Sentences with phrase «outcomes for patients compared»

Researchers compared two common postsurgical therapies for metastatic brain tumors and found that stereotactic radiosurgery can provide better outcomes for patients compared to whole - brain radiation.

Not exact matches

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.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth caFor the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth cafor patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

For the analysis presented today, the researchers compared the toxicities and outcomes between patients who received G - CSF during concurrent chemo - radiotherapy and those who did not.

«Although radiosurgery has been shown to be an effective post-surgical treatment for metastatic brain tumors, previous studies did not compare patient outcomes from a single hospital over the same period of time,» said N. Scott Litofsky, M.D., chief of the Division of Neurological Surgery at the MU School of Medicine and senior author of the study.

For this reason, the study avoids a basic problem in comparing hospital outcomes — that patients admitted to one hospital may be significantly less healthy, on average, than the patients admitted to another.

The results also indicate that older patients in any age group had higher incidence of all outcomes (nonfatal complications and death) if they had diabetes for a longer, compared with shorter, duration of time.

Comparing Options for Management: Patient - Centered Outcomes for Uterine Fibroids (COMPARE - UF) is a voluntary registry of 10,000 women with uterine fibroids funded by the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

The researchers next will turn to analyzing the presence of myoferlin in samples from numerous human tumor types available in an Ohio State tissue bank, which will allow them to compare protein levels in tumors to clinical outcomes for the patients who provided the samples.

The odds of a good stroke outcome were 75 % greater for patients given alteplase within 3 hours of initial stroke symptoms, compared with those who did not receive the drug; for those given the drug between 3 and 4 · 5 hours post-stroke there was a 26 % increased chance of a good outcome; while for those with a delay of more than 4 · 5 hours in receiving treatment, there was just a 15 %, not statistically significant, increase in the chance of a good recovery.

Researchers examined adverse outcomes for patients diagnosed and treated for diabetes compared to those who met the criteria for diabetes, but weren't diagnosed.

The results of the Endovascular Therapy Following Imaging Evaluation for the Ischemic Stroke (DEFUSE 3) trial, presented at the International Stroke Conference 2018 in Los Angeles and published on Jan. 24 in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrated that physically removing brain clots up to 16 hours after symptom onset in selected patients led to improved outcomes compared to standard medical therapy.

Looking at the components of the primary outcome separately, only hospitalizations, specifically for heart failure, had a significantly lower incidence for those taking spironolactone compared to placebo, with 206 patients (12.0 percent) in the spironolactone group undergoing hospitalization versus 245 patients (14.2 percent) in the placebo group.

Their outcomes were compared with patients receiving standard care at the same clinics for the 3 months prior to the trial's start.

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.

Numerous studies have documented poorer health care and outcomes for black patients in the U.S., but few have asked why or compared racial bias across nations.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

I think we all agree that we over treat prostate cancer in this country compared to what you see in Europe with similar outcomes and so but I think this is where the human or the Cancer Genome Project or at least better biomarkers for looking at mutations that we already know occur in these diseases I think hopefully within the next few years every single patient who is diagnosed with prostate cancer those biopsies will be characterized and then the patients followed, hopefully watchful waiting and we'll ultimately get a correlation between what mutational events predict a rather dormant disease as opposed to a very aggressive disease.

First, are there important differences in clinical outcomes for hospitalized patients cared for by female internists compared with those treated by male internists?

«Our most striking finding is that BA leads to similar clinical outcomes for patients with depression,» the study authors wrote, «but at a financial saving to clinical providers of 21 percent compared with the costs of provision of CBT.»

For example, a doctor who may have limited resources and experience can submit an image of a patient's tumour to an AI system which then compares it against millions of other tumour images and suggests possible outcomes and courses of action.

In particular, the impact on treatment and outcomes for patients when clinicians were trained in Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents (IPT - A) was compared to treatment as usual (TAU).

In relapse prevention pharmacotherapies for the treatment of addiction problems, the effects on outcome are modest compared with other influences (such as patient characteristics, active follow - up and social stability) 1 and complicated by the effects of psychosocial interventions that are always recommended alongside any prescribing.2

Disparities in outcomes for pediatric cancer patients treated in Hawai'i: comparing Hawai'i residents to children referred from the Pacific Islands

Table 1 compares the proportional distributions of responses for each ACE item collected in cross-section for a single admission (at the time of and during the course of admission) or on the basis of data linkage by each individual patient registration to the clinical profile data with baseline data from the first admission and outcomes data from the last discharge.

Research suggests sex differences in the association between partner health problems and relationship satisfaction31 as well as PTSD treatment outcomes.32 The more rigorous methods of the current randomized trial compared with prior studies, including controls for patient inclusion, treatment assignment, and blinded assessment, may also account for the different findings.

A study of individual cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder showed positive outcomes at 1 - year follow - up, but the benefits were reduced over time, suggesting the need for booster sessions to sustain the gains.19 As with many forms of therapy, CBT has been found to be more successful in reducing relapse in the depressive pole compared with the manic pole.30 A large randomised trial of CBT showed no difference between CBT and treatment as usual, when all participants were included in the analyses.31 However, results of a post-hoc analysis suggested that CBT was effective for participants who reported fewer than 12 prior episodes of illness and were not acutely unwell when therapy began; numbers of episodes of mania rather than depression seemed to predict treatment response.32 Such data can help guide the clinical application of CBT for bipolar patients.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study investigated the efficacy of Mindfulness - Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), compared to sertraline (antidepressant medication), for patients with acute major depression.