Sentences with phrase «general hospital patients»

For instance there is no reason why this model couldn't be used for general hospital patients.

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Carmine Simone, chief of surgery at Toronto East General Hospital, had six procedures cancelled over a three - month period in 2013 because the patients had failed to stop taking their medication beforehand.

Ruth Fox states: «Detoxification is aided enormously by tranquilizing drugs, so that these patients can now be successfully treated even in the open wards of a general hospital without causing any disruption of the normal routine of the hospital.»

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.

Eventually he suggested that the symptoms he witnessed in these hospital patients were not a reaction to a specific agent of disease but were a general response to stress.

Refused to give dying patients appropriate pain medication, consorted with known felons and dictators to get huge donations, never built a state of the art hospital despite raking in millions in unaccounted for funds, which went into the Vatican's general expense account despite being designated specifically for charitable purposes?

In mental hospitals as in general hospitals, intelligent treatment of patients is always better where education and research are going on.

Alternatively you can write a letter to the General Manager of your maternity hospital, the Director of Midwifery (DoM), Patient Services Manager or a Complaints Officer.

Find out what programs the hospital offers to parents in the NICU and patients in general.

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Flowers appreciated, or memorial contributions may be made to Cancer Patient Support Services Fund, Account # 0973, Cancer Care Center, Lutheran General Hospital, 1700 Luther Ln., Park Ridge, IL 60068 or American Diabetes Assoc. Memorial Program / NCC, PO Box 2680, North Canton, OH 44720.

Dr Jones Taiwo, the Head of Clinical Services (HCS) of FMC Lokoja told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Sunday that the female patient had been transferred to Irua General Hospital in Edo for further test to confirm if her disease was Lassa fever.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Tuesday that the Brooklyn Hospital Center had improperly billed patients for nearly every rape exam the hospital administered in a two - yeHospital Center had improperly billed patients for nearly every rape exam the hospital administered in a two - yehospital administered in a two - year span.

A patient walked into Rochester General Hospital in March with, among other things, the first documented case in upstate New York of a rare and dangerous fungal infection.

General News of Tuesday, 15 May 2018 Source: 3news.com Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr Akwasi Osei The Accra Psychiatric Hospital, the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital and other psychiatric hospitals in Accra are said to receive an average of 40 patients a day.

An investigation by New York's attorney general found that the Brooklyn Hospital Center improperly billed dozens of patients for the cost of forensic rape exams.

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.

Egbegbe disguised as the MD of Gbagada General Hospital where he was arrested while his accomplice Ayo, acted as a patient.

General News of Friday, 18 May 2018 Source: Graphic.com.gh A number of inmates at the mental hospital have been abandoned by their family members Two hundred and fifty mentally ill patients have been abandoned by their relations for many years at the Accra Psychiatric Hospitahospital have been abandoned by their family members Two hundred and fifty mentally ill patients have been abandoned by their relations for many years at the Accra Psychiatric HospitalHospital (APH).

In Kwara State, investigations revealed that many patients were now flooding private hospitals and the state's general hospitals.

«If this law had been enacted in 1981 — the year I completed my dental residency at Buffalo General Hospital — none of my patients, or those of my residents, who I have served for 37 years, would be better off,» said Frank Barnashuk, a trustee with the New York State Dental Association and faculty member with the University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine.

EAST HARLEM — Staff and patients at North General Hospital expressed shock and anger Tuesday over news that the Harlem hospital would be closing its doors for good Hospital expressed shock and anger Tuesday over news that the Harlem hospital would be closing its doors for good hospital would be closing its doors for good in July.

Crimson receives daily feeds of information on biosamples — mostly blood, but also urine, tissue, cerebrospinal fluid, and bacterial collections — from patients in Harvard - affiliated clinical laboratories and the pathology laboratory, which includes some 5000 blood samples collected daily at Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General hospitals.

These genetic mutations can fluctuate over time, and some patients can harbor more than one mutation,» said Zofia Piotrowska, MD, lead author of the study and a thoracic oncologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston.

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).

«If this technology can be scaled to human - size grafts, patients suffering from renal failure, who are currently waiting for donor kidneys, could theoretically receive an organ grown on demand,» says Harald Ott, head of the team that developed the rat kidneys at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

«It's not clear what is the threshold of evidence at which you can say this is the causal variant in this patient,» says Daniel MacArthur, a geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

In contrast, at San Francisco General Hospital, Stotland sees low - income patients on California's Medicaid program.

Erica Shenoy, an infectious - disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Jenna Wiens, a computer scientist and assistant professor of engineering at the University of Michigan, did just that when they created an algorithm to predict a patient's risk of developing a C - diff infection, or CDI.

In a study recently published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, HSCI researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), in collaboration with Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, have developed a non-toxic transplantation procedure using antibodies to specifically target blood stem cells in mice, an approach they hope will make blood stem cell transplants for these patients far less toxic.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

Massachusetts General Hospital has, under strict protocols in emergency cases, transplanted hearts, lungs and livers from donors with hepatitis C to uninfected patients, who were given the antiviral medications, he says.

To address this, BWH investigators used state of the art natural language processing tools to review the course of more than 24,000 patients with coronary artery disease treated at either BWH or Massachusetts General Hospital between 2000 and 2011.

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have identified the first potential molecular treatment target for the most common form of pancreatic cancer, which kills more than 90 percent of patients.

A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) study has found that deficits in the sense of smell are important contributors to the frequently observed lack of appetite in patients with serious kidney disease.

In the Scientific Reports study, the researchers tested the device in 11 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital and University Hospital La Paz in Madrid, at various points during their chemotherapy treatment.

In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team reports a remarkable treatment response in a patient participating in a clinical trial of a novel immune - system - based cancer therapy.

The company says that in the trials on 15 patients at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, the drug relieved the symptoms in seven patients.

A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Technology assessment finds that, after viewing CT scan results, physicians in the emergency departments of four major academic medical centers made key changes in clinical decision - making for patients with symptoms frequently seen in emergency rooms.

A multi-institutional study led by a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigator finds significant racial disparities in the risk that patients being treated for gout will develop a serious, sometimes life - threatening adverse reaction to the most commonly prescribed medication.

A study of 343 post-surgical patients treated by an innovative, multidisciplinary hospital - integrated pain program at Toronto General Hospital (TGH), University Health Network (UHN) found that all patients showed reductions in pain and anxiety in the two - year study, but those who also received psychological services had greater reductions in opioid use, and their mood ihospital - integrated pain program at Toronto General Hospital (TGH), University Health Network (UHN) found that all patients showed reductions in pain and anxiety in the two - year study, but those who also received psychological services had greater reductions in opioid use, and their mood iHospital (TGH), University Health Network (UHN) found that all patients showed reductions in pain and anxiety in the two - year study, but those who also received psychological services had greater reductions in opioid use, and their mood improved.

MBANs at Home If all goes well, look for MBANs to fall into three categories in the near future — those used to monitor a patient's general health or «wellness,» those measuring the health of the elderly, and those used to monitor patients with long - term medical conditions such as Parkinson's disease or epilepsy, says Paolo Bonato, director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Boston's Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School..

«Children should always be controlled by the pediatric endocrinologist, besides being measured and weighed at different frequencies according to their age, for early detection if the patient has a problem of stunting,» said Maria Dolores Rodriguez Arnao specialist in pediatric endocrinology at Madrid's University General Hospital.

Roy H. Perlis, M.D., M.S., of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and coauthors examined whether computer - aided natural language processing of narrative hospital discharge notes could help identify patients at risk for death by suicide after medical or surgical discharge from the hHospital, Boston, and coauthors examined whether computer - aided natural language processing of narrative hospital discharge notes could help identify patients at risk for death by suicide after medical or surgical discharge from the hhospital discharge notes could help identify patients at risk for death by suicide after medical or surgical discharge from the hospitalhospital.

A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that heart failure patients who underwent bariatric surgery to treat morbid obesity had a significant reduction in the incidence of heart failure exacerbation — a dangerous, sudden worsening of symptoms — in the two years following surgery.

Commenting on the findings, Prof Robert Pirker, programme director for lung cancer at the Vienna General Hospital in Vienna, Austria, not involved in the study, said: «This subgroup analysis shows that the effect of necitumumab was slightly greater in patients with EGFR expressing tumours than it was in the entire SQUIRE population.

Workers at Massachusetts General Hospital analyzed 50 patients with stroke caused by arterial blockage who also had elevated levels of enzymes released by damaged cardiac muscle.

«For the first time, our study points to a risk difference between drinking daily and drinking five or six days a week in the general male population, since earlier studies were conducted on alcohol misusers and patients referred for liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

«By helping us understand that lower levels of RNF125 confer resistance to BRAF inhibitors, we have a new strategy to stratify patients for currently approved therapy versus participation for human clinical trials to investigate whether targeting JAK1 will be more effective in patients whose tumors exhibit reduced RNF125,» said Keith T. Flaherty, M.D., associate professor, Harvard Medical School, and director of Developmental Therapeutics, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-author of the study.

The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.