Sentences with phrase «diagnosis rates of»

The higher diagnosis rates of HIV are also reported at a younger age.

When they reviewed data on 1 million children ages 10 and younger, the authors found a deep racial divide in diagnosis rates of strabismus.

For example, in North Carolina, children who lived in less affluent communities such as Goldsboro and eastern Raleigh had a strabismus diagnosis rate of 0.55 percent — far lower than the statewide average of 1.11 percent.

Athletes with no concussions had a lifetime diagnosis rate of 6.6 percent, in line with the male population as a whole.

Not exact matches

«Together with safe sex practice, early diagnosis, and access to treatment, we expect that PrEP will significantly reduce HIV transmission rates in New Zealand,» Sarah Fitt, the chief executive of New Zealand's public pharmaceutical management agency Pharmac, told Stuff.

London - based Babylon Health, which has raised a total of $ 85 million, started as a telemedicine company, enabling doctors to make diagnoses via video and allowing patients to rate the quality of each interaction.

GE notes that radiologists» error rate in x-ray based diagnoses can range from 35 % to 50 %; the hope is that the eight machine deep learning algorithms being deployed as part of the partnership can help bring that figure down significantly by more accurately analyzing the medical data.

New measures of external demand for Canadian exports have been constructed, which better take into account how Canadian industries are positioned in GVCs.15 Our staff have also constructed new measures of Canada's effective exchange rate that better capture Canada's competitiveness, not just relative to our export markets but also relative to third countries (Chart 5).16 This analysis contributes to a better diagnosis of Canada's loss of competitiveness.

While CDC estimates that only 4 percent of men in the United States are MSM, the rate of new HIV diagnoses among MSM in the United States is more than 44 times that of other men (range: 522 — 989 per 100,000 MSM vs. 12 per 100,000 other men).

The rates of having experienced post-traumatic stress symptoms, but not a fully screened diagnosis of PTSD are as high as 18 % (Beck, et al. 2011).

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

A doula can remind you of the high false positive rate for EFM and remind you to ask your caregiver about options for verifying the diagnosis (such as using an internal monitor or stimulating the baby's scalp).

However, due to the over-diagnosis of fetal distress and potential misinterpretation of the fetal heart rate, it is recommended to confirm a potential fetal distress diagnosis with a fetal blood acid base study.

Also, it could actually save about # 35 million over a 5 year period if it is able to double the rates of early diagnosis from 10 per cent to 20 per cent.

For the second year in a row the number of new diagnoses of H.I.V. infections in men who have sex with men dropped in New York for 2016, after a decade where the rate of new infections refused to budge.

Rates of New Deadly Skin Cancers Double Over Last 3 Decades; Cases in Young Women Account for Majority of Diagnoses (06/11/2015)

The county also has the third - highest rate of newborn drug - related diagnoses in New York state, with about 300 diagnoses per 10,000 newborn discharges in 2014, according to the county.

The researchers used these data to see how factors like income, race and ethnicity, sex and location affected rates of diabetes diagnosis and foregone medical care due to cost.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

What was unknown, however, was the rate that acute pancreatitis precedes a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and the time between these two diagnoses.

Co-author Professor Fabio Levi (MD), Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), said: «Besides enforcing tobacco control — essentially by increasing taxation — national governments and EU policy makers must ensure that all EU citizens have access to the best screening, diagnosis and treatment, including those from central and eastern Europe where major delays are still observed and where cancer mortality rates tend to be higher as a result.»

For the study, the Johns Hopkins team set out to lower the rate at which doctors order cardiac biomarker testing for the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome by basing the desired rate on scientific evidence.

«The increased death rate is cause for concern, because the prognosis for this tumour is bleak, with less than five percent of pancreatic cancer patients surviving for five years after diagnosis.

In 2011, the rate of thyroid cancer diagnosis was 15 times what it was in 1993, yet there was no change in thyroid cancer mortality, Heyong Sik Ahn of Korea University in Seoul and colleagues reported in The New England Journal of Medicine in November 2014.

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.

«It's concerning that we saw a higher rate of diagnosis of schizophrenia and seemingly an undertreatment in terms of pharmacotherapy for that group,» said Ashli A. Owen - Smith, co-author of the study and assistant professor of health management and policy in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.

In a study appearing in the March 15 issue of JAMA, Kathryn Rough, Sc.M., of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and colleagues examined the association between implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) suppression policy of substance abuse - related claims and rates of diagnoses for nonsubstance abuse conditions in Medicaid data.

There was no significant difference in the rate of return to sport by body mass index, sex, age, preoperative diagnosis, revision status and / or dominant extremity.

With that concern in mind, some researchers have wondered if the rising rates of autism diagnoses could have anything to do with the...

The 11.5 % rate of anxiety disorders — such phobia, panic or generalized anxiety disorder — was slightly higher than in the general population (9 %), while the prevalence of other mental health diagnoses was similar to rates in the general population.

With samples taken from 242 people, 24 of whom had a cancer diagnosis, the worms made the correct diagnosis 96 per cent of the time, a success rate that the researchers say is better than any blood test.

Controlling for influences such as maternal age, multiple births (twins, triplets), pregnancy complications, prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy terminations, researchers analyzed data from nearly 6 million Canadian births from 1990 to 2011 and found that folic acid food fortification was associated with an 11 percent reduction in rates of congenital heart defects overall.

But Li points out that women with more frequent visits would probably have more mammograms, which is associated with higher rates of breast cancer diagnosis.

(In medical diagnosis, sensitivity is the ability of a test to correctly identify those with the disease, known as the true positive rate, whereas specificity refers to the ability of the test to correctly identify those without the disease or the true negative rate.)

Dr. Hagan and the team of NYU researchers hope that by providing a better understanding of HCV progression rates among PWID, they can help inform policy to expand access to detection, diagnosis, and treatment.

«Understanding HCV disease progression rates among people who inject drugs (PWID) is important to setting policy to expand access to detection, diagnosis and treatment, and in forecasting the burden of disease,» said Holly Hagan, PhD, the principal investigator for the HCV Synthesis Project, who also is a professor at New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) and co-director at CDUHR.

There were no overall differences in rates of mental health symptoms at diagnosis among treatment groups, although 18 % of the PADT group reported poorer memory compared to 12 % in the local group and 15 % in the combination group.

The study, which looks at all visits to California emergency departments from 2005 - 2011, shows that the emergency department «visit rate» decreased by 0.7 percent during the study's timeframe, while the rate of ED visits for non-injury diagnoses rose 13.4 percent.

Finally, the authors found that the rate of growth in mental health conditions as a primary diagnosis was significant among the uninsured, Medicare beneficiaries, and the privately insured, showing the emergency department is also serving as a place of care for patients with mental illness.

While the rate of ED visits for injuries rose more slowly than non-injury diagnoses among Medicaid beneficiaries and the privately insured, the rate decreased among the uninsured, the authors found.

Among non-injury diagnoses, gastrointestinal system diseases, nervous system disorders, and symptoms of abdominal pain were among the diagnoses with the highest growth in the rate of ED visits, the study found.

The research team found that readmission diagnoses and timing were similar regardless of a hospital's 30 - day readmission rates.

Incidence rates for Autism and ID on a per - person basis decrease by roughly 99 percent in states with stronger regulations on diagnosis of these disorders.

State - mandated diagnosis of autism by a clinician for consideration in special education was linked with around a whopping 99 percent decrease in the rate of incidence for autism and ID.

Cancer of the pancreas, with a 5 % survival rate within five years of diagnosis, is the fourth leading cause of cancer related deaths.

«As we look at lessons learned from this outbreak, the high false - positive screening rate and other delays in diagnosis may have resulted in unprotected exposure of frontline staff.

That self - report isn't the same as a diagnosis from a doctor, nor is it indicative of women's rate overall.

Nevertheless, the survival rate for lung cancer is dismal: 80 percent of patients die within five years of diagnosis largely due to the disease's aggressive tendency to spread throughout the body.

Ibdah's research team used the databases Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) to analyze the prevalence, stage and survival rates for colorectal cancer diagnoses in the U.S. based on race and ethnicity from 1973 to 2009.

«Since only 25 percent of the women we studied were older than 40, we anticipate the rate of diagnosis would rise as these women continue to age.»