Sentences with phrase «complications than patients»

Patients who received a transvaginal mesh product to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or pelvic organ prolapse (POP) may face a greater risk of complications than patients who received other forms of treatment.

All other things being equal, patients with bedside windows looking out on leafy trees healed, on average, a day faster, needed significantly less pain medication and had fewer postsurgical complications than patients who instead saw a brick wall.»

All other things being equal, patients with bedside windows looking out on leafy trees healed, on average, a day faster, needed significantly less pain medication and had fewer postsurgical complications than patients who instead saw a brick wall.

There were no differences between groups in parity, incidence of diabetes, operative delivery, or third - degree compared with fourth - degree lacerations.By 2 weeks postpartum, patients who received prophylactic antibiotics at the time of third - or fourth - degree laceration repair had a lower rate of perineal wound complications than patients who received placebo.ClinicalTrials.gov, www.clincaltrials.gov, NCT00186082.I.

Furthermore, this frailty test was shown to be a more reliable predictor of death and serious complications than patient age.

Not exact matches

In a study, conducted by a faith - based group no less, it was shown that ICU patients who knew they were being prayed for tended to suffer more complications and problems than those who were not or did not know.

Select high - risk patients may benefit from consideration of delayed rather than immediate implant reconstruction to decrease breast complications after mastectomy,» the researchers write.

Despite complications sometimes more severe than with standard radiation therapy — and costs that are much higher for taxpayers, patients and insurers — proton beam therapy is heavily marketed for treatment of prostate cancer.

In fact, black patients were nearly three times more likely than white patients to develop 12 of the 13 complications identified by researchers.

Hispanic patients were twice as likely than white patients to develop nine of the 13 complications but less likely than white patients to develop two of the complications.

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue of JAMA.

In a study in The Journal of Urology ®, researchers found that patients whose self - assessment of mental health was low suffered more high grade complications in the 30 days following surgery than patients with higher self - assessments.

Older patients were about three times more likely to have complications than those younger than 65.

For patients younger than 65, 3 percent had general complications and 6 percent had thyroid surgery - related complications.

«We can offer more patients reconstruction than in the past, we have greater experience, but there is a tradeoff of possibly higher complication rates.»

Nonetheless, the overall success rate in the high - risk population is over 88 percent, which the study authors consider high, although complications such as implant explantation and flap problems occur more frequently in the high - risk group than in lower - risk patients.

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

Some of these patients are likely to experience more adverse side - effects and complications from the treatment than from the cancer itself.

Patients will however be more concerned to avoid death and major complications, such as heart attack or stroke, than re-operations.

Conversely, the rate of unplanned 30 - day readmissions was less than 5 percent for patients without any complications.

That means they were less likely to suffer complications from medical cannabis than a general population of chronic pain patients.

For more than half the patients who experience coronary artery obstruction during the TAVR, this complication has been fatal.

But such complications are rare, and they pose less risk to patients than the risk of being injured during seizures, Dr. Asconapé said.

Kidney dysfunction is a frequent complication affecting more than 50 percent of all cancer patients, and is directly linked to poor survival.

To date, there is no publicly recorded incident of hackers getting into the anonymized individual patient dossiers held by data miners, nor reported instances of re-identification of anonymized medical records in the United States other than academic experiments Even if thieves did hack such anonymized records, they would face the additional complication of re-identifying the records.

They also found that more than half of women with bipolar disorder had complications delivering their babies, compared to 27 percent of other patients.

According to the review, there were 3.7 percent fewer postoperative complications overall (one complication prevented for every 27 patients when the checklist is used), 2.9 percent fewer wound infections (one less wound infection prevented for every 34 patients), and a 3.8 percent reduction in patients who had blood loss greater than 500 ml (one less patient had blood loss greater than 500 ml for every 33 patients).

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Among 3,351 pairs of similar patients — part of the overall study group — those patients on statins were 250 percent more likely than their non-statin-using counterparts to develop diabetes with complications.

During a subsequent one - year follow up of the study undertaken by the clinical members of our team, patients in which a higher force was initially required to release the fibrinogen from erythrocytes were also more likely to be hospitalized for cardiovascular - related complications than the other subjects, adds Santos.

For example, a recent study of outcomes after lung cancer surgery demonstrated fewer complications and a higher success rate of cancerous node removal in patients who had their procedures performed by a thoracic surgeon, rather than a cardiac or general surgeon.

At a cost of less than $ 500 per patient each year, this modest quality improvement effort is projected to reduce the incidence of major complications, such as end - stage renal disease, which can cost $ 44,000 per patient each year.

While we know that other donor characteristics can influence the risk of the patient developing Graft versus Host disease or other complications, more research is needed to determine how important different donor factors are on outcomes other than patient survival.»

Although participants in all three injection groups had a greater decrease in retinal thickness after one year than with laser treatment alone, patients who received triamcinolone injections had greater complication rates.

Patients with an iTTR 70 % or greater had a significantly lower incidence of treatment complications overall, compared with those with an iTTR less than 70 % (Table 3).

In addition, patients who received Rydapt in combination with chemotherapy in the trial went longer (median 8.2 months) without certain complications (failure to achieve complete remission within 60 days of starting treatment, progression of leukemia or death) than patients who received chemotherapy alone (median three months).

The overall complication rate of 2.8 % (95 % CI, 1.0 % -6.0 %) was significantly lower in the antibiotic group (6/216 patients) than the overall rate of 20.5 % (95 % CI, 15.3 % -26.4 %) in the surgical group (45/220 patients).

A 2005 study of more than 1,500 doctors who implanted cardiac defibrillators in their patients over a three - year period found that the rate of complications within three months of the surgery was roughly 60 % higher for doctors who had implanted fewer than 10 of the devices than for doctors who'd implanted more than 29.

Research has shown that the immunity triggered by some vaccines actually last longer than a year and most universities are recommending tailoring schedules to maximize each patient's immune responses and minimize potential complications.

More than 600 patients who developed complications after surgery have filed transvaginal mesh lawsuits against manufacturers of the patch.

In July 2011, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning that patients who received a transvaginal mesh product may face a greater risk of complications than those who were treated with other therapies.

The Food and Drug Administration has warned that patients who have been treated with transvaginal mesh are more likely to experience complications than those who elect to undergo traditional surgical repair.

Some of the potential complications of surgical mesh include pain, infection, bleeding, organ perforation urinary problems or vaginal mesh erosion at higher rates than patients who elect for traditional surgery.