Sentences with phrase «mean number of treatment»

The mean number of treatment sessions varied across the groups so that those receiving personal therapy saw their therapist more often (approximately 40 % more often).

The mean number of treatment sessions / month / patient over 3 years in the personal, family, and supportive therapy groups were 2.4, 1.4, and 1.6, respectively.

Not exact matches

The company took advantage of a number of U.S. programs meant to spur «orphan drugs,» or treatments for the kinds of disorders that afflict less than 200,000 Americans each year.

He talks of STOP and SLOW, appreciating that both are necessary: STOP means «Save sex for marriage, Teach men to respect women, Offer treatment in churches, and Pledge yourself to one partner»; SLOW means «Supply condoms, Limit number of partners, Offer needle exchange, and Wait for sex until older.»

«The STAMPEDE trial is changing the face of prostate cancer because the flexibility of the trial design means that we can investigate a number of different treatment options rapidly and in parallel, enabling scientists to get results much more quickly than they usually would.

«The number of patients receiving the treatment is quite low at present, but we are hoping this study will mean more prednisolone patients will receive the fracture - preventing treatment,» he continues.

Unfortunately, the similar clinical presentation of Ebola and malaria cases meant that an unknown number of malaria patients were admitted as suspect Ebola cases, putting them at risk of exposure to Ebola and adding further strain to treatment units.

«Hopefully this means that we are one step closer to therapies and treatments for a number of debilitating human diseases.»

This means that hospital - level statistics that include large numbers of infants who did not get active treatment may not be helpful when counseling families about the benefits or burdens of treatment.

They found that in all cases the treatment had resulted in a significant improvement of their health: the annualised bleeding rate was cut by 97 % and the mean number of bleeding events per annum reduced from 11.1 to 0.4.

Fact: «Only a small number of trials employ placebos as a means of measuring a treatment's effectiveness,» says Williams.

Fewer numbers of dead heartworms mean less chance of adverse effects from the treatment.

However, the sheer number of working animals globally means that there are still millions of animals that currently have no form of veterinary treatment available to them.

«We often have to make tough decisions based on funding» says Miller, meaning that when cost vs. prognosis along with the staggering number of animals needing help is balanced out, some pets will not get the lifesaving treatments that they need.

Three factors have nudged population projections upward over the past decade, Hania Zlotnik, the director of the population division, said in an interview: lengthening lifespans; the success of HIV / AIDS treatment and prevention efforts, particularly in Africa; and «a slower than expected decline in fertility» (meaning the number of children a woman bears).

Hospital Daily cash Allowance: This benefit compensates towards daily payment for the number of days the insured person is hospitalized after treatment of bodily injury caused by accidental, external, violent and visible means.

Studies were generally small (mean number of patients = 35) and of variable methodological quality, with only five reporting blinding of outcome assessors to treatment allocation, and in some cases with high loss to follow - up.

The mean ± SD number of nonsuicidal acts during the treatment year for subjects assigned to TAU in the 1991 study25 was 32.32 ± 69.97, with half that many (16.82 ± 60.81) for subjects assigned to CTBE in the present study; in contrast, DBT had outcomes in the present study almost identical to those found in the 1991 study (6.05 ± 11.55 and 6.38 ± 7.41 for the 1991 study and the present study, respectively).

Additional Level 2 predictors (sex, race, age, length of time on ESRD treatment, length of time married, number of own health conditions; last four variables all grand mean centered) were assessed.

The current study's procedure was different from previous studies on treatment fidelity in PMTO (Forgatch and DeGarmo 2011; Forgatch et al. 2005; Hukkelberg and Ogden 2013) in a number of ways: the present study (a) included multiple outcome measures of PMTO instead of only parenting practices or externalizing behavior; (b) examined the FIMP dimensions separately instead of using a mean or a single construct; and (c) examined the association between fidelity scores and treatment outcome at different assessment points.