Byron J Gajewski

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..We will use both longitudinal quantitative surveys and qualitative focus group methods to examine key measures and determinants of initiation and use among this high risk group...

..The approach is attractive since it accounts for both parameter and sampling distribution uncertainties. We illustrate the approach using actual accrual data and discuss practical points surrounding the accrual problem...

..Should the nursing unit immediately undertake a quality improvement plan because of the rate difference from the national average (7%)?..

..We compare the ordinal probit BHM to an approximate random-effects (standard approach in the literature) model that assumes that the raw ordinal data are continuous...

..There is a need to examine the validity of the PES at both the individual and the unit level...

..We present our substantive path analysis motivated from a nursing home structure, process, and outcomes model. Our results focus on the impact job turnover in the nursing homes has on nursing home outcomes...

..We discuss the theoretical framework for these types of Bayesian designs and show that the Bayesian designs in this paper approximate this theoretical framework...

..We elicit informative prior distributions from the nursing home providers. Together, with the experimental data, this provides a posterior distribution of the kappa agreement of the raters for nursing home deficiency citation data...

..In particular, the study examined how two survey teams exposed to the same information at the same time differed in their interpretations...

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..Findings can be used to inform and develop investigations that examine specific aspects of the work environment for RN workgroups in various unit types...

..We select the informative priors via multiple methods determined by the mean, median or mode of the conjugate prior. These cases can result in varying sample sizes...

..The primary objective of this study was to assess energy intake in severely ill ICU patients and to evaluate the relationship of energy intake with clinical outcomes...

..Our intent is to provide a guide for radiation researchers when conducting studies involving microarray gene expression data...

..This would allow clinicians an alternative method for exercise testing and prescription to promote healthy lifestyle interventions for a variety of patient populations...

..These problems place them at high-risk for malnutrition, infection, heart diseases, and psychiatric sequelae...

..The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of single limb exercise (SLE) on femoral artery blood flow, diameter, and peak flow velocity in the hemiparetic leg after stroke...

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..However, the molecular basis for the positive actions of exercise remains poorly understood. Recent studies suggest that neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) may act in an analgesic fashion in various pain states...

..The purpose of this study was to identify the contributing factors of exertion fatigue and chronic fatigue in people post-stroke...

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..To identify risk factors for pressure ulcer (PrU) development in older adult home health patients from admission Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data...

..We determined the incidence of VTE among nursing home residents as 1.30 events per 100 person-years of observation...

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..However, surgeon 1, using the surgical procedure "semicircular canal", does not pose a significantly greater than 40 per cent chance of a 15dB hearing loss unless there is a Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced infection...

..The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of treadmill peak exercise testing in people with very mild-to-mild Alzheimer disease (AD)...

..CONCLUSION: Hyperbaric compression does not compromise auditory or vestibular function in guinea pig ears with experimental PLF. SIGNIFICANCE: Our observations support the relative safety of recompression in patients with PLF...