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APPENDIX 1 # Query Results S139 TI ( “primary care” N1 (visit* or contact* or attendance* or admission* or episode*) ) OR AB 796 ( “primary care” N1 (visit* or contact* or attendance* or admission* or episode*) ) S138 TI ( number N2 (nights or days) ) OR AB ( number N2 (nights or days) ) 2300 S137 TI ( (patient* or inpatient* or in-patient*) N1 (cost* or stay*) ) OR AB ( (patient* or inpatient* or 5482 in-patient*) N1 (cost* or stay*) ) S136 TI “hospital day*” OR AB “hospital day*” 827 S135 TI time N2 discharg* OR AB time N2 discharg* 1206 S134 TI “hospital cost*” OR AB “hospital cost*” 1254 S133 TI ( hospital N1 (access* or uptake or visit* or attendance* or admission* or admit* or episode*) ) OR 9825 AB ( hospital N1 (access* or uptake or visit* or attendance* or admission* or admit* or episode*) ) S132 TI duration N2 stay OR AB duration N2 stay 840 S131 TI length N2 stay OR AB length N2 stay 11,520 S130 (MH “Health Resource Utilization”) OR (MH “Health Resource Allocation”) 18,081 S129 (MH “Readmission”) 5960 S128 (MH “Hospitalization”) OR (MH “Length of Stay”) OR (MH “Patient Admission”) 48,675 S127 TI budget* OR AB budget* 6666 S126 TI (value N1 money) OR AB (value N1 money) 447 S125 TI (expenditure* not energy) OR AB (expenditure* not energy) 5192 S124 TI ( econom* or cost or costs or costly or costing or price or prices or pricing or pharmacoeconomic* ) 112,768 OR AB ( econom* or cost or costs or costly or costing or price or prices or pricing or pharmacoeconomic* ) S123 (MH “Health Care Costs+”) 34,309 S122 (MH “Economic Aspects of Illness”) 5807 S121 (MH “Economics, Dental”) 96 S120 (MH “Economics, Pharmaceutical”) 1694 S119 (MH “Economic Value of Life”) 488 S118 (MH “Costs and Cost Analysis+”) 75,720 S117 (MH “Economics”) 9773 S116 S92 OR S93 OR S94 OR S95 OR S96 OR S97 OR S98 OR S99 OR S100 OR S101 OR S102 OR S103 OR 398,552 S104 OR S105 OR S106 OR S107 OR S108 OR S109 OR S110 OR S111 OR S112 OR S113 OR S114 OR S115 S115 (MH “Mental Health”) 17,397 S114 TI “school refusal” OR AB “school refusal” 49 S113 (MH “Panic Disorder”) 1597 S112 (MH “Phobic Disorders+”) 3618 S111 (MH “Bipolar Disorder+”) 7408 S110 (MH “Schizophrenia+”) 16,421 S109 (MH “Eating Disorders+”) 11,947 S108 (MH “Psychotic Disorders+”) 77,469 S107 (MH “Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic+”) 13,346 S106 (MH “Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder+”) 3756 S105 (MH “Affective Disorders+”) 71,774 68 NIHR Journals Library www. 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APPENDIX 1 # Query Results S70 (MH “Psychoeducation”) 1836 S69 (MH “Psychotherapy, Group”) 4012 S68 (MH “Psychotherapy, Brief”) 753 S67 TI ( (behavior* or behaviour*) N1 (manag* or modif*) ) OR AB ( (behavior* or behaviour*) N1 3662 (manag* or modif*) ) S66 (MH “Behavior Modification”) 1651 S65 (MH “Behavior Therapy”) 7714 S64 TI “parent* training” OR AB “parent* training” 455 S63 (MH “Parenting”) 10,162 S62 (MH “Social Media”) 2963 S61 (MH “Blogs”) 2147 S60 (MH “Internet”) 33,921 S59 (MH “Bibliotherapy”) 308 S58 TI ( “educational material*” or leaflet* or booklet* or toolkit* ) OR AB ( “educational material*” or 5141 leaflet* or booklet* or toolkit* ) S57 (MH “Pamphlets”) 2455 S56 (MH “Teaching Materials”) 9621 S55 TI ( CBT or “cognitive therap*” or “cognitive behav*” ) OR AB ( CBT or “cognitive therap*” or 7897 “cognitive behav*” ) S54 (MH “Cognitive Therapy”) 12,009 S53 (MH “Motivational Interviewing”) 1517 S52 (MH “Exercise+”) 67,755 S51 (MH “Diet+”) 71,326 S50 TI ( “goal set*” or “individual goal*” )ORAB(“goal set*” or “individual goal*” ) 1364 S49 TI ( decision* N2 (shared or support* or aid or aids or making) ) OR AB ( decision* N2 (shared or 31,517 support* or aid or aids or making) ) S48 (MH “Goal-Setting”) 3952 S47 (MH “Decision Making”) 29,422 S46 TI ( “contingent payment*” or “deposit contract*” )ORAB(“contingent payment*” or “deposit 2 contract*” ) S45 TI ( ((financial or monetary or money) N2 (incentive* or competition* or contest* or lotter* or reward* 1528 or prize*)) ) OR AB ( ((financial or monetary or money) N2 (incentive* or competition* or contest* or lotter* or reward* or prize*)) ) S44 (MH “Consumer Health Information”) 9291 S43 TI nurse N2 educator* OR AB nurse N2 educator* 3624 S42 TI ( (“consumer health” or patient) N1 information ) OR AB ( (“consumer health” or patient) N1 3409 information ) S41 TI ( patient N2 (educat* or advice or advis* or instruct* or instruct* or train* or coach*) ) OR AB 11,053 ( patient N2 (educat* or advice or advis* or instruct* or instruct* or train* or coach*) ) S40 (MH “Patient Education”) 49,243 S39 TI ( involv* or participat* or collaborat* ) OR AB ( involv* or participat* or collaborat* ) 236,994 S38 (MH “Consumer Participation”) 12,803 70 NIHR Journals Library www. 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APPENDIX 1 # Query Results S8 TI ( self-monitor* or selfmonitor* or self-report* or selfreport* ) OR AB ( self-monitor* or selfmonitor* 34,036 or self-report* or selfreport* ) S7 TI ( self-manag* or selfmanag* ) OR AB ( self-manag* or selfmanag* ) 6324 S6 TI ( self-care* or selfcaring or selfcare* or selfcaring ) OR AB ( self-care* or selfcaring or selfcare* or 8332 selfcaring ) S5 (MH “Self Care”) 23,936 S4 S2 NOT S3 1589 S3 TI ( self-administer* N2 (questionnaire* or survey* or interview*) ) OR AB ( self-administer* N2 4926 (questionnaire* or survey* or interview*) ) S2 TI self-administer* OR AB self-administer* 6515 S1 (MH “Self Administration+”) 4246 The Cochrane Library (via Wiley Online Library) Date searched: 18 March 2015. The same search strategy was used across all five databases: 1. Search strategy #1 MeSH descriptor: [Self Administration] this term only (653) #2 self next administer*:ti,ab,kw (2287) #3 (self next administer* near/2 (questionnaire* or survey* or interview*)):ti,ab,kw (792) #4 #2 not #3 (1495) #5 MeSH descriptor: [Self Care] this term only (2833) #6 (self next care* or selfcaring or selfcare* or selfcaring):ti,ab,kw (4256) #7 (self next manag* or selfmanag*):ti,ab,kw (2420) 72 NIHR Journals Library www. This issue may be freely reproduced for the purposes of private research and study and extracts (or indeed, the full report) may be included in professional journals provided that 73 suitable acknowledgement is made and the reproduction is not associated with any form of advertising. Applications for commercial reproduction should be addressed to: NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK. APPENDIX 1 #32 ((telephon* or remote or phone) near/2 (follow* or support* or consult* or advice or advis* or intervention* or instruct* or assist* or educate or education or information or monitor*)):ti,ab,kw (2831) #33 MeSH descriptor: [Case Management] this term only (652) #34 (case next manag* or action next plan* or care next plan* or care next manag* or management next plan* or management next program* or care next program* or goal next setting or individual next goal*):ti,ab,kw (6445) #35 MeSH descriptor: [Patient Participation] this term only (890) #36 (involv* or participat* or collaborat*):ti,ab,kw (72,418) #37 MeSH descriptor: [Patient Education as Topic] this term only (6657) #38 patient next education:ti,ab,kw (8086) #39 (patient near/2 (educat* or advice or advis* or instruct* or train* or coach*)):ti,ab,kw (8784) #40 ((consumer next health or patient) next information):ti,ab,kw (553) #41 (nurse near/2 educator*):ti,ab,kw (73) #42 ((financial or monetary or money) near/2 (incentive* or competition* or contest* or lotter* or reward* or prize*)):ti,ab,kw (513) #43 (contingent next payment* or deposit next contract*):ti,ab,kw (17) #44 MeSH descriptor: [Decision Making] this term only (1692) #45 (decision* near/2 (shared or support* or aid or aids or making)):ti,ab,kw (7150) #46 (goal next set* or individual next goal*):ti,ab,kw (446) #47 MeSH descriptor: [Diet] explode all trees (12,385) #48 MeSH descriptor: [Exercise] explode all trees (14,181) #49 MeSH descriptor: [Motivational Interviewing] this term only (136) #50 MeSH descriptor: [Cognitive Therapy] this term only (5146) #51 (CBT or cognitive next therap* or cognitive next behav*):ti,ab,kw (9693) #52 MeSH descriptor: [Teaching Materials] this term only (383) #53 MeSH descriptor: [Pamphlets] this term only (623) #54 (educational next material* or leaflet* or booklet* or toolkit*):ti,ab,kw (1977) #55 MeSH descriptor: [Bibliotherapy] this term only (105) 74 NIHR Journals Library www. 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APPENDIX 1 #81 (parent* or mother* or father* or caregiver* or carer* or guardian* or advocate* or family):ti,ab,kw (40,218) #82 #76 or #77 or #78 or #79 or #80 or #81 (182,717) #83 MeSH descriptor: [Diabetes Mellitus] explode all trees (16,726) #84 MeSH descriptor: [Cystic Fibrosis] this term only (1102) #85 mucoviscidosis:ti,ab,kw (33) #86 MeSH descriptor: [Asthma] explode all trees (9404) #87 MeSH descriptor: [Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders] explode all trees (1865) #88 MeSH descriptor: [Hyperkinesis] this term only (168) #89 MeSH descriptor: [Anxiety] explode all trees (5226) #90 MeSH descriptor: [Depression] this term only (5541) #91 MeSH descriptor: [Depressive Disorder] this term only (4754) #92 MeSH descriptor: [Self Mutilation] this term only (25) #93 MeSH descriptor: [Self-Injurious Behavior] this term only (205) #94 MeSH descriptor: [Epilepsy] explode all trees (2311) #95 MeSH descriptor: [Conduct Disorder] explode all trees (179) #96 MeSH descriptor: [Mood Disorders] explode all trees (9310) #97 MeSH descriptor: [Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder] explode all trees (662) #98 MeSH descriptor: [Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic] this term only (972) #99 MeSH descriptor: [Psychotic Disorders] explode all trees (1562) #100 MeSH descriptor: [Eating Disorders] explode all trees (838) #101 MeSH descriptor: [Schizophrenia] explode all trees (4966) #102 MeSH descriptor: [Bipolar Disorder] explode all trees (1601) #103 MeSH descriptor: [Phobic Disorders] this term only (847) #104 MeSH descriptor: [Panic Disorder] this term only (758) #105 school next refusal:ti,ab,kw (14) 76 NIHR Journals Library www. 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APPENDIX 1 #131 ((patient* or inpatient* or in-patient*) next (cost* or stay*)):ti,ab,kw (772) #132 (number near/2 (nights or days)):ti,ab,kw (1889) #133 (primary next care next (visit* or contact* or attendance* or admission* or episode*)):ti,ab,kw (139) #134 (surgery next (visit* or contact* or attendance* or admission* or episode*)):ti,ab,kw (36) #135 (GP next (access or uptake or visit* or contact* or attendance* or admission* or episode*)):ti,ab,kw (65) #136 ((uptake or access) next (service* or care or intervention*)):ti,ab,kw (39) #137 ((clinic or surgery or hospital or “accident and emergency”) near/2 (work-flow or work next flow)): ti,ab,kw (2) #138 (consultation* near/2 (time or length)):ti,ab,kw (116) #139 (hospitalisation* or hospitalization* or rehospitalisation* or rehospitalization* or re-hospitalisation* or re-hospitalization*):ti,ab,kw (15,517) #140 (hrql or hrqol or “h qol” or h-qol or hql or hqol):ti,ab,kw (1887) #141 MeSH descriptor: [Quality-Adjusted Life Years] this term only (3773) #142 (qaly* or “quality adjusted life” or “quality of life” or “life quality”):ti,ab,kw (37,642) #143 {or #108-#142} (97,676) #144 #20 or #75 (169,797) #145 #144 and #82 and #107 and #143 (1739) #146 “Cool Kids”:ti,ab,kw (3) #147 “Sweet talk”:ti,ab,kw (2) #148 “Timid to Tiger”:ti,ab,kw (0) #149 “problem solving for life”:ti,ab,kw (2) #150 “Incredible Years”:ti,ab,kw (67) #151 “Triple P”:ti,ab,kw (77) #152 friends next program*:ti,ab,kw (12) #153 #146 or #147 or #148 or #149 or #150 or #151 or #152 (162) #154 #145 or #153 (1894) 78 NIHR Journals Library www. 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The ECG illustrated in Figure 2 from lead V1 begins with two normal sinus beats followed by a premature atrial complex (PAC midwest pain treatment center findlay ohio imdur 40 mg order fast delivery, first arrow) pain treatment for ovarian cysts buy imdur canada. The narrow QRS complex of the PAC resembles the QRS morphology of the sinus beats pain treatment machine order imdur 40mg visa. After an incomplete pause, another sinus beat is followed by a slightly earlier PAC. If not careful one might mistake this wide funny looking beat (FLB) as a PVC and attach a different clinical significance (and possible therapy). The diagram and examples on p19-20 also illustrate the different “fates” of PACs. The important clues to recognizing AVC in Figure 2 are: 1. Using normal conduction pathways:  Cycle-length dependent (aka, Ashman phenomenon)  Rate-dependent tachycardia or bradycardia 2. It should be emphasized that although RBBB morphology is the most common form of AVC, LBBB or block in one or more of its three fascicles may also occur, particularly in persons with more advanced left heart disease or those taking cardiovascular drugs. In healthy people the right bundle branch has a slightly longer refractory period than the left bundle at normal heart rates and, therefore, is more likely to be unavailable when an early PAC enters the ventricles. Feature #5, the “second-in-a row” phenomenon, will be illustrated later in this section. Same initial r wave as the normal QRS complex (in lead V1) 5. Richard Ashman who first described, in 1947, AVC of the RBBB variety in patients with atrial fibrillation. Ashman reasoned, from 32 observing ECG rhythms in patients with a-fib, that the refractory period (during which conducting tissue is recovering and cannot be activated) was directly proportional to the RR cycle length or heart rate. The longer the cycle length (or slower the heart rate) the longer the refractory period. In Figure 3 PACs (arrows) are normally conducted when the preceding cycle length is of short or medium duration but are blocked in the right bundle if the preceding RR cycle is long. Ashman observed this in atrial fibrillation when long RR cycles were followed by short RR cycles and the QRS terminating the short RR cycle was wide in duration (looking like RBBB). The first PAC (first arrow in V1) conducts to the ventricles with a normal QRS duration because the preceding cycle was of normal or medium length. Both PACs have identical coupling intervals from the preceding sinus P wave. Thus, a long cycle-short cycle sequence often leads to AVC. Unfortunately this sequence helps us UNDERSTAND AVC but is not DIAGNOSTIC OF AVC. PVCs may also occur in a long cycle-short cycle sequence. It is important, therefore, to have other clues to the differential diagnosis of funny looking QRS beats (FLBs). Henry Marriott, a wonderful master teacher of electrocardiography and author of many outstanding ECG textbooks and journal articles offered valuable morphologic clues to aberrant QRS morphologies (especially as seen in lead V1). These morphologies contrasted with the QRS complexes often seen with PVCs and enhanced our ability to diagnose AVC. For example, if the QRS in lead V1 is predominately up-going or positive (Figure 4) the differential diagnosis is between RBBB aberrancy and ventricular ectopy usually from the left ventricle. A 33 careful look at each of the 5 QRS morphologies in Figure 4 will identify the “Las Vegas” betting odds of making the correct diagnosis. When either of these is seen in a V1 premature beat we can be at least 90% certain that they are aberrant RBBB conduction and not ventricular ectopy. If the notch or slur is on the downstroke of the R wave (see smaller right rabbit ear in Example #4), then the odds are almost 100-to-1 that the beat is a left ventricular ectopic beat (i. If, on the other hand, the notch or slur is on the upstroke of the R wave (smaller rabbit ear on the left as in Example #3), than the odds are only 50:50 and not helpful in the differential diagnosis. Finally if the QRS complex has just a qR configuration (Example #5) than the odds are reasonably high that the beat in question is a left ventricular ectopic beat and not AVC. Two exceptions to this last rule (#5) need to be remembered.

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Endorsed and approved by the governing bodies of the 15 chest pain treatment guidelines discount 20mg imdur. Statement on Catheter and Surgical Ablation 2011 ACCF/AHA/HRS Focused Update on of Atrial Fibrillation: recommendations for the Management of Patients With Atrial patient selection knee pain treatment options 40mg imdur order overnight delivery, procedural techniques pain treatment dvt order discount imdur on-line, Fibrillation (Updating the 2006 Guideline): patient management and follow-up, a report of the American College of definitions, endpoints, and research trial Cardiology Foundation/American Heart design: a report of the Heart Rhythm Society Association Task Force on Practice (HRS) Task Force on Catheter and Surgical Guidelines. Van Gelder IC, Groenveld HF, Crijns HJ, et Rhythm Association (EHRA), a registered al. Lenient versus strict rate control in branch of the European Society of patients with atrial fibrillation. N Engl J Cardiology (ESC) and the European Cardiac Med. Endorsed by the governing bodies of the American College of Cardiology Foundation, the American Heart Association, the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society, the European Heart Rhythm Association, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society, and the Heart Rhythm Society. Surgical Maze procedure as a treatment for Management of New Onset Atrial atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis of Fibrillation. Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. Rockville, Cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and left atrial volume and the risk of atrial Quality; January 2001. Implantation Trial with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy). Effect of cardiac resynchronization on the incidence of atrial fibrillation in patients 27. Management of atrial fibrillation: review of 2006;114(1):18-25. Methods Guide for Effectiveness and echocardiography. AHRQ series paper 5: grading the strength Chapters available at of a body of evidence when comparing www. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Effective Health Care Program. PMID: 21463926 ES-35 Introduction Background Definition and Impact of Atrial Fibrillation Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a supraventricular tachyarrhythmia (any tachycardic rhythm originating above the ventricular tissue) and is characterized by uncoordinated atrial activation 1 with consequent deterioration of mechanical function. Although the type of AF can change over time, it is often helpful to characterize it at a given moment, as this may guide treatment. Types of AF include first-detected, paroxysmal (arrhythmia terminates spontaneously within 7 days), persistent (arrhythmia is sustained beyond 7 days), long-standing persistent (usually lasting for more than 1 year), and permanent AF (in which cardioversion has failed or has not been 1 attempted). The prevalence of AF 3 increases with age and approaches 8 percent in patients older than 80 years of age. As such, AF is the most common sustained arrhythmia seen in clinical practice. AF affects men and women 1 equally; however, approximately 60 percent of patients older than 75 years of age are female. The impact of AF is compounded by its known association with significant mortality, morbidity, and health care costs. Not only is the risk of death in patients with AF twice that of patients without AF, but AF can result in myocardial ischemia or even infarction, heart failure exacerbation, and tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy if the ventricular rate is not well- 4-7 controlled. In some patients, AF can severely depreciate quality of life by causing shortness of 8-11 breath, intractable fatigue, and near-syncope. However, the most dreaded complication of AF is thromboembolism, especially stroke. The risk of stroke in patients with AF is up to 8 percent 12 per year, depending on the presence of stroke risk factors. Importantly, when ischemic stroke occurs in patients with AF, it is either fatal or of moderate to high severity in the majority of 13 patients. The management of AF and its complications is responsible for almost $16 billion in 14 additional costs to the U.

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However gum pain treatment remedies order 40 mg imdur with visa, it is expected that the provision and delivery of HeLP would be at the level of geographical region allied pain treatment center youngstown oh cheap imdur master card, involving a mix of school sizes pain treatment guidelines imdur 40 mg line. Sensitivity analysis 1: actors unit costs uprated to £25. This hourly rate is based on guidance from the drama provider for the potential salary level for professional actors, but is aligned here with salary structure for a similarly paid health-care worker using the Agenda for Change band 5 for health staff57 (see Table 20) and unit costs from Curtis and Burns. N tes ( 1 o d is tinction h as be e n mad e be twe e n contact and non- contact time in cos ting th e inte rve ntion. I ns te ad , d ailytrave le xpe ns e s ave be e n applie d. ECONOMIC EVALUATION TABLE 22 Estimated cost (GBP) for delivery of HeLP (total cost across 16 schools, 27 classes) Delivery requirement Hours (mean) Unit cost (£) Total cost (£) HeLP co-ordinatora 1298. TABLE 23 Estimated total cost (GBP) for delivery of HeLP by school-class configuration: one school and one, two and three classes One school, one One school, two One school, three class classes classes Unit Hours Hours Hours Staff type cost (£) (mean) Cost (£) (mean) Cost (£) (mean) Cost (£) HeLP co-ordinatora 41. Sensitivity analysis 2: inclusion of teacher time/costs, added to base-case estimates Based on prior consideration and pilot research, it is not expected that teacher time inputs around HeLP activities are additional/incremental to usual activities (i. However, we have explored this in sensitivity analysis, and we have estimated costs here including teacher time with a unit cost of £21 per hour (£160 per day) for teacher time (assuming any additional time inputs will be covered using a supply teacher). This hourly rate is based on published guidance from the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers58 on supply teacher rates of payment (see Table 18). In this scenario, the total costs for the delivery of HeLP increase modestly, by < £13 per child, from £214. A framework for the economic evaluation of HeLP Here we describe the development of the Exeter Obesity Model, a decision-analytic model-based framework for assessment of the cost-effectiveness of the HeLP school-based intervention versus usual practice in children aged 9–10 years. The development of the model was based on a review of model-based economic evaluations of interventions related to childhood obesity, with a focus on models tracking from childhood through to adult years, and a summary of this systematic literature search is presented below. Thereafter we document the conceptual structure and the operational development of the model, describing data sources and the populating of the model to address the primary research question of whether or not the HeLP intervention could be considered cost-effective compared with usual practice. This issue may be freely reproduced for the purposes of private research and study and extracts (or indeed, the full report) may be included in professional journals 49 provided that suitable acknowledgement is made and the reproduction is not associated with any form of advertising. Applications for commercial reproduction should be addressed to: NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK. ECONOMIC EVALUATION TABLE 25 Sensitivity analysis 2: estimated cost (GBP) for delivery of HeLP (total cost across 16 schools, 27 classes) including costs for teacher time Delivery requirement Hours (mean) Unit cost (£) Total cost (£) HeLP co-ordinatora 1298. Review of decision-analytic models for use in cost-effectiveness analyses on obesity A systematic review of model-based economic evaluations of interventions related to childhood obesity, as a means of preventing obesity in adults, was conducted in order to inform the structure and development of a modelling framework suitable for assessing the cost-effectiveness of the HeLP intervention. Methods Search strategy Systematic searches were conducted in several databases (including MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, NHS Economic Evaluation Database and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects). The keywords and medical subject headings (MeSH) for obesity were combined with keywords for cost and economic analysis to capture relevant economic evaluations in all databases. In addition, references within the included studies were reviewed to identify potentially overlooked studies. The searches were date limited 1990–2012 (original search). Eligibility criteria Titles and abstracts for all articles identified by the literature search were screened. Studies were eligible for inclusion if they were economic evaluations (cost–benefit, cost–utility, cost-effectiveness and cost–consequence analyses) of interventions related to child/adolescent overweight/obesity as a means of preventing obesity in adults. Next, full texts of all articles deemed eligible from the previous stage were reviewed to further confirm their eligibility. At this stage, the exclusion criteria were burden-of-illness studies, cost analyses, study types other than economic evaluations, review articles, editorials or reports, and articles not written in English. Studies published as abstracts or conference presentations were included only if sufficient details were presented to allow both an appraisal of the methodology and an assessment of the results to be undertaken. The information obtained included authors, country, study year, comparators, population characteristics, study design, time horizon, perspective, data sources, effectiveness, cost, sensitivity analysis and study conclusions. The identified modelling studies are summarised, and the approaches available to model disease progression over time are discussed in a summary descriptive review. Results Studies identified A total of seven models (reported in 11 publications) were included in the final 62–72 review.

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These investigators suggest that cells conditioning pain treatment diverticulitis 20mg imdur buy with mastercard, animals have a representation of the value of in the Bla encode the associative significance of cues knee pain treatment youtube purchase cheapest imdur and imdur, a reinforcement that is elicited by the cue paired with that whereas cells in the orbitofrontal cortex are active when US knee pain treatment video purchase imdur 40 mg otc. When that representation is changed, then the behavior that information, relayed from the Bla, is required to guide elicited by the cue also is changed in the same direction. Lesions of the basolateral, but not the CeA, block US deval- Taken together, these data suggest that the connection uation (112). In a related paradigm, rats are trained to be between the Bla and the frontal cortex may be involved in fearful of a weak shock in the presence of a tone. When determining choice behavior based on how an expected US this is followed by presentation of a stronger shock, without is represented in memory. The necessity for communication further tone-shock pairing, more freezing occurs to the tone. Because the Second-order conditioning also depends on a US repre- reciprocal connections between the two structures are ipsi- sentation elicited by a CS. In this procedure, cue 1 is paired lateral, this procedure completely eliminated activity of the with a particular US (e. After such training, cue 2 elicits a similar each structure. Using this approach in rhesus monkeys, Bax- behavior as that elicited by cue 1, depending on the US ter et al. Thus, it may elicit approach neurotoxic lesions of the basolateral nucleus in combination behavior if cue 1 was formerly paired with food and avoid- with unilateral aspiration of orbital prefrontal cortex (22). This indicates that These monkeys continued to approach a food on which cue 1 elicits a representation of the US that then becomes they had recently been satiated, whereas control monkeys associated with cue 2. Lesions of the Bla, but not the CeA, consistently switched to the other food. More distal threats activate the ventral PAG and generate As reviewed by Whalen (244), neuroimaging studies in nor- passive or preparatory defensive behaviors such as freezing mal human subjects have shown activation of the amygdala and analgesia. From a similar perspective, Deakin and by presentation of biologically relevant sensory stimuli that Graeff et al. For exam- inhibit the dorsal PAG (66,104), but this inhibition is over- ple, the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) sig- come with more extreme danger, thus allowing active de- nal intensity within the amygdala is greater when subjects fense or panic behaviors to emerge. Positron emission tomography metabolic ac- paulis and colleagues showed that chemical or electrical tivity within the amygdala increased to negative material stimulation of PAG regions lateral to the aqueduct produces presented by film clips (199), and the amount of amygdala active behaviors such as forward avoidance, defensive aggres- activity during film clips predicted later recall (47). In addi- sion, and cardiovascular activation (67,68), whereas stimu- tion, fMRI signal intensities in humans during classic fear lation of more ventral regions of the PAG elicits passive conditioning increased in response to stimuli that predicted responses such as behavioral arrest and decreased cardiovas- an aversive event (45,150,179). Electrical stimulation of the dorsal Amygdala activation also seems to be greater during pre- PAG in humans produces a pattern of cardiovascular effects sentations of fearful faces compared with neutral facial that resemble those seen during a natural panic attack, and expressions (40,180), happy facial expressions (180,246), or patients often experience fear, anxiety, and the desire to when subjects looked at a fixation point on an otherwise terminate stimulation (162). Most study subjects reported seeing neutral Based on these and other data, several investigators have 'expressionless' faces, but not any afraid or smiling faces. In addition, subjects reported that these The dorsal PAG has heavy innervation of the panicogenic masked stimuli did not induce any noticeable changes in peptide CCK, which has been shown to excite the majority their state of emotional arousal. CCK antagonists functionally de- (244), 'this study offers preliminary support for the notion crease the effects of electrical stimulation of the dorsal PAG, that the amygdala constantly monitors the environment for as does elevating serotonin, perhaps relevant to the use of such signals. More than functioning primarily for the pro- serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the treatment of panic dis- duction of strong emotional states, the amygdala would be order. Whether these effects depend on connections be- poised to modulate the moment-to-moment vigilance level tween the amygdala and the PAG or whether they represent of an organism. Role of the Periaqueductal (Central) Gray Role of the Hippocampus in Contextual Outputs from the CeA to the ventral central gray appear to Fear Conditioning mediate several components of the fear response including freezing, conditioned analgesia, and fear-related vocaliza- Rats given cue-shock pairings learn to be afraid of the cue as tions, but, surprisingly, maybe not cessation of operant be- well as the place where cue-shock pairings occurred (context havior (11). More dorsal regions of the PAG play a role in conditioning). In 1992, two seminal articles reported that active defensive responses (33), depending on whether the the hippocampus was necessary for context but not explicit threat is distal or proximal (31,71). Fanselow (79), for exam- cue conditioning (148,190). Both studies found that elec- ple, showed that dorsal, but not ventral, PAG lesions elimi- trolytic lesions of the dorsal hippocampus blocked freezing nate activity bursts elicited by foot shock, whereas ventral, in the presence of a fearful context but not in the presence but not dorsal, PAG lesions diminish freezing responses elic- of a cue paired with shock in that context. Kim and ited by cues previously paired with foot shock. Fanselow Fanselow found such effects when lesions were made shortly suggested that these stimuli (i. Chapter 64: Neural Circuitry of Anxiety and Stress Disorders 941 Although the role of the hippocampus in contextual fear accumbens of a local anesthetic (108).

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In the case of GAD tailbone pain treatment yoga generic imdur 40 mg buy on-line, prevalence was underestimated in the early DIS surveys due to the fact PREVALENCES that the excessively unrealistic criterion in the DSM-III was operationalized by requiring that respondents endorse a Anew generation of psychiatric epidemiologic surveys iasp neuropathic pain treatment guidelines buy imdur 20mg visa, statement that they worried about things that were not really which began with the Epidemiologic Catchment Area serious or about things that were not likely to happen chronic back pain treatment guidelines safe imdur 20 mg. This (ECA) Study in the early 1980s (9), has dramatically in- requirement is overly restrictive in two ways. First, there is creased our knowledge about the general population preva­ no requirement in DSM that people with GAD have insight lences and correlates of anxiety disorders. The ECAStudy into their worries being excessive or unrealistic. Although was the first psychiatric epidemiologic study to use a fully they must be aware that they worry more than other people structured research diagnostic interview designed specifi­ do, they can perceive others as worrying too little rather cally for use by lay interviewers to operationalize the criteria than themselves as worrying too much. Second, even in the of a wide range of mental disorders. This interview, known presence of a recognition that their worrying is excessive, as the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) (10), was used there is no requirement in DSM that the worries of people throughout the 1980s and early 1990s to carry out parallel with GAD must be exclusively focused on things that are epidemiologic surveys in a number of countries (11,12). Indeed, the heteroge­ The DIS was also used as the basis for an elaborated inter- neous worries that are characteristic of most people with view developed by the WHO and known as the Composite GAD (e. The CIDI children are going to turn out, neighborhood safety, global was designed to generate diagnoses according to the defini­ warming, etc. WHO auspices resulted that only about 3% of the population meet criteria for GAD in over a dozen large-scale, general-population CIDI surveys at any time in their lives (17). Early CIDI surveys followed being carried out around the world over the past decade. Subsequent CIDI surveys expanded the creation of the WHO International Consortium in Psy­ the assessment of excessive worry in GAD by asking re­ chiatric Epidemiology (ICPE) (14), which is currently coor­ spondents if there was ever a time in their lives when they dinating national CIDI surveys in 25 countries around the were worriers or when they worried a lot more than most world, with a combined sample size of over 150,000 re­ other people in their same situation, without requiring that Chapter 67: The Economic Burden of Anxiety and Stress Disorders 983 the worry be exclusively about things that are not serious Assessments of PTSD in epidemiologic surveys that used or not likely to happen. Prevalence estimates were found to the DIS led to the estimate that only about 1% of the be considerably higher when this modification was intro­ United States population meet criteria for this disorder at duced (20). Subsequent surveys that used In addition, these new studies investigated the implica­ the CIDI modified the assessment of PTSD by including tions of the requirements in the DSM-IV and ICD-10 that a detailed traumatic event checklist and by asking respon­ the worry in GAD persists for a minimum of 6 months and dents to give separate yes or no reports for whether each of found that this requirement might be too restrictive. In some CIDI surveys, particular, many people with chronic excessive worry report a visual checklist was used that aimed at making it easier having fairly short episodes, each of which lasts for several for respondents to report embarrassing events (e. Such individuals are currently ex­ 'Were you ever raped? CIDI PTSD symptom assessment cluded from a diagnosis of GAD and, because of their high proceeded very much along the same lines as the DIS after comorbidity with depression, are classified as being de- documenting that trauma exposure had occurred. Yet the pressed even though their most prominent symptoms are prevalence estimates obtained in the CIDI surveys were dra­ often associated with anxiety rather than depression. The matically higher than in the DIS surveys, with lifetime prev­ new WHO WMH2000 Initiative is investigating this mat­ alences as high as 12. This is assessed in a single question that presented respondents with important because epidemiologic surveys that include as­ a long checklist of feared situations and asked them if they sessments of current nonspecific psychological distress typi­ ever had unreasonably strong fears of these situations. In cally find that a high proportion of the respondents who addition to being mixed in with a number of specific fears, report clinically significant current distress in the anxiety- only five social phobic situations, all involving performance mood spectrum do not meet criteria for any of the anxiety fears, were included in the ECAlist. Given the extremely high prevalences of exposure the CIDI corrected this problem by screening for social to stressful events found in surveys of stress exposure (28), phobia with a separate, longer list of social fears (both inter­ it is plausible to think that many of these people have a actional and performance). These later surveys consistently diagnosis of either acute stress disorder or adjustment disor­ found social phobia to be much higher than in the DIS der. The new WHO WMH2000 surveys mentioned earlier surveys, with lifetime prevalences as high as 13% (18) and in this chapter are investigating this possibility by evaluating current prevalences as high as 8% (22). This seems to have been a criteria for other anxiety or mood disorders. Arough comparison is pro­ experience, such as combat in a war or sexual assault, and vided by the recently completed Midlife Development in that people who experience these events often have bad the U. Respondents were then asked if they ever lel assessments were made of commonly occurring physical had such an event that caused such reactions and, if so, to and mental disorders, along with assessments of the effects tell the interviewer what this event was. Subsequent de- of these disorders on day-to-day functioning (29). As in briefing showed that this question was too complex for most other health surveys of chronic physical conditions, many respondents, that the absence of a detailed event list of which a great many exist (e. However, past health surveys of 984 Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress chronic physical conditions have seldom assessed emotional Increases for panic, specific phobia, agoraphobia, and obses­ disorders along with these physical disorders.

Alima, 34 years: The initial basis for the alliances was established by a leadership dyad at the apex of the CCG, operating within an operational commissioning arena, a programme board. Some nephrologists consider 99mTc-DM SA cortical scintigraphy as the first-line diagnostic imaging method for renal infection in children. Progress in psychobiology and ioral neuroscience (1), makes the basic science more useful physiologic psychology. A 'safe' study signed to answer the most important research questions.

Delazar, 38 years: Patient selection for each technique ideally should be based on a careful consideration of m ultiple factors. Using the estimate of care (EMOC) package is a widely accepted inter- averted deaths, the resulting theoretical MMR vention for reducing maternal deaths, no pub- in Kabezi was calculated and compared to the lished data exist from Africa that quantify the MDG 5 target for Burundi. One meaning is senseless folly – as when the two young, unsuited, incompatible people have a wild love affair. The sim ilarity of the lab- oratory test results of volum e depletion and expansion results from the fact that the “effective” arterial volum e is depleted in both states despite dram atic expansion of the extracellular fluid volum e in one.

Pyran, 60 years: This ECG has abnormal q waves in I, aVL, V5-6 suggesting a septal MI location. These chan- nels are voltage sensitive and are open at membrane poten- tials more negative than about 80 mV, close to the ob- Pierre J. A triplet repeat on 17q in the promoter region of MAOA gene and mood disorders. HS&DR programme The Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) programme, part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), was established to fund a broad range of research.

Ballock, 29 years: Three Mile Island, Exxon Valdez, and the Space Shut­ Induced tle Challenger represent disasters where fatigue among Sleep loss results in compromised neurobehavioral perfor­ nighttime workers has been implicated. A slight asymmetry in the NAA/Cr and glx/Cr values between left and right motor cortex perhaps reflects the large motor asymmetry in this patient. The main differ- sensitivity allowed the rate of the glutamate/glutamine cycle, ences from the rates derived from the Shen et al. T waves in V1 may also be inverted, but are usually upright in V2-6 in adults.

Makas, 62 years: Introducing the agonist at a into the brain (17,89). Analysis of clinical data volunteer subjects, a controlled experimental design, and using a population approach allows pharmacokinetic pa- collection of multiple blood samples. Chapter 72: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms in Depression 1047 15. The highest cost estimates for people living estimates from the other studies reported in Tables 89.

Umul, 24 years: Maintenance of Sinus Rhythm Seven studies representing 1,473 patients were included in our meta-analysis of maintenance 156,159,295,296,299,302,303 of sinus rhythm. Beta-amyloid precur- (A beta) binding proteins in A beta aggregation. W hen urine cannot be studied without delay, it m ust be stored at 4ºC until it is sent to the bacteriology laboratory. In general, sensory, motor, or cognitive events are known as event- the localization of active neural populations is more straight- related potentials (ERPs) and the corresponding magnetic forward with surface recordings of ERFs than with ERPs, field changes are termed event-related fields (ERFs).

Harek, 65 years: Because of the long incuba- psychiatric and medical care within agonist and other sub- tion period before the development of AIDS, it is expected stance abuse treatment programs (70). All patients with diabetes develop recurrent basement membrane and mesangial pathology within their allografts, and recurrent oxalate deposition can cause rapid renal allograft failure in patients with oxalosis. Altered emotional states affinity corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1 antagonist in knockout mice lacking 5-HT1A or 5-HT1B receptors. Nor do these data, taken from the center point of a regular structure, provide any clear information on how well the transformation would work on the much more irregular Voxel-Based Morphometry cerebral cortex.

Bernado, 39 years: Neuropsychopharma- receptors in major depression and schizophrenia. Normal urine is supersaturated with only approxim ately 10% of urinary oxalate. Reduction of blood pressure induced by the angiotensin II antagonist was reversed during saline infusion with a positive sodium balance and reduction 150 in circulating plasm a renin activity. Given the apparent importance of modulating dopamine transmission in this circuit in the ing adaptive behavioral responses and the magnitude of do- neuroplasticity leading to addiction, it seems reasonable that pamine release elicited by most drugs of abuse, it is perhaps directly modulating the GABAergic subcircuit with opioids not surprising that nonphysiologic neuroadaptations ensue, or allosteric GABAergic agonists may also produce neuro- culminating in the maladaptive behaviors characteristic of plastic changes relevant to the development of addiction.

Sulfock, 25 years: Life expectancy and cardiovascular mortality in persons with schizophrenia. All-Cause Mortality 178 One good-quality study reported that one patient who received metoprolol with electrical cardioversion died within 6 months compared with no patients who received placebo plus electrical cardioversion. How can we increase translation of research into practice? Eliprodil had electrocardio- been focused on two therapeutic candidates, ACEA 1021 graphic effects that limited dosing such that efficacy was (Licostinel) and GV150526.

Randall, 32 years: Daniel Warm (Service Transformation Programme Manager, Hywel Dda UHB) provided advice on information systems management. Guidelines for reporting health interventions using mobile phones: mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist. This is a good example of the inappropriateness of Cartesian dualism as model for substance use disorders. Proc Natl and D2 receptors in human striatum:receptor autoradiographic Acad Sci USA 1994;91:11651–11654.

Hector, 40 years: Te relatively frequent practice of orogenital sex among with new and unexplained increases in alanine aminotrans- WSW might place them at higher risk for genital infection with ferase (ALT) should be tested for acute HCV infection. The widespread misuse of methamphetamine had led to severe legal restriction on its manufacture, sale; and prescription in many countries (112). Along with other structures, and between the scarves of descending and ascending white matter, there are three sub-systems composed of clumps of grey matter (cell bodies, as in the cortex) and related connecting white matter. Even if such an induced models (see the following), models such as the con- animal model has predictive validity, it may not be useful ditioned avoidance response and latent inhibition, in which in furthering our understanding of the pathophysiology un- known antipsychotics influence behaviors under baseline derlying the disorder if the effects of therapeutic treatments conditions, may be more effective in identifying new thera- depend on an interaction with the underlying pathophysiol- peutic targets for antipsychotic effects.

Roy, 31 years: Bringing the clinical, research and economic perspec- 4. Overview: current perspective on twin studies of 12. Paradoxically, however, transgenic which leads to accumulation of monoamine transmitters animals in which dopamine and serotonin release is blocked at the synapse. Part B includes numbers from 1 t o13 and letters from A to L sprinkled randomly on a page.

Leif, 26 years: COMPULSIVE BUYING Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Although recognized by Kraeplin and Bleuler a century ago, Given the repetitive, ritualistic buying behaviors and the CB, then termed oniomania and more recently compulsive intrusive preoccupations with buying associated with CB, shopping or impulsive or addictive buying, has been rela- the efficacy of SSRIs in the treatment of OCD, and the tively understudied in psychiatry (154–156). Accelerated HF-rTMS in treatment-resistant unipolar depression. Nicotine yearly by the year 2030, with 70% of those deaths in devel- smokers appear able to discriminate small, rewarding effects oping countries. Functional energy metabo- lism: in vivo 13C NMRevidence for coupling of cerebral glucose sis in human brain by NMR.

Malir, 37 years: Current research indicates that cognitive impairment is uncommon in asymptomatic HIV-seropositive persons Psychomotor slowing appears to be the most common HIV- (22,37), is not associated with deficits in social or occupa- related neurocognitive deficit and may underlie deficits in tional functioning (9,11), and, when present, is subtle and higher-order cognitive processes (52). In many cases, epitopes chosen for this purpose are Point mutations can identify essential features in the re- either synthetic (not derived from any known biological ceptor structure. Unlike hyperten- recipients dem onstrated these benefits of the various treatm ents. Twin studies on obsessive- compulsive disorder: a review.

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