Sentences with phrase «case study patient»

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Patient experiences in the TV drama Grey's Anatomy are, unsurprisingly, portrayed inaccurately when compared with real - life trauma cases, according to a new study.

Attendees will learn through case studies how a PBM can engage all care stakeholders collaboratively - prescribers at the point of care (PoC), pharmacists at the point of sale (PoS), patients, and payers» clinical / pharmacy staff to reduce overall pharmacy costs and avoidable drug — impacted medical costs while improving compliance and patients» quality of life.

Attendees will learn through case studies how a PBM can engage all care stakeholders collaboratively — prescribers at the point of care (PoC), pharmacists at the point of sale (PoS), patients, and payers» clinical / pharmacy staff to reduce overall pharmacy costs and avoidable drug - impacted medical costs while improving compliance and patients» quality of life.

She commends the work, and rightly so, primarily for its «comprehensive critical review of the literature» (there have been about 15 studies of female homosexuals who were not patients) and for its 26 summarized case studies.

The journals of the American Diabetes Association work toward these goals by publishing high - quality and timely peer - reviewed diabetes research articles, review articles, case studies, and patient information.

Sanders, D.S., M.J. Carter, D.P. Hurlstone, et al., «Association of Adult Coeliac Disease With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Case - Control Study in Patients Fulfilling ROME II Criteria Referred to Secondary Care,» Lancet, 358:1504 - 1508, 2001.

Whether they are a healthcare facility seeking to advance the patient experience, or a hotel wanting to create memorable arrivals and departures through service for their guests, the following testimonials and case studies spotlight how we affect positive change for our partners.

Case Study: A patient's 2 year old daughter came in this week complaining of a heat rash for several days.

According to the study published in the American Journal of Nursing, graduated compression stockings were used incorrectly in 28 % of patients, and the wrong size compression stockings were used in 26 % of cases.

In response to reports that women may be using this unapproved drug, to increase milk production (lactation), the WHO and FDA are warning breastfeeding women of safety concerns as «there have been several published reports and case studies of cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden death in patients receiving an intravenous form of domperidone that has been withdrawn from the market in a number of countries.»

Use with the Objective Structured Clinical Examination Case Study: Standardized Patient Description and Script and Objective Structured Clinical Examination Case Study: Performance PerAssessment.

«Previous studies have also noted that the financial condition of the most troubled institutions is, to a large extent, a product of an inefficient expense structure, revenue challenges associated with a patient mix that approaches 90 percent public payers and charity care, and overwhelming liabilities (including debt issued long ago for physical plant improvements that, in some cases, are obsolete),» the health department said in its announcement.

Finally, the practical aspects are reviewed with illustrative case studies and advice on how doctors and other healthcare professionals can engage with patients to decide the best course of action, on the understanding that this may be particularly difficult at the end of life.

Most of the studies were case reports and patient series

Eighteen out of a projected 21 patients in Mithoefer's study have already been treated, and in many cases just two sessions dramatically diminished symptoms, which is remarkable because PTSD in this group of subjects has been resistant to other types of treatment.

In addition, even after hospitals achieved a volume of 100 or so cases, there continued to be improvement in patient outcomes with higher procedure volume,» said John D. Carroll, M.D., professor of medicine and director of interventional cardiology at the University of Colorado Hospital and lead author of the study.

Three Swedish hospitals and other European clinics will cooperate during the study which will target patients with conditions resembling the one in the case study — that is, people who suffer from phantom pain and who have not responded to other currently available treatments.

The study looks at data on 26 side effects from a trial of approximately 10,000 patients and suggests that cases of muscle pain and weakness are unlikely to be directly caused by statins, but may instead be due to the so - called nocebo effect, where the expectation of side effects can make patients more likely to report them.

But some studies indicate shortening treatment courses would leave patients vulnerable to a resurgence of infection or, in some cases, potentially result in selective growth of resistance organisms.

In a case study, they evaluated the «population uniqueness» of patients in a Texas surgical database, which included more than 2.8 million records.

This was the case in the new study, published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry — patients with major depressive disorder who were given a placebo saw their symptoms improve about three quarters as much as those given paroxetine, an antidepressant also known as Paxil.

In a single case study of one patient they achieved 36 % improvement in hand motor function in just 10 training sessions of 30 minutes each.

Neurologists had presented case studies of «acalculic» patients such as CG from the early twentieth century onwards, if not before, but «people hadn't thought a lot about the specific brain areas involved in calculation», says Butterworth.

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Dr. Hayes says it is not clear what causes SCAD in most cases, but researchers know this from previous studies: • SCAD affects women more often than men; up to 80 percent of patients with SCAD are women.

Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Dr. Ho and his colleagues studied cases of psoriasis and depression in a pool of 12,382 adult patients.

Based on their results, Gigi Ebenezer, M.B.B.S., M.D., assistant professor of neurology and the first author on the study, reported that protein clumps were detected in 70 percent of cases and 20 percent of patients who carried disease - causing genes but hadn't yet developed symptoms.

In a 2010 study, Harvard medical researcher Ted Kaptchuk showed that some patients with irritable bowel syndrome improved even when they knew the treatment they were being given was a sham, suggesting that deception could, at least in some cases, be unnecessary.

Case studies have documented a bitelike reaction in some cancer patients who were not exposed to biting insects.

The authors examined the relationship between UVR and XFS in a study with clinic participants in the United States (118 cases, 106 control patients) and Israel (67 cases, 72 control participants).

They reached out to clinicians worldwide to identify patients with arhinia — before this study only 80 cases had been reported during the past century — and gathered samples for genetic sequencing.

Although case studies have reported that some RA patients suffer from Crohn's disease and vice versa, the researchers say a national study needs to investigate the incidence of the two diseases in the same patients.

«Currently a majority of patients undergo colon resections for large polyps that don't harbor any cancer cells, which means in many cases a person's colon is being removed for noncancerous reasons, based on subjective criteria,» said lead study author Emre Gorgun, MD, FACS, FASCRS, a staff surgeon in the department of colorectal surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.

In order to assess whether an improved diet could reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in African - American women, Qin analyzed the diets of 415 women with ovarian cancer and 629 control patients, using data from the African - American Cancer Epidemiology Study, a population - based case - control study of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United StStudy, a population - based case - control study of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United Ststudy of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United States.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

The authors explored the relationship between the risk of having PC and dietary patterns as part of the MCC - Spain study, a Spanish case - control study that involved 733 patients with histologically confirmed PC and 1,229 healthy men with a mean age of 66 years from seven Spanish regions.

Patients with temporal - type migraine derive similar and significant improvement from techniques that relieve pressure on (decompression) or remove a portion of (neurectomy) the nerve responsible for triggering their headaches, reports the study by ASPS Member Surgeon Bahman Guyuron, MD, Emeritus professor of plastic surgery at Case School of Medicine, Cleveland, and colleagues.

In 22 percent of cases, the additional clinical information found in the EHR was rated as «possibly» having a clinically significant impact on the interpretation of the head CT. «This study exemplifies the power of EHR's and their potential impact on patient care and positive outcomes.

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.

This appears to be the case: the greater the number of risk genes a person possessed, the smaller the volume of their hippocampus — regardless of whether they were a high - risk study participant or a patient.

The study involved 412 patients, average age 55.8, with confirmed cases of cutaneous malignant melanoma.

«There are clearly molecular differences between African - American and Caucasian multiple myeloma cases, and it will be critical to pursue these observations to better improve clinical management of the disease for all patients,» said John D. Carpten, senior author of the study and chair of the Department of Translational Genomics at the Keck School of Medicine.

A new study has found access to electronic health records in acute care situations may influence the care given to that patient, and in some cases, failure to review the EHR could have adversely affected the medical management.

«This is the question we asked ourselves, particularly in the case of certain patients born with broken bones who, even as newborns, were neither able to move properly nor breathe unaided,» explains Dr. Ellen Knierim, a researcher at Charité's NeuroCure Clinical Research Center and the study's first author.

In the retrospective study, Meropol and co-authors Allison A. Haupt, MSPH, and Sara M. Debanne, PhD, both from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, analyzed medical data from nearly 94,000 patients under the age of 18 years diagnosed with Enterobacteriaceae - associated infections at 48 children's hospitals throughout the US.

The researchers found five different sub-types of HL among the patients studied: 247 cases of the nodular sclerosis (NS) type, in which the tumour nodules are large; 105 of mixed cellularity, where a mixture of different types of inflammatory cells are involved; 58 lymphocyte rich, the sub-type with the best outcome; 68 «others»; and 143 «not otherwise specified» (NOS).

Boyle and colleagues used data from a case - control study conducted between 2000 and 2004 in British Columbia (BC), which recruited 820 NHL patients (59 percent men) of various ages from the B.C. Cancer Registry and 848 randomly selected controls matched for age, gender, and residential location, from the Client Registry of the British Columbia Ministry of Health.

In three new studies in the current issue of the International Journal of Infectious Disease, researchers reported on clinical outcomes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), how long patients will shed virus during their infections, and how the Sultanate of Oman is dealing with cases that have appeared there.

6 In about two - thirds of incorrectly diagnosed cases, the patient's life could have been saved, according to a 1998 study from the University of Pittsburgh.

«These studies provide promising evidence that autophagy blockade can be achieved, and that combining autophagy inhibitors with other cancer therapies in very sick patients can be accomplished safely in most cases.