Sentences with phrase «patients over the age»

Most notably, however, the latest version (D print) of the bill continues to allow patients over the age of 21 to smoke the drug — something Cuomo, citing concerns of the State Police and state Health Department officials, said he wants to ban altogether.

The bill also limits who can smoke medical marijuana, limiting smoking to patients over age 21.

Savino altered her own bill in recent weeks to limit smoking to patients over age 21, specifically in response to concerns from the Senate's Republican conference, which shares control of the chamber with her own five - member Independent Democratic Conference.

Emergency patients over the age of 74 have significantly different and more complex health and social needs than their younger counterparts, even after controlling for illness severity, which has important implications about aging populations and emergency departments of the future.

Of patients over the age of 65, 40 per cent read at or below a 5th grade level.

In light of the late stage when pancreatic cancer is typically diagnosed and the significant rate of people diagnosed with acute pancreatitis that are subsequently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the study's authors suggest that patients over the age of 40 with acute pancreatitis should be evaluated for pancreatic cancer with esophageal ultrasound.

This large study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging has been following 566 noncardiac surgical patients over the age of 70 for the past five years with the goal of finding new approaches to prevent delirium and its long - term consequences in older adults.

«We found that 20 percent of MS patients over the age of 50 have cerebral microbleeds compared to 7 percent of healthy controls,» said Ferdinand Schweser, PhD, assistant professor of neurology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB and senior author on the paper.

Mortality was only correlated to patients over the age of 65, who were almost 4.5 times more likely to die.

The researchers analyzed data from 11,216 patients over the age of 66 with stage IV colorectal cancer from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)- Medicare database.

«National trends tell us that very few patients over the age of 75 are getting any treatment at all for pancreatic cancer due to comorbidity risks,» notes Dr. Yechieli.

Age - related macular degeneration is extremely prevalent, with as many as one in 10 patients over the age of 65 affected to some degree.

The most common forms of this disease usually affect patients over the age of 65 and are collectively the most frequent cause of legal blindness in developed countries.

According to a study completed at the Helsinki University Hospital Department of Neurosurgery, even patients over the age of 75 may recover from severe traumatic brain injury.

The study focused on the use of clot - preventing blood thinner drugs called anticoagulants in patients over age 65 who have a condition called atrial fibrillation that raises stroke risk greatly.

From 1999 to 2013, 4.5 percent of the patients over age 50 years developed dementia, of those, 5.3 percent had sustained at least one TBI during the observation period, which began in 1977.

Patients over age 65 are particularly at risk, especially those taking warfarin and anti-platelet agents.

I recommend digestive enzymes for most all of patients who come in complaining of bloating, burping, flatulence and will commonly place any patient over the age of 50 on a trial course of digestive enzymes for a month.

Experience with HGH therapy in elderly patients over the age of 60 is lacking, and experience with HGH prolonged therapy in adults is limited.

Preanethetic blood work is always recommended to ensure that your pet is a good candidate for anesthesia and surgery, especially for patients over the age of five years.

Preanesthetic blood work for spay / neuter procedures is not required, but it is always recommended to ensure that your pet is a good candidate for anesthesia and surgery, especially for patients over the age of five years.

I have at least ten feline patients over the age of twenty and at least two dogs in that age range in my practice.

So useful is this supplement that some enlightened cardiologists recommend it across the board to patients with heart disease, a history of heart attack or hypertension and generally for their patients over the age of 40.

54 % of patients over age 85 were undertriaged.

In Ontario, under the Highway Traffic Act, physicians and other medical professionals are required to report to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles any patient over the age of 16 who may be suffering from a medical condition that may impair driving ability.

Consents, probates for special need patients over the age of 18.

Some MAs assist with quality improvement initiatives by tracking and recalling patients who need Pap smears and mammograms, organizing flu vaccine clinics for high - risk patients, ensuring follow up for patients working on smoking cessation or verifying that patients over age 50 have had colon cancer screening.

Not exact matches

The majority of our patients under the age of 40 have one or two blastocysts transferred or three blastocysts for those over the age of 40.

Currently, as the Medical Director at The Fertility Center of Las Vegas, Dr. Shapiro's special interests include women over the age of 35, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), and patients with previously unsuccessful IVF cycles.

PGS is a vital tool for patients who suffer from recurrent miscarriages, women over age 35, and patients who have undergone a previous failed IVF cycle.

«Not ensuring that a patient eats well enough to aid their recovery is a basic failing — the importance of which Age UK has highlighted repeatedly over the years.

The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) investigated the care given to 820 patients over 80 years of age, who died within 30 days of surgery being performed on them.

Since then they have employed the system more than 45 times on patients ranging in age from under 18 months to over 60 years.

The study, to be presented this weekend at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) in Baltimore, demonstrated that oral nutritional supplements were associated with a decreased probability of 30 - day readmission among Medicare patients aged 65 and over who could be tracked for readmission, with:

A new study entitled «Oral Nutrition Supplements» Impact on Hospital Outcomes in the Context of Affordable Care Act and New Medicare Reimbursement Policies» and conducted by leading researchers at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, The Harris School at The University of Chicago and Precision Health Economics, and supported by Abbott, found that the use of oral nutritional supplements decreased the probability of 30 - day hospital readmission, length of stay and costs among hospitalized Medicare patients aged 65 and over.

«Delirium is associated with 5-fold increased mortality in acute cardiac patients: Over half of acute cardiac patients aged 85 years and older were delirious.»

Delirium is associated with a five-fold increase in mortality in acute cardiac patients, according to research published in European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care.1 Delirium was common and affected over half of acute cardiac patients aged 85 years and older.

Researchers only discovered this process in the late 1990s, but they've already begun dozens of clinical trials to gauge whether infusing patients with these small RNAs works against a range of diseases, from lung infections to liver cancer to age - related macular degeneration, a sight - stealing condition that mainly affects people over the age of 50.

Importantly, the benefits of alteplase were observed in all patient groups studied, including those aged 80 or over and those with severe strokes.

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.

During a four - year period from 2013 - 2017, the researchers analyzed patient data from the Johns Hopkins electronic medical record system (Epic) of 487,104 black women ages 18 and over.

After matching for patient age and other variables (including preimplantation genetic screening) analysis showed that freeze - all IVF was significantly associated with improved ongoing pregnancy rates in patients over 35 years old (46 % in freeze - all vs 33 % in fresh cycles).

The study, published today in Lancet Respiratory Medicine, involved 278 patients aged 65 or over at 14 NHS centres in the UK.

«The team recently published their results in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology and found that the procedure was well tolerated at all ages — even in those patients aged over 80 years old.

Using Medicare claims data for over 1.3 million patients aged 65 years and older from 2003 to 2013, the team analysed clinical process scores (a measure of whether or not a healthcare provider gives the recommended care to patients with a particular condition) and 30 day mortality data at each hospital.

They then tested the model on 894 patients in the Wake Forest institutional trauma registry over a four - year period and found the model showed excellent discrimination in both independence at discharge and death rates, both of which decreased by decade of age: 80 percent and 6.5 percent, respectively, at age 50 - 59; 82 percent and 7 percent at 60 - 69; 76 percent and 8.9 percent at 70 - 79; and 67 percent and 13.4 percent at 80 - 89.

To develop their predictive model, Dr. Miller and colleagues evaluated 57,588 patients in the National Trauma Data Bank over age 50 who had blunt trauma with isolated brain injury.

But almost all patients were over age 50, which meant they were likely to have age - related bone turnover.

Another limitation is that the trial did not select patients who were at the highest risk for developing another arterial blockage, such as those over age 65, those who have had more than one heart attack or those known to have a large number of blood clots.

Researchers analysed medical records from 56,510 UK - based diabetes patients aged 40 or over and found that cataract was diagnosed at an overall rate of 20.4 per 1,000 people.