INTRODUCTION The Short Opiate Withdrawal Scale (SOWS)-Gossop is a 10-item questionnaire developed to evaluate opioid withdrawal symptom severity. The scale was derived from the original 32-item Opiate Withdrawal Scale in order to reduce redundancy while providing an equally sensitive measure of opioid withdrawal symptom severity appropriate for research and clinical practice. The objective of t...

We aimed to examine the validity of fall risk assessment items for the healthy community-dwelling elderly Japanese population. Participants were 1122 healthy elderly individuals aged 60 years and over (380 males and 742 females). The percentage who had experienced a fall was 15.8%. This study used fall experience and 50 fall risk assessment items representing the five risk factors (symptoms of ...

BACKGROUND Globally, the population is ageing and lives with several chronic diseases for decades. A high symptom burden is associated with a high use of healthcare, admissions to nursing homes, and reduced quality of life. The aims of this study were to describe the multidimensional symptom profile and symptom burden in community-dwelling older people with multimorbidity, and to describe facto...

Previous studies have typically focused on the ability of cognitive symptom validity tests to identify cognitive symptom exaggeration in the context of head injury or memory loss. Few published studies have examined the detection of simulated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or reading disorder (RD). The present study examined the accuracy of symptom validity measures in the dete...

OBJECTIVE To identify potential prognostic factors affecting the survival in patients with advanced cancer in a local palliative care unit. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Palliative Care Unit of a regional hospital in Hong Kong. PATIENTS All advanced cancer in-patients and out-patients who were enrolled into the palliative care service of the United Christian Hospital between Ja...

this study historically analyzes the scientific output of mathematics to describe its structure, notions and scientific origin using the historiographical method. the research data consisted of scientific outputs of mathematics in isi database, science citation index (sci) and social science citation index (ssci) during 8 years (1990 to 2007). the data collection tool was the search engine and ...

INTRODUCTION Symptomatology, nasal endoscopy and Computerised Tomographic (CT) scan have been used to diagnose chronic rhinosinusitis. The value of disease severity score in the assessment of chronic rhinosinusitis has not been well investigated. Hence, this study aims to correlate the pre-operative symptom severity score as well as overall disease severity score of patients with chronic rhinos...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between incidence of lower urinary tract symptoms and erectile dysfunction in men aged ≥50 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed in 1644 men aged >50 years in Beijing. The International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF)-5 and International Prostate Symptom Score were recorded for each patient. Pear...

We compared the efficacy of naftopidil with that of tamsulosin hydrochloride for benign prostatic hyperplasia patients. Eighty-five patients without improvement of quality of life (QOL) score by the administration of 50-75 mg naftopidil for more than four weeks were assigned to receive doses of 0.1-0.2 mg tamsulosin hydrochloride and 89 patients without improvement of QOL score by the administr...

our aim was to evaluate the short and long term efficacy of botulinum toxin therapy in iranian patients with achalasia. in a randomized, double blind trial, 20 patients with achalasia, referring to imam khomeini hospital, received either 80 units of botulinum toxin (bt) or placebo (pl) from 1995 to 1998. two weeks later, the response to treatment was assessed on the basis of changes in the symp...