Sentences with phrase «third of these patients»

Nearly a third of patients say that confusion over how much insurance will cover versus patient responsibility contributes to payment delays, according to a West study cited by Televox.

A study of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at a well - respected Boston hospital revealed that physicians rarely discussed CPR with their patients, despite the fact that one - third of patients who die in the hospital first undergo CPR.

Nearly a third of all patients with depression fail to respond to conventional antidepressant therapies but there is considerable hope for the treatment of such illnesses.

«We do know that, roughly speaking, a third of patients who are seen in A&E leave A&E without any treatment, so there is effectively nothing seriously wrong,» he said.

Watershed poll reveals two - thirds of patients say they would PAY to see an NHS doctor to help plug # 30 billion black hole 15 November 2015

Despite improvements in medical care, about two - thirds of patients with Crohn's disease develop complications requiring intestinal surgery at some time, and post-operative healing can be complicated.

However, this only occurs in around one third of patients.

«Cervical cancer patients are currently treated as a uniform group based on chemotherapy and radiation regimens that help the largest percentage of people; however, one third of these patients are not helped by standard therapies,» Banister said.

The median participant age was 67, two - thirds of patients (67 percent) had stage T1 disease, and 89 percent fell in the GS 7 / PSA < 10 group.

Only one - third of patients newly diagnosed with PTSD and under a quarter of those with depression met these established thresholds.

«About one - third of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy do not respond to medications.

And more than two thirds of those patients are still receiving high doses of opioids from a month to three months after they overdose.

For study purposes, researchers assumed that at least one - third of patients having bariatric surgery lost their excess weight prior to undergoing joint replacement.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices, such as pacemakers, that are designed to electrically stimulate the heart to function normally fail to help as many as a third of patients who receive them each year, according to some studies.

All patients receive radiation and chemotherapy, yet despite the aggressive approach, the regimen fails in about one - third of patients with cervical cancer that has spread beyond the cervix but not outside the pelvis.

The fact that nearly a third of his patients do not respond to medication is only made worse by the long - term effects of uncontrolled epilepsy.

Jefferson's revised Cochrane review, published in BMJ on Tuesday, omits the Kaiser paper, and with it two - thirds of the patients in the original analysis.

If the financial arrangement were switched, however, and a researcher had an equity investment in a company that owned the treatment method (and their share of earnings would increase if a treatment went to market and did well), more than a third of patients said they would be less willing to participate.

Regardless of allocation, nearly two - thirds of patients demonstrated clinically significant improvement in LBP and function 1 week later.

* And approximately one third of patients who start taking the drugs refill their prescriptions without needing to.

«However, our study showed that in the real world over a third of the patients with STEMI undergoing transradial PCI who receive heparin and about a fifth of patients who receive bivalirudin also receive GPIIb / IIIa inhibitors.»

He developed new breathing techniques that have been shown to help two - thirds of patients control their EILO symptoms during high - intensity exercise.

However, approximately one - third of these patients experience problems, including discomfort and skin irritation, resulting in limited mobility and reduced quality of life.

While most concussions clear up within two weeks, about one - third of patients will experience symptoms longer.

Chronic kidney disease stage 2 or more was present in one third of patients.

Weight cycling, with both increases and decreases in body weight, was also observed in more than a third of patients.

Two thirds of the patients received radium - 223 + BSC, the others received placebo + BSC.

Most patients didn't finish the PT regimen allowed them under Medicare and prescribed by the researchers, and one - third of the patients failed to complete even half of the regimen.

Until now, scientists haven't understood why about a third of patients who undergo anesthesia and surgery experience some kind of cognitive impairment — such as memory loss — at hospital discharge.

The remaining one - third of patients, composing a control group, received injections of their own dendritic cells that were not exposed to tumor antigens.

In addition, two - thirds of patients who benefited from the drug had no advance of the disease for at least 12 months.

The study included 124 newly diagnosed patients at 25 clinical trial sites in the U.S. Two - thirds of the patients were treated with ICT - 107, an experimental vaccine based on immune system cells called dendritic cells that were exposed to six synthetic proteins, or antigens, known to be involved in GBM development.

Despite numerous antidepressant drugs, as many as a third of patients don't respond to medication.

From that data, the agency concluded the test can predict the absence of lesions on a CT scan with an accuracy of 99.5 percent, making it reliable enough to rule out the need for a scan in at least one third of the patients.

In its first clinical trial, a breakthrough antibody therapy produced at least partial remissions in a third of patients with multiple myeloma who had exhausted multiple prior treatments, investigators at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and other organizations report today online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

«A hip fracture can be devastating with a loss of independence and less than one third of patients make a full recovery.

One - third of patients diagnosed with breast cancer eventually develop metastases in distant organs, with an increased risk of death.

«Only one - third of patients diagnosed with depression start treatment: Likelihood of beginning treatment is especially low among ethnic and racial minorities and the elderly.»

Medications can often successfully control the seizures that characterize the disease, but about one third of patients require further treatment.

Following the results, doctors changed the care plans of two - thirds of the patients involved in the study, presenters said at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in London.

A third of the patients studied left the area in the wake of the disaster.

Analysis of clinical samples from suspected Lassa fever cases in Sierra Leone showed that about two - thirds of the patients had been exposed to other emerging diseases, and nearly nine percent tested positive for Ebola virus.

In the national survey, 1,768 physicians in general internal medicine or family medicine reported seeing an average of 81 patients per week, and ordering diagnostic laboratory tests for almost a third of those patients (31 percent).

The results indicate that from the age of 25 to 39 about a third of patients will have a false positive, and as screening extends to age 75, almost 80 per cent of women screened with MRI will have at least one false positive.

A responder analysis of this study shows that approximately one - third of patients demonstrated more than a 90 % reduction in cough frequency, and this analysis was consistent with patient - reported assessments of reduction in cough severity.

Yet, a new study conducted by Mayo Clinic and the University of Michigan shows that only one - third of patients who ultimately receive a living donor kidney transplant receive it pre-emptively (i.e., before starting dialysis).

«In almost one - third of patients, bladder cancer detection is late.

Despite findings of previous studies and published guidelines, nearly two - thirds of patients with T4a larynx («voice box») cancer are not receiving a total laryngectomy (surgical removal of the larynx), the recommended form of treatment, and as a result, have significantly worse survival rates versus those treated with a total laryngectomy, a new study published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics by experts at Penn Medicine found.

Approximately one - third of patients do not respond to medications and face major challenges with daily living.

«That only about a third of patients reported having a discussion of advantages and disadvantages is an alarming statistic,» said study lead author Dr. George Turini III, clinical instructor in medical science at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a urologist with the Southcoast Physician Group.