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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Outcome Assessment (Health Care)"”.
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Outcomes of an Interdisciplinary Pain Management Program: Does Participants' Opioid Status Predict Improvement?
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is a prevalent and costly illness that affects 1 in 5 Americans. Interdisciplinary pain management programs have demonstrated cost-effectiveness and significant benefits for a variety of chronic pain conditions. Interdisciplinary programs combined with opioid cessation have …
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Association Between Health-Related Perceptions and Treatment Outcomes in an Interdisciplinary Pain Management Program
… beliefs/perceptions play a role in treatment outcome, and the current study seeks to further explore this relationship in order to determine the extent to which health-related beliefs and perceptions effect treatment outcome. SUBJECTS: The study consisted of a total of 103 patients, ages …
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Presurgical Behavioral Medicine Evaluation for Implantable Devices for Pain Management: Clinical Effectiveness for Predicting Outcomes
… to spine surgery. The algorithm showed strong outcome predictability in previous studies (Block et al., 2003). A PBME was administered to 60 patients being evaluated for implantable devices at a major pain center that provides interdisciplinary pain management to patients. Patients were …
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Attachment Style, Depression, and Health Outcomes among Antepartum Patients
… of the impact of psychosocial factors on healthcare utilization continues to grow. An individual's attachment style is hypothesized to be one such important psychosocial factor related to healthcare utilization. Women with high-risk pregnancies treated in antepartum units have been shown …
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Advancing Radiotherapy Treatment Through Artificial Intelligence-Driven Approaches
… volumes while minimizing exposure to surrounding healthy tissues and organs. To achieve precision and high treatment quality, accurate target delineation, streamlined workflows, and timely follow-up are necessary. However, the current clinical standard of radiotherapy has limitations that need to …
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Predictors of Attrition in an Interdisciplinary Pain Management Program
… has also been identified as a neglected topic in outcome studies. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the extent to which demographic/clinical characteristics predict attrition in an IPP. Study aims also included examining longitudinal changes in score for the completion group for a variety …
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Reflections on a Single Institution Cochlear Implant Experience
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Neurosurgery in Resource-Poor Settings: Improving Access to Surgical Education and Outcomes Analysis of Spine Surgery in a Training Hospital in Cambodia
BACKGROUND: Access to basic surgical care, and neurosurgery in particular, has historically been a neglected topic in the global health sphere. However, up to 30% of the global burden of disease is surgical in nature and great strides have been made in the past few years to spotlight and begin to …
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Deep Learning and Radiomics Based Outcome Prediction for Cancer Patients
… accurate prediction of cancer patient treatment outcomes is essential for personalized treatment planning and improved treatment outcome. The use of machine learning methods, such as deep learning (DL) and radiomics, has been gaining attention in the field of cancer research for predicting …
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Using the Outcome Questionnaire 45.2 in Obesity Treatment
… purpose of this study was to determine if the Outcome Questionnaire 45.2 (OQ-45) can be used in the treatment of obesity to predict participant dropout and initial treatment success, in terms of weight loss (Lambert et. al, 2002a). The OQ-45 has been used with success to predict dropout from …
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HD-tDCS over Frontal Cortex and Neuropsychological Functioning in Cognitively Impaired Older Adults
… revealed several treatment responders across outcome measures in the MCI and ACS active treatment groups, no significant differences were detected between the proportion of responders to non-responders. The individual clinical improvements detected may suggest that certain characteristics …
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Factors in Predicting the Number of Home Care Physical Visits
… significant increase in the utilization of home health care during the past decade. Medicare has attempted to control home care costs by 1) allowing Medicare beneficiaries to join Health Maintenance Organizations, and 2) requiring the use of the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) for …
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Client/Therapist Feedback and the Role of the Alliance on Psychotherapy Outcomes
<p>Through a system of patient-focused outcomes research which has employed a quality assurance system for tracking client progress in therapy, there has been consistent evidence that utilizing the system to identify those who are not responding to treatment and warning their therapist about the …
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Parental Mental Health and Infant Outcomes in the NICU: A Pilot Study
… higher levels of stress compared to parents of healthy infants (Carter, Mulder, & Darow, 2007; MacDonald, 2007; Treyvaud et al., 2010). In addition, studies have found a correlation between improved parental mental health and shorter length of stay for infants in the NICU (Als et al., 2003). …
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Sensitivity to Change of the Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale (BASIS-32)
… the increased demand for evidence based mental health interventions, there has been an increased need for comprehensive ways to determine the validity of certain measures used to measure therapy effectiveness. The Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale (BASIS-32) is one of the most widely …
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The Association of Health Literacy with Self-care Agency in Older Adults in Jamaica
… to understand factors that may contribute to health maintenance, disease prevention, and wellness promotion. Two such factors – not studied extensively in this country - are health literacy and self-care. The purposes of this study were to (a) generate health literacy profile data with the …