International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM): Standardized Patient-Centered Outcomes Measurement Set for Heart Failure Patients.

Whereas multiple national, international, and trial registries for heart failure have been created, international standards for clinical assessment and outcome measurement do not currently exist. The working group's objective was to facilitate international comparison in heart failure care, using standardized parameters and meaningful patient-centered outcomes for research and quality of care assessments. The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement recruited an international working group of clinical heart failure experts, researchers, and patient representatives to define a standard set of outcomes and risk-adjustment variables.

From randomised controlled trial to real world implementation of a novel home-based heart failure tool: pooled and comparative analyses of two clinical controlled trials.

Objectives: A home-based tool for heart failure (HF) patients, was evaluated in a specialist setting as a randomised controlled trial (RCT) and also in a validation cohort in a primary care setting in a clinical controlled trial (CCT). The tool provides education, symptom monitoring and titration of diuretics. The aim of this study was thus to extend validity of the previous RCT findings in order to describe applicability of the tool in clinical practice.

The incidence of epilepsy in a rural district of Vietnam: a community-based epidemiologic study.

Purpose: Epidemiologic studies of epilepsy from developing countries are scarce. As part of a population-based epidemiologic project in Vietnam, EPIBAVI, we studied the incidence and etiology of epilepsy in people in a representative rural region of the country.

Methods: Two identical field surveys were carried out 3 years apart (January to December 2005, and June to December 2008) in the same population of the Bavi District in Vietnam.

The prevalence of epilepsy in a rural district of Vietnam: a population-based study from the EPIBAVI project.

A field survey was carried out to determine the prevalence of active epilepsy in northern Vietnam between January and December 2005, when members of approximately 13,000 households were screened for seizure disorders. A clinical examination of all screened positive was performed by a neurologist to verify the epilepsy diagnosis, and all epilepsy cases were offered an EEG. Out of 47,269 screened, 1,338 (2.

Sex differences in systolic heart failure in the elderly: the prognostic importance of left ventricular mass in women.

Hypothesis: We investigated the hypothesis that there are prognostic differences in the importance of left ventricular (LV) mass and function between male and female patients hospitalized with heart failure.

Methods: Patients > or =60 years old hospitalized with New York Heart Association class II-IV heart failure and LV systolic dysfunction were prospectively followed for > or =18 months. At study start, a physical examination and echocardiography were performed, and blood chemistry samples were obtained.

Prognosis in myocardial infarction patients with heart failure and normal or mildly impaired systolic function.

Purpose: To assess factors of importance for long term prognosis in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and heart failure and normal or mildly reduced left ventricular systolic function.

Subjects And Methods: Seventy-one consecutive AMI-survivors with clinical or radiological signs of heart failure and an echocardiographically determined wall motion score >1.2 (EF >35-40%) were followed during 11 years for mortality, heart failure readmissions and new ischemic events.

Altered cortical activity in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during attentional load task.

Objective: To evaluate whether cortical activity recorded during attentional load in children with ADHD is different compared with controls.

Method: Quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) was performed at open eyes and during performance of the Continuous Performance Task.

Results: Children with ADHD showed an altered pattern of QEEG activity, especially during the attentional load task, with increased slow cortical activity (mainly over the frontal areas) and decreased fast cortical activity.

Somatosensory testing in idiopathic scoliosis.

Sixty-seven consecutive patients (59 females, eight males; mean age 13.6 years, age range 8.1 to 18 years) with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis were evaluated for segmental dystonia, thermal and vibratory thresholds, and cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (cSEPs).