Sentences with phrase «help patients in a hospital»

I promptly chose to go into clinical pharmacy — the most exciting application of pharmaceutical knowledge — helping patients in the hospital maximize the effects of the drugs they are prescribed while minimizing the potential side effects.

The company is also currently experimenting with ways it might be used to help patients in a hospital setting.

As a Clinical Psychotherapist for 30 years, she has helped patients in the hospital, hospice and outpatient settings to find healthy perceptions of themselves and to strengthen their relationships.

Not exact matches

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.

These products are designed to help make a process (stroke rehab, seizure monitoring, breast milk pumping) easier for consumers and patients, not the myriad other players in the health system (physicians, hospitals, insurers).

«We're looking everywhere for early - stage, technology - based products and services that can help us know more about our patients and engage with them,» says Molly Coye, chief innovation officer at UCLA Health, a $ 2.4 billion organization that operates several hospitals in California.

Since the tournament's inception in 1997, a cumulative total of over $ 2.5 million in funds raised have directly helped the young patients treated at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

If not, their contacts with the hospital staff will probably be frustratingly brief and totally inadequate to give them the amount of help needed in handling their own crisis and in relating constructively with their patient.

Halfway houses (where small groups of patients who are not ready to return to their homes live together and receive help in social rehabilitation), day hospitals, foster home services, rehabilitation centers, and ex-patient clubs are still in short supply in all parts of our country.

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.

Day care centers, night hospitals, walk - in clinics (where persons in crisis can go for help without appointments), halfway houses, and foster home programs for recovering mental patients who can not return to their families are examples of the types of new facilities that are beginning to appear in various parts of the country,

In some cases, he will help the patient get to an emergency hospital; in other instances he may involve the help of the policIn some cases, he will help the patient get to an emergency hospital; in other instances he may involve the help of the policin other instances he may involve the help of the police.

These relieve overcrowding in hospitals, allow for the dignified treatment of patients and help destigmatize the disease.

Brian works as a valet attendant for Towne Park at a major hospital in Oregon where he assists and helps comfort patients and guests.

One study at the Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital in Chicago found that a pinch of pepper in baby food helped stroke patients (who are having difficulty swallowing) ingest their food more easily.

I was helped in this by a couple of phone calls; one from a very eloquent certified nurse midwife at OHSU, the Oregon Health and Sciences University, who had tried to transfer a patient to one of our hospitals during labor and received so much flak and criticism and expletives over the phone and there was so much overt hostility that she wound up not pursuing that transfer, which would have been a very important transfer.

A few years ago, players in the Central Missouri Eagles Youth Ice Hockey program which I help coach spent the afternoon with sick, injured and disabled patients at a local children's hospital who must clear substantial hurdles before they can play the sports so many families simply take for granted.

The Headache & Pain Program at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston helps patients as young as two years old to overcome their headache pain and enjoy life once again.

We ended up driving around for two hours, being given directions to one hospital and getting lost, stopping at a pharmacy that couldn't help us, going to a clinic that wouldn't accept children under the age of six, visiting hospital that only accepted patients with a certain type of insurance, until finally being taken in at an ER.

There are even feeding clinics in some hospitals to help patients deal with this.

We work in partnership with parents and referring physicians to help each patient have the best possible hospital stay — and to stay healthy once discharged.

In addition, although hospital staff were aware of patients» personal food preferences, some people were not given help to eat or drink in the presence of inspectorIn addition, although hospital staff were aware of patients» personal food preferences, some people were not given help to eat or drink in the presence of inspectorin the presence of inspectors.

In the Assembly, Lancman authored the Safe Patient Handling Act (A. 1370B / S.2470 B) as well as a report on the subject, authored the Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act (A. 4856), and helped ensure safe working conditions at St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx, which was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for inadequately protecting employees from violencIn the Assembly, Lancman authored the Safe Patient Handling Act (A. 1370B / S.2470 B) as well as a report on the subject, authored the Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act (A. 4856), and helped ensure safe working conditions at St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx, which was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for inadequately protecting employees from violencin the Bronx, which was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for inadequately protecting employees from violence.

The NHS, Willetts said, had to show it was «open to help and then to adopting them for UK patients if successful» in order to «persuade investors to fund these innovations... We need to make it much easier to show «proof of concept» in a hospital environment.

Her grandfather died at Calgary Hospital in the Bronx, where a nun would wheel around a bar cart at night, giving sick patients alcohol to help with pain, Savino said.

All donated blood stays in WNY to help local patients in local hospitals.

In taking on the health care system, Mr. Spitzer is confronting the nation's costliest Medicaid program, one that helps support an expansive but money - losing hospital industry with arcane financing rules often designed to keep state aid in place, no matter the effect on patient carIn taking on the health care system, Mr. Spitzer is confronting the nation's costliest Medicaid program, one that helps support an expansive but money - losing hospital industry with arcane financing rules often designed to keep state aid in place, no matter the effect on patient carin place, no matter the effect on patient care.

DeepMind announced in February that it was working with the NHS, saying it was building an app called Streams to help hospital staff monitor patients with kidney disease.

The next step of the research, conducted in collaboration with David Lynch, MD, PhD, a professor of Neurology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), showed that statins may be able to help Friedreich's ataxia patients increase their naturally low ApoA - I levels and so increase their HDL levels, which might help prevent heart disease.

The new therapy, which Lumley and co-developer Howard Schubiner, M.D., director of the Mind Body Medicine Program at Providence Hospital, call Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), helps patients view their pain and other symptoms as stemming from changeable neural pathways in the brain that are strongly influenced by emotions.

«HIE helps emergency physicians — who usually do not have much information about their patients — access patient health information from multiple sources, which is essential for critical, time - sensitive decisions,» said co-author Jeffrey Nielson, MD, MS of Summa Akron City Hospital in Akron, Ohio.

Ulrich, for instance, writes about «the need for research to establish scientific guidelines to help interior designers select art that is reliably stress reducing and physiologically supportive...» But he is talking only about art in hospitals and in other medical contexts, where he believes the sole critical standard is whether art «improves outcomes in patients, and if it doesn't, it's bad art.»

Those patients often face the stark choice of either paying out of pocket for an expensive in - person consultation or waiting for months to be seen by the few specialists working at public hospitals, which receive government funding to help pay for patient care, Komarneni says.

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

A new Northwestern Medicine and Hines VA Hospital study shows the voices of loved ones telling the patient familiar stories stored in his long - term memory can help awaken the unconscious brain and speed recovery from the coma.

The new findings, reported in JAMA by a team from the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, confirm directly what other studies have predicted or implied: That Medicaid expansion can help relieve hospitals» burden of caring for patients who have little or no means to pay.

The authors suggested that a randomized trial in patients treated exclusively via transradial primary PCI and anticoagulated with bivalirudin versus heparin as well as a cost - effectiveness analysis comparing heparin versus bivalirudin would help practitioners and hospitals make better decisions regarding anticoagulation in these patients.

«The phi test helps physicians distinguish prostate cancer from benign conditions by utilizing three different PSA markers (PSA, freePSA and p2PSA) as part of a sophisticated algorithm to more reliably determine the probability of cancer in patients with elevated PSA levels,» said Kevin Slawin, MD, director, Vanguard Urologic Institute at Memorial Hermann Medical Group, clinical professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine and director of Urology, Memorial Hermann Hospital ‐ Texas Medical Center, who performed some of the key research that led to the development of the phi test and who also began using the test in February.

In an effort to reduce patient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement effortIn an effort to reduce patient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement epatient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement epatient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement ePatient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement effortin providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement effortin their quality improvement efforts.

The findings, published online in Drug & Alcohol Dependence, could help lead to the development of individualized treatment plans tailored to each infants» risk of requiring medication to curb their NAS symptoms, which could help improve these patients» outcomes and reduce how long some stay in the hospital.

Words in narrative hospital discharge notes may help to identify patients at high risk for suicide, according to an article published online by JAMA Psychiatry.

Adil H. Haider, M.D., M.P.H., an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says the new research may help answer one long - standing question: Is the reason for the disparity found in the biology or history of the patient or in the hospital treating that patient?

«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.

A team led by Øystein Fluge and Olav Mella at the Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, discovered by chance that rituximab might help people with CFS after seeing symptoms ease in a patient who had both lymphoma and CFS (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0026358).

The therapy that focused on teaching parents to help their children eat normally again was about half as expensive as the family - dynamics approach, mostly because patients spent less time in the hospital.

The new Spanish patient was working as a nurse's assistant at the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, helping to treat a patient who had been infected in Sierra Leone and medically evacuated by Spain to its captial on September 22, only to die three days later, according to WHO.

Though the findings were made in mice, not humans, the researchers say the crucial role of calcium may help explain another mystery: Why some hospital patients and nursing home residents have a much higher risk of contracting C. diff infections and the resulting diarrhea that carries its spores out of the body.

A team of investigators at Wake Forest University in Winston - Salem, N.C., has developed a tool that accounts for variables such as age and severity of brain injury to help physicians and hospital staff calculate a patient's likelihood of survival and returning to independence after hospital discharge.

«Our findings raise the need for a national approach to developing safe strategies to care for ICU overdose patients, to providing coordinated resources in the hospital for patients and families, and to helping survivors maintain sobriety following discharge,» the researchers conclude.

Embi helped build similar software at Cincinnati, which alerts clinical trials intake coordinators when eligible patients pop up in the hospital's data warehouse.