Sentences with phrase «among older patients»

Among older patients, whose prevalence rate of depression is very high, these problems were aggravated by concurrent medical illness, social isolation, functional impairment or being home - bound.14 — 20 Overcoming these barriers by providing interventions in patients» own homes may achieve better treatment adherence and thereby greater treatment success than clinic - based or hospital - based interventions.

Heart failure — one of the conditions former first lady Barbara Bush has been diagnosed with — is a fairly common condition, especially among older patients.

The low survival rates for AML, especially among older patients, and the limited treatment options when the disease relapses constitute «one of the major challenges in leukemia,» Fasan says.

The researchers found that there is an increased risk of having dementia among older patients with rosacea and those diagnosed with the skin condition by hospital dermatologists.

«In this study, we found that, particularly among older patients and patients with serious chronic conditions, intensive treatment nearly doubled the risk of severe hypoglycemia requiring medical attention, including hospitalization,» says Dr. McCoy.

Among older patients with diabetes whose treatment has resulted in very low hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels or blood pressure values, only 27 percent or fewer underwent medication deintensification, a lost opportunity to reduce overtreatment, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

The findings, which suggest women may live four times longer with surgical treatment, were especially striking among older patients; researchers found that nearly half of women over 75 with stage III / IV cancer do not have surgery and roughly 25 percent receive no treatment at all.

Screening for colorectal cancer based on age alone may contribute to both underuse and overuse of the tests among older patients, according to a study by investigators at the University of Michigan and the Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research.

The prevalence of medical errors is higher among older patients.

The likely cause, based on previous research, is difficulty understanding medication dosing and discharge instructions, as well as cognitive impairment among older patients.

Not exact matches

Though retinal detachment is more common among older people, the average age of patients has been getting lower thanks to excessive cell phone use, Yu added.

How old was the lad when he left anyway 23 or 24 and you count him among the patient lot?

Reviewing twenty years of billing data for the period 1994 to 2013 from an insurance company operating in a large metropolitan area, researchers found the overall incidence of ACL tears among 6 - to 18 - year - old patients increased by 2.3 percent per year.

Support for this hypothesis was seen in the group with bipolar patients where older patients exhibited lower cortisol levels especially among patients that throughout life had been without prophylactic mood stabilizing treatment.

They also examined the occurrence of postoperative complications among older adults using patient discharge data; results from the American Hospital Association's Annual Survey; and the 2010 U.S. Census.

Researchers found that patients were less likely to undergo surgery if they were older than 50 years, black, unmarried or located in regions outside the East, among other factors.

After one year, researchers found that primary care providers felt that treating pain patients was less of a problem in their practice, particularly among the experimental group, although younger practitioners continued to express more concern about prescription opioid use than older practitioners.

Incorrect inhaler use is common among elderly patients, but an asthma educator can teach more than 90 percent of older adults how to properly use one.

In cases of severe to profound hearing loss where there is no benefit from conventional amplification (i.e. hearing aids), cochlear implantation that uses direct electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve has proven successful and selected older patients are among those who can benefit, according to the study background.

• Among patients aged 80 years and older, heart failure was present in 38.6 % of those with COPD and 24.4 % of those who did not have COPD.

Approximately 4 in 10 deaths associated with pulmonary hypertension occur among patients under 75 years old.

«I feel lethargic when I sit all day,» said Gerald Alexander, an 82 - year - old retired social service worker among the 25 Group Health patients who participated in the Take Active Breaks from Sitting (TABS) pilot study.

«For now, a tailored application of available data to the constellation of comorbidities and healthcare priorities of a particular patient remains the best approach for individualized hypertension management among older adults with CKD.»

The infection is most common among immunocompromised patients, including premature infants and older adults.

Among lung cancer patients; suicide SMR was higher in males (SMR = 8.8), Asians (SMR = 13.7), widowed patients (SMR = 11.6), older patients (70 - 75 years; SMR = 12), patients with undifferentiated tumors (SMR 8.6) or small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) histology (SMR = 11.2), patients presenting with metastatic disease (SMR = 13.9) and in patients who refused to receive surgical treatment (SMR = 13).

This retrospective study was based on a previous quality improvement project that assessed mental health issues among English - speaking patients, 12 years of age or older.

As in the previous group, the effect was most pronounced among patients who received chemotherapy rather than radiation — but most women in the second group had received an older kind of chemotherapy, so the researchers couldn't confirm the effect of the NQO1 * 2 mutation on the now - common epirubicin therapy.

Suicide risk is highest among lung cancer patients, particularly older patients, widowed, males, and patients with unfavorable tumor characteristics.

In one run, they plugged in a heap of data comparing the safety of COX - 2 inhibitors (a popular class of pain relievers, such as Celebrex) and nonselective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or ns - NSAIDS (like ibuprofen and naproxen), among an older group of patients in Pennsylvania.

Further, among those who did have a diagnosed mental disorder and / or dementia, nearly half of the oldest patients had dementia, regardless of FDA warnings that antipsychotics increase mortality in people with dementia.

Completion of advance directives was nominally higher among patients with chronic illnesses (38.2 percent) than among healthy adults (32.7 percent), and was much higher among patients age 65 and older (45.6 percent) compared with younger adults (31.6 percent).

The effect of glucocorticoid treatment is most prominent on trabecular bone and is therefore likely to be larger on vertebral bone than on hip bone.3 Glucocorticoids are associated with an increased rate of fracture, and higher doses and longer use of glucocorticoids are associated with higher risks of fracture.4 Compared with patients not taking glucocorticoids, the risk of hip and vertebral fracture among patients taking glucocorticoids is increased by 60 % and 160 %, respectively.4 Among 80 - year - old patients, the hip fracture risk is increased by a magnitude of 2.1 and is independent of BMD.5 Most studies indicate that fracture risk is increased following at least 3 months of treatment with daily doses of 5 mg of prednisolone or more in older men and woamong patients taking glucocorticoids is increased by 60 % and 160 %, respectively.4 Among 80 - year - old patients, the hip fracture risk is increased by a magnitude of 2.1 and is independent of BMD.5 Most studies indicate that fracture risk is increased following at least 3 months of treatment with daily doses of 5 mg of prednisolone or more in older men and woAmong 80 - year - old patients, the hip fracture risk is increased by a magnitude of 2.1 and is independent of BMD.5 Most studies indicate that fracture risk is increased following at least 3 months of treatment with daily doses of 5 mg of prednisolone or more in older men and women.4

Using data from 251,000 older Americans who had heart bypass surgery, they mapped the interactions among the 466,000 doctors who cared for them, and show the importance of tight «social networks» of physicians to patient outcomes.

Among patients whose cancer had spread to distant organs, 21 percent of younger patients survived beyond five years, compared to 14 percent of older patients.

Included among the numerous recipients of Mr. Sanford's gifts, that total more than one billion dollars, are: the Edith Sanford Foundation for Breast Cancer that was created in 2012 by a gift of $ 100 million in honor of Mr. Sanford's mother who died of breast cancer when he was four years old; the Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System, which renamed itself Sanford Health in 2007, in recognition of a $ 400 million gift; a $ 125 million gift in 2014 to establish Sanford Imagenetics, a program that will integrate genomic medicine into primary care for adults; the University of California San Diego which received a $ 100 million gift for the creation of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center in 2013 to accelerate the translation of stem cell research discoveries by advancing clinical trials and patient therapies; the Burnham Institute for Medical Research that received a $ 50 million gift in 2010, and recognized its appreciation for both this and a 2008 gift of $ 20 million to the Sanford Center for Childhood Disease research at Burnham by then changing its name to Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute; a $ 70 million gift to establish a particle physics laboratory named the Sanford Underground Research Facility; and the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine which received a gift of $ 30 million in 2008 and expressed its gratitude by renaming itself the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.

Among the 50 trials, 30 were primary prevention trials (general populations, smokers and workers exposed to asbestos, patients with oesophageal dysplasia, male physicians, patients with non-melanoma skin cancer, postmenopausal women, patients undergoing chronic haemodialysis, patients with end stage renal disease, ambulatory elderly women with vitamin D insufficiency, patients with chronic renal failure, older people with femoral neck fractures, patients with diabetes mellitus, elderly women with a low serum 25 - hydroxyvitamin D concentration, health professionals, people with a high fasting plasma total homocysteine concentration, or kidney transplant recipients), and 20 were secondary prevention trials (patients with cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina, transient ischaemic attack, stroke, angiographically proved coronary atherosclerosis, vascular disease, or aortic valve stenosis).

Those guidelines and new educational activities will help partners at Aurora Health Care System (Wis.), Emory University / Grady Memorial Hospital (Ga.), Magee Women's Hospital (Pa.), Mount Sinai (N.Y.), UC San Diego Health (Calif.), Northwestern (Ill.), St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center (N.J.), University of Chicago (Ill.), and University of North Carolina (N.C.) to promote a variety of proven techniques for improving care for older patients — from coordinating expertise among various professionals to ensuring that older people can transition from the hospital to outpatient settings (like homes or community - based settings) whenever and wherever safely possible.

Highlighting the eye - catching results of several patients — including those of 6 - year - old Emily Whitehead — whose lives have been spared by experimental immunotherapies, the editors cited an emerging belief among oncologists that «a corner has been turned and we won't be going back.»

It may stave off dementia Among patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (age 60 and older), those with lower physical fitness levels (measured by cardiovascular tests on a treadmill) had four times more brain shrinkage when compared to normal adults than those who were more physically fit, according to a recent study from the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

In my last blog: How to Boost Your Fountain of Youth Hormone in 5 Simple Steps, I shared five natural strategies that helped my 42 - year - old patient nearly double her levels of growth hormone (GH), a super-crucial hormone that — among its numerous roles — keeps you lean, energized, and feeling sexy.

Among the patients are nineteen - year - old Luke (Alex Sharp), originally from London and a member of a ballet company, who has a bad knee that sidelined him from ballet.

The prognosis for long - term outcome among PL patients in general, regardless of treatment option, worsens the older the patient is at onset and as the grade of luxation and severity of clinical signs increase.17

Among the sights are Old Masterworks from all times and places — there are allusive ties to works as different as Flemish proverb pictures (most notably, Bruegel's ironical The Parable of the Blind, 1568), Gericault's unromantic portraits of mental patients, and Sargeant's peculiarly lurid romantic paintings — none the worse for wear, and as unconsciously striking as ever, but more adult, that is, dignified by consciousness, than the Abstract Expressionism with which Desiderio began his career, and thus less beholden to the tyranny of modernism, if still symptomatic of modernity.

In a tribute to Dr. York, the East Hampton star writes, «He counted among his patients the artist Willem de Kooning, with whom he spent hours discussing the old masters while watching him paint.

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EARLE3407 Old Dobbin Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36116 - 1903Home Phone: [phone] Cell Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [email protected] position managing legal discovery and document review with opportunity to assist attorneys with civil litigationBAR ADMISSIONAlabama State Bar, 1999LAW - RELATED EXPERIENCELaw Firm, AlabamaResearch Attorney for Special Projects, Mass Torts Department, November 2001 — February 2008 • Managed Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Document Depository (September 2002 to February 2008) o Reviewed more than 1 million pages of evidentiary documents for litigation purposes and for inclusion in electronic databaseso Coordinated document review assignments with attorneys at local depository and at other sites across the USo Retrieved, reviewed and coded documents in Concordance and Summation legal databaseso Prepared memoranda and spreadsheets providing detailed analysis of discovery materials • Aided attorneys and support staff with processing and preparation of personal injury claims and litigationo Conducted legal research and drafted pleadingso Conducted supplementary online research for additional documents and information pertinent to litigationo Assisted with preparation of correspondence to clients and referring attorneyso Contacted clients for additional information needed in case preparation, litigation, and potential settlementso Prepared and input case intakes and referrals into databaseLaw School, AlabamaStudent Intern, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP), August 1996 — June 1997 • Participated in law school clinical program under third - year law student practice rule (as authorized by Alabama Supreme Court) o Assisted attorneys and advocates in cases involving mentally ill patients confined to state mental health facilitieso Interviewed clients in person (at state facilities) and over the phoneo Worked with clients, attorneys, and social workers to investigate and resolve issues concerning involuntary confinement and treatmento Aided in legal research on an appellate brief submitted to the U. 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Among participants under 20 years of age, no patients used benzodiazepines combined with antidepressants, and among those between 21 and 34 years old, only 47 patients used this combinaAmong participants under 20 years of age, no patients used benzodiazepines combined with antidepressants, and among those between 21 and 34 years old, only 47 patients used this combinaamong those between 21 and 34 years old, only 47 patients used this combination.

Reduction of inappropriate benzodiazepine prescriptions among older adults through direct patient education: the EMPOWER cluster randomized trial

Objective: Our aims were to (1) identify race / ethnic and age cohort disparities among seniors in use of the health plan's patient portal, (2) determine whether race / ethnic and age cohort disparities exist in access to digital devices and preferences for using email - and Web - based modalities to interact with the health care system, (3) assess whether observed disparities in preferences and patient portal use are due simply to barriers to access and inability to use the Internet, and (4) learn whether older adults not currently using the health plan's patient portal or website have a potential interest in doing so in the future and what kind of support might be best suited to help them.