Discharge Planning and Home Care Needs Assessment for Older Patients in a Nursing Hospital by Lina Urbietė, Vita Lesauskaitė, Jūratė Macijauskienė

“…For the greater part of respondents, a special need for permanent nursing (57.9%) or assistance (25.7%) was determined, i.e., official, state-funded nursing at home was appointed. …”
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Assessing the reporting quality of systematic reviews and meta-analysises in the Iranian journals of Nursing and Midwifery by Faezeh Ghafoori, Mahshid Taheri, Afrouz Mardi, Nasrin Sarafraz, Reza Negarandeh

“…Background & Aim: In the view of the importance of evidence-based clinical practice in recent years, clinical disciplines such as nursing and midwifery have found a special need to systematic review and meta-analysis. …”
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Análise das práticas de planejamento e controle da produção em fornecedores da cadeia automotiva brasileira Manufacturing planning and control practices: a survey research on the B... by Marco Aurélio de Mesquita, Roberto Lopes de Castro

“…It is particularly noteworthy to highlight a special need for production scheduling tools and the huge gap between theory and practice.…”
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Longitudinal Evaluation of Transition Services (“LETS Study”): Protocol for outcome evaluation by Tsybina Irina, Kingsnorth Shauna, Maxwell Joanne, Bayley Mark, Lindsay Sally, McKeever Patricia, Colantonio Angela, Hamdani Yani, Healy Helen, Macarthur Colin

“…As these children reach adulthood, however, the availability of services and expertise changes because the adult health care system has different processes designed to meet their specialized needs. Gaps in continuity of care during the transition from pediatric to adult services, and associated poor health outcomes are well documented. …”
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Type D personality as a predictor of self-efficacy and social support in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus by Shao Y, Yin H, Wan C

“…Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels were significantly higher in T2DM patients with Type D personality than in patients with non-Type D personality.Conclusion: This study provides new evidence linking Type D personality with self-efficacy, social support, and poor glycemic control, highlighting the special need for care among T2DM patients with Type D personality. …”
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Comparative Effects of High vs Low Frequency of Static Stretching on Hamstring Flexibility in Diplegic Cerebral Palsy Children by Ayesha Tabassum, Farjad Afzal

“…Methodology: Quasi Experimental study was conducted with pre-post design in a school for special need children named Rising Sun Institute for Special Children, Mughal Pura Campus & Defense campus Lahore for four consecutive months that is December 4, 2015 to April 4, 2016.A group of 32 only male children of age range between 6 to 12 years were treated given a higher frequency of static sustained stretching i.e. 6 repetitions for 60 seconds hold for 5 days per week over the previously given dose of lower frequency of stretching exercise i.e. 3 repetitions for 30 seconds hold 5 days per week. …”
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Developing an integrated organ/system curriculum with community-orientation for a new medical college in Jazan, Saudi Arabia by Mostafa M El-Naggar, Hussein Ageely, Mohamed A Salih, Hamdy Dawoud, Waleed A Milaat

“…The province is offlicted with a wide spectrum of diseases and therefore have a special need for more health services. The Faculty of Medicine at Jazan has been following the traditional curriculum since its inception in 2001. …”
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LCA of aquaculture systems : methodological issues and potential improvements by Bohnes, Florence Alexia, Laurent, Alexis

“…The first need is that emphasis should be put on the construction of aquaculture life-cycle inventory databases with a special need for developing countries and for post-farming processes. …”
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Multi-Stage Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Siting Electric Vehicle Charging Stations within and across Border Regions by Oluwasola O. Ademulegun, Paul MacArtain, Bukola Oni, Neil J. Hewitt

“…Final locations included most optimal, less optimal, least optimal, and strategic or special need locations. The average distances between contiguous recharging locations were less than 60 miles. …”
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Review of health research on indigenous populations in Latin America, 1995-2004 Revisión de la investigación en salud en poblaciones indígenas de Latinoamérica, 1995-2004 by Miguel San Sebastián, Anna-Karin Hurtig

“…CONCLUSIONS: There is a special need for policy studies in the field of indigenous health. …”
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Inconsistency between ship- and Argo float-based pCO2 at the intense upwelling region of the Drake Passage, Southern Ocean by Yingxu Wu, Yingxu Wu, Di Qi

“…Going forward, there is special need for caution when interpreting the float-based CO2 flux; meanwhile, further comparisons and corrections between float- and ship-based pCO2 are clearly warranted.…”
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Survey of substance use among adolescent drug offenders referred from juvenile courts in Taiwan: Clinical epidemiology of single versus multiple illicit substance use by Yu-Hsiung Chen, Mu-Hong Chen, Han-Ting Wei, Lian-Yu Chen

“…High suicidality and high psychiatric comorbidities in multiple illicit drug users call for special need for suicide screening and a more integrated care incorporating psychiatric and substance treatment.…”
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Digital health technologies for peripartum depression management among low-socioeconomic populations: perspectives from patients, providers, and social media channels by Alexandra Zingg, Tavleen Singh, Amy Franklin, Angela Ross, Sudhakar Selvaraj, Jerrie Refuerzo, Sahiti Myneni

“…However, most market solutions for PPD prevention and management are produced generically without considering the specialized needs of low-SES populations. In this study, we examine and portray the information and technology needs of low-SES women by considering their unique perspectives and providers’ current experiences. …”
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Unmet supportive care needs of breast cancer patients and correlates: a cross sectional study among government sector patients in Western Province by Prasantha Arumapperuma, Samitha Ginige, Sanjeeva S. P. Godakandage, Sujeeva Weerasinghe

“…Patients in the initial treatment year showed statistically significant high level of unmet needs for most of the domains except for social and spiritual domains. Specially, needs related to physical (a0R=3.25; 95% CI: 2.46, 4.3) and health system and information (a0R=2.51; 95% CI: 1.71, 3.71) were extremely high among patients of the initial treatment year.   …”
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ALIRAN-ALIRAN FILSAFAT PENDIDIKAN DAN IMPLEMENTASINYA DALAM PENGEMBANGAN KURIKULUM PENDIDIKAN ISLAM by Mukh Nursikin

“…In humanism, curriculum development stressed in students service for discovering the understanding of learning  due to their growth and developing with their ability, talent and the special need of the students, encourage them improve their achievement by giving reward for their achievement in verbal or  non-verbal expression.   …”
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Effectiveness of interventions for managing multiple high-burden chronic diseases in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Kastner, M, Cardoso, R, Lai, Y, Treister, V, Hamid, J, Hayden, L, Wong, G, Ivers, N, Liu, B, Marr, S, Holroyd-Leduc, J, Straus, S

“…INTRODUCTION: More than half of older adults (age ≥ 65 yr) have 2 or more high-burden multimorbidity conditions (i.e., highly prevalent chronic diseases, which are associated with increased health care utilization; these include diabetes [DM], dementia, depression, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD], cardiovascular disease [CVD], arthritis, and heart failure [HF]), yet most existing interventions for managing chronic disease focus on a single disease or do not respond to the specialized needs of older adults. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to identify effective multimorbidity interventions compared with a control or usual care strategy for older adults. …”

SIKAP GURU TERHADAP PENERAPAN PROGRAM INKLUSIF DITINJAU DARI ASPEK GURU by Amanda Triwulandari, Weny Savitry Sembiring Pandia

“…Keywords: teacher’s attitude, inclusive education, child with special needs…”
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Predicting Customers Recommendation from Co-creation of Value, Customization and Relational Value by Gurjeet Kaur Sahi, Sanjeewani Sehgal, Rita Sharma

“…Also, being empathetic and understanding about any special need of the customer has a profound impact on the relational value. …”
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Relato da vida escolar de pessoas com o transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo e altas habilidades: a necessidade de programas de enriquecimento School life of people who have obsessive-c... by Maria Claudia Dutra Lopes Barbosa, Luci Gelabert Simonetti, Mary Rangel

“…The research results, not only reinforce the relevance of the proposal to perform enrichment programs to High Abilities students, but also make evident the lack of information of some Educators about the students' symptoms and manifestation of the obsessive-compulsive disorder, and indicate that High Abilities are not observed as a special need that must be recognized and nurtured. The case study research method was employed to 9 subjects who present High Abilities/Giftedness/Talents and also obsessive-compulsive disorder.…”
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From clicks to bricks : the impact of digital-native consumer brands on retail real estate by Dougherty, Jeffrey,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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