Sentences with phrase «die than patients»

The bad news: patients who were already taking metformin when diagnosed were more than twice as likely to die than patients who never used the drug.

The research showed that NRSOT patients who experienced AKI - D during hospitalization were nearly three times [2.85] more likely to die than patients who did not have AKI - D.

Not exact matches

The fictional patients also died three times more frequently than the real patients.

I do many things, administrative, worship planning, staff support, patient and family care, but nothing is more sacred than listening to and being with the dying.

The bill allows «mentally competent» patients with less than 6 months to live to get prescription drugs that would speed up the dying process, as long as two doctors agree the patient qualifies.

The patient died at the hospital less than an hour after she arrived and her twins died in her womb.

But he approves of it in the case of a physician who» knowingly facilitated» the suicide of a patient whom he had treated for a long time, knew well, and who had convinced him early on that she preferred to die rather than go through a long and losing battle with cancer.

I saw more than my share of patients die for no reason in hospital during my career.

The essay «God as Monica's Breast» is worth the price of the volume, and the «Consenting to Die» essay, which discusses suicide and death as something to do» rather than just wait for, breaks into a fictional discussion between a doctor and a cancer patient.

«Working with dying patients over many years has made me much more religious than I have ever been.»

When we LOOK at reality...... when we REALLY LOOK closely at who's life is snuffed from EXISTENCE...... MORE PATIENTS DIE UNDER HOSPITAL CARE than the non-professional quazie care.

Yes — some areas are in danger of losing primary emergency care, but in most areas of the state hospitals are beating each other over the head for patients because there are more hospital rooms than people dying to get into them.

Low income heart patients are more likely to die after surgery than those higher up the social scale, a report published by the British Medical Journal has found.

Macmillan's Cancer in the UK 2014 report shows that the majority (3 in every 4) of cancer patients want to die at home, but fewer than a third are able to do so.

More than 300 senior doctors have warned that patients will die while on waiting lists because of cuts to funding.

British patients were found to be almost 50 per cent more likely to die from poor care than those in America.

In the U.S. alone, more than 80,000 new melanoma cases are diagnosed each year and about 9,000 melanoma patients die.

Among patients with deadly cancers, more than 90 percent die because of metastatic spread of their disease.

Each year in the U.S., nearly 46,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and more than 39,000 patients die, making it the fourth leading cause of cancer death.

More than half of the patients diagnosed with brain metastasis will die within a few months.»

Overall, patients with synucleinopathies died about two years earlier than participants without in the comparison group.

But for some patients who have received therapy and survived, the risk of dying from the side effects over the long term might be even higher than from the cancer.

Many patients with low - risk prostate cancer have a lower risk of dying from prostate cancer than from other causes.»

While the patient eventually relapsed and died more than a year after CAR T - cell therapy, the brain tumor never recurred.

Moreover, the research shows, trauma patients of all races are 40 percent less likely to die — regardless of the severity of their injuries — if they are treated at hospitals with lower - than - expected mortality rates, the vast majority of which serve predominantly white patients.

The team found that obese people with kidney cancer had a 53 % lower risk of dying from renal - cell carcinoma than patients who were normal weight2.

Overall, most Asian subgroups were less likely to die from cancer than non-Hispanic white patients.

When the condition is not responsive to high - dose vasopressors like norepinephrine and vasopressin, it is associated with high mortality, with more than half of these patients dying within 30 days,» Dr. Khanna said.

More than twice as many untreated patients died as those who received transfusions.

Of the five patients who died (19.2 % of those with neuroinvasive disease), all were older than 70.

In more than 20 percent of cases studied, patients returned to the hospital within 30 days, and about five percent of patients died within 30 days.

In 2013, more than 10,000 patients died of AML.

By comparison, of more than 1,000 relatives of Laron patients who died during the study, one in five succumbed to cancer.

More than 200,000 patients in the United States die annually of sepsis.

Professor Patrizio Lancellotti, chair of the ESC EACVI / HFA Cardiac Oncology Toxicity Registry, said: «Patients with some forms of breast cancer are at greater risk of dying from heart disease than from cancer.

A few years ago he discovered that the average Academy Award winner lives four years longer than other actors and that patients admitted to a hospital over the weekend are 28 percent more likely to die than those admitted on weekdays.

Mice bred to carry a gene variant found in a third of ALS patients have a faster disease progression and die sooner than mice with the standard genetic model of the disease, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

Public health researchers at Harvard found that elderly patients were less likely to die or be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days if treated by female doctors rather than male.

One patient who died was taking 1400 milligrams of chlorpromazine a day — more than four times the recommended dose.

The study drilled down in particular on patients who had a high risk of dying from a cause other than prostate cancer within 10 years.

The results suggest that among patients with no cardiac risk factors having noncardiac surgery, those patients receiving β - blockers were 1.2 times more likely to die than those not receiving β - blockers.

However, for patients having noncardiac surgery with three to four cardiac risk factors, those receiving β - blockers were significantly less likely to die than those not receiving β - blockers, the authors found.

A new population - based study has found that patients with glioblastoma who died in 2010, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of bevacizumab, had lived significantly longer than patients who died of the disease in 2008, prior to the conditional approval of the drug for the treatment of the deadly brain cancer.

Patients in the study averaged three such shifts, which meant that their risk of dying increased by more than six percent compared with patients with access to fully staffed nursinPatients in the study averaged three such shifts, which meant that their risk of dying increased by more than six percent compared with patients with access to fully staffed nursinpatients with access to fully staffed nursing teams.

When a nursing home patient is dying, aggressive interventions such as inserting a feeding tube or sending the patient to the emergency room can futilely exacerbate, rather than relieve, their distress.

Forty - five percent of terminally ill patients in the U.S. currently die under hospice, and its use has grown by more than 20 percent over the past decade.

When Lopes's group checked the patients» medical histories, the researchers found that those with slowly activating channels were two times more likely than patients with other mutations to die before age 30 or develop serious symptoms such as fainting spells or heart attacks.

Patients receiving epinephrine in the later stages of resuscitation were more likely to die than those who got their first epinephrine dose shortly after collapsing.

These added patients, who did not receive interferon, more than doubled their risk of dying as a result of not being treated with the drug.

But patients who had neurological infections had a higher risk of dying of some other diseases than the general population.