Sentences with phrase «patients meet criteria»

Three months after the injury, 21.2 percent of head - injured and 16.3 percent of nonhead - injured patients met the diagnosis of PCS; 8.8 percent of head - injured patients met the criteria for PTSD compared with 2.2 percent of control patients.

All of the patients met criteria for Axis I diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM - IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994).

Results indicated that statistically significant change was found on most anger variables and the majority of patients met criteria for clinically significant improvement on indices of anger at post-test and 15 - month follow - up.

Not exact matches

Irrespective of this, a history of non-compliance is not necessary for a CTO to be imposed; it can be applied to a patient after a first compulsory admission for treatment provided the necessary criteria are met.

Some advocates would prefer money to be shifted from hospitals that don't meet the new criteria to those that do, essentially having the dollars follow the patients.

«This variation of a standard technique used during breast reconstruction will revolutionize the post-operative recovery in patients who meet certain criteria for the procedure,» notes Dr. Small.

It's amazing that when patients are done with therapy, they don't meet criteria for PTSD.

After an average of 3.5 years, 13 of 16 patients remaining in contact with the researchers no longer met the criteria for PTSD.

It's clear that patients who are overweight and obese should be counseled about weight loss, and referral to a bariatric program should be considered in patients who meet criteria.»

The authors identified 68 publications meeting criteria for inclusion in the analysis: 59 reporting the prevalence of preoperative mental health conditions (65,363 patients) and 27 reporting associations between preoperative mental health conditions and postoperative outcomes (50,182 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.

In their original study, Bennett and her colleagues treated each of the 12 patients in one eye; six improved so much they no longer met the criteria for legal blindness.

Less than a quarter of drug - resistant patients, however, meet the medical criteria for the procedures, the main one being a distinct site of origin in the brain for their seizures (confirmed with brain scans and electroencephalography) that does not overlap with regions involved in essential functions, such as language.

«Before, patients were very sick before meeting criteria, and the evidence is pretty clear that if you interfere in anorexia before there's been significant weight loss, the outcomes are much better and the illness is easier to treat in an outpatient setting,» says Kimberli McCallum, founder and medical director of eating disorder clinic McCallum Place in Saint Louis.

The researchers identified 39 randomized clinical trials (2,391 patients) that met criteria for inclusion in the analysis.

The researchers recruited 61 patients who were either self - or physician - referred to the Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center at Johns Hopkins and who met the study criteria.

The researchers reviewed 105 U.S. - based randomized controlled trials, from the past 50 years, that were relevant to pain patients in the United States and met inclusion criteria.

The researchers are now reporting updated data for additional patients in the two trials who met the phase II eligibility criteria as well as updated safety data in additional patients.

Brain scans of a 23 - year - old woman who, in a traffic accident, sustained head injuries so severe she met the clinical criteria for a vegetative state are forcing many doctors to reconsider what they know about such patients» awareness.

Researchers examined adverse outcomes for patients diagnosed and treated for diabetes compared to those who met the criteria for diabetes, but weren't diagnosed.

«Our results are likely to lead to the consideration of omission of postoperative radiotherapy in patients meeting the eligibility criteria for the trial,» Kunkler said.

After examining their blood test results, researchers, however, identified 707 patients who met criteria for a diabetes diagnosis.

At least five patients would need to be screened to enroll just one patient meeting the typical inclusion and exclusion criteria for antidepressant registration trials (ARTs), suggests the new research by Drs. Sheldon Preskorn and Matthew Macaluso of University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita and Dr. Madhukar Trivedi of Southwestern Medical School, Dallas.

«Similarly 71 drugs approved by the FDA from 2002 to 2014 for solid tumours have resulted in median gains in progression - free and overall survival of only 2.5 and 2.1 months, respectively,» he says adding, «Also, only 42 per cent met the American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Research Committee's criteria for meaningful results for patients.»

An analysis of lung cancer incidence and screening found a decline in the proportion of patients with lung cancer meeting high - risk screening criteria, suggesting that an increasing number of patients with lung cancer would not have been candidates for screening, according to a study in the February 24 issue of JAMA.

Because the patients» symptoms were not necessarily controlled on a gluten - free diet at the start of the study, «the subjects in these studies do not meet these criteria.»

The researchers found there was a decline in the relative proportion of patients with lung cancer meeting the USPSTF criteria overall, from 57 percent in 1984 - 1990 to 43 percent in 2005 - 2011.

Ping Yang M.D., Ph.D., of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and colleagues conducted a study to examine the trends in the proportion of patients with lung cancer meeting the USPSTF screening criteria.

«We can not rule out that a fraction of our patients who met these criteria might have benefitted from delayed stent placement, especially because we found a small improvement in heart - muscle function 18 months after treatment among patients who underwent deferred stenting,» Kelbaek said.

Typically, Iraqi patients must meet one important criterion in order to be discharged to Medical City.

Forty female patients met inclusion criteria.

However, an FDA Advisory Committee (the Gastroenterology and Urology Devices Panel) found the 18 - month data supportive of sustained weight loss, and agreed that the benefits of the device outweighed the risks for use in patients who met the criteria in the device's proposed indication.

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.

Experts are calling for a global review of guidelines used to diagnose sepsis, after a study found one in eight patients with infections severe enough to need admission to an Intensive Care Unit in Australia and New Zealand, did not meet current criteria.

However, despite these symptoms, more than 13,000 patients from this group did not meet the classic criteria used to diagnose sepsis.

• We suggest performing a cuff leak test in patients who meet extubation criteria and are deemed at high risk for post-extubation stridor.

Although it took slightly longer for the cancer to progress in patients receiving bevacizumab (10.7 months vs. 7.3 months), the rate of progression - free survival did not meet pre-specified criteria to be statistically meaningful, according to Dr. Mehta.

«But our study found that many patients, for example the elderly or those on medications that affect heart rate or the immune system, may not meet the classic criteria to diagnose sepsis, despite having severe infections and organ failure.

Thus, in a minority of cases, patients who meet the behavioral criteria for a vegetative state have residual cognitive function and even conscious awareness.14, 15

Dr. Li writes: «Just prior to delivery of MAiD, all patients who reached this stage were evaluated by intervention - team physicians to determine whether they currently met criteria for informed consent for MAiD.»

Patients with EDNOS were subcategorized into partial AN (pAN) and partial BN (pBN) when they met all Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition criteria but 1 for AN or BN, respectively.

All CFS patients met the 2015 IOM (4), Canadian (8), and Fukuda (9) diagnostic criteria for CFS.

At least two clinicians interviewed the patients, using a semistructured standardized interview, to ensure that they met the Diagnostic Statistical Manual IV diagnostic criteria for marijuana abuse or dependence.

In light of a previous single - case study that showed intact awareness in a patient who met the clinical criteria for being in a vegetative state, 10 our investigation had two main aims.

[6] In the MSLT - 1 trial, patients with isolated nodal recurrence had more total lymph nodes involved by melanoma than patients randomized to SLN biopsy who had a positive biopsy (all of whom were to have CLND; an average of 3.2 lymph nodes involved with metastatic melanoma vs only 1.4 positive nodes, respectively; P <.0001), [2] and were more likely to meet established criteria for adjuvant radiation, [7] which further increases the risk of postoperative lymphedema.

In order to obtain the comprehensive designation, which is the highest ranking the National Cancer Institute (NCI) gives, a center must meet strict criteria that include a strong core of basic laboratory research in several fields, the ability to translate those research findings into therapies that can one day be used to treat patients, a program of high - priority clinical trials, and a commitment to community service and outreach activities related to cancer prevention and control.

Follow - up for outcomes was done for patients who survived in first remission to the start of the fourth course without relapse and met low - risk classification criteria.

Limitations of this study include that it is an open - label study and the results are from a planned interim analysis of 10 of 17 enrolled infants (7 patients with 2 SMN2 copies and 3 with 3 SMN2 copies) who met the treatment duration criterion at the time of the interim analysis.1

At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2017 Annual Meeting, we presented monotherapy data of nine patients who received G100 with radiation (no pembrolizumab) that showed 100 % DCR rate, with 44 % of the patients achieved a partial response (PR) based on WHO criteria, which requires at least a 50 % tumor reduction to qualify as a PR.

Patients, enrolled in an NIH funded study, met the following criteria [17]: (1) current positive IgG Western blot using CDC surveillance criteria assessed using a single reference laboratory (University Hospital of Stony Brook); (2) treatment for Lyme disease with at least 3 weeks of intravenous ceftriaxone or cefotaxime that was completed at least 4 months before study entry; and (3) objective evidence of memory impairment as documented by the Wechsler Memory Scale - III compared to age -, sex - and education - adjusted population norms.