Under limited supervision, the Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) responsible for the assessment of
general care patients including the development, evaluation and modification of the plan of...
Not exact matches
Once
patients are familiar with the
general idea of digital - service provision, organizations can begin offering more complex, high - value services, such as integrated -
care companion apps or mobile health records.
There's a
general trend in America of emergency
care being covered less and less by insurance companies while
patients pay...
VICTORIA — Another scathing report from B.C.'s Auditor
General shows that Christy Clark's government diverted precious health
care dollars from
patient care to an expensive computer system.
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.
For helping many alcoholics, I am convinced that we shall need far more multilevel institutions that serve only alcoholics (through bed
care, day - hospital
care, out -
patient care, etc.) as well as an increase in facilities that are part of
general and mental hospitals and other kinds of institutions.
As Albert Deutsch showed in his monumental history of
care of the mentally ill, some 19th century institutions did provide humane
care, as well as
general medical and surgical treatment for
patients who needed it.
The dentistry issued a statement of sympathy for Mykel and his parents and said that it would be premature to comment on any specifics until outside medical experts finish their review, but they said they have used
general anesthesia more than 1,900 times for pediatric
patients in the last three and a half years without incident, and that they contract with a board - certified anesthesiologist who follows all protocols including pre-operative check and approval by the child's primary
care physician before putting the child under anesthesia.
Your gift can provide
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The reversible design allows
patients to choose the support they need and is versatile for use in the NIC or
general care nursery.
This American College of Radiologists article was prepared by the ACR Committee on Drugs and Contrast Media of the
General and Pediatric Radiology Commission in 2010 to serve as a guide that may assist radiologists in their clinical evaluation and decision - making in regard to
patient care in the administration of contrast media.
«Dante's
general check - up wasn't all that different from the
care you and I receive, and he was a good
patient, never snapping at any of the vets during the exam,» said Dr. O'Connor.
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Ahead of the
general election Macmillan will be calling on all three parties to commit to: • deliver cancer outcomes that match the best in Europe • ensure all cancer
patients are treated with the highest levels of dignity and respect and that staff are supported to do this • ensure everyone at the end of life is given free social
care to support them to spend their final weeks and days in the place of their choosing.
· Integrated working allows
patients and their carers to benefit from specialist knowledge (including early referral for more specialist opinions and diagnostic tests when needed), the
general care provided by GPs and primary
care teams, and the help and support provided by those working in social
care.
«That this House opposes the Government's plans to impose a polyclinic, or GP - led health centre, in every primary
care trust; regrets that this could result in the closure of up to 1,700 GP surgeries; is concerned that the imposition of polyclinics against the will of
patients and GPs could be detrimental to standards of
care, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable, by breaking the vital GP /
patient link; further regrets that these plans are being imposed without consultation; is alarmed at the prospective loss of
patient access to local GP services at a time when
care closer to home should be strengthened; believes that the Government's plans would jeopardise the independence and commissioning capability of
general practice in the future; supports the strengthening of access to diagnostic and therapeutic services without undermining the structure of GP services; and calls on the Government to reconsider its plans for polyclinics.
As a
general internist who has
cared for
patients at Bellevue Hospital in New York, Dr. Shah knows firsthand the impact on vulnerable populations of inadequate resources.
The NYSDOH is providing guidance and information on infection control protocols and procedures to ensure the health and safety of all health
care workers,
patients, visitors and the
general public.
With I - STOP, we are creating a national model for smart, coordinated communication between health
care providers and pharmacists to better serve
patients, stop prescription drug trafficking, and provide treatment to those who need help,» Attorney
General Schneiderman said.
------------------------------------ Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman announced the arrest and arraignment of 4 former employees of Focus Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Cooperstown, who are accused of leaving a 94 - year - old
patient left in a recliner with substandard
care for 41 hours over the Memorial Day weekend in May.
«Well, I need more answers... but I like the
general direction in which they're trying to move to a more
patient - centered health
care system, employing some important insurance market reforms,» Faso said.
Mokdad said increasing access to primary
care, such as
general practitioners and physician assistants, would help identify
patients» early warning signs of poor health.
Clearly
patients with mental illness should receive
care that is at least comparable with
care given to the
general population.
In the study,
patients who underwent conscious sedation had a similar rate of adverse events to those who underwent anesthesia, but those who were given conscious sedation had shorter stays in the intensive
care unit (30 versus 96 hours for those with
general anesthesia) and shorter hospital stays (4.9 days versus 10.4 days).
In a report published June 28 in the Journal of
General Internal Medicine, the research team describes how these interventions reduced overuse of troponin and other biomarker testing without compromising
patient care.
«From a clinical standpoint, our findings suggest that CRP could be used to risk stratify
patients before surgery, enabling proactive interventions that target
patients at risk for developing postoperative delirium,» said Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, PhD, co-lead author and postdoctoral fellow in the Division of
General Medicine at Primary
Care at BIDMC and HMS.
«In
general, across all the health systems, people with serious mental illness aren't getting a lot of psychotherapy as a form of treatment, and maybe that's a missed opportunity for our health systems to provide
care to those
patients.»
«In examining SAGES
patients who had undergone major elective surgery, we compared
patients who developed delirium with those who did not,» explained Vasunilashorn, a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of
General Medicine and Primary
Care at BIDMC and HMS.
«Although we found IL - 6 elevated significantly in the delirious
patients two days after surgery, we did not find the elevation to be statistically significant at one month following surgery,» said co-lead author Ngo, biostatistician in the Division of
General Medicine and Primary
Care at BIDMC and Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS.
The DSM describes the symptoms of more than 300 officially recognized mental illnesses — depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and others — helping counselors, psychiatrists and
general care practitioners diagnose their
patients.
It is also possible that the ongoing monitoring required with DBS means that
patients are getting more medical attention in
general, leading to better
care.
«Because laboratory tests play such a crucial and ubiquitous role in medicine, efforts to identify opportunities for improvement in the selection of tests have the potential to contribute greatly to the
care patients receive,» adds William Taylor, MD, a clinician in BIDMC's Division of General Medicine and Primary C
care patients receive,» adds William Taylor, MD, a clinician in BIDMC's Division of
General Medicine and Primary
CareCare.
«These national guidelines are directed not just to hematologists but to all medical practitioners who might encounter sickle cell disease
patients, to inform them about hydroxyurea and how to best offer
general medical
care to them,» Dr. Buchanan said.
«Prior research at Yale has demonstrated that buprenorphine treatment is highly effective in primary
care, and this study was designed in part to expand the reach of this treatment to this critical ED
patient population,» said Dr. Patrick O'Connor, professor of medicine and chief of
general internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine.
Future research should look at data from state prescription drug monitoring programs and data on other substance use to get a more comprehensive view of how
patients are using opioids,» said Karen E Lasser, MD, MPH, a
general internist at BMC with expertise in improving the quality of
care for underserved
patient populations, who served as co-principal investigator of the study.
Such speed and accuracy would represent a profound step forward in medical diagnoses and treatment, according to Zhang, noting that current health
care is often lengthy as
patients are referred from
general physicians to specialists, consuming time and resources and delaying effective treatment.
«The
patients who sought
care for chronic breathlessness appeared to have a significantly impaired quality of life than the
general population.
Pain is the most common symptom reported both in the
general population and
patients seen in primary
care, the leading cause of work disability, and a condition that costs the United States more than $ 600 billion each year in health
care and lost productivity.
The women's details had been entered into the primary
care General Practice Research Database (GPRD), which holds millions of anonymized medical records for
patients across the UK.
Saket Girotra, M.D., S.M., of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, and colleagues conducted a study that included 112,139
patients from the GWTG - Resuscitation registry from January 2000 through December 2014 with in - hospital cardiac arrest who were hospitalized in intensive
care units or
general inpatient units.
Recent research using national data on Medicare suggests that community - based factors, such as availability of
general practitioners in the area, may be as or more important than hospital factors in determining readmission rates, and that
patients may have few options other than hospital
care for both urgent and non-urgent conditions related to their surgery or other conditions.
«Hospital - based clinicians frequently treat
patients with acute pain, and although opioids may sometimes be beneficial in this setting, they do carry the risk of adverse events including inadvertent overdose and physical dependence,» said lead author Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH, Director of Hospital Medicine Research in BIDMC's Division of
General Medicine and Primary
Care Sections of Hospital Medicine and Research.
«Substantial differences in admission rates among
general practices could mean that some
patients are receiving suboptimal
care,» added Dr Busby.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's
patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center — which are recognized as one of the nation's top «Honor Roll» hospitals by U.S. News & World Report — Chester County Hospital; Lancaster
General Health; Penn Medicine Princeton Health; Penn Wissahickon Hospice; and Pennsylvania Hospital — the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751.
«To date, cerebrospinal fluid analyses have not been a routine component of assessment and
care for
patients with cognitive impairments and suspected Alzheimer's disease in the United States,» Dr. A. Zara Herskovits, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Dr. John H. Growdon, of Massachusetts
General Hospital, wrote in an editorial that accompanied the study.
A report from Massachusetts
General Hospital (MGH) investigators, published in the journal Brain, is the first to test such an approach in acutely ill
patients for whom critical decisions may need to be made regarding the continuation of life - sustaining
care.
Its mission is to increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment, to educate physicians, and other health
care providers and the public, to support research and prevention, to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the
care of
patients with addictive disorders, and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health
care services and the
general public.
A new review published online today in the scientific journal Addiction has found that dental
patients with substance use disorders have more tooth decay and periodontal disease than the
general population, but are less likely to receive dental
care.
PLOS Medicine publishes research and commentary of
general interest with clear implications for
patient care, public policy or clinical research agendas.