Outcome measures may be simple questions or complex measures that assess multiple interrelated domains affecting treatment outcomes. Outcome measures should be relevant to patients, easy to use, reliable, valid, and responsive to clinical changes. Joint and disease-specific outcome measures have been developed for the hip, knee, and foot and ankle. Many of these measures would benefit from furt...

Resolving conflicts between students and their parents could lead to improvements in academic achievement. As a result, ways of helping with such an outcome are of significance. It can be hypothesized that improvements in moral and spiritual intelligence could lead to such resolutions. To explore this relationship, from among 450 high school students selected randomly, a group of 90 students wi...

Söderberg, Per & Tungström, Stefan (2007). Outcome in psychiatric outpatient services: Reliability, validity and outcome based on routine assessments with the GAF scale. Doctoral dissertation from the Department of Psychology, Umeå University, S-901 87 UMEÅ, Sweden: ISBN 91-7264-240-8; ISBN 978-91-7264-240-9 The general aim of the studies presented in this thesis is to investigate the possibili...

I n recognition of our inability to halt damaging ecosystem change (1– 4), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was asked in December 2010 to convene a meeting " to determine modalities and institutional arrangements " of a new assessment body, akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to track causes and consequences of anthropogenic ecosystem change (5). The " b...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the assessment scheme for people aged 75, to establish doctors' and nurses' views on the value of the assessment scheme, and to seek patients' opinions on elderly assessments. DESIGN Data on the assessment process were collected from individual practices. Questionnaires were sent to doctors and practice nurses undertaking assessments and to a sample of elderly patients....

This study investigated whether alcohol use affects baseline characteristics and treatment outcome in 128 adults who participated in a randomized trial of cognitive behavioral vs. 12-step treatment for crack cocaine abuse. Assessments were taken at baseline and weeks 4, 8, 12, and 26 on biologically-verified cocaine abstinence and psychometric measures. Alcohol use was measured at intake and su...

drug abuse in pregnancy is not uncommon, and the use of illicit opioids during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes. the aim of the study was to assess neonatal outcome of pregnancy with maternal addiction. materials and methods:   in this cohort study we assessed 100 pregnant women 15 -49 years old. to identify drug exposure was used self- questionnaire (self-repo...

BACKGROUND There have been only a small number of studies that have evaluated the outcome of post-stroke delirium. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of gender, age, stroke localization, delirium severity, previous illnesses, associated medical complications on delirium outcome as well as, to determine effects of delirium on cognitive functioning one year after stroke. PATIENTS AND METHODS ...

Recent developments using direc.ted a.C"yclical graphs (i .e., influence diagrams and Bayesian networks) for knowledge representation have lessened the problems of using probability in knowledge-based systems (KBS). 11ost current research involves the efficient propagation of new evidenee, but, lit.tle has been done concerning the maint.e­ nance of domain-specific knowledge, which includes the ...