A medical care model using comprehensive geriatric assessment for community-dwelling older Korean adults.

Background: The quality of life of older adults deteriorates when they lose their ability to perform activities of daily living. Therefore, the older adults should be assessed to identify risk factors for functional decline and to correct these factors so that they may live as independently as possible in the community. We developed a medical care model using comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) for community-dwelling older patients.

The association between somatic and psychological discomfort and health-related quality of life according to the elderly and non-elderly.

Purpose: Symptoms and discomfort are common complaints in primary care settings. It has been postulated that the physical symptoms are informative index in estimating Health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Thus, we conducted a community-based cross-sectional study to assess the relationship between somatic and psychological discomfort and HRQOL in elderly and non-elderly people.

Plasma phytoestrogens concentration and risk of colorectal cancer in two different Asian populations.

Background & Aims: To evaluate the relationship between phytoestrogen and colon cancer risk, we quantified plasma isoflavones (Genistein and Daidzein) and lignan (enterolactone) in a Korean nested case-control study and conducted replication study in a Vietnamese case-control study.

Methods: Study populations of 101 cases and 391 controls were selected from the Korean Multicenter Cancer Cohort which was constructed from 1993 to 2004. For replication study, Vietnamese hospital-based case-control subjects of 222 cases and 206 controls were selected from 2003 to 2007.

The variation in risk adjusted mortality of intensive care units.

Background: This study aimed to estimate risk adjusted mortality rate in the ICUs (Intensive care units) by APACHE (Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation) III for revealing the performance variation in ICUs.

Methods: This study focused on 1,090 patients in the ICUs of 18 hospitals. For establishing risk adjusted mortality predictive model, logistic regression analysis was performed.