BACKGROUND Patient adherence is an important component of the treatment of chronic disease. An understanding of patient adherence and its modulating factors is necessary to correctly interpret treatment efficacy and barriers to therapeutic success. PURPOSE This meta-analysis aims to systematically review published randomized controlled trials of reminder interventions to assist patient adhere...

In Chinese document image processing, text and/or graphical block detection serves as an essential step in document layout analysis that in turn permits the eeective reasoning about the logical relationships among various text paragraphs and graphical entities for the purpose of document understanding. This paper presents a novel computational paradigm for extracting text/graphic blocks from Ch...

Response surface methodology (RSM) is a well known technique in industrial statistics to identify optimal process and product settings. Most of the work in RSM were motivated by applications soon after World War II. Box and Wilson (1951) and Box (1957) set o® a wave of research in design, analysis and assessment of RSM. Hill and Hunter (1966) gave a detail review of work done during the 1950's ...

OBJECTIVE . To determine whether adding a reminder procedure to the personal handing out of questionnaires to patients by general practitioners (GPs) in a patient evaluation survey added further information to the study and whether this influenced the results of the evaluations fed back to the GPs. DESIGN Patient evaluation survey in general practice. STUDY PARTICIPANTS 6822 patients consul...

Although a deterministic polytime algorithm for primality testing is now known ([4]), the Rabin-Miller randomized test of primality continues being the most efficient and widely used algorithm. We prove the correctness of the Rabin-Miller algorithm in the theory V for polynomial time reasoning, from Fermat’s little theorem. This is interesting because the Rabin-Miller algorithm is a polytime ra...

Forgetting is in common in daily life, and 50-80% everyday’s forgetting is due to prospective memory failures, which have significant impacts on our life. More seriously, some of these memory lapses can bring fatal consequences such as forgetting a sleeping infant in the back seat of a car. People tend to use various techniques to improve their prospective memory performance. Setting up a remin...

to demonstrate more visibly the close relation between thecontinuity and integrability, a new proof for the banach-zareckitheorem is presented on the basis of the radon-nikodym theoremwhich emphasizes on measure-type properties of the lebesgueintegral. the banach-zarecki theorem says that a real-valuedfunction $f$ is absolutely continuous on a finite closed intervalif and only if it is continuo...

PURPOSE Between 23% and 34% of outpatient appointments are missed annually. Patients who frequently miss medical appointments have poorer health outcomes and are less likely to use preventive health care services. Missed appointments result in unnecessary costs and organizational inefficiencies. Appointment reminders may help reduce missed appointments; particular types may be more effective th...

BACKGROUND Although the percentage of women who initiate breast cancer screening is rising, the rate of continued adherence is poor. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a tailored print intervention compared with a non-tailored print intervention for increasing the breast cancer screening rate among a non-adherent population. METHODS In total, ...