The new data also showed that Medicaid remained the primary source
of patient volume, but also continued to be a growing percentage of the total patient days in the fourth quarter of 2016.
Not exact matches
The spike in
patient volume was likely due to a combination
of an overburdened health care system further taxed by the start
of the flu season, and shows how telehealth solutions can help address staff and bedding shortages in hospitals.
Lastly, the network standard will also help usher in a new era
of «personalized health care,» in which massive
volumes of patient data can be used to develop predictive analytics which can then be tailored to an individual
patient and their illness.
In an email from Ghorban:» «Medicaid represents 17 %
of patients but 23 %
of pill
volume because
of greater number
of refills.»
«Although there may not be immediate benefit for
patients as specific plan sponsors will need to purchase the coverage, this move will make covering medical cannabis simpler than today's exception process and speaks
volumes to the broader acceptance and legitimacy
of medical cannabis,» he said.
On average, hospitals that achieved savings with the bundled model were larger with an average
of 301 beds compared to 230 for hospitals that did not achieve savings, and had higher
patient volumes.
The estimate is based on
patient and procedure
volumes, number and types
of hospitals, and expected sales prices (28 EU member states, Norway, and Switzerland).
The production
of these
volumes is more like the
patient and loving knitting
of a fine garment than the printing
of a book.
Realistically, de Kruif spoke
of the medicine and the cure, stating, «It is free as air — with this provision: that the
patients it cures have to nearly die before they can bring themselves to take it» (Dick B., The Golden Text
of AA., pp. 69 - 70; see also
Volume II: Best
of The Grapevine.
The essay «God as Monica's Breast» is worth the price
of the
volume, and the «Consenting to Die» essay, which discusses suicide and death as something to do» rather than just wait for, breaks into a fictional discussion between a doctor and a cancer
patient.
Second, Johnson himself found that there was no correlation between the
volume of high paying vs. low paying
patients and the C - section rate.
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).
But several factors — the insurance industry's practice
of compensating obstetricians per intervention, the growing pressures on physicians to carry a high
volume of patients, the fear
of lawsuits should births go badly — have combined to dissuade hospitals and medical practices from taking a wait - and - see approach to healthy labors.
Poughkeepsie, NY... Local, regional and state health care and emergency response professionals came together today to conduct a table top training exercise on a draft «Alternate Care Site» plan designed to deal with a surge in
patient volume in the local health care system that exceeds capacity in the event
of a widespread or pandemic illness.
What I do know is the bill is important for creating a mechanism to deliver needed aid to truly needy hospitals [such as] New York City Health + Hospitals, other public hospitals, hospitals with high
volumes of Medicaid and uninsured
patients, and many rural hospitals.»
ALBANY — The $ 360 million construction project that will accommodate the growing
volume of patients at Albany Medical Center will rise from the ground soon.
Google declined to discuss what other kinds
of tools it could build on the
Patient Rescue platform — for instance by setting its artificial intelligences to work on huge
volumes of data from millions
of patients.
You have to do a certain
volume of clinical activity, and you have certain scores and grades from your
patients.
In addition, even after hospitals achieved a
volume of 100 or so cases, there continued to be improvement in
patient outcomes with higher procedure
volume,» said John D. Carroll, M.D., professor
of medicine and director
of interventional cardiology at the University
of Colorado Hospital and lead author
of the study.
In the last few years, however, some neuroscientists have begun to look at the bigger picture, generating magnetic resonance images
of PTSD
patients» brains and carefully measuring the
volumes of the organs» many bewildering regions.
EM: Imaging such as MRIs or CT scans, which reveal the mass and
volume of the tumor, can fool you sometimes: The
patient gets a scan, goes on a therapy, and when they return in a month for a second imaging, the structure and size
of the tumor haven't changed.
The researchers suggest better educating
patients and providers so that those at risk
of complications seek out high -
volume surgeons that tend to have better outcomes.
In fact, HemoTech constituted 25 percent
of each
patient's blood
volume during the treatment.
The researchers found that in
patients with SAD, brain
volume and activity in the amygdala decrease as a result
of ICBT.
«Identifying the correct, specific diagnosis often can be challenging for physicians who do not see a high
volume of patients with spinal cord impairment,» says Nicholas Zalewski, M.D., a clinical fellow in the Department
of Neurology at Mayo Clinic and first author on the study.
After just nine weeks
of internet - delivered cognitive behavioral therapy, the brain
of patients suffering from social anxiety disorder changes in
volume.
The study was conducted at Parkland, the public health system for Dallas County, the ninth largest county by population and one
of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S.. From Parkland's system
of 10 neighborhood - based pediatric clinics, researchers identified four clinics with the largest
volume of patients aged 11 to 18.
This appears to be the case: the greater the number
of risk genes a person possessed, the smaller the
volume of their hippocampus — regardless
of whether they were a high - risk study participant or a
patient.
«Our study suggests that system factors such as access to care and emergency department annual chest pain
volume are the strongest predictors
of follow - up rather than
patient factors.
This study
of 37
patients (24 men and 13 women, ages 51 to 80) who have never been treated with chemotherapy found direct correlation
of the amount
of cfDNA with tumor metabolism (based on PET - derived parameters), but not with metabolic tumor
volume.
The study showed that
patients admitted to academic medical centers that care for more
patients with severe sepsis have significantly lower mortality rates than
patients cared for at academic medical centers with lower
volumes of sepsis
patients.
«High
volume of severe sepsis
patients may result in better outcomes.»
High -
volume lung transplant centers have lower transplantation costs and their
patients are less likely to be readmitted within 30 days
of leaving the hospital following surgery, according to a new study
of more than 3,000 Medicare
patients who received lung transplants.
«Our findings confirm what other surgeons have observed — implementation
of a TAVR program likely will broaden the surgical referral base and increase the
volume of patients considered for treatment.»
To test whether Japanese encephalitis virus could be successfully identified from the samples, the researchers carried out a retrospective analysis on cerebrospinal fluid for
patients tested for the virus between 2009 — 2015 in Laos, with a total
of 132 samples containing sufficient fluid
volume for testing.
The study is titled «Epicardial adipose tissue
volume predicts extent
of left atrial fibrosis in
patients with atrial fibrillation.»
«Study reveals effects
of chemoradiation in brains
of glioblastoma
patients: Reduced grey matter
volume, enlargement
of ventricular space appear to be early, progressive.»
To do this, they switched from using dead tumour cell samples to
patient - derived tumour cell lines, in which fresh samples
of a person's tumour are grafted onto mice and grown to the required
volumes.
However, a
patient with a large
volume of disease in the lung may, in fact, have a worse prognosis than someone with a small
volume of disease in the liver,» Dr. Joseph says.
In a related commentary, Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, writes: «There is broad consensus among physicians, hospital and health insurance leaders, and policy makers to reform payment to health care providers so as to reduce the role
of fee for service, which encourages high
volume, and instead to use systems that reward better
patient outcomes, such as bundled payments for a population or for an episode
of care.»
«Should
patients be expected to travel hundreds
of miles for surgery by a designated high -
volume surgeon?
Patients of high -
volume surgeons (75th percentile
of yearly mesh - based procedures) had a significantly lower risk for experiencing the composite outcome (surgical procedures related to removal or revision
of mesh slings).
Analysis
of 113 fecal samples
of patients with metastatic melanoma found that those who responded to a PD1 checkpoint inhibitor had a greater diversity
of gut bacteria and larger
volumes of a specific type
of bacteria than those who did not respond.
Currently, cancer is present in one in 10 biopsies ordered by physicians, but all must be analyzed by pathologists to identify the extent and
volume of the disease, determine if it has spread and whether the
patient has an aggressive or indolent cancer and needs chemotherapy or a less drastic treatment.
During that time,
patients experienced an average reduction
of 11mmHg in systolic blood pressure and an average reduction in
volume of 1 liter.
They compared and analyzed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain images
of 1,680 healthy individuals and 884
patients with schizophrenia from 11 research institutes participating in Cognitive Genetics Collaborative Research Organization (COCORO), and examined the differences between schizophrenia and healthy controls in the subcortical regional
volumes and their asymmetries.
Using standard liposuction, a small
volume of the
patient's fat tissue (< 450 ml) was extracted and then the cells were separated from the tissue and concentrated (Celution ® System, Cytori Therapeutics, San Diego) on - site.
Patients treated with processed autologous adipose - derived regenerative cells (ADRCs) injected into the heart muscle demonstrated symptomatic improvement and a trend towards lower rates
of heart failure hospitalizations and angina, despite no improvement in left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) or ventricular
volumes.
URI translational research projects are possible also thanks to an impressive
volume of biological samples stored in a dedicated biobank and
of data collected by more than 30.000
patients during the years.
Long - term follow - up
of a large phase III study showed that chemohormonal therapy involving docetaxel added to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) prolongs overall survival (OS) over ADT alone in metastatic hormone - sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC)
patients with high -
volume disease.