Material and Method. This study was a cross-sectional analytical research design. Based on a pilot study, a total number of 96 lateral cephalometric radiographs were included as subjects. These radiographs belong to patients from the Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Khon Kaen University. The x-ray films of female cleft patients, aged between seven and 18 years were only included. The radiographs with low contrast, artifacts and lack of sharpness or blurry were considered as low quality and omitted from the study. To distribute CVM stages of the subjects as equal as possible, quota- sampling technique was used to choose eight samples for each age ranged from seven to 18. To prevent assessment bias, all lateral cephalometric radiographs were masked to hide ID, age and other non-relevant craniofacial structures, and were identified only by numbers from 1 to 96. All subjects were represented only cervical vertebra. Raters and training process Two examiners who were orthodontic postgraduate students involved in this research were intensively trained in the CVM method developed by Xxxxxxxx et al(16) involving three methods: Direct viewing method Each subject’s masked radiograph was placed on a light box in a darkened room. The examiners directly inspected the radiograph and interpret the CVM stages according to Fig. 1 and Table 1.
Material and Method. Twenty patients with complete cleft lip and cleft palate who had undergone alveolar bone grafting with CBCT follow-up 3-6 months postoperative at the Faculty of Dentistry, Khon Kaen University were recruited into the study. Four trained clinical assessors (two orthodontists, an oral surgeon and an oral radiologist) had made a judgment of three outcome measurements: 1) cemento-enamel junction (CEJ) to marginal bone level of the teeth adjacent to the cleft site, 2) marginal bone level to root apex of the teeth adjacent to the cleft site, 3) labio-lingual alveolar bone grafted thickness. Repeat measurements were made by the same assessors.
Material and Method. The present study is a pilot study which comprised a group of patients with complete cleft lip and cleft palate who had received alveolar bone grafting follow-up at the Faculty of Dentistry, Khon Kaen University between February 2012 and June 2012. The inclusion criteria for the present study were alveolar bone grafting 3-6 months previously. Patients who had systemic disease which interfere with bone formation were excluded from the study. The research was reviewed and approved by Ethics Committee of Khon Kaen University (HE551063). Cone beam computed tomography was performed using the WhiteFox Cone beam 3D system (WhiteFox, WhiteFox Imaging, Italy). The technical parameters for image acquisition were 105 kv, 9 mA, field of view (FOV) in 60 mm x 60 mm (half arch) and voxel size of 0.2 mm3. During the CBCT imaging, patients were stood so that Frankfort plane was parallel to the floor with sagittal plane perpendicular. Measurements of the CBCT images were performed digitally using the WhiteFox imaging software version
Material and Method. 100 adolescents who applied to the child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic and were diagnosed with anxiety disorder according to the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria were included in the study. In the study, the sociodemographic form and the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) adolescent and parent form were used for data collection. Results: When the parent and adolescent forms of RCADS were compared, the adolescent scores were significantly higher than the parents in all subscales and scale total scores, except for the separation anxiety subscale. The ICC (95% CI) value between the parent and adolescent forms of RCADS ranged from 0.06 to 0.74. Conclusion: In our study, it was found that adolescents scored their symptoms higher than their parents, and the correlation between parent-child reporting was low-moderate. Age, gender, comorbidity, and parental psychopathology were among the factors affecting adolescent-parent agreement. Keywords: Anxiety, adolescent, parent, awareness Öz Amaç: Çocuk ve ergenin tedaviye erişiminde ebeveynin rolü göz önünde bulundurulduğunda, semptomların ebeveyn tarafından yeterince fark edilmesi önem taşımaktadır. Bu çalışmada, anksiyete bozukluğu xxxx ergenlerin semptomları açısından ergen-ebeveyn uyumunun incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Gereç ve Yöntem: Çocuk ve ergen psikiyatri polikliniğine başvuran ve DSM-5 tanı kriterlerine xxxx anksiyete bozukluğu tanısı xxxx 100 ergen çalışmaya dahil edildi. Çalışmada veri toplama amacı ile sosyodemografik form ve Çocuklar için Anksiyete ve Depresyon Ölçeği (ÇADÖ) ergen ve ebeveyn formu kullanıldı. Bulgular: ÇADÖ ebeveyn ve ergen formları karşılaştırıldığında, ayrılık anksiyetesi alt ölçeği dışında diğer tüm alt ölçek ve ölçek toplam puanında çocuk puanları ebeveyne xxxx anlamlı olarak daha yüksekti. ÇADÖ ebeveyn ve ergen formları arasındaki ICC (%95 CI) değeri 0,06 xxx 0,74 aralığındaydı. Sonuç: Çalışmamızda ergenlerin belirtilerini ebeveynlerinden daha yüksek puanladıkları, ebeveyn-ergen bildirimi arasındaki korelasyonun düşük-xxxx düzeyde olduğu saptanmıştır. Yaş, cinsiyet, komorbidite ve ebeveyn psikopatolojisi ergen- ebeveyn uyumunu etkileyen faktörlerdendi. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx: Anksiyete, ergen, ebeveyn, farkındalık Corresponding (İletişim): Canan Kuygun Karcı, Private Clinics, Child Psychiatry, Adana, Turkey E-mail (E-posta): x_xxx@xxxxxxx.xxx Received (Geliş Tarihi): 25.07.2022 Accepted (Kabul Tarihi): 05.09.2022
Material and Method. A total of 279 inpatient records were reviewed by 23 clinical auditors. Each record was examined independently by 3 auditors using a standardised review form. Agreements on the occurrence of AEs among auditors were assessed using Kappa statistic (k).
Material and Method. Medical record review by medical auditors, using guided implicit judgement form, was the main mode of data collection. 400 medical records were selected from a pool of medical records collected by the Centre for Healthcare Information.The authors pur- posively selected medical records of patients with high possibility of AE occurrence to focus the evaluation to the variability of reviewers’ judgement and the process of detecting AEs. Inclusion criteria were medical records of patients who died during hospital stay, or having the relative weight by Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) of 3 or higher, or having hospital charge of 50,000 Baht (US$ 1,250) or more. Exclusion criteria were medical records that contained incomplete documents or low readability due to poor quality photocopying. Twenty-three medical doctors were recruited for the reviews. All reviewers were regular auditors of the CHI. All have more than 10 years experience of medical practice at major regional hospitals in Thailand. Their specialty training backgrounds ranged from internal medicine, to general surgery, orthopaedics, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, neurosurgery and anaesthesiology. A one-day training session was held for these reviewers. After having presented the objectives and detailed study procedures, case exercises were used for practicing of AE determination. The case exercise consisted of a case summary and a real medical record. Discussions among the reviewers led to suggestions for some adjustments of the guided review form, add- ing more examples of clinical conditions included into the list. The final version was a 2-page standardised review form containing 13 clinical conditions poten- tially related to AEs (Table 2).
Material and Method. The variables for program development were modified from the THAI-SICU study case record form. The first open discussion on the prototype was performed in a program development workshop. After revision, the stake- holder agreement was performed by modified Delphi method on the final browser program. All the categorical variable details were scored by a rating scale at five levels. The agreement level was defined as the median score at of least four and the interquartile range (IQR)
Material and Method. Variable design for program development The variables for program development were modified from the THAI-SICU study case record form which collected the data from surgical intensive care units during the year 2011-2012(4). The prototype of variables set was developed by the research committee of the Thai Society of Critical Care Medicine (TSCCM). The prototype program was developed by a Microsoft Access program. The first open discussion on the prototype program was conducted at the program development workshop during the annual meeting of TSCCM during 18th-20th December 2014 (at Centrara Ladplao Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand). The opinions and discussion points from the stakeholders including critical care nurses, physicians, surgeons, and intensivists were obtained from this workshop and these were collected for revision of the program. Regarding the final consensus, the variables were categorized into seven parts as follows: 1) patient characteristics, 2) diagnosis, 3) adverse events, 4) detail of operation in surgical cases, 5) ICU intervention, 6) discharge, and 7) summarized report (Table 1).
Material and Method. Patient selection This retrospective study was approved by the local ethic committee (approval number: 12.05.2020-651). The patients who had mpMRI and 12 quadrant systematic biopsies were included between 2019 and 2020. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. mpMRI indications were elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA ≥ 4) and/or abnormal digital rectal examination (DRE). Biopsy indications were elevated or rising PSA or suspicion PCa in DRE or abnormal mpMRI (PI-RADS score ≥ 3). XX-XXXX scoring is not possible after treatment so the patients treated before mpMRI were excluded. Two patients were also excluded due to severe susceptibility artifact secondary to hip prosthesis. Technical parameters of the mpMRIs All mpMRIs were acquired on a 1.5T scanner (Aera, Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany). The protocol included the following sequences: Turbo spin-echo T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) with axial, sagittal, and coronal orientations (Axial T2WI parameters were as follows: repetition time, 5660 msec; echo time, 99 msec; the field of view, 200×180 mm; acquisition matrix, 320×288; slice thickness, 3 mm with no gap), a diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with an axial orientation (repetition time, 4000 msec; echo time, 76 msec; b-values, 0, 200, 600 and 1400 sec/mm2; the field of view, 200×180 mm; acquisition matrix, 100×90; slice thickness, 3 mm with no gap) with apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) mapping, and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) sequences with an axial orientation (repetition time, 2.48 msec; echo time, 1.52 msec; the field of view, 260×215 mm; acquisition matrix, 160×108; slice thickness 3 mm with 0.3 mm gap; temporal resolution, 7 sec). All parameters were complied with proposal of the PI- RADSv2.1 guideline.[5] Radiological evaluation
Material and Method. Patients were randomized into two groups to receive IOP measurements using Tono-Pen® XL with two different types of tip covers. In Group 1, the IOP of the right eyes were first measured using Ocufilm® as the tip cover, followed by using the fingertip of a surgical glove. As for the left eyes, the tip of the surgical glove was used first, followed by use of Ocufilm®. In Group 2, the IOP of the right eyes was first measured using the tip of the surgical glove, followed by use of Ocufilm®, while for the left eye the latter was used first, followed by the tip of the surgical glove. A single operator measured the IOP in each eye twice using each type of tip cover. Agreement between the Tono-Pen® XL measurements using the two different tip covers was analyzed using the Xxxxx-Xxxxxx analysis. The difference between the repeated measures was assessed for reproducibility of the Tono-Pen® XL measurements with regard to each type of tip covers. Results: 100 patients (200 eyes) were recruited into the present study. The mean difference of IOP taken by the Tono-Pen® XL covered with Ocufilm® and the fingertip of a surgical glove was -0.21 mmHg (95%CI: -0.36 to -0.05). The limits of agreement (confidence interval 95%) as calculated by the Xxxxx-Xxxxxx plots for Ocufilm-Fingertip of a surgical glove was -2.43 to
