Sentences with phrase «number of patients during»

A large number of patients during the intervention period were dosed without the nomogram.

The possibility to shorten the imaging time makes the scan easier for the patient and makes it possible to scan a larger number of patients during one day.

This method will be useful when the death risk of a novel infectious disease has to be quantified using data from small numbers of patients during the course of an outbreak, providing information on which age groups to minimize exposure in hospitals, nursing homes and daycare facilities.

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During the active disease stage of JIA, these cells expand, grow in number, re-circulate through inflamed areas of patients» body, and migrate to the connective tissue of patients» joints.

During 30 years of a surgical career, it has been my not quite tongue - in - cheek observation that a patient's chance of survival is inversely proportional to the number of anesthesiologists required to get the operation under way; a figure of six or higher is a virtual guarantee of death.

And although there was only a small uptick in the maternal mortality at the hospital during that time (roughly 4 percent instead of 1 percent) the drop in the number of pregnant patients led caregivers to wonder if women were attempting home births and perhaps dying doing so, she says.

Introduction of 9 - 12 month courses of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis therapy will increase the effectiveness of treatment and reduce the total number of anti-tuberculosis drugs during the course of treatment and save funds that can be used to treat more patients.

Researchers are planning to extend the clinical trial to a much larger number of patients in a multinational study, to demonstrate not only a reduced infarct size, but also a reduced mortality in patients who receive early metoprolol during transit to hospital.

One caveat to the study is that because helicopter transports brought a greater number of patients to Cleveland Clinic from surrounding rural areas during the course of the study period, it is possible that the observed trends reflect changes in the hospital's patient population.

Patients were divided into three groups based the total number of TBIs during their entire lives — zero, single TBI and two or more — the most recent of which was typically within the days immediately preceding their evaluation and inclusion in the study.

The investigators also found that JAK2 increased in a limited number of patients where biopsies were collected at different times during treatment.

Total apnea - hypopnea index (AHI)-- which measures severity of sleep apnea by counting the number of pauses in breathing during sleep — for all patients significantly decreased an average of 35 events per hour after the device was planted, which corresponds to an average reduction of 84 percent.

The United Nations suggests that the number of older patients has tripled in the past 50 years and will triple again during the next 50 years.

The doctors found no increase in the number of infections during the study, suggesting that these precautions were sufficient to prevent transmission from patient to patient.

While there have been attempts to estimate real - time death risks during epidemics, such statistical models require data from large numbers of patients in the order of thousands and therefore could not be applied to the 2015 MERS epidemic in the Republic of Korea with small patient numbers.

Changes in the number and structure of dendrites have been observed in patients with ASDs, which are typically diagnosed during this time.

In 28 patients, the mean number of collisions decreased from 6.2 during the first test (pre-surgery) to 5.9 at the second test (two weeks after surgery); and from 5.2 during the third test to 4.2 by the fourth and final test.

Addressing opioid prescribing during the acute care period among those patients not using opioids has the greatest potential to reduce the number of new chronic opioid users and minimize unintended distribution of prescription opioids into communities.

Diagnosis before 3.5 months of age could reduce costs to $ 50,000 (USD) per child, as recurrent infections are prevented.xiv Estimates of transplant patient numbers are not available but over 4 million prescriptions for immunosuppressant drugs were dispensed in England during 2015 at a cost of # 220 milion.xv

«I have had a number of patients who have had affairs who never would have done that if they weren't in a manic episode... during this episode they exhibited behavior that is not consistent with what they would do normally,» he says.

Estriol has been found to have beneficial immune - modulating effects in patients with multiple sclerosis, increasing protective immune responses and decreasing the number and volume of lesions seen in cerebral MRIs.22 Estriol is the primary estrogen produced during pregnancy, when it is made by placenta from 16α - OH DHEA sulfate (DHEA - S), an androgen made in the fetal liver and in the adrenal glands.23

A number of studies show that the serum levels of antithyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPO - Ab) in patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis decline during levothyroxine treatment, but do not provide quantitative data or report the fraction of patients in whom test for TPO - Ab became negative («normalization percentage»).

During his time teaching at Auburn University, he had seen a number of patients who developed severe stomach acid reflux after abdominal trauma, sometimes to the point of causing scarring and narrowing of the esophagus.

During Ms. Whitmore's absence from work, the employer discovered that a number of patients had been incorrectly booked and that Ms. Whitmore had failed to respond to requested consultations from other physicians.

Patients who require hospitalization often face a number of challenges, whether it is the risk of medical errors or the effects of being immobile in a hospital bed during an extended stay.

The CDC notes that some healthcare professionals may need to clean their hands as many as 100 times during a 12 hour shift, depending on the activities in which they are engaged and the number of patients with whom they come into contact.

For example, restricting the disclosure of an individual's religious affiliation, room number, and health status to a priest could cause significant delay that would inhibit the ability of a Catholic patient to obtain sacraments provided during the last rites.

* Increased the number of patient referrals by 70 percent during the first year of employment in the practice

A physiotherapy assistant performs a number of tasks which are necessary to assist lead physiotherapists during rehabilitation process of patients suffer from injury, illness or any kind of disability.

A Certified Nursing Assistant resume should mention specific procedures and medical equipment that the applicant has experience with, it should mention the number of patients or beds managed during a shift, and it should mention how the CNA collaborated with other professionals while on duty.

The number of weeks until first heavy drinking was higher in the fluoxetine group (8 v 5, p = 0.02) but proportion of patients completely abstinent during the trial did not differ (28 % v 15 %, p = 0.27).

The mean numbers of visits to general practitioners and the proportions of patients consulting alternative and complementary practitioners did not differ between the groups during the study.

In the current study with a sample of chronically depressed men and women, rates of physical and psychological victimization were similar to rates reported in a number of general community samples during a similar time period (Jose and O'Leary 2009; Schafer et al. 1998) and to rates reported with a sample of unipolar and bipolar depressed patients (Dienemann et al. 2000).

Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders during childhood and adolescence, with a prevalence of 3 — 5 % in school - age children (6 — 12 years) and 10 — 19 % in adolescents (13 — 18 years); 1, 2 and the prevalence of anxiety disorders in this population tends to increase over time.3 Anxiety is the most common psychological symptom reported by children and adolescents; however, presentation varies with age as younger patients often report undifferentiated anxiety symptoms, for example, muscle tension, headache, stomachache or angry outbursts.4 According to the standard diagnostic systems, there are various types of anxiety disorders, for example, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), social phobias (SOP), social anxiety disorder (SAD), panic disorder (PD), overanxious disorder, separation anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD).5 Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents often occur with a number of comorbidities, such as autism spectrum disorders, 6 depressive disorders, 7 conduct disorder, 8 substance abuse9 or suicide - related behaviour.10 Youths with anxiety disorders experience serious impairment in social functioning (eg, poor school achievement; relational problems with family members and peers).11, 12 Childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders can persist despite treatment, 1 and they are associated with later adult psychopathology.13, 14