Sentences with phrase «time for patients»

The FDA can not identify a safe dosage or a safe amount of time for patients to take Iclusig.

The median waiting time for patients in Canada from referral by a general practitioner to the date of actual treatment was 21.2 weeks in 2017.

Less paperwork, more time for patients and zero missed charges.

The average hospitalization time for patients treated with hemodialysis is usually between 2 to 3 weeks with hemodialysis sessions performed every other day until the kidneys recover sufficient function to not require any further support.

We prefer to see patients by appointment to allow ample time for all patients and scheduled surgical procedures.

Early results indicate it can essentially double average survival time for those patients, Ghamande said.

«The initial question was «can we do this in a feasible amount of time for our patients?»

«We saw a modest increase in treadmill walking time for patients treated with GM - CSF, compared to placebo,» says study leader Arshed Quyyumi, MD, professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and co-director of the Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute.

This implies that, even though it may follow different patterns, MS will worsen over time for all patients.

The mutations render the cancers sensitive to treatment with radiation therapy or chemotherapy, significantly increasing the survival time for patients with the mutations.

Preoperative preparation and postoperative recovery time for patients are significantly reduced.

Glioblastoma is the most aggressive type of tumor that originates in the brain and with no curative treatments currently available, the average survival time for patients ranges from 15 to 18 months.

«That means a lower risk of complications and shorter recovery time for patients.»

It's going to take some time for patients to adopt this.

Our experience gives us the ability to navigate a complex healthcare system so you have more time for your patients.

With $ 85 million in funding, Chrono makes medicated patches that transmit drugs through the skin using the IoT to customize dosage and timing for a patient.

Once tests and exams come back indicating cancer, says David S. Parda, MD, FACP, past president of the Pennsylvania Society of Oncology & Hematology, it's time for the patient and her physician - led health care team to come up with a plan to fight it.

A critical test result may go missing or not get to the office in time for a patient to schedule a follow - up appointment, or different specialists could be prescribing drugs that cause dangerous interactions.

In fact, there are laser procedures being developed that will minimize the invasiveness of the procedure to ensure a quick recovery time for the patient.

By anticipating the needs of the veterinarian performing the procedure, the veterinary technician can save valuable time for the patient and improve outcomes.

You will usually receive a telephone call from one of our staff to schedule a time for patient discharge.

The Wellness Exam chart template remains the same, the variables using dynamic tags are open to be filled in, each time for each patient.

Now it is time for the patient to be prepared for surgery.

If I can keep a cancer in remission to buy any amount of time for a patient while promoting the human — animal bond, I'll take it as a victory.

Uses a computerized scheduling system to schedule / reschedules appointments determining the right amount of time for each patient appointment

This shortage may mean longer wait times for patients and a longer wait list for new patients.

We showed a fall in Health anxiety scores on the Whiteley - 7 scale from index to later follow - up times for all patient groups.

Not exact matches

He spent a lot of time trying to design a widget or app that would reduce confusion for patients.

(New York's regulations, for example, required me as a first - time patient to have about a 30 - second video call with the doctor who treated me before we hung up and continued via text.)

In a 564 - person trial, patients whose ovarian cancer recurred (and who had already started treatment with chemotherapy) given Rubraca, part of a new class of cancer drugs called «PARP» inhibitors, lived, on median, for double the amount of time without their disease getting even worse compared with those given a placebo.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

In spite of all that testing — at a financial cost of untold billions of dollars and an immeasurable time cost for the patients who volunteered — no one was able to say with any certitude whether the drug would work in any one patient or not.

The idea was to mirror the experience of someone new to a community requesting an appointment as a first - time patient, for a potentially important, but non-urgent check - up or procedure.

But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

In addition, «for the last 50 years we have manufactured tablets in factories and shipped them to hospitals and for the first time this process means we can produce tablets much closer to the patient,» Dr. Mohamed Albed Alhnan, a lecturer in pharmaceutics at the University of Central Lancashire, told the BBC.

Analytica say this feature alone could save Hospitals thousands of dollars in lost nurse time by avoiding the need for multiple return visits to a patient's bed to check if the medicine has passed through the drip before turning it back on again.

«At this time, we do not know the root cause or incidence rate of patient death, nor have we been able to definitively attribute the deaths to the devices or the insertion procedures for these devices,» said the FDA in a notice.

That's the time the blood isn't circulating and the brain isn't getting the oxygen it needs, and making sure this time is as short as possible can have huge implications for how well a patient recovers.

At the same time, I was responsible for every patient that went on a plane, even if he was never admitted to the hospital.

«The service will make Watson for Genomics widely available to physician and patients nationwide for the first time,» said IBM in a statement.

It's a way to keep up with demand for care — virtual appointments save time — and to provide greater access to services, particularly for patients that may be hundreds of miles away from the closest hospital.

That, combined with the time it takes to transport a phage to a hospital, can be too long for some patients, says CEO Greg Merril: «When a patient is critically ill, every minute is important.»

Suneel Gupta, head of mobile, for One Medical, said patients engage with his company's virtual health platform 25 to 30 times a week.

She recommends companies institute a clean desk policy (ensuring that workers file away papers containing customer data before they leave their desk), implement inactivity time outs for any tech devices, and switch to an e-faxing system, which eliminates the exposure of sensitive patient data on paper that's piled up around traditional fax machines.

When investors recently berated Bombardier for lack of results, Sabia took time out of a conference call to urge them to be patient.

Patients who participated in the trial also described, in interviews and in testimony to a panel of FDA advisers, seeing snowflakes for the first time or being able to read again.

The problem for these patient entrepreneurs is that often times, their startups have investors and employees who are not as patient.

Some of the challenges for this are government requirements tying prices to the lowest available, and the fact that patients switch health insurance providers numerous times over the course of their lives — an average of every three years, according to Spark.

They cut down additional time spent in the waiting room by offering the endless pile of paperwork online for patients to fill out in advance.

As a PhD candidate at Weill Cornell Medical School, Piraye Beim spent much of her time trying to figure out why a particular cancer drug was lifesaving for some patients but useless — or worse — for most.