Sentences with phrase «better than our patients»

In a pilot study involving 13 patients with non-cardiac chest pain, Dr. Schey and his research team found that patients who were given 5 mg of dronabinol twice daily for four weeks fared better than patients who took a placebo, or dummy pill.

And no one tells the story better than our patients themselves.

Overall, «the take home message is that patients treated with drug - eluting stents do not live longer nor better than patients treated with bare - metal stents,» Bonaa said.

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It's better to drown patients in paperwork than foot the bill themselves.

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

«If we add machine learning, the field of study that allows computers to self - learn without specific programming to do so, to existing artificial intelligence (A.I.), the resulting machines will be better able to diagnose and heal patients than their human counterparts can now,» he notes.

We have to fund innovations, we have to seed new ways of doing things and we have to get them in place so we can get the money out of the system that is being spent unnecessarily today without getting good results for patients and is causing more complexity than necessary.»

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.

That's not just because of Opdivo's failure — last month, Keytruda was shown to be better than standard chemotherapy in untreated advanced lung cancer patients with high levels of the PD - L1 protein, both stopping cancer progression and extending patients» lives.

«More than twice the number of patients [were] still living at the end of the study after receiving IMAB362 plus chemotherapy compared to chemotherapy alone,» according to Ganymed CEO Özlem Türeci, with patients showing the highest level of that protein biomarker responding best to the treatment.

But the study also suggested that some antidepressants were more effective than others; several older antidepressants were found to be more effectivee than more modern ones, but the modern treatments (such as Prozac) were better tolerated by patients.

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).

If you take dentists as a whole they will pull teeth or fill teeth better than if the patient does it themselves.

REINVENTING THE CLINICAL TRIAL Research Track Traditional clinical trials ask one question: Does an experimental treatment work better than nothing at all — or, the very least, the standard therapy offered patients.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

Treating symptoms rather than causes is usually a good way to make a patient worse.

Moreover, with growing healthcare needs of the Baby Boom generation and more patients likely to be delivered by the Affordable Care Act, earnings - per - share ought to advance at a better than 10 % clip for the foreseeable future.

Earlier this year the company reported that patients who took PRX - 002 saw their alpha synuclein levels drop by as much as 96 %, which is a massive improvement that performed significantly better than a placebo.

The shipment contained more than 3 tons of urgently needed medical aid for patients with storm - related illnesses and injuries, as well as chronic disease medicine to replace medications lost in the storm.

She doesn't claim to have seen God, claim to have spoken to God, or even claim to have known God better than any of the patients.

Furthermore, the patients may find that it's better for (half monkeys like you) to have a mega microscopic brain rather than to have a regular size one but only serves as an extra burden for a half human like them that has the intellectual capacity as to monkeys.

It usually does the victim (er, «patient») more harm than good trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist.

Well that has no credence in any written material that I've read, other than maybe some obscure corporate manifesto for lobotamy patients.

At last, in his desperation, the question hit him: «Well, how much better off am I than a cancer patient?

Any patient who now enjoys good pain control by taking a sustained - release opioid owes her a debt of gratitude for her discovery of the importance of dosing opioids around - the - clock rather than «as needed» for pain.

In a later study of the well - being of coronary patients, Holden (1981) reported that ownership of a pet among ninety - three patients was the strongest predictor of survival, stronger even than human relationships.

But he approves of it in the case of a physician who» knowingly facilitated» the suicide of a patient whom he had treated for a long time, knew well, and who had convinced him early on that she preferred to die rather than go through a long and losing battle with cancer.

The authors asked hospitalized patients to rate conditions — which they were not then experiencing — on a sliding scale, ranging from «worse than death, neither better nor worse than death, a little better than death, somewhat better than death, or much better than death.»

Nevertheless, God is patient with us and if this is the only way we are comfortable approaching Him, He accepts it as better than nothing.

But whether we style ourselves religious activists or quietists, the fundamental ecology of history is such that even our best acts or most patient waiting can produce more ultimate harm than good; the very best we can do is more good than harm.

The atheist would admit that it is better to dig out a splinter than to let it fester and infect its victim — in fact, the atheist would call a doctor who refused to dig out splinters a cruel doctor for refusing to treat his patient.

Then my supervisor told me about a study on prayer in which patients who didn't know they were being prayed about got better faster than patients who weren't being prayed about.

It may well seem more compassionate to starve and dehydrate a patient rather than to allow him to live on in such pain.

If you do, then you are likely a much more patient person than I am in other parts of life as well.

New research published today by the Campaign for Better Hospital Food shows that at least 1 in every 4 hospital meals (26 %) served to patients in NHS hospitals are likely to be left uneaten and thrown in the bin, a figure higher than previously recognised.

He must not be sold.He's also better than a lot of Chelsea youngsters.That's not enough basis for him to be sold.At top form he's better than Pedro, Moses and Willain.These are players whose main strength is dribbling and he tops them there no doubt.I remember him in one season having the highest dribble success rate percentage in the EPL.All he needs is to develop a level of consistency.A lot of their youngsters have potential but most won't be good as the Ox.The Ox himself has not reached full potential yet.He hasn't developed a certain level of consistency.Him also being a squad player is because of those above him.Those above him are all quality players.This won't be smart business at all.He's just going to destroy himself in another club and after being patient with him we are now deciding to sell him?

Our player of the season so far?Certainly the most consistent.JACK AND OZIL CONTRACTS - just get them signed up for F *** S SAKE.Jack doesn't want to go anywhere and Ozil will have his choice of big clubs to choose from if allowed to be able to go on a free.How about giving out a statement of our ambitions (yeah right) and show were prepared to pay whatever it takes (up to the point of being ridiculous) to SIGN the best and KEEP the best» These two are the best we have so get them sorted early to send out a message of how serious we intend to be.AUBAMEYANG - So what if he has a contract.So did Sanchez.Offer the right money to Dortmund and the player and he will be ours.What is there to question over this deal?He is a proven goalscorer.We have just lost one.Get the deal done.GIROUD - Get rid of him to Dortmund if they want him either by selling or if it sweetens the deal just loan him till the end of the season.He was a back up when Sanchez was here and will be on the mix of back ups if Auba signs.He has a World Cup squad to fight for just to be considered so needs to be playing every week.We do not need him if Auba signs and would demand better than him if the deal fails to happen.Just get rid.JONNY EVANS - I'm not sure.Agree Kos needs nursing through games and we do not have consistent performers to come in if he is injured or rested mainly due to both Chambers and Holdimg not progressing through as much as we first thought and hoped for.Gooners have always been patient and supportive of the youngsters as they have come through but question marks to the whole coaching staff as to why these two seem to have stalled as much as they have done.Steve Bould - What do you do?You should be ashamed.

Chuba can be a strike partner with Oliver, then bring in Mehrez or Draxler, and we can also bid for Barca's Munir then we can have a great season, our pre-season last year was better than this, only to got beaten by west harm, so don't raise your hope high gunners, just be patient and pray for wenger to have a change of heart.

The Pistons are in a better position than they have been in years, so they can afford to be patient.

I'm not suggesting he's a better option than the other two, but they obviously contribute to a more patient game.

His club wasn't playing all that well at all, but he was taking a patient approach and telling everybody that they wanted to be playing their best in March and April rather than October and November.

At Market Rasen, Chasma ran better than her finishing position would suggest when unplaced at Leicester last time but Stoical Patient (2.20) has been well entered up in recent weeks and she is taken to land her third chase success from her last four start for Gary Moore.

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

I am not arguing that Madrid should not have signed Benzema, but perhaps they should have been more patient with them as the turned out to be better players than their early careers suggested.

Together, Anda and Felitti surveyed a group of more than 17,000 Kaiser patients in Southern California — mostly white, middle - aged, and well - educated — about traumatic experiences they had undergone in childhood.

My daughter's father and I have disagreed on some of it, but overall he is a really good dad and often more patient than I am!

However, parents and patients really need to understand that there is no proof that PRP will prevent surgery, relieve their symptoms, or be better than standard treatment options.

The children are happier than ever now that they are sleeping well (usually 12 hours a night for all three) and so are my husband and I. I recommend your book to patients and friends on a weekly basis.

For example, I have lot of older patients as well and couple of them are actually employed as truck drivers and they get more sun screen on their left side of the body more than the right side of their body because they are in the driver's seat and they are getting all the UV rays through the car glass.

The fourth day went a little better than the third had overall in terms of accidents, but it was obvious that we'd have to be patient and give potty training more time to «click.»