Sentences with phrase «seen patient health»

Most physicians have seen patient health improve as a result of pet ownership.

Not exact matches

A few years ago my mother considered filing for a patent on a health product to solve a problem she often saw with her elderly patients.

The plan would have seen health organizations hand over patient information with key details, such as the patient's name, obscured.

If we understand why we are seeing associations between the fracking industry and health problems, then we can better inform patients and policymakers.

The things I can't see during a routine patient visit are the very things that make the biggest impact on a person's health.

Glickman: A common pivot we see is around health care: Students want to do something for patients, and as they develop their idea, they realize that it's the insurance companies that pay for this service, so they need to pivot one part of the business by thinking about the needs of who's paying.

Boosting patient engagement through technology is seen as a critical task for health care, says Patricia Griffiths, a researcher at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center's Rehabilitation Research and Development Center for Visual and Neural Rehabilitation in Atlanta.

But let's consider two major positives: First, with both patients and stakeholders investing in our healthcare system, we're all on the same team: We all want to see more positive outcomes for our loved ones and improvements in the health of our nation, both literally and financially.

To see what the new balance of power will look like in the coming years — and what it looks like right now — Fortune interviewed more than three dozen executives at companies across the health care continuum, along with entrepreneurs, doctors, patients, and other experts.

«Clinicoin is an example of the continuous innovation we've seen with Mosio throughout our long relationship with them,» explained David Nichols, founder and COO of CareWire, a mobile patient engagement company that serves hospital and health systems.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Some low - cost generic drugs that have helped restrain health care costs for decades are seeing unexpected price spikes of up to 8,000 percent, prompting a backlash from patients, pharmacists and now Washington lawmakers.

In addition, many health providers are seeing patients with anxiety, fearful of the coming hurricane season and the additional challenges it might bring.

He saw firsthand how the lack of follow - up, proper access to information, and the absence of comprehensive care prevented patients from improving their health.

For example, we've seen new discoveries in health care recently, especially in immuno - oncology therapies, which help the immune systems of cancer patients recognize and destroy cancerous cells.

Local health centers that serve low - income and uninsured patients have asked Americares for medicine, supplies, logistical help and other support as they have seen a surge of patients at the same time that their own staff is recovering from the floods.

Community clergy have important information about and relationships to patients being seen by the mental health center.

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

A free health clinic sees about 1,000 patients each Sunday, while a pharmacy offers free and discounted medicines.

When he attempted to create a general psychology of personality, based on his findings from studying neurotic patients, he did not see that health is much more than the absence of gross pathology.

Currently she is the Medical Director in San Francisco for Parsley Health and sees patients in person or virtually from all over the country.

Likewise, in her practice, Elizabeth Pieroth, Ph.D., Associate Director of North Shore University Health System's Sports Concussion Program, says she has seen a number of youth patients (athletes and non-athletes) who have sustained a concussion and believe they now have or are going to develop CTE.

A real OB - GYN is a physician who sees patients and specializes in female reproductive health, pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE Three years after its planned closing sparked outrage and protests among AIDS activists, the renovation of the city's Chelsea sexual health clinic is largely completed and the clinic has been seeing patients since March 5.

They plan to make several return trips to see if they can improve the health care system, which is losing money, doctors and patients in a vicious cycle that threatens to undermine one - fifth of the economy.

In addition, some patients would dispute that they had a mental illness, instead see themselves as victims of psychiatric oppression and again stop co-operating with mental health professionals as soon as it was possible.

There has been a determination to ensure staff cleanse their hands between patients with the «Cleanyourhands» campaign, although this has now been closed down, there are some in the Health Service who are determined to see the work of the former campaign continue by forming a new advisory group along with patient groups.

«And obviously we've got a very challenging time in the health service, but on the other hand, you also see that the treatment for patients is improving the whole time.»

Sherry Tomasky, with the American Cancer Society, says it's a problem that often plagues cancer patients, who undergo many tests and see numerous health care professionals during treatment.

«We don't need hindsight to see that moving this facility, to the same campus as adult psychiatric patients, downtown in a busy urban environment, will be a colossal mistake and detrimental to the health and well being of children seeking these valuable services,» Kearns said in a statement.

Let me point to 10 things that I sketched out this morning: too much money spent on administration and bureaucracy and not enough on front - line patient care; too little patient - centric information to inform decision making; too little innovation; too little clinical input into decision making; too much inertia and hostility to reform, as we have seen today; too much process - driven target culture distorting clinical decision making; falling productivity; poor outcomes across a range of clinical indicators; too often, weak commissioning of servicing; and widening health inequalities in the past 10 years, in addition to the scandals that occurred in Staffordshire and Kent.

The MP for Leicester West is seen as a Blairite, who believes in choice for patients in the NHS and that private providers should be allowed to work within the health sector.

The Prime Minister promised to protect the NHS but his health policies are piling extra pressure on health services, and patients are starting to see the NHS going backwards again under the Tories.»

Espada stands accused of looting more than $ 500,000 from his Soundview Health Clinic, but he says he's not to blame for the fact that the clinic has to stop seeing patients because it has no money.

Patients at Espada's Soundview Health Clinics told the Post that they wouldn't mind seeing the network's CEO behind bars.

However Andrew Lansley, who was the health secretary behind the changes, said patient care had been improved, and patients «will continue to see the results» of the reforms.

That means that the presence of this disease is currently almost unknown by the health care providers who are seeing patients.

Instead, the study authors attribute the risk to «detection bias,» where the group of patients likely to take erection medicines also happens to be more health conscious, more likely to see a doctor, and so more likely to get diagnosed with melanoma than other men of similar age.

«Acute repeated spikes in blood sugar that you see with each dose of this drug have long - term impacts — and can predispose patients to the development of insulin - resistance Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease,» said David Wright, associate professor in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences and corresponding author of the paper.

In the review, «Teen Use of Electronic Cigarettes,» published in the Journal of Addictions Nursing, Campbell - Heider calls on health care professionals to place this form of nicotine delivery on their radar when seeing young patients.

Shared decision making (SDM) has been studied over recent decades as a method for improving provider - patient communication and partnership, with improvements seen in satisfaction, adherence and health outcomes.

Dr Holmes» previous research with people who had received treatment for an ED showed that even when a patient specifically asks to talk about questions of gender, their request may be ignored — either because such issues are seen as a low priority, or because health professionals have little training in this sphere.

Using patients» vital signs and other health records, this method — still in an experimental phase — is something both researchers want to see integrated into hospital routines.

Looking at patient survey responses, as well as medication orders, age, sex, race, health insurance status, time of arrival at ER, time of wait to see a physician, total length of stay, patient - reported pain levels and year and month of visit, the investigators performed a retrospective analysis of the data.

«I get a lot of insight from working with patients, seeing what factors seem to be associated with good health and what factors seem to be associated with poor health,» he says.

The Human Rights Watch report included anonymous testimony from clinical workers that many health care practitioners in Mississippi refuse to treat HIV - positive individuals, resulting in long waiting lists for those willing to see such patients.

Richard J. McManus, F.R.C.G.P., of the University of Oxford, and colleagues randomly assigned 552 patients with hypertension and a history of stroke, coronary heart disease, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease to self - monitoring of blood pressure combined with an individualized self - titration algorithm or a control group (patients received usual care consisting of seeing their health care clinician for routine blood pressure measurement and adjustment of medication if necessary).

«We need the frontline clinicians to be astute and notice if they are seeing patients with an unusual infection, or a number of similar infections from a specific location such as a child care center, nursing home or eating facility and then work closely with the state and local health authorities,» said Larry Pickering, MD, a co-author of the guidelines and adjunct professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

«The compelling results seen in this global study provide unequivocal evidence supporting the clinical utility of Oncotype DX to risk - stratify patients with early stage breast cancer, and indicate that the findings are generalizable to everyday clinical practice,» said lead author Joseph A. Sparano, MD, vice-chairman of medical oncology at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, and professor of medicine and of obstetrics, gynecology, women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

«We did not see the same pattern of prescribing from psychiatrists or general practitioners,» said Lacasse, who suggests that OB / GYNs should refer their patients to mental health practitioners in such tragic and highly emotional situations.

Theodore Nash sees only a few dozen patients a year in his clinic at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.