The study, published in the December issue of Archives of Surgery, examined outcomes of fairly common procedures performed on 101,318 adults 65 and older at all nonmilitary hospitals in Washington State from 1987 through 2004.
The findings are based on analysis of a legacy archive of project risk and risk mitigating actions from a large design organization, as well as from categorizing the different types of actions found in the archive based on a taxonomy developed using the archive itself, and analyzing the outcomes of those different types of actions.
In the study, published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers compared the outcomes of 92 participants who took weekly yoga classes with 91 who took weekly stretching classes and 45 who received a so-called "self-care" book that offered guidance on exercise and lifestyle modifications.
"Development of a Conceptual Framework for the Assessment of Geriatric Rehabilitation Outcomes". Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 38 (38: 221–38.
"Outcomes of Medical Malpractice Litigation Against US Physicians". Archives of Internal Medicine 172.11 (June 2012): 892-889.
Skip to next paragraph Related More Vital Signs Columns Web Link Impact of Advancing Age on Abdominal Surgical Outcomes (Archives of Surgery) The risks increased with advancing age: 2.5 percent of patients in their late 60s died after surgery, compared with 6 percent of those in their late 70s, 12.6 percent in their late 80s and 16.7 percent in their early 90s.
In line with this, other interviewees questioned the status of these kinds of initiatives, referring to examples where outcomes of public engagement initiatives have been simply become archived by politic makers.
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A major outcome of this project is the Web Archiving Service (WAS), a Web archiving curatorial tool developed at the California Digital Library.
"Cognitive Status at Admission: Does It Affect the Rehabilitation Outcome of Elderly Patients with Hip Fracture?" Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 80 (4): 432–36.
Integrated experience involving need finding, product definition, conceptual design, detail design, prototype manufacture, public presentation of outcomes, archiving and intrepreting the product realization process and its results.
