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Jane Wilson

Bio: Jane Wilson is an academic researcher from University of Westminster. The author has contributed to research in topics: Documentation & Traditional Chinese medicine. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 5 publications receiving 17 citations.

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15 Dec 2011

7 citations

01 May 2014
TL;DR: The approaches and particularities of producing the actual written account of the clinical encounter, or a particular aspect of a case, that may be required by acupuncture practitioners and researchers are examined.
Abstract: The written case that reflects the course of treatment for a person is central to the East Asian medical tradition. This paper examines the approaches and particularities of producing the actual written account of the clinical encounter, or a particular aspect of a case, that may be required by acupuncture practitioners and researchers. It will discuss the influences that can be brought to bear on the construction and production of these accounts. In addition, it will outline and highlight historical approaches to the case record documentation process as well as debate the value and purpose of these. This paper aims both to assist the production of helpful and authoritative case records for practitioners and researchers, and to highlight the usefulness of such case records. Moreover, it will discuss not only why the case needs to be written and for whom, but also which agencies support and control what is written. How can contemporary requirements and traditional views both be incorporated accurately, with context and with meaning? The essence of this paper is that practitioner/patient interactions need to be documented, and it will explore how this can best be supported.

6 citations

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TL;DR: There is much material demonstrating the use of acupuncture and moxibustion as an effective method of treatment in a variety of neurological conditions involving both peripheral and central nervous system dysfunction, but very little is written on the mechanisms for nerve recovery.
Abstract: There is much material demonstrating the use of acupuncture and moxibustion as an effective method of treatment in a variety of neurological conditions involving both peripheral and central nervous system dysfunction. Acupuncture’s effects are experienced throughout the body but specifically acupuncture can be seen to contribute significantly to nerve metabolism and rebuilding. However, very little is written on the mechanisms for this nerve recovery. This paper will reflect on these mechanisms in relation to the treatment of neck problems associated with nerve root impingement.

2 citations

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31 May 2014
TL;DR: The approaches and particularities of producing the actual written account of the clinical encounter, or a particular aspect of a case, that may be required by acupuncture practitioners and researchers are examined.
Abstract: The written case that reflects the course of treatment for a person is central to the East Asian medical tradition. This paper examines the approaches and particularities of producing the actual written account of the clinical encounter, or a particular aspect of a case, that may be required by acupuncture practitioners and researchers. It will discuss the influences that can be brought to bear on the construction and production of these accounts. In addition, it will outline and highlight historical approaches to the case record documentation process as well as debate the value and purpose of these. This paper aims both to assist the production of helpful and authoritative case records for practitioners and researchers, and to highlight the usefulness of such case records. Moreover, it will discuss not only why the case needs to be written and for whom, but also which agencies support and control what is written. How can contemporary requirements and traditional views both be incorporated accurately, with context and with meaning? The essence of this paper is that practitioner/patient interactions need to be documented, and it will explore how this can best be supported.

1 citations

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TL;DR: A nationwide online questionnaire of 381 practicing acupuncturists to investigate GV's usage and impact on brain function found associations with GV were predominately found to be with the spine, kidney, and brain.

1 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a home-made pulse diagnoser and measured human pulses for studying the standardization of pulse diagnosis was built, which was composed of a piezoelectric transducer, differential amplifier, data acquisition instrument, and a Matlab analysis program.

17 citations

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TL;DR: The TCM inquiry list is a simple scale and similar to patient-reported subjective measures of quality of life in HF, and may help to classify patients into New York Heart Association functional classification (FC) II or NYHA FC III.
Abstract: Current clinical practices used to functionally classify heart failure (HF) are time-consuming, expensive, or require complex calculations. This study aimed to design an inquiry list from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that could be used in routine clinical practice to resolve these problems. The severity of documented HF in 115 patients was classified according to their performance in maximal exercise tests into New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification (FC) II or NYHA FC III. Concomitantly, the patients were assessed using the new TCM inquiry list and two validated quality of life questionnaires, namely, the Short Form 36 (SF-36) generic scale and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ). Factor analysis was applied to extract the core factors from the responses to the items in TCM inquiry list; logistic regression analysis was then used to predict the severity of HF according to the extracted factors. The TCM inquiry list showed moderate levels of correlation with the physical and emotional components of the SF-36 and the MLHFQ, and predicted the functional class of HF patients reliably using logistic regression analysis, with a correct prediction rate with 64.3 %. Factor analysis of the TCM inquiry list extracted five core factors, namely, Qi Depression, Heart Qi Vacuity and Blood Stasis, Heart Blood Vacuity, Dual Qi-Blood Vacuity, and Yang Vacuity, from the list, which aligned with the perspective of TCM as it relates to the pattern of HF. The correct prediction rate rose to 70.4 % when Dual Qi-Blood Vacuity was combined with the MLHFQ. The excessive false-negative rate is a problem associated with the TCM inquiry list. The TCM inquiry list is a simple scale and similar to patient-reported subjective measures of quality of life in HF, and may help to classify patients into NYHA FC II or NYHA FC III. Factor 4 addresses dizziness, dizzy vision and general weakness, which are critical parameters that distinguish between NYHA FC II and NYHA FC III. Incorporating these three items into the management of HF may help to classify patients from a functional perspective.

15 citations

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TL;DR: This book is intended to serve as a springboard for future writers to explore the themes of identity, identity, and belonging that have been neglected in the literature of post-modernism.
Abstract: ed & translated by Honora Lee Wolfe, Dipl. Ac , Lie. Ae., FNAAOM c/o Blue Poppy Press • 5441 Western Ave. #2 • Boulder, Colorado 80301 USA

15 citations

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31 May 2014
TL;DR: Evaluated effects of KBS on bone growth suggest that KBS would be helpful to children who are in retard for their age through the elevation of IGF-I.
Abstract: KH-BaRoKer-SeongJangTang (KBS) is a recently developed formulation by using traditional drugs considering traditional medical theory of Oriental books such as ShinNongBonChoGyeong and JuRye, which has been used to improve the growth of child in Korea. Although KBS is usually prescribed to many children who are in retard for their age, its pharmacological effects have not been fully understood in experimental models. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of KBS on bone growth. Growth plate thickness and bone parameters such as bone volume/tissue volume (BV/TV), trabecular thickness (Tb.Th), trabecular number (Tb.N), connection density (Conn.D), and total porosity were analyzed by means of microcomputed tomography. Serum insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) levels were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Hepatic IGF-I mRNA expression was analyzed by real-time polymerase chain reaction. Phosphorylation of signal transducer and activator of transcription5 (STAT5) was investigated using Western blot analysis and immunohistochemistry. The thickness of growth plate was increased by KBS. BV/TV, Tb.Th, TbN, Conn.D, and total porosity were improved by KBS. Hepatic IGF-I mRNA and serum IGF-I levels were elevated by KBS. Phosphorylation of STAT5 was increased with administration of KBS. These results suggest that KBS would be helpful to children who are in retard for their age through the elevation of IGF-I.

13 citations

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TL;DR: The experiments show that the performance of the proposed method is superior to some other popular methods and is helpful in the identification of health state in TCM.
Abstract: The goal of TCM state identification is to identify the patient's syndromes and locations and natures of diseases according to symptoms. Generally, symptoms of a patient are associated with several syndromes and multiple locations and natures of diseases; hence, the TCM state identification is a typical multi‐label problem. In this paper, a new method is proposed to predict syndromes and locations and natures of diseases according to the diagnostic information of TCM. In detail, the correlation between features and the correlation between class labels are combined into a new uniform feature space. After that, the MDMR algorithm is used to select the most discriminatory features from the new uniform feature space, which is helpful to reduce the data dimensionality. Lastly, a KNN‐like algorithm is modified to calculate the label similarity of test data, and the finite set of labels of test data is predicted by ML‐KNN. In this paper, the test data is collected by Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine according to the theory of TCM and medical ethics. The experiments show that the performance of the proposed method is superior to some other popular methods and is helpful in the identification of health state in TCM.

12 citations