Sentences with phrase «on patients of all ages»

The Phlebotomist assumes the responsibility for performing venipuncture and related procedures on patients of all ages under the philosophy, policies, and procedures established by the hospital and department.

Not exact matches

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

Let us have done with the stupidity which makes a stumbling - block of the endless eras of expectancy imposed on us by the Messiah; the fearful, anonymous labours of primitive man, the beauty fashioned through its age - long history by ancient Egypt, the anxious expectancies of Israel, the patient distilling of the attar of oriental mysticism, the endless refining of wisdom by the Greeks: all these were needed before the Flower could blossom on the rod of Jesse and of all humanity.

At a recent conference on the ethics of withdrawing nourishment and fluids from mentally incompetent patients, I was approached by an acquaintance who is close to retirement age.

nice tribute andy and no doubts he has been the player of the year, although i cant understand him being criticised early on because hes been an international from an early age and a regular with cameroon and i distinctly remember him putting in strong performances when on loan at a struggling charlton a few seasons ago... i guess he has become the example of why we shud be patient with the younger players and give them the time that has no doubt benfited him i remember reading an article from him after the city game when adebayour had his little outburst and i cudnt believe how dedicated to the club and fans he was when questioned bout his «friend» adebayour saying arsenal and the fans are his priority and dat is all i cant understand people wanting cameroon to fail just so we can get him back early after the commitment he has shown to us but if he maintains his form we wont see anytime soon!goodluck song and cameroon

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

Reviewing data on concussion - related emergency department (ED) visits for patients between the ages of 8 and 19 years from 1997 to 2007, researchers found that:

Most hospitals perform a pregnancy tests on all women of childbearing age immediately prior to surgery to prevent the patient who does not know they are pregnant from having surgery.

I wanted to recommend being tolerant of it, as it's the info - over-saturated age we live in as opposed to purposeful obnoxiousness on the part of the patients, but it appears that this suggestion has been made and heard and heeded by some and not by others.

15 persons have been confirmed to have had contact with Miss Aisha Jimoh aged 18, a patient from Kogi State who died of Lassa Fever on...

Also at 11 a.m., the Assembly Standing Committee on Health and Assembly Standing Committee on Aging hold a joint hearing on nursing home quality of care and patient safety and enforcement, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

15 persons have been confirmed to have had contact with Miss Aisha Jimoh aged 18, a patient from Kogi State who died of Lassa Fever on Monday at Irua Specialist Hospital, Edo State.

The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) investigated the care given to 820 patients over 80 years of age, who died within 30 days of surgery being performed on them.

A ban on sexual orientation conversion therapy upon patients under 18 years of age.»

They buried their dead, most likely with grave goods, and cared for their living: A child born with hydrocephalus, sometimes called water on the brain, lived with profound disability until the age of 3 or so, a feat only possible with patient, loving care.

This event focused on what we know about the causes, effects and treatments of mental illness, from young children, to adolescents, to middle - age and elderly patients.

The study found the impact of oral nutritional supplements on length of stay and cost of care were even more impactful and statistically significant when looking at all Medicare patients aged 65 and older with any primary diagnosis:

The researchers looked at data on 13 787 patients (most between 31 and 60 years of age) with newly diagnosed dengue between 2000 and 2012.

«Those two kinds of patients need different recommendations about whether to continue screenings, and it can't be based simply on the patient's age.»

In the U.S., one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to a hospital each year at an estimated cost of $ 17.5 billion annually.i To reduce this impact, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has introduced hospital penalties based on readmissions conditions that commonly affect patients aged 65 and older — including acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and pneumonia.i

A new study entitled «Oral Nutrition Supplements» Impact on Hospital Outcomes in the Context of Affordable Care Act and New Medicare Reimbursement Policies» and conducted by leading researchers at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, The Harris School at The University of Chicago and Precision Health Economics, and supported by Abbott, found that the use of oral nutritional supplements decreased the probability of 30 - day hospital readmission, length of stay and costs among hospitalized Medicare patients aged 65 and over.

Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.

They came up with a prediction model which estimates that the likelihood of over-diagnosis ranges from 2.9 to 88.1 percent depending on patient age, PSA level and Gleason score at diagnosis.

After adjusting for factors such as patient age, sex, hospital size and location, type of procedure and anaesthesia used, patients given tranexamic acid (1000 mg, 2000 mg or 3000 mg) on the day of surgery were compared with patients not given the drug.

The project involved a process for initial ordering of monitor parameters based on age - appropriate standards, daily replacement of electrodes in a manner that was pain - free for patients, individualized daily assessment of cardiac monitor parameters and a reliable method for appropriate discontinuation of the monitors.

Key findings in this study show that 5 - year survival for older lung cancer surgery patients is favorable; surgeons will be able to better individualize care for older lung cancer patients based on newly and uniquely linked data, and the prevalence of lung cancer is expected to increase as the population continues to age.

This large study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging has been following 566 noncardiac surgical patients over the age of 70 for the past five years with the goal of finding new approaches to prevent delirium and its long - term consequences in older adults.

However, the research — the most comprehensive review undertaken in this area — also found that the effectiveness of vaccines can vary depending on the age of the patient.

The electronic prompt - and - reminder system resulted in 76 percent of 31,195 patients ages 19 - 64 and 85 percent of 3,278 patients aged 11 to 18 being up - to - date on their immunization.

«Currently, the NHS Breast Cancer Screening program in the UK is undertaking a large randomised controlled trial in patients aged 71 - 73 in order to evaluate the effects of screening on breast cancer incidence and mortality.

One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.

Patients who have low frailty scores will probably do well and should be considered on the merits of their health, and not solely on age.

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.

Hospital emergency departments focus on triage and stabilization and are not equipped to deal effectively with patients near the end of life due to illness or age, says Smith, the study's lead author.

«We found that 20 percent of MS patients over the age of 50 have cerebral microbleeds compared to 7 percent of healthy controls,» said Ferdinand Schweser, PhD, assistant professor of neurology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB and senior author on the paper.

Lead UK author on the study, Professor Stuart Elborn, Dean of the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen's University Belfast, said: «The estimations we have made show very positive news for cystic fibrosis patients as the average survival age is increasing.

Based on the results of this study, surgery should be considered a viable treatment option for these lumbar conditions in patients older than age 80.

The study is part of a broader effort to collect data on the youngest epilepsy patients — those younger than 3 years old, the age at which epilepsy most often becomes evident.

Fourteen percent would be excluded on the basis of age alone — that's because most ARTs exclude patients older than 65.

However, in analyses that accounted for important patient characteristics such as age, sex, comorbidities, and the reason for hospitalization, the quality of care of the discharging hospital and SNF facility characteristics, outcomes did not vary meaningfully across SNFs that differed in staffing ratings or their performance on clinical measures related to pain or delirium.

Screening for colorectal cancer based on age alone may contribute to both underuse and overuse of the tests among older patients, according to a study by investigators at the University of Michigan and the Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research.

IU Center for Aging Research investigators have developed and validated the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit 7 — the CAM - ICU - 7 for short — an easy - to - use delirium severity instrument that scores delirium on a scale of 0 to 7 — mild to severe delirium — and is useable with all ICU patients, including those on mechanical ventilation.

«Given the aging of the population, emergency physicians need to be prepared to balance their obligations to the patient by documenting findings, reporting suspicions and referring patients to appropriate agencies,» said Marguerite DeLiema, Ph.D, of the Stanford University Center on Longevity in Stanford, Calif., the lead study author of «The Forensic Lens: Bringing Elder Neglect into Focus in the Emergency Department.»

«Not enough emphasis has been placed on assessing delirium severity in the ICU because there is a lack of understanding of how significant outcomes of delirium are for patients,» said IU School of Medicine, IU Center for Aging Research, and Regenstrief Institute faculty member Babar A. Khan, MD, who led the study.

Their study published online ahead of print in PNAS Early Edition suggests a new therapeutic strategy for patients with Duchene muscular dystrophy, a progressive neuromuscular condition, caused by a lack of dystrophin, that usually leaves patients unable to walk on their own by age 10 - 15.

They then tested the model on 894 patients in the Wake Forest institutional trauma registry over a four - year period and found the model showed excellent discrimination in both independence at discharge and death rates, both of which decreased by decade of age: 80 percent and 6.5 percent, respectively, at age 50 - 59; 82 percent and 7 percent at 60 - 69; 76 percent and 8.9 percent at 70 - 79; and 67 percent and 13.4 percent at 80 - 89.

The group of researchers from Vienna, in collaboration with international cooperation partners, has shown that the effect of a psychiatric risk gene on a resting state network in the forebrain depends greatly on the patient's age.

In a recent clinical trial on patients aged 75 and older, 90 percent of the 219 participants were able to read two lines or more on an eye chart, and 75 percent could read large - print books.

This retrospective study was based on a previous quality improvement project that assessed mental health issues among English - speaking patients, 12 years of age or older.

Yet an extraordinary «natural experiment» in a Kansas mental hospital early this century found that patients who were castrated (in the dubious hope of controlling their violent behaviour) lived far longer — on average to 69 years of age whereas intact males managed a mere 56.