Sentences with phrase «system studied patients»

In a 2006 study, neuroscientist Larry R. Squire of the University of California, San Diego, and the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System studied patients who had hippocampal damage.

Not exact matches

We have now completed several health studies in partnership with the Geisinger Health System, which provides primary care to over 450,000 patients in Pennsylvania, including many residing in fracking areas.

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.

Among the specialized neurologic evaluations were videonystagmography (VNG), which is designed to test inner ear and central motor functions, and computerized dynamic postural studies (CAPS), which assess the interaction of vestibular, somatosensory and visual systems for patients undergoing neurorehabilitation

In addition she studies the relationship between nursing practice and parent and infant outcomes; nurse - patient interaction; the health care work environment and provider and patient outcomes; and system and culture change in health care.

There is an irony that the report from the «Centre for policy studies» failed to mention that the NHS is the only public body, that we are aware of, that has it's own full time litigation authority costing some # 7 million per year set up to deal with the complaints from patients regarding treatment they have received from a healthcare system that is supposed to protect them.

Dr. Jessica Gregg, who wrote an editorial that accompanied the study, told Reuters that doctors likely don't know patients previously overdosed — as people who misuse are unlikely to report it — and there are no systems currently in place to notify them.

A study in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery reports the development of an artificial muscle system that could restore the ability to blink to stroke and injury patients.

Previous studies have shown that the stress system is often overactive in patients with bipolar depression.

To study the pathogenesis of HIV - induced PNS disease, Jamie Dorsey, Research Technologist, and the research team led by Dr. Mankowski developed a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)- infected macaque model that closely reflects key peripheral nervous system (PNS) alterations seen in HIV patients with peripheral neuropathy.

In a new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Paller, the Northwestern Medicine chair of dermatology, together with Dr. Emma Guttman - Yassky of Mount Sinai Medical School, discovered that an arm of the immune system — the Th17 pathway — in these patients is way too active, and the higher its activity, the worse the disease severity.

Led by Stella K. Kang, a radiologist with the Department of Radiology at the New York School of Medicine, the study was designed to compare the effectiveness of a treatment algorithm for small renal tumors incorporating the nephrometry score, a renal tumor anatomy scoring system developed by urologists, with the current standard of uniformly recommended partial nephrectomy in patients with mild - to - moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD).

The current study investigated the survival and, just as importantly, the functional status in patients with refractory cardiac arrest brought to the hospital with ongoing CPR and treated conservatively without the support of extracorporeal life systems.

She added: «However, we found in our study that patients with refractory cardiac arrest treated without the support of extracorporeal life systems do not have such a dismal prognosis as one might think, which encourages longer resuscitation attempts.»

The grant was to study what types of computational systems, in conjunction with physiological patient monitors, could be implemented into vehicles to achieve the safety objective.

While based on nationwide data, the study was limited to patients in the VA system, who may differ from the general population of ulcerative colitis patients.

Prof. Khatri and his team studied the way the immune system responds to infection by looking at gene expression — which genes are active and which are not — and whether there are differences in patients with malaria compared to other infectious diseases.

Researchers say further study is needed using individual patient - level data among men with high risk prostate cancer to assess the benefit of HRT and whether treatment toxicity, particularly those to the bladder and urinary system are also low with HRT.

The study used nationwide data on 836 patients newly diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system from 2001 to 2011.

Yet studies have shown single therapies targeting only one part of the immune system have been effective in only a small percentage of patients.

In the study, Litt's team at MU Health Care used a recently developed autograft harvesting system to care for 13 patients with various types of chronic wounds.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

But more work is needed to pinpoint the molecules produced by gut bacteria that alter the MS patients» immune system, the authors of both studies note.

In this study, the participating healthcare systems had a combined 7.5 million patients age 18 or older, with about 1.2 million patients receiving a psychiatric diagnosis in 2011.

Previous studies found that OCD patients have abnormalities in two different brain systems — one that creates habits and one that plays a supervisory role.

«If we can confirm these results in the larger study that we are planning to begin soon, this imaging system may allow us to personalize breast cancer treatment and offer the treatment that is most likely to benefit individual patients,» says Hershman, who is also a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

Stamets furnished capsules of freeze - dried fungus for a seven - year, NIH - funded study by Bastyr University and the University of Minnesota to determine whether turkey tail mushrooms could help breast cancer patients whose immune systems had been compromised by radiation therapy.

Dr Grainger and his team are now working with other groups at The University of Manchester to carry out further studies on monocytes, particularly from patients with inflammatory conditions, and are focused on identifying situations where this gut information system may have gone wrong such as in inflammatory bowel diseases.

Vaccination rates for a critical booster shot tripled after clinics began using electronic prompts alerting them of patients needing the Tdap vaccine that protects against tetanus, diptheria, and whooping cough, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System.

According to Dr. Cripe, the study suggests that some patients could respond to therapy even if their tumors aren't very infectable by the virus, provided their immune systems were stimulated by the viral therapy to attack the tumor cells.

The study notes that there are several reasons patients did not receive additional physician follow - up including: patients believing they didn't need additional care and the lack of a coordinated referral system from the emergency department to physicians who can provide follow - up care.

Studies have shown the fatality rate for these infections is above 50 percent in patients with weakened immune systems.

The study examined 328 patients with cervical cancer and 1,312 controls, matched on age and decade, who enrolled in a hospital - based case - control study drawn from 26,831 patients who received treatment at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and completed the Patient Epidemiology Data System questionnaire between 1982 and 1998.

The study was conducted at Parkland, the public health system for Dallas County, the ninth largest county by population and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S.. From Parkland's system of 10 neighborhood - based pediatric clinics, researchers identified four clinics with the largest volume of patients aged 11 to 18.

Bioequivalence studies measure whether a generic drug acts the same in the body as the name - brand drug; bioavailability studies measure how much drug gets into a patient's system.

«Our study suggests that system factors such as access to care and emergency department annual chest pain volume are the strongest predictors of follow - up rather than patient factors.

A new study in today's issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery found minimal risk for severe infection with osseointegrated implants — a newer prosthetic system, press - fitted directly into the femur bone — that enables bone growth over a metal, robotic prosthetic limb in patients with above knee amputations.

The Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study is an analysis of records from a large, geographically and racially diverse group of 9,783 patients receiving care at four large U.S. health systems: Henry Ford Health System in Detroit; Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland, Oregon; Kaiser Permanente in Honolulu and Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania.

«Self - administered treatment for keloid scars can reduce the economic burden on the healthcare system and provide a treatment option for patients who have limited access to medical care,» comments Professor Jeffrey Karp from Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, US, an expert on medical device design who was not involved in this study.

Tissue - based planning systems — using clinical guidelines to determine the optimal breast implant dimensions for individual patients — appear superior to approaches relying more on the patient's or surgeon's preference, according to the study by Drs. William P. Adams, Jr., of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and Daniel McKee of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada.

The ultimate conclusion of the study is that the Canadian medical system is as good as the U.S. version, at least when measured by a single metric — the rate at which patients in either system died.

The study included 124 newly diagnosed patients at 25 clinical trial sites in the U.S. Two - thirds of the patients were treated with ICT - 107, an experimental vaccine based on immune system cells called dendritic cells that were exposed to six synthetic proteins, or antigens, known to be involved in GBM development.

«This study shows that trauma care systems need to modify their conventional approach to activation to enable early recognition of these infants and swift escalation up to «major trauma patient» status in order to minimise delays to delivery of definitive care,» they write.

«The new model enables studies of the complex interactions between host cells, mucus production, and gut microbes in a system that closely mimics the situation in human patients,» Dawson said.

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.

The OSU / OHSU College of Pharmacy teamed with the Oregon Health Authority and other collaborators on a two - year study of Acinetobacter baumannii, an opportunistic pathogen associated primarily with infections among patients who have compromised immune systems and are in health care facilities.

The study included 446 patients who suffered traumatic brain injuries and underwent a urine test for the presence of THC in their system.

The use of simulation techniques in medical education, such as lifelike mannequins and computer systems, results in improved patient care, better outcomes and other benefits, according to a study led by a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researcher.

The remede ® system pilot study was a prospective, multicentre trial in 46 patients with moderate to severe CSA who were implanted with the remede ® system.