Sentences with phrase «of standard interventions»

This provides information that is not usually part of standard interventions, and is what potentially makes NET an especially efficient and efficacious therapeutic solution for traumatic stress.

Not exact matches

This argument, which seems more ideological than empirical, is based on standard trade theory in which there is an implicit assumption that any intervention will drive trade performance away from its optimum, so that the United States always gains from the further opening up of its own market, even if trade partners don't reciprocate.

Theo So I assume you think that a society can not make laws and standards based on precedents, is that not how most societies were developed without the need of divine intervention?

There would be no external standards of what is right and wrong, just and unjust, moral and immoral, by which its results could be judged; there would be no guarantee that, even in the absence of outside intervention, globalization would be a benign process; and there would be no assurance that in a free society, left to itself, we could count on an evolution of moral beliefs to generate values which would continue to underpin the market order.19

Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the world system produced through neo-liberal politics should be founded on hegemony, arrogance, military intervention and the cynical manipulation of double standards.

NWHN also has a long history of advocacy around the standard of evidence necessary to prove that routine interventions used during pregnancy and childbirth, including medications, are safe and effective.

It certainly is ironic that, while the gold standard of medical research is the randomized controlled trial, which generally looks at the risks and benefits of an intervention on a population level, it is individual women who have to make the decisions — and individual women may not always find these kind of data helpful.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

When women receive the message that they must meet a certain standard (unmedicated childbirth, exclusive breastfeeding, co-sleeping, 24/7 baby wearing, etc.) in order to be a good mother or that things like childbirth interventions, formula, and sleep training are actually harmful to their babies, it sets them up for exhaustion, isolation, and feelings of failure.

The FACT is... more women DO die in hospital births (from things that could be prevented, or from unnecessary interventions) than in home births, and that women were NOT «dying in droves» from home births back in the day... death during birth was fairly uncommon until women were forced into dirty birth centers with doctors knocking them out and delivering their babies without being held to any sanitation standards because promiscuity was on the rise and we had to keep the «dirty women» separate from the rest of the hospital.

midwives do not want to avoid all intervention; they want to avoid UNNECESSARY and HARMFUL intervention — which is the standard of care in hospitals.

The methodological quality of the studies was mixed and the components of the standard care interventions and extra support interventions varied a lot and were not always well described.

Methods: The Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) randomized 31 Belarusian maternity hospitals and their affiliated polyclinics either to receive a breastfeeding promotion intervention modelled on the WHO / UNICEF Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative or to continue the standard practices in effect at the time of raIntervention Trial (PROBIT) randomized 31 Belarusian maternity hospitals and their affiliated polyclinics either to receive a breastfeeding promotion intervention modelled on the WHO / UNICEF Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative or to continue the standard practices in effect at the time of raintervention modelled on the WHO / UNICEF Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative or to continue the standard practices in effect at the time of randomization.

If you come to the hospital believing that every intervention is going to undermine your labor (false), and that medical professional are not looking out for you and your babies» best interests (also false), you are fairly likely to have a shitty time because the normal, preventative - medicine - based standard of care contradicts the idea that «trusting birth» is enough to produce good outcomes.

With the goal of improved health outcomes for children through increased emotional engagement of fathers, our research is anticipated to lead to new evidence - based standards for intervention.

Intervention Subjects were randomized to either a peer counselor who saw the mother weekly for 6 weeks or to standard of care.

Frank et al. (41) evaluated a combination of hospital - based interventions (research discharge bags vs. research counseling) versus both (research bags + research counseling) versus standard care (commercial discharge packs and limited breastfeeding counseling)-RRB- among predominantly minority women (65 % black, 19 % Hispanic).

Caulfield et al. (42) and Gross et al. (43) describe the results of a WIC intervention in which similar WIC clinics serving black women were randomized to offer enhanced breastfeeding services (PC vs. breastfeeding video / pamphlets in the waiting room vs. both interventions combined vs. standard WIC care).

Chapman et al. (6) evaluated the effectiveness of an existing PC program (vs. standard care), whereas Anderson et al. (25) evaluated the efficacy of a more intensive intervention promoting exclusive breastfeeding (vs. standard care).

Intervention is helpful when there's a true emergency, but it should not be the standard of care.

Five studies offered the intervention in the context of Baby Friendly accreditation of the hospital, and are unlikely to be generalisable to settings where this standard of care is not available to all women.

As noted above, included studies were very varied in setting, population group studied, content, timing and intensity of the intervention, whether it was proactively offered to women or available only if they asked for it, the standard care available, staff training programmes, and the type and timing of the outcomes measured.

A striking aspect of this updated review is the heterogeneity of the support interventions, and the diversity of settings and of standard care.

Blinding «was not possible at the LGA (randomisation) or cluster levels; however, individual women in the LGAs were not aware of the intervention allocation — the intention was that any trial arm allocation was «standard» care within the LGA during the intervention period».

Intervention (n = 116): in addition to standard care, mothers were invited to an outpatient visit in a primary care physician's office within 2 weeks of the birth to see a primary care doctor who had received special breastfeeding education.

Intervention 1: standard care plus 3 in - hospital professional breastfeeding support sessions, of 30 — 45 min in duration

Randomized controlled clinical trial evaluating determinants of successful breastfeeding: follow - up two months after comprehensive intervention versus standard care delivery

By working together through a myriad of challenging scenarios, ELAC, Oxfam and their collaborators ultimately hope to create a handbook on humanitarian intervention that will outline common moral dilemmas and ethical standards for resolving them that can be applied by practitioners around the world.

Strict minimum water quality and environmental impact targets are set and interventions of this kind, through periodically upgraded standards, have improved services.

And yet opponents of military intervention demand very high evidential standards for what has happened.

The House of Representatives spokesman while addressing journalists in Abuja on Thursday said that the constituency projects funds, also known as zonal intervention funds, were standard international practice.

Nwodo also demanded urgent presidential interventions on the Enugu Airport, reticulation of the gas pipelines in the South - East and the standard gauge plan for railway construction.

The team compared the effectiveness of nudge - type strategies with more standard policy interventions, calculating the ratio between an intervention's causal effect and its implementation cost.

The problem with many conflict intervention programs is that they are often based on preconceptions about what should work for standard groups of people who are at odds, according to Saxe.

The current evidence base in respect of chronic pain supports the use of standard psychological interventions, CBT in particular.

Dr. Frankel is currently directing or co-directing projects related to the ethical and policy implications of human germ - line interventions, the responsible use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research, improving patient safety and reducing errors in health care, the ethical dimensions of the Human Genome Diversity Project, the uses of anonymity on the Internet, and intellectual property and ethical standards for electronic publishing in science.

The current standard of care, beyond the use of fluoride as a preventive approach, is to target only the bacteria with antimicrobials, or to use surgical interventions if the tooth decay has become too severe.

To get around that problem, this study used the Bradford Hill criteria: a standard tool for assessing the impact of broad - based public health interventions where it is ethically not feasible or operationally impractical to conduct randomized controlled trials.

The study findings defy the conventional belief that the two treatment interventions offer equal survival, and show the need to revisit some standards of breast cancer practice in the modern era.

Children in the control group, who were receiving standard community - based early intervention, had an average monthly cost of about $ 5,200 / child.

During the trial, all women received the standard protocol — 4 - 6 visits with a nurse or community health worker during pregnancy and 6 - 12 visits up to two years postpartum — and about half of the women also received the DOVE intervention.

In addition, 30 % of patients who received the palliative care intervention reported discussing end - of - life care preferences, as opposed to 14 % of patients receiving standard care alone.

Such comprehensive improvements would cost an estimated $ 96 billion, according to the model, but could reduce HIV incidence in the U.S. by 54 percent and the mortality rate by 64 percent, at a cost - effectiveness ratio of $ 45,300 per quality - adjusted life year, or QALY, a standard economic measure of the value of a medical intervention.

The paper concludes that the work required to design interventions that meet and contribute to current standards of evidence should not be underestimated.

As a scientific standard, future studies evaluating possible population - level health effects of this intervention (which, to be clear, was not the purpose of the study by Kypri et al) should assess outcomes at the population level, ideally using instruments external to the study.

These include internet - based approaches to cognitive - behavioral therapy for depression, «telemental» health approaches enabling remote mental health visits, technology - based interventions for substance abuse and accompanying disorders, and standards for evaluating the quality of smartphone applications designed for patients with schizophrenia.

A total of 59 CLABSIs occurred during the 12 - month standard care period, compared to 23 CLABSIs during the 12 - month intervention period during which alcohol - impregnated disinfection caps were used on all central line access ports.

The study compared subjects receiving intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) to a comparison group receiving standard diabetes mellitus support and education (DSE), measuring knee pain at the end of one year and four years.

Manufactured under cGMP to the highest ISO 13485 and FDA standards, the Icellator ® requires no human intervention and provides yields of stromal vascular fraction that are sufficiently pure to allow for intravenous infusion in an hour or less.

«Many common cancers, such as head and neck cancers, become untreatable despite the best medical intervention and the highest standard of care.