Sentences with phrase «outcomes of patients treated»

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.

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.

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

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.

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Research has shown that medical patients who develop emotional health problems cost more to treat and respond less well to treatment; as a result, says Ahern, «it behooves the medical system to do a better job in detection and treatment of behavioral health because it drives outcomes and drives the costs.»

And while the academic debate over patient outcomes is a heated one, a rough consensus does emerge when it comes to more complicated surgeries — such as radical prostatectomy, where the prostate gland and some of its surrounding tissue is removed, usually to treat prostate cancer.

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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.

Ahead of the general election Macmillan will be calling on all three parties to commit to: • deliver cancer outcomes that match the best in Europe • ensure all cancer patients are treated with the highest levels of dignity and respect and that staff are supported to do this • ensure everyone at the end of life is given free social care to support them to spend their final weeks and days in the place of their choosing.

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.»

While the experience can't prove that plastic surgery expertise improves patient outcomes, it strongly support the value of the diverse skills of plastic surgeons in treating the severe and extensive injury patterns characteristic of modern combat.

«Before, patients were very sick before meeting criteria, and the evidence is pretty clear that if you interfere in anorexia before there's been significant weight loss, the outcomes are much better and the illness is easier to treat in an outpatient setting,» says Kimberli McCallum, founder and medical director of eating disorder clinic McCallum Place in Saint Louis.

Patients treated by cardiologists received more testing, procedures and medication within 100 days of their ER discharge and had the best health outcomes.

Nearly half (48 %) of patients with severe or difficult - to - treat asthma in The Epidemiology and Natural History of Asthma: Outcomes and Treatment Regimens follow - up study (TENOR II) still had very poorly controlled (VPC) symptoms after more than a decade of treatment, according to a new study presented at the ATS 2016 International Conference.

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.

In the first study to report on the association of aspirin use with breast cancer outcomes in a large patient population, researchers examined the pattern of aspirin use, cancer pathology and overall survival in 1,000 patients treated at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania and diagnosed with breast cancers, including receptor positive, HER2 - positive and triple negative cancers.

«All patients of all races do better at the trauma centers treating white majority populations, so this research tells us we need to direct attention to hospitals with higher mortality rates to help them improve their outcomes, or we won't ever be able to turn this around.»

«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.»

Averaged over a four - year follow - up period, operatively treated patients at least 80 years of age, had significantly greater improvement in all primary and secondary outcome measures compared with patients at least 80 years of age who received nonsurgical treatment.

In the study, researchers from Kansas City VA Medical Centre in Kansas City, USA, examined the effect of TRT on cardiovascular outcomes by comparing incidents of heart attack, stroke, and all - cause mortality among different sub-populations of treated and untreated patients.

«Given the lack of new drugs to treat severe sepsis, medical professionals must look at other ways to increase patient safety and positive outcomes, including the process of how we deliver care,» said Walkey.

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 phase 2 trial showed a reduction in the combined outcome of death or myocardial infarction (heart attack) in patients treated with otamixaban compared with unfractionated heparin (UFH) plus eptifibatide (an antiplatelet drug) and showed similar bleeding rates with otamixaban at midrange doses.

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.

The primary outcome of death or new myocardial infarction through day 7 occurred in 5.5 percent of the patients treated with otamixaban vs. 5.7 percent of the patients treated with UFH plus eptifibatide.

«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.

While there had been preliminary evidence suggesting that the addition of radiotherapy might improve outcomes, the study failed to find any differences in relapse - free survival between patients treated with the additional radiotherapy, and those who were not.

Although there remain some effects of treatment on hearing, endocrine, and neurocognitive outcomes — particularly in younger patients — other late effects common in photon - treated patients, such as cardiac, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal toxic effects, were absent.»

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

Because chronic hyperglycemia... potentially predicts a poor therapeutic effect of aerobic exercise on glycemic control and fitness, using exercise to treat patients with poorly controlled T2DM may have limited chances of a successful outcome,» the study concludes.

The data presented provide new insights on the potential mechanism by which Seres» microbiome therapies could improve the outcomes of cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Although this benefit has not been seen in all patients treated with immunotherapy, one of the goals of the CCIR is to improve our understanding of the immune system, especially in the context of the tumor immune microenvironment, in order to modulate immunity to optimally enhance patient outcome.

Patients with a rare type of leukemia called acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) have better outcomes than most leukemias because they can be treated with a very...

Though trastuzumab and pertuzumab have increased response rates and improved outcomes in HER2 - positive breast cancer, 30 % to 40 % of early - stage patients treated in the neoadjuvant setting will have residual disease at the time of surgery.

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.

[79] A total of 86 patients with advanced mucosal melanoma were included in the nivolumab monotherapy analysis, and 35 patients with mucosal melanoma were included in the combination therapy analysis; in addition, outcomes in these patients were compared with outcomes in patients with cutaneous melanoma who were treated in these clinical studies.

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«My clinical colleagues all have treated patients with very similar presentations and lesions following stroke or traumatic injury and repeatedly have witnessed highly variable outcomes between patients in terms of functional recovery,» Pera said.

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.

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.

«Patients treated with this new approach have a 60 percent higher likelihood of having a better functional outcome 90 days after stroke with no or only minimal neurological symptoms without disability,» Thomalla said.

«Our outcomes data already show this approach effectively treats and cures disease, in addition to saving patients tens of thousands of dollars in unnecessary medical spending.»

«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.

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

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.»