Sentences with phrase «outcomes for both patient as»

In observational studies, researchers observe exposures and outcomes for patients as they occur naturally in clinical care or real life.

This then translates into exciting outcomes for our patients as well.»

They set the bar for patient care through innovative biomechanical solutions, and continue to push the bar higher through customization and advancements with the best outcomes for the patient as their guiding force.

Not exact matches

As we wait for more evidence to emerge with the use of this «living drug,» let's hope the CMS announcement heralds a new era in finding ways to link reimbursement to patient outcomes.

Participation by specialty physicians in an ABMS Member Board MOC program has a positive impact on patient care, improves outcomes, and serves as an important tool for consumers, hospitals, and physicians.

Amarin's clinical development program for Vascepa includes a trial known as the REDUCE - IT cardiovascular outcomes study, an 8,175 - patient study commenced in 2011.

«As the specialty pharmacy of choice for many payers and patients, we are focused on creating the most clinically advanced specialty pharmacy experience to help improve care and outcomes for our patients,» said CVS Specialty EVP Dr. Alan Lotvin in a statement.

Under PPACA, certain fees, known as Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute («PCORI») fees, have been established for funding medical research and comparing outcomes of various medical tecOutcomes Research Institute («PCORI») fees, have been established for funding medical research and comparing outcomes of various medical tecoutcomes of various medical techniques.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

1) The OB says he will drop your wife as a patient if she's considering homebirth because he will be responsible for any negative outcome and he can't take that responsibility.

For example, the fact that 27 transfer patients are listed as having a physician as their planned birth attendant is most likely due to errors in birth - certificate completion; data are currently lacking to inform the degree of misclassification related to this and others factors that affect the study outcomes.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine (SMFM) stated that, «one of the most effective tools to improve labor and delivery outcomes is the continuous presence of support personnel, such as a doula... continuous one - on - one support during labor and delivery was associated with improved patient satisfaction and a statistically significant reduction in the rate of cesarean delivery».

IF, as they claim, «home birth is safe as long as the patients are sufficiently low risk,» then how can you account for the increase in bad outcomes, which is now becoming undeniable?

And secondly, if doctors are corrupted by making money, as they are in my experience, and doctors who in theory have a professional ethic of putting the patient first, well for Christ's sake, businessmen are going to be infinitely more corrupted and will be much more concerned about cutting corners and squeezing as much money out of the system as possible without any deep, ethical concern for the outcome.»

We applaud Trusts that screen their patients before admission, as the policy of not screening surely goes against the Government's ambition to reduce antimicrobial resistance, if we can prevent an infection by taking additional precautions where a positive screen is obtained then surely this reduces the need for antibiotics and makes a better outcome for the patient and save lives.

«This new platform allows you to view a patient's arterial anatomy in a three - dimensional image, as if it is right in front of you, which may help interventional radiologists more quickly and thoroughly plan for the equipment and tools they'll need for a successful outcome.»

Shared decision making (SDM) has been studied over recent decades as a method for improving provider - patient communication and partnership, with improvements seen in satisfaction, adherence and health outcomes.

A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery.

That could have important implications for patient outcomes, as early diagnosis of brain tumors enables prompt treatment and a wider range of surgical options.

The risk for poor patient outcomes increases as the risk of each component surgical procedure increases.

The next step, says Salem, will be to try to correlate these findings with patient treatment outcomes, initially as a retrospective, or backward looking study, and then hopefully design a forward looking clinical trial to determine which treatments may be best for patients with SBAs.

«Here, we show that the BRAF inhibitors induce autophagy as a way to escape cell death, which gives us clues on how to interfere with this mechanism of resistance and improve outcomes for these patients.»

This is important because the proportion in which the de novo mutation is present in a patient, as well as the type of cells in which it occurs, may not only determine the clinical outcome of a disease for the patient, but also affect the risk of the parents having another child with the same disease in future pregnancies.

Current therapy uses pacing devices such as pacemakers; however, many patients with advanced heart failure do not respond favorably to these devices because heart tissue must be healthy for optimal outcome.

It explores topics such as risk, law and ethics; patient experience and treatment outcomes for cosmetic, transplantation, dental, fertility and weight loss surgery.

«There is a real risk that as clinics proliferate, if we don't address it in a more proactive way, as we see negative outcomes for patients grow and people get mixed bags of information about stem cells, then this could really negatively impact the public perception of this research.»

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School have found that patients who were prescribed corticosteroids as part of treatment for Lyme disease - associated facial paralysis had worse long - term outcomes of regaining facial function than those who were prescribed antibiotic therapy alone.

A new study published online by JAMA Oncology examines the assessment of minimal residual disease in patients newly treated for multiple myeloma as a factor in survival outcomes.

«From a treatment provider perspective, this is very exciting as we have been waiting for a simple, affordable, robust treatment tolerated by all patients groups, including those whose treatment outcomes are currently poorer, like patients under antiretroviral therapy,» said Pierre Mendiharat, Deputy Operations Director for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

As treatment of depression among asthma patients shows improved asthma outcomes, women should discuss screening and treatment for depression with their physicians.

As we are now able to focus our efforts on improving the overall patient experience and reducing the risk of relapse, the leading cause of death after transplant, we have greatly improved long - term survival outcomes for patients who before might not have had another treatment option.»

Researchers also contend that transplant outcomes can be further improved by identifying patients who are at high risk for certain complications, such as cognitive decline, or by employing post-transplant treatments to reduce their risk of relapse.

Historically, clinicians evaluating a patient for transplant have sought to identify donor cells that are perfectly matched to the patient's cell type, which is considered to be the optimal approach to help ensure successful outcomes and to minimize risk of graft - versus - host disease (GVHD), a serious and potentially life - threatening complication that occurs when the donated immune cells attack the patient's cells as foreign tissue.

«This study suggests that the path to excellence in readmission is a result of an approach that focuses on the patient as a whole rather than on what caused them to be admitted,» said senior author and director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation Harlan Krumholz, M.D., the Harold H. Hines, Jr..

The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.

The researchers note that these findings need to be viewed with caution because they are based on anonymized aggregate outcomes, which do not allow adjustments for confounding patient characteristics, such as donor and recipient ages, infertility diagnosis, and embryo stage.

The exact mechanisms must be probed in further animal studies, Reid says, but eventually he hopes researchers will be able to use a patient's bacterial makeup as a biomarker for cancer screening or to develop probiotics for improving prognosis and treatment outcomes.

As a result of the finding, researchers can also use Mauritian cynomolgus macaques to improve stem cell transplant outcomes for human patients with other blood - related conditions such as leukemia and sickle - cell diseasAs a result of the finding, researchers can also use Mauritian cynomolgus macaques to improve stem cell transplant outcomes for human patients with other blood - related conditions such as leukemia and sickle - cell diseasas leukemia and sickle - cell disease.

In a new study, a hospital surveillance program focusing on reducing the risks of sepsis, known as the two - stage Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system, was found to reduce the risk of adverse outcomes, such as death and hospice discharge for sepsis patients, by 30 % over the course of one year.

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.

The University of Florence team's 2011 statistical analysis of health outcomes for almost 1,700 male patients showed that those involved in stable extramarital relationships had about twice the cardiovascular disease as other patients in the study, particularly if the man reported that his wife was still sexually interested in him.

The hospital's early recognition and treatment of sepsis resulted in a 30 % reduced risk of adverse outcomes for sepsis and severe sepsis patients, such as death or discharge to hospice.

The patients were followed up through provincial health administrative data (Ontario, Canada) until May 2011 for CV disease (myocardial infarction, stroke, congestive heart failure, revascularization procedures) and death from any cause, analyzed as a composite outcome.

As we gain more specific knowledge about what these changes in perception are, we will be able to improve outcomes for our patients,» Reilly concludes.

In a related commentary, Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, writes: «There is broad consensus among physicians, hospital and health insurance leaders, and policy makers to reform payment to health care providers so as to reduce the role of fee for service, which encourages high volume, and instead to use systems that reward better patient outcomes, such as bundled payments for a population or for an episode of care.»

As scientists dedicated to ensuring the best outcomes for patients, we concur.

Although the study was not designed to show whether «helistroke service» would improve outcomes for patients, previous research has amply demonstrated that stroke victims do best when they are treated as quickly as possible — ideally in 100 minutes or less.

This accuracy really shows up in areas such as radiation treatment for cancer, where the dose delivered to the patient's tumour needs to be accurate to within 3 per cent to achieve the best outcome.

As to the reason why certain racial and ethnic minorities have poorer rates of treatment for cardiovascular disease and generally have poorer cardiovascular health outcomes compared to white patients, Dr. Ladapo concludes that no one has really explored whether there could be disparities in cardiac stress testing, which is a mainstay of diagnosing patients with heart disease in this country.

With the exception of a slight difference in bowel function, investigators found that HRQoL outcomes for patients on AS were no different than those in men without prostate cancer during the three years of followup.