Sentences with phrase «many hospitalized patients»
But private insurers, Medicare and hospitalized patients would have to pay an amount closer to the list price.
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A disturbing article published in JAMA Internal Medicine propounded a «worse than death» category to measure patient suffering in the context of making treatment decisions for hospitalized patients.
From «States Worse Than Death in Hospitalized Patients»:
The authors asked hospitalized patients to rate conditions — which they were not then experiencing — on a sliding scale, ranging from «worse than death, neither better nor worse than death, a little better than death, somewhat better than death, or much better than death.»
Ironically, the above study demonstrated that 3.7 % of hospitalized patients sustain an injury caused by medical treatment; 69 % of these injuries were preventable and 14 % of these errors contributed to the death of the patient.
Yes, many canadian hospitals who serve northern communities have hostels for families of hospitalized patients and for expectant mothers.
Some pediatricians don't go to the hospital anymore, allowing specialty pediatricians or hospitalists to care for their hospitalized patients, which allows them to spend more time in the office.
«New guidance for safe opioid prescribing for hospitalized patients with acute pain: 16 recommendations for improving safe use of opioids in noncancer patients during and after hospital stay stress limiting use, educating patients.»
Also, there is no reporting of medical errors in the U.S., so we really don't have the data to draw conclusions, but the Institute of Medicine in 2000 reported that «at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors,» meaning that «deaths due to preventable adverse events in hospitalized patients exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516).»
Bartick is a hospitalist — a doctor who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients — at Cambridge Health Alliance, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a mother of two.
Geoff Oxnard, an assistant professor of medicine at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston and one of Paweletz's collaborators, remarks that «I had a hospitalized patient last week, she's sick with metastatic lung cancer, and she's exactly the kind of patient who might have an [epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR)-RSB- mutation, but I simply didn't have enough tissue to ask those questions yet.»
«It is estimated there are 1 million new cases of sepsis in hospitalized patients per year in the United States,» said Dr. John Griswold, professor and chair emeritus in the Department of Surgery at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
Trevena, a firm based in Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania, announced on 2 November that it has submitted oliceridine, an intravenous opioid meant for use in hospitalized patients, to FDA for marketing approval.
«This spilled out into, «Let's do this for all or most of our hospitalized patients,»» explains Joel Heidelbaugh, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Pregnant women make up 7 % to 10 % of hospitalized patients.
One of the largest involved 1,000 hospitalized patients.
AKI afflicts about 5 % of all hospitalized patients and approximately 25 % to 30 % of patients in intensive care units.
These machines breathe for the patient when they are unable to do so, and it is estimated that nearly 800,000 hospitalized patients need ventilators each year.
According to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project in October 2010, 40 percent of all hospitalized patients in U.S. are age 65 and older.
C. difficile occurs mostly in hospitalized patients who have received antibiotics, which kill off many of our «good» bacteria.
Besser said three of the hospitalized patients are in California and two are in Texas, but he had no details about the individuals.
«At the moment, dengue surveillance systems typically only count hospitalized patients but our findings confirm that less serious cases represent an equally important source of virus infection.
During the same time period the average age of hospitalized patients increased from 38 to 46 years, with the percentage of HAV - related hospitalizations covered by Medicare also increasing from 12 % to 23 %.
«Kidney injury is an enormous problem among hospitalized patients,» said nephrologist Mark Zeidel, MD, BIDMC Chair of Medicine.
Like Staphylococcus, another common pathogen, A. baumannii poses the biggest threat to hospitalized patients whose immune systems are already weakened by injury or illness.
We also were proactive in vaccinating hospitalized patients.»
«Virtual reality therapy helps decrease pain in hospitalized patients.»
If effective in humans, the vaccine could help control a dangerous form of pneumonia that mainly afflicts hospitalized patients and individuals with cystic fibrosis.
Hospitalized patients are routinely hooked up to urinary catheters that enable doctors and nurses to measure urine flow (not incidentally, the catheters also liberate health - care workers from having to take patients to the bathroom).
In late August, the count had climbed drastically — triggering a decision to hospitalize the patient and suspend the trial.
A new study reports that peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) do not reduce the risk of central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in hospitalized patients.
More than 1 million hospitalizations for heart failure (HF) occur annually in the United States alone, and more than 80 percent of these hospitalized patients have worsening chronic HF.
Sepsis, a serious, life - threatening infection occurring more commonly in hospitalized patients, is one of the medical problems Etchebarne focuses on in his studies.
But if they're done on every hospitalized patient with high levels, it could cost $ 40 million a year.
«New guidance for safe opioid prescribing for hospitalized patients with acute pain: 16 recommendations for improving safe use of opioids in noncancer patients during and after hospital stay stress limiting use, educating patients.»
-- The overall incidence of serious ADRs was 6.7 % (95 % confidence interval [CI], 5.2 % -8.2 %) and of fatal ADRs was 0.32 % (95 % CI, 0.23 % -0.41 %) of hospitalized patients.
A voluntary program being spearheaded by Intermountain Healthcare that allows family members of hospitalized patients to participate in their care enhanced healing and reduced readmission rates, according to a new study published in the February issue of the medical journal, CHEST.
The working group included five practicing hospitalists with expertise in opioid use in the hospital setting and involvement in clinical research related to opioid use and outcomes in hospitalized patients.
We estimated that in 1994 overall 2216000 (1721000 - 2711000) hospitalized patients had serious ADRs and 106000 (76000 - 137000) had fatal ADRs, making these reactions between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death.
Even as current research demonstrates that hospitalized patients» exposure to opioids has contributed to the nationwide addiction epidemic, there is little guidance on the safe prescribing of these pain killers in the inpatient, non-operative setting.
Steven E. Gelda, MD, focuses his clinical interest and expertise on ways to help stabilize psychiatrically hospitalized patients who enter the hospital in crisis due to environmental and interpersonal factors as well as those experiencing an episode of major mental illness.
Authors report rates of aggressive behaviors between 22 % (for clinic patients) and 66 % (for hospitalized patients) among individuals with HD.
The paper, «Association of patient preferences for participation in decision making with length of stay and costs among hospitalized patients,» is in the May 27, 2013, issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.
Jerant and colleagues44 analyzed a small cohort of relatively healthy outpatients (who are, in general, healthier than hospitalized patients) and found no associations between physician sex and patient mortality.
First, are there important differences in clinical outcomes for hospitalized patients cared for by female internists compared with those treated by male internists?
The emergence of antibiotic resistance in human pathogens has become a major threat to modern medicine and in particular hospitalized patients.
One of the fastest growing medical specialties are hospitalists — physicians who spend their days and careers entirely focused upon treating hospitalized patients.
Hospitalized patients who had conversations about religion and spirituality with the healthcare team were the most satisfied with their overall care.
Hospitalized patients often are prescribed PPIs in order to prevent a stomach ulcer or other complications, and then they don't come off the medication.
Studies show 21 percent of hospitalized patients with C. diff infections compared to 1.6 percent in the community at large.