Sentences with phrase «of outcomes for patients»

«Tai chi mind - body treatment results in similar or greater improvement in symptoms than aerobic exercise, the current most commonly prescribed nondrug treatment, for a variety of outcomes for patients with fibromyalgia,» the study authors wrote.

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But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

He also points to the «outcomes - based» pricing model that the company will be instituting alongside the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-- Novartis will only receive reimbursements for Kymriah if patients respond to it after the first month of treatment.

As we wait for more evidence to emerge with the use of this «living drug,» let's hope the CMS announcement heralds a new era in finding ways to link reimbursement to patient outcomes.

«While we are disappointed CheckMate - 026 did not meet its primary endpoint in this broad patient population, we remain committed to improving patient outcomes through our comprehensive development program, including the ongoing Phase III CheckMate - 227 study exploring the potential of the combination of Opdivo plus [our other cancer immunotherapy] Yervoy for PD - L1 positive patients, and Opdivo plus Yervoy, or Opdivo plus chemotherapy in PD - L1 negative patients,» he added.

The letter included six points of focus for the company, including aligning payments with better medical outcomes for patients instead of simply paying for each medical service, which is how the current system is built.

But let's consider two major positives: First, with both patients and stakeholders investing in our healthcare system, we're all on the same team: We all want to see more positive outcomes for our loved ones and improvements in the health of our nation, both literally and financially.

Novartis (nvs) chief Joe Jiminez has been touting a pricing model that incorporates drugs» real - world outcomes for years, stressing the importance of placing patients before profits; Regeneron (regn) head honcho Len Schliefer had some tough words for fellow panelists from Eli Lilly (lly) and Pfizer (pfe)(who argued that media reports about their own continued reliance on price increases to drive revenues is misleading) during Forbes» event.

To illustrate the issue, over the past 20 years, the cost of a new drug per year of a patient's life has risen from $ 50,000 to $ 250,000 after adjusting for inflation, according to Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who also spoke at the conference.

«As the specialty pharmacy of choice for many payers and patients, we are focused on creating the most clinically advanced specialty pharmacy experience to help improve care and outcomes for our patients,» said CVS Specialty EVP Dr. Alan Lotvin in a statement.

David Roman of Goldman Sachs Research shares how an Internet of Things - enabled US healthcare system could result in better outcomes for patients and efficiency gains across the healthcare space.

Top - ranked for both orthopedics and rheumatology for 26 consecutive years, HSS is an engine of research and innovation (112 inventions in 2016 alone), medical education (serving physicians in more than 150 countries) and better patient outcomes (Net Promoter Score of 92).

Vertically integrated provider of value - based Kidney Care solutions for Health Systems and Payers delivering improved patient outcomes at reduced costs.

Under PPACA, certain fees, known as Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute («PCORI») fees, have been established for funding medical research and comparing outcomes of various medical tecOutcomes Research Institute («PCORI») fees, have been established for funding medical research and comparing outcomes of various medical tecoutcomes of various medical techniques.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

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Meet Omada Health: With 87M consumers at risk of diabetes, 75,000 patients treated, 3 years of outcomes data, NetPromoter scores in the 90's, 70 + clients, and looming reimbursement by Medicare for its diabetes prevention online social network, Omada has «cracked the code» on integrating consumer technology, medical coaching and big data at scale.

For example, even though their numbers are vanishingly few, a close study of patients with sex «change operations might demonstrate what outcomes constitute a success or failure of this life «threatening operation.

A search of Pubmed [a data base containing all medical journal articles] for platelet rich plasma yields 6,811 articles, but less than 20 are clinical studies evaluating patient outcomes for orthopedic sports medicine conditions.

With the addition of the region's only female board certified reproductive endocrinologist, Carrie Bedient MD in 2015, we have consistently maintained our longstanding commitment to achieving the best possible outcomes for our patients.

For example, the fact that 27 transfer patients are listed as having a physician as their planned birth attendant is most likely due to errors in birth - certificate completion; data are currently lacking to inform the degree of misclassification related to this and others factors that affect the study outcomes.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth caFor the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth cafor patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

This evaluation, mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (P.L. 111 - 148), is designed to build knowledge for policymakers and practitioners about the effectiveness of the MIECHV program in improving outcomes for at - risk children and families.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine (SMFM) stated that, «one of the most effective tools to improve labor and delivery outcomes is the continuous presence of support personnel, such as a doula... continuous one - on - one support during labor and delivery was associated with improved patient satisfaction and a statistically significant reduction in the rate of cesarean delivery».

Lauri provides the required consultation for each of these services prior to the start of a patient's cycle to foster full informed consent of these complex procedures and the possible outcomes.

He stressed the importance of obstetricians understanding their patients» preferences, noting that the wrong outcome would be for women to resort to home birth simply because they don't trust the medical establishment to do what they want.

e envision a compulsory process for the collection of patient (individual) level data on key process and outcome measures in all birth settings.

We envision a compulsory process for the collection of patient (individual) level data on key process and outcome measures in all birth settings.

Although such a calculator may provide more specific information about the chance of VBAC, which can be used by health care providers and their patients to further the process of shared decision making, no prediction model for VBAC has been shown to result in improved patient outcomes.

Through the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF), GPs are rewarded financially for recording the number of obese patients — yet, ironically, not for doing anything about it.

And secondly, if doctors are corrupted by making money, as they are in my experience, and doctors who in theory have a professional ethic of putting the patient first, well for Christ's sake, businessmen are going to be infinitely more corrupted and will be much more concerned about cutting corners and squeezing as much money out of the system as possible without any deep, ethical concern for the outcome.»

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 will ensure we have the right number of nurses on hospital wards, giving nurses more time to care for each patient and ensuring better outcomes for patients.

He is an expert in the use of systems - based methods to improve patient outcomes, a leading researcher in use of large scale clinical laboratories and electronic health records to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of care, and a nationally recognized thought leader in the very methods needed to transition to the future of lower - cost, more patient - centered, health care for the 21st century.

Now, testing of that compound is leading to a better prognosis for mice with the disease and the possibility of potential drugs that will improve outcomes for patients with SMA.

Two other multi-national trials randomized 27,438 patients to either bococizumab or placebo and were designed to evaluate the impact of the drug on cardiovascular outcomes, including nonfatal heart attack and stroke, hospitalization for unstable angina requiring urgent revascularization, or cardiovascular death.

Future resources from the NCI Center for Cancer Genomics (CCG), which oversees TCGA and other activities, will support more translationally focused research, including databases with genomic information on clinical samples linked to outcomes of their patient donors.

«This new platform allows you to view a patient's arterial anatomy in a three - dimensional image, as if it is right in front of you, which may help interventional radiologists more quickly and thoroughly plan for the equipment and tools they'll need for a successful outcome.»

«Our research indicates that insertion of cervical pessary at around 22 weeks in both randomly selected women pregnant with twins and in patients with a short cervix of less than 25 millimeters does not reduce the rate of spontaneous early preterm birth, perinatal death, adverse neonatal outcome, or need for neonatal therapy.»

Researchers at the Veterans Health Administration conducted a systematic review of 67 published studies to determine the effectiveness of strategies to reduce or discontinue long - term opioid therapy prescribed for chronic pain and the effect of dose reduction or discontinuation on important patient outcomes.

The book chronicles Sweet's work in the early 1990s at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital, where she treated elderly and disabled patients for long stretches of time and achieved successful outcomes.

«Although radiosurgery has been shown to be an effective post-surgical treatment for metastatic brain tumors, previous studies did not compare patient outcomes from a single hospital over the same period of time,» said N. Scott Litofsky, M.D., chief of the Division of Neurological Surgery at the MU School of Medicine and senior author of the study.

If hypofractionated radiation with curative intent can reduce the treatment time for lung cancer patients by half with no greater toxicity, and with equivalent — if not better — tumor control and survival outcomes, this research could result in a change in the paradigm of how a large subset of locally advanced NSCLC patients are treated.»

«By administering chemotherapy within this «therapeutic window,» oncologists could apply a lower dose of chemotherapy drugs to patients, with the potential for an improved treatment outcome — all while minimizing drug toxicity to healthy organs,» He said.

«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.»

The authors identified 68 publications meeting criteria for inclusion in the analysis: 59 reporting the prevalence of preoperative mental health conditions (65,363 patients) and 27 reporting associations between preoperative mental health conditions and postoperative outcomes (50,182 patients).

While randomized clinical trials are the gold standard of clinical research, such trials are not feasible for testing anesthesia technique in joint replacement surgeries, because the low incidence outcomes would require a huge number of patients.

The authors conclude, «Unvalidated guidelines to prevent neuroimaging in patients with headaches may reduce the perceived global economic burden at the expense of medical errors, delayed diagnoses, and inferior outcomes for patients with brain tumor.»

Loyola University Medical Center is the first hospital in Illinois to offer a new high - tech catheter device that can improve outcomes of patients treated for atrial fibrillation, the most common irregular heartbeat.

«Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more comorbidities than patients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authorPatients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more comorbidities than patients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authorpatients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authors write.