Sentences with phrase «outcome studies conducted»

Post-doctoral fellows also might have the opportunity to be involved in ongoing treatment outcome studies conducted by Dr. Alex Chapman at the Personality and Emotion Research Laboratory.

The meta - analysis (Johnson et al, 1999) of the four most rigorous outcome studies conducted before the year 2000, showed a larger effect size (1.3) than any other couple intervention has achieved to date.

Subjects were identified from an ongoing pregnancy outcome study conducted through the California Teratogen Information Service and Clinical Research Program.

Not exact matches

Researchers have conducted many studies over the years and repeatedly have found a strong correlation between smiling and positive business outcomes.

These outcomes are important for a sound, collaborative company culture where employees feel safe contributing new ideas and trying out new approaches: Google, for instance, conducted a study that found employees who felt psychologically safe in their environments were less likely to leave, more likely to leverage a diverse skill set and more likely to be successful.

Another major new study conducted by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg's LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Co. revealed alarming data on promotions, attrition and career outcomes between men and women.

Just published in the journal the most careful, rigorous, and methodologically sound study ever conducted on this issue found numerous and significant differences between these groups — with the outcomes for children of h0m0 rated «suboptimal in almost every category

In taking this position, Spitzer has agreed purely scientific approach to the limitations of Spitzer's study and would be to conduct more rigorous outcome findings, something that he along with others have been calling for all along Even the APA Report on correct Responses to Orient.

Unfortunately, the reality appears to be that the APA and others in a position to fund and conduct outcome studies have no real interest in doing so.

Current research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.

Not long ago, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Wuerzburg conducted a five - year study that compared the pregnancy outcomes of older women with their younger counterparts.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

In 2013, Mathematica conducted the first rigorous study of the impact of EL middle schools on academic achievement outcomes.

A generous grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. helped support the largest research study of camper outcomes ever conducted in the United States.

* And in the largest and possible most systematic study to date, conducted on five different ethnic groups from both Chicago and New York involving over 1,400 subjects Mosenkis (2000) found far more positive adult outcomes for individuals who coslept as a child, among almost all ethnic groups i.e. African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Mexicans in Chicago than there were negative findings.

This economic evaluation was based on a rigorously conducted cohort study of sufficient size to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes.

Research shows that families typically receive roughly half of the number of home visits expected.16, 17 For example, across three randomized controlled trials conducted of Nurse Family Partnership, average dosage of visits ranged from 45 to 62 percent.18 Research also shows that many, perhaps most, families enrolled in home visiting programs drop out before their eligibility ends.16, 19,20 Some home visiting studies have varied the dosage that families were offered and found that fewer home visits produced outcomes similar to higher levels of exposure.21

Studies were included if: (a) they were RCTs, (b) the population comprised parents / carers of children up to the age of 18 where at least 50 % had a conduct problem (defined using objective clinical criteria, the clinical cut - off point on a well validated behaviour scale or informal diagnostic criteria), (c) the intervention was a structured, repeatable (manualised) parenting programme (any theoretical basis, setting or mode of delivery) and (d) there was at least one standardised outcome measuring child behaviour.

Whether the key outcomes of caesarean section differ between non-physician clinicians and medical doctors was explored in one review that included six studies conducted in low - income countries.

Observational studies of prolonged (> 6 months) exclusive versus mixed breastfeeding, developing countries Infant outcomes Growth In a small cross-sectional study conducted in India, a non-significant reduction of low weight - for - age (< 75 % of the reference mean) at six to 12 months of age was observed in the exclusively breastfed infants (RR 0.61, 95 % CI [0.26 to 1.43], p = 0.25; 1 study / 31 male infants).

The few studies conducted in LMIC showed positive EBF outcomes when men were included in interventions.

In this retrospective study conducted at 19 U.S. hospitals, the duration of labor was analyzed in 62,415 parturient women, each of whom delivered a singleton vertex fetus vaginally and had a normal perinatal outcome.

To be included in this critical review, studies had to be U.S. - based randomized trials evaluating a breastfeeding promotion intervention, reporting breastfeeding outcome data, enrolling primarily minority participants, and conducting analyses by intention to treat.

The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, conducted an extensive 20 - year study of pregnant women, their experiences with morning sickness and the health outcomes for their babies.

Funnel plot analyses conducted for the primary outcomes all show marked asymmetry, with each suggesting that smaller studies showing a less beneficial effect of the intervention may be missing.

Erie County and each Mall partner are teaming up with the University at Buffalo's School of Public Health to conduct long - term studies of the health outcomes and health care utilization of patients who visit the Health Mall.

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.

Researchers at the Veterans Health Administration conducted a systematic review of 67 published studies to determine the effectiveness of strategies to reduce or discontinue long - term opioid therapy prescribed for chronic pain and the effect of dose reduction or discontinuation on important patient outcomes.

«Moving forward, we'll need to conduct additional studies of many more patients to show that getting functional scans in the first hours or days after a stroke could provide valuable information for predicting outcome and tracking recovery.»

«We saw that prevalence rates for depression and anxiety diagnoses were lower among racial and ethnic minorities compared to non-Hispanic whites,» said Owen - Smith, who worked at the Kaiser Permanente Georgia Center for Clinical and Outcomes Research when the study was conducted.

Preschool teachers and staff show signs of implicit bias in administering discipline, but the race of the teacher plays a big role in the outcome, according to research conducted by the Yale Child Study Center.

Although the study was conducted in a mouse model, the outcomes may be applicable to humans,» explains Dr. Jiang.

The study was conducted by Loyola's predictive analytics program, which mines large data sets to predict health outcomes.

Barbara Means of the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International and colleagues (I am a co-principal investigator on this study) are conducting a longitudinal study comparing outcomes of ISHSs with those of non-STEM — focused high schools in three states.

However, a new study conducted at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, demonstrates high levels of undiagnosed anxiety and depression persisting in patients receiving treatment, despite their improved visual outcomes.

The study, Developing an Interventional Stroke Service: Improving Clinical Outcomes and Reducing Cost and Delivering Great Cost Savings Benefits to Health Economy, conducted at the University Hospital of North Midlands, Stoke - on - Trent, U.K., found that mechanical thrombectomy (the use of a device to retrieve a clot from the vessel) in the treatment of stroke reduced the average stroke patient's hospital stay to 14 days when compared to previously recorded 90 days.

The UB researchers are conducting a longitudinal, five - year study of these patients focused on the relationship between cerebral microbleeds, advances in magnetic resonance imaging and clinical outcomes.

«We are now conducting follow - up studies to track predictors of outcome over time.

The research was conducted as part of the Positive Outcomes for Orphans longitudinal study in Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya and Tanzania led by Whetten.

The study, conducted in mice, found that exposure to air pollution during the equivalent of the first or second trimester in humans was linked to more negative birth outcomes than exposure later in pregnancy.

The study, conducted at 19 German tertiary care centers (2006 - 2012), included 1,176 individuals for analysis of long - term functional outcome, 853 for analysis of hematoma enlargement, and 719 for analysis of OAC resumption.

«To our knowledge, there are no other studies looking at the effects of daylight savings time and fertility outcomes,» said Constance Liu, MD, PhD, a physician in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Massachusetts General Hospital and corresponding author, who conducted the research during her residency at BMC.

The NIST study, conducted in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the federal Joint Fire Science Program, documented and assessed the chronology, behavior and outcomes of the fire, as well the firefighting activity against it.

Conducted by Prof Rose McGready and Assoc. Prof Daniel Henry Paris from the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand, and the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, affiliated to Oxford University, UK, in collaboration with Prof John Antony Jude Prakash of the Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, the study, «Pregnancy outcome in relation to treatment of Murine typhus and Scrub typhus infection: a fever cohort and a case series analysis,» will be published in the November 20th, 2014 issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

The researchers report long - term outcomes from the Qidong Hepatitis B intervention Study (QHBIS), a randomized controlled trial of neonatal HBV vaccination that was conducted between 1983 and 1990 in Qidong County, a rural area in China with a high incidence of HBV - related primary liver cancer (PLC) and other liver diseases.

The STAR trial was conducted under controlled conditions, while the Penn study takes the next step by looking at outcomes in post-approval clinical use of the device.

To understand the difference in outcomes between procedures using the two threads, the team conducted a second study with 50 women who were due to have the cervical stitch procedure.

«Based on this research, we are now conducting a first - in - human study combining the PARP inhibitor with radiation and chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, with an ultimate goal of improving survival rates and treatment outcomes,» said Tuli.

Limitations of the study included the fact that interventions were routinely offered to women with a history of pregnancy loss or early preterm birth if a short cervix was detected, which may have influenced the pregnancy outcome and slightly reduced the predictive ability in this study, but ethically the study could not be conducted without providing some intervention.

«The most promising outcome of this study was the absolute change in liver fat that we were able to measure using advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods previously developed and validated in pilot studies conducted at the UC San Diego NAFLD Research Center.