Sentences with phrase «required by patients»

What are the components of literacy required by patients and healthcare provided today, where the data is no longer solely held with a clinician, but the clinician acts as a mediator between informal and authoritative knowledges?

This allows the MA to specialize and focus on providing the type of care and assistance required by those patients and fellow health care providers.

Although they generally work a 40 hour work week, some may be asked to work on weekends or holidays as required by patients.

The effect will not be experienced as fast as it is required by the patient.

Makes certain specimens are directed to the appropriate laboratory required by the patient's insurance.

Not exact matches

But what if AI and deep learning could help doctors figure out a patient's disease simply by analyzing a face — no scans or testing required?

(By contrast, in some cases, traditional surgical approaches require splitting open a large portion of a patient's neck.)

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

«Further testing is required before Song's device could be approved as a treatment for dementia or Alzheimer's, but if it is able to help those patients regain even part of their lost memory function, the impact would be felt not only by the patients themselves, but their families and even the economy at large,» says Science Alert, which notes that Alzheimer's was responsible for a whopping $ 236 billion in healthcare costs last year.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

HB 331: Filed by Slosberg, this bill adds new language to the state's patients bill of rights, requiring facilities to send an explanation for any relocation in writing to both a resident and the Long - Term Care Ombudsman.

Either way, what is required of us is not a drive to change an entire educational culture but a patient, self - assured carrying on of the tradition that has been handed down to us by our mentors.

Before a patient was accepted for treatment, he was required to have a careful diagnostic examination by a physician and, in some cases, a psychiatrist.

A general summary was provided by ethics experts who testified before then - Congressman Albert Gore's Committee on Science and Technology in 1982: (1) Though risks in experimentation are inevitable, a strong bias toward the sacredness of human life requires the highest regard for the patient or subject.

I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes with it....

Since these procedures typically require a transfer of tissue from one patient to another, physicians must be careful to choose well - matched donors to avoid rejection by the recipient's immune system....

A refusal to run onto the pitch would have breached the duty of care required of the medical team to their patient,» as quoted by the Telegraph.

This health care act aims to encourage and provide continuous breastfeeding support and requires that professional fees for lactation consultants and breastfeeding supplies such as breast pumps be covered by insurance companies and offered to patients free of cost.

Public schools are required by law to make reasonable meal accommodations for celiac patients on a gluten - free diet or kids who are at risk of having a life - threatening allergic reaction to wheat.

We also make many different formulas as required by our youngest patients.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires employers to «provide reasonable break times» for a mother to nurse her child up to one year after birth, and requires them to provide a safe place, shielded from view, that can be used by the employee.

He bemoaned the situation where patients, particularly persons who require keen attention are subjected to inhumane treatment when they seek the services of these facilities while others are completely ignored by so - called medical professionals when they are at their weakest points.

The de Blasio administration will announce later Wednesday afternoon an agreement with the renowned cancer center that allows patients who are losing their Health Republic coverage at the end of this month to continue to receive coverage for care for as long as they require treatment if they enroll in MetroPlus, the insurance offered by New York City Health + Hospitals (formerly known as the city Health and Hospitals Corporation).

The exams, known as rape kits, are required by state law to be free of cost to patients.

The bill, which was co-sponsored by Upper East Side City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, would also have required the centers to keep patients» information confidential.

-- The attending physician is the person who first deems the patient terminal; he / she is the same person who declares the patient is capable, acting voluntarily and making an informed decision; he / she is the same person who writes the prescription or dispenses the medications directly; and he / she is the same person to sign the patient's death certificate; and he / she is required to lie on the death certificate by writing the terminal illness as the cause of death, not the lethal drugs -LRB-!).

As the Pew report notes, «Among those states that require local governments to pay for part of the health care costs incurred by Medicaid patients within their jurisdictions, New York's local governments make a particularly large contribution.»

The law under consideration by the Legislature would require two types of disclosure regarding the origin of the custom crowns, bridges, dentures and veneers: Dental labs must disclose the origin of their prosthetics to dentists, and dentists must disclose the origin of their prosthetics to patients.

Also, because the treatment is invasive — requiring brain surgeons to drill into the skull and deliver the therapy to the right spot in the brain — it should only be used by severely afflicted patients that don't respond to other drugs.

According to natural history of the disease, patients require nutritional and respiratory support by 12 months of age, and are not able to swallow or speak effectively.

Increased brain activation required by MS patients on warmer days to perform a simple task may signify neural inefficiency.»

«The marketing objective of selling services by making them seem attractive to consumers can create tensions or outright conflict with the ethical imperative of respect for persons, since the latter requires that patients make medical decisions in light of balanced information about the full range of risks and benefits associated with their care,» said London, professor of philosophy in CMU's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and director of the Center for Ethics and Policy.

This speculation was sparked by two seemingly key coincidences of one, timing when this protein synthesis stage occurs coincides with the patient's forgetting at 90 minutes or thereabouts, and two, both «episodic» and «procedural» memories appear to require successful protein synthesis to occur for long - term memory permanence, and the patient can not retain any new either episodic or procedural memories — and this is unusual compared to traditional cases of amnesia.

Patients can succumb to bacterial infections because their immune systems lack a molecule required by immune cells, specifically neutrophils, to go to the site of infection.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers found only 34 (0.31 %) healthy volunteers with serious adverse events, which are defined by the FDA as those that result in death; are life - threatening; require or prolong in - patient hospitalization; or cause a disability, congenital anomaly or birth defect.

The government has finally responded to the problem by requiring patients to get doctors» prescriptions for most drugs.

Seven patients went on to require neurosurgery, which allowed the scientists to investigate in detail changes in the brain brought on by CAR T cell treatment.

By contrast, a distal tear of the UCL was detected in the patients that failed non-operative treatment and required surgical intervention.

Many insurers require that patients try medically supervised weight - loss programs, often for a year or more before they will cover the operation, and plans may set other conditions such as screening tests, psychological examinations and other documentation by the doctor who refers the patient for the operation.

«By accurately assessing tumor resection margins intraoperatively with CLI, surgeons may be able to completely clear the cancer with a single operation, thereby reducing the number of breast cancer patients requiring a second, or even third, surgical procedure.

According to the BCBL expert David Soto, «patients with brain injuries in attention control areas also suffer motility control problems, even when the movement required by the task is very simple.»

«Patients will now have yet another treatment option, one that does not require injections, monitoring lab work, or special authorization by their insurance company; provided they have adequate coverage to begin with.

Exacerbations requiring hospitalization more than tripled that consequence to 75 milliliters per year, by far the largest loss of lung function among any group of COPD patients.

In the second cohort of 77 COPD patients, the 23 patients with allergic sensitization (determined by immunoglobulin E testing) were significantly more likely to wheeze, to experience nighttime awakening due to cough, and to have COPD exacerbations requiring antibiotic treatment or an acute visit to the doctor.

Another important aspect of the green - light KTP laser approach, Zeitels adds, is that biopsy and treatment of patients whose cancer involves a single vocal cord usually can be accomplished in the same procedure, whereas radiotherapy requires a prior biopsy to determine the extent and location of the tumor, followed by daily radiation treatments over approximately six weeks.

«Most cases of Lyme disease are cured by antibiotics, but some patients continue to experience symptoms despite the absence of detectable Lyme bacteria,» said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. «This poses a mystery that requires continued research into new or improved ways to diagnose Lyme disease and determine the cause of unresolved symptoms.»

The test requires removing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients by means of a spinal tap, putting samples into a bath of normally shaped prion proteins, and agitating the solution to encourage any abnormal prion «seeds» in the tissue to latch onto the regular proteins.

NIH does require applicants to include a long - term plan for patients when they apply for funding for invasive device studies, which is evaluated by reviewers.

A top priority, she recommends, is that all health care programs funded by the federal government be required to provide coverage of care — including sex reassignment surgery — while transgender patients make the physical transition to the sex matching their gender identity.

The latter group of patients is by far the biggest in Denmark, and they do not require anywhere near as long a period of treatment to recover.