Sentences with phrase «number of patients for»

Our Emergency Room, which is open 24/7/365, again saw a record number of patients for the year.

Doyle says it looks as if they could have a record number of patients for a second day in a row.

These are preliminary results, the authors caution, following a small number of patients for a short time.

Or look at this way: an increase in the rate of homebirth from 0.5 % to 1 % would constitute a doubling of the number of patients for HB midwives (a 100 % increase), and a drop of 1 patient for every 190 for OBs (a 0.5 % decrease).

Not exact matches

Composing a Top 10 Best List works too, for example the title to a post could read «Top 10 Mistakes Business Managers Make» or «Top 5 Ways to Increase the Number of Patients at Your Practice.»

A series of preliminary Mayo Clinic studies conducted in 2010 showed promise for the potential use of a chemical component of green tea (epigallocatechin gallate) in reducing the number of cancer cells in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

On the agenda for discussion: whether the FDA should implement a mandatory education program on opioid prescription for doctors, and whether the agency should limit the number of opioid doses a patient is prescribed.

It's a marketplace handcuffed by certificate - of - need laws that limit the number of MRI centers and hospital beds in communities, granting providers regional monopolies, and preventing insurers from clinching discounts by offering to send patients to the providers willing to lower their rates in exchange for more business.

Often, that translates to employees on the front lines stealing patient medical data or client social security numbers, which can then be sold on the black market or used to commit fraud like collecting someone else's social security benefits, opening new credit card accounts in another's name, or applying for health insurance by assuming the identity of someone else.

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

«Limiting the number of drugs in any HIV treatment regimen can help reduce toxicity for patients,» Dr. Debra Birnkrant, director of the division of antiviral products at the FDA said in a press release.

The number of patients at the clinic grew 40 percent in a year and people now wait several weeks for an appointment, Rashid said.

The idea here is that Science 37's platform, which can reduce the need for patients to schlep to clinics and hospitals via telemedicine and apps, may both boost the number of people who want to access clinical trials while cutting the cost of conducting them.

Several months later, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) identified a number of compliance problems with the company — problems that the CMS claimed were putting patients in immediate jeopardy — and imposed serious sanctions on the firm and its leaders.

Many believed that a plutonium - powered heart could put patients at risk for a number of health problems, including leukemia.

CVS, for example, began limiting prescriptions to seven days and prioritizing lower - dose drugs, and a number of legal complaints have been leveled against opioid manufacturers, who have been accused of using misleading marketing tactics that may have caused more patients to get hooked on potentially addicting painkillers.

That differs from fee - for - service — the predominant system — that charges for the number of services delivered to the patient, such as lab tests, MRIs, and clinical visits.

«Current treatments for depression work for many people but there is still a significant unmet need for a large number of patients living with this very challenging condition.»

If it works, it could be used in a far greater number of patients than Sarepta's drug, which is approved for a relatively small slice of the DMD patient pool.

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).

The sex ratio SR (y, t) is shown for DM1 (d, e) and DM2 (f, g) patients and the number of their diagnoses (d, f) and their prescriptions (e, g).

For patients younger than 60, with a comparably high number of comorbidities, female patients have less diagnoses but take more drugs than males.

I've realized that a high number of entrepreneurs share many of the same traits as the ADHD patients I've treated, including a lust for stimulation and a willingness to take risks.

The number of patients treated with nitroglycerin, a drug used for chest pain and heart failure, increased by 89 percent.

Noting that Mylan had sought legislation to increase the number of patients who receive prescriptions for EpiPens, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C.

Thanks to a number of new Hepatitis C drugs (Sofosbuvir Ledipasvir, Ladispavir) the disease is curable for many patients.

In her own article in the Atlantic, Rosin reports a similar number for one (expensive, rare) method of sex selection only (with no source offered)-- but of course the vast majority of fertility clinic patients are not using sex selection techniques.

Although it's not contagious and the number of half monkeys having such illness is quite immaterial than alarming, yet the patient revealing such symptoms must be brought to the nearest vet for immediate treatment.

The physician adopts an approach previously unknown to medical practitioners, turning his attention from the patient for whom he is caring to a vast number of patients whose travail is great, though they are not specifically his patients.

Whereas nonaggressive patients once remained in the family or moved into another normal community specially equipped for adopting a certain number of the mentally ill, today we lock them up except when practical obstacles (mainly financial) discourage us from doing so.

If one has never journeyed into the deep — prayed (which includes Scripture / theological study, faith sharing, adoration, spiritual formation / retreats, pilgramages, Mass, reconciliation, fasting, listening for God's voice, and more) on an ongoing fashion or done God's will (been obedient, patient, humble, unconditionally sacrificing, unselfish) to the extent that they understand what it means to be Catholic and God being your number one priority — that His Ways and those of His Church are not the ways of the world (trade vices for virtues) and that we are being called into communion with Him via love for Him and one another in our faith community and broader community — then it is no wonder some are lost or disillusioned.

The year 1956 was a major milestone, when, for the first time since state hospital records had been kept, there was a decline in the total number of patients at that year's end.

There are a number of factors which account for the speedier release of patients.

A small number of hospitals have introduced upfront charges for overseas patients already but the vast majority continue to chase debts after patients have left the hospital.

When this belief was coupled with the notion of a last judgement which would not occur until God «had accomplished the number of his elect», in words from still another prayer, it said something about the corporate nature of human life, the equally corporate nature of whatever destiny men have, and the need for patient waiting until our fellowmen have found their capacity for fulfillment along with us.

For example, even though their numbers are vanishingly few, a close study of patients with sex «change operations might demonstrate what outcomes constitute a success or failure of this life «threatening operation.

Despite a nationwide drop in abortions, Planned Parenthood's rates remain steady as it gains market share; meanwhile, the number of patients seen annually has dropped from 3 million to 2.4 million since 2008, due to fewer women coming in for other services, according to the NRLC report, which is based on numbers from Planned Parenthood, the affiliated Guttmacher Institute, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The increasing number of celiac and gluten intolerant patients has increased the demand for the gluten - free products.

Globally, over 220 million people suffer from food allergies and most countries report an increase in incidence.26 It is predicted that by 2050 the number of patients affected by allergic diseases in Australia will increase by 70 % to 7.7 million.27 By 2021, the markets for naturally healthy (US$ 291 billion), food intolerance (US$ 42 billion) and organic products (US$ 45 billion) are expected to have grown at up to 4.5 % compound annual growth rate (CAGR).28

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Now a heart specialist in Buffalo, he helped develop a polio unit capable of handling a greatly increased number of respiratory cases, assisted in establishing a hearing and speech center and set up a «heart kitchen» for disabled patients.

While most pediatricians in the United States are still prescribing multi-vitamin preparations for their infant patients, regardless of how they are fed, an increasing number are becoming aware that exclusively breastfeeding mothers often prefer not to supplement their babies with vitamins and minerals that are readily available and better utilized from their own milk.

And I think, again, I see the model practice as one that gives the woman the greatest number of choices, a model practice where you actually have the time and the capacity on the patient's part to understand the risks and benefits of each of the subsequent choices to have a relatively smooth system, which can transfer from one model of birth to another without extensive delays and then — and so I think giving the mom the greatest number of choices and having midwives and physicians speaking to each other at the time of either the initial patient's choice for method of delivery or at the beginning of the labor process.

When deciding on the number of embryos to recommend for transfer, we carefully weigh all factors with the goal of offering each patient the highest chance of pregnancy with the lowest possible risk of a high - order multiple gestation (we have this discussion again at the time of embryo transfer).

«We easily get the majority of our patients breast - feeding, but there is still a significant number of patients who, for a variety of issues, breast - feeding just doesn't work out.

¶ Physical contact = home visit, hospital postpartum follow - up visit; active reaching out = follow - up phone call to patient after discharge; referrals = hospital phone number to call, hospital - based support group, other breastfeeding support group, lactation consultant / specialist, U.S. Department of Agriculture Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, outpatient clinic.

The negative predictive value of skin prick test / specific IgE for immediate reaction is excellent (> 95 %)[15], however a small number of these patients can have clinical reaction.

Through the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF), GPs are rewarded financially for recording the number of obese patients — yet, ironically, not for doing anything about it.

As mentioned already the «Centre for policy studies» has said that the NHSLA has liabilities of some # 16.8 billion, reducing this figure would make huge inroads to the efficiency saving the NHS has to make without compromising patient safety and staff numbers It would be wise for those within the NHS and from the «Centre for policy studies» to look to their own as for the reason why patients look to the law for recompense, before we say that the compensation culture is «ingrained in the national psyche as a warped form of normal behaviour».