Sentences with phrase «outcome of patients»

According to the authors, this is the first study to examine long - term outcomes of patients with low - vs. intermediate - risk prostate cancer managed on active surveillance.

Shortening the time to diagnosis and treatment may be a key variable in improving outcomes of patients with sICH,» the study concludes.

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.

He said: «Information on outcome of patients with cut - off levels higher than in the current analysis would be of interest.

The findings suggest that targeting newly discovered pathways could be an effective approach to improving the clinical outcome of patients with BRAF inhibitor - resistant melanoma tumors.

The findings, which are published in BJU International, suggest that smoking may negatively affect the health outcomes of patients with prostate cancer and may contribute to complications related to their care.

The researchers call for more targeted studies to assess the clinical outcomes of patients who test positive for metal sensitization.

«The overall outcome of patients in this trial was excellent,» Gnant said.

The indicators cover: Service Experience of patients; Outcome of patients from acute STEMI (ST segment elevation myocardial infarction — a type of heart attack; Outcome from cardiac arrest: return of spontaneous circulation; Outcome from cardiac arrest to discharge; Outcome following stroke for ambulance patients.

Review: Reproductive outcome of patients undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment and diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis or abnormal vaginal microbiota: a systematic PRISMA review and meta - analysis.

«Our study is one of the first to directly compare outcomes of patients treated at the same hospital during a set period of time.

In another project, Dr. Zilliox is looking for biomarkers that would help predict outcomes of patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma.

«This study allowed us to look more closely at the long - term outcomes of patients in whom the localized cancer in the prostate was successfully eradicated and compare them to patients whose disease persisted within the prostate following treatment,» adds Dr. Krauss.

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.

By reducing MRD levels prior to transplantation, it is likely that GO contributed to the excellent outcome of these patients, researchers said.

This study assessed the association of antidepressant prescription at hospital discharge with the one - year outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction (heart attack).

«The first task is to compare the medical outcomes of patients when alarms sound within their area vs. when alarms are intentionally muted and sent to staff via pagers or cell phones,» she said.

Although CAP patients under 25 years of age had the lowest absolute risk difference for mortality, and those over 80 years had the highest absolute risk difference, young CAP adults in fact had the worst relative outcomes of all patients with over a 2-fold increased rate of mortality relative to controls.

METHODS: A follow - up study, Study AN1792 (QS - 21)-251, was conducted to assess the long - term functional, psychometric, neuroimaging, and safety outcomes of patients from the phase 2a study 4.6 years after immunization with AN1792.

Montgomery SR, Hoffman, RL, Aarons, CB, Butler PD, Kelz, RR: Racial disparities in surgical outcomes of patients with inflammatory bowel disease Society for Black Academic Surgeons, Chicago, IL: 2017.

Hence, curbing the epidemic of dialysis and improving outcomes of patients on dialysis is beneficial to the patient as well as the health care system.»

The study divided data into two segments to compare outcomes of patients treated before and after 2002, when the Pediatric End - Stage Liver Disease system (PELD) was instituted.

If this is true, then immunocheckpoint blockade combination with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors is a major path towards improving outcome of patients who have EGFR - mutant non-small-cell lung cancer.»

We believe we can help impact the overall outcome of the patient and how long that patient has to be hospitalized.»

The present study was aimed to investigate the relationship between the expression of collagen type V alpha 2 chain (COL5A2) and clinical outcomes of patients with bladder cancer.Chi - square test and log - rank - based survival analysis were performed to assess the correlation of COL5A2...

A new study published online by JAMA Neurology examines the long - term outcomes of patients with aggressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) who failed to respond to standard therapies and who underwent autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation using their own stem cells.

Previous studies have suggested that having more critical care physicians providing care, earlier initiation of antibiotics, more targeted delivery of intravenous fluids and more gentle mechanical ventilation may improve outcomes of patients with severe sepsis.

The Asclepieion of Epidaurus (c. 350 BCE) still lists the names, conditions, treatments and outcomes of patients who sought help there.

Gomes said: «G - CSF had no significant negative impact on the outcomes of these patients, which is a very comforting result.

Under Litofsky's mentorship, Kristen Scheitler - Ring, a medical student doing a pathology fellowship at the MU School of Medicine, studied the outcomes of patients treated at MU Health Care from 2010 to 2014.

«No substantial improvement in the outcomes of these patients had occurred in decades,» says burn surgeon Amalia Cochran of the University of Utah, co-author of a report on the findings published in the June issue of the journal Archives of Surgery.

Using validated, standardized tests for measuring the outcomes of patients with facial paralysis, experts who were naïve to the treatment patients received studied video documentation of a standardized sequence of facial expressions for each patient.

Researchers have published a study examining racial and ethnic influences in the outcomes of patients with motor complete spinal cord injury (SCI).

The researchers suggest that their study demonstrates the potential of these non-toxic therapies to contribute to current cancer treatment regimens and significantly improve the outcome of patients with advanced metastatic cancer.

In fact, there is little published information on the outcome of patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer (LAEC) who survive beyond the 5 - year mark.

«The data in this report demonstrate the value of national registries in providing an unprecedented and broad perspective on the care and outcomes of patients with cardiovascular disease,» said Frederick Masoudi, MD, MSP, senior medical officer of the NCDR.

The president and Congress must reach at least three additional objectives for the U.S. to rehabilitate its alarmingly dysfunctional health care system: 1) figure out a way to lower medical costs, which threaten to bankrupt the country if they continue spiraling upward; 2) improve the health outcomes of its patients; and 3) make health care affordable for businesses and individuals.

Almost immediately, Boston researchers set out to detail the types of otologic injury and report on the outcomes of patients undergoing otologic treatment.

Now, researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have found evidence that anemia can negatively influence the outcomes of patients with traumatic brain injuries.

That's according to researchers who looked at the way circadian rhythm — the body's internal clock — affects the outcomes of a patient recovering from a complex heart procedure.

The primary analysis assessed the outcomes of patients using an FDA - approved biomarker test, known as NEPHROCHECK ®, within the first day of arrival into the intensive care unit.

The current study lays the groundwork for improving the outcomes of patients with these diseases.

In this case, researchers wondered whether the signatures that describe the genetic alterations in these 25 cell lines could predict the outcomes of patients treated with the common bladder cancer chemotherapy, cisplatin.

Malvy, who plans to describe the data in detail at a Wednesday morning presentation, explained that the trial did not initially intend to analyze the outcome of patients by different viral loads.

«Dr. Sandler's leadership demonstrates how Cedars - Sinai is contributing significantly to improving the outcomes of patients with cancer.»

So, looking at a scale of hours to days, we're trying to understand how — when a patient moves into a new room to have an operation or to undergo a procedure — the microbes that are already in that room affect the outcome of the patient's stay in the hospital.

They also showed the presence of a similar process in human patients, opening the door for possible ways to improve outcomes of patients with type 1 diabetes after myocardial infarction.