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Internet (WWW) based system of ultrasonic image processing tools for remote image analysis.

Ultrasonic Doppler color imaging can provide anatomic information and simultaneously render flow information within blood vessels for diagnostic purpose. Many researchers are currently developing ultrasound image processing algorithms in order to provide physicians with accurate clinical parameters from the images. Because researchers use a variety of computer languages and work on different computer platforms to implement their algorithms, it is difficult for other researchers and physicians to access those programs. A system has been developed using World Wide Web (WWW) technologies and HTTP communication protocols to publish our ultrasonic Angle Independent Doppler Color Image (AIDCI) processing algorithm and several general measurement tools on the Internet, where authorized researchers and physicians can easily access the program using web browsers to carry out remote analysis of their local ultrasonic images or images provided from the database. In order to overcome potential incompatibility between programs and users' computer platforms, ActiveX technology was used in this project. The technique developed may also be used for other research fields.

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Access to genitourinary medicine services by women attending a family planning clinic.

The purpose of this study was to assess the need for genitourinary medicine (GUM) referral in family planning clinics (FPC) and to investigate whether women were more likely to attend an appointment if the consultation took place in the FPC or in the GUM clinic. A total of 98 women were referred from the FPC for GUM testing. They were randomly referred to be tested either in a local FPC or in the local GUM clinic. Sixty-three per cent of the 49 women randomized to be tested in the GUM clinic attended the consultation compared to 83% of the 49 women who attended the consultation in the FPC. This was statistically significant (P < 0.05). Twenty-six per cent of those attending the GUM clinic for testing and 29% of those women attending the FPC had a sexually transmitted disease (STD), that is, excluding candidiasis and bacterial vaginosis. There was no statistical difference between the 2 groups. Full GUM testing was successfully carried out in the FPC setting. This study showed that women were less likely to attend for GUM testing if the consultation took place in the GUM clinic compared to the FPC. It is known that there is a need for GUM services to be accessible to FPC attenders (and vice versa). Further research is needed to determine why women are reluctant to attend GUM clinics.

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The question of access.

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Reweighting DHS data to serve multiple perspectives.

Information about health and family planning infrastructures is collected through the service availability module (SAM), an important feature of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in many developing countries. The DHS samples were designed to provide a representative sample of households and women of reproductive age. Using the weights routinely provided with DHS data sets, service accessibility can be described straightforwardly at the individual and household levels. However, without further adjustment, SAM data do not provide a representative picture of service delivery at the community, or primary sampling unit, level, where the data are collected. This report proposes a methodology for reweighting the SAM data, using rural data from the Egypt DHS as an illustration, so that available family planning facilities at this level may be usefully characterized at little additional cost.

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Improving cancer pain management through patient and family education.

The purpose of this study was to determine if continued access to information following a baseline pain education program would increase knowledge and positive beliefs about cancer pain management, thus resulting in improved pain control during a 6-month follow-up period. Patients with cancer-related pain and their primary caregivers received a brief pain education program, and were then randomized into one of three information groups: a) usual care, b) pain hot line, and c) weekly provider-initiated follow-up calls for 1 month post-education. Sixty-four patients and their primary caregivers were recruited. Both patients and caregivers showed an improvement in knowledge and beliefs after the baseline pain education program. Continued access to pain information with either the pain hot line or provider-initiated weekly follow-up calls did not affect long-term outcomes of pain intensity, interference because of pain, adequacy of analgesics used, or pain relief. In addition, long-term outcomes did not differ between patients who had improvement and those who showed decline in knowledge and beliefs pre-post education. These findings suggest that a brief pain education program can improve knowledge and beliefs of both patient and primary caregiver. Continued access to pain related information using either a patient- or provider-initiated format did not affect long-term pain outcomes.

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