Sentences with phrase «fewer patients in need»

This in turn means that fewer patients in need of medical treatment, and even a drop in mortality rates.

Not exact matches

This study, published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, found that 22 patients who played the memory game made significantly fewer errors and needed significantly fewer attempts to remember the location of different patterns specific tests.

You just need to be patient for a few hours till the popsicles set in the freezer, that's all.

«We have a lot to figure out about how to use this therapy, and we need to treat a few hundred patients in order to get a better sense of how to refine the synergy of these two classes of drugs.

«As a researcher, I talked to clinicians about [the technology], and there always needed to be one cowboy, one champion to take that work and try it in a few patients.

This means fewer patients are routinely being admitted to these units after joint replacement surgery, resulting in lower overall costs without compromising patient safety as well as ensuring that relatively scarce critical care beds are available for those who truly need them.»

«There are few other surgical options to reduce the risk of post-surgery heart damage, meaning new techniques to protect patients are needed,» Montaigne said in a statement.

Fewer than half of the aids provided had been customised in some way to meet that specific patient's individual need for information.

The treatment had few serious adverse events; however, five patients had pain that persisted for longer than usual following the surgery (more than 3 - 4 days) and one had an infection at the site of the surgery which resulted in the electrodes needing to be removed and re-implanted.

The approach, which is described in a paper to be published September 7 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, could allow those in need of such transplants, including leukemia and lymphoma patients, to be treated with fewer donor stem cells while limiting potential adverse side effects.

The patients were followed for 90 days, after which the researchers found significant reductions in coronary revascularization procedures, fewer hospital readmissions and fewer recurrent cardiac testing episodes or the need for additional testing.

«We expect better outcomes in radionuclide therapy treatment with fewer complications because we will be able to adjust patient dose either up or down as needed.»

Professor Sahakian and colleagues found that the patients who had played the memory game made significantly fewer errors and needed significantly fewer attempts to remember the location of different patterns in the CANTAB PAL test relative to the control group.

The optical probe would be expected to result in far fewer complications, although Shih and Mohan caution that more research is needed before it can replace the kidney biopsy for patients with renal disease.

When it launched, patients in need of fecal transplants often had to travel significant distances for a visit to one of the few fecal transplant practitioners in the country.

The study showed that those patients with views of the trees had significantly shorter hospital stays, fewer post-surgical complaints, less need for potent analgesic medications (aspirin instead of narcotics), and a lower amount of negative comments placed in their charts by nurses.

Some might build empires in a few months, it is possible now with the massive client base found online but for the rest of us, you need to be patient and continue at it.

The fact remains, however, that few veterinary professionals have received any kind of training in the specific care or needs of geriatric patients.

Often learning a few obedience commands can give shy dogs more confidence, so Alvin would do best in a home with a patient owner who will give him the time and attention he needs to bond and learn.

Last week, Tandon's Kickstarter project received the funding needed to help him get the device into patients» hands in the next few months.

HTC has started rolling out the Nougat update to One M9 units in the continent, although some of you might still need to be patient as it will take a few weeks for HTC to complete the update rollout in Asia.

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There are many tasks a PACU nurse needs to perform in a post-operative unit such as guiding patients to consciousness and assisting them in handling personal needs in the first few hours after surgery.

A study of individual cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder showed positive outcomes at 1 - year follow - up, but the benefits were reduced over time, suggesting the need for booster sessions to sustain the gains.19 As with many forms of therapy, CBT has been found to be more successful in reducing relapse in the depressive pole compared with the manic pole.30 A large randomised trial of CBT showed no difference between CBT and treatment as usual, when all participants were included in the analyses.31 However, results of a post-hoc analysis suggested that CBT was effective for participants who reported fewer than 12 prior episodes of illness and were not acutely unwell when therapy began; numbers of episodes of mania rather than depression seemed to predict treatment response.32 Such data can help guide the clinical application of CBT for bipolar patients.