Sentences with phrase «total population of patients»

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The analysts also said the inability of the treatment candidate to show an improvement in total SOFA score, a composite assessment of six organ systems, is less relevant in ATHOS - 3's heterogenous patient population.

Domestic violence from family members (other than partners) made up 63 % of total domestic violence cases against psychiatric patients compared with 35 % of the general population.

Scientists in Sweden analysed data from 383 patients, taken from two population based health surveys with a total of 50,705 participants, to discover that there is a strong association between a high BMI in men and a lower risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

To identify new genetic variations associated with different SLE phenotypes, a total of 598,258 different regions on the genome (known as single - nucleotide polymorphisms) were genotyped in a population of 482 Caucasian European SLE patients of Spanish origin recruited from the rheumatology departments of 15 Spanish university hospitals belonging to the IMID Consortium (SLE group).

«Our findings provide the first general population - based evidence that osteoarthritis patients who have total knee or total hip replacement surgery are at increased risk of heart attack in the immediate postoperative period,» concludes Dr. Zhang.

While high - risk Medicaid patients represent a small percentage of Partners» total patient population, their complex needs consume a full fifth of total healthcare spending.

In case - control and replication studies involving a total of some 45,000 CM and BCC patients and control subjects from Iceland, Sweden, Spain, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, carrying one set of the ASIP variants — which 15 % of the population does — was shown to correspond to a 45 % increase in risk of CM and 33 % increase in risk of BCC compared to non-carriers.

Mutations in genes underlying familial ALS (fALS) have been discovered in only 5 - 10 % of the total population of ALS patients [5].

Results From a total population of 446480 patients, 1539 community - associated MRSA, 1335 health care - associated MRSA, 2895 skin and soft - tissue infection cases, and 2914 controls were included.

Accessing the South Korean National Health Insurance Database, UniSA researchers extracted information on 1,224 cardiac events from a total population of 114,647 patients aged 17 or younger who were newly treated with methylphenidate between 2008 and 2011.

With total assets of $ 11.1 billion * and serving a population larger than the state of Georgia, Baylor Scott & White Health has the vision and resources to provide its patients continued quality care while creating a model system for a dramatically changing health care environment.

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

The city of Leicester has one of the highest concentrations of this population (total population 329 836: Indian 93 000, Pakistani 8000, Bangladeshi 3600), which contrasts with the surrounding county (total population 650 489: Indian 54 000, Pakistani 2100, Bangladeshi 2300).15 We define «British South Asian (BSA)» as a person whose ancestry originates in the Indian subcontinent, and who identifies with, or is identified with, their host country.16 A previous pilot study showed a significantly higher incidence in symptoms of depression among BSA patients in Leicester and the local county compared with British White (BW) patients via the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS - D) ≥ 10 (BSA 20.7 %; BW 10.4 % p = 0.001).17 Depressive symptoms were associated with potentially maladaptive coping strategies among both ethnic groups but were employed statistically significantly more frequently by BSA patients.

Two reviewers will independently assess the suitability of the preference - based instruments for measuring outcomes in palliative care using the ISOQOL, minimum standards for patient - reported outcome measures (conceptual and measurement model, reliability, content validity, construct validity, responsiveness, interpretability of scores, translation of measure, patient and investigator burden), 43 and the CREATE checklist (descriptive system, health states values, sampling, preference data collection, study sample, modelling, scoring algorithm).44 The ISOQOL minimum standards were chosen as these standards were developed from a systematic review of published and unpublished guidance on patient - reported outcome measures, including the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN).46 To the authors» knowledge, the CREATE checklist is the only published guidance on what key components should be reported in a valuation study.44 Information on how the contents of the instruments were developed, psychometric properties and valuation will be used to assess the suitability of the instruments for the palliative setting; instruments will be scored on whether the domains or dimensions were developed using input from informal caregivers of people receiving palliative care (yes / no) and whether each of the reporting checklist items has been evaluated for this population (if yes, then a score of one will be allocated) and a total score calculated.