Sentences with phrase «to increase the number of patients»

Federal health legislation also increases the number of patients accessing health insurance.

Such advances are expected to increase the number of patients treated for the disease.

By Hyla Cass, MD I'm seeing increasing numbers of patients with sleep problems, ranging from difficulty in falling asleep, to being unable to sleep soundly through the night.

The original trial results found that the brief intervention increased the number of patients who quit smoking before surgery, at relatively low cost and without taking too much time away from doctors and nurses in busy preadmission clinics.

Composing a Top 10 Best List works too, for example the title to a post could read «Top 10 Mistakes Business Managers Make» or «Top 5 Ways to Increase the Number of Patients at Your Practice.»

«The ability to address any solid tumors that can be surgically removed greatly increases the number of patients who might benefit from such potent immune - stimulating agents, which can be toxic when administered throughout the body.

The introduction of minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for treatment of aortic stenos not only has increased the number of patients eligible for aortic valve replacement (AVR), but also has led to a decrease in patient mortality, according to a study released today at the 50th Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Furthermore, there is also little question that the vast majority of conversations, seminars and published papers on the subject have addressed gut microflora purely in terms of its role in GI health, particularly in reference to the ever increasing number of patients who present with issues such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and inflammatory bowel disease.

This transition drastically increased the number of patients I diagnose with intestinal parasites.

As well as increasing the number of patients available to take part in research, there will inevitably be increased numbers of people seeking help for the emotional aspects of treatment and a consequent pressure for research to develop specialist psychological services and to ensure patients are aware of their availability (Boivin et al., 1999).

Noting that Mylan had sought legislation to increase the number of patients who receive prescriptions for EpiPens, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C.

A research team led by an award - winning genomicist at Western University has developed a new method for identifying mutations and prioritizing variants in breast and ovarian cancer genes, which will not only reduce the number of possible variants for doctors to investigate, but also increase the number of patients that are properly diagnosed.

Those updates could increase the number of patients that cell therapies can treat.

I have seen an increasing number of patients specializing at a young age with a concurrent rise in injuries and burn - out.

But the registered organizations charged with growing and selling medical marijuana say they were expecting the trickle of customers to start, rather than a flood, and that they are now seeing an increasing number of patients.

Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) is cosponsoring a bill called the TREAT Act in Congress that would increase the number of patients that medical practitioners can prescribe medication for treatment of drug abuse from 30 to 100.

«Increased awareness of PSC in the medical community and improved noninvasive methods of detecting this disease may have increased the number of patients.»

«Also, higher awareness and detection of kidney disease in low resource settings may increase the number of patients who are diagnosed and referred, therefore providing appropriate treatment and improving outcomes.»

Cooling treatment also reduces the number and severity of cerebral palsy and increases the number of patients who survive normally.»

An analysis of lung cancer incidence and screening found a decline in the proportion of patients with lung cancer meeting high - risk screening criteria, suggesting that an increasing number of patients with lung cancer would not have been candidates for screening, according to a study in the February 24 issue of JAMA.

«The decline in the proportion of patients meeting USPSTF high - risk criteria indicates that an increasing number of patients with lung cancer would not have been candidates for screening.

«There are an increasing number of patients who are co-authoring academic research papers, co-designing trials and studies, and joining trial management teams,» Stephens says.

With more than 1,000 KPro surgeries performed annually, and with new technologies being developed to increase the number of patients who may benefit, the KPro is a clear, plastic artificial cornea often used to replace diseased corneas in patients prone to rejecting biological tissues.

Around the world bacteria are developing new strategies that render them resistant to antibiotics, resulting in an increasing number of patients dying from untreatable infections.

The NRGTM Transseptal needle was designed for the increasing number of patients like Ganshow, whose previous procedures make it dangerous or impossible to cross her septum safely with the traditional needle.

Through this development, the Cancer Center can offer potentially curative bone marrow transplants to an increasing number of patients by using alternative bone marrow donors.

Because of the increased number of patients, growing reliance on multiple medications and the shift toward more expensive new medicines, the annual cost of diabetes drugs nearly doubled in only six years, rising from $ 6.7 billion in 2001 to $ 12.5 billion in 2007 according to a study in the Oct. 27, 2008, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

In my practice, I have found that an increasing number of patients are seeking complementary and alternative therapies to conventional medicine.

With the increasing numbers of patients suffering from hypertension and conventional medicine failing to effectively control the problem, alternative therapies offer hope.

Generally in May, an increased number of patients surface with the condition.

Currently, there are 12 therapy dogs «on - staff» at Riley Hospital for Children, but with more therapy dog teams, the program will be able to expand their services to additional units and increase the number of patients and families who benefit from the healing power of pets.

Unfortunately, many facilities fail to put patients before profits, scaling back staff to skeletal levels even as the demands of an increasing number of patients require more help than ever.

We are advising an increasing number of patients where unfortunately, similar to this case, inadequate care has been provided at each stage of the process.

In addition, the enactment of the Affordable Care Act in 2013 transformed the healthcare industry and, as such, many more professionals will need to keep up with an increasing number of patients.

An increasing number of patients are choosing to have prescriptions filled through mail order pharmacies.

With an increased number of patients, doctors and nurses have less time for office tasks that they may have done in the past.

Developed new programs and strategies for the clinic to increase the number of patients to the clinic in accordance to the laws.

Some job growth may be due to the fact that more individuals are being insured due to the Affordable Care Act, and this may lead to an increased number of patients that seek routine and preventative health care.