Sentences with phrase «control over the patients»

It's part of a push by healthcare companies to both cut costs and gain more control over the patients in need of their services.

This gives them a sense of control over the patient's recovery and the chance to be part of the treatment.»

Inhaled anesthetics allow for precise control over the patient's anesthetic depth throughout the surgical or diagnostic procedure.

In an astonishing 12 % of those cases, the guardianship filings involved nursing homes requesting control over patients.

Some may also be concerned that such a plan could exercise increasing control over patients» health decisions, leading to delays in obtaining critical treatments or outright denials of care.

Not exact matches

Patients aren't true health care consumers because they typically can't shop by price and they often don't have control over the care they receive, Saini said.

By giving each individual patient control over their schedule, Namaste Alzheimer Center encourages dignity and care that is tailored for the distinctive needs of this disease.

Technology is changing the patient - provider relationship as never before — starting with the obvious: Consumers now have access to — and, increasingly, control over their own healthcare data.

Bayer said in a statement that it doesn't control the cost for patients at the pharmacy, because copays are determined by insurers and pharmacy - benefit managers — an argument that pharmaceuticals companies have long made when facing criticism over drug prices.

One of the primary areas in which to first engage with patients is to offer them a better understanding of the billing process — ultimately empowering them to feel more in control over their own healthcare experience,» Lee Wallace, one of the lead investors of the round, said in a statement.

Well guys it is Hell already here on earth endless killings worldwide... Back here where I am Ye is already heading towards that the whole country is on demonstrations demanding resignation of the ruler but he seems unwilling to resign before the end of his ruling period on 2013, while the streets are demanding immediate resignation and that has caused bloodshed in every city in the country... the streets demonstrations has enforced civil strikes all over the country which is now paralyzed... no cash with the banks all money frozen in the central bank... My business is in the field of services therefore I find my self now obliged to dismiss part of my staff in order to be able to survive this unfortunate thing... Already have reduced working hour to one shift to reduce running cost... so you see am now sitting alone in the whole building of our business office writing here as nothing can be done to carry on business even if there is business... Just I pray these unfortunate events passes over soon before it becomes out of control as had happened in Libya... we have nothing to say but (Ina - Lilah - WaIna - Alih - Ragoon) & (Alhmed - Lilah for every thing)... «Mankind has always been Hasty while God has always been the most Patient»...

In Anatomy of an Illness Norman Cousins has recorded the story of a patient's struggle to become a part of the healing process by assuming control over phases of diet and medication normally the province of the physician alone.

Brain new probes are allowing them to track the Cerebrrin coordinated activity of hundreds of brain cells; and more precise brain implants are giving patients more control over artificial limbs.

The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation is helping AMM to expand its community garden, through which it provides patients and community members access to fresh fruits and veggies, control over healthy food choices, and the opportunity to learn how to garden themselves.

This is about how patients exercise more control over their own care.

It will not be the NHS of the passive patient - the NHS of the future will be one of patient power, patients engaged and taking greater control over their own health and their healthcare too.

Savino altered her own bill in recent weeks to limit smoking to patients over age 21, specifically in response to concerns from the Senate's Republican conference, which shares control of the chamber with her own five - member Independent Democratic Conference.

We can not afford to cede control over budgets and over buyers, especially when the health and welfare of patients and jobs of workers are on the line.

Patients aren't true health care consumers because they typically can't shop by price and they often don't have control over the care they receive, Saini said.

Of the 12 patients treated with the high dose, 92 percent of patients have achieved head control, 75 percent of patients can roll over and 92 percent of patients can sit with assistance.

Emergency patients over the age of 74 have significantly different and more complex health and social needs than their younger counterparts, even after controlling for illness severity, which has important implications about aging populations and emergency departments of the future.

However, for patients with lymphoma, it may be a rather different story, as new research from the University of Copenhagen shows that toxins in the staphylococcus bacteria help cancer cells gain control over healthy cells.

As they progressed, patients graduated from virtual reality to more challenging equipment that required more control over their posture, balance and ability to use their upper limbs, including two commercially available walking devices used in some physical therapy centers in the U.S.: the ZeroG and the Lokomat.

And although they may represent only another small step toward a «cure» for diabetes, they are beginning to provide patients with levels of control never before seen over their own hormones.

The condition, which also is known as Lou Gehrig's disease, damages neurons and causes patients to lose control over their muscles.

Unlike patients, however, they tended to experience these voices as positive and reported an ability to exert more control over them.

Data from national and international surveys suggest that despite improvements over the last decade, significant proportions of patients have poor control of their elevated blood pressure.

Duration of use among cancer patients was 2.8 years, only a little over a month longer than for the controls.

When patients are fitted with a robotic prosthetic limb, they gain control over their prosthesis with the help of a communication pathway provided by a brain - computer interface, or BCI, implanted in the brain.

The Bidens» wish list ranges from giving patients more control over their medical data to launching «a national conversation» about cancer drug pricing.

This challenge arose from complaints made initially by breast cancer patients who objected to Myriad's monopoly control over the testing and interpretation of risks associated with these cancer genes.

With the instructions being transmitted over a wireless connection, the patients didn't need to leave the hospital and were able to control the robot in Millán's lab at EPFL, 100 kilometers away.

«We found that 20 percent of MS patients over the age of 50 have cerebral microbleeds compared to 7 percent of healthy controls,» said Ferdinand Schweser, PhD, assistant professor of neurology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB and senior author on the paper.

«The significant improvement in overall survival with pembrolizumab was remarkable given that more than 40 % of patients crossed over from the control arm to pembrolizumab after progression of the disease,» said Reck.

From his hospital bed, a disabled patient is capable of controlling a telepresence robot and interacting with people he meets over Skype.

«If immune cell therapies for cancer or autoimmune diseases (like rheumatoid arthritis, for example) are going to be safe and effective alternatives to more traditional medications, we must gain control over the activity of the cells to reduce risks of toxicity to the patient,» said Roybal.

They were beginning to voluntarily control several muscles for the first time since their injuries, which in some patients was over 10 years.

Rather than surrendering to despair and impersonal medical treatments, growing numbers of cancer patients are empowering themselves with information and control over their therapies.

«By considering that stethoscopes are used repeatedly over the course of a day, come directly into contact with patients» skin, and may harbor several thousands of bacteria (including MRSA) collected during a previous physical examination, we consider them as potentially significant vectors of transmission,» commented lead investigator Didier Pittet, MD, MS, Director of the Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals.

Whatever your take on the healing power of prayer, you have to scratch your head over this: In 1999 a large, randomized controlled trial «proved» that heart surgery patients are more likely to survive if someone they have never met secretly prays for them — and then, seven years later, another randomized trial found that secret prayer very slightly raises the odds that a patient will suffer complications.

Compared with the general population, and after controlling for confounding factors (such as disease duration, other co-existing diseases and socio - economic factors), patients with RA actively on TNF inhibitor treatment were 50 percent more likely to have ACS, while those who had never taken these medications were over twice as likely to have ACS.

«The original study only focused on how blood sugar control affected complications in the hospital, so we were interested in following those same patients over time to see if blood sugar control had any impact after discharge from the hospital.»

«We had better control over the tumor by giving patients the same overall dose of radiotherapy in fewer sessions and a shorter period of time.

The robot's journey was an experiment in shared control, a type of brain - machine interface that merges conscious thought and algorithms to give disabled patients finer mental control over devices that help them communicate or retrieve objects.

Although patients given the lifestyle intervention program made encouraging initial progress in both weight loss and diabetes control, those improvements dropped noticeably over time.

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«For prevention, where a drug is given before the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease appear, and likely over longer periods of time, bexarotene is not likely a viable therapeutic because of this known toxicity unless dosing is carefully controlled and patients are closely monitored.»

From 2007 - 2014, caregivers of patients who received seven or more days of mechanical ventilation in an ICU across 10 Canadian university - affiliated hospitals were given self - administered questionnaires to assess caregiver and patient characteristics, caregiver depression symptoms, psychological wellbeing, health - related quality of life, sense of control over life, and impact of providing care on other activities.

Researchers found that in the patient group who did not experience complications in the post-stroke period, the risk of complications was significantly higher over the long term compared with the controls.

From 2007 - 2014, caregivers of patients who received seven or more days of mechanical ventilation in an ICU across 10 Canadian university - affiliated hospitals were given self - administered questionnaires to assess caregiver and patient characteristics, caregiver depression symptoms, psychological well - being, health - related quality of life, sense of control over life, and impact of providing care on other activities.