Sentences with phrase «patients outcomes research»

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

An analysis of patients treated for lumbar stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis, who were enrolled in the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT), was performed.

In this study, researchers reviewed Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) data for 105 patients, age 80 and older, and 1,130 patients younger than age 80 with lumbar stenosis alone or combined with degenerative spondylolisthesis.

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Research has shown that medical patients who develop emotional health problems cost more to treat and respond less well to treatment; as a result, says Ahern, «it behooves the medical system to do a better job in detection and treatment of behavioral health because it drives outcomes and drives the costs.»

Ashish Jha, the senior author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper, points out in a blog post that there are reasons why women doctors might well deliver better care, citing research to suggest that they might adhere more closely to established clinical practice guidelines and that patients often report better personal experiences (something that ultimately might lead to better outcomes).

David Roman of Goldman Sachs Research shares how an Internet of Things - enabled US healthcare system could result in better outcomes for patients and efficiency gains across the healthcare space.

Top - ranked for both orthopedics and rheumatology for 26 consecutive years, HSS is an engine of research and innovation (112 inventions in 2016 alone), medical education (serving physicians in more than 150 countries) and better patient outcomes (Net Promoter Score of 92).

Under PPACA, certain fees, known as Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute («PCORI») fees, have been established for funding medical research and comparing outcomes of various medical tecOutcomes Research Institute («PCORI») fees, have been established for funding medical research and comparing outcomes of various medical tecResearch Institute («PCORI») fees, have been established for funding medical research and comparing outcomes of various medical tecresearch and comparing outcomes of various medical tecoutcomes of various medical techniques.

They continue to work together in Task Forces on strategic initiatives that will increase access to safe, respectful, affordable maternity care; improve inter-professional education; and enable patient - responsive and population - specific research on maternal choice, experience and outcomes related to birth place.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birResearch (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birresearch for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

Invest in research to identify interventions that are the most effective to inform clinical practice and improve patient outcomes

Elliott said the nurses association is encouraged by Shah's research in patient - based outcomes and electronic medical records.

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.

The field is also expanding into patient - centered outcomes research, so not just comparing drug A with a placebo, but drug A versus drug B.» In spite of the uncertainties, she says, «It's an exciting time because we have a lot to learn.»

«Our research indicates that insertion of cervical pessary at around 22 weeks in both randomly selected women pregnant with twins and in patients with a short cervix of less than 25 millimeters does not reduce the rate of spontaneous early preterm birth, perinatal death, adverse neonatal outcome, or need for neonatal therapy.»

If hypofractionated radiation with curative intent can reduce the treatment time for lung cancer patients by half with no greater toxicity, and with equivalent — if not better — tumor control and survival outcomes, this research could result in a change in the paradigm of how a large subset of locally advanced NSCLC patients are treated.»

While randomized clinical trials are the gold standard of clinical research, such trials are not feasible for testing anesthesia technique in joint replacement surgeries, because the low incidence outcomes would require a huge number of patients.

Ulrich, for instance, writes about «the need for research to establish scientific guidelines to help interior designers select art that is reliably stress reducing and physiologically supportive...» But he is talking only about art in hospitals and in other medical contexts, where he believes the sole critical standard is whether art «improves outcomes in patients, and if it doesn't, it's bad art.»

It would become a new National Institute for Research on Safety and Quality funded at $ 272 million from NIH's budget, with an additional $ 107 million from an existing trust fund for patient - centered outcomes rResearch on Safety and Quality funded at $ 272 million from NIH's budget, with an additional $ 107 million from an existing trust fund for patient - centered outcomes researchresearch.

Since randomized clinical trials — the gold - standard in research — don't accommodate patients» preferences, Zoellner and her research team used a study design called a «doubly randomized preference trial» to investigate whether giving patients a choice affects their treatment outcomes.

To accurately predict treatment outcomes, the research team studied JIA patients» treatment responses and found that epigenetics — or individuals» DNA and the way each body uses its genes — determined one's clinical «fate.»

«There is a real risk that as clinics proliferate, if we don't address it in a more proactive way, as we see negative outcomes for patients grow and people get mixed bags of information about stem cells, then this could really negatively impact the public perception of this research.»

With survival rates improving for ARDS patients, understanding and improving their quality of life outcomes is a clinical and research priority, according to the study's principal investigator Samuel M. Brown, MD, MS, FASE, director of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care at Intermountain Medical Center.

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 deResearch Institute (PCORI), an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010 to support research that enlightens health care deresearch that enlightens health care decisions.

«All patients of all races do better at the trauma centers treating white majority populations, so this research tells us we need to direct attention to hospitals with higher mortality rates to help them improve their outcomes, or we won't ever be able to turn this around.»

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.

Comparing Options for Management: Patient - Centered Outcomes for Uterine Fibroids (COMPARE - UF) is a voluntary registry of 10,000 women with uterine fibroids funded by the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Prior research has demonstrated that patients under 55 have significantly improved outcomes if treated in trauma centers, but these studies did not determine if older adults or patients with isolated head injuries had the same benefits.

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.

There is a long way to go before the research results can directly benefit patients, but the new knowledge about the acid pump and its mechanism — that it is possible to alter a pump's function — provides the basis for continued work that may lead to reverse outcome: creation of electrogenic acid pumps.

Although some research has suggested that the use of the anticoagulant warfarin for atrial fibrillation among patients with chronic kidney disease would increase the risk of death or stroke, a study that included more than 24,000 patients found a lower l - year risk of the combined outcomes of death, heart attack or stroke without a higher risk of bleeding, according to a study in the March 5 issue of JAMA.

«This study suggests that the path to excellence in readmission is a result of an approach that focuses on the patient as a whole rather than on what caused them to be admitted,» said senior author and director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation Harlan Krumholz, M.D., the Harold H. Hines, Jr..

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.

In 2008, the movement got its own journal, The Patient: Patient Centered Outcomes Research.

The application of NGS to breast cancer research has enabled the development of cost - effective, multigene sequencing panels that have advanced our understanding of the disease and may in the future translate into better diagnosis and outcomes for patients.

Previous research has already attempted to explain how trust could influence health outcomes, whether through greater honesty from patients, a potential placebo effect, or through a greater adherence to doctors» instructions.

Giving patients steroids at the time of heart surgery does not improve health outcomes and appears to put them at greater risk of having a heart attack in the days following surgery, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 63rd Annual Scientific Session.

Earlier research among patients with colon cancer has revealed worse outcomes among those with lifestyle factors that heighten insulin resistance, such as obesity, lack of exercise, and a diet with high levels of carbohydrates that quickly raise levels of blood sugar.

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.

«Our findings demonstrate that people naturally assign different weights to the pluses and minuses of interventions to improve cardiovascular health,» said Erica Spatz, M.D., M.H.S., the study lead author and an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine in the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. «I believe we need to tap into this framework when we are talking with patients about options to manage their blood pressure.

«Not enough emphasis has been placed on assessing delirium severity in the ICU because there is a lack of understanding of how significant outcomes of delirium are for patients,» said IU School of Medicine, IU Center for Aging Research, and Regenstrief Institute faculty member Babar A. Khan, MD, who led the study.

Palliative care is a «fairly new medical specialty that has proven to substantially improve patient outcomes when it's delivered alongside routine treatments,» says Sean Morrison, M.D., director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and a professor at Mount Sinai's School of Medicine.

An award from the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded this study.

«We hope this research will help hospitals improve patient outcomes while also making our antibiotics last as long as possible.»

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.

New research reports that cirrhosis at first diagnosis and antibodies for the soluble liver antigen / liver pancreas antigen (SLA / LP) are major risk factors for poor short - and long - term outcome in patients with autoimmune hepatitis.

Existing research suggests that less time spent on dialysis before transplant can improve patient outcomes and survival after transplant.

«Additional research is needed to determine how these recommendations might be implemented in clinical practice and to understand the impact on patient outcomes.»

«Because of this, more research is needed to determine whether averaging multiple blood pressure readings prior to entering the O.R. may give an even more realistic picture of a patient's baseline blood pressure and further improve outcomes.»