Efficacy of vestibular rehabilitation and its facilitating and hindering factors from real-world clinical data.

Background And Purpose: Customized vestibular rehabilitation improved dizziness and imbalance in several randomized controlled trials. In the present study, we determined the efficacy of customized vestibular rehabilitation using real-world observational data.

Methods: In this retrospective observational study, we recruited 64 patients (median age = 60, interquartile range = 48-66.

Etiologic distribution of dizziness and vertigo in a referral-based dizziness clinic in South Korea.

This study aimed to determine the etiologic distribution of dizziness and vertigo in a referral-based dizziness clinic in South Korea. We analyzed the diagnoses of 21,166 consecutive dizzy patients (12,691 women, mean age = 57.9 ± 15.

[Symptom Management to Predict Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach].

Purpose: The focus of this study was on symptom management to predict quality of life among individuals with heart failure. The theoretical model was constructed based on situation-specific theory of heart failure self-care and literature review.

Methods: For participants, 241 outpatients at a university hospital were invited to the study from May 19 to July 30, 2014.