Sentences with phrase «study treatment outcomes»

The PSEQ has been used to study treatment outcomes in patients with a wide range of pain conditions.

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An important trigger this year will be the outcome of a study where Darzalex is being tested as first - line treatment in combination with Celgene Corp's Revlimid.
In the only controlled, randomized scientific study to compare graduated extinction and «positive routines» head - to - head, there were no significant differences in treatment outcomes for kids (Adams and Rickert 1989).
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.
Studying breastfeeding behaviours or outcomes is difficult since it is not possible to randomly assign mothers and infants to treatment groups or to control the duration of the process.
Because women are increasingly seeking out acupuncture in order to induce ovulation, researchers decided to study whether or not the traditional Chinese medicine therapy could serve as a supplemental treatment along with clomiphene to improve pregnancy outcomes.
According to the study, in the treatment of small renal tumors, the ideal outcome of both complete oncologic control and preservation of renal function is not presently available.
People with chronic opioid use disorders are more likely to relapse and do so sooner if they are treated in a compulsory drug detention centre rather than a voluntary drug treatment centre using methadone maintenance therapy, according to the first study comparing the outcome of both approaches published in The Lancet Global Health.
«Although radiosurgery has been shown to be an effective post-surgical treatment for metastatic brain tumors, previous studies did not compare patient outcomes from a single hospital over the same period of time,» said N. Scott Litofsky, M.D., chief of the Division of Neurological Surgery at the MU School of Medicine and senior author of the study.
Placebos are used to help accurately measure clinical responses / outcomes when studying the effects of medications, therapies, and other treatments.
«For the study, we chose a decision analysis design because we could use a mathematical model to simulate the outcomes and costs of each treatment path based on results and costs that have already been published in the literature,» Dr. Dodwell explained.
In the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study examines quality - of - life outcomes for the treatment choices most patients will face.
The six - year study compared pregnancy outcomes in 254 women with HG who were sick enough that they needed treatment for dehydration with intravenous fluids to 308 women who had normal or no morning sickness during pregnancy.
Going forward, they hope to determine whether earlier treatment in women with symptoms limits or prevents the adverse outcomes identified in this study.
Since randomized clinical trials — the gold - standard in research — don't accommodate patients» preferences, Zoellner and her research team used a study design called a «doubly randomized preference trial» to investigate whether giving patients a choice affects their treatment outcomes.
«Previous studies had tested the use of rosiglitazone for cancer treatment, but the outcome was not encouraging.
Various studies have found that a combination of professional treatment and AA yields better outcomes than either approach alone.
To accurately predict treatment outcomes, the research team studied JIA patients» treatment responses and found that epigenetics — or individuals» DNA and the way each body uses its genes — determined one's clinical «fate.»
The first results from the European Cooperative Acute Stroke Study showed that treatment with a compound called alteplase between three and four and a half hours after the onset of stroke improves the outcome for patients.
The analysis, published in August 2008 in The Lancet, suggests, «the infertility treatment per se for the outcomes we have studied does not seem to give any additional risk,» Romundstad says.
The next step, says Salem, will be to try to correlate these findings with patient treatment outcomes, initially as a retrospective, or backward looking study, and then hopefully design a forward looking clinical trial to determine which treatments may be best for patients with SBAs.
Called the Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis Outcomes Study (CANTOS) and funded by the drug giant Novartis, the trial also found fewer cases of lung cancer in those on the treatment, rekindling basic research findings hinting that the same inflammatory pathway may initiate or spur the growth of such tumors.
«There is currently no method that can predict treatment outcome of chemotherapy early on in treatment, so this is a major advance,» says Hielscher, co-leader of the study, who is also a member of the Breast Cancer Program at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork - Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
A more recent study examined whether adding therapist support via e-mail or telephone would affect the outcome of online treatment for social phobia.
In a previous study more strictly focused on the intensity of emergency care treatments, Doyle also found that higher spending leads to better outcomes.
«Clarification based on rigorous research studies will permit researchers to identify the conditions under which depression can influence substance abuse treatment retention and outcomes, which in turn will help to specify when depression needs to be directly addressed with this population of young people,» explained the researchers.
A first - of - its - kind literature review published in the September issue of Anesthesiology, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists ® (ASA ®), suggests although a majority of studies report positive outcomes, there is currently insufficient evidence to support the clinical use of antidepressants for the treatment of postoperative pain.
Nearly half (48 %) of patients with severe or difficult - to - treat asthma in The Epidemiology and Natural History of Asthma: Outcomes and Treatment Regimens follow - up study (TENOR II) still had very poorly controlled (VPC) symptoms after more than a decade of treatment, according to a new study presented at the ATS 2016 International CoTreatment Regimens follow - up study (TENOR II) still had very poorly controlled (VPC) symptoms after more than a decade of treatment, according to a new study presented at the ATS 2016 International Cotreatment, according to a new study presented at the ATS 2016 International Conference.
Using validated, standardized tests for measuring the outcomes of patients with facial paralysis, experts who were naïve to the treatment patients received studied video documentation of a standardized sequence of facial expressions for each patient.
Shortening the time to diagnosis and treatment may be a key variable in improving outcomes of patients with sICH,» the study concludes.
However, a new study conducted at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, demonstrates high levels of undiagnosed anxiety and depression persisting in patients receiving treatment, despite their improved visual outcomes.
Further research is needed to understand the reasons behind the variation in treatment outcome between ethnic groups and future studies should incorporate ethnicity as a major determinant factor.»
The study, Developing an Interventional Stroke Service: Improving Clinical Outcomes and Reducing Cost and Delivering Great Cost Savings Benefits to Health Economy, conducted at the University Hospital of North Midlands, Stoke - on - Trent, U.K., found that mechanical thrombectomy (the use of a device to retrieve a clot from the vessel) in the treatment of stroke reduced the average stroke patient's hospital stay to 14 days when compared to previously recorded 90 days.
«Ethnicity of women undergoing fertility treatment can affect outcomes, study finds.»
«Our study looks at people with recently diagnosed, early RA, who should have the best outcomes and best responses to treatment, and sees how many are either overweight or obese, and then determines if those who are overweight or obese have worse outcomes than those with healthy weight,» said Dr. Goodman.
The researchers suggest that their study demonstrates the potential of these non-toxic therapies to contribute to current cancer treatment regimens and significantly improve the outcome of patients with advanced metastatic cancer.
«Our critical review on the limited existing treatment mechanism studies,» explained co-author Dr. Jessica Black, «found that «common» processes, such as positive social support, rather than a particular treatment modality, account for positive adolescent substance use outcomes
Future studies are needed to test whether this could significantly improve patients» treatment outcomes.
«The technique used by researchers in this study enables very early detection of metastatic spread, which would allow adaptation of treatment more quickly and hopefully lead to better outcomes in the future.»
The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.
The findings of this study are of particular importance because growth restriction is known to be associated with poor short and long term outcomes and currently there are no established preventative treatment options for SGA.»
The exact mechanisms must be probed in further animal studies, Reid says, but eventually he hopes researchers will be able to use a patient's bacterial makeup as a biomarker for cancer screening or to develop probiotics for improving prognosis and treatment outcomes.
The study showed that compulsory treatment and voluntary treatment both led to the same positive outcome.
«A better understanding of individual susceptibility to dental disease and variation in treatment outcomes will allow the dental field to move forward,» says Alexandre Vieira, a researcher involved in the study.
Nevertheless, the results identify key factors to consider during the transition from long - term residential treatment to the community, and the findings from this study will inform future intervention development that aims to significantly improve mid-range and long - term outcomes among people with SUDs leaving residential treatment.
The international study, the first to compare outcomes between the two temperature treatments for children with in - hospital cardiac arrest, was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Critical Care Medicine in Honolulu.
«Brain - scan guided emergency stroke treatment can save more lives: Study finds patients treated up to 16 hours after stroke showed positive outcomes
In the study, analysis of patient samples demonstrated that high LSC17 scores meant poor outcomes with current standard treatment, even for patients who had undergone allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
The children in the study are now toddlers, and the investigators have examined visual acuity and other outcomes over the long term in both treatment groups.
«While the present report suggests that optimal outcome measures for FXS are not yet fully developed, the recent failures of clinical trials in the FXS treatment field represent an opportunity to implement novel study designs and methodologies,» concludes Budimirovic.
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