Sentences with phrase «health patients showed»

A study of health patients showed that people over 40 who cares for a companion animal had lower blood pressure than people who did not have companion animals.

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The spike in patient volume was likely due to a combination of an overburdened health care system further taxed by the start of the flu season, and shows how telehealth solutions can help address staff and bedding shortages in hospitals.

Research has shown that medical patients who develop emotional health problems cost more to treat and respond less well to treatment; as a result, says Ahern, «it behooves the medical system to do a better job in detection and treatment of behavioral health because it drives outcomes and drives the costs.»

If researchers can show that wearable data is medically useful, it will make buying these devices more compelling for consumers as well as health organizations that are considering providing them to their patients.

These days, Brown primarily targets health and wellness providers, who use the software to show patients the benefits of a healthier lifestyle, but she continues to sign up police forces in the United States, Poland, Ecuador and Turkey.

VICTORIA — A leaked memo from Island Health Authority shows that Christy Clark's underfunding of healthcare is forcing the authority to make cuts and put patients at risk.

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.

Maybe I'm naive, but my first assumption, unless they've shown otherwise, is that health professionals make decisions based on the health of their patients, not their own legal worries.

Or, are you a health care provider and want to show your patients that you've completed a concussion education course?

Although such a calculator may provide more specific information about the chance of VBAC, which can be used by health care providers and their patients to further the process of shared decision making, no prediction model for VBAC has been shown to result in improved patient outcomes.

All facilities, regardless of the racial / ethnic composition of the populations they serve, can support the breastfeeding decisions of their patients by implementing evidence - based policies and practices shown to be critical for establishing breastfeeding, so that more infants are able to reap the numerous health benefits of breastfeeding.

The Second Lady making the donation appealed to health personnel to show compassion at all times when attending to patients.

Rethink Mental Illness responds to Monitoring the Mental Health Act 2016/17 32 % of care plans reviewed showed no evidence of patient involvement.

Dr. Ghassan Jamaleddine, chief medical officer at Kings County Medical Hospital, part of the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), said the hospital started preparing for Ebola even before patient Thomas Duncan showed symptoms in Texas.

Pilot schemes offering psychological assessments to patients with physical health problems cut hospital admissions by 75 per cent, early results show.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Kirsty Williams has responded to «worrying» figures showing a decline in the percentage of urgent cancer patients treated within the target time in every Welsh health board.

New York's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against an Albany - area health insurer that he says broke the law by denying coverage for expensive hepatitis C treatments until patients showed advanced symptoms of the disease such as moderate to severe liver scarring.

We have now been able to show that both over - and underactivity in the stress system, with corresponding elevated or reduced cortisol levels, can impair mental health in terms of depression and poor quality of life in these patients,» says Martin Maripuu, a PhD student at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Psychiatry Unit Umeå University and physician at the psychiatric clinic, Östersund Hospital.

Given the risk of depression was highest in the period right after the first time a patient presented to a physician for acne concerns, it shows just how impactful our skin can be towards our overall mental health» said lead author Dr. Isabelle Vallerand, of the University of Calgary, in Canada.

This study showed a relevant association between patient reported mental health status and high grade complications after RC for patients with bladder cancer.

An international research project, led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC) in Montreal, reports that a new oral medication is showing significant progress in restoring vision to patients with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA).

Dr Holmes» previous research with people who had received treatment for an ED showed that even when a patient specifically asks to talk about questions of gender, their request may be ignored — either because such issues are seen as a low priority, or because health professionals have little training in this sphere.

As the United States grapples with what many believe is a crisis of spiraling health care costs, this study, while focused on one hospital and 100 patients, shows that when health care consumers are given pricing information, they will take costs into account.

Scope of the problem A National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study released this spring shows that 14 percent of patients with drug - resistant major depressive disorder experience a remission of symptoms after rTMS treatment compared with a control group, which reported a 5 percent rate of remission.

First author Russell believes the results of this study show that patient participation can be an important aspect of health care and reducing costs.

Now researchers at Abington - Jefferson Health have shown that patients who were given the drugs off - label had no stroke or other cardiovascular side - effects from taking the drugs.

The findings are especially interesting because, as a result of easier access, recent trends show that a greater percentage of mental health patients in the U.S. are engaging in pharmacotherapy than psychotherapy, according to co-author Roger Greenberg, PhD, SUNY Upstate Medical University.

The study, published in the September issue of Annals of Surgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence patient choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector of the economy that accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior author, associate professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Medicine.

A recently published scientific paper shows that health care professionals get vital information and can quickly decide on appropriate treatment if patients are examined using a microwave helmet.

«Verbal aggression by patients linked with higher level of anger among mental health nurses than physical advances, new research shows.»

The study showed that despite the risk for receiving information about other potentially serious health problems, 59 % of the cancer patients would agree to tumor profiling if offered by their physician.

Deliberately distancing itself from the traditional hospital look, feel and smell, this and other places like it are drawing on a growing body of research that shows that buildings themselves can speed the recovery of patients, as well as boosting the health and happiness of the staff who work in them.

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 improved.

This study showed a steep increase in health care costs as the number of diseases (morbidities) in a single patient increased.

M. Catherine Bushnell, PhD, scientific director, Division of Intramural Research, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH, explained in a plenary session address that many chronic pain patients show associated anxiety and depression as well as deficits in cognitive functions.

Finally, the authors found that the rate of growth in mental health conditions as a primary diagnosis was significant among the uninsured, Medicare beneficiaries, and the privately insured, showing the emergency department is also serving as a place of care for patients with mental illness.

A new American Cancer Society study shows that uninsured adolescents and young adults were far more likely to be diagnosed with late - stage cancer, which is more difficult and expensive to treat and more deadly, compared to young patients with health insurance.

Now a newly published study with a distinctive design, led by an MIT health care scholar, shows that increased spending on emergency care does, in fact, produce better outcomes for patients.

Principal Investigator John Morris, MD, clinical co-leader of the Molecular Therapeutics and Diagnosis Program for the CCC, co-leader of the UC Cancer Institute's Comprehensive Lung Cancer Program, professor in the division of hematology oncology at the UC College of Medicine and UC Health medical oncologist, says a number of antitumor vaccines have shown promise for causing immune responses against tumor antigens to improve patient outcomes.

Infection Prevention and Control specialists observed that showing magnified images of bacteria found on things common in the health care environment like a mouse pad or work station, even a person's hand, swayed workers in four patient care units to do a better job of cleaning their hands.

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

«Our study shows once a patient leaves the hospital their overall health outcomes are similar regardless of where they live.»

The University of Florence team's 2011 statistical analysis of health outcomes for almost 1,700 male patients showed that those involved in stable extramarital relationships had about twice the cardiovascular disease as other patients in the study, particularly if the man reported that his wife was still sexually interested in him.

Hillis» preliminary study of six patients continued to show language improvement two weeks and two months later, and a clinical trial funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health is now underway.

The results show that the confidence which patients have in medical personnel does not produce a clear - cut result: there was no proven effect when using objective clinical parameters or when doctors assessed the state of health.

Survey results showed patients after rhinoplasty had higher average attractiveness scores, higher average perceived success scores and higher average perceived overall health scores, according to the study.

The findings, featured on the cover of the March 7 issue of Cell Reports, show that patients with high levels of the biomarker, CD151, have a poor prognosis, says lead author Mauricio Medrano, a molecular biologist and research associate at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.

«However, our findings show that specialist mental health providers in England and Wales can expect one of their patients to be the victim of homicide roughly every 2 years.»

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment shows that breast cancer patients whose health insurance plans included prescription drug benefits were 10 percent more likely to start important hormonal therapy than patients who did not have prescription drug coverage.

The new study is one of the first to show the feasibility of using mobile tools to promote self - management skills and communication with health care providers for patients with chronic, disabling conditions like spina bifida.