Signs and symptoms are among the most common reasons that patients seek healthcare. Being able to identify and distinguish what constitutes a sign or symptom in practice is an important part of nurses’ clinical expertise. Symptoms are multidimensional, complex and subjective phenomena that ‘‘reflect changes in biopsychosocial functioning, sensations, or cognition of an individual.’’ In contrast...

BACKGROUND Disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) are a significant expenditure for treating multiple sclerosis (MS). However, there is limited report on assessment of the cost-utility of DMDs compared with symptom management in the presence of long-term data. This study aimed to assess the lifetime cost-utility from the Iranian healthcare perspectives of 4DMDs relative to symptom management alone in p...

OBJECTIVE To determine the symptoms experienced by patients diagnosed with Behcet's Disease and how they cope with them. METHODS The qualitative study was conducted from September 2013 to March 2014 at Ege University Medical Faculty Hospital, Turkey, comprising patients having all symptoms of Behcet's Disease. Data was collected through semi-structured focus-group interview form. The findings...

OBJECTIVES Medical comorbidities, especially cardiovascular disease (CVD), occur disproportionately in older patients with bipolar disorder. We describe the development, implementation, and feasibility/tolerability results of a manual-based medical care model (BCM) designed to improve medical outcomes in older patients with bipolar disorder. METHODS The BCM consisted of (i) self-management se...

many organizations use information technology (it) to improve their performance in the business and operations. but, most of the it projects suffer from a high risk of failure when implemented. recently, many studies have been attended on the concept of critical success factors (csfs) in order to affect the rate of success, but a little effort has been focused on developing strong models to fac...

Background & Aims: Considering the important role of stress in intensifying gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) symptoms, the aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of stress management training in reducing symptoms in patients with GERD. Methods: In the present semi-experimental study, a pre-test post-test design with control group was used. From among the patients who ...

We present a system for taxonomy construction that reached the first place in all subtasks of the SemEval 2016 challenge on Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation. Our simple yet effective approach harvests hypernyms with substring inclusion and Hearst-style lexicosyntactic patterns from domain-specific texts obtained via language model based focused crawling. Extracted taxonomies are evaluated on Engl...

Many of the knowledge management systems, such as the ones described in this entry, were originally computer information systems to which were added knowledge expertise that complemented the information and data communicated. As use of the Internet expanded and intranets within companies were developed, many new knowledge expertise exchange systems were established. As seen in the following dis...