise the disease states of patients utilising selective discrimination, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and chemometrics. The primary analytical technique investigated was …
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Organisation and performance in renal anaemia management
Introduction Performance in healthcare systems is under constant scrutiny, with particular focus on safety, quality and efficiency. The management of many long-term diseases involves complex patterns of care processes. However, the mechanisms by which this works are poorly understood, with care …
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