Sentences with phrase «overall outcome of the patient»

We believe we can help impact the overall outcome of the patient and how long that patient has to be hospitalized.»

Time is often an important factor in the overall outcome of these patients.

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Based on these ex vivo experiments (in cells isolated from patients and then exposed to PD - L1 blocking agents outside of the body), they predict that when actual patients are given PD - L1 blocking agents, their viral load at the time will influence the «net» outcome, i.e., whether the blockage boosts or weakens the overall anti-HIV immune response.

Although self - appraisal of overall well - being may mediate physiologic responses to surgery, patient - reported health status has not been extensively studied among bladder cancer patients to date, and its utility in predicting postoperative outcomes, such as complications, has not been previously examined.»

«We wanted to test the hypothesis that both the extent of the liver resection and the location or type of colorectal resection influence the overall risk and patient outcomes associated with these operations,» says the article's first author, Christopher Shubert, M.D., who is also a surgeon and Kern Scholar at Mayo Clinic.

Finally, all of this data can be combined to predict patient outcomes including overall survival.

«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.

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.

«By reducing bleeding with comparable rates of MACCE and stent thrombosis, bivalirudin significantly improved overall 30 - day and one year outcomes, compared with both heparin alone and heparin plus tirofiban in patients with AMI undergoing primary PCI,» said Gregg W. Stone, MD, the study's senior author.

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.

«Our study shows once a patient leaves the hospital their overall health outcomes are similar regardless of where they live.»

This technique gave Richie, and patients like him, a faster recovery, more predictable outcomes and better overall quality of life.»

Researchers also performed a meta - analysis to investigate the overall association between palliative care and three outcomes often linked with palliative care — patients» quality of life, symptom burden and survival.

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.

«Diabetic patients who undergo kidney transplantation can expect outcomes equally as successful as nondiabetics, provided that they are diligent in their management of blood pressure, glucose, healthy weight, and other factors that influence their kidney function and overall well - being.»

ADAPT - DES is the largest study ever to explore the overall treatment implications of platelet reactivity on patient outcomes after successful coronary drug - eluting stent implantation.

When outcomes from these two groups were added together, the absence of any benefit from drug therapy in patients with an unwitnessed arrest may have muted the significant benefit seen in those with a witnessed cardiac arrest, resulting in the marginal overall outcome of the study.»

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.

Also lacking has been evidence of overall improved patient outcomes if hydroxyurea is used to increase blood levels of fetal hemoglobin to more than 20 percent.

No Association Between Response Rates and Survival in Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma: Results of a recent meta - regression analysis of 63 randomized clinical trials out of Greece concluded that there was no association between conventional response outcomes, such as complete response (CR) or very good partial response (VGPR), and overall (OS) or progression - free survival (PFS) in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma in populations of patients who received stem cell transplant and those who did not.

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.

With the proper amount of staff on hand, it has been proven that elderly patients are linked to fewer urinary tract infections, fewer pressure ulcers, and catheterized patients, less antibiotic use, reduced likelihood of death, and improved patient outcomes overall.

Secondary outcomes were patient cognitive function, depressive symptoms, psychiatric symptoms and behavioural disturbances, and overall severity of dementia.

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

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.