Pilot Programs in Medical Research

This new device, which measures the pulling force and vector of delivering a baby, has been successfully demonstrated.

Increased Temporal Resolution for Dynamic Perfusion CT (PCT) with C-arm Flat-Detector CT, SST15-04, 9008589, Marcel Beister,

Process analytical technology (PAT)-tools were used to monitor freeze-drying of Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) at pilot and production scale. Among the evaluated PAT-tools, there is the novel use of the vacuum valve open/close frequency for determining the endpoint of primary drying at production sca …

Although medication adherence can be measured many ways, researchers often view electronic dose monitoring devices like the Medication Event Monitoring Systems (MEMS) as more valid than patient self-reports. MEMS are popular but have potential problems. Based on the literature and MEMS data analyses …

A majority of people in the United States use complementary and alternative therapies, and this use is increasing. With the increasing interest, providers must evaluate potential risks and benefits of these therapies. This article describes challenges of a feasibility study of acupuncture as a poten …

Cancer is a family affair. Clinical work and research studies have shown that cancer affects the entire family and that spouses especially are often highly distressed. Breast cancer has a special importance for a couple. It is convenient to help the patient and her husband together. In the first six …

Chiropractors feel that one of the most important aspects of supervision is the ongoing dialogue between the chiropractor and the graduate. Among the statements that were considered less important included "awareness of correlation between body and mind" and "to have a holistic approach." It is poss …

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International reporting of adverse drug reactions by pharmaceutical manufacturers to national drug regulatory authorities requires internationally accepted standard definitions of reactions and criteria for assessment of causality. The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIO …

Teaching the Psychiatric Aspects of Medicine during a required medicine clerkship was evaluated by before and after cognitive tests and attitudinal measurements. The students who took this course demonstrated a marked improvement in mastering didactic material and their attitudes toward the teaching …

Even though dysfunctional emotion regulation is prominent in depression and a link between depression and inflammation is well established, there is little knowledge about how inflammation affects the regulation of emotions. The aim of this pilot study was to explore the effect of experimentally ind …

Waste auditing is important for effectively reducing the medical waste generated by resource-intensive operating rooms. To replace the current time-intensive and dangerous manual waste auditing method, we propose a system named iWASTE to detect and classify medical waste based on videos recorded by …

Overall, these high-level requirements adequately captured the functionality required to enable the health workers to provide the intervention successfully. Nevertheless, the analysis of results indicated that some improvements were required for the system to be useable in a task-shifted interventio …

IDSE positively influenced intern outlook on and attitudes towards other medical disciplines. This unique learning environment provided interns an opportunity to learn clinical case management while learning about, from, and with each other; subsequently breaking traditional discipline-specific ster …

Purpose Dynamic myocardial perfusion computed tomography (DM-PCT) imaging offers benefits over quantitative assessment of myocardial blood flow (MBF) for diagnosis and risk stratification of coronar...

Enzyme-linked immune-sorbent assay (ELISA) for the determination of PCT in human serum, plasma, tissue homogenates or cell culture supernatants. For research use only, not for use in diagnostic procedures.

The palatal mucosal thickness after FGG harvesting might affect the filling of the defect. Within the study period, the periphery of the palatal wounds filled earlier and to a greater extent compared with the centre of the wounds.