Using electronic health records, insurance claims and demographic data,
the researchers studied patients who received a new diagnosis of depression in primary care settings in five large health care systems between 2010 and 2013.
Researchers studying patient safety in states with «caps» (like Texas) found «consistent evidence that patient safety generally falls» after caps are enacted.
Not exact matches
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RESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behaviora
RESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help
researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behaviora
researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer
patients, according to a
study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
Besides randomized controlled clinical trials, there are a number of ways
researchers can
study how a particular cancer treatment is playing out in the real world: there are retrospective
studies, observational
studies, and even prospective research done using
patient registries.
The
study, just published in Science, showed that the creation of what the
researchers are calling microtumors can help predict drug effectiveness in cancer
patients better than the current standard method of testing the drugs on rodents.
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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.
The institute, which includes over 40 laboratories and more than 300
researchers, said the research would focus on modifying a
patient's own immune system T - cells to target a tumor,
studying ways to boost
patient response to current immunotherapy drugs.
An early, outsourced clinical research
study with real
patients was encouraging, but there are many potential pitfalls yet to come, said University of North Carolina diabetes
researcher Dr. John Buse, who was briefed by Google on the lens last week.
When he co-founded Twine in 2013, Moore was a
researcher at MIT
studying how technology could be used to help
patients improve their health.
«Power of Prayer Flunks Unusual Test — NEW YORK — In the largest
study of its kind,
researchers found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery
patients had no effect on their recovery.
The double - blind
study (meaning neither the
researchers nor the
patients know if they are receiving the coconut oil or placebo) at the Byrd Alzheimer's Institute, located in Tampa, Florida, will be eight months long and will enroll about 65 people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.
In a new
study commissioned by The March of Dimes Foundation and published in Fertility and Sterility,
researchers from The Hastings Center and Yale Fertility Center examined the practical circumstances of infertility treatment in the US that influence
patients and their doctors to make treatment choices that too frequently result in multiple births.
He points to research by a Stanford University
researcher, Allan K. Mishra, who has
studied PRP for years, whose in his most recent published research includes a large multicenter
study [8] involving a host of well - respected orthopedic surgeons around the country who followed 230
patients in a double - blind randomized control
study [the gold standard for medical research].
In a
study of 1,237 hospitals and residential health care homes
researchers found that 3.4 % of
patients were infected with MRSA.
Study researchers, recruiters, and participants were blinded to the randomisation allocations prior to
patient randomisation and enrolment into the trial.
Researchers studied records for all
patients in Maryland's Trauma Registry recorded as directly admitted to the hospital from the scene or transferred to trauma centers between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2011.
To conduct the
study,
researchers developed an online survey that asked participants to respond, true or false, to whether they believed it is acceptable to allow a physician to prescribe medication, at the request of a terminally - ill
patient, in order to end that person's life.
In the first
study evaluating
patient - reported cosmetic outcomes in a population - based cohort of older women with breast cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
researchers found that less radiation was associated with improved cosmetic satisfaction long - term.
Researchers also identified weight lifting as the cause of injuries in 62 % of the
patients studied, trauma in 18 %, and martial arts in 9 %.
During this in depth
study, an international team of
researchers led by British scientists investigated the impact of anti-hormone therapy on samples taken from
patients with prostate cancer.
«We stress that requests from diverse
patients have to be approached with great cultural sensitivity,» the
researchers wrote in the
study.
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have created the first mathematical model that can predict how a cancer
patient will benefit from certain immunotherapies, according to a
study published in Nature.
A new
study published by
researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests that the drug oseltamivir — commonly known as Tamiflu — does not cause an increased risk of suicide in pediatric
patients.
While the
researchers did not directly compare survival rates and neurological outcomes with whether individual
patients received bystander CPR or defibrillation, they did find increases in both over the duration of the
study.
Even before treatment, cancer
patients in the
study had a small number of infection - and tumor - fighting T cells that target these unusual proteins, the
researchers found.
Researchers looked at data on 74 300
patient who received metformin and sulfonylurea, another common diabetes drug, over a 25 - year
study period.
Researchers said further
studies are also planned that use other methods to analyze the relationship between volume and outcomes, follow
patients after discharge from the hospital, and assess how
patient outcomes are affected as hospitals gain more experience with TAVR and the technology is refined over time.
When the
researchers gave concentrated broccoli sprout extracts to 97 human type 2 diabetes
patients in a 12 - week randomized placebo - controlled trial, obese participants who entered the
study with dysregulated disease demonstrated significantly decreased fasting blood glucose levels compared to controls.
Based on results of the current
study described in a report online June 18 in the journal Cancer Cell, Johns Hopkins
researchers say they are planning a phase I clinical trial to test the paclitaxel - fostamatinib combination therapy in
patients with recurrent advanced ovarian cancer.
Researchers from the Danish Heart Foundation in Copenhagen
studied patients undergoing gastric endoscopy from 1997 to 2012.
The
researchers analyzed the characteristics of 178
patients with this disease drawn from a
study of 2,995 melanoma
patients enrolled in The Genes, Environment, and Melanoma
study.
In a
study featured in the December issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Australian
researchers demonstrate that PET scans can identify which of these prostate cancer
patients would benefit from salvage radiation treatment (SRT).
A new
study entitled «Oral Nutrition Supplements» Impact on Hospital Outcomes in the Context of Affordable Care Act and New Medicare Reimbursement Policies» and conducted by leading
researchers at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, The Harris School at The University of Chicago and Precision Health Economics, and supported by Abbott, found that the use of oral nutritional supplements decreased the probability of 30 - day hospital readmission, length of stay and costs among hospitalized Medicare
patients aged 65 and over.
For the
study, designed to identify the best predictors, the
researchers used data from 208 atrial fibrillation or «Afib»
patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital to undergo ablation between June 2010 and December 2015.
In a recent
study, working with a team of
researchers, Danino demonstrated that bacteria in pancreatic tumors degrade a chemotherapy drug — Gemcitabine — most commonly used to treat
patients who have pancreatic cancer.
The
researchers plan to expand their
study by examining how often the ALR SNPs they have identified occur in
patients with alcoholic liver disease compared to people without the disease.
For the
study and to quantify the socioeconomic burden of this disease, the
researchers conducted a web - based survey (674 out of 956 individuals completed the survey) to characterize the
patient and caregiver experience with FTD - related resource use, health - related quality of life, and per -
patient annual costs.
Researchers at the Veterans Health Administration conducted a systematic review of 67 published
studies to determine the effectiveness of strategies to reduce or discontinue long - term opioid therapy prescribed for chronic pain and the effect of dose reduction or discontinuation on important
patient outcomes.
Led by
researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James), the retrospective
study suggested that a pattern of molecules called microRNA (miRNA) in tumor cells might predict
patients» response to radiation therapy.
In a
study under way at USP's Neuroimaging Laboratory (LIM - 21), the
researchers are now seeking to correlate the cognitive profile observed in the two groups of cocaine - dependent
patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Dr. David Brandman, lead author of the
study and an engineering postdoctoral
researcher at Brown University, said that while additional innovations will help to move implantable BCIs like BrainGate toward clinical availability for
patients, this advance of rapid, intuitive calibration is a key one.
In another
study,
researchers at the center chose 15 chemically intolerant
patients from those who had come to the center asking for help.
In the current
study,
researchers analyzed 48 ethnically diverse
patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, looking at symptom sets in
patients found to have rare or previously unknown changes in the DNA code of the four genes that disrupted brain function.
In the
study,
researchers looked at 80 English - language educational materials that were designed to be printed and read by
patients in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
For
study purposes,
researchers assumed that at least one - third of
patients having bariatric surgery lost their excess weight prior to undergoing joint replacement.
In the
study, published in the journal Behavioral Science and Policy, Rutgers
researchers report that
patients are three times more likely to get vaccinations when their physicians make appointments than when they are invited to make the appointments themselves.
To address the complexity of the biologic pathways that create and respond to pressure sore development, the
researchers designed a computational, or «in silico,» model of the process based on serial photographs of developing ulcers from spinal cord - injured
patients enrolled in
studies at Pitt's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Spinal Cord Injury.
Cancer
researchers use the
patient samples and information to
study how cancer develops and discover better ways to treat it.
For one thing, they point out, acupuncture
studies are extremely difficult to double - blind — a methodological approach in which neither the
researchers nor
patients know who is receiving the treatment under investigation and who is receiving the placebo or sham.
In observational
studies,
researchers observe exposures and outcomes for
patients as they occur naturally in clinical care or real life.