Government could reduce the population's duration of sick time by devoting treatment medical resources and augment the amount of healthy time by devoting prevention medical resources [14].
The result was a provisional 21-item instrument comprising 2 parts: a descriptive part (11 items), which included questions about resources devoted to treatment, and a scale part (10 items), which included questions about treatment burden and overall satisfaction.
We hypothesized that the scores for the subscales of the PSQ-An measuring aspects of treatment burden would correlate more strongly with the questions relating to time devoted to treatment.
Convinced there was more to it than that, the Pougnets found their way to the Sensory Therapies and Research Center near Denver, a clinic devoted to treatment and study of sensory problems in children and adults.
In Portugal, where drug control is funded in part by lottery receipts and money seized from traffickers, the ratio is the opposite: more than ninety per cent of costs are now devoted to treatment, not punishment.
A10 Cancer Drug Reduces Relapse New drugs developed using the tools of biotechnology are helping prevent relapses among cancer patients and prolonging some lives, cancer specialists said at an annual conference devoted to treatment of the disease.
The Wilmer Institute is one of the largest medical institutes devoted to treatment and cure of eye diseases in the United States, with more than 130 full-time faculty members, and is recognized as one of the premier research, training and patient-care facilities in the world.
On Sept. 13, 1990 ACT UP/San Francisco split into two chapters: ACT UP/Golden Gate, devoted to treatment, and ACT UP/San Francisco, which remained committed to broader social change beyond merely pushing medical science to find a cure for AIDS.
In trials devoted to treatment of cancer, only 25% of patients were older than 65[2525].
The Inconvenience subscale correlated negatively with descriptive questions on resources devoted to treatment (Table 5, r = -0.19 to -0.61).
