Sentences with phrase «overall outcome for the patient»

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The Mall will offer people a holistic approach to healthcare that will result in better overall health outcomes for patients.»

The five year disease - free and overall survival rates for patients with high - risk malignant germ cell tumours remains less than 50 %, and so accurate diagnosis and monitoring is crucial to improving outcomes for patients.

«These estimates of the benefits of sending patients to a trauma center are probably conservative, since we didn't include patients sent to non-trauma centers without neurosurgical capabilities,» Kaufman said, adding that the complementary results for the two age groups are consistent with an overall improvement in outcomes.

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.»

«Overall, the outcomes demonstrate that there is a significant under - use of INS spray for CRS patients; however, factors driving the underuse are currently unknown.

The study reflects an «antimicrobial stewardship» approach, guiding healthcare providers to prescribe the most appropriate antibiotic for a patient's specific type of infection, with the aim of improving individual outcomes and reducing the overall risk of antibiotic resistance — in which disease - causing microorganisms develop resistance to commonly used antibiotics.

The clinical trial will help to determine if the early microbubble intervention results in overall better outcomes for patients.

In 2009, practice leaders at Mayo Clinic initiated a practice redesign effort targeted at lower - risk cardiovascular surgical patients that would set clear expectations for their hospital care, improve patients» experiences and outcomes, and reduce overall costs.

New research from Mayo Clinic shows that implementing a uniform method to care for lower - risk cardiac surgical patients improves outcomes, reduces patients» time in the hospital and lowers overall per patient costs by 15 percent.

However, it is well known that these treatments are not effective for all patients and that overall outcomes have not improved palpably in recent decades, potentially due to the lack of new interventions or better matching of patients to available treatments.

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the leading cause of leukemia mortality in the United States.1 Curative treatment involves intensive induction chemotherapy, before proceeding to either consolidation chemotherapy or allogeneic stem cell transplantation based on the patient's risk for relapse.2 This approach has been employed for > 4 decades and, although most individuals achieve complete remissions with front - line therapy, 3 the majority of patients ultimately relapse with drug - resistant disease, and overall survival rates remain disappointingly poor.4 The limited ability of many patients to tolerate the intense chemotherapy - based treatments, in particular hematological toxicity, further contributes to the poor outcomes noted in this disease.

Through our innovative operating model, physician - led culture and empowering technology, we are able to drive key quality and cost outcomes that create value for patients, physicians and the overall health system.

Palo Alto, CA About Blog Edward R. Mariano, MD, is a physician anesthesiologist, husband, and father working to improve pain control, outcomes, and the overall experience for patients having surgery.

There are well - documented associations between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and intimate relationship problems, including relationship distress and aggression, 1 and studies demonstrate that the presence of PTSD symptoms in one partner is associated with caregiver burden and psychological distress in the other partner.2 Although currently available individual psychotherapies for PTSD produce overall improvements in psychosocial functioning, these improvements are not specifically found in intimate relationship functioning.3 Moreover, it has been shown that even when patients receive state - of - the - art individual psychotherapy for the disorder, negative interpersonal relations predict worse treatment outcomes.4, 5

For patients living with family, personal therapy led to better outcomes in overall performance than did family or supportive therapy.

For patients living with family, personal therapy led to better outcomes in overall performance.

As these changes become the norm, many skilled nursing operators are pro-actively developing partnerships with hospitals and physician groups in order to (1) provide more integrated services and better healthcare outcomes, (2) mitigate changes in the policy sphere, (3) reduce overall costs and (4) prepare for the coming influx of aging patients.