Sentences with phrase «health outcome data»

• An environmental epidemiological study should be performed to determine whether an association exists between health outcomes data and water quality in private drinking wells in communities with and without hydraulic fracturing.

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As epidemiologists, our data can rarely prove that an exposure caused a health outcome.

Hot topics, as usual, include the use of data in health care, AI, digital health apps, and how to turn all of those things into products and services that actually produce real outcomes.

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

Adding a technology that can go through the troves of data and research compiled on a daily basis to provide recommendations could improve health outcomes, making Elekta's offerings more attractive to healthcare systems.

«[T] hough tying pay to healthcare outcomes is a big step in the right direction... It's filled with enough mushy data that almost any good exec can come up with a formula that assures him / her their bonus, or incentive pay, or any pay at risk,» one 40 - year health care industry vet tells me.

«The sharing of data by big US insurers is part of their attempts to better manage utilisation, health behaviour and outcomes of the insured,» he said.

Lastly, the rankings factored health care costs based on three data points: (1) the average health insurance premium, sourced from KFF.org; (2) portion of health costs covered by Medicare, sourced from CMS.gov; and (3) state rankings on senior health outcomes from AmericasHealthRankings.org.

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Meet Omada Health: With 87M consumers at risk of diabetes, 75,000 patients treated, 3 years of outcomes data, NetPromoter scores in the 90's, 70 + clients, and looming reimbursement by Medicare for its diabetes prevention online social network, Omada has «cracked the code» on integrating consumer technology, medical coaching and big data at scale.

Our use of observational data reflects the existing literature on lactation and maternal health; apart from a single randomized trial examining the effect of exclusive lactation duration on maternal weight loss, 48 there are no published studies of maternal health outcomes in randomized trials of breastfeeding.

Of note, our models may underestimate the true maternal costs of suboptimal breastfeeding; we modeled the effects of lactation on only five maternal health conditions despite data linking lactation with other maternal health outcomes.46 In addition, women in our model could not develop type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or MI before age 35 years, although these conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent among young adults.47 Although some studies have found an association between lactation and rates of postmenopausal diabetes22, 23 and cardiovascular disease, 10 we conservatively limited the duration of lactation's effect on both diabetes and MI.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

To map your own local breastfeeding data against other child health outcomes, go to the Children and Young People's Health Benchmarkinghealth outcomes, go to the Children and Young People's Health BenchmarkingHealth Benchmarking Tool.

The study, published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health on Thursday, looked at the home birth outcomes for roughly 17,000 women as recorded in the Midwives Alliance of North America data collection system between 2004 and 2009.

Secondary outcomes: data provided by the research team on maternal satisfaction, breastfeeding outcomes (duration and exclusivity) and infant health outcomes at 2 weeks and 2 months following birth.

The study drew data from the Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Health (POUCH) and POUCHmoms studies, which were funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

His research interests include examination of racial disparities in birth outcomes and child health; the adequacy and content of pre-conception, prenatal and inter-conception care; child health services; home visiting, child nutrition; fatherhood; and health data policy.

Results published in the American Journal of Public Health were based on evaluation data from Legacy for ChildrenTM, a public health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young chiHealth were based on evaluation data from Legacy for ChildrenTM, a public health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young chihealth intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young children.

al.» Neonatal Outcomes After Prenatal Exposure to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressants and Maternal Depression Using Population - Based Linked Health Data.»

Yes, the American Academy of Pediatrics continues to recommend extended breastfeeding, but when information such as the above is presented to them, along with CDC data showing that health outcomes have become worse since breastfeeding greatly increased beginning in the 1970's, the AAP has no reply.

With full understanding of ridership and revenues4 on different routes (through better data collection) the metro mayor should seek to offer services to connect people more quickly and affordably to job and training opportunities across the city region, as well boosting health, environmental and social outcomes.

It's a completely new system that requires hospitals to pair up with each other and share data to help improve their most difficult patients» health outcomes.

In health, information on the prescribing data and comparative clinical outcomes of GP practices will be published from December this year.

The best solutions to date for figuring out their career outcomes include trawling the Internet to track postdocs from labs with funding from National Institutes of Health T32 institutional training grants, which require that all lab personnel be listed, and manually curating a postdoc outcome database using piecemeal data from a variety of sources, both of which are very labor intensive and potentially error prone.

Severity of potential negative health outcomes in EDM environments makes data on both known and unknown drug use critical to further prevention and harm reduction efforts.

If, however, you are more interested in research you could become a health outcomes researcher, collecting data on therapeutic interventions for drug companies, or there is the Scientists Training Programme offered by the NHS.

Using data from the Pediatric Health Information System database, a large, regionally diverse system, the researchers examined racial disparities in the treatment and outcomes of hospitalized white and black pediatric patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease.

The researchers found that many data sources do not include information on potential risk factors that affect health outcomes, such as use of illicit substances, use of over-the-counter medicines, smoking, and actual adherence to the medication.

For the new research, the scientists were able to tap databases from two well - known ongoing observational studies that collect data on diet and other lifestyle factors and various health outcomes.

«STS public reporting uses detailed clinical registry data and outcomes that have been risk adjusted, meaning that the results take into account the condition of the patient at the time of surgery and whether or not there were other health problems, such as diabetes.»

The study was conducted by Loyola's predictive analytics program, which mines large data sets to predict health outcomes.

The Columbia researchers used data from peer - reviewed studies and health and social sciences databases to assess the link between menarche and various negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes in adolescence.

Data were available for the following outcomes: overall survival, time to first skeletal - related complication, adverse events and health - related quality of life.

«On a broader systems level, tracking health care utilization and health outcomes will help organizations monitor health at the population level and provide hard data to policymakers seeking to implement other supportive remedies,» they note.

«While these observational data can not prove that treating patients based on the results of CTA testing will automatically result in better health outcomes, they do provide new information enabling a more informed choice of testing for patients with stable chest pain, especially for predicting future cardiovascular risk.»

Further research incorporating patient outcomes and data from actual clinical interactions is warranted to clarify the effect of clinician implicit bias on the provision of health care and outcomes,» the study concludes.

The patients were followed up through provincial health administrative data (Ontario, Canada) until May 2011 for CV disease (myocardial infarction, stroke, congestive heart failure, revascularization procedures) and death from any cause, analyzed as a composite outcome.

Although sleep apnea and other conditions can make for low - quality sleep, which can then also lead to heart disease, Mehra suggests that there is ample data that show people who began as normal weight and healthy but did not get enough sleep, over time developed worse health outcomes.

The data suggest that consumers attribute a significant proportion of serious health outcomes to cosmetics,» the article concludes.

Limitations of the study include that causality of adverse events can not be determined from the data, health outcomes are self - reported and reports from consumers vs. health care professionals can not be distinguished.

The first, by researchers based in the UK, Europe and USA, examined data from observational studies and clinical trials (an umbrella review) to summarisze health outcomes associated with vitamin D levels, both naturally circulating and as a result of taking supplements.

«The application of big data methods to target soldiers at high risk of rare but important outcomes like suicide is an exciting development because it gives us a way forward in focusing prevention efforts on an ongoing basis,» said Robert Ursano, chairman of the Psychiatry Department at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and an Army STARRS Principal Investigator.

The USIDNET registry gathers variables including clinical, laboratory and outcome data, which together provide a health survey of the relatively small number of patients affected by primary immunodeficiency disorders.

The study included data about human - animal interactions, physical activity, frequency of doctor visits and health outcomes of the participants.

This action, announced in advance, provided a unique opportunity to compare data on ambient PAH levels, biomarkers, and health outcomes in two successive cohorts of children, with and without prenatal exposure to emissions from the coal - fired power plant.

Researchers used data from the Cape Cod Family Health Study, a population - based retrospective study designed to examine the influence of prenatal exposure to PCE - contaminated drinking water on multiple outcomes during pregnancy and childhood.

Using data from a sample of 2,615 active duty military families, living at designated military installations with a child ages 3 - 17, a group of researchers led by Dr. Patricia Lester, of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, examined the impact of FOCUS on behavioral health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and child pro-social behavior over two follow up assessments.

National Center for Medical Information and Knowledge (NCMIK) Support easier utilization of health and medical information by establishing a data sharing system built upon the professional and academic information that covers medical science fields and the government's research outcomes.

Gina will discuss the rise of new data sources and technology and how the field is working to use patient data to improve health outcomes for type 1 diabetes.