Sentences with phrase «patient visits by»

Patient visits by appointment on Monday - Friday between 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Office hours: 8:00 am — 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday Patient visits by appointment only.

Researchers analyzed data from 235,000 patient visits by men ages 20 - 49 at 173 urology practices across the athenahealth network from March 14, 2016 to March 18, 2016 — the first week of last year's tournament.

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The second valuable use of AI, they project, will come from virtual nursing assistant applications ($ 20 billion in value)-- which, in theory, will save money by letting medical providers remotely assess a patient's symptoms and lessen the number of «unnecessary patient visits.»

Analytica say this feature alone could save Hospitals thousands of dollars in lost nurse time by avoiding the need for multiple return visits to a patient's bed to check if the medicine has passed through the drip before turning it back on again.

Final patient visits will be followed by completing data entry for the more than 35,000 patient years of study in REDUCE - IT, and typical database quality control measures, known as cleaning.

Context Media allows doctors to educate patients before, during and after their visit, by engaging patients in the doctors» waiting rooms.

Clearly, many doctor visits could be replaced by a 10 minute FaceTime call, saving the patient and the practice a great deal of time (not just the time in the office, but the commute time in both directions).

Generally, they are asked by the patient or family member to visit, so that they may discuss personal issues that may be to painful to speak to with anyone else.

Carmo Rodeia, one of the sanctuary managers at the site, was quoted by AFP as saying 40,000 walkers, 2,000 journalists, 2,000 clergy and 350 patients hoping for healing will attend the pope's visit.

A study of the patients visited regularly by the students (compared with a matched control group of other patients) showed that the program had made a significant difference in the general improvement and discharge rate of those visited.

For the first trial, half of the women had pre - and postnatal lactation consultant visits and their doctors were reminded by electronic prompts to speak to the patients about breastfeeding during office visits.

Most recently I was hugged by the mother of a palliative patient I had been visiting weekly during his final illness, on what we both knew would probably be my last visit.

Ask providers how long a parent can expect to stay in the hospital or birth center after they deliver, and how many visits their patients usually have as part of routine postpartum care (usually only one or two are part of routine care covered by insurance).

After identifying possible barriers to on - time starts, the following process was instituted: planned preoperative visit 1 - 2 days before scheduled cesarean delivery, mandatory submission of History & Physical and consent forms by the time of the preoperative visit, and initial preparation of the first scheduled patient for cesaren delivery by nighttime nursing before morning change of shift.

Chatting up a male visitor, the reporter learned visiting relations are invited into the wards when they are needed, perhaps by the patients or by a doctor or nurse.

When Saturday PUNCH visited the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Akwa Ibom State, some patients were seen being taken away by their family members to churches, traditionalists» homes and private hospitals.

New York now proposes spending most of the $ 10 billion over five years on more primary care and alternative care, like home visits by nurses to women with high - risk pregnancies, along with transitional subsidies for hospitals that will lose patients.

The patients with the telemedicine visits were covered through a health plan offered by the California Public Employees» Retirement System, which provides health insurance to the state's public workers.

Those in the earlier group were nearly 14 times more likely to get a chlamydia test than those seen later, even though there was no drop in clinic visits by such patients.

The researchers set out to solve the mystery of AML relapse by analysing paired patient samples of blood taken at the initial clinic visit and blood taken post-treatment when disease recurred.

This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

The patient, who recently visited one of the West African nations ravaged by the Ebola outbreak, may put the hospital's new safety protocols to the test.

Most of the 15,000 patients that visited drug shops with a fever chose to buy an rapid diagnostic test when offered one by the trained vendors taking part in the study.

Virtual Wembury was created by Professor Bob Stone and colleagues at the University of Birmingham, and the fact that only patients who visited Wembury, and not the virtual city, had better experiences than standard care is consistent with a growing body of work that shows that natural environments, and marine environments in particular, can help reduce stress and anxiety.

New research from a University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) study found that children ages 1 to 3 years accounted for one - fifth of all emergency department (ED) visits caused by complications from asthma, representing the highest proportion of visits among asthma patients under age 21.

The study analysed data from 424 million visits made to emergency departments in the USA by patients aged 18 to 64 between 2005 and 2011.

Performing a multivariate analysis adjusting for patient demographics and comorbidities, the UCSF researchers determined AFL catheter ablation reduced the risk for overall hospital - based health care by 6 percent, inpatient hospitalization by 12 percent and emergency department visits by 40 percent.

«To most people, especially ophthalmologists, common sense would suggest that there is little harm in simply measuring the vision at a distance during a patient's routine visit to their primary care physician,» Sommer, who wrote an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine, said by email.

In the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.

The work is a synthesis of data from 10 studies conducted by the ACT Consortium in five sub-Saharan countries and Afghanistan between 2007 and 2013, covering 562,368 individual patient visits — an «extraordinary» number, says Patricia Walker, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, which published the paper online yesterday.

Scientists studied the efficacy of home visits to AIDS patients in rural areas that aren't served by clinics.

In the second cohort of 77 COPD patients, the 23 patients with allergic sensitization (determined by immunoglobulin E testing) were significantly more likely to wheeze, to experience nighttime awakening due to cough, and to have COPD exacerbations requiring antibiotic treatment or an acute visit to the doctor.

Dudley and his colleagues trained the system by feeding it 12 years» worth of electronic health records, including test results and hospital visits, from 700,000 patients.

Home visits by a cardiac surgery nurse practitioner (NP) following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery can dramatically reduce a patient's risk of hospital readmission and death 30 days after surgery, according to a study in the May 2014 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

One study examined the rate of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for Medicare patients treated by patient - centered medical homes.

On three visits — before receiving any medication (Week 0), after a week of medication (Week 1), and after four weeks of medication (Week 4)-- exams were followed by two brain scans: one after the patients had fasted for at least 12 hours, the other after they had eaten a meal.

Studying data from between 2007 - 2009, they identified a sample of 238,624 visits by patients 18 and older at those medical facilities and found that 61 percent of antibiotic prescriptions were for broad - spectrum drugs, such as Levaquin ®.

The authors point out that the eight states that have implemented copayments for nonemergency ED visits saw no reduction in ED visits by Medicaid patients relative to states that did not implement such copayments.

«We found that, in obese patients with asthma, the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for asthma exacerbations decreased by half in the two years after bariatric surgery,» says Kohei Hasegawa, MD, MPH, MGH Department of Emergency Medicine, the lead author of the study.

The authors examined three areas to investigate potential challenges to the Medicare ACO model when applied to outpatient care: the proportion of patients assigned to an ACO in one year who remained assigned the next year; the proportion of office visits outside a patient's contracting organization; the proportion of Medicare outpatient spending billed by a contracting organization that is devoted to assigned patients.

In 1997, the mainstays of therapy for patients with macular degeneration include daily monitoring of the integrity of their central vision (usually by viewing a simple printed grid) as well as periodic visits to their eye doctor.

In a move expected to spur controversy, the funding will come from increased charges paid by patients to visit a doctor and for diagnostic procedures and will include AU$ 1 billion from the Health and Hospitals Fund.

The program, begun in the early 2000s, cut emergency room use and other unscheduled visits by those patients by 40 percent, a study showed.

Patients were seen weekly during the first six weeks of treatment, followed by three biweekly visits in which their breath alcohol concentration, weight and vital signs were measured and concurrent medications, the occurrence of adverse events and protocol adherence monitored.

This portion of our visit may have contributed to the increased level of comfort with the decision to pursue lung cancer screening expressed by our patients,» concluded Dr. Mazzone.

«This study has demonstrated that an ED visit by a patient with advanced cancer can provide a unique opportunity for improved access to palliative care and quality of life.

It also found that the Zika virus that infected the patient was 99.8 percent identical to that carried by a mosquito collected from southwest Mexico, the same region that Patient 1 had visited a few weekspatient was 99.8 percent identical to that carried by a mosquito collected from southwest Mexico, the same region that Patient 1 had visited a few weeksPatient 1 had visited a few weeks prior.

They found the number of ED visits by patients age 21 and younger for any reason who were diagnosed with addiction or dependency on opioids — which include prescription painkillers as well as illicit drugs such as heroin — rose from 32,235 in 2008 to 49,626 in 2013.

Many doctors and patients still swear by an annual visit.