Sentences with phrase «outcomes for patients treated»

Previous studies had linked high genetic diversity within bacterial infections or in cancers with poor outcomes for patients treated with antimicrobial or chemotherapy drugs.

Without the benefit of a biopsy, it can ultimately be difficult to predict the outcome for patients treated with radiation alone.

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Meet Omada Health: With 87M consumers at risk of diabetes, 75,000 patients treated, 3 years of outcomes data, NetPromoter scores in the 90's, 70 + clients, and looming reimbursement by Medicare for its diabetes prevention online social network, Omada has «cracked the code» on integrating consumer technology, medical coaching and big data at scale.

The book chronicles Sweet's work in the early 1990s at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital, where she treated elderly and disabled patients for long stretches of time and achieved successful outcomes.

If hypofractionated radiation with curative intent can reduce the treatment time for lung cancer patients by half with no greater toxicity, and with equivalent — if not better — tumor control and survival outcomes, this research could result in a change in the paradigm of how a large subset of locally advanced NSCLC patients are treated.»

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.

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.

Intravenous thrombolytic therapy with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) can improve outcomes for patients with ischemic stroke treated within 4 1/2 hours of the onset of symptoms.

«Patients with head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve outcomes for the half of severe head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centersPatients with head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve outcomes for the half of severe head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centerspatients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centers.»

An analysis of patients treated for lumbar stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis, who were enrolled in the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT), was performed.

A 2013 paper in the same journal reported excellent vocal outcomes for the first 92 treated patients, but neither paper included the kind of follow - up data required to confirm the treatment's long - term effectiveness in curing the tumors.

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

«While these observational data can not prove that treating patients based on the results of CTA testing will automatically result in better health outcomes, they do provide new information enabling a more informed choice of testing for patients with stable chest pain, especially for predicting future cardiovascular risk.»

President of ESTRO, Professor Vincenzo Valentini, a radiation oncologist at the Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Rome, Italy, said: «This study not only shows a better outcome for the women treated with IMRT, but has an additional value in defining the selection criteria for providing treatment to those patients who will benefit from new frontline technologies.

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.

Surgeons are treating patients with a new type of hip implant that could lead to better outcomes for younger, more active people requiring surgery.

«In this study, outcomes for HER2 - positive lung cancer patients treated with conventional therapies were similar to outcomes for HER2 - negative patients treated in the same way.

Reporting only aggregated adherence rates could create an incentive to avoid groups with worse outcomes rather than undertaking interventions to improve their care.41 Some health plans or clinicians may avoid enrolling minority patients, for whom performance rates are typically lower.42, 43 Stratifying performance rates by race, ethnicity, or other demographic characteristics may mitigate such undesired effects by not penalizing organizations that disproportionately treat minority patients.

To that end, Sharma gave an overview of MD Anderson's efforts to comprehensively characterize the activity of the immune cells in the patients they treat, and they've already analyzed over 42,000 tumor tissue samples, from both before and after treatment, looking for clues regarding how treatment outcomes relate to immune cell infiltration into tumors.

Through regional networks in the U.S. like the Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research (PNCR) Network and Project Cure, and international organizations such as the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) and TREAT - NMD, the SMA community has collaborated effectively on recruiting patients, establishing standards of care, standardizing outcome measures, and supporting multi-site clinical efforts, such as the Biomarkers for SMA (BforSMA) and the PNCR Network Natural History studies.

During the study, the researchers tracked the pre-and-post treatment diets and ultimate health outcomes of more than 400 cancer patients for an average of 26 months after they were first diagnosed and treated for squamous - cell carcinoma of the head or neck.

Oncospace A radiation oncology physicist developed a complex computerized system, called «Oncospace,» that uses anatomy, radiation dose distributions, toxicity, and outcome data of prior patients to create an optimal treatment plan for those about to be treated.

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?

Enthusiasm for intralesional BCG therapy waned following reports of anaphylactic reactions; disseminated BCG mortality [7]; and, in our own research, the occurrence of punctate abscesses in more than two - thirds of treated patients, as well as failure to impact outcomes.

The author makes the case that long - term outcomes are worse for mentally ill patients treated with psychiatric medications as opposed to those treated without, and that there is zero evidence that mental illnesses are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.

«One of the most important things for patients was having their doctor be emotionally present [and] treating them as a dignified person,» says Prigerson, director of the Center for Psychosocial Epidemiology and Outcomes Research at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston.

Loughin et al found that 47 % of their feline patients that were treated nonsurgically had excellent outcome.2 They stated that «lameness may not be a good indicator of the need for surgical correction and it seems prudent to recommend a period of nonsurgical management (rest and analgesics) prior to surgical intervention, particularly in cats in which signs of lameness have been present for < 2 months.»

Alternative therapies, which are also referred to as «integrative» or «complementary» therapies, include acupuncture, rehabilitation and laser therapy, We provide these therapies in conjunction with traditional medicine and surgery to help improve outcomes and to give us additional options for treating our patients.

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

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For example, higher levels of depression have been shown to be predictive of poorer treatment outcomes for patients with chronic pain, 11 as well as higher health care costs over time.12 Equally, the presence of pain in people being treated for mood disturbance has predicted delayed responses to mood interventions.13 Therefore, improving our understanding of how chronic pain and depression are linked, and treating both components offers the prospect of enhancing treatment effects beyond the benefits of treating either condition aloneFor example, higher levels of depression have been shown to be predictive of poorer treatment outcomes for patients with chronic pain, 11 as well as higher health care costs over time.12 Equally, the presence of pain in people being treated for mood disturbance has predicted delayed responses to mood interventions.13 Therefore, improving our understanding of how chronic pain and depression are linked, and treating both components offers the prospect of enhancing treatment effects beyond the benefits of treating either condition alonefor patients with chronic pain, 11 as well as higher health care costs over time.12 Equally, the presence of pain in people being treated for mood disturbance has predicted delayed responses to mood interventions.13 Therefore, improving our understanding of how chronic pain and depression are linked, and treating both components offers the prospect of enhancing treatment effects beyond the benefits of treating either condition alonefor mood disturbance has predicted delayed responses to mood interventions.13 Therefore, improving our understanding of how chronic pain and depression are linked, and treating both components offers the prospect of enhancing treatment effects beyond the benefits of treating either condition alone.14