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?
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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.
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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.