Sentences with phrase «number of patients seen»

The salary earned by a physician's assistant may be based upon work setting, the number of patients seen and the responsibilities of the PA..

Composed monthly report consisting of number of patients seen per site and procedures performed

When Bolte worked in such a practice, he was horrified to find that the HMO actually generated «batting averages» — the average number of patients seen per hour by each physician — which the manager posted in a back office.

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).

These might be in the form of the number of patients you see, how often you performed procedures, or how many hours you've logged.

- Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (Northern California) saw a 21 percent jump (from the previous December) in the number of patients they saw in December 2008, due to job loss and loss of health insurance.

Not exact matches

The headline number is that 85 % of patients are seen within four hours.

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).

There are a number of factors which converge to produce the attitudes of rejection which many ex-mental patients experience (See Chap.

I have seen an increasing number of patients specializing at a young age with a concurrent rise in injuries and burn - out.

Likewise, in her practice, Elizabeth Pieroth, Ph.D., Associate Director of North Shore University Health System's Sports Concussion Program, says she has seen a number of youth patients (athletes and non-athletes) who have sustained a concussion and believe they now have or are going to develop CTE.

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.

The number of patients coming into our clinics has increased year - on - year, and allergy clinics across the country have seen the same pattern.»

But imagine you're on a tight schedule to see X amount of patients a day (where X is a higher number than you'd like) and then you get one who insists on knowing allllll the details about everything, even when the details aren't necessary to understanding the course of action the doctor is recommending.

It's to do with a shortage of doctors and the belief that doctors need to see a minimum number of patients per year to maintain / improve their skills to become consultants.

But the registered organizations charged with growing and selling medical marijuana say they were expecting the trickle of customers to start, rather than a flood, and that they are now seeing an increasing number of patients.

When Labour left office, A&E was performing well with 98 % of patients seen within 4 hours; but since the election, the number waiting over 4 hours has more than doubled, and ambulance queues have doubled too.

This same government apparently wants to see publicly - owned hospitals opening their doors to unrestricted numbers of private patients.

Most of those states only charge their counties for Medicaid's administrative costs, but New York goes much farther than that, charging counties for a share of hospital costs for facilities that see a large number of Medicaid patients.

«If we find that lymphoscintigrams using tilmanocept are at least as good as the conventional radiocolloid tracer in identification and visualization of sentinel nodes, we would like to see a randomised clinical trial involving large numbers of patients,» says Prof de Bree.

Russell Marx, director of Adolescent Eating Disorders Program at the University of California, San Diego, and chief science officer of the National Eating Disorders Association, expects to see big changes in diagnosis and treatment with the addition of binge eating disorder but less impact on anorexia diagnoses as the number of patients with ED - NOS is reduced.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

Using this measure, the researchers saw that 37.6 percent of patients on the monthly regimen, and 40.8 percent on the quarterly regimen had at least a 50 percent reduction in the number of moderate headaches per month, compared to 18.1 percent in the placebo group.

«We need the frontline clinicians to be astute and notice if they are seeing patients with an unusual infection, or a number of similar infections from a specific location such as a child care center, nursing home or eating facility and then work closely with the state and local health authorities,» said Larry Pickering, MD, a co-author of the guidelines and adjunct professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

A small number of federal researchers deemed essential by their agencies would still report to work, such as those involved in caring for patients at NIH's clinical research center, sustaining animal colonies in research laboratories, or handling weather data seen vital to public safety.

We've had a number of opportunities to see and hear our patients and their gratitude, and to see their hope and their encouragement for surviving that much longer because they're taking our drugs.»

If this works out, the patients will have the radiation level measured in their teeth before they receive a bone marrow transplant and again after a certain number of treatments to see if they are in line with the radiation dosage technicians think they are giving the patients, she says.

«I would see an average number of 75 patients a day,» R. A. explains.

The authors present their results in terms of number needed to treat (NNT), which is the average number of patients who need to be treated to see benefit in one patient.

«To our surprise, we saw a number of head and neck cancer patients who tested positive for the hepatitis C virus.

When Torres started the clinic, he expected to see a number of patients with liver cancers and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, as these have documented associations with HCV of 48-fold and two - to three-fold increased risk, respectively.

We look forward to learning the results of the follow - up clinical studies that are underway to see how this breakthrough benefits a larger number of patients,» said Stand Up To Cancer President and CEO Sung Poblete, Ph.D., RN.

«When we compared the gene signature activity of glioblastoma cells from around 60 patients we found that a large number of patients could be divided into subgroups that showed a correlation between gene activity, tumor cell characteristics and cell of origin similar to the one we had seen in the mouse study.

«We were disappointed to see only a modest reduction in the number of untreated patients, which remained unacceptably high,» he said.

In the years leading up to 2013, clinicians were seeing a group of preteen and adolescent patients who shared a number of food - related symptoms, such as extreme pickiness or very low caloric intake, but who were too old to be diagnosed with a feeding disorder of infancy or early childhood.

«We wanted to see whether very - large - scale screening across a diverse collection of cancer cell lines and a large number of drugs could yield new combinations for patients with cancer,» says Adam Friedman, MD, PhD, of the CBRC and the MGH Cancer Center, who led the study.

Since Rady Children's Gender Management Clinic began in 2012, it has seen a constant rapid increase in the number of patients referred to the clinic, Marinkovic said.

«With regard to surgical populations, one of the questions we had with our NSQIP data, where we track the number of units patients receive in the perioperative time period, was whether we would see similar decreases in blood utilization in the NSQIP population,» said Ms. Martin.

February 27, 2013 Study: Doctor shortage to hit Chicago's poorer neighborhoods harder Some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods are expected to see the greatest demand for additional primary care doctors in 2014, as the Affordable Care Act boosts the number of newly insured patients seeking medical services, a new study has found.

Some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods are expected to see the greatest demand for additional primary care doctors in 2014, as the Affordable Care Act boosts the number of newly insured patients seeking medical services, a new study has found.

One possible explanation for any improvements seen in the survival of patients who stop smoking might be a reduction in mortality from cardiorespiratory causes, as the risk of death from these diseases reduces after cessation.9 18 Consequently, we estimated the expected contribution of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases by using life tables as above to find the number of cardiorespiratory deaths prevented by smoking cessation in the general population.

We'd need to see replication of this result with larger numbers of patients before drawing conclusions.

Data national registries for rare diseases: The introduction of national registries of therapy - area specific patient data across the NHS in England would see the production of meaningful datasets, especially beneficial for rare immunological diseases where patient numbers may be very small.

The researchers noted that although their study included a small number of patients, this response rate was similar to rates seen in studies for other treatments, such as MEK inhibitors.

«We have seen more than a number of patients in whom changing the flexibility improved their control simply because they found they could do what they needed to do without drawing attention to themselves or sacrificing their own control,» Dr. Hellman says.

Since 2006, the National Psoriasis Foundation, the leading advocacy organization for psoriasis patients, has seen almost a four-fold increase in the number of people seeking help paying for psoriasis medication.

In the past decade, I've seen a growing number of patients who for years have limited sugary foods and swapped out refined carbohydrates for whole grain products, sweet potatoes, and fresh fruit.

There is not one single day of treatment when all clients will notice the number on the scale is decreasing, but the overall time frame of seeing that happen for most patients, according to many different sources is within the second month of therapy.

Number 1 is I have experienced this myself (overcoming chronic Lyme Disease and all its implications) and number 2, I see a lot of very chronically ill patients looking for solutions to their «incurable» and sometimes «imaginary» disease that conventional medicine has given Number 1 is I have experienced this myself (overcoming chronic Lyme Disease and all its implications) and number 2, I see a lot of very chronically ill patients looking for solutions to their «incurable» and sometimes «imaginary» disease that conventional medicine has given number 2, I see a lot of very chronically ill patients looking for solutions to their «incurable» and sometimes «imaginary» disease that conventional medicine has given up on.

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