Sentences with phrase «of general patient care»

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Once patients are familiar with the general idea of digital - service provision, organizations can begin offering more complex, high - value services, such as integrated - care companion apps or mobile health records.

There's a general trend in America of emergency care being covered less and less by insurance companies while patients pay...

In January 2009, then - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the settlement of an investigation into the method used by certain health insurers to determine reimbursements for patients who received care from out - of - network providers.

For helping many alcoholics, I am convinced that we shall need far more multilevel institutions that serve only alcoholics (through bed care, day - hospital care, out - patient care, etc.) as well as an increase in facilities that are part of general and mental hospitals and other kinds of institutions.

As Albert Deutsch showed in his monumental history of care of the mentally ill, some 19th century institutions did provide humane care, as well as general medical and surgical treatment for patients who needed it.

The dentistry issued a statement of sympathy for Mykel and his parents and said that it would be premature to comment on any specifics until outside medical experts finish their review, but they said they have used general anesthesia more than 1,900 times for pediatric patients in the last three and a half years without incident, and that they contract with a board - certified anesthesiologist who follows all protocols including pre-operative check and approval by the child's primary care physician before putting the child under anesthesia.

This American College of Radiologists article was prepared by the ACR Committee on Drugs and Contrast Media of the General and Pediatric Radiology Commission in 2010 to serve as a guide that may assist radiologists in their clinical evaluation and decision - making in regard to patient care in the administration of contrast media.

«Dante's general check - up wasn't all that different from the care you and I receive, and he was a good patient, never snapping at any of the vets during the exam,» said Dr. O'Connor.

Ahead of the general election Macmillan will be calling on all three parties to commit to: • deliver cancer outcomes that match the best in Europe • ensure all cancer patients are treated with the highest levels of dignity and respect and that staff are supported to do this • ensure everyone at the end of life is given free social care to support them to spend their final weeks and days in the place of their choosing.

«That this House opposes the Government's plans to impose a polyclinic, or GP - led health centre, in every primary care trust; regrets that this could result in the closure of up to 1,700 GP surgeries; is concerned that the imposition of polyclinics against the will of patients and GPs could be detrimental to standards of care, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable, by breaking the vital GP / patient link; further regrets that these plans are being imposed without consultation; is alarmed at the prospective loss of patient access to local GP services at a time when care closer to home should be strengthened; believes that the Government's plans would jeopardise the independence and commissioning capability of general practice in the future; supports the strengthening of access to diagnostic and therapeutic services without undermining the structure of GP services; and calls on the Government to reconsider its plans for polyclinics.

As a general internist who has cared for patients at Bellevue Hospital in New York, Dr. Shah knows firsthand the impact on vulnerable populations of inadequate resources.

The NYSDOH is providing guidance and information on infection control protocols and procedures to ensure the health and safety of all health care workers, patients, visitors and the general public.

------------------------------------ Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the arrest and arraignment of 4 former employees of Focus Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Cooperstown, who are accused of leaving a 94 - year - old patient left in a recliner with substandard care for 41 hours over the Memorial Day weekend in May.

Mokdad said increasing access to primary care, such as general practitioners and physician assistants, would help identify patients» early warning signs of poor health.

In the study, patients who underwent conscious sedation had a similar rate of adverse events to those who underwent anesthesia, but those who were given conscious sedation had shorter stays in the intensive care unit (30 versus 96 hours for those with general anesthesia) and shorter hospital stays (4.9 days versus 10.4 days).

In a report published June 28 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the research team describes how these interventions reduced overuse of troponin and other biomarker testing without compromising patient care.

«From a clinical standpoint, our findings suggest that CRP could be used to risk stratify patients before surgery, enabling proactive interventions that target patients at risk for developing postoperative delirium,» said Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, PhD, co-lead author and postdoctoral fellow in the Division of General Medicine at Primary Care at BIDMC and HMS.

«In general, across all the health systems, people with serious mental illness aren't getting a lot of psychotherapy as a form of treatment, and maybe that's a missed opportunity for our health systems to provide care to those patients.»

«In examining SAGES patients who had undergone major elective surgery, we compared patients who developed delirium with those who did not,» explained Vasunilashorn, a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC and HMS.

«Although we found IL - 6 elevated significantly in the delirious patients two days after surgery, we did not find the elevation to be statistically significant at one month following surgery,» said co-lead author Ngo, biostatistician in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC and Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS.

The DSM describes the symptoms of more than 300 officially recognized mental illnesses — depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and others — helping counselors, psychiatrists and general care practitioners diagnose their patients.

«Because laboratory tests play such a crucial and ubiquitous role in medicine, efforts to identify opportunities for improvement in the selection of tests have the potential to contribute greatly to the care patients receive,» adds William Taylor, MD, a clinician in BIDMC's Division of General Medicine and Primary Ccare patients receive,» adds William Taylor, MD, a clinician in BIDMC's Division of General Medicine and Primary CareCare.

«Prior research at Yale has demonstrated that buprenorphine treatment is highly effective in primary care, and this study was designed in part to expand the reach of this treatment to this critical ED patient population,» said Dr. Patrick O'Connor, professor of medicine and chief of general internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

Future research should look at data from state prescription drug monitoring programs and data on other substance use to get a more comprehensive view of how patients are using opioids,» said Karen E Lasser, MD, MPH, a general internist at BMC with expertise in improving the quality of care for underserved patient populations, who served as co-principal investigator of the study.

«The patients who sought care for chronic breathlessness appeared to have a significantly impaired quality of life than the general population.

Pain is the most common symptom reported both in the general population and patients seen in primary care, the leading cause of work disability, and a condition that costs the United States more than $ 600 billion each year in health care and lost productivity.

The women's details had been entered into the primary care General Practice Research Database (GPRD), which holds millions of anonymized medical records for patients across the UK.

Saket Girotra, M.D., S.M., of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, and colleagues conducted a study that included 112,139 patients from the GWTG - Resuscitation registry from January 2000 through December 2014 with in - hospital cardiac arrest who were hospitalized in intensive care units or general inpatient units.

Recent research using national data on Medicare suggests that community - based factors, such as availability of general practitioners in the area, may be as or more important than hospital factors in determining readmission rates, and that patients may have few options other than hospital care for both urgent and non-urgent conditions related to their surgery or other conditions.

«Hospital - based clinicians frequently treat patients with acute pain, and although opioids may sometimes be beneficial in this setting, they do carry the risk of adverse events including inadvertent overdose and physical dependence,» said lead author Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH, Director of Hospital Medicine Research in BIDMC's Division of General Medicine and Primary Care Sections of Hospital Medicine and Research.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center — which are recognized as one of the nation's top «Honor Roll» hospitals by U.S. News & World Report — Chester County Hospital; Lancaster General Health; Penn Medicine Princeton Health; Penn Wissahickon Hospice; and Pennsylvania Hospital — the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751.

«To date, cerebrospinal fluid analyses have not been a routine component of assessment and care for patients with cognitive impairments and suspected Alzheimer's disease in the United States,» Dr. A. Zara Herskovits, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Dr. John H. Growdon, of Massachusetts General Hospital, wrote in an editorial that accompanied the study.

A report from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators, published in the journal Brain, is the first to test such an approach in acutely ill patients for whom critical decisions may need to be made regarding the continuation of life - sustaining care.

Its mission is to increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment, to educate physicians, and other health care providers and the public, to support research and prevention, to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the care of patients with addictive disorders, and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health care services and the general public.

PLOS Medicine publishes research and commentary of general interest with clear implications for patient care, public policy or clinical research agendas.

But while most PDX mice are used as general models of human cancer in the laboratory, others seek to use them as Fiebig originally hoped — as avatars to guide customized patient care.

Physicians in the Section of General Internal Medicine specialize in primary care for adults, and in the care of patients with acute and chronic multi-system conditions.

Colleen Snydeman, director of quality and safety for Patient Care Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, felt the full force of Hurricane Maria three weeks after September 20, 2017, the day the storm devastated Puerto Rico.

Even in establishing the clinic at Mass General, Choy said they deliberately marketed the service to referring physicians as being part of the medical team, and not as an effort to overstep their role in a patient's care.

Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

Using a national sample of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries, we found that patients who receive care from female general internists have lower 30 - day mortality and readmission rates than do patients cared for by male internists.

We are recruiting and enrolling 10 primary care physicians (PCPs) and 100 of their generally healthy middle - aged patients ages 40 - 65 to evaluate the use of General Genomic Medicine, and 10 cardiologists and 100 of their patients with hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy to evaluate the use of Disease - Specific Genomic Medicine.

The Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital is combating immune - mediated diseases by integrating patient care, basic and clinical research and education of physician - scientists.

This article is provided for general educational purposes only and is not intended to constitute medical advice or counseling, the practice of medicine or the provision of health care diagnosis or treatment, the creation of a physician - patient relationship, or an endorsement, recommendation, or sponsorship of any third - party product or service by the sender or the sender's affiliates, agents, employees, or service providers.

One study found that patients were five times as likely to have an «adverse event» — any injury caused by medical care — when covered by a doctor who didn't know them, which happens when a shift changes, explains David Bates, MD, chief of the division of general internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

In general, and there are outliers to this of course, it's probably like a bell curve, but the middle of the bell curve functional medicine doctor cares about doing the right thing, really wants their patients to get better, is trying to learn to be a better physician, and is just probably a better clinician than a business person and so hasn't been able to develop like a scalable practice where they could see where they couldn't deliver value outside of just sitting across from someone and just working with them.

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Many clinicians and health care professionals prescribe foam rolling for their patients for any number of muscle - related injuries, general soreness, recovery, or prevention.

Percentages of adults with screen - positive depression (Patient Health Questionnaire - 2 score of ≥ 3) and adjusted odds ratios (AORs) of the effects of sociodemographic characteristics on odds of screen - positive depression; percentages with treatment for screen - positive depression and AORs; percentages with any treatment of depression and AORs stratified by presence of serious psychological distress (Kessler 6 scale score of ≥ 13); and percentages with depression treatment by health care professional group (psychiatrists, other health care professionals, and general medical providers); and type of depression treatment (antidepressants, psychotherapy, and both) all stratified by distress level.