Departments of 1Dermatology and 2Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; 3Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; 4Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco; 5Department of Health Research Policy and Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and 6Department of R...

Aim: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders and associated pain among intensive care nurses are important, as these factors may be related to presenteeism work engagement. The aim of this study was investigate the potential association with engagement nurses. 
 Material Method: This descriptive carried out members Turkish Society Critical Care Nurses. All participants completed a questionn...

to provide an overview of the development of health technology assessment (hta) in iran since 2007, and to facilitate further development of hta and its integration into policy making.data of this study were collected through key documents (e.g. literature, laws, and other official documentation) and analyzed by experts of opinion in form of qualitative methods.health technology assessment ente...

Quantification of daily physical activity is of clinical interest in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Objective measures using activity monitors may take several days to obtain reliable results. The aim of our study was to evaluate the Stanford Seven-Day Physical Activity Recall questionnaire (PAR) against the SenseWear armband (SWA) and compare its validity with three other physic...

OBJECTIVE There is a consensus on the need for a more thorough assessment of outcome of RA from the perspective of those who experience the disease. Our objective was to assess the health- related quality of life (HR-QOL) of RA patients by the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), the measurement of subjective experienced distress. METHODS One hundred and nineteen consecutive out-patients were cro...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a period of rehabilitation in a rheumatic diseases unit. Thirty-nine patients with rheumatoid arthritis were included in two study periods, which involved assessment of six outcome measures on admission and again on discharge in a rehabilitation unit in Dublin. These measures incorporate each level of disease impact – impairment, disabi...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the influence of early disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) treatment on long-term functional outcome in patients with recent-onset inflammatory polyarthritis (IP), and the impact of the duration of first and subsequent DMARD treatment. METHODS 642 subjects from a primary care registry of patients with new-onset IP, recruited 1990-4, were followed up for 10 y...

INTRODUCTION Chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis (CNO) is an inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. In children and adolescents CNO predominantly affects the metaphyses of the long bones, but lesions can occur at any site of the skeleton. Prospectively followed cohorts using a standardized protocol in diagnosis and treatment have rarely been reported. METHODS Thirty-seven children diagnose...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate that the Spanish (Castillian) version of the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (cHAQ-S) is a valid and reliable instrument for measuring the health status of children with juvenile chronic (or rheumatoid) arthritis (JCA) and is sensitive to change. METHODS A conceptual translation of the original questionnaire into Spanish and two back-translations were perfor...