Sentences with phrase «during patient visits»

Please note that electronic devices, including cell phones, are not allowed during patient visits.

In addition to sterilization duties, you'll likely prepare work areas, hand dentists tools during patient visits, use hoses and other suction devices during treatments, process X-rays and educate patients on dental hygiene.

Physicians mention sunscreen at a low rate during patient visits, even to patients with a history of skin cancer, according to a study by Kristie L. Akamine, M.D., Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston - Salem, N.C., and colleagues.

She notes that during patient visits, physicians usually don't have access to information about what an individual patient's drugs will cost them, based on what insurance they have.

The partners worked alongside the physicians during patient visits and participated in team huddles, transcribed physician comments into patients» records, pulled patient information from computer records, completed lab and referral requests, processed new prescriptions or medication refills, updated patient medication lists, scheduled follow - up appointments and provided patients with their visit summaries.

There is a professionally equipped hairdressing salon area for private hairdressers to use during their patient visits, a massage room, space for alternative therapies, a washer and dryer, and exercise equipment for family members and patients who have their physician's approval.

Create the template, use the dynamic key tags to input data relevant to that patient record, and skip the cumbersome task writing of every little detail during the patient visit.

Reinforce the importance of year - round parasite control during every patient visit and remind clients to stock up when they check out.

Takes patient blood pressure, height, weight, pulse, temperature and / or respiration and complete history information during patient visit

Not exact matches

The things I can't see during a routine patient visit are the very things that make the biggest impact on a person's health.

In parallel, adjudication will be completed for all MACE which occurred during the study, including adjudication for certain events which, per protocol, can not be finally adjudicated until patients complete their final site visit and results are available from certain non-invasive diagnostic testing conducted during such site visits.

In 1987, Princess Diana made headlines when she removed her gloves to shake hands with HIV - positive patients, during one of her many public visits to people suffering from HIV and AIDS.

Context Media allows doctors to educate patients before, during and after their visit, by engaging patients in the doctors» waiting rooms.

For the first trial, half of the women had pre - and postnatal lactation consultant visits and their doctors were reminded by electronic prompts to speak to the patients about breastfeeding during office visits.

Irregular / heavy menstrual bleeding can be treated in several ways: 1) Hormonal medication (a low dose birth control pill or cyclic progestin); 2) A hormone - containing intrauterine device (the most common one used is the Mirena IUD, which manages bleeding very effectively and is placed during an office visit and lasts for 5 years); 3) Endometrial ablation is a surgery commonly performed as an outpatient procedure; the entire lining of the uterus is cauterized (many women never get a menstrual period after an ablation); 4) Finally, I reserve hysterectomy as the treatment of last resort — typically only when the above options have not worked for a patient.

During my visit, in the exam room I asked what they were reducing and the nurse told me that the patient was pregnant with triplets but they were going to terminate one so she could have twins.

Most recently I was hugged by the mother of a palliative patient I had been visiting weekly during his final illness, on what we both knew would probably be my last visit.

In the short time you're a patient at Women & Infants, you can expect a variety of people who visit your room to support you during your stay.

More people tend to be in the NICU during the day because this is when most physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants make rounds (visit each patient) and most diagnostic testing is performed.

During these daily visits, we invite the entire care team to join us to review each patient's progress.

Dogara did this during a visit to the hospital, saying he was there to assess the quality of facilities and to assist indigent patients.

The programme is designed to make sure GPs are available during evenings and weekends, so patients do not have to take time off work to visit them.

Caregivers also reported patient - related crises during the prior year: 19 percent required an emergency department visit; 8 percent required urgent psychiatric care; 6 percent required police intervention; and 6 percent required contacting a lawyer for various reasons such as bankruptcy, loss of business, loss of home or legal guardianship.

«Once diagnosed, the provider should give the patient a questionnaire during each office visit to learn more about how well their asthma symptoms are controlled and how good they perceive their quality of life.

But new computer systems increasingly in use at clinics can be set to prompt medical assistants, doctors and nurses during a visit for the tests recommended for each patient.

As a result, she says, a dermatologist may use one device to treat redness, another to treat brown spots and another to treat sagging skin — all during the same patient visit.

«Visiting virtual beach improves patient experiences during dental procedures.»

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. — If you lived in the time of Shakespeare and wanted to know whether your sick child was going to make it, you might well have paid a visit to the shady offices of physician - cum - astrologer Simon Forman, who, with his student Richard Napier, advised more than 30,000 patients and clients during their careers.

Also, the geriatric patients were more likely to feel comfortable with the physician partners in the room than the general medicine patients, perhaps because older patients are more accustomed to having someone else, such as a caregiver or family member, in the room during their doctor visits.

«To most people, especially ophthalmologists, common sense would suggest that there is little harm in simply measuring the vision at a distance during a patient's routine visit to their primary care physician,» Sommer, who wrote an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine, said by email.

To address the possibility that some exacerbations might have been missed because participants either moved out of state or died without coming to a hospital, the team focused on a group of 524 patients for whom some sort of emergency room visit or hospitalization was recorded in the databases during the third year after surgery.

In the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.

The analysis also showed that, on average, a patient receiving more testing accrued $ 500 more in health - care costs during the ER visit.

The findings came from a retrospective study of 84 patients, who received care and moderate sedation during a visit to a Case Western Reserve's dental clinics in endodontics, periodontics and oral surgery graduate programs between 2010 and 2012.

The analysis showed that, during the two years prior to surgery, around 22 percent of the studied patients had at least one emergency department (ED) visit or hospitalization in each one - year period.

«Whether it's in the emergency department, where patients often have to wait a long time for a specialist, or during a primary - care physician visit, this new workflow will improve the quality of care for our patients, especially in the developing world where ophthalmologists are few and far between.

«Based on these findings, and other evidence, we encourage patients to speak up during their clinic visits, and when they're at the pharmacy, and ask about ways to reduce the cost of their prescriptions,» says Malani.

As part of Kaiser Permanente's clinical practice to inquire about Exercise as a Vital Sign, the patients» self - reported physical activity was documented in their electronic health record during routine clinical visits along with other vital signs such as blood pressure.

The researchers calculated the proportion of time that a patient's current medication was increased or a new medication was started in response to an elevated high blood pressure reading during an office visit.

Patients were seen weekly during the first six weeks of treatment, followed by three biweekly visits in which their breath alcohol concentration, weight and vital signs were measured and concurrent medications, the occurrence of adverse events and protocol adherence monitored.

As part of clinical practice, patients are asked about their level of physical activity during routine outpatient visits and their responses documented in their electronic health record.

Visits to the ED are common for patients with advanced cancer and it is during these visits that decisions are often made about the intensity ofVisits to the ED are common for patients with advanced cancer and it is during these visits that decisions are often made about the intensity ofvisits that decisions are often made about the intensity of care.

The study, «The Potential for Glycemic Control Monitoring and Screening for Diabetes at Dental Visits Using Oral Blood,» builds upon an earlier pilot study in which the feasibility and acceptability to patients and dental providers of using oral blood to screen for diabetes during a routine dental exam was demonstrated.

«It is challenging for primary care clinicians to balance patients» needs, good stewardship of health care resources and time efficiency during office visits,» said Jerant.

During this time, Patient 2 came to visit and reported wiping away Patient 1's tears and helping to reposition him in the hospital bed.

We will provide educational materials for patients and their families to help them better understand what we discuss during the visit.

To explore causes of hospital readmissions, researchers created a tool to identify and quantify a patient's feelings of uncertainty during their initial emergency department visit.

Volunteers and their dogs are available to visit patients various times during the week.

Cases of influenza - like activity also continued to increase, with 7.7 percent of patient visits related to flu - like illness during the week ending Feb. 3, up from 7.2 percent of visits the previous week.

It's a complaint many patients bring to her during office visits, says Christine Greves, MD, ob - gyn at the center for obstetrics and gynecology at Orlando Health in Florida.