نتایج جستجو برای: disease surveys

تعداد نتایج: 1560493  

2011
Raymond J. King Celia Cordon-Rosales Jonathan Cox Clive R. Davies Uriel D. Kitron

BACKGROUND Guatemala is presently engaged in the Central America Initiative to interrupt Chagas disease transmission by reducing intradomiciliary prevalence of Triatoma dimidiata, using targeted cross-sectional surveys to direct control measures to villages exceeding the 5% control threshold. The use of targeted surveys to guide disease control programs has not been evaluated. Here, we compare ...

Journal: :Progress in clinical and biological research 1987
H Yanagawa

Kawasaki disease was first described by Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki in 1967. This disease is an acute, febrile illness primarily affecting infants and children younger than 4 years old. Although this disease is characterized by systemic vasculitis, the etiology is still unknown. To clarify the epidemiologic features of Kawasaki disease, nationwide surveys have been conducted since 1970. Approximately...

2016
Renske J. M. van der Zwet Deirdre M. Beneken genaamd Kolmer René Schalk

OBJECTIVES This study assesses social workers' orientation toward the evidence-based practice (EBP) process and explores which specific variables (e.g. age) are associated. METHODS Data were collected from 341 Dutch social workers through an online survey which included a Dutch translation of the EBP Process Assessment Scale (EBPPAS), along with 13 background/demographic questions. RESULTS ...

Journal: :BMC Neurology 2009
Jesús de Pedro-Cuesta Javier Virués-Ortega Saturio Vega Manuel Seijo-Martínez Pedro Saz Fernanda Rodríguez Angel Rodríguez-Laso Ramón Reñé Susana Pérez de las Heras Raimundo Mateos Pablo Martínez-Martín José María Manubens Ignacio Mahillo-Fernandez Secundino López-Pousa Antonio Lobo Jordi Llinàs Reglà Jordi Gascón Francisco José García Manuel Fernández-Martínez Raquel Boix Félix Bermejo-Pareja Alberto Bergareche Julián Benito-León Ana de Arce José Luis del Barrio

BACKGROUND This study describes the prevalence of dementia and major dementia subtypes in Spanish elderly. METHODS We identified screening surveys, both published and unpublished, in Spanish populations, which fulfilled specific quality criteria and targeted prevalence of dementia in populations aged 70 years and above. Surveys covering 13 geographically different populations were selected (p...

2002
Joost M.E. Pennings Scott H. Irwin Darrel L. Good

A large percentage of farmers do not respond to mail surveys. To gain insight into why farmers do not respond and how to improve response rates, a three-step research design was developed. First, an initial survey, based on in-person interviews with 15 farmers, was sent to 100 farmers. Second, farmers who did not respond to this mail survey were contacted by phone to investigate the reasons for...

Journal: :International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care 2014
Tsung-Hsien Yu Kuo-Piao Chung

OBJECTIVE Quality improvement (QI) methods have been fashionable in hospitals for decades. Previous studies have discussed the relationships between the implementation of QI methods and various external and internal factors, but there has been no examination to date of whether the neighbourhood effect influences such implementation. The aim of this study was to use a multilevel model to investi...

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