Sentences with phrase «patients at»

«When hospitals don't focus heavily on hand hygiene, that puts patients at unnecessary risk for preventable health care - associated infections,» says Conway.

The benefits of surgery in patients at least 80 years of age were similar to those in younger patients, except for the outcome measures of pain and physical function, which were higher in the under age 80 group.

Words in narrative hospital discharge notes may help to identify patients at high risk for suicide, according to an article published online by JAMA Psychiatry.

After running the simulations at IU Bloomington, Bacallao confirmed the cyst growth predictions seen in the virtual cysts in experiments using real human cells cultivated from polycystic kidneys from patients at the IU School of Medicine.

«Using these risk factors, we can identify patients at the highest risk for ODO, and tailor specific pain and followup regimens for them that carry the least consequences,» explained lead investigator Gopal N. Gupta, MD, of the Department of Urology, Loyola University Medical Center.

Study limitations include potential misclassification, not examining the specific features of psychopathology, and having results based on patients at two academic centers so questions of generalizability arise.

Psychological support and new coping skills are helping patients at high risk of developing chronic pain and long - term, high - dose opioid use taper their opioids and rebuild their lives with activities that are meaningful and joyful to them.

The trial is ongoing, and Gelfand says his team will evaluate these patients at a longer follow up to see if the effects are sustainable and if patients continue to improve.

He and Allison Goldfine have tested salicylates on 36 patients at Joslin — including Jerry Silva.

The findings could help prioritize stroke patients at risk of heart attacks for protective therapy.

The challenge is in identifying patients at high risk for suicide.

The study included 124 newly diagnosed patients at 25 clinical trial sites in the U.S. Two - thirds of the patients were treated with ICT - 107, an experimental vaccine based on immune system cells called dendritic cells that were exposed to six synthetic proteins, or antigens, known to be involved in GBM development.

It may be that patients at high - volume centers experience fewer complications.

Roy H. Perlis, M.D., M.S., of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and coauthors examined whether computer - aided natural language processing of narrative hospital discharge notes could help identify patients at risk for death by suicide after medical or surgical discharge from the hospital.

«Using an approved flu vaccine in a novel dosing schedule yielded promising results for a group patients at high risk for infection,» Branagan said.

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.

The men were patients at Intermountain Healthcare hospitals.

Yale Cancer Center researchers have developed a vaccine strategy that reduces the risk of flu infections in cancer patients at highest risk for influenza.

In other studies ongoing at CUIMC, solanezumab is being evaluated in presymptomatic patients at risk of Alzheimer's disease.

In some cases, combination therapy with voriconazole and an echinocandin is recommended for certain patients at highest risk.

Use of standardised tools to screen wAMD patients for symptoms of anxiety and depression in the macular treatment unit could better help identify patients at risk.

The company says that in the trials on 15 patients at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, the drug relieved the symptoms in seven patients.

Health workers and patients at the Harare hospital didn't use the term depression; there's not even a word for it in the local Shona language.

Importantly, there was a strong correlation between the degree of ES conditions and the self - reported intensity of chronic pain reported by the patients at the time of EEG testing.

the renal equivalent of a heart attack — is about to be tested on 500 patients at 60 centres in the US, Canada and Europe.

«The substantial variation in prescribing patterns of such extremely addictive medications for minor injuries results in many thousands of pills entering the community, and places patients at an increased risk of continued use and potentially addiction,» said lead author M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at Penn. «It's vital that we identify and understand the root causes of this growing issue.»

GEx has been validated with 132 patients at three hospitals in Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom and, according to the tests performed, it provides better results than traditional rehabilitation programs, «This improvement is seen in the patient's functional capacity, as well as in weight loss and a reduction in cholesterol levels,» says Álvaro Martínez.

«Several therapies now used around the world to prevent transplant rejection were first offered to patients at UAB,» said Robert Gaston, M.D., executive co-director of UAB's CTI.

In the Scientific Reports study, the researchers tested the device in 11 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital and University Hospital La Paz in Madrid, at various points during their chemotherapy treatment.

Rwanda will present safety and efficacy data on 50 patients at the American Urology Association in May 2011, and a randomized, controlled trial with 150 participants, designed to compare PrePex with the conventional surgical method is currently ongoing.

Drug - resistant germs in the same family of bacteria recently infected several patients at two Los Angeles hospitals.

University of Michigan researchers have identified an accessible, non-invasive way to identify patients at risk for progression of kidney disease.

These are places where huge amounts of data is gathered from patients at great expense.

«These drugs are highly effective and well - tolerated by patients at all stages of liver disease.»

«They all get to interact with patients at some point,» Shore says of her team.

This physician was not treating Ebola patients but instead was treating obstetrics patients at a facility in Monrovia, Liberia.

Losing touch with reality puts schizophrenic patients at high risk of job loss, illness, homelessness, and suicide.

«In conclusion, 40 mg of daily simvastatin added to usual care did not reduce exacerbation rate or prolong time to exacerbation in moderate to severe COPD patients at risk for exacerbation,» the researchers reported.

A large Australian trial showing that daily use of nicotinamide, a form of vitamin B3, for 12 months reduced the incidence of new non-melanoma skin cancers by 23 % in patients at high risk for skin cancer

But reduced caloric intake does not provide the entire explanation for the success of gastric bypass patients at keeping the pounds off over the long haul.

«Antivirals underprescribed for patients at risk for flu complications, study shows.»

«Respondents were overall quite skeptical about the value of EEG - based DOA monitors, however their use in patients at risk for awareness was more positive among the nurse anesthetists than the anesthesiologists,» notes Professor Jakobsson.

In a new study, researchers are taking joint biopsy tissue from patients at the start of a new therapy and then six weeks later to see if they can find a predictor gene sequence that will clearly identify which patients respond to a particular therapy.

Overall, only 19 percent of the patients at high risk for influenza - associated complications who saw a primary - care provider within two days of the onset of their symptoms received antiviral treatment.

Whilst a preference for a (shortened) period of triple therapy remains in the guidance, we recommend that dual therapy with oral anticoagulation and clopidogrel may be considered as an alternative to triple therapy in selected AF patients at low risk of stent thrombosis or recurrent cardiac events.»

«Our results evaluated patients at an average of five years of follow up and most patients continued to be very satisfied and performed a high number of sporting activities, including those that required high use of their shoulders,» said study author Grant Garcia, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York.

They examined the tumors of nearly 300 patients at the CHU de Grenoble.

The scientists performed the tests in a laboratory setting using 100 different bacterial strains isolated from the lungs of pediatric cystic fibrosis patients of Seattle Children's Hospital and 42 bacterial strains isolated from hospitalized adult patients at UPMC.

In all CS cases, said Morrow who treats autism patients at the E. P. Bradley Hospital in East Providence, boys have a mutation on the SLC9A6 gene on the X chromosome that disables production of a protein called NHE6 that is important for neurological development.

For patients at one dental practice in Devon, England, such Virtual Reality encounters are resulting in demonstrably better experiences in the dentist's chair.