Sentences with phrase «patients in the study averaged»

Patients in the study averaged three such shifts, which meant that their risk of dying increased by more than six percent compared with patients with access to fully staffed nursing teams.

Patients in the study averaged about five doctor office visits a year, although there was a wide range, with some not seeing a doctor at all and others logging nearly 90 visits a year.

Not exact matches

«Patients in the study spent an average of approximately 27 minutes per day exercising over the course of an average 30 days in recovery,» wrote the researchers.

About 1971, however, there was a major turn in my pilgrimage as I gradually became painfully aware of the so - called outcome studies reporting the dubious effectiveness of average psychotherapy, whose cure rates barely match spontaneous remission, coupled with the frightening spectre of client deterioration (i.e., patients finding their condition worsening under the care of professional psychotherapists).

At baseline, study patients had an average Clinician - Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) score of 79, but after MDMA - assisted therapy, CAPS scores dropped to 23.4 in the 13 - person MDMA group, whereas an eight - person placebo group averaged a score of 60.

More than 90 per cent of educational materials written for kidney disease patients is higher than an average patient's literacy, according to a new study published in the June issue of the National Kidney Foundation's American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

So far in 2015, the hospital exceeded the national average for adult patients participating on research studies by about 300 percent.

In addition, on average, patients receiving nivolumab reported that their quality of life remained stable or improved throughout the study, while those in the chemotherapy group reported a declinIn addition, on average, patients receiving nivolumab reported that their quality of life remained stable or improved throughout the study, while those in the chemotherapy group reported a declinin the chemotherapy group reported a decline.

In a recent study, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, PTSD patients allowed to choose between therapies ended up costing about $ 1,622 less on average per patient per year compared with patients who were assigned treatmenIn a recent study, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, PTSD patients allowed to choose between therapies ended up costing about $ 1,622 less on average per patient per year compared with patients who were assigned treatmenin the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, PTSD patients allowed to choose between therapies ended up costing about $ 1,622 less on average per patient per year compared with patients who were assigned treatment.

This improves on current screening methods: A Lancet study last year showed that in 108 patients, the immune sequencing test could spot signs of relapse three to five months, on average, before the cancer was visible on a CT scan.

However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.

«Our results evaluated patients at an average of five years of follow up and most patients continued to be very satisfied and performed a high number of sporting activities, including those that required high use of their shoulders,» said study author Grant Garcia, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York.

For this reason, the study avoids a basic problem in comparing hospital outcomes — that patients admitted to one hospital may be significantly less healthy, on average, than the patients admitted to another.

In the largest study of its kind, the researchers studied the long - term recovery (an average of 15 months) of 51 patients with Lyme disease - associated facial paralysis who sought follow - up care in the Facial Nerve Center at MassIn the largest study of its kind, the researchers studied the long - term recovery (an average of 15 months) of 51 patients with Lyme disease - associated facial paralysis who sought follow - up care in the Facial Nerve Center at Massin the Facial Nerve Center at Mass..

The average 90 - day spending on patients in the study is almost $ 27,500; for every additional increase in spending of roughly $ 8,500, the researchers found a reduction in mortality risk of about 2 percentage points.

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.

In the study of 512 prostate cancer patients that led to Provenge's approval, one - third of the vaccinated patients remained alive after three years, compared with one - quarter of those who received a placebo shot, for an average life extension of four months.

921 patients with an average (median) age of 70 to 71 years participated in this study worldwide.

The average age in the study was around 80 years, and seven out of ten of the patients were women.

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.

The average age of patients in the study group was 84.5 years, and many had additional serious health risks.

There, says Dr Letur, egg donation in the social security system is restricted to women under 43, and in this study the average patient age was 34.5 years.

In a study at University College London Hospitals, researchers analysed baseline PET - CT scans — ie those taken before treatment — and then followed up with the patients for an average of three years later.

That was much higher than in studies of patients with other types of chronic pain: for example, an average 19 percent improvement after nonsurgical treatment for low back pain.

The study was conducted at 34 institutions in North America; average patient age was 61 years.

They assessed people in the study every year until their deaths or the study's conclusion, for an average of 5.9 years, and monitored patients» eating habits using food journals.

On average, the pancreatic cancer patients examined in the study carried 15 LINE - 1 insertions in their tumor DNA that were not in healthy tissue.

In the trial, co-led by Rachael Clark, MD, PhD, associate professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, Alain Rook, MD, professor of Dermatology and director of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Program at Penn Medicine, and Joel M. Gelfand, MD, MSCE, associate professor of Dermatology and medical director of the Clinical Studies Unit at Penn Medicine, twelve patients who had previously undergone an average of six treatments for early stage CTCL were treated with topical resiquimod gel at varying doses and intervals.

The researchers studied 80 pediatric patients ages 4 - 12 years, 8 years old on average, with and without food allergy and their caregivers from urban pediatric outpatient clinics in the Bronx, New York.

In addition, rates of patient death and cancer relapse among the study participants were similar to historical averages.

In this scale, zero represents no disability, seven is wheelchair - bound, while ten is death from MS.. At the beginning of the study, patients had an average EDSS score of 6.5.

Study authors reported that for general and vascular surgery patients who underwent NSQIP targeted procedures — including colectomy, proctectomy, ventral hernia, and appendectomy — between 5 and 6 percent were transfused with an average of 2.4 units of blood per patient in 2015, compared with 11 percent transfused with an average of 4.6 units of blood per patient in 2011.

«We have shown that much of the weekend effect identified in previous studies is likely to be explained by a smaller and on average sicker population of patients being admitted at weekends.

A study of patients with early Parkinson's disease found that groups with lower levels of vitamin B12 faced on average a more rapid acceleration of both motor and cognitive symptoms, which slowed in some cases after taking a daily multivitamin.

We applied the average risk of death for continued smoking estimated from studies included in this review that reported survival curves to estimate the number of patients surviving after five years.16 17 We estimated five year survival in quitters at diagnosis by applying the death rate of continuing smokers multiplied by the reciprocal of the multivariate hazard ratio for all cause mortality presented in this review.

Patients were hospitalized for about 11 days, but those in intensive care remained for an average of 51 days, the study found.

In a 2004 study, patients with above - average IGF levels had nearly a 50 % higher risk of prostate cancer and a 65 % higher risk of hormone - dependent premenopausal breast cancer than people with below - average levels.

At the end of three months, patients in all three study groups were, on average, reporting pain reduction.

The study looked at the effect of dietary supplementation using 2,000 international units of nonprescription vitamin E daily in a large group of elderly Alzheimer's patients and compared their results over an average of around two years to similar patients who received a placebo, a pharmaceutical marketed as a «treatment» for Alzheimer's disease (memantine), or a combination of memantine along with vitamin E.

According to the study, by two weeks after treatment, patients showed more than a 90 percent improvement (on average) in their foot disability assessments, compared with their pre-treatment status.

On average, the study found, patients were six times more likely to suffer their heart attack in the week after their flu infection was confirmed — as compared with the year before, or the year after.

The patients in Dr. Becker's study received a dose of monacolin K roughly five times smaller than the typical lovastatin prescription, yet the reduction in their LDL levels was comparable to the average drop patients see on a statin.

To be fair, most dentists probably don't see many patients who are eating a specific diet to improve their oral health, and most of the studies and research they read is probably done on people eating a somewhat average diet (high in phytic acid and low in Vitamin D), so it is very logical that they wouldn't think that teeth could heal.

In a 2004 study, patients with above - average IGF - 1 levels had a nearly 50 % higher risk of prostate cancer and 65 % higher risk of hormone - dependent premenopausal breast cancer than people with below - average levels.

The scientists found that burdock root tea significantly lowered inflammation; IL - 6, CRP and M all fell, which is great news for acne because this study found that acne patients have higher levels of interleukin 6 in their skin than average.

In a study of 83 obese patients, their average weight decreased significantly over the course of 24 weeks.

For example: this study found that compared to clear - skinned patients, acne patients had an average of 40 % less vitamin C in their bloodstream.

This study on 32 acne patients and 34 healthy controls found that acne patients had significantly less catalase activity in their blood than average.

But the only piece of evidence that dietary intake of vitamin B12 can trigger acne is the study showing that acne patients had 30 % higher levels in their blood than average.

Scientists in this study found that acne patients have an average of 10 % less vitamin E in their bloodstream.