Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
... to home care and district nurses, but also allow predicting positive nurse and patient outcomes in those settings," Flynn noted. From its headquarters at Rutgers Newark, Rutgers College of Nursing offers a broad range of academic programs on all three Rutgers campuses. The college offers a master's program w...Waist size linked to diabetes risk in adult men
...ause it is a better measure of central obesity for predicting the risk of type 2 diabetes and is subject to fewe...ison of abdominal adiposity and overall obesity in predicting risk of type 2 diabetes among men" was written by Youfa Wang, Eric B. Rimm, Meir J. Stampfer, Walter...US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
... Illinois at Chicago professor S. Jay Olshansky is predicting a decline in life expectancy in the United States later this century. That prediction, which is based on the dramatic rise in obesity, especially among young people and minorities, is from a special report appearing in the March 17 issue in the New E...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...responsive to change in walking and most useful in predicting gait outcomes. Rat study may aid in testing medications and other treatments for urinary incontinence, pg 109 This study tests the short-term effects and functional changes in the urethra in female rats after nerve injury. Fifty-four female rats u...Violence exposure and traumatic stress reactions can lead to poor health in children
... adverse childhood experiences also play a role in predicting their health. Sandra Graham-Bermann, Ph.D. and Jul...d the overall health of the mother were factors in predicting children's health problems. While preventing family and community violence may be beyond the contr...Computer model being developed at Stanford may help surgeons better predict patient outcomes
...ring expertise to try to take the guesswork out of predicting surgical outcomes. For the last decade, Taylor has been taking the detailed information of diagnostic imaging tools like MRI and CT scans and using it to form the basis of computer modeling programs that can help foresee the results of medical interv...Biochemical marker aids prognosis in liver transplant patients
...gnificantly increased the accuracy of the score in predicting short-term mortality. "In our study, the prevalence of hyponatremia was significantly higher in patients who died within 3 months (63 percent) than in those who survived 3 months (13 percent)," the authors note. "Similarly, patients with hyponatremia...Gene signature can predict breast cancer spread
...e years (93% sensitivity) but was less accurate at predicting patients whose disease did not return within 5 years (48% specificity). Dr Foekens concludes: "Since only 30-40% of untreated lymph-node negative patients develop tumour recurrence, our prognostic signature could provide a powerful tool to identify t...Other highlights in the February 2 JNCI
...lymph node metastases, therefore, is important for predicting patient outcomes and ensuring that patients receive necessary treatment. Current guidelines recommend that a minimum of 12 lymph nodes be examined to ensure adequate sampling. To determine if colorectal cancer patients receive adequate lymph node eva...Balancing care decisions for gravely ill patients
...ly sophisticated and widely used computer tool for predicting outcomes, was more than five times more pessimistic than what they observed in their extremely ill subset of patients. The researchers also noted that physician insights of the likelihood of survival of some groups of ICU patients were considerably m...Background 'DWI' checks effective
...ks for DWI histories as a legitimate indicator for predicting which pilots are at greater risk of having a crash, and can be used effectively to prevent crashes," says study co-author Susan Baker, M.P.H., a professor of emergency medicine at Hopkins and a professor of health policy and management at the Bloombe...International gathering at UH examines top computer code
...low the path of particles in computer simulations, predicting the distribution of how these particles interact with the matter they encounter. Another medical application of FLUKA is the planning and evaluation of radiation therapy for the treatment of tumors. "Not only can FLUKA be used to determine the th...Assessing the season: LSU hurricane experts learned lessons during Hurricane Season 2004
...wasn't all that unusual. "Long-term forecasts are predicting a return to something more reminiscent of the 30s, 40s and 50s. The next two or three decades are expected to be busier and more active than what we've experienced over the last 40 or so years."...Research by scientists affiliated with the Earth Institute at Columbia University
...deglaciation, with an accurate new methodology for predicting changes in sea level as a result of changes in land ice volume. Climate Change ORIGINS OF ARCTIC SOOT The fragile Arctic is especially susceptible to the impacts of particles and other pollution. Soot, transported to the Arctic fr...Molecular tailoring of chemotherapy with novel imaging techniques
...have tumor markers, we don't have reliable ways of predicting who is going to respond early on to chemotherapy," says Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine, Genetics, and Pharmacology. "Currently cancer patients get their chemo and you can't tell if they're responding for several...Small social circles tied to heart disease death in women
...ically more important than social network size for predicting coronary disease death rates. Women with small social networks were also much more likely to make less than $20,000 a year, they discovered. Although the findings point to a link between social isolation and low incomes, "it would be unwarranted from...Computer program helps doctors diagnose lung cancer
...tly improves the performance of the radiologist in predicting malignancies of the masses. Radiologists with computers are able to detect more cancers than radiologists by themselves. We expect that CAD for lung cancer can achieve similar results," says Lubomir Hadjiyski, Ph.D., research assistant professor of R...NIH launches new study to compare prostate surgery and drugs
...ters, will be tracked in search of characteristics predicting likely outcome and effectiveness of therapies. "Having a protocol to fit the man to the therapy without having to try each treatment along the way should translate into lower costs and more-satisfied patients," said John W. Kusek, Ph.D., a clin...Determining which pancreatic cancers are treatable
...uted tomography (CT) scan is just as successful in predicting whether pancreatic cancer is treatable surgically as a more invasive diagnostic tool, according to an Indiana University School of Medicine study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Approximately 30,700 cases of pancreatic cancer are diagno......cy-induced hypertension are significant factors in predicting whether women will experience depressive symptoms soon after giving birth, says a University of Toronto researcher. U of T nursing professor Cindy-Lee Dennis and colleagues at the University of British Columbia have developed a model that predicts wh...