Sentences with phrase «high risk patients»

High risk patients in this study were those with previously diagnosed heart disease or diabetes.

She is available for high risk patients with special anesthesia needs.

Individual Assessments to be performed upon entry into the facility for high risk patients and within seven days for low risk patients.

In addition to identifying high risk patients, there are clinical implications for the protective factors identified in this review.

«I think this is going to be a therapy for very high risk patients,» he says.

I think there must be other factors at play than just how many high risk patients a hospital has since these two hospitals sound very similar and yet have drastically different rates?

Follow - up care after an emergency room visit for chest pain significantly reduced the risk of heart attack or death among high risk patients.

I typically use the hospital based midwife as a reference since their are fewer high risk patients.

Because the study focused on high risk patients, the results may not apply to all who have chest pain.

Conducted face - to - face visits in community with high risk patients within 24 hours of intake referrals.

We treat many high risk patients, and we provide anesthesia for emergency procedures after - hours and during holidays.

Better than doctors (likely because doctors have more high risk patients).

That range was determined in March to be cost effective by the independent Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) for highest risk patients assuming the drug results in a sustained reduction in cardiovascular - related deaths.

Indeed a paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Perinatology analyzed homebirths attended by a certified nurse midwife (CNM) and found that they had double the risk of neonatal death of CNM attended hospital births, even though the hospital birth cohort included high risk patients.

These are the same high risk patients that had an even higher mortality rate according to MANA's own data.

«Our study provides a significant contribution to the discussion about renal denervation when considering the procedure for high risk patients who are suffering from uncontrolled hypertension and have exhausted all other options.»

Normally, treatment of high risk patients involves a surgical procedure to biopsy the tumor, followed by several rounds of chemotherapy to shrink the tumor, then another operation to resect the rest of the tumor, explains Bill Chiu, MD, FACS, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

• Identify high risk patients through referrals, and registries, and develop a tracking system for patient care coordination and management.

Contacted Emergency Medical services to escort high risk patients to the closest hospital per patient need.

UC San Diego Health recently hired social workers to address the complex needs of high risk patients in the Emergency Department and establish a bridge to community services to decrease readmissions and length of stay.

He concluded: «Further diagnostic tests should be considered in high risk patients with abnormal BMIPP scintigraphy.

You might think that homebirth advocates who are careful in most public pronouncements to declare that homebirth is appropriate only for low risk women might disavow a midwife who deliberately takes on very high risk patients.

Seeing a doctor within a month of an emergency room visit for chest pain significantly reduced the risk of heart attack or death among high risk patients, according to research published the American Heart Association journal Circulation.

Accountabilities: * Collaboration with administrative and physician leadership within partner Community Health Centers to implement pharmacist driven clinical and dispensing services to the patients served * Develop and implement collaborative practice agreements to help drive patient medication compliance for high risk patients * Ensuring adequate staffing is present to fulfill the needs of the pharmacy or pharmacy department.

They have the busiest labour and delivery department and also handle the city's highest risk patients, possessing the highest level NICU unit.

It is still frustrating that a simple consult discussion VBAC some times takes longer than my high risk patients with multiple fetal anomalies or complex medical disease.

Whether expecting mothers of twins are excited or nervous, they should be aware that being pregnant with twins does make a woman a high risk patient.

It's not just that nobody recognizes the acronym, or that it is meaningless in the real world, it's that the crap that she is spouting is clearly wrong to the extent of being dangerous (a 50 yo is a high risk patient, and denying that is dangerous).

Since losing Hope, LaToya has started educating herself on pregnancy after a loss and being a high risk patient.

«Our PCSK9 inhibitor data support the notion that lowering cholesterol beyond what is possible with diet, exercise and statin therapy confers benefits to our high risk patients with cardiovascular disease,» said Paul M Ridker, MD, a senior physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

In contrast, an accelerated step - care approach involves the early introduction of combined immunosuppression in high risk patients, which has been shown to induce and maintain remission, reduce the use of corticosteroids, and heal intestinal ulceration in those who fail conventional treatment.

It has been known that minority and high risk patients, or those who may benefit most from these navigators, often have worse outcomes after diagnosed with cancer.

This «freeze - all» approach, initially developed as a strategy for minimising risk of ovarian hysperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) in high risk patients, also addresses concerns that some have raised that the drugs used for ovarian stimulation during IVF may have a negative impact on the uterine receptivity of some patients.

Before recalibration, the researchers found that the Surgical Risk Calculator had a slight tendency to overestimate surgical risk for the lowest and highest risk patients and to underestimate risk for patients at moderate risk of postoperative complications.

It is important to identify these high risk patients in order to provide the proper psychological assessment, support, and counselling to reduce these rates.