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Overall, there are an estimated 98,000 children living with HIV in Kenya. Children who are initiated on ART in Kenya and other low resource settings face several challenges with ongoing care due to current limitations of paediatric HIV treatment services. High quality paediatric HIV care requires routine monitoring of clinical and virologic status, support for ART adherence, and patient outreach to optimize retention in care. The HIV Infant Tracking System (HITSystem) is a web-based, system-level intervention that has dramatically improved EID HIV-related outcomes in Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi. The objective of this study is to implement and evaluate the impact of HITSystem 3.0 on paediatric clinical outcomes, adherence, retention and viral suppression over 12 months among children in HIV care. Outcome measurements will be evaluated separately in children aged ≤2 years and in those aged 3-16 years. Primary Outcomes 1. The proportion of HIV infected children in each arm who are retained in HIV care at 12 months. Retention will be defined as regular engagement with HIV care, as measured by having attended the last three scheduled monthly appointments on time (see section 3.3 for further description). 2. The proportion of HIV infected children who are virally suppressed (VL <50) at the end of the 12-month follow-up period. The proposed trial design is an unblinded CRT with two arms: the HITSystem 3.0 Intervention vs. Standard of Care (SOC) as the control. The CRT will be implemented in 20 health facilities (10 intervention and 10 control) in Western Nyanza province in Kenya and will collect data from HIV-infected children aged ≤16 years. Outcomes will focus on ART retention, adherence and viral suppression. Outcomes will be assessed among all HIV positive children aged ≤16 years attending the trial facilities for HIV care at the start of the trial, or who are diagnosed as HIV positive during the first 12 months of the trial. Follow-up data will be collected on each child for 12 months. Therefore, the total duration of the trial will be for 24 months. All HIV-positive children and their caregivers attending health facilities randomised to the intervention arm will be monitored by the HITSystem 3.0. The study will be conducted in Western Nyanza province, Kenya, which comprises six counties.
The presence of rectal gas can cause distortion at air-tissue interfaces on diffusion-weighted images (DWI) of prostate MRI and reduce image quality due to these susceptibility artifacts. Small catheter placement in the rectum before MRI is one of the ways that is advocated in PI-RADS v2 guidelines to reduce rectal gas. The goal of this study is to prospectively evaluate the effect of small catheter placement on artifacts on diffusion weighted images and to see whether it improves diagnostic accuracy.
The objective of this long-term study is to evaluate the long-term effectiveness and safety of AUGMENT® Injectable Bone Graft vs. autologous bone graft. The study involves evaluation of subjects originally treated under protocol BMTI-2009-01 or BMTI-2010-01 or treated with autograft under protocol BMTI-2006-01. Subjects will be asked to consent and return to provide long-term follow-up data at or after 60 months (5 years) have elapsed since their original surgery as a subject in protocol BMTI-2009-01 or BMTI-2010-01. STUDY HYPOTHESIS: The effectiveness and safety profile for AUGMENT® Injectable Bone Graft is maintained and remains comparable to that of autologous bone graft over long-term subject follow-up. REGULATORY PHASE: Post-approval study
This study will examine the benefits of involving partner in a Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program for tobacco and alcohol for women treated for breast cancer. Using a two-arm randomized trial (couple brief motivational intervention (CBMI) versus individual brief motivational intervention (IBMI) with repeated measures at 6 weeks, 3 and 6 months.
Clarify different causes of sepsis in patients admitted to ICU . as well asCompare causes and outcomes of sepsis between diabetics versus non diabetics . 3.Screening for the commonest organism causing sepsis in critically ill patients. Determine better protocol therapy that help in decreasing mortality and morbidity in patients with sepsis in ICU.
1. To analyze the diagnostic and prognostic value of echocardiographic parameters. 2. Prediction of APE-related 30-day mortality and adverse out comes. 3. The need for rescue thrombolysis in initially normotensive Acute pulmonary embolism (APE) patients.
Increasing the speed of orthodontic treatment is an emerging clinical problem and therefore the evaluation of the effects of photobiomodulation applications and methods on orthodontic tooth movement is considered as an important factor. When literature studies are examined, different studies have been performed on Laser and LED applications, however, the lack of a study that evaluates and compares the effectiveness of these methods in terms of clinical and biochemical parameters. The aim of this study is to compare the effects of laser and LED applications on tooth movement speed and to investigate the effects of these applications on the gingival fluid IL-8, OPG, RANKL. Total of 24 patients with maxillary first-premolar extraction orthodontic treatment will be included in this study, and this study will consist of 3 groups, Laser, LED and placebo group. The laser will be applied on days 0,3,7,14,21,28,35, take impression of teeth and gingival fluid samples will be collected in these days. LED group will be given 10 minutes LED for 30 days, taken impression and DOS samples will be collected on specified days. In the placebo group, the non-active pulse laser light will be kept in the teeth and the patients will not know which group in they are. Thus, the psychological dimension of the applications will be eliminated. Sampling will be done for the placebo group on the days determined. The investigator's project proposal consists of a total of 5 work packages; Determination of patient groups in the 1st stage and obtaining consent forms, 2nd stage Photobiomodulation applications (laser, LED, placebo application), 3rd stage orthodontic measurement and evaluation of these measurements 3D environment, taking gingival fluid samples in the 4th stage and evaluating them biochemically. In the 5th stage, statistical analysis and evaluation of the results will be done. The data will be evaluated with SPSS 21.0.In this study, it is tried to reduce the time spent in the orthodontic treatment to close the extraction area. In this way, it will contribute to economy and time saving in terms of all orthodontic treatment physicians and physicians. It will illuminate the application of LED device which is more advantageous in terms of cost and space gain in clinical practice of physicians.
Randomized comparison of radiation exposure in coronary angiography between right conventional and left distal radial artery approach
Objective Tinnitus is one of the most common acoustic disorders by affecting 5-43% people around the world, and tinnitus is harmful to social and individuals, inducing to annoyance, irritability, anxiety, depression, insomnia and concentration difficulties. Many efforts have been made to help tinnitus suffers, however, the curative means are still in absence. This study aims to introduce a novel sound therapy for tinnitus and to evaluate the efficacy of modified tinnitus relieving sound treatment in comparison with unmodified music which served as a control. Methods and analysis A randomized, triple-blinded, controlled, clinical trial will be carried out. 68 patients with subjective tinnitus will be recruited and randomized into two groups in 1:1 ratio. The primary outcomes will be Tinnitus Handicapped Inventory (THI), Hospital Anxiety and Distress Scale (HADS), and visual analogue scale (VAS) for tinnitus; the secondary outcome measures will be Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), tinnitus loudness matched by sensation level (LM, SL), and minimum masking level (MML). Assessment will be performed at baseline and at 1, 3, 9, and 12 months post-randomization. The sound stimulus will be persistent until 9 months after randomization, and be interdictory in the last three months.
The development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) and other late onset non-infectious pulmonary complications (LONIPCs) following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is associated with a significantly worse prognosis, high disease burden, and excessive health resource utilization. In this proposal, the investigators plan to examine and compare different diagnostic modalities which can provide detailed physiological and anatomical characterization of LONIPCs.