Choice of Slot and Case Selection in Psychosomatic Research

Echocardiography provides excellent realtime imaging of the heart, making it the imaging modality of choice immediately before, during and after cardiac interventional procedures. It helps to guide case selection and execution of the intervention, evaluates the effects of the intervention and enables early detection of complications. Advances in the design and technology of medical devices and delivery systems, coupled with demand for alternative non-surgical therapies for common medical problems, have led to an increase in the volume, variety and complexity of non-coronary cardiac interventional procedures performed. Many of these procedures require a multidisciplinary team approach and demand optimal imaging to ensure successful outcomes. The aim of this article is to review the expanding role of echocardiography in non-coronary interventional cardiology in adults.

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Use of Remote Optometric Vision Therapy in a Primary Eye Care Practice

Vision Development & Rehabilitation ◽

10.31707/vdr2020.6.2.p99 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 99-106

Keyword(s):

Patient Selection ◽

Parental Support ◽

Care Practice ◽

Eye Care ◽

Technical Requirements ◽

Online Platforms ◽

Case Selection ◽

Home Based ◽

Vision Therapy ◽

Office Procedures

Many optometrists supplement office-based vision therapy with home-based vision therapy procedures. Others prescribe primarily home-based vision therapy activities with in-office instruction. With recent development of telehealth online platforms, it is possible to enhance home-based vision therapy with one-on-one doctor-guided and vision therapist-guided remote optometric vision therapy (ROVT). This may increase access for times when the patient is not able to present to the office. Procedures for implementing ROVT are discussed including patient selection, case management, and technical requirements. 35 patients received ROVT, with the vast majority responding positively. Three cases of ROVT are presented. While there are significant limitations to ROVT, this experience shows that it is possible to conduct ROVT when there is need. We found that case selection and parental support at home are important factors for success.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Urodynamic assessment of patients with stress incontinence: how effective are urethral pressure profilometry and abdominal leak point pressures at case selection and predicting outcome?

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.717977380.793470852 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Rosier

Keyword(s):

Stress Incontinence ◽

Urethral Pressure ◽

Case Selection ◽

Urodynamic Assessment ◽

Predicting Outcome

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Coalitional Presidentialism in Cross-Regional Perspective

10.1093/oso/9780198817208.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Chaisty ◽

Nic Cheeseman ◽

Timothy J. Power

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Soviet Union ◽

Former Soviet Union ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

The Political ◽

Political Landscape ◽

Case Selection ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Empirical Material ◽

Regional Perspective

This chapter introduces the three regions—sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Former Soviet Union—and the nine countries—Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine—that provide the empirical material for the book. It introduces the two criteria used for case selection: 1) democratic competitiveness; 2) de jure and de facto constitutional provisions that empower presidents to be coalitional formateurs. It also introduces a variable that measures the salience of cross-party cooperation: the Index of Coalitional Necessity. Finally, it sketches the political landscape that has shaped the dynamics of coalitional presidentialism within each region, and it draws attention to important contextual differences between the nine country cases.

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Participative decision making in schools in individualist and collectivist cultures: The micro-politics behind distributed leadership

Educational Management Administration & Leadership ◽

10.1177/17411432211001364 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 174114322110013

Author(s):

Mor Hodaya Or ◽

Izhak Berkovich

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Distributed Leadership ◽

Multiple Case Study ◽

Extreme Case ◽

Public High Schools ◽

Case Study Method ◽

Case Selection ◽

Multiple Case ◽

Shed Light

Despite the popularity of distributed leadership theory, the investigation of the micro-political aspects of such models have scarcely been explored, and insights on the cultural variety of distributed practices in schools are limited. The present study aimed to explore what micro-political aspects emerge in participative decision making in collectivist and individualist cultures. To this end, a multiple case study method was adopted, focusing on four Israeli public high schools. Schools were chosen to represent an ‘extreme’ case selection rationale: two non-religious urban schools representing individualist cases, and two communal schools in religious kibbutzim representing communal schools. The analysis shed light on three micro-political points of comparison between the prototypes of participative decision making in collectivist and individualist cultures related to control, actors, and stage crafting. The findings and implications are discussed.

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Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer (PulMiCC) Cohort Study: analysis of case selection, risk factors and survival in a prospective observational study of 512 patients.

Colorectal Disease ◽

10.1111/codi.15651 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tom Treasure ◽

Vern Farewell ◽

Fergus Macbeth ◽

Tim Batchelor ◽

Misel Milosevic ◽

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Keyword(s):

Colorectal Cancer ◽

Risk Factors ◽

Cohort Study ◽

Observational Study ◽

Prospective Observational Study ◽

Pulmonary Metastasectomy ◽

Study Analysis ◽

Case Selection

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How Do Mainstream Parties ‘Become’ Mainstream, and Pariah Parties ‘Become’ Pariahs? Conceptualizing the Processes of Mainstreaming and Pariahing in the Labelling of Political Parties

Government and Opposition ◽

10.1017/gov.2021.5 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Benjamin Moffitt

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Political Party ◽

Political Process ◽

The Political ◽

Case Selection ◽

Mainstream Party

Abstract How does a political party become ‘mainstream’? And what makes some parties receive arguably the opposite designation – ‘pariah party’? This conceptual article examines the processes by which parties’ mainstream or pariah status must be constructed, negotiated and policed, not only by political scientists in the pursuit of case selection, but by several actors actively involved in the political process, including media actors and political parties themselves. It explains how these actors contribute to these processes of ‘mainstreaming’ and ‘pariahing’, considers their motivations and provides illustrative examples of how such processes take place. As such, the article moves beyond the literature on the ways in which mainstream parties seek to deal with or respond to threats from a variety of pariah parties, instead paying attention to how those parties have been constructed as pariahs in the first place, and how these processes simultaneously contribute to the maintenance of mainstream party identities.

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