Showing papers in "Journal of the Formosan Medical Association in 2003"

TL;DR: The BSRS-5 can be used to identify psychiatric morbidity in both medical practice and the community and could differentiate the severity of illness in psychiatric outpatients based on psychiatrist's ratings using the Clinical Global Impression scale.

TL;DR: Investigating the association between impaired vision and depression among the elderly in a metropolitan community in Taipei found visual impairment was associated with feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness in this community population of older adults.

TL;DR: It is suggested that implementation of an integrated delivery system may decrease ED use, as frequent ED users were responsible for a disproportionate number of the total ED visits and Andersen's "need factors" were strongly associated with frequent ED use.

TL;DR: Venous blood gas can accurately predict the ABG values of pH, PCO2 and HCO3- for patients with acute respiratory failure being treated with mechanical ventilation.

TL;DR: Depression among community-residing elderly increased the risk of dying during the 12-year period of follow-up, and univariate analysis revealed the following significant predictors of mortality: advanced age, type of household, marital status, and CES-D score.

TL;DR: Characteristic pit patterns obtained by magnifying chromoendoscopy provide useful clues for differentiation of adenomatous from non-adenomatrous polyps.

TL;DR: It is found that vegetable and fruit consumption, less meat consumption, and exercise were associated with a reduced incidence of colorectal cancer in Taiwanese.

TL;DR: Underlying heart disease, shock, resuscitation, acute respiratory distress syndrome, mechanical ventilation, and multiple organ dysfunction score (MODS) were significant predictors of mortality after the development of PDRAB bacteremia.

TL;DR: The findings of this study imply that the admission FIM scores for inpatients receiving stroke rehabilitation can be used to predict functional outcomes at discharge from hospital.

TL;DR: This study found that nutritional status was associated with the survival of terminally ill cancer patients and both TSF and prealbumin appeared to be useful predictors that may help set strategies to improve palliative care.

TL;DR: Although complex odontomas are usually found in the posterior jaw, in this Taiwanese series they were most commonly found inThe anterior maxilla, which is frequently associated with an impacted tooth and occasionally with a dentigerous cyst.

TL;DR: Targeted resistive IMT with a controlled training load has a similar efficacy to the more popularly used pressure threshold IMT and can be incorporated in the treatment of COPD patients and offers a less expensive and easily used treatment choice.

TL;DR: Obesity and severity of sleep apnea are the 2 most important predictors of CPAP setting effectively abolishing the apneas, and the prediction equation was more accurate in predicting P(eff) in this Taiwanese population as compared to the previously reported equations designed from a Caucasian sample.

TL;DR: This study suggests that amisulpride is as effective as risperidone in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia, and both drugs were well tolerated, but had different side effect profiles.

TL;DR: Increased serum levels of TNF-α and STNFR1 were found in KD patients but there was no correlation between these levels, and the relationship between the pathogenesis of KD and T NF-α gene promoter -308G to A mutation towards cytokine production remains to be clarified.

TL;DR: Regression analysis indicated that isolation was the most prominent independent factor in reducing seroconversion of anti-HCV in hemodialysis patients, particularly in high prevalence units.

TL;DR: The MQOL-Taiwan version demonstrated an acceptable level of reliability, validity and equivalency in the initial cross-cultural validation, which indicates the suitability of this QOL measure for clinical and research use in Taiwanese patients with terminal cancer.

TL;DR: The results of this study do not support an important effect of AR-CAG repeat polymorphism on prostate cancer risk, and a large-scale study is needed to clarify genetic components of prostate cancerrisk in the Taiwanese population.

TL;DR: This retrospective study evaluated the usefulness of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II scores in risk stratification for patients with paraquat poisoning and demonstrated that an APACHE II score of 20 or higher is a good predictor of in-hospital mortality.

TL;DR: Samples for blood gas analysis should be carried in ambient pressure to the laboratory because pneumatic tube delivery systems significantly aggravate the air bubble-related aberrance in PO(2) measurement.

TL;DR: In Taiwanese adults of both genders, a lower lymphocyte count is associated with cancer mortality, especially mortality from hepatoma, and in Taiwanese men, higher neutrophil and monocyte counts are associated with cardiovascular mortality.

TL;DR: Patients with submucosal leiomyoma had the best treatment outcome in this study, according to results of a comparison of outcomes of UAE in 3 diagnostic categories to assist in patient selection for this relative new form of therapy.

TL;DR: Results suggest a role for the agent in the management of patients with advanced multifocal BAC, and the precise mechanisms of the antitumor effects of ZD1839 remain unclear.

TL;DR: The data suggest that feto-maternal hemorrhage may be the major factor contributing to elevated maternal serum AFP levels in pregnancies carrying placental sonolucencies, and screening for pregnancies with both elevated serum AFP and placentalSonolucency would help to identify the low-risk cases and facilitate cost-effective obstetric management.

TL;DR: The patient's condition deteriorated initially but recovered completely after 3 weeks of meropenem treatment, suggesting that A. baumannii should be included among pathogens with the potential to cause complicated skin infection in the community.

TL;DR: PHACE syndrome is associated with a high incidence of wide-spectrum CCVA, and neuroimaging such as brain computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and magnetic resonance angiography are recommended in order to search for structural cerebral defects and intracranial vascular alterations.

TL;DR: There is an urgent need to understand the mutation spectrum and the clinical features of the CFTR gene in Asian patients in order that a mutation panel can be established for effective screening of CF chromosomes.

TL;DR: The cluster of metabolic comorbidities in MS was significantly associated with male gender, and increased age but not with BMI, while body mass index (BMI) was not.

TL;DR: For patients with advanced prostate cancer receiving ADT, serum CgA may be a useful tumor marker that precedes PSA elevation, which signals ultimate treatment failure and may have clinical implications for implementation of novel therapies.

TL;DR: Although intrathyroidal thymic carcinoma is rare, it should be differentiated from anaplastic thyroid carcinoma because these conditions have different prognosis.