Sentences with phrase «researchers studied patients»

Using electronic health records, insurance claims and demographic data, the researchers studied patients who received a new diagnosis of depression in primary care settings in five large health care systems between 2010 and 2013.

Researchers studying patient safety in states with «caps» (like Texas) found «consistent evidence that patient safety generally falls» after caps are enacted.

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FITBIT DATA AIDS RESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of BehavioraRESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioraresearchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Besides randomized controlled clinical trials, there are a number of ways researchers can study how a particular cancer treatment is playing out in the real world: there are retrospective studies, observational studies, and even prospective research done using patient registries.

The study, just published in Science, showed that the creation of what the researchers are calling microtumors can help predict drug effectiveness in cancer patients better than the current standard method of testing the drugs on rodents.

«Patients in the study spent an average of approximately 27 minutes per day exercising over the course of an average 30 days in recovery,» wrote the researchers.

The institute, which includes over 40 laboratories and more than 300 researchers, said the research would focus on modifying a patient's own immune system T - cells to target a tumor, studying ways to boost patient response to current immunotherapy drugs.

An early, outsourced clinical research study with real patients was encouraging, but there are many potential pitfalls yet to come, said University of North Carolina diabetes researcher Dr. John Buse, who was briefed by Google on the lens last week.

When he co-founded Twine in 2013, Moore was a researcher at MIT studying how technology could be used to help patients improve their health.

«Power of Prayer Flunks Unusual Test — NEW YORK — In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery.

The double - blind study (meaning neither the researchers nor the patients know if they are receiving the coconut oil or placebo) at the Byrd Alzheimer's Institute, located in Tampa, Florida, will be eight months long and will enroll about 65 people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

In a new study commissioned by The March of Dimes Foundation and published in Fertility and Sterility, researchers from The Hastings Center and Yale Fertility Center examined the practical circumstances of infertility treatment in the US that influence patients and their doctors to make treatment choices that too frequently result in multiple births.

He points to research by a Stanford University researcher, Allan K. Mishra, who has studied PRP for years, whose in his most recent published research includes a large multicenter study [8] involving a host of well - respected orthopedic surgeons around the country who followed 230 patients in a double - blind randomized control study [the gold standard for medical research].

In a study of 1,237 hospitals and residential health care homes researchers found that 3.4 % of patients were infected with MRSA.

Study researchers, recruiters, and participants were blinded to the randomisation allocations prior to patient randomisation and enrolment into the trial.

Researchers studied records for all patients in Maryland's Trauma Registry recorded as directly admitted to the hospital from the scene or transferred to trauma centers between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2011.

To conduct the study, researchers developed an online survey that asked participants to respond, true or false, to whether they believed it is acceptable to allow a physician to prescribe medication, at the request of a terminally - ill patient, in order to end that person's life.

In the first study evaluating patient - reported cosmetic outcomes in a population - based cohort of older women with breast cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers found that less radiation was associated with improved cosmetic satisfaction long - term.

Researchers also identified weight lifting as the cause of injuries in 62 % of the patients studied, trauma in 18 %, and martial arts in 9 %.

During this in depth study, an international team of researchers led by British scientists investigated the impact of anti-hormone therapy on samples taken from patients with prostate cancer.

«We stress that requests from diverse patients have to be approached with great cultural sensitivity,» the researchers wrote in the study.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have created the first mathematical model that can predict how a cancer patient will benefit from certain immunotherapies, according to a study published in Nature.

A new study published by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests that the drug oseltamivir — commonly known as Tamiflu — does not cause an increased risk of suicide in pediatric patients.

While the researchers did not directly compare survival rates and neurological outcomes with whether individual patients received bystander CPR or defibrillation, they did find increases in both over the duration of the study.

Even before treatment, cancer patients in the study had a small number of infection - and tumor - fighting T cells that target these unusual proteins, the researchers found.

Researchers looked at data on 74 300 patient who received metformin and sulfonylurea, another common diabetes drug, over a 25 - year study period.

Researchers said further studies are also planned that use other methods to analyze the relationship between volume and outcomes, follow patients after discharge from the hospital, and assess how patient outcomes are affected as hospitals gain more experience with TAVR and the technology is refined over time.

When the researchers gave concentrated broccoli sprout extracts to 97 human type 2 diabetes patients in a 12 - week randomized placebo - controlled trial, obese participants who entered the study with dysregulated disease demonstrated significantly decreased fasting blood glucose levels compared to controls.

Based on results of the current study described in a report online June 18 in the journal Cancer Cell, Johns Hopkins researchers say they are planning a phase I clinical trial to test the paclitaxel - fostamatinib combination therapy in patients with recurrent advanced ovarian cancer.

Researchers from the Danish Heart Foundation in Copenhagen studied patients undergoing gastric endoscopy from 1997 to 2012.

The researchers analyzed the characteristics of 178 patients with this disease drawn from a study of 2,995 melanoma patients enrolled in The Genes, Environment, and Melanoma study.

In a study featured in the December issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Australian researchers demonstrate that PET scans can identify which of these prostate cancer patients would benefit from salvage radiation treatment (SRT).

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.

For the study, designed to identify the best predictors, the researchers used data from 208 atrial fibrillation or «Afib» patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital to undergo ablation between June 2010 and December 2015.

In a recent study, working with a team of researchers, Danino demonstrated that bacteria in pancreatic tumors degrade a chemotherapy drug — Gemcitabine — most commonly used to treat patients who have pancreatic cancer.

The researchers plan to expand their study by examining how often the ALR SNPs they have identified occur in patients with alcoholic liver disease compared to people without the disease.

For the study and to quantify the socioeconomic burden of this disease, the researchers conducted a web - based survey (674 out of 956 individuals completed the survey) to characterize the patient and caregiver experience with FTD - related resource use, health - related quality of life, and per - patient annual costs.

Researchers at the Veterans Health Administration conducted a systematic review of 67 published studies to determine the effectiveness of strategies to reduce or discontinue long - term opioid therapy prescribed for chronic pain and the effect of dose reduction or discontinuation on important patient outcomes.

Led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James), the retrospective study suggested that a pattern of molecules called microRNA (miRNA) in tumor cells might predict patients» response to radiation therapy.

In a study under way at USP's Neuroimaging Laboratory (LIM - 21), the researchers are now seeking to correlate the cognitive profile observed in the two groups of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Dr. David Brandman, lead author of the study and an engineering postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, said that while additional innovations will help to move implantable BCIs like BrainGate toward clinical availability for patients, this advance of rapid, intuitive calibration is a key one.

In another study, researchers at the center chose 15 chemically intolerant patients from those who had come to the center asking for help.

In the current study, researchers analyzed 48 ethnically diverse patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, looking at symptom sets in patients found to have rare or previously unknown changes in the DNA code of the four genes that disrupted brain function.

In the study, researchers looked at 80 English - language educational materials that were designed to be printed and read by patients in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.

For study purposes, researchers assumed that at least one - third of patients having bariatric surgery lost their excess weight prior to undergoing joint replacement.

In the study, published in the journal Behavioral Science and Policy, Rutgers researchers report that patients are three times more likely to get vaccinations when their physicians make appointments than when they are invited to make the appointments themselves.

To address the complexity of the biologic pathways that create and respond to pressure sore development, the researchers designed a computational, or «in silico,» model of the process based on serial photographs of developing ulcers from spinal cord - injured patients enrolled in studies at Pitt's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Spinal Cord Injury.

Cancer researchers use the patient samples and information to study how cancer develops and discover better ways to treat it.

For one thing, they point out, acupuncture studies are extremely difficult to double - blind — a methodological approach in which neither the researchers nor patients know who is receiving the treatment under investigation and who is receiving the placebo or sham.

In observational studies, researchers observe exposures and outcomes for patients as they occur naturally in clinical care or real life.