Sentences with phrase «in treatment outcome»

Psychological symptoms among parents of adolescents with anorexia nervosa: a descriptive examination of their presence and role in treatment outcome.

First and foremost, the absence of a randomized control design necessitated a focus on individual differences in treatment outcome rather than broader treatment efficacy.

Moreover, nearly half the measures have been used in treatment outcome studies and nearly all of the measures (33 of 37) have been translated into languages other than English (with Spanish versions being the most common).

Therapeutic alliance and the mediation of patient factors in treatment outcome: Latent variable path model.

Aroma Acupoint Therapy excels at relieving mental and emotional as well as physical symptoms, often proving truly transformative and resulting in lasting shifts in treatment outcome.

Further research is needed to understand the reasons behind the variation in treatment outcome between ethnic groups and future studies should incorporate ethnicity as a major determinant factor.»

In the only controlled, randomized scientific study to compare graduated extinction and «positive routines» head - to - head, there were no significant differences in treatment outcomes for kids (Adams and Rickert 1989).

Similarly, an experiment pitting graduated extinction against «extinction with parental presence» found no difference in treatment outcomes (Matthey and Črnčec 2012).

«A better understanding of individual susceptibility to dental disease and variation in treatment outcomes will allow the dental field to move forward,» says Alexandre Vieira, a researcher involved in the study.

For women with ovarian cancer, a particularly deadly form of gynecologic cancer, even improvements in treatment outcomes have been elusive.

Nevertheless, improvements in treatment outcomes are an important stepping - stone along the way.

Such dramatic improvement in treatment outcomes means patients with a history of serious illness may qualify for standard life insurance rates — the same rates paid by people without pre-existing conditions — once their disease is under control.

Table 2 and Table 3 and Figure 1 demonstrate a bifurcation in treatment outcomes.

Exploratory analyses suggested a possible mediating role of parenting in treatment outcomes for early adolescents, although this finding is preliminary and requires further exploration and replication.

Not exact matches

An important trigger this year will be the outcome of a study where Darzalex is being tested as first - line treatment in combination with Celgene Corp's Revlimid.

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.»

In outcome - based pricing, drug companies will know that payment is coming if the treatment works, and that means more incentive to develop new cures and to find new applications for existing drugs.

One is an agreement with Harvard Pilgrim, a nonprofit health plan covering 1.2 million people, to pay rebates if a patient's vision doesn't meet certain thresholds in 30 to 90 days, and then 30 months after treatment, under a model known as outcomes - based pricing.

But they've been hampered by somewhat skeptical physicians who still aren't sure that the drugs are worth their price (their topline costs are around $ 14,000 per treatment course); part of the problem is that it's unclear whether or not those dramatic cholesterol reductions actually translate into broader health outcomes like a reduced risk of stroke or heart attack in heart disease patients.

These professionals are available to offer support to patients, caregivers, case managers and clinicians in product selection and treatment protocols with a goal of improving outcomes.

Now, we know that with early diagnosis and early treatment, we can really make a difference in outcomes.

«Epidemiology of Sport - Related Concussions in High School Athletes: National Athletic Treatment, Injury and Outcomes Network (NATION), 2011 - 2012 through 2013 - 2014»

Therefore, prospective adoptive families would greatly benefit by having extensive pre-adoption counseling and awareness of how an older child has grown up in an institutional environment and that providing a «good and loving home» may not be enough as specialized and practical treatment strategies may bring about a more positive outcome since so many families attempt to love and nurture the older child when, in fact, a gradual treatment process involving «reintegration into the family» must occur first.

Predictors of treatment outcome in parent training for families with conduct problem children.

Not that the cases were more severe initially, but that the delay in treatment caused by transferring from home automatically results in worse outcomes.

This recognition can have substantial practical consequences, for example whether or not treatment is reimbursed by insurance or in determining outcomes in court cases.

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.

Increase awareness of disparities in the etiologies, treatments and outcomes of traumatic childbirth based on race / ethnicity, religious affiliation, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation, gender diversity, and other underserved populations

«It's a simple and possibly obvious finding, but it highlights the importance of health insurance in the outcome of fertility treatments,» said lead author Emily S. Jungheim, MD, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine.

• Addressing latch issues immediately to prevent nipple pain and early weaning • Differentiating between Raynaud's Phenomenon of the Nipple and Candidiasis as a cause of pain • Evidence - based treatment strategies for painful nipples • Lanolin use and possible increased risk of nipple or breast infection • Topical treatments used by mothers for nipple pain and trauma • Frenotomy to decrease breastfeeding difficulties due to ankyloglossia • Timing of frenotomy for improved breastfeeding and infant outcomes • Kinesio Elastic Therapeutic Taping ® in treating breast engorgement • Mothers» subjective experience of nipple pain and breastfeeding difficulties

Nor did we find any difference in breastfeeding outcomes between those in the high - and low - frequency treatment groups.

«There was no difference in the number of contacts between the high - and low - frequency treatment groups for women with non-missing data on breastfeeding outcomes.

Surgeon and breast unit volume - outcome relationships in breast cancer surgery and treatment.

«If donor milk is used in settings with high provision of mother's milk, this outcome [neurodevelopment] should not be considered a treatment goal,» the authors write.

The primary outcome with the largest difference in this sensitivity analysis was preterm birth, where an analysis restricted to trials with lower risk of bias suggested a larger treatment effect: RR 0.64, (95 % CI 0.51 to 0.81) compared with RR 0.77, (95 % CI 0.62 to 0.94) in the overall analysis.

You have to show the profit made by the private companies is justified in terms of better treatment or better outcomes, and that evidence is not there.

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

Breast Cancer Care, the leading breast cancer support and information charity in the UK, has produced a new report, backed by Age UK, that makes clear recommendations to improve outcomes and experiences for older women with breast cancer, a demographic proven to have poorer relative survival rates and an increased likelihood of presenting later with symptoms and of receiving non-standard treatments.

«We now know that medical treatment aimed at correcting the deficits in the brain might actually help to improve the outcomes with addiction,» Blondell said.

He said that the suspension of the chairman followed the outcome of an investigative panel into the allegations of corruption, nepotism and dehumanising treatment of pilgrims, in spite of adequate provisions made by government.

Despite emerging evidence of a decline in sperm quality with increasing age, an analysis of every first fertility treatment cycle performed in the UK using sperm donation shows that outcome in terms of live birth is not affected by the age of the sperm donor.

While clomiphene is a first - line treatment used to induce ovulation in women with PCOS, it has downsides — namely that in a significant number of women it does not lead to improved ovulation or live births, and if it does induce ovulation, it frequently results in pregnancies with multiples who face much higher negative outcomes including death.

Because women are increasingly seeking out acupuncture in order to induce ovulation, researchers decided to study whether or not the traditional Chinese medicine therapy could serve as a supplemental treatment along with clomiphene to improve pregnancy outcomes.

To guide the spending of that money, the National Institute of Medicine made a priority list of situations for which data about outcomes are badly needed — for instance, comparing the effectiveness of various medical and behavioral interventions to prevent the elderly from falling (the complications of which are a leading cause of death), comparing assorted drugs and surgeries alone or in combination in the treatment of specific cancers, comparing the effectiveness of different implants and devices for treating hearing loss, and so forth.

According to the study, in the treatment of small renal tumors, the ideal outcome of both complete oncologic control and preservation of renal function is not presently available.

People with chronic opioid use disorders are more likely to relapse and do so sooner if they are treated in a compulsory drug detention centre rather than a voluntary drug treatment centre using methadone maintenance therapy, according to the first study comparing the outcome of both approaches published in The Lancet Global Health.

While some countries have expressed a desire to close down compulsory drug detention centres or to transition them to voluntary drug dependence treatment services, the number of compulsory drug detention centres in some countries continues to increase... The continued poor health, social and economic outcomes associated with compulsory drug detention centres demand a response.»

Notably, the mechanism was clearly associated with poor outcome in patients with the blood cancer myeloma, where proteasome inhibitors are a mainstay of treatment.

If hypofractionated radiation with curative intent can reduce the treatment time for lung cancer patients by half with no greater toxicity, and with equivalent — if not better — tumor control and survival outcomes, this research could result in a change in the paradigm of how a large subset of locally advanced NSCLC patients are treated.»

A late - breaking clinical trial, known as the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, to be presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions, November 18, 2013, demonstrates that spironolactone did not reduce the primary outcome of cardiovascular death, heart failure hospitalization, nor surviving a cardiac arrest in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (pump function).