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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Prognostication"”.
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Electroencephalography for neurological prognostication after cardiac arrest
This thesis focuses on the prognostic value of electroencephalography(EEG) in comatose patients resuscitated after cardiac arrest (CA), using both simplified continuous EEG monitoring (cEEG) and routine EEG. Background: Comatose survivors are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) to support …
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Prognostication and disease monitoring in fibrotic interstitial lung disease
… CT (HRCT) scans may enable more accurate prognostication and disease monitoring than current routine practice. qCT work to date has identified the pulmonary vasculature as a potential radiomic biomarker to address these issues. Methods A systematic review summarised the current use of qCT …
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Feasibility of a Prognostication Aid to Promote Advance Care Planning.
… interviews as to the perceived feasibility of a prognostication aid. Six interviews took place in person. The in-depth perspectives were then thematically analysed. Results: The quantitative study identified that 19.3% of the cohort population died within six months of the census date. There was …
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Mortality Prognostication in Long-Term Care Residents: The MDS-CHESS Scale
Quality end of life (EOL) care for the elderly continues to be a challenge, in part due to late referral for palliative and/or hospice services. The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of the MDS-CHESS scale (Hirdes, Frijters & Teare, 2003) in predicting 6-month mortality in a …
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Survival of breast cancer patients and the potential for better prognostication
… since evolved and perhaps will provide better prognostication. In this thesis, we study the ethnic difference in survival between an Asian and a Western population: Singapore and Stockholm; survival between different ethnic groups in Singapore: Chinese, Malays and Indians; the effects of …
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Life after death : techniques for the prognostication of coma outcomes after cardiac arrest
… three major contributions to the problem of coma prognostication after cardiac arrest: (1) the collection of the world's largest multi-center EEG database for patients in coma after cardiac arrest, (2) the development of time-dependent, interpretable, feature-based EEG models that may be used for …
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An assessment of diagnosis and prognostication in cardioembolic transient ischaemic attack and ischaemic stroke
… of cardiac monitoring results, and improve prognostication in cardioembolic events to facilitate optimal treatment. I have collected, collated and analysed data from the Oxford Vascular Study (OXVASC), which is an ongoing prospective, population-based, incidence study of vascular disease in …
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Temporizing Uncertainty: A Constructivist Grounded Theory of Advanced Practice Palliative Care Nurses' Prognostication in Non-Malignant Illnesses
… the science and art of nursing in unique ways. Prognostication is a valued core skill that requires knowledge, intuition, curiosity, conceptualization, and decision-making. The praxis of prognostication is complicated and foundational to the culture and work of advanced practice PCN. This …
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The added value of BAP1 immunohistochemistry and fluorescence in situ hybridisation for CDKN2A/p16 and NF2 in the diagnosis and prognostication of pleural mesothelioma
Background: Mesothelioma is a rare but aggressive malignancy with therapeutic options that are generally palliative. The malignancy can be challenging to diagnose, commonly due to scant samples, often requiring patients to undergo multiple procedures before a definitive diagnosis can be reached. In …
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Cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukaemia at a single centre in South Africa
… cases respectively, and allowed for definitive prognostication of 50% of cases. The 2-year overall survival rate for the entire CN-AML cohort was 16%. Conclusion Local rates of CN-AML and associated NPM1 and FLT3-ITD mutations were comparable to European cohorts. In contrast, local survival …
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Tumor metastases of the vertebral column: diagnostic and prognostic assessments for treatment
… of NOMS has various methods for standardizing prognostication and recommending treatment options, but the reliability of these methods is questioned by the literature. Standardized prognostication and treatment planning have high potential for improving treatment outcomes, but more research on …
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Predicting adverse neurological outcomes in infants receiving therapeutic hypothermia for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
… with outcomes. Thus, better tools are needed for prognostication. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measures of cerebral regional oxygenation (rSO2) is a growing area of interest for prognostication. Objective: The objective of this study is to determine if changes in rSO2 measured via NIRS during …
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Study of prognostic markers in advanced cancer
BACKGROUND: Prognostication is a core skill fundamental to the clinical management of patients with advanced cancer. This skill is exercised to guide appropriate clinical decisions, plan supportive services and allocate resource utilisation. Prognostication by clinicians is often erroneous, …
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Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England
… with regard to the ways in which magic and prognostication stimulated local economies. These "occult economies," in turn, can be read as interactive systems whereby local agents can generate larger effects within a national discourse by utilizing feedback loops generated through local …
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Image Restoration using Automatic Damaged Regions Detection and Machine Learning-Based Inpainting Technique
… of an ongoing project to aid in colon cancer prognostication.</p>
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Molecular Genetic Characterization of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with a Poor Prognosis
… abnormalities is important for diagnosis, prognostication, and treatment stratification. ALL can be further categorized into subgroups defined by structural or ploidy abnormalities. One such subgroup, hypodiploid ALL (<46 chromosomes) is seen in 5-8% of all cases, and associated with a very …
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Darbo jėgos emigracijos poveikis Lietuvos makroekonominiams rodikliams 2004-2013 m /
… of private individuals cash remittances. The prognostication of macroeconomic indicators was done for 2014-2016, and on the basis of it, is provided the economic development perspectives.
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Characteristics and outcomes of acute heart failure in sub Saharan Africa
… BNP and the novel biomarker Gal3 in the prognostication of acute heart failure patients. To achieve this, we investigated in the first cohort; 1) the demographic and clinical characteristic of patients with AHF, 2) their echocardiographic parameters and how they predict outcome, 3) the …
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Risk stratification by analysis of electrocardiographic morphology following acute coronary syndromes
… frequencies), can significantly improve prognostication for ACS patients. Patients with MV-DF values in the highest quartile show a more than five-fold elevated risk of death in the 90 days following a non-ST-elevation ACS. We also propose techniques to construct models of the dynamics of …
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Tackling Key Challenges to Guide Clinical Decisions in Cardiovascular Diseases
… stratification to image-guided diagnosis and prognostication. Nevertheless, key challenges remain from both clinical and technical perspectives. In the case of prediction models, for example, predicting the occurrence of rare clinical events is often challenging, mainly because of extreme …
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