Herpes: Issues Under the Cold Sore~!2010-04-23~!2010-07-12~!2010-08-10~!

Herpes: Issues Under the Cold Sore

Herpes simplex virus is a widespread disease affecting about one-third of the world’s population. Many individuals suffer from its painful and debilitating manifestations, which greatly impact daily living and can lower one’s self-esteem and confidence. It is therefore vital to understand this disease process including its acquisition, replication, transmission, clinical manifestations, diagnos...

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Objective: To validate a revision of the Mini Nutritional Assessment short-form (MNA®-SF) against the full MNA, a standard tool for nutritional evaluation. Methods: A literature search identified studies that used the MNA for nutritional screening in geriatric patients. The contacted authors submitted original datasets that were merged into a single database. Various combinations of the questio...

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Objectives: To explore the association between depressive symptoms and risk for malnutrition in hospitalized elderly people. Methods: 195 hospitalized medical patients older than 65 years of age were studied in a cross-sectional design. Depression was assessed by 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), nutritional status was evaluated by the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA). Eating and diges...

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Current practice in economic evaluation is to assign equal social value to a unit of health improvement (“a QALY is a QALY is a QALY”). Alternative views of equity are typically considered separately to efficiency. One proposal seeks to integrate these two sets of societal concerns by attaching equity weights to QALYs. To date, research in pursuit of this goal has focussed on candidate equity c...