OBJECTIVES The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the usefulness of the following four comorbidity indices in gastric cancer patients who underwent surgery: Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), Cumulative Illness rating scale (CIRS), Index of Co-existent Disease (ICED), and Kaplan-Feinstein Scale (KFS). METHODS The study subjects were 614 adults who underwent surgery for gastric cancer...

Medical students play an important role in promoting health because they are prospective doctors. considered who have sufficient knowledge and skills about a healthy lifestyle positive attitude towards health. In fact, there still many medical not implemented lifestyle. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between living attitudes with behavior patterns FK–UWKS class 2018...

AIM To investigate the ability of the preferential hyperacuity perimeter test to assess responsiveness to ranibizumab therapy for exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD). METHODS Fourteen consecutive patients with newly diagnosed choroidal neovascularisation underwent a preferential hyperacuity perimeter metamorphopsia test (main outcome measures) 1 h before (baseline) and 1 h, 1 day...

Methods Prospective observational study. Plasmatic levels of ProADM, C reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) and lactate in 110 consecutive patients admitted to ICU with severe sepsis / septic shock at days 1, 3 and 7 after admission. Clinical and demographic data: age, gender, comorbidities, APACHE II and SOFA scores. Recruited period over 12 months. Statistical analysis: c test for c...

No-reference image quality metrics are of fundamental interest as they can be embedded in practical applications. The main goal of this paper is to perform a comparative study of seven well known no-reference learning-based image quality algorithms. To test the performance of these algorithms, three public databases are used. As a first step, the trial algorithms are compared when no new learni...

BACKGROUND An absolute prerequisite to the effective management of dementia is its early diagnosis. Successful dementia screening requires precise and sensitive instruments that can be completed even by illiterate elderly people. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the cognitive state test (COST). MATERIALS AND METHODS This ...

A pair of linear orders L, L′ on an n-element set V is a concordance pair if the Kendall and Spearman correlation measures between L and L′ coincide. A graph is called concordance graph if it has the same number of induced three-vertex one-edged subgraphs as induced three-vertex twoedged subgraphs. It is known (see Fishburn and Monjardet (2000)) that (L, L′) is a concordance pair if and only if...

One of the most commonly used statistical methods is bivariate correlation analysis. However, it usually case that little or no attention given to power and sample size considerations when planning a study in which will be primary In fact, we reviewed studies published clinical research journals 2014, found none 111 articles presented results analyses included justification. It sometimes intere...

One of the important abilities of learners is to monitor their own learning process and take charge of their development. To this end and based on the correlational nature of the study design, total of 125 students (for the Winter semester of 2017) educating at Zanjan Universities (89 B.A. students of Islamic Azad University and 60 B.A. students of Payam-e-Noor University) were chosen as the st...

Introduction: Non-adherence to self-care is often found in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients. Non-compliance DM patients performing can affect the quality of life This study aimed explain relationship between management and Methods: research design was analytically observational with a cross-sectional approach. The sample this 80 respondents treated at RSUD Ibnu Sina Gresik purposive sampling tec...