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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"medical screening"”.
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Public Acceptance of Medical Screening Recommendations, Safety Risks, and Implied Liabilities Requirements for Space Flight Participation
… to explore the public acceptance of the current medical screening recommended guidance and the regulations for safety risk and implied liability for space flight participation. Independent variables constituted participant demographic representations while dependent variables represented current …
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"Can I get a second opinion?" How user characteristics impact trust in automation in a medical screening task
… automotive, security, and food service. In the medical field, advances in automation allow for disease classification, diagnosis, and even treatment recommendations. Technological advances have improved diagnoses by automated devices such that many cases can be more accurately diagnosed by a …
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Medical complications during a community-based mass participation endurance running event – an investigation of the epidemiology and risk factors associated with medical complications, with recommendations for risk mitigation
… epidemiology and risk factors associated with medical complications, including life-threatening complications during distance running events has not been well described. The aims of this research were to document the incidence of medical complications (study 1), determine risk factors …
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Why clinical practice guidelines shift over time : a dynamic model with application to prostate cancer screening
… Long-Term Trends in Prostate Cancer Screening Cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease. After 35 years of routine cancer screening, we still have only a limited understanding of screening dynamics. There is evidence of over-screening and …
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Study of Personnel Attrition and Revocation within U.S. Marine Corps Air Traffic Control Specialties
… selection criteria be augmented with improved medical screening at Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS) and recruit depots, to include non-cognitive testing, such as Navy Computer Adaptive Personality Scales (NCAPS), during recruitment. It is also recommended that an economic analysis …
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The prevalence of physical illness in defendants referred for psychiatric observation
The rationale of doing thorough medical screening of all psychiatric patients is clear, because there is a relationship between medical illness and mental illness. It remains unresolved which screening tests should be performed routinely in general psychiatric patients even though the prevalence of …
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Improved Communication for Safer Patient Care: The Implementation of SBAR
… alternative, whilst adhering to Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) provider medical screening (MSE) requirements. A microsystem assessment incorporating staff and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) surveys, in addition to observational data, indicated a need …
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What makes personalized medicine work? : an empirical analysis of the role of product attributes, medical professional societies and patient groups in the diffusion of four breast cancer genetic tests
… is the science and practice of customizing medical screening and treatment plans for an individual based on his or her genomic profile. Breast cancer is one of the first disease areas to serve as an example of this approach, where most patients have experienced its benefits through the use …
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Non-medical approach to screening young men and women for chlamydia trachomatis
… were to assess the feasibility of accessing non-medical settings within which to offer chlamydia screening, to ascertain the knowledge of chlamydia and young men’s and women’s views towards non-medical screening, and to assess relative willingness to be screened for chlamydia by young men and …
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Evaluation of a stage II screening protocol for prostate cancer
… of cancer death in Canada. During PCa population screening, approximately 25% of patients with a normal digital rectal examination (DRE) and intermediate serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) level have PCa. Since all patients typically undergo biopsy, it is expected that approximately 75% of …
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Acoustic metamaterial design and applications
… essential tools for nondestructive testing and medical screening. However, the spatial resolution of the conventional acoustic imaging methods is restricted by the incident wavelength of ultrasound. This is due to the quickly fading evanescent fields which carry the subwavelength features of …
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Knowledge, Perceptions and Practices of Cervical Cancer Screening among Women aged between 15 and 49 selected Clinics of Lusaka District
… CC, like sensitization and advocacy around the screening of cervical cancer or carrying out a Pap smear. The overall aim of this study was to determine the Knowledge, Perceptions and Practices of Cervical Cancer Screening (CCS) among women aged between 15 and 49 years in Lusaka District. The …
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Factors influencing utilization of cervical cancer screening services by women at selected clinics of Lusaka urban district of Zambia
… due to under-utilization of cervical cancer screening service (CCSS). Lusaka urban district is privileged to have a lot of screening centres, yet the debate is whether, having the screening programme, has impacted on all women aged 18 years and above, as low utilisation rates have been …
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Acceptance and determinants of HIV counselling and child testing among mothers on prevention of mother to child transmission in Kitwe urban district in Zambia
Research has shown that exclusively breastfed HFV exposed infants have lower mortality and morbidity. It is against this background that the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended that infants born to HIV positive women should be exclusively breastfed until replacement feeding …
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Factors influencing utilization of cervical cancer screening services by women at selected clinics of Lusaka urban district of Zambia
… due to under-utilization of cervical cancer screening service (CCSS). Lusaka urban district is privileged to have a lot of screening centres, yet the debate is whether, having the screening programme, has impacted on all women aged 18 years and above, as low utilisation rates have been …
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Breast and Testicular Cancer Screening Activities of Nurse Practitioners
… would be effective providers of quality cancer screening (Reed & Selleck, 1996; Safriet, 1992). Breast cancer and testicular cancer claim the lives of more men and women in the U.S. each year. The prognosis for recovery from breast and testicular cancer is directly related to the stage of the …
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The Ethical Argument for Implementing Screening For Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Care of Adult Patients
… of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) screening tool in the 1990s, many providers have attempted to screen and intervene on these past experiences of trauma with mixed results. ACEs have an outsized impact on adult health. There is considerable literature documenting the changing state …
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Increasing cervical cancer screening in a rural population through a multifaceted educational intervention
The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to design and implement a multicomponent evidence-based educational intervention for the patients and providers in a rural health clinic in Mid-Michigan with the goal of increasing the proportion of CCS performed and increasing the amount of …
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The relative importance of barriers to cervical cancer screening in older women : A review of 140 women and their pap smear providers
… is a notable age related decrease in levels of screening and women aged over 50 years with later, more invasive disease. One hundred and forty women aged between 50 and 69 years (M "'58.21 years) and 23 Pap smear providers completed a Cervical Cancer Screening Questionnaire designed to identify …
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