Setting: Urban slums and poor rural areas in India, 2012-2014. Objective: To describe the characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) patients enrolled in treatment through Operation ASHA, a non-governmental organisation serving disadvantaged populations in India, and to identify risk factors for unfavourable treatment outcomes. Design: This was a retrospective cohort study. Patient characteristics we...

Chair: Meeta Co-Chairs: Leela Digumarti, Neelam Agarwal, Nirmala Vaze, Rashmi Shah, Sonia Malik. Advisory Board: Asha Kapadia, Atul Munshi, Duru Shah, Rama Vaidya, Saroj Srivastava, Sonia Malik, Sunila Khandelwal, Urvashi Prasad Jha. External Review Board: Anita Gadgil, Dayasagar, G R Sridhar, Hema Divakar, P K Shah, Rakesh Sahay, Sanjay Kalra. Resource Faculty: Alka Kumar, Anil Mahajan, Ani...

PURPOSE To determine what research evidence exists to support the use of voice measures in the clinical assessment of patients with voice disorders. METHOD The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) National Center for Evidence-Based Practice in Communication Disorders staff searched 29 databases for peer-reviewed English-language articles between January 1930 and April 2009 that...

The state-of-the art proof of a global inf-sup condition on mixed finite element schemes does not allow for an analysis of truly indefinite, second-order linear elliptic PDEs. This paper, therefore, first analyses a nonconforming finite element discretization which converges owing to some a priori L2 error estimates even for reduced regularity on non-convex polygonal domains. An equivalence res...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) in patients suffering from dysphagia following treatment for head and neck cancer. In a prospective, double blinded, randomized case control study between January 2006 and December 2007, 14 patients were randomized to 30min of NMES and 30min of traditional swallowing training for 5 days per week ...

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Conclusion: The implication of HCV and/or HBV co-infection in apparently healthy HIV positive blood donors is of utmost importance as they mostly lie within the reproductive age group of 21-40 years. The knowledge of the co-infection in such cases is vital due to the increased risk of the sexual and perinatal transmission of the hepatitis virus along with increased hepatotoxicity with antiretro...

Objective: The objective of the study was to knowledge practice gap Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHAs) about her work profile from northern India. Methods: carried out between June 2021 and November 2021. comprised all 97 local ASHA employees, who were questioned using a self-made semi-structured questionnaire. Results: Data collected 94 workers. 91 (96.8%) workers completed 8th standard...

ENWEndNote BIBJabRef, Mendeley RISPapers, Reference Manager, RefWorks, Zotero AMA Vas AK, Spees S, Wang W, Chambers K. Cognitive- Physical-Functional Correlates in Chronic Brain Injury: A Pilot Study. Advances Rehabilitation / Postępy Rehabilitacji. 2022. doi:10.5114/areh.2022.123141. APA Vas, A. K., Spees, S., Wang, W., & Chambers, (2022). https://doi.org/10.5114/areh.2022.123141 Chicago Asha ...