The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a group behavior change intervention involving self-selected, contextualized, and mediated goal setting on anthropometric, affective, and dietary markers of health. It was hypothesized that the intervention would elicit changes consistent with accepted health recommendations for obese individuals. A rolling program of 12-week "Small Change...

The steady growth of pharmaceutical expenditures is a major concern for health policy makers and health care managers in Malaysia. Our study examined the factors affecting the total inpatient pharmacy cost (TINPC) at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC). In this retrospective study, we used 2011 administration electronic prescriptions records and casemix databases at UKMMC ...

BACKGROUND Coronary heart disease (CHD) and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remain significant public health problems. The effect of ACS on mortality and morbidity is largely dependent on the time from symptom onset to the time of reperfusion, but patient delay in presenting for treatment is the main reason timely reperfusion is not received. OBJECTIVES We tested the effect of an education and ...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The effectiveness of coronary drug-eluting stents has not been fully studied in very elderly patients who have clinical features that predispose them to side effects and long-term adverse events. METHODS The safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents were studied in a historical cohort of consecutive octogenarian patients who underwent percutaneous coronary interve...

Recent decades have seen several advances in medical care for acute stroke patients, but there has been little systematic documentation of these changes. This study examined changes in technology use and medical therapies for hospitalized acute stroke during the 1980s. For 1980, 1985, and 1990, we obtained discharge diagnosis lists from Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan hospitals, identified hos...

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1845 Received October 3, 2008; revised May 3 & July 17, 2009; accepted August 13, 2009. Communicated by Chin-Laung Lei. * This research was supported by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE), Korea, under the Information Technology Research Center (ITRC) support program supervised by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency No. NIPA-2010-C1090-1031-0005 and was also supported by Defense Acqu...