Assessment of cancer rehabilitation outcome measures is integral for patient assessment, symptom screening, and advancing scientific research. In the broad field of cancer rehabilitation, outcome measures can cross-cut across many different branches of oncologic care including clinician-reported, patient-reported, and objective measures. Specific outcome measures that apply to cancer rehabilitation include those pertinent to pain, function, quality of life, fatigue, and cognition. These outcome measures, when used in cancer rehabilitation, can be utilized to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention and to triage to the appropriate supportive care service. This review article summarizes some of the commonly used outcome measures that can be applied in the cancer rehabilitation setting to support scholarly work and patient care.
The study of composites made from residual organic materials and polymeric resins, has a great projection due to the use of new raw materials and the good physical, mechanical and aesthetic characteristics these materials present in the construction industry. The manufacturing processes of these composites include the necessary pressure application to generate an efficiently compact material, where matrix and reinforcement bonding are efficient. This study defines how the compaction force influences the flexural strength of composites made from polyester resin as polymer matrix, and rice husk as reinforcement material. This is achieved by testing different series of specimens, made by applying different compaction forces in a cold process, to analyse the relationship between compaction and flexural strength. Specimens are made varying only the compaction force, from 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, and 17 tons. The results show that, when the compaction force increases, the flexural strength in the composites also increases, however, there is a pressure range where the flexural strength values are very close, conditioning the use of pressure in relation to the decrease in the specimen section.
Efectividad de la hidroterapia para disminuir el dolor y mejorar la calidad de vida y función física en adultos con osteoartritis de rodilla: revisión sistemática
ABSTRACTObjective: To determine the effectiveness of hydrotherapy to reduce pain, improve quality of life and physical function in adults with knee osteoarthritis, by collecting the various scienti fic studies of high methodological quality on the date published.Material and methods: A systematic review of five com puterized bibliographic databases was performed: PEDro and MEDLINE. We included randomized controlled trials with pa tients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis trials. Articles publish ed from January 1, 2004 to the July 31, 2014 in Spanish and English were selected. Study screening: Studies were indepen dently selected, unblinded, by two reviewers. The PEDro scale was used to classify the studies.Results: Of the 119 studies that could potentially have been included. In determining the criteria for inclusion and exclusion only 6 items were selected for analysis.Conclusions: There is strong evidence that the use of hydrothe rapy is effective in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee in adults over 50 years with a minimum follow up of 6 weeks.
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