Sentences with phrase «standard care groups»

Both the yoga and standard care groups experienced reductions in burnout, depression and pain.

The average cost per delivery was higher in the standard care group (AUD 3475) compared to the team - midwifery group (AUD 3324).

Significantly higher quality of life scores were also found in the CPAP group in comparison to the standard care group.

In addition, some 36.7 percent of those in the cooling group and 21.4 percent of those in the standard care group were in good neurological condition when discharged from the hospital.

Alcohol use decreased in the BCBS group and increased in the standard care group at weeks 12 and 24.

Eight patients (six in the cognitive behaviour therapy group, two in the standard care group) were taking low dose antidepressants at entry.

Two randomized controlled trials demonstrated its efficacy (ie, significant improvement in BG monitoring adherence and HbA1c in the FT group compared with the standard care group [11,12], as well as increases in self - reported quality of life [13]-RRB-.

Not exact matches

abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.

Mercy Medical Group's healthcare mission is powered by the belief that by delivering an unmatched standard of quality and personal care, we enable the practice of medicine to fulfill the promise of medicine.

Her high standards for clinical care and respect for individualized healthcare is matched with her efforts to advance the profession via active participation in professional groups.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

A total of 777 women with diabetes were recruited with 635 women randomised to each group as follows: 319 women were allocated to the antenatal hand expression group and 317 women were allocated to standard obstetric and diabetic care.

Participants kept a coital and orgasm diary until delivery, and standard obstetric care was provided to both groups.

A group of professional health organizations, authors and individuals got together and reviewed all the research findings along with the World Health Organization recommendations and developed the «gold standard» of maternity care; the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI).»

Although ACOG does not support planned home births given the published medical data, it emphasizes that women who decide to deliver at home should be offered standard components of prenatal care, including group B Strep screening and treatment, genetic screening, as well as HIV screening.

The control group mothers will received standard care while the intervention will receive care by a specially trained IBCLC and NP.

In 1990, Kistin et al. (38) evaluated the impact of midwives providing either a group prenatal breastfeeding class (50 — 80 min), individual breastfeeding education sessions (15 — 30 min), or standard care (no additional breastfeeding education) among black women in Chicago, Illinois.

Control group women received standard of care treatment, which in our Baby - Friendly hospital includes referrals to the lactation consultant when needed, use of a pump in the hospital, access to 3 breastfeeding classes per week, staff who are highly trained in lactation management, and a free, high - grade electric breast pump for home use if the mother's insurance does not pay for a pump.

We recruited 450 women from February 2004 to September 2005, of whom 151 were randomised to receive standard hospital care (group 1), 150 to antenatal education (group 2), and 149 to postnatal lactation support (group 3).

There were 16 perinatal deaths of normally formed infants in the Doppler group compared with four in the standard - care group.

The study enrolled 230 2 - month - old and 4 - month - old babies and randomly divided them into four groups: After their shots, they either got the 5 S's or their parent's standard comforting care, and they received plain water or sugar water.

Control: standard postnatal maternity care that consisted of routine perinatal care according to the type of delivery, group postnatal lactation education provided by a midwife or LC, 1 - on - 1 assistance with breastfeeding if problems arose and time permitted, and postdischarge follow - up, either at the outpatient clinic of the delivery hospital or at the nearest Maternal and Child Health Centre.

As noted above, included studies were very varied in setting, population group studied, content, timing and intensity of the intervention, whether it was proactively offered to women or available only if they asked for it, the standard care available, staff training programmes, and the type and timing of the outcomes measured.

For the other six studies undertaken in settings with Baby Friendly accreditation, study interventions were additional to care that met Baby Friendly standards and were received by everyone at the hospital including all the study participants in the intervention and control groups.

The measure comes after the federal Affordable Care Act redefined small group employers as being businesses with 100 or fewer employees, doubling New York's historic standard of 50 or fewer employees to meet the definition.

The Alliance is breaking new ground in that it unites patient advocacy groups, health and social care organisations and other key stakeholders to achieve a high standard of hand hygiene, based on the best available evidence.

So I don't know what caveats Cable made, but it's dangerous talk to suggest that different age groups don't together share a political interest in the maintating of high standards of care in the NHS.

«Everyone diagnosed with breast cancer should receive the highest level of treatment and care, regardless of their age, which is why Breast Cancer Care would welcome the introduction of evidence - based minimum standards of treatment for this patient grcare, regardless of their age, which is why Breast Cancer Care would welcome the introduction of evidence - based minimum standards of treatment for this patient grCare would welcome the introduction of evidence - based minimum standards of treatment for this patient group.

One group — the so - called control group — receives the usual standard of care.

The nursing homes in the study were randomly assigned to one of two groups as a care standard for influenza prevention, with either the regular dose of the influenza vaccine or the high dose vaccine as the care standard for their residents age 65 and older.

«The focus of chemotherapy and existing standard - of - care is on killing cancer cells but instead we took a completely different approach which changes the environment the cancer cells live in,» said Mick Bhatia, director and senior scientist with the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, who led the group that performed the study.

The original, randomized, open label study, which enrolled 20 outpatient men with cirrhosis and recurrent HE receiving standard - of - care (SOC) treatment, had previously reported that a single FMT enema after antibiotic pretreatment improved cognitive function at Day 20 and reduced HE episodes and hospitalizations over the following 5 months compared with SOC.1 The long - term outcomes of this study, which were presented today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2018 in Paris, France, demonstrated sustained and statistically significant reductions in the number of HE episodes and hospitalizations as well as improvements in cognitive function over 1 year in the men who received FMT compared with the control group.

Together with Liberian officials, Lane is poised to launch a randomized study of an antibody cocktail called ZMapp; that study does include a control group in which patients will receive standard care but not the drug.

One group received standard care; another received standard care with an «empathic care provider»; and the third received standard care, an empathic care provider, and hypnosis.

But the JAMA editorial notes that the USPSTF excludes the highest - risk populations (persons living with HIV, close contacts of persons with active TB, and those being treated with immunosuppressive agents) from its review of evidence for screening for latent TB infection in primary care settings because TB screening and treatment of latent TB infection may already be considered standard of care in these groups.

The other half (i.e., the control group) received standard care without the neurotoxin injection.

Importantly, the survival curves for these groups did not begin to diverge until year 2 or beyond after initial surgery, and continued to widen for the entire 10 - year period, which means preliminary results from the relatively small DeCOG - SLT study — with its 3 - year median follow - up [4]-- can not be relied upon to justify changing the standard of care away from CLND.

Currently, lymphadenectomy is an eligibility requirement for cutting - edge adjuvant therapy trials such as Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) 1404 (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02506153), which randomizes stage III melanoma patients to an anti — programmed death 1 antibody or standard - of - care adjuvant therapy (high - dose interferon or high - dose ipilimumab).

• Must not be a candidate for potentially curative therapy or standard - of - care approved therapy • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 to 2.

«I think these diagnostic polymer foils are very interesting alternatives to standard DNA microarrays, especially when it comes to point of care diagnostics», says Associate Professor Aman Russom, group leader of the Clinical Microfluidics group in the Nanobiotechnology laboratory at KTH.

A randomized trial is a type of clinical trial in which patients are assigned to groups on a random basis where they receive either the new experimental treatment or the established standard of care (or a placebo).

May 22, 2015 China Century signs agreement with University of Chicago Medicine China Century Group and the University of Chicago Medicine signed an exclusive agreement Thursday to improve health care delivery in China by bringing international standards and best practices to hospitals across the country.

And when control groups are part of a study, patients in those groups typically still receive treatment (which may be the usual standard of care) throughout the trial.»

The National Standards Foundation (NSF) is working with outside groups, including organic - cosmetics manufacturers (like Burts Bees) to create an organic standard specifically for personal - care products, which should take effect in the next year or two.

«If our findings can be confirmed in a planned clinical trial with a larger group of patients, this treatment may indeed become the new standard of care,» Schneider said.

The yoga and treatment as usual control groups also received «standard medical care» during the intervention.

Of these studies, three reported significant reductions in systolic and diastolic blood pressure in the yoga group compared to standard care of active controls.

The control group, on the other hand, was simply given standard medical care as usual, and were not given any specific dietary recommendations.

The DOD establishes ratios, group sizes, health and safety standards, and stringent training requirements for staff caring for toddlers.

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