Sentences with phrase «determined by the patient»

The various tasks a family member can perform are determined by the patient's needs and the capacity of the family member, she says.

The probability that CFS is linked to Candida can be more readily determined by patient history and response to anti-yeast treatment.

Both SP and SWI conditions ranged between 8 and 16 sessions, determined by patient need, of 30 to 50 minutes» duration.

Not exact matches

That range was determined in March to be cost effective by the independent Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) for highest risk patients assuming the drug results in a sustained reduction in cardiovascular - related deaths.

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.

In January 2009, then - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the settlement of an investigation into the method used by certain health insurers to determine reimbursements for patients who received care from out - of - network providers.

New York City emergency medicine specialist Stephen Wall has endorsed a program in which patients who suffer trauma or cardiac arrest are afforded some resuscitation efforts, but if these fail and the patient is pronounced dead (as determined by a remote authority), CPR will be continued — on the dead patient — until a relative or other surrogate can give consent for organs to be harvested.

After a patient first half in which Heung - Min Son was denied by Potters goalkeeper Jack Butland, the Danish international star was set up by Dele Alli to give us a 52nd - minute lead against a determined home outfit who were chasing vital points in their bid to avoid the drop.

Most fans aren't stupid and will be patient with the boys given the current limitations of the side Wenger will put out, so the players on display need to respect that by putting in a determined, committed effort.

Patients with suspected concussive injury are categorized as having mild traumatic brain injury, or mTBI if, when they are first seen by an emergency medicine provider, they receive a score of 14 - 15 on the 15 - point Glasgow Coma Scale, which is used to determine level of consciousness based on responses to various stimuli:

There is a particular focus on traditional foods as eaten all over the world by people for thousands of years, as studied by Dr. Weston A. Price in the 1930s during his research in traveling all over the world to determine the cause of degenerative illness in his patients.

Multi-day programs are open to current, former and new patients who have been determined to be eligible by the clinical team at the Child Mind Institute.

Back in 1946, Dr. Curtis Mendelson decided to run his own experiment on rabbits to determine if aspiration of food caused by general anesthesia had a causal relationship with the development of pneumonia, which he witnessed in one of his patients.

Each of these countries, though, with the exception of the United States, has universal health insurance coverage, funded and regulated in large part by the government, so it doesn't seem likely that government - subsidized health care, in itself, is the sole factor in determining how long patients are stuck in The Waiting Place.

There has been a determination to ensure staff cleanse their hands between patients with the «Cleanyourhands» campaign, although this has now been closed down, there are some in the Health Service who are determined to see the work of the former campaign continue by forming a new advisory group along with patient groups.

This proposition means funding allocations will take into consideration the performance of specific hospitals, which will be determined by a comprehensive assessment of NHS trusts, including patient evaluation.

At the Jan. 24, 2013 Legislative session, the Erie County Legislature's Minority Caucus, led by Minority Leader John Mills and comprised of Legislators Lynne Dixon, Kevin Hardwick, Joseph Lorigo and Edward Rath, co-sponsored a resolution in support of the investigation by Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to determine how it was possible that the same insulin pen was reused on different patients at the VA of Western New York Healthcare System in Buffalo.

She says demand is high for biomarkers backed by clinical evidence, to determine which patients will likely respond to therapeutics and also to monitor treatment progress.

Through the analysis of 11 years of hospital data, researchers were able to determine differences in length of stay, episode cost and 30 - day readmission rates for Medicare patients aged 65 and older by comparing cases where oral nutritional supplements were prescribed to patients with the same conditions to those who weren't prescribed oral nutritional supplements.

The presence of antibodies to lymphadenopathy - associated retrovirus (LAV) was determined by a radioimmunoprecipitation assay and by an enzyme - linked immunosorbent solid assay of sera from Zairian patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 1983.

Then, to determine if this change was caused just by weight loss, Laferrère paired a control group of patients with gastric bypass patients, matching for age, duration of diabetes, and ethnicity.

So a team of US researchers, led by Dr Stavros Memtsoudis at Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Dr Jashvant Poeran at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, both in New York, set out to determine the effectiveness and safety of tranexamic acid in a large sample of US patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement surgery.

Using the electronic health records of patients from the Veterans Health Administration between 1998 and 2007, researchers were able to determine the likelihood that a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer follows a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis, how often pancreatic cancer is preceded by acute pancreatitis, and the time between an initial episode of acute pancreatitis and diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

Only by knowing how many patients have to be treated to achieve a given benefit — and how many will be harmed — can doctors determine whether they are doing their patients any good, Newman says.

They determined the number of patients under age 21 treated and released by emergency departments between 2006 and 2012 rose modestly.

The researchers used electronic medical record databases and insurance claims to determine rates of diagnoses, prescription of psychotropic medications and formal psychotherapy sessions received by white, Asian, black, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian / other Pacific Islander, Native American / Alaskan Native and mixed - race patients.

«We believe that there is a threshold effect whereby the levels of Klotho, dictated mostly by the age of the patients, are crucial in determining whether they will benefit from this treatment or not,» said Reeti Behera, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Weeraratna lab and first author of the study.

Patient satisfaction scores, in part due to the Affordable Care Act of 2010, are a key part of the formula that determines reimbursements levels to hospitals by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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.

Stamets furnished capsules of freeze - dried fungus for a seven - year, NIH - funded study by Bastyr University and the University of Minnesota to determine whether turkey tail mushrooms could help breast cancer patients whose immune systems had been compromised by radiation therapy.

In the past, scientists have tried to determine therapeutic effectiveness by separating patients into groups based on their clinical parameters such as what antibodies they are producing against themselves, how swollen their joints are and medications they are taking.

By assessing the survival of the cells that engulf the particles and measuring the levels of red or green light that they emitted, the researchers determined which formulation of particles performed best, then tested that formulation in mice with human brain cancer derived from their patients.

By reading the complete DNA sequence of the TB bacterium from each patient in an outbreak, her group showed that it was possible to determine who likely infected whom in the outbreak.

«By understanding what causes malignant transformation we can determine what can be done for patients with benign tumors to suppress them before they reach the malignant stage,» Alman said.

«The phi test helps physicians distinguish prostate cancer from benign conditions by utilizing three different PSA markers (PSA, freePSA and p2PSA) as part of a sophisticated algorithm to more reliably determine the probability of cancer in patients with elevated PSA levels,» said Kevin Slawin, MD, director, Vanguard Urologic Institute at Memorial Hermann Medical Group, clinical professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine and director of Urology, Memorial Hermann Hospital ‐ Texas Medical Center, who performed some of the key research that led to the development of the phi test and who also began using the test in February.

As well, patients who score higher on the CHADS2 score, a rule used by physicians to determine a patient's risk of stroke, are at increased risk of stroke with or without atrial fibrillation.

Developed by research experts at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), this novel application that expertly analyses brain scans could save lives by helping doctors determine if a patient has the life - threatening condition.

Performing a multivariate analysis adjusting for patient demographics and comorbidities, the UCSF researchers determined AFL catheter ablation reduced the risk for overall hospital - based health care by 6 percent, inpatient hospitalization by 12 percent and emergency department visits by 40 percent.

The imaging software — developed and currently in use only at Cincinnati Children's — mathematically determines the lowest possible radiation dose for the patient before a scan is performed, according to the study led by David Larson, MD, radiology quality and safety director at the medical center and principal architect of the technology.

Tissue - based planning systems — using clinical guidelines to determine the optimal breast implant dimensions for individual patients — appear superior to approaches relying more on the patient's or surgeon's preference, according to the study by Drs. William P. Adams, Jr., of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and Daniel McKee of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada.

In the second cohort of 77 COPD patients, the 23 patients with allergic sensitization (determined by immunoglobulin E testing) were significantly more likely to wheeze, to experience nighttime awakening due to cough, and to have COPD exacerbations requiring antibiotic treatment or an acute visit to the doctor.

Another important aspect of the green - light KTP laser approach, Zeitels adds, is that biopsy and treatment of patients whose cancer involves a single vocal cord usually can be accomplished in the same procedure, whereas radiotherapy requires a prior biopsy to determine the extent and location of the tumor, followed by daily radiation treatments over approximately six weeks.

«Most cases of Lyme disease are cured by antibiotics, but some patients continue to experience symptoms despite the absence of detectable Lyme bacteria,» said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. «This poses a mystery that requires continued research into new or improved ways to diagnose Lyme disease and determine the cause of unresolved symptoms.»

By applying survival analysis — a statistical method often used to calculate how well new treatments help patients survive — they determined how often a prisoner under threat of execution was exonerated.

«We're definitely encouraged by these results, but we need to optimize the length of treatments, identify which subgroups of patients may benefit most, and determine if this approach works in patients who have nonsomatic forms of the condition that can't be modulated by head and neck maneuvers,» Shore said.

«The results of surgery performed by members of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) in this trial were excellent but we need to wait longer and get further results to understand the best way to use laparoscopic procedures, and to determine whether this is something suitable for all patients or considered with more caution in patients who are difficult to operate on.»

As well as informing the search for therapies, this could one day help to develop tests to determine if a patient's anemia is caused by problems in his or her TLR2 / TLR6 response.

They found that in all nine cases, their data matched the outcomes seen in patients, as measured by clinical protein biomarkers found in the bloodstream, which are used by doctors to determine whether a drug is killing the tumor cells.

«These findings raise the possibility that by determining the gene expression profile of a patient's tumor, physicians may be able to identify aggressive disease at the outset of diagnosis and start treatment earlier,» said Sungyong You, PhD, an instructor in the Cedars - Sinai Department of Surgery and the first author of the study.

«These new data are an important first step in determining the amount of weight gain (or loss) that is appropriate for women who enter pregnancy with obesity — data which are sorely needed by obstetric providers to better serve their patients,» says Sharon Herring, MD, MPH, an expert in this area who is a member of The Obesity Society and Assistant Professor at Temple University.