Sentences with phrase «patient while i test»

Valerie was nice to work with via the internet and once we arriveed at the dealership, John was patient while we test drove what I think was every model available.

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Like an MD, they can diagnose and treat patients independently, prescribe medications, and order medical tests, all while maintaining the focus on attentive patient care typical of a nurse.

While Steel established the soundness of his suggestions in laboratories (and continues to collect data via free diagnostic tests offered on his website, procrastinus.com), he has always been his own Patient Zero, inoculating himself against his bad habits with life hacks like those outlined in his book.

Features Dr. H. Gilbert Welch in an article exploring what medical tests are most useful to patients to help prevent disease while avoiding overdiagnosis.

While the company hit its primary endpoints with the trial, patients in the test group experienced a higher...

While the original SIFT machines are bulky tabletop instruments, Smith says that in the last few months he and Spanel have developed a smaller, portable version and tested it with hospital patients.

In one test, the team performed background readings of a patient's brain waves both while the patient was awake and unconscious.

While we observed that biopsies were generally safe and feasible, noninvasive testing methods, such as liquid biopsies that analyze tumor DNA circulating in the patient's blood, may provide another method to more easily characterize resistance over time.»

While Grob's study is not complete — he has tested 11 out of a projected 12 volunteers — patients seemed to have positive experiences.

While randomized clinical trials are the gold standard of clinical research, such trials are not feasible for testing anesthesia technique in joint replacement surgeries, because the low incidence outcomes would require a huge number of patients.

Results suggest that while isotretinoin was associated with a change in the average value of some laboratory tests (white blood cell count and hepatic and lipid panels), the average change across a patient group did not meet the criteria for high - risk and the proportion of patients with laboratory abnormalities was low, the authors report.

Going forward, the development of a reliable diagnostic kit is much needed to enable hospital, clinic, and public health workers to confirm that patients seeking care are either infected or free of the virus; and while an effective vaccine is being tested, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should screen existing antiviral medicines to determine if any can protect people from contracting the virus, Song said.

In addition, using this test can delay surgery by many months while the patient's HbA1c levels come into range.

«While randomized clinical trials are needed to test whether this is a causal relationship, these findings indicate doctors should consider using or re-starting ACEIs and ARBs as first - line blood pressure medications for patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis,» said Jenny I. Shen, MD, an LA BioMed researcher and corresponding author of the study.

Within the test cohort, all patients with MS had central veins in more than 45 per cent of brain lesions, while the rest had central veins visible in less than 45 per cent of lesions.

«While tumor profiling holds the promise of improved therapeutics through personalized medicine, it is important that both clinicians and patients discuss the possibilities of incidental findings prior to ordering the testing, as the findings can have serious implications for both the patient and their family members,» said Melinda Yushak, M.D., M.P.H., first author on the study and a medical oncology fellow in Yale School of Medicine.

«Our data confirmed that, while the rate of growth of triple - negative breast cancer was not affected by CDK 4/6 inhibitors, this class of drugs was able to significantly inhibit the spread of triple - negative breast cancer to distant organs when tested in multiple different triple - negative breast cancer models, including patient - derived xenografts.»

While patients in the Phase 1 trial tolerated the drug well it needs to be tested for longer time periods to prove its safety — particularly since this treatment would need repeated administration.

«By drawing attention to this important topic, Dr. Arnaout and his colleagues are setting the stage for further work to help more patients benefit from proper test selection, while protecting patients from the potential harm and wasted resources induced by unnecessary tests.»

A wide variety of methods exist that could improve medical lab test ordering software and would ensure that only the most appropriate, relevant lab tests for patients are ordered while saving money in the long run.»

While vision screening probably isn't harmful, some age - related eye conditions like macular degeneration and cataracts may be difficult to detect before patients have pronounced symptoms because people in the early stages of these diseases may still be able to read eye charts used to test vision.

Some will be helping with things like lab testing while others will go to say, rural Mexico to help do some disease detective work, like tracking down patient histories to find out where, when and how they were exposed.

New UC San Francisco research shows significant price differences for ten common blood tests in California hospitals, with some patients charged as little as $ 10 for one test while others were charged $ 10,169 for the identical test.

While providing no clear health benefit to emergency room patients, the extra tests also led patients to stay in the hospital longer than may have been necessary and exposed them to radiation from testing that was not required to diagnose a heart attack.

«The costs of these differences, while of value to patients, are not easy to measure, However, they likely do trickle down into charges for all basic services, including blood tests.»

Laron worked with Daughaday to test his patients and found that while they had high levels of growth hormone, their cells were not generating IGF - 1.

«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.»

«We hope this tool will be widely adopted in emergency departments to identify patients at high risk of aneurysm while cutting wait times and avoiding unnecessary testing for low - risk patients,» says Dr. Perry.

While we wait for results of studies that address these questions clinicians should do everything possible to increase patient comfort during the exam and alert FTM patients that repeat Pap testing may be necessary after an initial, inadequate result.»

In this way they can determine where to operate while avoiding invasive procedures, and especially prepare for the operation by testing different surgical possibilities, seeing which would be most effective and what the consequences would be, something that is obviously impossible to do on the patient.

In addition to the lack of antimicrobial stewardship programs, the researchers also found a widespread lack of written policies to test patients for C. diff infection when they developed diarrhea while taking antibiotics or within several months of taking them.

Using these cutoff points helps to pinpoint patients who should be monitored more closely for possible ARMD, while also minimizing the use of additional testing in patients unlikely to have or develop ARMD.

Half the patients had the point - of - care test, in which case a swab was analysed on the device and the results given to their treating doctor, while the other half received standard care.

While testing that idea, the researchers noticed something peculiar about cancerous cells that had been removed from leukemia patients and were growing in lab dishes.

«Test methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with PTest methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Ptest,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Peng.

Those who test negative can enter the inpatient ward, while an ambulance takes Ebola patients to a treatment unit.

Patients with Ebola - like symptoms are interviewed; if they meet the criteria for a suspect case, they stay in one of 10 small rooms while their blood is tested.

While excited, the researchers caution that so far this new diagnostic approach has only been tested in a relatively small patient group at a single, highly specialized medical center.

A biomarker that could accurately identify those at greatest risk for cognitive decline could help clinicians better evaluate and treat patients, while also accelerating the testing of drugs to treat the disease.

While potential physical harm from these tests is low, many cancer patients report «scanxiety,» a feeling of intense distress prior to imaging as they fear bad news.

While the study's results have not yet been tested in people, they raise the possibility that cancer should be treated with pro-oxidants and that cancer patients should not supplement their diet with large doses of antioxidants.

The researchers concluded, «Appropriate use of rapid and culture - based diagnostic tests can reduce inappropriate use of antibiotics for sore throats, while avoiding under - treatment of patients who can benefit from antibiotics.»

A genetic test can therefore help breast cancer patients — and their relatives — get the care they need, while avoiding what they don't.

This usually means keeping the patients under general anesthetic for an extra 30 minutes while tissue samples are tested in the lab for «clear margins».

While all of these factors seemed to play some role in the rates of genetic testing among black and white patients, the most important factor, by far, turned out to be something more disturbing: the doctors» behavior.

«The primary goal of GEP testing is to identify patients at high recurrence risk who will benefit from chemotherapy, while allowing patients with a low recurrence risk to forego chemotherapy, potentially offsetting the test costs with savings from reductions in chemotherapy use,» wrote authors led by Young Chandler, PhD, of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, DC.

About a decade ago, Emory researchers stumbled upon fluciclovine's utility with prostate cancer, while investigating its activity in a patient who appeared to have renal cancer, according to radiologist David Schuster, who has led several clinical studies testing fluciclovine.

Sensitivity is a measurement of patients correctly identified, while specificity measures how well the test did in ruling out people who weren't infected.

These decisions and conclusions can be made without ever directly testing the heart, and while the patient is still physically feeling fine.

By pursuing these advancements in a targeted way, Invivoscribe can develop and commercialize critical tests in a timely manner and make them available to patients worldwide, all - the - while harmonizing testing across all of our laboratories.