Sentences with phrase «risk patients»

She is available for high risk patients with special anesthesia needs.

Active surveillance is a globally recognized standard approach for patients with low - risk prostate cancer and select intermediate - risk patients with prostate cancer.

It is important to identify these high risk patients in order to provide the proper psychological assessment, support, and counselling to reduce these rates.

In this way, clinicians may now be able to accurately identify those low risk patients for whom standard hormone therapy is sufficient.

High - risk patients for depression were more than two times more likely to be hospitalized and used the emergency room than those at low risk.

The lower survival rate for intermediate - risk patients who were offered active surveillance suggests that these patients had lower life expectancy.

They both partner with clinics and offer their services so at risk patients can be safely operated on — and this goes beyond dental surgery.

The goal of this research is to develop criteria for identifying high - risk patients on brain scan while they are hospitalized.

Some nursing homes are well - equipped to handle fall risk patients or residents where as others are not as well - equipped or staffed.

Further, a survey of more than a dozen states found state and federal complaint procedures lacking, meaning at - risk patients suffered abuse and neglect in silence for months.

The chance to apply that method with at - risk patients finally came in 1997.

Conducted face - to - face visits in community with high risk patients within 24 hours of intake referrals.

High risk patients in this study were those with previously diagnosed heart disease or diabetes.

One of the recommendations was the feasibility of locking high - risk patients in their rooms at night.

They deal with high - risk patients on a constant basis which is why one of their basic virtues must be staying alert at all times.

Litt's team noted that the accelerated healing also resulted in no wound recurrence — a complication associated with at - risk patient populations.

«If at risk patients don't receive the appropriate care early enough, the complications can often lead to amputations and the over 50's are a particularly high - risk group.»

During the past decade, the annual number of hospital discharge diagnoses of CDI have doubled from approximately 139,000 to 336,600 and physicians are starting to see these infections in traditionally low risk patients without any healthcare or antibiotic exposure.

Doctors who prescribe immunotherapies may be able to identify at - risk patients by submitting tumors for genetic testing, Kato and his coauthors suggested.

Xenco Medical's technology has had a huge impact in reducing the numerous risks patients face during each procedure.

In a study that included high - risk patients undergoing major gastrointestinal surgery, the use of a cardiac - output guided intervention to improve hemodynamics (blood flow and blood pressure) during and after surgery did not reduce complications and the risk of death after 30 days, compared with usual care.

Further, the ability to detect minute changes in these biomarkers enables the identification of at - risk patients earlier in their disease progression to guide more personalized, preventive care.

But last night a former Labour health minister accused his party leadership of scaremongering and risking patient care.

«Eight of the 13 high - risk patients treated with the autograft system experienced much faster healing of their chronic wounds,» said Litt, who also serves as medical director of MU Health Care's burn and wound program.

Increased morbidity is not the only risk patients who forego standard - of - care CLND may face.

«Such composite models will likely provide a platform for both risk - and response - adapted therapy for FL in the future,» with high - risk patients considered for referral to clinical trials, the investigators concluded.

That range was determined in March to be cost effective by the independent Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) for highest risk patients assuming the drug results in a sustained reduction in cardiovascular - related deaths.

It would be really nice if US midwives would regulate themselves, transfer high - risk patients appropriately, and hold each other to account.

According to the US Department of Health, «low - risk patients scheduled for diagnostic [coronary artery] procedures sometimes have to wait all day or even be rescheduled for another day.»

«Short - term political gain only ignores the wider long - term challenges facing the NHS, and further risks patient safety.»

New results from the clinical trial program, SPIRE (Studies of PCSK9 Inhibition and the Reduction of Vascular Events), which sought to determine the effect of bococizumab, a PCSK9 inhibitor, on LDL cholesterol levels and clinical outcomes in high - risk patients already taking statin therapy, were presented at the 2017 American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions and simultaneously published in two manuscripts in the New England Journal of Medicine.

«Patients who are unlikely to abuse medication are often those most afraid to take it, while at - risk patients often don't recognize that they are vulnerable.»

Diabetic ulcers, pressure sores, surgical site wounds and traumatic injuries to high - risk patients account for most wounds that won't heal.

What's more, 61, or 77 percent, of the pediatricians recommended high - risk patients eat peanuts later than ages 4 to 6 months, instead of sending those children to an allergist first for testing.

However, for these high - risk patients dealing with breast cancer and mastectomy, reconstruction with implants seems to be a good option, according to Dr. Matros.

«Over the course of time in this study, implants in high - risk patients increased approximately 14 percent, and the use of one's own abdominal tissue increased 10 percent.»

Over the following months, almost none of the handful of at - risk patients converted to psychosis.

Using two samples of at - risk patients referred for evaluation, a group of researchers examined whether remotely tracking patients» eye gaze to social and non-social aspects of still pictures and dynamic videos could differentiate children aged 3 - 8 who would go on to be diagnosed with ASD versus those without ASD.

The study authors write that using the LSC17 score to single out high - risk patients predicted to have resistant disease «provides clinicians with a rapid and powerful tool to identify AML patients who are less likely to be cured by standard therapy and who could be enrolled in trials evaluating novel upfront or post-remission strategies.»

Roughly 1 in 5 patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement in the U.S. are estimated to be intermediate - risk; so together, intermediate - and high - risk patients comprise the top quartile of all patients needing an aortic valve replacement.

«We tested the drug in high - risk patients because they are the patients with the greatest need for new drugs above and beyond what we already use in our clinics,» Nicholls said.

However, this study indicates that not all at risk patients show accelerated lung function decline, which may explain why, so far, the effect of various treatments of lung function decline has been difficult to establish.

Such a vaccination could protect high - risk patients prophylactically and provide further protection of breast cancer patients who already received a therapy.