CONTEXT At present, there is no widely used systematic evidence-based holistic approach to assessment of patients' supportive and palliative care needs. OBJECTIVES To determine whether the use of a holistic needs assessment questionnaire, Sheffield Profile for Assessment and Referral for Care (SPARC), will lead to improved health care outcomes for patients referred to a palliative care servic...

This is the first statistical analysis to understand how economic globalization affects earnings of native-born and immigrant populations with different racial and ethnic backgrounds in Canada. Draw on four measures of economic globalization: number of non-resident workers in CMAs, number of companies with foreign investment, size of financial industry, and volume of equity trading, our study f...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Little attention has been focused on quality of life in stroke outcome research. The purpose of this review is to outline the meaning of the concept, describe important methodological issues and methods of assessment, review existing quality of life measures, and discuss criteria for selecting an appropriate instrument. SUMMARY OF REVIEW The following 10 quality of life...

OBJECTIVES The study described in this article examined the effect of home versus clinic settings on the instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) performance of older adults. METHOD Twenty older adults living in the community were evaluated in their homes and in an occupational therapy clinic with the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS). The motor and process ability measures ...

Previous research has reported that the real estate market for retail space is slow to adjust, however, comparatively little research has investigated the supply of retail space for individual metropolitan markets. This study presents our findings by metropolitan statistical area (MSA) of the mean retail space supply lag, the shortand long-run retail space supply elasticities with respect to re...

BACKGROUND Nasometry has supplemented perceptual assessments of nasality, using speech stimuli, which are devoid of nasal consonants. However, such speech stimuli are not representative of conversational speech. A weak relationship has been found in previous studies between perceptual ratings of hypernasality and nasalance scores for passages containing nasal consonants. AIMS This study aimed...

background and objectives: patient satisfaction is an important indicator of the quality of health and healthcare services. most relevant studies in iran have been conducted in the nation’s capital, and there is a lack of large-scale studies in other regions of this country. in order to help filling this gap, this study was designed to undertake a relatively large-scale assessment of patient sa...

introduction: the relationship between depression and coronary artery disease is well established; however assessment of this relationship using functional and semi-quantitative imaging (myocardial perfusion scintigraphy) was lacking. the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the severity of depression and the severity of myocardial perfusion abnormality. methods: patients we...

Over the period 1987-1991 an inter-disciplinary five-country group developed the EuroQol instrument, a five-dimensional three-level generic measure subsequently termed the 'EQ-5D'. It was designed to measure and value health status. The salient features of its development and its consolidation and expansion are discussed. Initial expansion came, in particular, in the form of new language versio...

Despite their limitations, mental status tests and self/proxy reports of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) are often used to predict functional competence. In contrast, the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) is a direct observational assessment of IADL competence. Sixty-four community-dwelling elderly (20 Alzheimer's disease [AD] patients and 44 nondemented) were assesse...