Sentences with phrase «number of patients treated»

The sample section also incorporates metrics by including the number of patients treated in each clinical experience.

He ran a stray adoption program at Fort Richardson, which had a 90 % adoption rate for two consecutive years and the number of patients treated at the veterinary treatment facility increased by 25 %.

«The number of patients treated is limited and the follow - up short,» he said.

Such advances are expected to increase the number of patients treated for the disease.

That is of course true inasmuch as New Labour converted NHS trusts into independent businesses (foundation trusts), introduced ISTCs (private treatment centres paid by public funds irrespective of the number of patients treated), gave NHS work to private hospitals and clinics and encouraged NHS patients to choose them, and developed HMO - style commissioning as in the US.

Providers would be paid according the results they achieved, the Tory leader said, rather than the number of patients treated.

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

«From 2012 to 2015, the absolute number of patients treated with nitroprusside decreased by 53 %, and the number treated with isoproterenol decreased by 35 %,» wrote the study authors.

Not exact matches

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.

Comments: A sharp increase in the number of people without insurance could hurt hospitals» finances as they treat more uninsured patients.

While the number of patients and customers may be vast and growing, finding the help to treat them may be the biggest hurdle to overcome when starting a new home health care business.

When Ebola spread into Liberia, my usual hospital work turned more and more toward treating the increasing number of Ebola patients.

He was in certain respects a dedicated, loyal, and faithful servant of God, and he spent his life in Korea treating countless numbers of patients.

She says it would empower the Department of Health to grant licenses to marijuana dispensers to provide the drug to patients, who would be prescribed marijuana to help treat a number of conditions, ranging from cancer, to MS, to seizure disorders.

Labour is doing a good job of galvanising the ire of frontline workers who are struggling to cope with the rising numbers of elderly patients to treat and the slashing of council budgets.

The number of patients being treated by nurses has shot up just as staff numbers fall, a new survey suggests.

«An unacceptably high number of older patients are denied basic help - with eating, drinking, or going to the toilet - and aren't treated with the dignity or respect we would all want for our elderly relatives.

Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) is cosponsoring a bill called the TREAT Act in Congress that would increase the number of patients that medical practitioners can prescribe medication for treatment of drug abuse from 30 to 100.

«If we want to treat the greatest number of diseases, we need to figure out how to get these molecules inside the cells of patients — not just increasing the number of target cells but also hitting tissues other than the liver,» says Anderson, who co-founded a company called CRISPR Therapeutics to pursue those goals.

David Magnus, PhD, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and professor of medicine and of biomedical ethics, said those concerns resonate beyond treating SMA patients, who represent a relatively small group of people, because competition is fierce for resources to treat patients with any number of illnesses for which new and more expensive treatments are emerging.

It was based on small numbers of patients — including just seven treated with PSR.

«If the absolute risk increases of 1.51 percent for in - hospital mortality and 3.54 percent for major postoperative complications were modifiable, they would be consistent with the number needed to treat of 59 patients for in - hospital mortality and 28 patients for major postoperative complications.

They determined the number of patients under age 21 treated and released by emergency departments between 2006 and 2012 rose modestly.

If researchers could reduce the loss of cells, they could one day treat two or even three times as many patients from the limited number of cadaver donors available, García noted.

«A significant number of advanced prostate cancer patients treated with a chemical castration therapy called androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) experience relapse with relentless progression to lethal metastatic, castration - resistant prostate cancer,» said Ronald DePinho, M.D., professor of Cancer Biology.

When ATC is found early, it is treated aggressively, and patients can survive for a number of years.

The consortium's work was crucial for the development of ZMapp, the experimental antibody cocktail used to treat a very small number of Ebola patients, including two American aid workers infected while in Africa.

«Our results show that the number of responders was three times higher when correct information was given than when patients thought they were treated with an ineffective active placebo, even though the pharmacological treatment was identical,» says author Vanda Faria.

«Additional studies are needed to assess the effects of those drugs, with larger numbers of treated and untreated patients as well as individuals who do not have Parkinson's.»

Among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) fueled by ALK gene alterations who were being treated with crizotinib (Xalkori), a decrease in the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) harboring increased copies of the ALK gene over the first two months of treatment was associated with increased progression - free survival.

But these across - the - board numbers mask huge variation in both mortality and dollars depending on which hospital patients were treated at, and what kind of care they received.

«Moreover, if a patient is already on a systemic drug but is experiencing a flare in a limited number of joints, we could specifically treat these joints rather than switching systemic therapy or adding another systemic drug.

Treatment of the mutant mice with lithium — the same drug used by psychiatrists for over half a century to treat patients with severe mood swings in bipolar disorder — normalizes the number of spines (right).

Burgh is one of a growing number of patients who have been dosing themselves with a simple laboratory chemical that has never before been used to treat cancer in people.

Despite the reduction in hospitalisations among FCM - treated patients, the number of deaths was similar in both groups, suggesting a one - year follow - up may not be long enough to detect differences in mortality, he said.

Tracy C. Grikscheit, MD, pediatric surgeon and principal investigator at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, treats a large number of young patients who require surgery for various intestinal diseases.

As for using convalescent serum to treat patients, it is an attractive option for a number of reasons, Bausch says.

A team headed by PD Dr Hubert Dinse and Prof Dr Martin Tegenthoff has successfully treated a number of patients suffering from stroke - related impairments.

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.

«My bet is that, if the local control programme correctly identifies strains carried by each patient, and treats them with the most effective drug regimens, then the number of resistant cases will fall,» he says.

The median number of prior therapies for these patients was three; all the patients had been treated previously with at least one other EGFR TKI therapy, and most patients receiving chemotherapy as well.

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.

«Several important factors are still uncertain, but if we can keep the number of excluded patients down to around 10 percent, if treatment of the other 90 percent of patients is as successful as preliminary studies suggest and if cost savings from the shorter regimen allow more patients to be treated, then this regimen is likely to have a really big impact,» says Kendall.

Unfortunately, laser treatment has a number of significant drawbacks including a high recurrence rate, laser injury to the retina, and an inability to treat the majority of patients affected with neovascular membranes (because the lesions are too large or ill - defined when discovered).

The Johns Hopkins investigators caution, however, that the short - term treatment's impact is dependent on several assumptions, including that no more than 10 percent of possible patients are excluded from treatment by additional drug resistance and that using the new regimen actually increases the number of MDR - TB patients treated.

A significant number of these patients are treated in private clinics.

«Although these conditions are routinely treated in industrial societies, a number of patients choose not to receive treatment, particularly when their medical condition affects only one ear,» Dr. Maison said.

«While there have been several advances in treating cancer and improving the quality of life of patients, the number of new cases continues to surge,» said Jamie Bernard, lead author and an assistant professor in pharmacology and toxicology.

Earlier this year, scientists at University of California, Los Angeles, and Advanced Cell Technology of Marlborough, Massachusetts, reported in The Lancet about the safe and successful use of RPE cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, rather than iPS cells, to treat a different type of AMD in a limited number of human patients.

Friedman notes that, even with the increasing number of drugs targeting specific molecular abnormalities that drive tumor growth, most patients are only treated with one such drug at a time.