Sentences with phrase «of black patients»

Over the full study period, 62 % of black patients and 74 % of white patients underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy (P <.001).

Compared with hospitals with fewer black patients, hospitals with a higher proportion of black patients with in - hospital cardiac arrest achieved larger survival gains over time.

The authors also concluded that there was no evidence of a lower likelihood of black patients receiving a cardiac stress test with imaging (odds ratio, 0.91 [95 % CI, 0.69 to 1.21]-RRB- than their white counterparts — although some modest evidence of disparity in Hispanic patients was found (odds ratio, 0.75 [CI, 0.55 to 1.02]-RRB-.

And 64 percent of black patients in the study group were treated at these high - mortality centers compared to only 41 percent of white patients.

Not exact matches

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.

They include — and you should skip to the next paragraph if descriptions of medical injuries will nauseate you — a swollen bloody thumb, recently reconstructed after a fireworks injury; a 17 year - old's foot charred black by an electrical burn; and a worm pulled from a patient's anus.

Then there's Proteus Digital Health's ingestible sensor, which — with a technology worthy of an episode of Black Mirror — helps patients (and, if they want, their doctors and family members) keep tabs on whether or not they're taking their meds.

Simultaneously there arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black - haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit all day on one of the benches, or rather shelves against the wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undershirt, which was his only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure.

The patient's hard, black tongue is scarified and treated with a mixture of chile powder, natron, and soot.

This cash should be used for caring for patients - instead it is pouring into the black hole of the government's supercomputer.»

Watershed poll reveals two - thirds of patients say they would PAY to see an NHS doctor to help plug # 30 billion black hole 15 November 2015

«Using a black light allows us to assess the extent of the disease and counsel patients on sun protection measures and treatment options.»

«Older black and Hispanic patients admitted to hospitals for common surgeries have a disproportionately higher risk of developing complications.

In fact, black patients were nearly three times more likely than white patients to develop 12 of the 13 complications identified by researchers.

To conduct this work, Drs. Carmen Black and Brian Miller at Georgia Regents University collected and pooled data from 18 published studies, resulting in a combined total of 583 psychiatric patients with suicidality, 315 psychiatric patients without suicidality and 845 healthy control subjects.

Using data from the Pediatric Health Information System database, a large, regionally diverse system, the researchers examined racial disparities in the treatment and outcomes of hospitalized white and black pediatric patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease.

The researchers used electronic medical record databases and insurance claims to determine rates of diagnoses, prescription of psychotropic medications and formal psychotherapy sessions received by white, Asian, black, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian / other Pacific Islander, Native American / Alaskan Native and mixed - race patients.

Living donor kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with kidney failure, but disparities exist among certain groups including blacks and women.

«Among the subgroup of vaccinated patients who chose to have chemo later, we are seeing 40 percent survival at two years and 20 percent survival at three years,» says Black.

Among patients with that diagnosis, there was a significant over-representation of Asian and black patients compared with whites.

Meanwhile, his research teams are moving several other novel therapies toward clinical trials, each of which has potential for use in the synergistic model of cancer treatment that Black believes will offer the best hope for his patients.

Black grew frustrated that so little of that knowledge had been translated into effective new treatments for patients.

«We found that Asian and black patients have a substantially higher risk of severe cutaneous adverse reactions to urate - lowering drugs than do white or Hispanic patients, which correlates with the frequency of the HLA - B * 5801 gene in their U.S. populations,» says Hyon K. Choi, MD, DrPH, of the MGH Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, senior author of the report that has been published online in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

After adjusting for certain factors including age of patient at time of treatment, cause of female or male infertility, and type of treatment (ICSI vs IVF), the study found that White Irish, South Asian Indian, South Asian Bangladeshi, South Asian Pakistani, Black African, and Other Asian women had a significantly lower odds of a live birth than White British women.

Black patients represented 13 percent of allopurinol users and 26 percent of hospitalizations, while white patients represented 81 percent of allopurinol users but only 29 percent of hospitalizations.

«And yet more than six of every 10 black trauma patients are served each year in high - mortality hospitals, which increases their risk of death.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a «Black Box» warning about the use of sirolimus in lung transplant patients, at least when started at the time of transplantation.

During a four - year period from 2013 - 2017, the researchers analyzed patient data from the Johns Hopkins electronic medical record system (Epic) of 487,104 black women ages 18 and over.

«Other studies have looked at racial disparities in treatment and still others have focused on racial differences in survival rates of cancer patients, but our research attempted to go further by demonstrating the impact of race - based inequalities in cancer treatment on survival rates of black colorectal cancer patients,» said James D. Murphy, MD, MS, assistant professor and chief of the Radiation Oncology Gastrointestinal Tumor Service at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

The answers, I learned, lay in the grinding poverty and entrenched corruption of India, the desperation of patients on dialysis, and the transnational nature of the black market transplant business — which, though dominated by the kidney exchange, includes livers and hearts as well.

Secondary results of the study showed that independent of age and disease stage, black and American Indian women were approximately 35 percent less likely to undergo surgery than white women, and uninsured and Medicaid - insured patients were roughly 50 percent less likely to undergo surgery than privately insured patients.

Black said the researchers will aim to replicate these findings in additional patients and determine if and how the brain regions they identified may contribute to Tourette's syndrome, with a goal of developing more effective therapies.

«Although we do not know the reasons for the racial and ethnic differences we saw, one explanation could be that the black and Hispanic patients had surgery when they are much heavier and sicker than the non-Hispanic white patients,» said study lead author, Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Department of Research & Evaluation in Pasadena, Calif. «Our study highlights that surgery may be an important intervention tool for people earlier in their weight gain trajectory.

The Black Hawk medevac team who brought him to AFTH Balad said that the patient might be a member of the Iraqi Police Service, a civil force maintained by the Republic of Iraq.

Tackett and his colleagues tested samples of veins taken from the legs of patients — 60 of them white and 22 black — during coronary artery bypass surgery.

So he designed a study of 1,050 self - identified black patients and found in 2004 that the medication decreased their death rates by 43 percent.

Another possibility is that the often - related socioeconomic status of being black and poor and uninsured makes it hard for patients to remain connected to care after diagnosis.

No more will a chip - assisted patient have a fat black cable sticking out of his skull and running to an amplifier the size of a cigar box.

A reduction in survival differences between black and white patients was attributable to elimination of racial differences in acute resuscitation survival (black individuals: 44.7 percent in 2000 and 64.1 percent in 2014; white individuals: 47.1 percent in 2000 and 64 percent in 2014).

Mayo Clinic researchers conducted a statistical analysis to determine the degree of divergence in differentially expressed RNAs in patients with c9ALS (black) with those in patients with sALS (purple) or healthy individuals (green, controls).

Results published in Arthritis & Rheumatology, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), show that black and Hispanic SLE patients were more likely to be readmitted than white patients.

When controlling for comorbidities and type of insurance coverage, the readmission rate for Hispanic patients dropped 44 percent, and for black patients, 38 percent.

The patient base in this study was ethnically diverse; the group of patients analyzed were 68 percent white, 15 percent black, 12 percent Hispanic, and 4 percent Asian / Pacific Islander.

The study looked at differences in the characteristics of hospitals where black versus white patients were treated, including whether nursing care needs were unmet «rarely, sometimes, or frequently.»

Okyanos is the flagship for Black Beret Life Sciences» development of an international stem cell treatment network based on patient safety and transparency to further the global reach of regenerative medicine.

While all of these factors seemed to play some role in the rates of genetic testing among black and white patients, the most important factor, by far, turned out to be something more disturbing: the doctors» behavior.

The NCI estimates it will take about two years to collect sufficient data and material on 2,400 patients across the nation with early onset of the six cancers who are black, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaska Native or white.

Stratified reports could also raise awareness of racial disparities in care, provide a framework for feedback and accountability of health plans and clinicians, and ideally promote effective efforts to improve care for patients who experience worse outcomes, particularly black Americans with diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease.

The researchers looked at several factors that might explain this racial difference, such as whether there were differences in tumor characteristics between black patients and white patients, or differences in a family history of breast cancer — both factors that a doctor must consider before deciding whether a genetic test will likely benefit a particular patient.

According to a survey conducted by Black Book, 91 percent of patients under the age of 50 favored practices that offered exceptional connectivity and patient portals.