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Showing 1 to 20 of 209 for “"outcome measure"”.
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Developing a patient-centred outcome measure for patients suffering with pernicious anaemia
… symptom perception and treatment expectation and outcome suggest the centrality of psychological factors in managing this condition. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been suggested as an important health indicator in clinical outcomes in terms of determining the impact of illness on …
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Development and validation of a patient-based outcome measure for endodontic treatment
… of Cohen and Jago initiated an interest in the measurement of health related quality of life measures in dentistry. Clinical measures to assess oral health from the dentist’s perspective do not necessarily measure well-being. The patient reported outcome measures are an important tool to measure …
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Developing a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for postpartum care in Ireland
Background and Aims: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are validated tools completed by patients to assess the impact of an intervention or therapy on them. In recent years, PROMs have gained attention for their patient-centred focus. However, there is no gold standard for assessing …
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Development and validation of a functional outcome measure package for total knee arthroplasty
Functional improvement is an important outcome following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). According to recent research, three-dimensional motion analysis is the most scientific method of measuring dynamic knee function. Nevertheless, current protocols are too time consuming and complicated for …
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Development of an outcome measure for occupational therapists in mental health care settings
… to health care. Currently no effective outcome measure for occupational therapists in mental health practices exists for the South African context . The development of an outcomes measuring system is much needed in these crucial times of cost-cutting, rendering quality of care with the …
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Cognition and Motor Function: A Novel Outcome Measure for Studies on Pre-Dementia Syndromes
… Cognitive Impairment. The current gold standard outcome measure, the Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale, is not optimally responsive to changes in pre-dementia populations. Modifications to scoring methodology and content have improved the measurement performance of the …
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Occupations as an Outcome Measure in a Clinical Trial: Fragile X Syndrome and Sertraline
… and norm-referenced assessments. However, these outcome measures are sometimes not sensitive to contextually based changes in daily life. Further, there is limited research employing qualitative methods in the FXS literature. The purpose of this research was to examine family perspectives …
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Living with Fragile X Syndrome: Occupations as an Outcome Measure in a Clinical Trial
… the use of semi-structured interviews as an outcome measure in a clinical trial for children with fragile X syndrome (FXS). A qualitative approach was used to analyze twenty-five parent interviews with children with FXS who participated in a double-blind medication trial. Each participant …
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Evaluating Technical Adequacy Features of Sentence Verification Technique as a General Outcome Measure of Content Knowledge
… verification technique (SVT) as a formative measure of science content knowledge. SVT probes were administered to 130 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students at 2 PK-6 schools for 5 months, as well as the abbreviated Stanford Achievement Test, 10th Edition, as a criterion measure. Monthly SVT …
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The use of computer aided lung sound analysis to characterise adventitious lung sounds: a potential outcome measure for respiratory therapy
… insufficient accurate, reliable and sensitive outcome measures. Lung sounds provide useful, specific information for assessing and monitoring respiratory patients. However, standard auscultation techniques are too subjective to allow them to be used as an outcome measure. In this research, …
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A Study of the Construct Validity of the Interactive Computer Interview System (ICIS) using Student Evaluations as the Outcome Measure
… of the ICIS employment interview tool as measured by student satisfaction by examining the correlation between the scores obtained through interviews of forty high school teachers and the affective responses of their students as measured through a Likert survey instrument. The teachers …
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The effectiveness and acceptability of a computerised cognitive behavioural therapy programme and the psychometric properties of its service user generated outcome measure
… and "patient as expert" quality of life outcome measures in order to improve accessibility to services and actively involve service users in the delivery of their care. Aims: The first reported piece of research was a naturalistic non-randomised study carried out to establish the …
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Improving cardiac rehabilitation session attendance using the Self-Regulatory Model and motivational interviewing: A randomised controlled trial
… their first Phase III CR class were recruited. Outcome Measures: The primary outcome measure was the number of rehabilitation exercise sessions attended, providing data on participant adherence to the programme. The Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised was used as a secondary outcome …
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A comparative evaluation of data mining classification techniques on medical trauma data
… cases into the different categories of an outcome measure from a given set of input variables (i.e. estimate their classification accuracy) on a common database.
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THINKING ABOUT ONLINE SOURCES: EXPLORING STUDENTS' EPISTEMIC COGNITION IN INTERNET-BASED CHEMISTRY LEARNING
… aims and source beliefs-and learning outcome in an Internet-based research context. Based on a framework of epistemic cognition (Chinn, Buckland, & Samarapungavan, 2011), a context-specific epistemic aims and source beliefs questionnaire (CEASBQ) was developed and administered to 354 …
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Imaging Myelin Basic Protein expression in a model of remyelination by Magnetic Resonance Imaging using an Organic Anion Transporter Protein gene reporter system.
… both approaches. However, there are no current outcome measures providing direct evidence of OPCs differentiation to assess the efficacy of a remyelination therapy. This thesis presents data which it is hoped will form the foundation of a novel outcome measure for such therapies. It demonstrates …
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Implementing the WeeFIM System in Outpatient Pediatric Rehabilitation
… (CARF) requires that applicants demonstrate outcome measure data over a 6 month time period. During the self-evaluation process this was noted to be a deficiency in the department’s efforts. The WeeFIM system was chosen as the first tool to implement in the department. This is a functional …
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A mixed methods investigation into aspects of medication wastage in Malta.
… focusing on wastage reduction as an outcome measure. Findings indicated that only one published paper reported a definition of medication wastage. The main factors contributing to wastage were change in medication, patient's death, resolution of patient's condition and passed expiry …
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