Sentences with phrase «important than patient»

There will no longer be the fear that where private health insurance, medical research and medicines are concerned, the fate of commercial entities is more important than patient condition.

Not exact matches

Sometimes, being patient or letting something less - than - significant «slide» gives you the «in» to have a more important conversation when they're ready.

Because more than ever during that time when you're not sleeping well, your kids are not sleeping well and they have more demands, it's really important for you to take care of yourself so that you can cope and be more patient.

«It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.»

It might take more time than what you'd prefer, but it's important that you remain patient with your child and continue to encourage them, even when they're not getting the hang of it quite as quickly as you'd like.

So till we have a truly, I don't want to say universal healthcare, but until we have a truly universal system that acknowledges that the doctor - patient relationship is more important than a third party middleman, the patients who want to really have the benefits of this lifestyle have to make that investment in the appropriate providers.

Such trials should be conducted in varied populations and settings and include longer periods of restricted exposure to pacifiers than have been examined thus far.13 Until such studies can be completed, it is important that breastfeeding support and education be incorporated into prenatal obstetric and early pediatric patient encounters.

Our NHS is too important to make cheap party political points about, so we once again call on the Tories and Plaid to stand up for patients rather than simply sitting back and shouting from the side - lines.»

Emergency patients over the age of 74 have significantly different and more complex health and social needs than their younger counterparts, even after controlling for illness severity, which has important implications about aging populations and emergency departments of the future.

His explanation: «I think it's more important to improve the lives of stroke patients than to get young kids to run even faster.»

More than 2 million units of platelets — the blood cells responsible for clotting — are transfused each year, with cancer patients receiving an important share of them.

Since breast cancer treatment in older patients is mostly not evidence - based due to poor inclusion of older patients in clinical trials, we propose that studies investigating breast cancer treatment are much more important than breast cancer screening in this population and should be prioritised.

More important, nearly a quarter of patients survived for more than three years.

Maintaining or achieving blood pressure control in patients with arthritis and concomitant hypertension (treated or untreated) could avoid more than 70,000 deaths from stroke and 60,000 deaths from coronary heart disease each year, 2 making it important to investigate the effects of various NSAIDs on blood pressure.

But, he and others believe, the cell work is teaching the CF community something important: The drugs may interfere with each other, packing a less powerful punch than doctors and patients would like to see.

Ultimately I think that patients» lives are more important than embryos, but I do appreciate that embryos can become beautiful babies as well.

A so - called meta - analysis of reports on more than 4,000 patients suggests that almost one in three people discharged from hospital intensive care units (ICUs) has clinically important and persistent symptoms of depression, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

«Although we do not know the reasons for the racial and ethnic differences we saw, one explanation could be that the black and Hispanic patients had surgery when they are much heavier and sicker than the non-Hispanic white patients,» said study lead author, Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Department of Research & Evaluation in Pasadena, Calif. «Our study highlights that surgery may be an important intervention tool for people earlier in their weight gain trajectory.

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.

It makes this important research accessible to more than just cardiologists and radiologists - it can be understood by family, friends, non-scientists, patients, school pupils... I have friends who are going to use it in their high school classroom (great for physics teachers).

Thus, although it is common for patients to be willing to «do anything» to try to save their vision, it is important for the scientific community to judge any new treatment carefully — and show it to be of more benefit than harm — before offering such treatments to patients outside the context of a controlled clinical trial.

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.

«Avoiding unnecessary FFP transfusion is important because there have been reports that associated the use of excess FFP with worse outcomes among patients that required less - than - massive transfusions.»

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Our finding of sinusitis, bronchial hyperreactivity, and bronchial responsiveness in firefighters with World Trade Center cough is important but not surprising.17 - 20 An unexpected finding was that 87 percent of such firefighters reported symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease; such symptoms are generally reported by less than 25 percent of patients with chronic cough.1, 21,22 Despite the strong associations between gastroesophageal reflux disease and chronic cough17 - 20 and between gastroesophageal reflux disease and asthma,23 - 25 it remains unclear whether gastroesophageal reflux disease causes either condition.26 The causative mechanism may be repeated aspiration of minute amounts of refluxed material; vagally mediated esophageal, tracheobronchial, or laryngobronchial cough reflexes; or neurally mediated bronchial inflammation.23, 24,26 Involvement of the posterior nasopharynx is common in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, 27 whereas bronchial hyperreactivity may not be present.25, 26 For these reasons, we classified gastroesophageal reflux disease as an upper - airway symptom (Figure 2).

The outcomes of these studies were often reported as diagnostic accuracy estimates rather than patient important outcomes such as mortality or quality of life.

More than ever, it is important that we educate others (patients, referring physicians, students, and even politicians) on the utility of nuclear medicine procedures and their benefits over other treatment and imaging modalities.

An important further recommendation was that the patient oocytes, rather than those from the donor, should be frozen.

While we know that other donor characteristics can influence the risk of the patient developing Graft versus Host disease or other complications, more research is needed to determine how important different donor factors are on outcomes other than patient survival.»

«Our anaylsis suggests that biomarkers like E-cadherin are even more important than tumor size, tumor grade, the presence of estrogen receptors or the age of the patient.»

However, in patient 1, one of the most severely affected infants, important brain structures such as the thalamus could not be identified, and the mother reported symptoms of ZIKV infection later than others at 18 weeks of gestation.

Jill O'Donnell - Tormey, Ph.D., CRI chief executive officer and director of scientific affairs, was on hand to speak to the more than 250 attendees about breakthroughs in immunotherapy and CRI's role in bringing these new treatments to more patients sooner, and to thank the organizers and all in attendance for supporting this important work.

Since text neck can cause more than just neck pain, we will consider all symptoms the patient presents and decide then what is most important to treat.

Dear Medicine, I know you thought you were helping me when you taught me that the needs of my patients were more important than my own self care.

«We should be checking patients with risk factors as early as possible,» says Dr. Patterson, «because the damage can start as early as adolescence, and it's important to address these problems sooner rather than later.»

Some important studies include: • Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men (1976) • Response of non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients to an intensive program of diet and exercise (1982) • Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: The need for early emphasis (1994) • Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot intervention using a low fat, vegetarian diet (1999) • The effects of a low - fat, plant - based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity (2005) • A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes (2006) • A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial (2009) • Vegetarian diet improves insulin resistance and oxidative stress markers more than conventional diet in subjects with Type 2 diabetes (2011) • Glycemic and cardiovascular parameters improved in type 2 diabetes with the high nutrient density (HND) diet (2012)

For patients who must take T3 dosing throughout the day, timing it can be difficult, and sometimes meal timing is more important than perfect absorption, but it's still good to try.

This is especially important for me because the standard thyroid tests do not seem to measure my thyroid levels accurately... (I'm told by my endocrinologist that this is true for about 1/3 of thyroid patients)... so I want to anticipate any possible problems rather than try to diagnose them later.

It's more important and intelligent to fix the gut when it comes to the immune system than to worry about rubbing coal tar on a person with psoriasis or treating a patient with rheumatoid arthritis with steroids to reduce their inflammation.

I think being patient and getting the RIGHT color screen is more important than getting it out fast.

Physical mastery of the dog is generally less important than sensitive, patient and positive training methods.

However, patient selection is far more important in FHO's than in THR's since the FHO is not initially as stable as the THR and the surgery has a much longer recovery period (good weight bearing seem typically within 1 month and full recovery in 4 to 6 months).

You always treated us with compassion and made us feel that your patient and their families were more important than the business side of things.

Yes, there are a lot of very important, even life - saving tasks that we are responsible for, but we get to form a relationship with each patient and be the caregiver while they are very sick and need more care than the family can perform at home.

In just six days, this stunning beauty with golden eyes and more - than - a-touch of cat - i - tude finds just what she needs: Stasia, a woman with years of feline experience, no other pets (her beloved cat, Sylvester, had recently died at age 20), a quiet home... and most important of all, an open, patient heart that needs to shower love on this particular «Diva.»

The important factors that tend to predict prognosis are the size of tumors (dogs with tumors greater than 10.7 cm2 had median survivals of 9.7 months vs. 19 months for tumors smaller than 10.7 cm2) and hypercalcemia (patients with elevated calcium levels had median survival times of 8.5 months vs. 19.5 for patients with normal calcium levels).

Digital radiology allows us to rapidly obtain high - definition x-rays that can be an important diagnostic tool for a variety of patient conditions including lameness; coughing; heart disease; foreign body ingestion; constipation and many other disorders that require more than a physical examination and blood tests to achieve a diagnosis.

Moreover, it is very important to remember than the vast majority of patients with cardiac disease will not develop heart failure.

Medical malpractice has more to do with making mistakes, overlooking important health details, and poor follow - up than with intentional endangerment of a patient.

However, what is more important than the future of the drug is the future of the patients, and families, who have been affected by Iclusig's side effects.