Sentences with phrase «diagnostic measures of»

The use of the CES - D and a community sample precludes the direct comparison of our results with those studies that have used diagnostic measures of depression and clinical samples of depressed mothers.

Predictive validity was evaluated by examining the relationships of age 3 SDQ scores with age 5 diagnostic measures of attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder / Asperger syndrome, and teacher - reported measures of personal, social, and emotional development.

Numerous screening and diagnostic measures of reading are available, and screening processes will continue to be refined to reach the high levels of accuracy needed to implement an effective RTI process.

Can we identify policies and practices that move toward complementarity between high - stakes and diagnostic measures of student success?

In addition, we should have the capability to measure the value - added to each student's achievement on an annual basis, as a diagnostic measure of annual progress of the student and the effectiveness of educators.

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But for a new version of Trumpcare or any other initiative to succeed, the measure must at least arrest the relentlessly rising costs for hospital stays, MRIs, diagnostic tests and surgical procedures that threaten to swamp the federal budget, shrink take - home pay for families, or pummel both.

The Executive MBA Diagnostic Test (EDT) measures the basic mathematical and analytical skills you'll need to successfully work with the course material of the Executive MBA program.

While many questions persist about more sophisticated diagnostic measures, rehabilitation and long - term effects of injury, we continue to make great progress, remain current on research and new techniques and provide the best possible care for our patients at any level of sport or activity.»

The University of Michigan Composite International Diagnostic Interview (UM - CIDI), a revised version of the CIDI, 23 was used to measure the prevalence of the following 4 psychiatric disorders, as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, revised: 24 anxiety disorder (including one or more of social phobia, simple phobia, agoraphobia, panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder); major depressive disorder; alcohol abuse or dependence; and externalizing problems that included one or more of illicit drug abuse or dependence and antisocial behaviour.

Low family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviews.7

Studies were included if: (a) they were RCTs, (b) the population comprised parents / carers of children up to the age of 18 where at least 50 % had a conduct problem (defined using objective clinical criteria, the clinical cut - off point on a well validated behaviour scale or informal diagnostic criteria), (c) the intervention was a structured, repeatable (manualised) parenting programme (any theoretical basis, setting or mode of delivery) and (d) there was at least one standardised outcome measuring child behaviour.

The Head Health Management system is an affordable three - part system that measures head impacts, records impact data, sends alerts and provides diagnostic tools to detect symptoms of potential concussions.

September 24, 2013 (Chicago, IL)-- Founded by concerned parents of active kids, the Head Case Concussion Management System is a three - part concussion management system that measures head impacts, records data and provides diagnostic tools to detect potential concussions.

Head Case: Founded by concerned parents of competitive kids, Head Case is a sports technology company with the mission to protect athletes from the cumulative risk of undetected concussions.Head Case are the creators behind Head Case, an affordable three - part head health management systemthat that measures and records head impacts in G - force, provides alerts on impacts of concern, offers diagnostic tools to detect signs and symptoms of potential concussions, and recommends the best treatment facilities in an athlete's current location.

The Head Case Impact Sensor is one component of the Head Case Concussion Management System, an affordable three - part concussion management system that measures head impacts in real time, records all impact data and provides diagnostic tools to detect potential concussions.

Depression in fathers was assessed using the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short Form, a validated measure used to identify the presence of a major depressive episode within the previous year.24 Fathers were asked 2 stem questions: (1) «During the past 12 months, has there ever been a time when you felt sad, blue, or depressed for 2 or more weeks in a row?»

Sub-Project Two: cross-sectional study of 900 learners in three age groups, involving diagnostic cognitive and linguistic measures in English, Finnish and Russian, and also measures of student and parental background and learner motivation.

«I believe in the 21st century, the classic public health measures that are critical can be complemented by the addition of rapid diagnostics; by the development of vaccines, assessment of safety and efficacy and then deployment; and by the development of drugs.

«This diagnostic advancement provides us with a more precise ruler for measuring the effectiveness of diagnosis, treatment and progression of TBI,» says Mony J. de Leon, EdD, director of the Center for Brain Health at NYU Langone, professor of psychiatry and an investigator with NYU's Steven and Alexandra Cohen Veterans Center.

For the study, researchers measured the level of calcium in the coronary arteries during stress testing using two common diagnostic tests — positron emission tomography, or PET, and computed tomography, or CT — to determine a patient's risk of heart disease.

The strategy was containment: Build a firewall around areas of drug resistance by ramping up control measures, such as bednets, rapid diagnostic tests, and ACTs.

«We know diagnostic errors are a big problem, but we currently have no way of operationally measuring them,» says David Newman - Toker, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Ediagnostic errors are a big problem, but we currently have no way of operationally measuring them,» says David Newman - Toker, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic EDiagnostic Excellence.

Many current methods of measuring diagnostic errors rely on labor - intensive medical record reviews by hospital staff members.

While some research was previously done by his and other groups on a smaller scale, «This is the first real description of a method that could be used broadly across a range of conditions to operationally measure diagnostic errors and associated bad outcomes so that we can track our performance and see whether our interventions are making a difference,» Newman - Toker says.

The method uses statistical analyses to identify critical patterns that measure the rate of diagnostic error and could be incorporated into diagnostic performance dashboards.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are getting more out of the sweat they've put into their work on a wearable diagnostic tool that measures three diabetes - related compounds in microscopic amounts of perspiration.

An analysis of diagnostic test results from the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE) trial — in which patients with stable chest pain were randomized to either anatomic or functional testing as an initial diagnostic strategy — showed that the presence and extent of coronary artery disease detected by CT angiography better predicted the risk for future cardiac events than did measures of exercise tolerance or restricted blood flow to the heart muscle.

In terms of diagnostics, it has six tests on the market, based on research in Iceland, that aim to measure risk of diseases such as heart attack and prostate cancer.

About half of the children diagnosed with ASD in the new report had normal or above - average intelligence, compared with a third of children 10 years ago, suggesting that a significant proportion of the new cases are due to more sensitive diagnostic measures rather than increased incidence, she says.

In the large negative hydrogen ion source at NIFS, various types of diagnostics are available for measuring negative hydrogen ion density, electron density, and other quantities.

The prospective cohort study met both its primary endpoints: to determine the association between troponin T levels measured by a high - sensitivity troponin T assay and the risk of death within a month of non-cardiac surgery, and to identify diagnostic criteria for myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery that defines whether or not serious injury to the heart has occurred.

Among other aspects, this applies to diagnostics and measures in primary therapy: The guidelines address the performance of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan in specific therapeutic indications, explicitly advising against routine MRI scans.

As a next step, Bradshaw, De Jager and their colleagues plan to measure CD33 and TREM2 levels in subjects as part of the Brigham Healthy Aging Project to determine if these measurements and others could be part of a diagnostic panel for predicting risk of Alzheimer's disease.

It will also provide diagnostic tools for disease identification and allow medical professionals to measure the effectiveness of drug treatment regimes in an easy laboratory manner.

ADHD symptoms were measured through a diagnostic interview and on a continuum, ranging from none to many, rather than in terms of a formal psychiatric diagnosis.

Singh said that one of the first steps should be for researchers and other safety professionals to develop resources to help institutions and clinicians figure out how to identify and measure diagnostic errors accurately.

The two most commonly used diagnostic tests are the skin prick test and a blood test to measure levels of specific IgE.

Additionally, he is engineering diagnostic tools for measuring the progression of prion disease in patients.

Qualified investigators can obtain: (1) cleaned, quality control checked sequence data, (2) information on the composition of the study cohorts (e.g. case - control, family based, and epidemiology cohorts), (3) descriptions of the study cohorts included in the analysis, and (4) accompanying phenotypic information such as age at disease onset, gender, diagnostic status, and cognitive measures.

Meanwhile, when the authors used other blood glucose measures as the diagnostic criteria, they found no significant difference in the likelihood of diabetes and prediabetes among patients with or without SCT.

Evaluating the diagnostic utility of applying a machine learning algorithm to diffusion tensor MRI measures in individuals with major depressive disorder.

The SICI - ICF / SAI measure has been shown to provide the footprints of the specific underlying neurotransmitter deficit, having the potential to be used as an additional diagnostic instrument in clinical practice and eventually in clinical trials.

The team has transferred these diagnostic capabilities to a new Vertical Shock Tube facility, where they plan to simultaneously measure density - velocity at multiple times to probe the temporal evolution of the quantities and physics of turbulent mixing.

Orlando, Florida, November 4 - 7, 2007 — At this year's Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) is presenting its newly launched DNA - based risk diagnostic tests deCODE MI ™ and deCODEAF ™ - which measure common genetic variants associated with clinically relevant increases in risk of heart attack and atrial fibrillation / stroke, respectively.

In the spring of 2016, the company opened new clinical health care facilities, a $ 1,000,000 investment that features improved housing, diagnostic, and treatment equipment which provide for superior care and immediate access to important measures of animal health and well - being.

Where other diagnostic imaging procedures — such as x-rays, computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound — offer pictures of physical structure, molecular imaging allows physicians to see how the body is functioning and to measure its chemical and biological processes.

Research from a collaborative team at Washington University in St. Louis tested a 3 - D method that could lead to new diagnostic tools that will precisely measure the third - trimester growth and folding patterns of a baby's brain.

Esko is collaborating with Zacharon Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego - based biotechnology company, to develop a commercial diagnostic assay for differentiating forms of MPS from urine and blood samples, a screening test for newborns and a tool for measuring the biochemical response of MPS patients to existing and novel therapies.

Two other enhancements were made at LLE: the quality of the target shell was improved to make it more easily compressed, and the diagnostics for measuring what's taking place within the shell have gotten better.

The ultimate goal of JCTS is to improve the efficiency with which research and new diagnostics, therapies, and preventive measures, informed by health needs, are able to reach the public.