Medical appointments and schedules; Simulation methods
Healthy for Life is a relatively new University of Louisville medical clinic which attempts to stem the epidemic of childhood obesity. This program offers a range of face-to-face services for overweight children. The main problem addressed by this...
Autistic children--Rehabilitation; Social skills in children; Autistic children--Behavior modification; Group work in education; Peer-group tutoring of students
Social reciprocity deficits are a core feature of the autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and a major source of impairment regardless of cognitive or language ability (Carter, Davis, Klin, & Volkmar, 2005). Since these impairments do not naturally...
Hospital care--Computer simulation; Hospitals--Computer simulation; Medical appointments and schedules
With more and more attention surrounding healthcare, Industrial Engineers have championed the task to help hospitals and outpatient centers operate as efficiently as possible. Simulation is often used to analyze hospital performance measures. The...
This dissertation is a post-test only comparison group study. It tests the effects of additional Motivational Interviewing sessions during the first two weeks in an intensive outpatient clinic. The object is to learn whether these additional...
This study examined the association between internalizing and externalizing symptoms, gender, and the diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Participants included 104 males and 74 females, aged 6 to 16 from a diagnostic clinic....
Breast--Cancer--Diagnosis; Medical screening; Breast--Radiography; Mobile hospitals
This study used the de-identified breast cancer screen data which recorded the
information of 58231 screens and 22534 participants with different background. The
analysis of disparities on age, ethnic, health insurance and screen location has been...
Persons living with chronic pain encounter a host of physical and psychosocial problems resulting in a loss of quality of life and increased disability. The construct of avoidance has been proposed as a mechanism by which these changes in...
Diabetes--Psychological aspects; Diabetes--Treatment; Diabetics--Mental health
The importance of maximizing self-management and quality of life is well documented in the diabetes literature. Although maintaining self-care is known to be important for individuals with type 2 diabetes, this is often difficult to maintain over...
Depression is one of the most frequent causes of disability worldwide. It can
affect the psychological, social, and physical wellbeing of those that suffer from it, the
majority of which are women. Depression has been linked to immune activation as...
Spinal cord--Wounds and injuries; Stretch (Physiology)
An increasing amount of healthcare resources is used for the treatment and prevention of contractures in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), with stretch and passive movements remaining the most prominent intervention methods. The results of...
University of Louisville. School of Dentistry; Dental education; Clinics; University of Louisville--Students
Dental clinic for the University of Louisville School of Dentistry. Long rows of dental stations with lights and equipments. Patients sit in some of the chairs. Men in white lab coats, either faculty or students, stand at some of the stations. On...
A woman examines a little girl at the Anderson Hall clinic. The clinic was primarily focused on identifying and treating patients with trachoma, a contagious eye disease. A bungalow hospital was opened on the grounds of the institute in 1913....
Oneida Baptist Institute; Physicians; Clinics; Health care; Eye examinations; Vision disorders; Children
A group of children and adults watch doctors examine a patient at the Anderson Hall medical clinic. The clinic was primarily focused on identifying and treating patients with trachoma, a contagious eye disease. A bungalow hospital was opened on the...
Oneida Baptist Institute; Physicians; Clinics; Health care; Vision disorders
Doctors work with a patient at the Anderson Hall clinic. The clinic was primarily focused on identifying and treating patients with trachoma, a contagious eye disease. A bungalow hospital was opened on the grounds of the institute in 1913....
University of Louisville. School of Dentistry; Dental education; Clinics; People; Schools
Tall windows provide light for the University of Louisville Dental Clinic. Men wearing white short-sleeved shirts with writing embroidered above a pocket examine dental patients in chairs. A man in a tie and a woman in dress stand observing. Near...
Address: 235 E. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. An iron gate separates the small lawn of the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Clinic from the sidewalk. Two trees in the yard have the bottom portion of their trunks painted white. The three story...
Monoclonal antibodies directed toward tumor associated antigens are FDA approved anticancer reagents used commonly in the clinic. Administered antibodies initiate tumor cell death through several mechanisms. Improving immune mediated mechanisms,...
Heart--Diseases--Diagnosis; Diagnostic imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Imaging systems in medicine
Many cardiac diseases, such as myocardial ischemia, secondary to coronary artery disease, may be identified and localized through the analysis of cardiac deformations. Early efforts for quantifying ventricular wall motion used surgical implantation...
