Sentences with phrase «outcome of patients from»

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Novartis (nvs) chief Joe Jiminez has been touting a pricing model that incorporates drugs» real - world outcomes for years, stressing the importance of placing patients before profits; Regeneron (regn) head honcho Len Schliefer had some tough words for fellow panelists from Eli Lilly (lly) and Pfizer (pfe)(who argued that media reports about their own continued reliance on price increases to drive revenues is misleading) during Forbes» event.

To illustrate the issue, over the past 20 years, the cost of a new drug per year of a patient's life has risen from $ 50,000 to $ 250,000 after adjusting for inflation, according to Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who also spoke at the conference.

Once she can start aggregating data from her patients with data from other doctors who are using the app, she will have a huge number of data points that she can use to track everything from the efficacy of the surgery in certain patient populations, to which doctors might get the best outcomes.

We aim to shift the digital health dialogue from one focused primarily on the degree of investment and future expectations to one about digital health's effect on patients and healthcare outcomes.

The debate among politicians has shifted to now focus on doctors intimidation and away from the focus on patient outcomes that dominated the debate during the 2010 Fall session of the Assembly.

We compared outcomes after medical versus surgical management of biliary tract disease in pregnant patients.We reviewed the clinical course of patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis during pregnancy from 1992 to 2002 at two university hospitals.Seventy - six women with 78 pregnancies were admitted with biliary tract disease.

Future resources from the NCI Center for Cancer Genomics (CCG), which oversees TCGA and other activities, will support more translationally focused research, including databases with genomic information on clinical samples linked to outcomes of their patient donors.

Funded by a $ 12 million grant, the FORCE - TJR research program has developed a national database of surgical results and patient - reported outcomes from more than 30,000 patients.

Researchers reviewed data from the Spine Patients Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) of 1,235 patients diagnosed with DPatients Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) of 1,235 patients diagnosed with Dpatients diagnosed with DS or SS.

Professor Voors concluded: «The major finding from this substudy of the RELAX - AHF trial is that diuretic resistance is a clinical problem that leads to worse in - hospital and early post-discharge clinical outcomes in patients with acute heart failure.

Based on these ex vivo experiments (in cells isolated from patients and then exposed to PD - L1 blocking agents outside of the body), they predict that when actual patients are given PD - L1 blocking agents, their viral load at the time will influence the «net» outcome, i.e., whether the blockage boosts or weakens the overall anti-HIV immune response.

«Although radiosurgery has been shown to be an effective post-surgical treatment for metastatic brain tumors, previous studies did not compare patient outcomes from a single hospital over the same period of time,» said N. Scott Litofsky, M.D., chief of the Division of Neurological Surgery at the MU School of Medicine and senior author of the study.

Under Litofsky's mentorship, Kristen Scheitler - Ring, a medical student doing a pathology fellowship at the MU School of Medicine, studied the outcomes of patients treated at MU Health Care from 2010 to 2014.

Using data from the Pediatric Health Information System database, a large, regionally diverse system, the researchers examined racial disparities in the treatment and outcomes of hospitalized white and black pediatric patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease.

Researchers at Dana - Farber / Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center report promising outcomes from a clinical trial with patients with a rare form of bone marrow failure who received a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) after pre-treatment with immunosuppressive drugs only.

The first results from the European Cooperative Acute Stroke Study showed that treatment with a compound called alteplase between three and four and a half hours after the onset of stroke improves the outcome for patients.

Our experience in performing kidney transplants from living donors ensures the highest level of care and better outcomes for our patients — both kidney donors and recipients.»

Researchers studied data from 2,279 heart failure patients in a trial called Heart Failure: A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training (HF - ACTION).

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School have found that patients who were prescribed corticosteroids as part of treatment for Lyme disease - associated facial paralysis had worse long - term outcomes of regaining facial function than those who were prescribed antibiotic therapy alone.

Patients who didn't seek follow - up care within a month received the lowest rate of care and had the worst health outcomes — demonstrating the need to improve follow - up with high risk chest pain patients after they're discharged from the emergency room, Patients who didn't seek follow - up care within a month received the lowest rate of care and had the worst health outcomes — demonstrating the need to improve follow - up with high risk chest pain patients after they're discharged from the emergency room, patients after they're discharged from the emergency room, Ko said.

In an effort to reduce patient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement epatient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement epatient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement ePatient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement efforts.

«We're trying to find better prognostic indicators of outcomes so that only patients who will benefit from additional therapy receive it.»

The study, entitled COMET (Comparison of Operative to Medical Endocrine Therapy) for low - risk ductal carcinoma in situ, received funding through a $ 13.4 million, five - year award from the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010 to support research that enlightens health care decisions.

The combination of the two drugs could potentially shorten treatment time, reduce the side effects of bedaquiline and improve patient outcomes for those suffering from TB.

The study, Developing an Interventional Stroke Service: Improving Clinical Outcomes and Reducing Cost and Delivering Great Cost Savings Benefits to Health Economy, conducted at the University Hospital of North Midlands, Stoke - on - Trent, U.K., found that mechanical thrombectomy (the use of a device to retrieve a clot from the vessel) in the treatment of stroke reduced the average stroke patient's hospital stay to 14 days when compared to previously recorded 90 days.

Dr. Grant and colleagues also performed a separate analysis of data from eight studies — including 838 patients — assessing nausea and vomiting as the main outcome of interest.

Patients who sustain severe head injuries tend to have better outcomes if they are taken to a designated trauma center, but 44 percent of them are first taken to hospitals without these specialized care capabilities, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The study did not have information on outcomes of the ambulance calls or detailed information on patients, so researchers could not differentiate events related to smoking or secondhand smoke from other emergencies.

Analysis of data from nine randomised trials involving 6756 patients (1729 older than 80 years of age) showed that alteplase treatment significantly increased the odds of a good stroke outcome (no significant disability 3 - 6 months after stroke), with faster treatment offering the best chance of recovery.

The researchers next will turn to analyzing the presence of myoferlin in samples from numerous human tumor types available in an Ohio State tissue bank, which will allow them to compare protein levels in tumors to clinical outcomes for the patients who provided the samples.

In the study, researchers from Kansas City VA Medical Centre in Kansas City, USA, examined the effect of TRT on cardiovascular outcomes by comparing incidents of heart attack, stroke, and all - cause mortality among different sub-populations of treated and untreated patients.

In the present study, performed by Prof. Latzer who is also the director of the Eating Disorders Clinic at Rambam Medical Center, the research student Adit Zohr - Beja, and Dr. Eitan Gur from the Eating Disorders Department, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, the researchers sought to examine claims concerning the ineffectiveness of involuntary hospitalization and examined whether there is a difference in outcome between patients in extreme condition who were forcibly hospitalized and those who were hospitalized willingly.

Calibration is the agreement between the predicted risk and actual outcomes on average, and across the spectrum of predicted risk — from low to high, said Mark E. Cohen, PhD, one of the study's authors and a statistical manager in the ACS Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care.

Two drugs taken together can sometimes lead to outcomes that largely deviate from the effect of the separated compounds — a fact well known from warnings on patient information leaflets.

Further research incorporating patient outcomes and data from actual clinical interactions is warranted to clarify the effect of clinician implicit bias on the provision of health care and outcomes,» the study concludes.

The combined plunge in these feared outcomes, from 42 percent of patients to 22 percent, represents the biggest improvement seen in any stroke - treatment trial to date, said Albers.

Michelle Hladunewich, MD (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, in Toronto) and her colleagues assessed the effects of such intensive dialysis on pregnancy outcomes by comparing patients from Toronto with that from the United States.

Maybe in addition to collecting outcomes from the individual patients in the trial, you could collect outcomes from members of that patient's community.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

To investigate, Csaba Kovesdy, MD (Memphis VA Medical Center and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center) and his colleagues examined information from the national VA research database and looked for associations between blood pressure and various clinical outcomes — coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death — in more than 300,000 patients with CKD.

Since blood samples are taken and frozen with many clinical trials, this allows them «almost a bit of a time machine» to go back and explore questions around pain or neuropathy to run tests on neurons created from blood samples of patients taken in past clinical trials where responses and outcomes have already been recorded.»

Therefore, patients are benefiting from more extensive repair of aortic dissection, which may lead to improved long - term outcomes.»

President of ESTRO, Professor Vincenzo Valentini, a radiation oncologist at the Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Rome, Italy, said: «This study not only shows a better outcome for the women treated with IMRT, but has an additional value in defining the selection criteria for providing treatment to those patients who will benefit from new frontline technologies.

«We report that PD - L1 is expressed in 20 % of malignant pleural mesothelioma patients and is associated with poor outcome, which suggests that this pathway could be targeted with PD - 1 / PD - L1 inhibitors,» says study author Dr Susana Cedres, from Vall d'Hebron Institute Oncology, Barcelona, Spain.

Over an 18 - month period, Walvekar examined the outcomes of 10 patients who underwent open retro - auricular thyroidectomy with a slightly modified incision from the original technique.

Favourable outcomes, ranging from moderate disability to good recovery, occurred in only a quarter of the patients in the hypothermia group compared with more than a third of patients in the control group.

PD - L1 expression intensity was scored on a scale of 0 to 3 — with» 0» signifying no expression,» 1» signifying weak expression,» 2» moderate, and» 3» strong — and then compared the score with survival data and outcomes from those patients.

Colin Collins and Alexander Wyatt, and other researchers from the Vancouver Prostate Centre at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, matched 25 patients» treatment outcomes with the RNA sequence of their prostate cancer tumors.

The researchers analyzed the relationship between time from onset of the blockage to treatment and outcome among these patients.

By combining two or more of these outcomes to create a single category, you can say it helped «A and B» even if it only helped A and not B. For example, although there was no statistically significant effect from tPA in the NINDS trial on the number of patients who died, there was a small decrease in disability for those who survived.