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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Routine data"”.
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Exploring the Childhood Dental Caries-Bodyweight Relationship: A Quality Assessment of Routinely Collected Data
<b>Background</b>: There is great potential for routinely collected data to be used to examine oral-systemic conditions that share common determinants such as childhood bodyweight and dental caries. However, knowledge of the current use, quality and collection of such routine data is limited. The …
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Application of dynamic prediction models for longitudinal biomarkers and clinical outcomes in low and middle-income settings
Routine monitoring of individuals with chronic diseases offers valuable data for understanding disease progression and treatment effectiveness, often using biomarkers. With the modernisation of clinical care, prediction models have received greater attention in analysing such data. Prognosis …
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Characteristics and outcome of long-stay patients in a paediatric intensive care unit in Cape Town, South Africa
… Methods: A retrospective descriptive study of routine data collected over one calendar year (2009) from a 20-bedded multidisciplinary PICU was conducted. The definition of a LSP in this setting was established using various models. The characteristics and outcomes of the long- and short- stay …
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Developing intelligence to understand and prevent violence and alcohol-related harms in nightlife settings
… and localpolicies and strategies. The use of data and evidence to understand the nature of the problem and to inform, target, monitor and evaluate preventive activities is fundamental to this approach. This thesis and supporting publications illustrate how my research has supported the public …
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Review of the Effects of Diabetes Mellitus Group Education with Practitioner-directed Insulin Dosage Adjustments on Glycaemic Control at a Public Sector Primary Health Care Clinic in Khayelitsha
… in the short and medium term. Methods: Using routine data, glycaemic control was assessed before, after and three years after the intervention. Additionally, patients' change in glycaemic control over a three-year period was compared to a control group. Results: After the group education …
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Ancillary Scientific Instrument Attachment (ASIA): A Distributed Hitchhiker Payload Carrier
… All it requires are single-string power and data connections, and a location to mount the bus structure. The unit includes power regulation; data collection and storage; command processing; thermal control; and structural support. As many as five small scientific instruments can be included, …
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A review of the routine monitoring data for antiretroviral patients in the public health sector in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… a monitoring system to provide quarterly outcome data for patients on ART. [Aims and Objectives] This study aims to describe and describe and analyse routine data produced on defined clinical and immunological outcomes of patients on ART by the monitoring system, thus assessing the feasibility of …
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Is access to and use of Exercise Referral Schemes equitable?
… Greater London to identify schemes with suitable routine data collection to participate in the equity analysis. Thirdly, the thesis presents a cross-sectional analysis of 7985 patients referred by general practices to ERSs operating in six PCTs between April 2004 - March 2006. The main outcome …
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From Data to Knowledge in Secondary Health Care Databases
The advent of big data in health care is a topic receiving increasing attention worldwide. In the UK, over the last decade, the National Health Service (NHS) programme for Information Technology has boosted big data by introducing electronic infrastructures in hospitals and GP practices across the …
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Holding pieces of the same puzzle: using an understanding of the prevalence and impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to target mental health resources
… to which different ACEs can be measured using routinely-collected data, and what early interventions might be indicated to support the mental health of young people who experience them. Methods: The thesis comprises a rapid literature review and survey of experts to understand mental health …
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Feasibility, validity and utility of HIV testing data as key components of HIV case-based surveillance
… CBS involves gathering individual-level data for each person diagnosed and linking these data from multiple data sources to other key data points along the HIV care cascade. Despite the high burden of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and existing routine HIV program monitoring, opportunities to …
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Social and Clinical attributes of patients who restart Antiretroviral Therapy at 5 ART Centers in Central and Copperbelt Provinces of Zambia
… (ART) services in Zambia and has been collecting routine data on patients who default and restart ART. This study aims to describe and determine the association between the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of these patients. Methods: A longitudinal retrospective analysis of data from …
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Social and Clinical attributes of patients who restart Antiretroviral Therapy at 5 ART Centers in Central and Copperbelt Provinces of Zambia
… (ART) services in Zambia and has been collecting routine data on patients who default and restart ART. This study aims to describe and determine the association between the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of these patients. Methods: A longitudinal retrospective analysis of data from …
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An assessment of the management of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in a rural district health ward of Northern Kwazulu
… general practitioners was also conducted. Using routine data collection forms, the spectrum of STD syndromes and the contact tracing rate were assessed. The private sector treated nearly a third of the STDs even though they charge about ten times the price of the public sector services. In …
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Evaluating viral load monitoring in antiretroviral-experienced HIV-positive pregnant women accessing antenatal care in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
… between July 2013 and June 2014. The study used routine data from facility registers, clinical records and electronic monitoring systems at the MOU, and referral ART sites and hospitals. Data collected included age, ART clinic, start date and regimen, and maternal VL and infant PCR results. …
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From Intuition to Evidence: A Data-Driven Approach to Transforming CS Education
… generate a great deal of meaningful intermediate data and statistics during the grading process. Continuous collection of these data and long-term retention of collected data present educators with a new resource to assess both learning (how well students understand a topic or how they behave on …
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Are people with diabetes on an equal footing? Examining administrative healthcare data for variables associated with diabetes foot-related hospital admissions in Aotearoa New Zealand
… strategies to improve outcomes, and gaps in routine data collection to guide improvements in care. Methods: Hospitalisations caused by DFD in people aged ≥15 years were identified using ICD10-AM discharge codes in (a) Auckland City Hospital (ACH) between 1 Jul 2014 to 30 Jun 2019 and (b) 2016 …
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An in-depth analysis of comorbidities in the context of HIV burden, in a cohort of patients seeking healthcare at Khayelitsha facilities in 2016-2017
… facilities in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Methods: Routinely collected data for healthcare clients accessing care in public facilities in 2016/17 were obtained from the Western Cape Provincial Health Data Centre, and analysed to describe ascertained comorbidities, comparing the profiles of PLHIV and …
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An evaluation of the implementation of the 3-tiered ART monitoring system in South Africa
… was unable to monitor the program outcomes using routine data. In December 2010 the South Africa National Department of Health adopted a standardized ART monitoring strategy referred to as the 3-Tiered Strategy. The System provides facilities with different options for cohort monitoring based on …
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