The partnership could be mutually beneficial as Snap’s platforms will get city-scale positioning capabilities while Niantic could see a massive influx of user-generated data to enhance its ...

Background For the treatment of breathlessness in heart failure (HF), most textbooks advocate the use of opioids. Yet, meta-analyses are lacking. Methods A systematic review was performed for ...

Statistical analyses were performed using the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) version 17.0 software. The degree of association between the Cornell Scale and the Visual Analogue ...

Objective Morphine is used as palliative treatment of chronic breathlessness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Part of the patients does not experience a clinically ...

They also completed questionnaires about their pulmonary and rheumatologic symptoms. The questionnaires examined the presence of dyspnea and cough, and they included the modified Medical Research ...

Endovascular treatment (EVT) of stroke with large-vessel occlusion is known to be safe and effective. The effect of EVT for occlusion of medium or distal vessels is unclear.

Background Guidelines recommend urgent chest X-ray for newly presenting dyspnoea or haemoptysis but there is little evidence about their implementation. Methods We analysed linked primary care and ...

Self-report measures (e.g., Likert scales) are widely used to evaluate subjective health perceptions. Recently, the visual analog scale (VAS), a slider-based scale, has become popular owing to its ...

This paper describes consideration of the distribution between visual analog scale (VAS) and Likert scale (LS) for the subjective evalua tion of “like-dislike”.

Dyspnea, or feeling short of breath, can occur during exertion for many different reasons. It is not typically a cause for concern, but medical help may be necessary in certain cases.

Our study shows a strong correlation between VAS and EPIC-26 urinary incontinence and sexual domains. In daily clinical practice VAS-scale may serve as a simple tool to evaluate the key functional ...

We read, with great interest, the Article by David Hui and colleagues1 about the effect of high-dose dexamethasone on cancer-related dyspnoea. Regrettably, systemic corticosteroids did not show ...