Sentences with phrase «more timely care»

Perhaps they could have returned to their favorite exercise routine, felt more confident in their clothes or enjoyed greater intimacy with their partners with more timely care.

Not exact matches

«However, the increased use of wireless technology and software in medical devices can also often offer safer, more efficient, convenient, and timely health care delivery.»

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Pueblo of San Felipe developed a Child Passport to use across all programs in an effort to streamline services for families, offer more timely referrals, and ensure continuity of care.

Cuomo vetoed a bill sponsored by two Buffalo lawmakers that would help give more timely notice to lower - income, working parents that child care subsidies they receive are being eliminated or reduced.

The four stages, which together help health care professionals to identify issues and create more effective solutions in a timely manner are: 1) contextual inquiry: understanding the way things currently work and seeing the nuances others have missed by immersion in the work; 2) problem definition: reexamining what the organization should be solving for in a way that avoids incremental improvement to a current process; 3) divergence: exploring alternatives to initial solutions; and 4) rapid validation: testing critical assumptions and proposed solutions quickly at low cost.

Pregnant women on Medicaid are more likely to receive timely prenatal care following Oregon's implementation of coordinated care organizations, or CCOs, which are regional networks of health care providers who work together to treat patients, a new study has shown.

«Coordinated care organizations lead to more timely prenatal care.»

The study compared physician - led ACOs to other types of ACOs and found that physician - led ACOs were more likely to have comprehensive care management programs in place and advanced IT capabilities.They are also more likely to measure and report financial and quality performance at the clinician level and to provide meaningful and timely feedback to clinicians.

Deploying a point - of - care test for infant diagnosis of HIV using a portable, battery - operated device may result in more timely initiation of drug therapy, decreasing the number of children who are diagnosed with HIV weeks or months after birth and never receive treatment.

While better medical care and timely management of heart attacks have decreased the number of early deaths, survivors face an increased risk of chronic heart failure as they develop even more scarring.

More times than I care to admit it, I've bought a package only to use half of it and throw out the rest, for lack of a timely, suitable recipe to use it in.

Addressing more than 1,300 health professionals, special - education experts, advocates for the disabled, and parents at a conference here, Dr. Koop said that too many handicapped and chronically ill children are not receiving timely and adequate care.

As more Americans consider hospice and palliative care, this is both a timely and timeless guide brimming with insight and compassion.

The condition being treated could have been prevented through routine vaccination, routine dental care, or more timely veterinary evaluation

Covering every aspect of feline care, cat and kitten magazines provide practical, useful, and timely information on cat supplies, cat care (including special care for particular breeds), cat health, and more.

Not only are they able to provide critical emergency services in a more timely manner, they can transport patients between clinics or to more specialized or better equipped veterinary hospitals without disrupting the animals care (e.g., IVs or oxygen).

HSVMA has obtained RACE CE accreditation for veterinarians and veterinary technicians attending Animal Care Expo 2018 for 16 different Expo workshops on timely topics such as best practices for shelter medicine, community cat return - to - field programs, managing shelter intake and disease outbreaks, dog relocation programs, community medicine programs, compassion fatigue, and more.

Instead, to show that the defendant breached the standard of care, the plaintiff must prove that a reasonable and competent doctor would have reached an alternative diagnosis or reached the correct diagnosis in a more timely fashion.

While we're ecstatic that Ms. Friedman is getting the care she needs and we wish her well on her recovery, her experience is a traveler's cautionary tale for at least one reason: her treatment would likely have been more timely if she had carried travel insurance.

1996 to 1997: Coach & Supervisor — Global & National Markets Promoted to a Customer Care Center, providing superior supervisory oversight to more than 27 customer service specialists that oversaw timely processing of orders, resolution of billing issues, and account receivables, using aggressive yet professional collection efforts.

Professional Duties & Responsibilities Licensed practical nurse with experience in varied medical specialties Training in geriatric, surgical, psychiatric, pediatric, and obstetric nursing Carried out physician orders in accordance with treatment plan Monitored, recorded, and reported patient condition to physicians and senior nursing staff Administered medications and dietary supplements, inserted tube feeds, and monitored vitals Performed wound care in stage 1 and 2 ulcers and assisted team with more serious stages Assisted with oxygen setup and tracheostomy care Oversaw blood glucose testing and reported abnormal values to medical team Maintained up to date knowledge of medical and surgical standards of care Demonstrated the clinical knowledge and judgment necessary for high quality patient care Provided administrative support to physicians, residents, and nursing staff as needed Managed medical supplies and equipment ensuring adequate and functioning materials Performed all duties in a positive, professional, and timely manner

By participating in the trainings, participants will learn helpful strategies to coordinate care, streamline the referral process, improve communication, save time, and provide higher quality care and EI services; parents will be more satisfied with the care they receive through their primary care medical homes; and children will receive more timely and coordinated services that will improve health and developmental outcomes.

This is a timely moment for everyone who works in or around the health sector — whether in patient care, in policy or politics, in governance, education, workforce, public health or other areas — to reflect upon what they are doing to help ensure a health system that is more culturally safe for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, whether as patients or employees.

The Annual Forum of the UNSW Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity — held in Sydney last Friday — could not have been more timely.

Compared with FQHC sites that offer contraceptive care, Planned Parenthood health centers do more to facilitate women's timely access to high - quality contraceptive care.4, 5

Research shows that Planned Parenthood health centers are better able to deliver high - quality, timely contraceptive care to more women than other types of publicly funded family planning providers.

Families who participated in the Healthy Steps Program had greater odds of receiving 4 or more Healthy Steps — related services (for randomization and quasi-experimental sites, respectively: odds ratio [OR], 16.90 [95 % confidence interval -LCB- CI -RCB-, 12.78 to 22.34] and OR, 23.05 [95 % CI, 17.38 to 30.58]-RRB-, of discussing more than 6 anticipatory guidance topics (OR, 8.56 [95 % CI, 6.47 to 11.32] and OR, 12.31 [95 % CI, 9.35 to 16.19]-RRB-, of being highly satisfied with care provided (eg, someone in the practice went out of the way for them)(OR, 2.06 [95 % CI, 1.64 to 2.58] and OR, 2.11 [95 % CI, 1.72 to 2.59]-RRB-, of receiving timely well - child visits and vaccinations (eg, age - appropriate 1 - month visit)(OR, 1.98 [95 % CI, 1.08 to 3.62] and OR, 2.11 [95 % CI, 1.16 to 3.85]-RRB-, and of remaining at the practice for 20 months or longer (OR, 2.02 [95 % CI, 1.61 to 2.55] and OR, 1.75 [95 % CI, 1.43 to 2.15]-RRB-.

These improvements included marked parental satisfaction with the program; more timely preventive care, including on - time immunizations; and the receipt of more developmentally - oriented services.

Pueblo of San Felipe developed a Child Passport to use across all programs in an effort to streamline services for families, offer more timely referrals, and ensure continuity of care.

Relatively higher use of outpatient and lower use of ER services is considered to provide more timely and appropriate pediatric care, a pattern associated with lower health risk (Adler & Rehkopf, 2008; Starfield et al., 2005).

NIC and Prime Care Technologies (PCT) have engaged in a data collection initiative that aims to provide more timely, accurate and accessible data on the skilled nursing sector.