Sentences with phrase «than patient outcomes»

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Adds Henry: «Across the more than 3,500 clients who hire us (and our renewal rates are typically 95 % and higher), we deliver the savings we promise by providing solutions that drive out pharmacy waste, control costs, and improve patient outcomes.»

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

Outcome says it has already outfitted more than 40,000 doctor's offices with touch screens and tablets that can deliver meditation apps, relevant medical information, and (of course) advertising to patients.

Top - ranked for both orthopedics and rheumatology for 26 consecutive years, HSS is an engine of research and innovation (112 inventions in 2016 alone), medical education (serving physicians in more than 150 countries) and better patient outcomes (Net Promoter Score of 92).

It will be measured by outcomes and patient satisfaction rather than the quantity of services they perform.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

A search of Pubmed [a data base containing all medical journal articles] for platelet rich plasma yields 6,811 articles, but less than 20 are clinical studies evaluating patient outcomes for orthopedic sports medicine conditions.

Surrrrre the outcomes in Ethiopia are better than the USA... That's why my patients from Ethiopia were so excited to get to have their babies in a hospital.

The coalition government's agenda for the NHS centres on a more patient - focused approach, in which outcomes rather than targets are prioritised.

Funded by a $ 12 million grant, the FORCE - TJR research program has developed a national database of surgical results and patient - reported outcomes from more than 30,000 patients.

Patients who received EAET had better outcomes — reduced widespread pain, physical impairment, attention and concentration problems, anxiety, and depression and more positive emotions and life satisfaction — than patients who received the education interPatients who received EAET had better outcomes — reduced widespread pain, physical impairment, attention and concentration problems, anxiety, and depression and more positive emotions and life satisfaction — than patients who received the education interpatients who received the education intervention.

«Our research indicates that insertion of cervical pessary at around 22 weeks in both randomly selected women pregnant with twins and in patients with a short cervix of less than 25 millimeters does not reduce the rate of spontaneous early preterm birth, perinatal death, adverse neonatal outcome, or need for neonatal therapy.»

The findings echo past studies, which have shown patients with multiple narrowed arteries have better outcomes with coronary artery bypass grafting, also known as CABG or heart bypass surgery, than with angioplasty, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI, a less - invasive option in which a stent is inserted to hold the arteries open.

«Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more comorbidities than patients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authorPatients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more comorbidities than patients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authorpatients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authors write.

She found that antihistamines, like those found in Unisom and Benadryl, were taken by more than 50 percent of HG patients who experienced adverse outcomes.

Although a bad outcome was possible without the gene expression pattern, patients with the genetic signature were found to survive for less time than those who didn't have it, they wrote in the 9 December online edition of Nature Genetics.

In other words, regardless of surgery timing, patients who require higher risk procedures, such as a major liver resection due to the presence of larger or multiple metastatic tumors or high - risk colorectal resections, have poorer outcomes than those who underwent more minor surgery.

• When it comes to defining provider quality, most Americans tend to focus on certain aspects of quality relating to doctor - patient interactions and doctors» personality traits, rather than the effectiveness of the care provided or the patient's own health outcomes.

This makes pediatric appendectomy a perfect model to study how cost might influence patient behavior; for while the outcomes are similar, laparoscopy is considerably more expensive than the open operation.

They didn't specifically examine rejection rates, nor did they examine treatments other than heart transplant or outcome among patients without antibodies.

For this reason, the study avoids a basic problem in comparing hospital outcomes — that patients admitted to one hospital may be significantly less healthy, on average, than the patients admitted to another.

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School have found that patients who were prescribed corticosteroids as part of treatment for Lyme disease - associated facial paralysis had worse long - term outcomes of regaining facial function than those who were prescribed antibiotic therapy alone.

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 Conference.

Among patients with acute, low back pain presenting to an emergency department, neither the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) naproxen combined with oxycodone / acetaminophen or the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine provided better pain relief or improvement in functional outcomes than naproxen combined with placebo, according to a study in the October 20 issue of JAMA.

Hospitals that spend more on initial care following patient emergencies have better outcomes than hospitals that spend less at first and rely more on additional forms of long - term care, according to a new study co-authored by MIT economists.

The five year disease - free and overall survival rates for patients with high - risk malignant germ cell tumours remains less than 50 %, and so accurate diagnosis and monitoring is crucial to improving outcomes for patients.

«The chances a stroke patient will have a good outcome are two to three times better now than they were 10 to 15 years ago,» Dr. Gomez said.

He said: «Information on outcome of patients with cut - off levels higher than in the current analysis would be of interest.

Analysis of data from nine randomised trials involving 6756 patients (1729 older than 80 years of age) showed that alteplase treatment significantly increased the odds of a good stroke outcome (no significant disability 3 - 6 months after stroke), with faster treatment offering the best chance of recovery.

In this study, researchers reviewed Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) data for 105 patients, age 80 and older, and 1,130 patients younger than age 80 with lumbar stenosis alone or combined with degenerative spondylolisthesis.

The odds of a good stroke outcome were 75 % greater for patients given alteplase within 3 hours of initial stroke symptoms, compared with those who did not receive the drug; for those given the drug between 3 and 4 · 5 hours post-stroke there was a 26 % increased chance of a good outcome; while for those with a delay of more than 4 · 5 hours in receiving treatment, there was just a 15 %, not statistically significant, increase in the chance of a good recovery.

The Hospital for Special Surgery study is the first to provide evidence that an intervention during surgery can improve outcomes in patients with sleep apnea who often fare worse than patients without this condition.

Although some research has suggested that the use of the anticoagulant warfarin for atrial fibrillation among patients with chronic kidney disease would increase the risk of death or stroke, a study that included more than 24,000 patients found a lower l - year risk of the combined outcomes of death, heart attack or stroke without a higher risk of bleeding, according to a study in the March 5 issue of JAMA.

«This study suggests that the path to excellence in readmission is a result of an approach that focuses on the patient as a whole rather than on what caused them to be admitted,» said senior author and director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation Harlan Krumholz, M.D., the Harold H. Hines, Jr..

It seems like such a simple question: Do patients whose tumors shrink more in response to targeted treatment go on to have better outcomes than patients whose tumors shrink less?

Recurrence of an atrial tachyarrhythmia lasting longer than 30 seconds (the primary measured outcome) occurred more often in the antiarrhythmic drug group than in the ablation group, 44 patients (72 percent) vs. 36 patients (55 percent).

When the researchers matched this data with clinical outcomes for more than 4,600 patient specimens in medical databases, they found these subtypes were associated with different levels of disease progression.

The three - quarters of patients who are diagnosed early have much better outcomes than those whose disease is diagnosed late.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

To investigate, Csaba Kovesdy, MD (Memphis VA Medical Center and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center) and his colleagues examined information from the national VA research database and looked for associations between blood pressure and various clinical outcomes — coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death — in more than 300,000 patients with CKD.

The results in this clinical study will open up a new treatment modality for glaucoma other than taking daily eye drops, and will greatly enhance patient compliance and improve treatment outcomes,» she said.

Moreover, all patients recovered within 2 weeks, a far better outcome than for infarction.

Sam Watson adds: «Our study indicates that ensuring very preterm babies, particularly those born at less than 27 weeks, are delivered in hospitals with high volume neonatal units improves their outcome, but there could be a knock - on effect on other patient groups if smaller neonatal units are closed.

While cautioning that the quantity of evidence was less - than - optimal and that the studies were qualitatively limited by the methods used to measure sodium intake, the small number of patients with health outcomes of interest in some of the studies, and other methodological constraints, the committee concluded that:

Favourable outcomes, ranging from moderate disability to good recovery, occurred in only a quarter of the patients in the hypothermia group compared with more than a third of patients in the control group.

With the exception of a slight difference in bowel function, investigators found that HRQoL outcomes for patients on AS were no different than those in men without prostate cancer during the three years of followup.

«Patients with longer delays before diagnosis were more likely to receive palliative, rather than curative, treatment because they had advanced disease — and are likely to have poorer outcomes.»

An additional grant of $ 2.6 million was awarded by the US Air Force, demonstrating that increasing the cabin pressure in airplanes during air - evacuation of trauma patients to a level greater than what is currently used improves outcomes following exposure of rats to TBI caused by under - vehicle explosions, as published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

«ACS NSQIP data is more accurate than administrative data for surgical patients outcomes.»

«Avoiding unnecessary FFP transfusion is important because there have been reports that associated the use of excess FFP with worse outcomes among patients that required less - than - massive transfusions.»