Sentences with phrase «of additional patients»

The new rules and millions of additional patients have pushed many doctors into larger practices, which are now moving into more off - campus properties.

Not exact matches

This increase in abnormal test results can have negative consequences for medicine in the form of extra testing, additional patient visits to clinics / hospitals, and added doctor services, all of which result in additional costs and burdens to patients or to the healthcare system and are potentially harmful.

«If we bring forward innovative drugs that make a difference in the lives of patients, they'll continue to get attractive pricing,» he says, noting Biogen's work on potential breakthrough Alzheimer's and (additional) multiple sclerosis meds.

They cut down additional time spent in the waiting room by offering the endless pile of paperwork online for patients to fill out in advance.

Dan Chen, head of Roche / Genentech's cancer immunotherapy unit, told Fortune the data were particularly promising since they could lead to Tecentriq becoming a first response treatment and give additional credence to the company's argument that immunotherapies are more effective the earlier they're given to patients.

The Xarelto partnership is seeking additional approved uses, with trials underway in patients with acute coronary syndrome, and for reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with heart failure or peripheral artery disease.

In addition, many health providers are seeing patients with anxiety, fearful of the coming hurricane season and the additional challenges it might bring.

The results of another clinical trial published in the journal found that high - dose vitamins and minerals did not protect heart attack patients 50 and older from experiencing additional cardiovascular events, though the research was marred by a high dropout rate.

So what: Interventional cardiologists are increasingly relying on Abiomed's medical devices to boost patient blood circulation before, during, and after catheterization lab procedures, and in 2015, the FDA approval of its devices in additional high - risk heart procedures sent revenue zipping 47 % higher to $ 76 million last quarter.

The ability to reduce bad cholesterol by an additional 20 % could allow millions of patients to reach their bad cholesterol targets, yet investors reacted to Esperion Therapeutics» news by pressing the sell button.

After the patient has returned home from the hospital, the next stage of treatment is consolidation, in which patients receive several additional rounds of chemotherapy to build upon the effects of induction.

Unlike adult patients for whom the decision to undergo ACL reconstruction is relatively straightforward, the fact that many of our patients are still growing adds an additional level of complexity to the decision to undergo surgery for a torn ACL because there is a potential risk of growth disturbance.

We realize that children of cancer patients have additional needs - and we address them by giving them extra attention and support.

DayOne Baby offers Hospitals a completely outsourced outpatient breast pump rental program so that Hospitals can focus on what they do best, and can offer this vital service to patients by allowing us to deal with supply chain and inventory issues, logistics of serialized of capital equipment, billing, collecting, retrieval, cleaning, servicing, calibrating and all of the myriad additional details that running such a program entails.

Additional information requested from the study group included position of breast scar, implant volume, and whether loss of nipple sensation had occurred after the surgery (as judged by the patient).

For additional information, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology has a new patient brochure you can download: Preventing Allergies: What You Should Know About Your Baby's Nutrition.

A prospective study of the progress of labor in 220 nulliparous women and 99 multiparous women who spontaneously entered labor evaluated the benefit of prolonging oxytocin augmentation for an additional 4 hours (for a total of 8 hours) in patients who were dilated at least 3 cm and had unsatisfactory progress (either protraction or arrest) after an initial 4 - hour augmentation period (21).

Additional potential benefits are increased patient satisfaction, improved maternal / child well - being and reduced incidence of adverse outcomes including cesarean sections.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecolo - gists has identified additional resources on topics related to this document that may be helpful for ob - gyns, other health care providers, and patients.

«If reproduced over longer time periods and across the UK, as a whole, the additional numbers of patients presenting to [emergency care], with alcohol related problems could be very substantial.»

We applaud Trusts that screen their patients before admission, as the policy of not screening surely goes against the Government's ambition to reduce antimicrobial resistance, if we can prevent an infection by taking additional precautions where a positive screen is obtained then surely this reduces the need for antibiotics and makes a better outcome for the patient and save lives.

«We are producing medicine to meet the needs of our current patients and are in the process of rolling out two new products and additional ratios as our analytics lab is coming fully on - line and our grow is reaching optimum maturity,» she added.

Taking antibiotics when they are not needed creates additional health risks as it increases the chance a patient will experience an adverse drug reaction, and also leads to the development of antibiotic - resistant bacteria which affects everyone in the community.

WHEREAS, the Erie County Department of Mental Health has identified the need for additional inpatient beds, out - patient slots, community - based mediation - assisted treatment with methadone and suboxone, and related services to treat those suffering from opioid addiction; and

Haggling might grant the patient a few additional days (but also eats up the time and energy of medical professionals, Wille said).

According to official guidance A&E diverts, where an emergency department has temporarily closed because of the lack physical space and / or staff capacity to deal with any additional patients, should only occur as a «last resort».

Sandberg's study of adults with aphasia compared to same - age healthy adults indicates that issues may extend beyond language portions of the brain and therefore require additional intervention programs to ensure patients» full recovery.

Additional data from this study, also presented at The International Liver CongressTM today in Barcelona, Spain, show that 97 % of patients with the same HCV genotype, but without scarred livers, achieved SVR12 after eight weeks on the same treatment without ribavirin (RBV).

The researchers are analyzing more patient samples looking for additional cases of multiple copy number variants to continue their investigation of what may trigger this rare phenomenon.

Guo and his collaborators continue their studies by establishing additional mouse models of leukemia that have been transplanted with patient cells of relapsed and refractory disease.

An additional 29 patients received GO as part of their second round of three - drug chemotherapy.

Dr. David Brandman, lead author of the study and an engineering postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, said that while additional innovations will help to move implantable BCIs like BrainGate toward clinical availability for patients, this advance of rapid, intuitive calibration is a key one.

«Considering the marked prevalence of both prostate cancer and depression, additional efforts are needed to better understand and ameliorate the decreased survival following prostate cancer diagnosis in the depressed male patient.

This means that they must meet a number of additional regulatory requirements, including the development of performance standards, post-market surveillance, establishing patient registries and special labeling requirements.

«Moving forward, we'll need to conduct additional studies of many more patients to show that getting functional scans in the first hours or days after a stroke could provide valuable information for predicting outcome and tracking recovery.»

But unlike typical neuropathy patients, transthyretin amyloidosis patients develop more rapid progression of their disease as well as additional symptoms, such as problems with their digestion and irregular heartbeat, within about three to five years.

Some of the patients referred to us were found to be experiencing additional psychological difficulties, and needed further referral and management.

We used this combination for a second batch of 84 samples from 66 additional patients, performing two independent replicates from each sample (Fig. 1D).

The researchers were able to validate the test in an additional group of 80 patients at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

Although nanobacteria may not cause kidney stone disease, Coe notes additional circumstantial evidence: At least four teams have reported tiny spherical deposits in the calcified plaques that often appear in the kidneys of patients who suffer from kidney stones.

«While many patients with Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis present with isolated psychiatric symptoms, most of these patients subsequently develop, in a matter of days, additional neurological symptoms which help to make the diagnosis of the disease.

Reconstruction operations with implants involves the use of prosthetic breasts made of saline or silicone gel, while reconstruction using the patient's own abdominal tissue, known as autologous transfer, requires additional incisions, harvesting of tissue and transplantation of that to the breast.

Following additional scrutiny after Vioxx's withdrawal, and the addition of cardiovascular experts to the trial's data safety monitoring board, the DSMB concluded that patients taking a high dose of Celebrex had a 3.4-fold increase in the risk of heart attacks or strokes compared to those on placebo; those on a moderate dose had a 2.5-fold increase in risk.

«However, patients eventually experience progression of cancer on this treatment, highlighting the need for additional therapies.

Additional strategies such as use of electronic tracking programs and smartphone pain apps may be valuable to improve communication between PCPs, pain specialists, and chronic pain patients,» said Jamison.

The findings of this study may be useful for planning future support programs for cancer patients, and can provide additional information to guide programs for people with specific cancer types.

Indeed, all of the tumors from patients who carried this particular T - to - A mutation also had additional mutations that inactivate the APC gene.

The results of this trial are encouraging and deserve additional testing prior to becoming a standard of care for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.

In 22 percent of cases, the additional clinical information found in the EHR was rated as «possibly» having a clinically significant impact on the interpretation of the head CT. «This study exemplifies the power of EHR's and their potential impact on patient care and positive outcomes.

The research team's findings also revealed there was a 5.7 % decreased hazard of death per additional 20 patients treated per year per facility.