Sentences with phrase «defined as any treatment»

Concurrent group therapy, as identified by this author, is defined as the treatment modality in which some members of a family system participate in groupwork while other members of the family system participate in another group that is running at the same time, or participate in a group directly related to the group in which other members of the family system are participating.

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The Supreme Court decision in the Cruzan case indicated that there is a right to refuse medical treatment (food and fluid presumably being defined as «medical treatment»).

A major problem in the care of the mentally ill is that once a person has been defined as deviant (i.e., mentally ill) and to a large extent taken out of the community for treatment, that person will usually experience great difficulty in re-entry into the community.

Treating all individuals as potential participants in discourse is explicitly neutral even to disagreement about whether all individuals should be so treated, since that disagreement defines a question about what treatment reason requires.

Christian Relig - ism — is the belief that there are inherent differences in people's traits and capacities that are entirely due to their religion, however defined, and that, as a consequence, relig - ism discrimination (i.e. different treatment of those people, both socially and legally) is justified.

He or she just needs to be the «attending physician,» defined in the new California statute as a doctor having «primary responsibility for the health care of an individual and treatment of the individual's terminal disease.»

IOW, an affirmation that one is a Christian, automatically defines one as «mentally ill», and thus subject to «psychological treatment» for «delusional thinking».

Or, as another example, two groups who define themselves as «believers» and «heretics» or as «faithful» and «infidel» may nevertheless be convinced they will receive fair treatment in the courts and thus allow themselves to buy and sell, enter into contract, and so forth.

Witness, for example, our treatment of those said to be in a «persistent vegetative state» (PVS, defined in 1972 as a condition of «wakefulness without awareness»).

Former USC coach Steve Sarkisian has filed a lawsuit against the university, alleging that the school broke the law for firing him without allowing him to seek treatment for alcoholism, which is defined as a disability under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)(42 U.S.C.A. § 5106g), as amended by the CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010, defines child abuse and neglect as, at minimum:

Adverse maternal morbidity: defined as at least one of: general anaesthetic; instrumental birth; caesarean section; third or fourth degree perineal trauma; blood transfusion; admission to an intensive treatment unit, high dependency unit, or specialist unit; or maternal death (within 42 days after giving birth)

It is highlighted the thermal treatment through pyrolysis for large scale production of biochar or biocarbon that can be defined as a carbonaceous material obtained through thermal treatment of biomass at low temperatures and under inert atmosphere.

An over-diagnosed cancer is defined as one that would never cause symptoms or pose a risk to the patient, therefore not require treatment.

Dictionary.com defines «adjunct» as «something added to another thing but not essential to it,» which is such an accurate description of the treatment of adjunct professors that it might make some of you cry.

Even when the condition of patients is life - threatening, they are not defined under the Treatment of Mental Patients Law of 1991 as mentally ill and can not be hospitalized involuntarily, even if they refuse to willingly enter an inpatient program in order to receive tTreatment of Mental Patients Law of 1991 as mentally ill and can not be hospitalized involuntarily, even if they refuse to willingly enter an inpatient program in order to receive treatmenttreatment.

In a study published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Dr. Sean B. Rourke found that in 2011, 87.3 per cent of people in the Ontario study were receiving care (defined as having had one viral load test measuring amount of HIV virus in the blood in the previous year), 77 per cent were on antiretroviral treatment and 76 per cent had a suppressed viral load.

The investigators acknowledge that there are possible confounding factors in the study (notably that maternal health information was incomplete in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy), but the design of this large study in a series of egg donation treatments ruled out any possibility that the weight of the egg donor (all defined as of normal weight) could affect results in the recipient.

By the 24 - month follow - up, about half of the 77 remaining participants reported that they were «responding» to the treatment (defined as at least a 40 % improvement on a standard depression scale).

Of those, only 13 percent of patients experienced a treatment failure — defined as loss of response to infliximab or need for IBD - related surgery.

Leachate is defined as the beginning of the liquid - waste stream emanating from a source before any storage or treatment process.

The efficacy of statin treatment was analysed on the composite outcome of Major Cardiovascular Events (MACE), defined as all cause mortality, non-fatal myocardial infarction and non-fatal stroke.

It might be possible, in future, to use biomarkers to define patient subgroups and treat them with customised cancer therapy or to find new treatment options as an alternative to surgery.

Hirnschall said the results made the group think long and hard about how to define a «couple» — be it cohabitation, marriage, or just a long - term relationship — as well as the logistical questions of how to compel partners to come forward for testing and how to calculate how many people in the world would be eligible for this approach, called treatment as prevention.

In 1993 Albert Cotugno, a practicing psychologist in Massachusetts, reported that only 22 percent of 92 children referred to an ADHD clinic actually met criteria for ADHD following an evaluation, indicating that many children referred for treatment do not have the disorder as formally defined.

For the purposes of this study, «intensive treatment» was defined as being treated with more glucose - lowering medications than clinical guidelines consider necessary given a patient's HbA1C level.

As an initial focus, researchers at Chicago will search for novel ways to take advantage of steroid hormones and their receptors to detect metastases, define their boundaries and deliver treatments directly to tumor cells in order to inhibit cell division or promote cell death.

The traditional approach, in which researchers studied the clinical outcomes of an intervention without assessing whether the intervention altered a well - defined target, established current, well - accepted treatments such as exposure therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.

For more information regarding Bristol - Myers Squibb Clinical Trial participation, please visit www.BMSStudyConnect.com Inclusion Criteria: • Early stage IB - IIIA, operable non-small cell lung cancer, confirmed in tissue • Lung function capacity capable of tolerating the proposed lung surgery • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of 0 - 1 • Available tissue of primary lung tumor Exclusion Criteria: • Presence of locally advanced, inoperable or metastatic disease • Participants with active, known or suspected autoimmune disease • Prior treatment with any drug that targets T cell co-stimulations pathways (such as checkpoint inhibitors) Other protocol defined inclusion / exclusion criteria could apply

Subject must have achieved a CR / CRi / CRp (criteria as defined by [Cheson et al, 2003], see Section 5.3) with first line treatment and has hematologic relapse.

Treatment delay was defined as a chemotherapy delivery more than a week behind schedule.

We usually define a biomarker as a test that can predict disease onset, progression, or success of treatment.

As specific examples, our studies seek to define the molecular basis for platelet and endothelial cell responses and then extend these into patients to determine whether newly identified mechanisms can be targets for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Patients were followed up for smoking status at six months or longer in five studies, 16 22 23 26 28 but smoking was only measured at the time of diagnosis or treatment in four studies, 17 21 24 27 and follow - up was not defined in one study.25 Two studies defined quitting as continuous abstinence from within six months of starting treatment to longest follow - up, 22 23 and one study defined quitting as continuous abstinence during and after treatment.21 The remaining studies did not give a definition of quitting.

Areas of focus include: understanding how tumour - reactive T cells and B cells promote patient survival in cancer; defining the effects of standard treatments on tumor immunity; and using genomic approaches to identify novel tumour mutations that can serve as target antigens for immunotherapy.

The study looked at complementary and alternative therapies, defined as those outside the range of conventional treatments.

Next Page: Treatment options [pagebreak] Implications for treatment Though the exact role of inflammatory markers is yet to be determined, if your CRP test uncovers high levels of CRP (defined by the American Heart Association as over 3 mg / L), it is probably a sign that you should address your risk for cardiovascular disease, even if you have normal choTreatment options [pagebreak] Implications for treatment Though the exact role of inflammatory markers is yet to be determined, if your CRP test uncovers high levels of CRP (defined by the American Heart Association as over 3 mg / L), it is probably a sign that you should address your risk for cardiovascular disease, even if you have normal chotreatment Though the exact role of inflammatory markers is yet to be determined, if your CRP test uncovers high levels of CRP (defined by the American Heart Association as over 3 mg / L), it is probably a sign that you should address your risk for cardiovascular disease, even if you have normal cholesterol.

At it's most basic definition, Age Management can be defined as the early detection and treatment of certain factors which are causing you to look or feel older than you need to.

As the immune system changes and genetics are better defined in this illness, the efficacy of these medical treatments will improve.

Low - dose supplemental testosterone treatment in men with chronic stable angina increased exercise time preceding induced myocardial ischemia as defined by ST depression on EKG.80 Testosterone replacement therapy has also been proven to reduce insulin resistance, visceral adiposity, and cardiovascular risk.

Holistic health is generally defined as medical treatments that are not part of mainstream medicine.

The prerequisite for an insurance company to pay for HGH treatment, also called somatropin, is that there must be a medically accepted need as defined by each specific company.

In other words, the goal of the study was to look at how significant chemotherapy's role was in successful treatment outcomes (defined by oncologists as five - year survival).

What starts out as a very private and personal treatment for many people becomes obvious after a few months as others begin to take notice of the increased energy, smoother complexion, thicker hair, trimmer waistline, and well - defined muscles.

I would note that in the conclusion of my article I was expressing confidence that the effect was a result of the treatment, which I defined as eating in the dining hall that served vegetable oils, not as consuming the vegetable oil.

Age Management Medicine focuses on synergistic treatment to enhance vitality and quality of life.Age Management Medicine is defined as preventive medicine focused on regaining and maintaining optimal health and vigor.

Men have defined what an «individual» means and as such the rules that manage the law's treatment of women.

We define the treatment as the number of years without prior school accountability between the 1991 — 92 academic year and the onset of NCLB.

Teachers, like doctors, create supply by the criteria they use to define a child as needing treatment and they create demand by telling the patient what treatment he or she needs.

Five girls, including the two featured in the video, developed the two - minute spot to introduce their community to an amendment to the federal Animal Welfare Act, which excludes several creatures popular in lab research from being defined as animals, thereby denying them the standards of humane care, handling, and treatment animals now receive.