Healthcare providers must understand patients' expectations and perceptions of the care they receive to provide high-quality care. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyse different cluste...
A cross-sectional design was applied. The data were collected in 2017 from three Finnish acute care hospitals with the Revised Humane Caring Scale (RHCS) as a paper questionnaire, including six backgr...
A total of 1810 patients participated in the study. Patient satisfaction was categorised into four groups: dissatisfied (n = 58), moderately dissatisfied (n = 249), moderately satisfied (n = 608), and...
The results mostly demonstrated high levels of patient satisfaction; however, the perceptions of minority populations of dissatisfied patients should be assessed to identify shortcomings in the care p...
Understanding the base pairing of an RNA sequence provides insight into its molecular structure. By mining suboptimal sampling data, RNAprofiling 1.0 identifies the dominant helices in low-energy seco...
Geometric ability includes elements of identification, conceptualization, combination, drawing, and reasoning, and graphic perception is an important part of it. Kindergarten science education include...
Traditional texture cluster algorithms are frequently used in engineering; however, despite their widespread application, these algorithms continue to suffer from drawbacks including excessive complex...
Cancer has become a major health concern due to the increasing morbidity and mortality rates, and its negative social, economic consequences and the heavy financial burden incurred by cancer patients....
We conducted a cross-sectional survey of adult patients at Mohamed Sekkat and Sidi Othmane Hospitals in Casablanca, Morocco. Data collection was conducted by two trained interviewers who administered ...
The cluster-based analysis showed that participants in cluster 1 had the highest mean attitude score (13.9 ± 2.15) and percentage of individuals with a high level of knowledge (50.8%) whereas the lowe...
The findings showed that female individuals living in rural settings, belonging to an older age group, who were least likely to use health professionals as an information source had the lowest levels ...
Seizure clustering, is the most frequently reported adverse event in epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) safety studies which, can also potentiate other adverse events, such as falls, status epilepticus, a...
A retrospective review of patients admitted to the EMU over a two-year period was completed. Data collected included patient demographics, types of epilepsy, seizure frequency, anti-seizure medication...
Two hundred seven patients were included in our study; of these, ninety patients experienced two or more seizures in a 24-hour period (24SC), and 68 patients experienced two or more seizures in a 4-ho...
Our data showed that long-acting ASMs can be protective against seizure clustering. Furthermore, patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, and those on increased numbers of ASMs, were more likely to exper...
Over the last decade, advances in understanding the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, systemic consequences and treatment responses in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have made individualised OSA ...
Patients diagnosed with OSA on level 1 polysomnography (PSG) were included. Clinical and co-morbidity profile, anthropometry and sleepiness scores were compiled. On PSG, apnea-hypopnea index, position...
One hundred patients (66 males) with a mean age of 49.5 ± 13.3 years were included. Snoring was reported by 94% subjects, and 50% were excessively sleepy. Two-thirds of subjects had co-morbidities, th...
This study revealed three OSA clusters with distinct demographic, anthropometric and PSG features. Further research with bigger sample size and additional parameters may pave the way for characterisin...
Previous studies suggested that distinct phenotypes of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA; formerly known as Churg-Strauss syndrome) could be determined by the presence or absence of ...
This study used standardized data of 15 European centers for patients with EGPA fulfilling widely accepted classification criteria. We used multiple correspondence analysis, hierarchical cluster analy...
The analyses included 489 patients diagnosed between 1984 and 2015. ANCA were detected in 37.2% of patients, mostly perinuclear ANCA (85.4%) and/or antimyeloperoxidase (87%). Compared with ANCA-negati...
Although reinforcing the known association of ANCA status with clinical manifestations, cluster analysis does not support a complete separation of EGPA in ANCA-positive and -negative subsets. Collecti...
In the present study, we applied cluster analysis (CA) in SLE patients with joint involvement to identify which disease subset most commonly develops erosive damage....
We collected clinical and laboratory data of SLE patients with a clinical history of joint involvement (arthritis/arthralgia). Ultrasonographic assessment was performed at level of MCPs and PIPs joint...
CA included 112 SLE patients (M/F 6/106; median age 45 years, IQR 17; median disease duration 96 months, IQR 165). Arthritis was observed in 82 patients (73.2%) and inflammatory arthralgia in 30 (26.8...
The application of CA made it possible to better characterise SLE phenotype including erosive arthritis. In particular, feature-driven CA leads to the identification of a more aggressive disease, due ...
