ObjectiveTo explore the clinical reasoning of physiotherapists using PDSAFE; according to disease severity and their experiences treatment delivery in a large fall-prevention trial for people with Parkinson’s (PwP).DesignA descriptive study delivering PDSAFE. Semi-structured interviews explored therapists’ experiences.SettingA two-group, home-based, multi-centred, single-blinded, randomised con...

Very little is known about the experience of people living with Parkinson's disease (PD) in low- and middle-income countries, such as those sub-Saharan Africa. The number specialists region low awareness limited among population healthcare professionals. Drawing on ten months ethnographic fieldwork urban rural Kenya 55 PD (PwP), 23 family members 22 professionals from public private clinics, we...

OBJECTIVE In Parkinson's disease (PD), commonly reported risk factors for malnutrition in other populations commonly occur. Few studies have explored which of these factors are of particular importance in malnutrition in PD. The aim was to identify the determinants of nutritional status in people with Parkinson's disease (PWP). METHODS Community-dwelling PWP (>18 years) were recruited (n = 12...

The objective of this study was to compare different modeling strategies to identify individual and admissions characteristics associated with readmission to a general hospital. Routine data recorded in the Hospital Information System on all admissions to the Regional Public Hospital of Betim, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, from July 1996 to June 2000 were analyzed. Cox proportional hazards model ...

Abstract Brain-computer interface (BCI) is believed to be the translator of brain signals into actions based on model, built machine learning (ML) algorithms, incorporated in it. This study reports performance various ML algorithms evaluating efficacy neurofeedback applied for treatment central neuropathic pain (CNP). In first phase this study, we different classification electroencephalography...

In this paper, for real time enhancement of noisy speech, a method of threshold determination based on modeling of Teager energy (TE) operated perceptual wavelet packet (PWP) coe cients of the noisy speech and noise by an Erlang-2 PDF is presented. The proposed method is computationally much faster than the existing wavelet packet based thresholding methods. A custom thresholding function based...

In clinical cardiac tamponade, open-catheter intrapericardial pressure (IPP) may be used to estimate left ventricular transmural filling pressure (TMFP). However, it has been suggested recently that right atrial pressure (RAP) is superior to IPP in assessing true extracardiac pressure during pericardial drainage. In 10 patients with subacute cardiac tamponade, pulmonary wedge pressure (PWP), RA...

Hemodynamic data were obtained in 9 patients (mean age 65 yrs) with carotid territory cerebral infarct within the preceding 24 hours (mean 14 +/- 8) as part of a pilot study testing the feasibility and safety of hypervolemic hemodilution. Pulmonary arterial catheters (PACs) were placed without complication in all patients, and after baseline measurements were obtained, up to 1500 cc of 6% hetas...

The aim of this research was (a) to determine the extent of therapist effects in Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs) delivering guided self-help in IAPT services and (b) to identify factors that defined effective PWP clinical practice. Using patient (N = 1122) anxiety and depression outcomes (PHQ-9 and GAD-7), the effectiveness of N = 21 PWPs across 6 service sites was examined using m...