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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Risk Screening"”.
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Patient Perception of Fall Risk and High Fall Risk Screening Scores
… between patient</p> <p>perception of fall risk and high fall risk screening scores.</p> <p><strong>Background: </strong>Despite mandated government regulations and multiple hospital</p> <p>interventions, falls are the most prevalent adverse event among hospitalized patients and</p> <p>are …
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To ASQ or Not to ASQ: A Suicide Risk Screening Improvement Project
… position to assess adolescents for suicide risk regardless of their admitting diagnosis. “To ASQ or Not to ASQ” is an evidence-based project aimed at improving compliance with the Ask Suicide Screening Questions (ASQ) in an eight-bed medical-surgical adult and pediatric overflow intensive …
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Stability of Universal Screening Over Time: An Examination of the Student Risk Screening Scale
<p>Universal screening is a proactive method to identify students that are at risk for social-emotional and behavior (SEB) problems and provide information to schools to support early intervention for at risk children. Current recommendations for practice indicate screening should be conducted at …
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Veteran Suicide Risk Reduction Through Targeted Dissemination Of An Easy To Use Risk Screening Instrument
… adjusting for differences in age and gender, the risk for suicide was 21% higher in the Veteran population than their civilian peers (Office of Suicide Prevention, 2016). Substantial decreases in suicide rates have been achieved within the patient populations of veteran, military, and civilian …
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Health-promoting Behaviors of Adults Who Attend Nurse-managed Cardiac Risk Screening Clinics in the Rural Midwest
… from adults who attended nurse-managed cardiac risk screening clinics. The Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile (Walker, Sechrist, and Pender, 1987) was the instrument used to determine participation in health-promotion activities. The Cronbach's alpha for the study was 0.91.<br> Major findings of …
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The impact of a single brief intervention versus multiple contact lifestyle intervention on change in body weight and modifiable cardio vascular risk factors in adults who have undertaken cardiovascular risk screening
… hypertension, hyperlipideamia (which is a major risk factor for ischemic heart disease), cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and certain cancers. CVD relates strongly to lifestyles, and risk factor modifications have been shown to reduce mortality and morbidity. It has become clear that the major …
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Optimizing HIV PrEP Implementation in the Primary Care Setting
… a lack of standardized practice and routine HIV risk screening for PrEP provision. A doctorate of nursing (DNP) project was implemented to initiate a standardized HIV risk screening protocol for identifying HIV risk and PrEP eligibility to increase PrEP implementation at API. The impact of this …
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Enablers and barriers of suicide risk assessments in inpatient and emergency department settings: a scoping review
… and Chinese hospitals each year. As the risk of inpatient suicide continues to rise, tools such as suicide risk assessments may be useful in identifying at-risk patients. The current literature places a considerable amount of focus on validating suicide risk assessment tools. However, …
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PREDICTIVE ABILITY OF A 3D BODY SCANNING MOBILE APPLICATION FOR METABOLIC HEALTH RISK
… efficient, and accessible cardiometabolic health risk screening. Given the surge in smartphone ownership over the last decade, this study sought to determine the predictive ability of a mobile 3D-optical (3DO) body composition assessment application in determining metabolic health risk. A total of …
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An Evaluation of Different Risk Ranking Systems for Contaminated Sites
Risk ranking systems for contaminated sites have been developed by different jurisdictions with similar purpose, but it is not clear whether they provide results that are comparable. The United States’ Preliminary Assessment (PA) system, Sweden’s Methods for Inventories of Contaminated Sites (MICS) …
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The role of mobile technology for fall risk assessment for individuals with multiple sclerosis
… symptoms put people with MS (pwMS) at a higher risk for falls (Cameron & Nilsagard, 2018). Falls are highly prevalent among pwMS and can result in detrimental consequences including bone fractures and even death (Matsuda et al., 2011). To prevent falls and fall related injuries, it is important …
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Prediction and analysis of degree of suicidal ideation in online content
… social media postings to augment mental health screening. Despite the potential of these methods, online ML classifiers still perform poorly in multi-class settings. In this thesis, we propose the usage of novel document embeddings and mental health based user embeddings for triaged suicide risk …
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Factors contributing to falls in a tertiary acute care setting in Cape Town, South Africa: a descriptive study
… has been in place since 2013. The chosen falls risk screening tool, the Morse Falls Scale (MFS), had not been locally validated, and therefore its ability to accurately discriminate between patients who fall and patients who do not fall was unknown. A focused analysis of local falls incident …
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Methods for imbalanced data in sports analytics: improving injury prediction models
… decision-rule restructuring through constructed risk-score ensembles, and incremental increases in injury prevalence to study how discrimination changes as the base rate shifts. Results indicate that regularized XGBoost with early stopping reduces overfitting, but injury-case prediction remains …
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Modelling the age-dependent dynamics of clonal haematopoiesis
… raising the possibility that individual cancer risk could be inferred from a routine blood sample. While recent studies have begun to quantify CH dynamics -- for example, estimating expansion rates for common driver variants -- our understanding remains incomplete. This thesis addresses two key …
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Sustainability Strategies in Supply Chain Management
… performance of manufacturing facilities using risk screening environmental indicators database and Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation procedure. The results provide support that resource-based view explains the maximum differential environmental performance of firms as opposed to …
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The role of a pharmacist in screening, communicating and reporting the risks of cardiovascular disease associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and the perception of the population
… clinical management, gaps in public awareness, risk perception, and medication safety, particularly concerning non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), pose significant challenges to effective prevention and self-management strategies. This thesis adopts a mixed-methods approach to …
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Genetic Counselor Utilization and Interpretation of Somatic Tumor Testing In Evaluation For Lynch Syndrome
… syndrome characterized by increased risk for colorectal and uterine cancers. Individuals with pathogenic variants in the mismatch repair (MMR) genes (<em>MLH1</em>, <em>MSH2/EPCAM</em>, <em>MSH6</em>, <em>PMS2</em>) are diagnosed with LS and subsequently recommended to proceed with …
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MULTIFACTORIAL SCREENING FOR FALL RISK IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS IN THE PRIMARY CARE OFFICE: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE FALL RISK ASSESSMENT & SCREENING TOOL (FRAST)
… and may have little opportunity to abate fall risk before the injuries occur.</p> <p>Purpose: This manuscript describes the content selection, development and validation of a simple-to-administer, multifactorial Fall Risk Assessment & Screening Tool (FRAST). The FRAST is designed specifically …
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MULTIFACTORIAL SCREENING FOR FALL RISK IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS IN THE PRIMARY CARE OFFICE: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE FALL RISK ASSESSMENT & SCREENING TOOL (FRAST)
… and may have little opportunity to abate fall risk before the injuries occur.</p> <p>Purpose: This manuscript describes the content selection, development and validation of a simple-to-administer, multifactorial Fall Risk Assessment & Screening Tool (FRAST). The FRAST is designed specifically …
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