Sentences with phrase «severely ill patients»

The very first sentence of an article published some years ago in USA Today recently caught my attention: «Could three words change the way severely ill patients and their loved ones think about death?».

Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

The Phase I / II study, with Genethon as the promoter, was launched in December 2010 and conducted in Paris and London to treat severely ill patients without a compatible donor.

She emphasized that physicians should treat severely ill patients with antiviral flu medications even if they test negative for the virus on rapid tests.

The bill would legalize medical marijuana for severely ill patients.

The bill calls to legalize marijuana use to alleviate pain and other symptoms for some severely ill patients.

Under the new law, severely ill patients with a «progressive or degenerative» condition will be able to obtain a special state certification allowing them access to medical marijuana before the state's program officially launches January.

The expansion of the program announced on Tuesday by the Department of Health are marked change from 2014, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law what was at the time promoted as a strictly monitored and tightly regulated system of providing medically based cannabis to severely ill patients.

Not exact matches

And, the study notes, this can't just be explained away by the fact that it may be used on more «severely ill» patients.

Still, it's unclear how many patients will ultimately take advantage of a prescription drug that is being limited to a pool of the severely ill.

Despite a lack of rigorous clinical trials to test safety or efficacy, a ban of the treatment by health authorities, and a lack of peer review by the scientific community, the privately funded Stamina Foundation has been using cultured mesenchymal stem cells that have been exposed to putative conditions that favour neuronal differentiation to treat different diseases in severely or terminally ill patients.

Ya'ara Leibovici - Weissman from Tel Aviv University said: «In treating cholera a quick and accurate diagnosis remains key, but it is clear from the results that antimicrobials result in substantial improvements in clinical and microbiological outcomes, with similar effects observed in severely and non-severely ill patients.

«If a patient is severely ill and needs to gain 50 pounds, but only gains 10 pounds in the hospital, you achieve little other than a temporary improvement.

As with any emergency department patients are seen on a first come first seen basis; however, we see many pets with emergent problems that can vary from mild injury to life - threatening illness so occasionally we have to prioritize and address the needs of a severely ill or injured patient ahead of other patients.

These patients tend to become severely ill rapidly, since they have retained all the uterine contents.

Several patients, including the respondent, Anne Levac, become ill — her, «severely ill».

For example a job description might state that they are looking for a pediatric nurse with a bachelor's degree in nursing science, experience providing nursing care for severely ill pediatric patients, and a true passion for helping children feel comfortable and safe during their stay.

In 2013, I served as a residential counselor in a psychiatric facility, working predominantly with severely mentally ill patients.