Sentences with phrase «often affect patient»

That is something I am proud of in an industry where, despite the best efforts of governing bodies, unethical decisions often affect patient care and hospital bottom lines.

This work is basic research, but possible future applications could include rehabilitation following a stroke, which often affects a patient's movements.

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One of the biggest challenges is to free data from the silos in which it too often remains, an issue that affects both patient care and medical research.

In ∼ 10 % of affected infants with plagiocephaly, there will be a permanent deformity with a mild to severe cosmetic effect.5 Patients with moderate to severe asymmetry are often referred to a craniofacial center for consideration of treatment.

One of the more prevalent chronic illnesses in the United States, CRS has been known to cause significant quality of life detriments to affected patients, who often can not breathe or sleep easily due to obstructed nasal and sinus passages.

Dr. Hayes says it is not clear what causes SCAD in most cases, but researchers know this from previous studies: • SCAD affects women more often than men; up to 80 percent of patients with SCAD are women.

Further analysis including in tissues from more patients with other forms of epilepsy also showed that CLOCK RNA and protein were often significantly lacking in both in excitatory and inhibitory neurons in affected brain regions.

Often done at the request of their physician or therapist, patients may be asked to record how severe the pain is, how it affects daily activities and which treatments ease it or make it worse.

During disasters, individuals with chronic diseases or those at risk of developing health complications are often neglected for patients acutely affected by the disaster.

If it affects internal organs, too, the patient is said to have systemic sclerosis, an often - fatal condition with no known cure.

It affects the large intestine and patients suffer from abdominal pain and altered bowel habits like diarrhea and constipation, which are often accompanied by chronic anxiety or depression.

However, complications affecting the heart are the major cause of death in 60 % of patients, most often before the 35 years of age.

Patients affected by Parkinson's disease often show marked changes in body weight: they may gain or lose a lot of weight depending on the stage of the disease, or they may put on up to ten kilos after deep brain stimulation (a treatment to alleviate the symptoms).

Patients with severe spinal cord injury (SCI) often experience chronically low blood pressure that negatively affects their health, their quality of life and their ability to engage in rehabilitative therapy.

«The question reveals a tension between the goals of health - behavior promotion and informed patient decision - making that has plagued researchers in several health domains, most notably with regard to women's often overly pessimistic perceptions of their breast cancer risk,» Sweeny and Dillard wrote in «The Effects of Expectation Disconfirmation on Appraisal, Affect, and Behavioral Intentions,» published this month in the online edition of Risk Analysis: An International Journal.

The brain is almost invariably affected, and patients often present with epilepsy, autism and mental retardation.

In the June 2008 issue of Quality & Safety in Health Care, the researchers report that medical testing errors led to lost time, lost money, delays in care, and pain and suffering for patients, with adverse consequences affecting minority patients far more often.

«The more physicians become aware of how often this happens and who the condition affects, the more likely they are to teach patients about vulvodynia and treat them or refer them for care.»

And while my patients understand how an out - of - whack gut affects digestion, they don't always make the connection between gut health and joint pain or other problems like headaches, mood swings, eczema, weight gain, or fatigue that often accompany pain.

For patients struggling with obesity and weight, hormones often affect their overall health.

Patients often see naturopaths about conditions affecting their joints, muscles and bones.

Gittleman tells us that individuals affected by chronic bacterial infections are found to have copper that's low or unavailable, while conditions of chronic viral infection are more typically connected with low zinc and high copper levels.56 Such patients often struggle on for years with little improvement, but may benefit from a copper - balancing program.57

Furthermore, high circulating levels of insulin and IGF - 1 in combination are often seen in subjects with obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, patient categories that are also more likely to be affected by cancers (52).

Too often, healthcare policy makers are unaware of the many ways that Lyme disease seriously affects patients, their families, their communities, and ultimately the whole nation.

All too often we at the clinic see the devastating affects of neglecting the oral hygiene in our patients.

Patients with grade IV luxation often present with continual lameness or are non — weightbearing on the affected limb, with weight shifted cranially at a stance and while walking.

Often though there is no time to wait for all tests results given that at the time of diagnosis of AKI, the patient is already systemically affected, requiring intensive medical care.

Sunlight - induced, superficial, skin hemangiosarcoma are often cured following surgery though other skin sites in the same patient may become affected by new cancer lesions that occur entirely independent of the first location.

Patients with damage to orbitofrontal cortex, the amygdala, or both, are often vulnerable to scams, bad business deals, and exploitative relationships, a vulnerability that may be affected by deficits in specific aspects of social cognition (45, 47).

Patients with high negative affect dropped out of BWL (46 %) more often than patients in CBTgsh did (24 %), whereas the pattern was reversed among the patients with low negative affect (BWL, 14 %; CBTgshPatients with high negative affect dropped out of BWL (46 %) more often than patients in CBTgsh did (24 %), whereas the pattern was reversed among the patients with low negative affect (BWL, 14 %; CBTgshpatients in CBTgsh did (24 %), whereas the pattern was reversed among the patients with low negative affect (BWL, 14 %; CBTgshpatients with low negative affect (BWL, 14 %; CBTgsh, 35 %).

Imagery is a primary means by which the right hemisphere organizes and processes information about self, others and affect and, therefore, is often an important means of gaining direct access to the «vulnerable child part» of the patient in relation to significant others and the associated «gut level» feelings that make up schemas.