Sentences with phrase «study patient care»

• Conducted a survey to study patient care and satisfaction parameters as part of final year project in healthcare coordination.

• Provide study patients a caring and open communications while obtaining blood samples and process specimens following study protocol and laboratory instructions and procedures.

Not exact matches

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that Valeant Pharmaceuticals» infamous price hikes for a pair of heart drugs called nitroprusside and isoproterenol — whose prices were increased by 310 % and 720 %, respectively — had significant downstream effects on patient care.

We have now completed several health studies in partnership with the Geisinger Health System, which provides primary care to over 450,000 patients in Pennsylvania, including many residing in fracking areas.

In health care, this amounts to an hourly avalanche of new research papers, clinical trials, scientific studies, and patient health information.

The study, published today in the journal Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, found most of the fictional patients (71 %) were transferred from emergency directly to the operating theatre.

The company points to a simple resource allocation problem that's hindered the most effective patient care: the fact that it is physically impossible for oncologists to keep track of every study, every clinical trial, and every breakthrough in the wildly stratified world of cancer research.

«ICU care is inefficient, devoting substantial resources to patients less likely to benefit,» their study, published in the February edition of JAMA Internal Medicine, concluded.

«Our study demonstrates the power of mobile health tools to scale and accelerate clinical research so that we can derive the evidence needed to inform clinical practice and improve patient care,» she said.

We are pleased that increasing numbers of physicians are prescribing Vascepa to help their patients and we are confident that the results from the REDUCE - IT study will lead to better informed decisions regarding patient care.»

The National Institutes for Health also brought on six health - care groups in smaller cities to expand the study's reach and ensure a diverse roster of patients.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Attendees will learn through case studies how a PBM can engage all care stakeholders collaboratively - prescribers at the point of care (PoC), pharmacists at the point of sale (PoS), patients, and payers» clinical / pharmacy staff to reduce overall pharmacy costs and avoidable drug — impacted medical costs while improving compliance and patients» quality of life.

Attendees will learn through case studies how a PBM can engage all care stakeholders collaboratively — prescribers at the point of care (PoC), pharmacists at the point of sale (PoS), patients, and payers» clinical / pharmacy staff to reduce overall pharmacy costs and avoidable drug - impacted medical costs while improving compliance and patients» quality of life.

As Gawande notes, a study conducted by Aetna Insurance permitting «concurrent care» — having access to both hospice and life - extending treatments — saw hospice participation rise from 26 to 70 percent of eligible patients.

About 1971, however, there was a major turn in my pilgrimage as I gradually became painfully aware of the so - called outcome studies reporting the dubious effectiveness of average psychotherapy, whose cure rates barely match spontaneous remission, coupled with the frightening spectre of client deterioration (i.e., patients finding their condition worsening under the care of professional psychotherapists).

Sanders, D.S., M.J. Carter, D.P. Hurlstone, et al., «Association of Adult Coeliac Disease With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Case - Control Study in Patients Fulfilling ROME II Criteria Referred to Secondary Care,» Lancet, 358:1504 - 1508, 2001.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

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

In addition she studies the relationship between nursing practice and parent and infant outcomes; nurse - patient interaction; the health care work environment and provider and patient outcomes; and system and culture change in health care.

Because of heterogeneity in the primary studies, neither the meta - analyses nor the comprehensive review assessed patient and obstetrician or obstetric care provider satisfaction and improved knowledge of childbirth, family planning, postpartum depression, or early child rearing.

«Previous studies have also noted that the financial condition of the most troubled institutions is, to a large extent, a product of an inefficient expense structure, revenue challenges associated with a patient mix that approaches 90 percent public payers and charity care, and overwhelming liabilities (including debt issued long ago for physical plant improvements that, in some cases, are obsolete),» the health department said in its announcement.

Erie County and each Mall partner are teaming up with the University at Buffalo's School of Public Health to conduct long - term studies of the health outcomes and health care utilization of patients who visit the Health Mall.

«Council studies show that institutions that are adequately staffed have better quality of care, are more profitable, patients suffer fewer infections and there are fewer deaths.

With expertise in minimally invasive oncoplastic breast surgery, Dr. Wilson has also studied complementary medicine and provides her patients with a holistic, integrative approach to breast care.

«Virtual house calls for chronic diseases like Parkinson's are not only as effective as in - person care but broader adoption of this technology has the potential to expand access to patient - centered care,» said Ray Dorsey, M.D., the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and lead author of the study.

Despite a growing interest in comparative effectiveness research, little medical study is being done to improve this aspect of patient care

The goal of the Connect.Parkinson study was to see if telemedicine would allow neurologists to deliver care to patients in the comfort of their homes.

«ICU care is inefficient, devoting substantial resources to patients less likely to benefit,» their study, published in the February edition of JAMA Internal Medicine, concluded.

The study found the impact of oral nutritional supplements on length of stay and cost of care were even more impactful and statistically significant when looking at all Medicare patients aged 65 and older with any primary diagnosis:

In a study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing), a new, simplified Braden QD Scale now describes combined immobility - related and MDPI risk in a broader, more diverse sample of pediatric patients typically cared for in acute care environments.

In one routine - care study, reported in 2013 in Annals of Internal Medicine, 8 percent of patients stopped taking statins because of side effects.

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.

«Hospitals are going to be looking for ways to improve quality of care for Medicare patients in order to lower readmission rates and prevent fines,» said study co-author, Tomas Philipson, Ph.D., who is the Daniel Levin Chair of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

In the study, patients who underwent conscious sedation had a similar rate of adverse events to those who underwent anesthesia, but those who were given conscious sedation had shorter stays in the intensive care unit (30 versus 96 hours for those with general anesthesia) and shorter hospital stays (4.9 days versus 10.4 days).

«A significant body of research has resulted in a shift from thinking of placebos as just «dummy» treatments to recognizing that placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The NAPOLI - 1 (NAnoliPOsomaL Irinotecan) Phase 3 study — a final confirmation of a drug's safety and effectiveness — was conducted among patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer who previously received gemcitibine, which has been the standard - of - care therapy for such patients.

Under Litofsky's mentorship, Kristen Scheitler - Ring, a medical student doing a pathology fellowship at the MU School of Medicine, studied the outcomes of patients treated at MU Health Care from 2010 to 2014.

In this study in a Berlin hospital, one patient in five receiving routine care suffered from postoperative delirium, whereas in the group receiving support from delirium liaison nurses, fewer than 1 in 20 developed cognitive disorders.

«We believe these studies and clinical trials that combine immunotherapy with chemotherapy are advancing efforts toward better clinical care and more positive outcomes for our patients at CTCA,» said Dr. Vivek Khemka, Medical Oncologist, CTCA at Western and the WCLC study abstract's principal investigator and senior author.

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

According to a July 2012 study of 400 primary care patients (published by Miller and her colleagues in the popular family practice journal Annals of Family Medicine), 22 percent of individuals with chronic health issues suffer from some degree of chemical intolerance.

A report of the study, published in the journal JAMA Dermatology April 28, suggests that identifying and informing high outlier physicians of their extreme practice patterns can enable targeted re-training, potentially sparing patients from substandard care.

«By studying the issue of variation in practice patterns, the Mohs College hopes to improve the quality and value of care we provide our patients.»

In the study, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania programmed electronic health records (EHR) to alert care providers when a patient was eligible, and prompt them to choose to «accept» or «decline» a flu vaccination order.

Prior studies suggested that tPA benefited frostbite patients as well, but this is the first time its potential was compared with established care alone.

The study included all patients aged 65 years and older admitted to two cardiac intensive care units during a period of 15 months.

The study used nationwide data on 836 patients newly diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system from 2001 to 2011.

In the study, Litt's team at MU Health Care used a recently developed autograft harvesting system to care for 13 patients with various types of chronic wouCare used a recently developed autograft harvesting system to care for 13 patients with various types of chronic woucare for 13 patients with various types of chronic wounds.

As the United States grapples with what many believe is a crisis of spiraling health care costs, this study, while focused on one hospital and 100 patients, shows that when health care consumers are given pricing information, they will take costs into account.