Sentences with phrase «patients in the study died»

Five patients in the study died, including the one taken off the diet when the family requested withdrawal of care.

Not exact matches

A study of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at a well - respected Boston hospital revealed that physicians rarely discussed CPR with their patients, despite the fact that one - third of patients who die in the hospital first undergo CPR.

Previous research shows that giving an EPA - DHA supplement to patients with cardiovascular disease reduces their chance of dying from the disease by as much as 20 percent, authors note in the study, but supplementing with margarine didn't seem to cut it.

The study found mutations in 607 genes in brain tissue from patients who died from SUDEP that were not seen in the tissue from the living people.

For the study, investigators performed continuous patient monitoring following Do Not Resuscitate — Comfort Care orders in patients with devastating brain injury to investigate the mechanisms and timing of events in the brain and the circulation during the dying process.

But patients with the antibodies in their blood are at high risk of dying while waiting for a perfect match, said Brian Feingold, M.D., M.S., study lead author and medical director of Pediatric Heart and Heart - Lung Transplantation at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and associate professor of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania.

The H5N1 avian influenza strain developed strong resistance to oseltamivir, better known as Tamiflu, in two Vietnamese patients who died from the virus early this year, according to a new study.

So annealed into pop culture are the five stages of grief — introduced in the 1960s by Swiss - born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler - Ross based on her studies of the emotional state of dying patients — that they are regularly referenced without explication.

In one study that examined data from over 38 million inpatients in North America, Devereaux and his colleagues determined that patients treated at investor - owned, private for - profit hospitals had a significantly higher risk of dyinIn one study that examined data from over 38 million inpatients in North America, Devereaux and his colleagues determined that patients treated at investor - owned, private for - profit hospitals had a significantly higher risk of dyinin North America, Devereaux and his colleagues determined that patients treated at investor - owned, private for - profit hospitals had a significantly higher risk of dying.

About 40 percent of patients in their study who developed pneumonia from any viral infection died.

The ultimate conclusion of the study is that the Canadian medical system is as good as the U.S. version, at least when measured by a single metric — the rate at which patients in either system died.

A new study says that your chance of dying and suffering complications is lower in hospitals and clinics that computerize patient charts and drug orders.

In more than 20 percent of cases studied, patients returned to the hospital within 30 days, and about five percent of patients died within 30 days.

By comparison, of more than 1,000 relatives of Laron patients who died during the study, one in five succumbed to cancer.

Unfortunately, a number of patients died from the infections instead of their cancer; just how many is hard to say since medical studies in the 1800s were not methodical and often consisted of case reports.

The study drilled down in particular on patients who had a high risk of dying from a cause other than prostate cancer within 10 years.

Not all of these experiences actually coincide with brushes with death — one study of 58 patients who recounted near - death experiences found 30 were not actually in danger of dying, although most of them thought they were.

Five who participated in study of the genetics of deadly virus became infected and died while caring for patients or loved ones

A new population - based study has found that patients with glioblastoma who died in 2010, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of bevacizumab, had lived significantly longer than patients who died of the disease in 2008, prior to the conditional approval of the drug for the treatment of the deadly brain cancer.

These variants increased patients» risk of dying in the year following a first heart attack, but they appeared to do so for different reasons depending on race, according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Now a study finds that a patient's risk of dying goes up along with the number of work shifts that a hospital is understaffed in nurses.

Researchers studied survival in 1,715 patients with glioblastoma who died in 2006, 1,924 who died in 2008 and 1,968 who died in 2010.

Patients in the study averaged three such shifts, which meant that their risk of dying increased by more than six percent compared with patients with access to fully staffed nursinPatients in the study averaged three such shifts, which meant that their risk of dying increased by more than six percent compared with patients with access to fully staffed nursinpatients with access to fully staffed nursing teams.

In their first study, Gray and colleagues analyzed the emotional content of blog posts from terminally ill patients who were dying of either cancer or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Furberg says, «If only one in a thousand patients will die from a heart attack, an efficacy study of 200 or even 2,000 patients is simply too small to get a reliable answer about rare side effects.»

Out of the 281 patients who received the treatment in the study, eight died in the 100 days following the treatment.

A study published this month using the same group of patients found that the risk of dying in the month after a heart attack was 14 percent in the under -6-METs group but only 6 percent in the over-12-METs group.

Of the 22 patients whose tumors successfully grafted, six died before data from the mice were available, but in 13 of the remaining 16 cases, there was a positive correlation between mouse and human results.2 In a second study, performed in collaboration with Manuel Hidalgo of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center, the team found that 6 of 13 patients with advanced solid tumors who were treated based on results from personalized PDX mice had partial tumor remissions, even in cases where genetic sequencing of the tumor showed no actionable mutationsin 13 of the remaining 16 cases, there was a positive correlation between mouse and human results.2 In a second study, performed in collaboration with Manuel Hidalgo of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center, the team found that 6 of 13 patients with advanced solid tumors who were treated based on results from personalized PDX mice had partial tumor remissions, even in cases where genetic sequencing of the tumor showed no actionable mutationsIn a second study, performed in collaboration with Manuel Hidalgo of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center, the team found that 6 of 13 patients with advanced solid tumors who were treated based on results from personalized PDX mice had partial tumor remissions, even in cases where genetic sequencing of the tumor showed no actionable mutationsin collaboration with Manuel Hidalgo of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center, the team found that 6 of 13 patients with advanced solid tumors who were treated based on results from personalized PDX mice had partial tumor remissions, even in cases where genetic sequencing of the tumor showed no actionable mutationsin cases where genetic sequencing of the tumor showed no actionable mutations.3

For instance, a study in England has shown that even if the amyloid is cleared, most patients still die of Alzheimer's.

A study published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics found that patients with chronic hepatitis C who had three or more drinks a day were five times more likely to die than heavy drinkers without the disease.

And in a 2009 study from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, patients who had survived a heart attack were 44 % less likely to die over the next eight years if they ate chocolate up to once a week, versus none at all.

In a 2005 study published in the journal Health Psychology, they followed 290 patients from the moment they were admitted to hospice care to the time they dieIn a 2005 study published in the journal Health Psychology, they followed 290 patients from the moment they were admitted to hospice care to the time they diein the journal Health Psychology, they followed 290 patients from the moment they were admitted to hospice care to the time they died.

A second phase 3 study presented Sunday found that adding radiation to hormone therapy, also known as androgen - deprivation therapy (ADT) in patients with locally advanced or high - risk prostate cancer reduced the seven - year risk of dying by 43 percent compared to treating with hormone therapy alone.

More than one - third of the patients died during the studies, which ranged in length from six months to more than seven years.

In a study of cardiac bypass surgery patients at Duke University, those with low magnesium levels were twice as likely to have a heart attack or die from any cause than those with normal levels.

A new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that heart patients with a large waist size (greater than 35 inches for women and 40 for men) were 70 percent more likely to die during the study than those with smaller waists.

Dying at home, avoiding the intensive care unit, and forgoing chemotherapy and feeding tubes in the last week of life are all associated with a better quality of life among end - stage cancer patients, according to the study, which was based on a detailed survey of 396 patients and their caregivers.

In studies such as Li's that have looked at cancer outcomes in diabetes patients, for instance, doctors may be prescribing metformin — rather than insulin or other diabetes drugs — only to their healthier patients, who may be less likely to develop or die from cancer anywaIn studies such as Li's that have looked at cancer outcomes in diabetes patients, for instance, doctors may be prescribing metformin — rather than insulin or other diabetes drugs — only to their healthier patients, who may be less likely to develop or die from cancer anywain diabetes patients, for instance, doctors may be prescribing metformin — rather than insulin or other diabetes drugs — only to their healthier patients, who may be less likely to develop or die from cancer anyway.

A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow...

Everyone seems to know someone who tells a tale of losing a pet under anesthesia, but a recent study among human beings anesthetized over a period of 8 years in a Brazilian hospital revealed that although some patients died during surgery (16 deaths in 10,000), they were all related to patient factors, like preexisting disease1.

According to a recent study in the Journal of Patient Safety, between 210,000 and 440,000 patients die each year at least in part because of preventable medical errors.

The authors of the 2004 Canadian Adverse Events Study, which examined the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients coast to coast, estimated that between 3,561 and 9,143 patients in Ontario died as a result of nearly 72,000 adverse medical events.

PTSD symptoms and the full range of criteria comprising a PTSD diagnosis have been observed in rescue and ambulance personnel.12 13 Healthcare workers typically are exposed to two types of trauma in the hospital setting: direct (personal involvement in traumatic events through confrontations resulting in their own traumatic experiences, e.g., workplace violence) and indirect (non-personal involvement in traumatic events through others» confrontations resulting in other people's traumatic experiences, e.g., witnessing other people's direct experiences of workplace violence, caring for dying patients «and threats of severe injury or exposure to trauma).4 14 — 16 In the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplacin rescue and ambulance personnel.12 13 Healthcare workers typically are exposed to two types of trauma in the hospital setting: direct (personal involvement in traumatic events through confrontations resulting in their own traumatic experiences, e.g., workplace violence) and indirect (non-personal involvement in traumatic events through others» confrontations resulting in other people's traumatic experiences, e.g., witnessing other people's direct experiences of workplace violence, caring for dying patients «and threats of severe injury or exposure to trauma).4 14 — 16 In the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplacin the hospital setting: direct (personal involvement in traumatic events through confrontations resulting in their own traumatic experiences, e.g., workplace violence) and indirect (non-personal involvement in traumatic events through others» confrontations resulting in other people's traumatic experiences, e.g., witnessing other people's direct experiences of workplace violence, caring for dying patients «and threats of severe injury or exposure to trauma).4 14 — 16 In the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplacin traumatic events through confrontations resulting in their own traumatic experiences, e.g., workplace violence) and indirect (non-personal involvement in traumatic events through others» confrontations resulting in other people's traumatic experiences, e.g., witnessing other people's direct experiences of workplace violence, caring for dying patients «and threats of severe injury or exposure to trauma).4 14 — 16 In the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplacin their own traumatic experiences, e.g., workplace violence) and indirect (non-personal involvement in traumatic events through others» confrontations resulting in other people's traumatic experiences, e.g., witnessing other people's direct experiences of workplace violence, caring for dying patients «and threats of severe injury or exposure to trauma).4 14 — 16 In the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplacin traumatic events through others» confrontations resulting in other people's traumatic experiences, e.g., witnessing other people's direct experiences of workplace violence, caring for dying patients «and threats of severe injury or exposure to trauma).4 14 — 16 In the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplacin other people's traumatic experiences, e.g., witnessing other people's direct experiences of workplace violence, caring for dying patients «and threats of severe injury or exposure to trauma).4 14 — 16 In the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplacIn the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplacin the workplace.