«The first task is to compare
the medical outcomes of patients when alarms sound within their area vs. when alarms are intentionally muted and sent to staff via pagers or cell phones,» she said.
Not exact matches
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.»
While technological innovation is leading to better
patient outcomes in a number
of medical conditions, there's one area where Tyson says «progress» is part
of the problem.
The letter included six points
of focus for the company, including aligning payments with better
medical outcomes for
patients instead
of simply paying for each
medical service, which is how the current system is built.
Outcome says it has already outfitted more than 40,000 doctor's offices with touch screens and tablets that can deliver meditation apps, relevant
medical information, and (
of course) advertising to
patients.
Top - ranked for both orthopedics and rheumatology for 26 consecutive years, HSS is an engine
of research and innovation (112 inventions in 2016 alone),
medical education (serving physicians in more than 150 countries) and better
patient outcomes (Net Promoter Score
of 92).
Under PPACA, certain fees, known as
Patient - Centered
Outcomes Research Institute («PCORI») fees, have been established for funding medical research and comparing outcomes of various medical tec
Outcomes Research Institute («PCORI») fees, have been established for funding
medical research and comparing
outcomes of various medical tec
outcomes of various
medical techniques.
Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal
of the American
Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER
Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better
outcomes for
patients, who can more reliably receive routine
medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER
medical care and stay out
of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage
patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader
medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER
medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.
Meet Omada Health: With 87M consumers at risk
of diabetes, 75,000
patients treated, 3 years
of outcomes data, NetPromoter scores in the 90's, 70 + clients, and looming reimbursement by Medicare for its diabetes prevention online social network, Omada has «cracked the code» on integrating consumer technology,
medical coaching and big data at scale.
[9] Using a different, continuous weighted scoring system — which admittedly was, like Byrd's scoring, «an unvalidated measure
of CCU
outcomes» — Harris et al. concluded that «supplementary, remote, blinded, intercessory prayer produced a measurable improvement in the
medical outcomes of critically ill
patients», and suggested that «prayer be an effective adjunct to standard
medical care.»
As the global leader
of DuPont's
Medical and Pharmaceutical Packaging segment, Margaret (Meg) Pyers, connects the science
of DuPont to the sterile packaging industry, helping meet the needs
of the value chain to improve
patient outcomes.
A search
of Pubmed [a data base containing all
medical journal articles] for platelet rich plasma yields 6,811 articles, but less than 20 are clinical studies evaluating
patient outcomes for orthopedic sports medicine conditions.
Like all parallel
medical services, it falls to the
patient to figure out who is legitimately skilled and who is not: EXCEPT, most women having babies are in their twenties and early thirties and I personally didn't have the kind
of life - experience necessary to question whether or not my government would provide me with sub par care and just assumed that if the government was paying, it must be safe, and the midwifery community capitalizes on this by running advertisements (which OB / GYN are not permitted to do) advertising themselves as being less interventionist, less c - section (no shit, Sherlock, but you'd have to read between the lines to understand why), and better
outcomes.
We compared
outcomes after
medical versus surgical management
of biliary tract disease in pregnant
patients.We reviewed the clinical course
of patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis during pregnancy from 1992 to 2002 at two university hospitals.Seventy - six women with 78 pregnancies were admitted with biliary tract disease.
Every day, America's nurses play an integral part in providing quality, evidence - based maternity care; care that is respectful
of the mother - baby dyad, which results in excellent
medical outcomes and produces the highest levels
of patient satisfaction.
He stressed the importance
of obstetricians understanding their
patients» preferences, noting that the wrong
outcome would be for women to resort to home birth simply because they don't trust the
medical establishment to do what they want.
Regular communication between the primary care physician and the subspecialist is critical to optimize
outcomes because the majority
of patients with thyroid disorders will require long - term to lifelong
medical therapy and / or surveillance,» the article concludes.
Under Litofsky's mentorship, Kristen Scheitler - Ring, a
medical student doing a pathology fellowship at the MU School
of Medicine, studied the
outcomes of patients treated at MU Health Care from 2010 to 2014.
The authors conclude, «Unvalidated guidelines to prevent neuroimaging in
patients with headaches may reduce the perceived global economic burden at the expense
of medical errors, delayed diagnoses, and inferior
outcomes for
patients with brain tumor.»
Loyola University
Medical Center is the first hospital in Illinois to offer a new high - tech catheter device that can improve
outcomes of patients treated for atrial fibrillation, the most common irregular heartbeat.
In the Journal
of the American
Medical Association, the study examines quality -
of - life
outcomes for the treatment choices most
patients will face.
For
patients with gender dysphoria undergoing male - to - female transformation, a stepwise approach to facial feminization surgery (FFS) leads to good cosmetic
outcomes along with psychological, social, and functional benefits, according to a study in the February issue
of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official
medical journal
of the American Society
of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
«In summary, these encouraging data build upon the real success
of our translational efforts in myeloma over the last decade, and provide exciting new options with the real promise
of improving
patient outcome,» said Richardson, who is also the R.J. Corman professor at Harvard
Medical School.
«Before,
patients were very sick before meeting criteria, and the evidence is pretty clear that if you interfere in anorexia before there's been significant weight loss, the
outcomes are much better and the illness is easier to treat in an outpatient setting,» says Kimberli McCallum, founder and
medical director
of eating disorder clinic McCallum Place in Saint Louis.
The challenge,
of course, is to somehow meld a bewildering array
of data sets: all sorts
of historic and current
medical records about each person and all sorts
of scientific reports on a number
of drugs, drug tests, potential side effects and
outcomes for other
patients.
Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard
Medical School have found that
patients who were prescribed corticosteroids as part
of treatment for Lyme disease - associated facial paralysis had worse long - term
outcomes of regaining facial function than those who were prescribed antibiotic therapy alone.
With survival rates improving for ARDS
patients, understanding and improving their quality
of life
outcomes is a clinical and research priority, according to the study's principal investigator Samuel M. Brown, MD, MS, FASE, director
of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care at Intermountain
Medical Center.
The study, entitled COMET (Comparison
of Operative to
Medical Endocrine Therapy) for low - risk ductal carcinoma in situ, received funding through a $ 13.4 million, five - year award from the
Patient - Centered
Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010 to support research that enlightens health care decisions.
Aileen P. Wertz, M.D.,
of the University
of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, and colleagues examined the feasibility and
outcomes of a partnership between a free independent clinic (Hope Clinic, Ypsilanti, Mich.) for indigent
patients and an academic
medical center (University
of Michigan Health System) in providing hearing aids.
In the study, researchers from Kansas City VA
Medical Centre in Kansas City, USA, examined the effect
of TRT on cardiovascular
outcomes by comparing incidents
of heart attack, stroke, and all - cause mortality among different sub-populations
of treated and untreated
patients.
«Given the lack
of new drugs to treat severe sepsis,
medical professionals must look at other ways to increase
patient safety and positive
outcomes, including the process
of how we deliver care,» said Walkey.
In the JBJS study, researchers reviewed the BMI, comorbidities, complications,
outcomes and cost
of care
of 8,129
patients who had undergone 6,475 primary TKRs and 1,654 revision TKRs at a major
medical center between Jan. 1, 2000 and Sept. 30, 2008.
In the present study, performed by Prof. Latzer who is also the director
of the Eating Disorders Clinic at Rambam
Medical Center, the research student Adit Zohr - Beja, and Dr. Eitan Gur from the Eating Disorders Department, Sheba
Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, the researchers sought to examine claims concerning the ineffectiveness
of involuntary hospitalization and examined whether there is a difference in
outcome between
patients in extreme condition who were forcibly hospitalized and those who were hospitalized willingly.
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.
The use
of simulation techniques in
medical education, such as lifelike mannequins and computer systems, results in improved
patient care, better
outcomes and other benefits, according to a study led by a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School
of Medicine researcher.
The results
of the Endovascular Therapy Following Imaging Evaluation for the Ischemic Stroke (DEFUSE 3) trial, presented at the International Stroke Conference 2018 in Los Angeles and published on Jan. 24 in the New England Journal
of Medicine, demonstrated that physically removing brain clots up to 16 hours after symptom onset in selected
patients led to improved
outcomes compared to standard
medical therapy.
Francis Kim, M.D.,
of Harborview
Medical Center, Seattle, and colleagues evaluated whether early prehospital cooling (lowering body temperature) improved survival to hospital discharge and neurological
outcome in cardiac arrest
patients with or without ventricular fibrillation (VF).
The president and Congress must reach at least three additional objectives for the U.S. to rehabilitate its alarmingly dysfunctional health care system: 1) figure out a way to lower
medical costs, which threaten to bankrupt the country if they continue spiraling upward; 2) improve the health
outcomes of its
patients; and 3) make health care affordable for businesses and individuals.
When the researchers matched this data with clinical
outcomes for more than 4,600
patient specimens in
medical databases, they found these subtypes were associated with different levels
of disease progression.
Palliative care is a «fairly new
medical specialty that has proven to substantially improve
patient outcomes when it's delivered alongside routine treatments,» says Sean Morrison, M.D., director
of the National Palliative Care Research Center and a professor at Mount Sinai's School
of Medicine.
To investigate, Csaba Kovesdy, MD (Memphis VA
Medical Center and the University
of Tennessee Health Science Center) and his colleagues examined information from the national VA research database and looked for associations between blood pressure and various clinical
outcomes — coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death — in more than 300,000
patients with CKD.
A new study by researchers at Boston University School
of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston
Medical Center (BMC) found comparable long - term
outcomes between congestive heart failure
patients with preserved ejection fraction commonly known as «diastolic heart failure» and congestive heart failure with reduced ejection fraction also known as «systolic heart failure.»
The study, appearing in the Journal
of the American Heart Association, is the first to identify predictors
of poor
outcomes in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)
patients, said senior author Dr. Pradeep Mammen, a heart failure specialist at UT Southwestern
Medical Center.
Brent James, vice president for
medical research and executive director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare, and known internationally for his innovative work on improving the quality and safety
of health care delivery, comments: «Progress in CF - related care delivery provides a model for clinician - scientists» massive opportunity to improve health care delivery and
patient outcomes in the future.»
«In practice, this could mean that
medical staff analyzing a new
patient's Cervigram could retrieve data about similar cases — not only in terms
of optics, but also pathology since the dataset contains information about the
outcomes of women at various stages
of pathology.»
«But although it has been shown to help reduce injury to the heart during surgery and in other
medical contexts, unfortunately it showed no benefit on long - term clinical
outcomes in our study
of patients undergoing cardiac bypass surgery.»
«Triple - negative breast cancers tend to be more aggressive compared to other types
of breast cancers, and being able to predict response to therapy could greatly impact treatment decisions and
patient outcomes,» says study author Shaveta Vinayak, MD, oncologist at UH Case
Medical Center and Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School
of Medicine.
The study, which appears in the New England Journal
of Medicine, examined records from more than 4,600
patients with out -
of - hospital cardiac arrest involving paramedics from 55 emergency
medical services (EMS) agencies at 10 North American sites participating in the North American Resuscitation
Outcomes Consortium (ROC), to which UT Southwestern and the Dallas - Fort Worth ROC Network is the largest contributor.
Through a
medical audit and
outcome monitoring, the system provides important mechanisms for peer review and quality assurance data to improve the quality
of patient care.
A survey conducted by Vennli found that physicians favor positive
patient outcomes and ease -
of - use more than price and design when purchasing
medical devices.