Sentences with phrase «treated by physicians»

Thus, our findings may not be generalizable to surgical conditions, to patients treated by physicians of other specialties, or to outpatient care.

Because sarcomas are rare, it is important to be diagnosed and treated by physicians who have extensive experience in managing these tumors.

This represents an average savings of $ 167 per Medicare patient per year compared with patients treated by physicians not participating in MOC, amounting to a total cost reduction of approximately $ 5 billion annually.

The study included 3 992 patients who had a cardiac arrest outside hospital in a large urban area and were treated by physician - based emergency medical services between 2002 and 2011.

If you are clinically depressed, you should be treated by a physician and not trying to solve your problems through an advice column.

Never get treated by a physician if you haven't had the opportunity to see their eyes, body language & character in person.

The parents chose to not have their child treated by a physician, or even have someone (like a nurse) look at her.

Dog bites and attack injuries that break the skin should always be treated by a physician as soon as possible.

As with all of these life insurance classifications, the insurers prefer to see your health condition under control and that you are being treated by a physician and that you are following their protocol.

Not exact matches

«Women's health,» Dr. Mielnik told me, «is the only area of medicine where physicians have stopped trying to diagnose and treat appropriately the underlying causes of a woman's reproductive health problem» and as healthcare consumers, we have allowed this to happen by not expecting more.»

However, seriously underweight anorexic patients who see themselves as obese are not treated with weight - reducing liposuction by physicians who go along with their irrational belief.

Sixteen physicians, all with wide experience in treating alcoholics, were invited by the editor of the journal which published the Davies report to comment on it.

Maasburg was emphatic that she never asked for special favors or medical care — a fact since confirmed by others close to her, including the physicians who treated her during her final illness.

He was told by his treating physician's that he had clinically «died» many times from the time he was hit by the IED and the time he finally woke up in Germany.

This drives the cost to the tax payer up much more than a universal health care program that would treat everyone fairly by private physicians and use the more expensive emergency rooms for emergencies as they were intended.

By permitting patients to refuse treatment at the end of life, but not allowing physician - assisted suicide, the state unfairly treats similarly situated persons.

This pressure between 15 and 20 mm Hg is recommended by most physicians for treating venous diseases.

A 2008 report in the journal Canadian Family Physician (CAN) notes that treating a milk / soy protein intolerance in infants can be done one of two ways: an elimination diet followed by a reintroduction of the «suspected allergen,» or a «hydrolyzed formula for formula feeding mothers.»

«As a result, any fever greater than 100.4 should not be treated by parents at home and the baby should be evaluated immediately (if less than 2 months of age) by a physician.»

Agrees to a full and thorough review of all official medical records directly obtained from treating physicians (these records are reviewed only by a medical professional)

Direction — Supervision over the actions of a licensed athletic trainer by means of referral by prescription to treat conditions for a physically active person from a licensed physician, dentist or podiatrist or written protocol approved by a supervising physician, except that the physical presence of the supervising physician, dentist or podiatrist is not required if the supervising physician, dentist or podiatrist is readily available for consultation by direct communication, radio, telephone, facsimile, telecommunications or by other electronic means.

Dayan, who says quite a few of his patients are new moms anxious for Botox as soon as they stop breastfeeding, maintains that if you emerge from the doctor's office without being able to move a single muscle on your face, you've likely been treated by an irresponsible physician or one who has received poor training.

The President was examined by his Personal Physician and an E.N.T Specialist in Abuja and was treated.

A statement by his Special Adviser Femi Adesina noted that presidential physicians have treated the President but he was advised to seek better examination when in London.

By hastily rubber - stamping this deeply problematic proposal, the Committee has taken a step toward a future in which the lives of terminally - ill persons are treated as expendable, and in which insurance companies will be at liberty to make cost - saving coverage decisions that steer vulnerable individuals toward physician - assisted death.

Blacks going to outpatient departments of hospitals are treated by the best physicians and pay an average $ 2 per visit, regardless of treatment.

The presidential spokesman had said although Buhari had been examined and treated by his personal physician and a specialist in Abuja, both doctors advised him to go for further evaluation as a precaution.

«There are undoubtedly many more cases, particularly of Lyme disease, that are treated by community physicians and are not reported, or do not meet the case definition,» testified New York State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker at the hearings.

It is important for physicians and scientists to understand the unique pathology of HS - AGING, and to be able to differentiate it from other diseases, as it is only by making an accurate diagnosis that clinicians can hope to treat people who present with signs of cognitive decline.

As such, the physician may be frustrated in not being able to provide the same level of care as he or she could back home, or by not being able to offer adequate follow - up, or by not being able to treat civilians,» the study's authors found.

«Even fireworks that are classified as «safer,» such as bottle rockets and sparklers, are responsible for some of the most serious wounds treated by emergency physicians,» said Santaniello, a trauma surgeon who is also a professor of surgery, at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood.

Get it evaluated by a physician who has experience treating foot and ankle injuries.»

At more than 20 medical institutions around the world, physicians have been experimentally treating patients diagnosed with recurrent depression by bombarding their left cortices with magnetic fields.

«Neurologists have been really unnerved by what we've seen,» says Keith Van Haren, a physician at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital who has been treating cases in California.

However, if SSRIs had indeed acted merely by means of a placebo effect, these drugs should not outperform actual placebo in clinical trials where patients have been treated with an SSRI or with ineffective placebo pills, and where neither the physician nor the patient knows which treatment the patient has been given until the study is over.

Other Epharmix interventions are being used by physicians in the St. Louis area who treat chronic conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, heart failure, and hypertension.

The findings, published online ahead of print in the Annals of Internal Medicine, highlight the challenges faced by physicians to balance the known risks with potential benefits of prescription opioids for patients with chronic pain and reinforces the importance of developing tools that will help better identify and treat patients at risk for opioid use disorders and / or overdose.

One was identified in 1965 by English physician Harry Angelman, who was struck by the faces of three children he treated.

Opioids are now also prescribed by physicians more frequently to treat chronic conditions, including musculoskeletal pain of the spine and limbs, while prescriptions for non-opioids like nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or acetaminophen have remained constant.

The study reported that mortality rates for sepsis were more than 2 percent lower among patients treated by female physicians, and about 1 percent lower for those treated for heart arrhythmia and pneumonia.

Carbone has been visiting Cappadocia since 1996, when he was invited by zzettin Baris, a physician who at the time specialized in studying and treating mesothelioma at Hacettepe University in Ankara.

The guidelines issued by the EURETINA Working Group, which is made up of top retina experts from the largest eye hospitals in Europe, are international recommendations for treating physicians and hospitals.

A small survey of military physicians found most did not receive any formal training on transgender care, most had not treated a patient with known gender dysphoria, and most had not received sufficient training to prescribe cross-hormone therapy, according to a new research letter published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

Our physicians have been consistently named «America's Top Doctors» by Castle Connolly and are active participants in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, which sets evidence - based best practices for detecting, evaluating and treating head and neck cancers nationwide.

By treating sooner and more aggressively, U.S. physicians may actually save money by reducing the overall economic burden of cardiovascular disease associated with hypertension, the authors suggesBy treating sooner and more aggressively, U.S. physicians may actually save money by reducing the overall economic burden of cardiovascular disease associated with hypertension, the authors suggesby reducing the overall economic burden of cardiovascular disease associated with hypertension, the authors suggest.

It is therefore important that they are properly evaluated and treated by a specialist physician with support from an Occupational Therapist, and not subjected to experimental treatment with probiotics, special diets or anything else.

Ultimate use of newborn stem cells will be determined by the treating physician who will consider if they are applicable for the condition and should come from the patient or a suitable donor (siblings of the same biological parents have a 25 % chance of being a perfect match and a 50 % chance of being a partial match; biological parents will always be a partial match).

Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

Quiz Ref IDPatients cared for by female physicians had lower 30 - day mortality than did patients treated by male physicians (10.82 % vs 11.49 %; risk difference [RD], — 0.67 %; 95 % CI, — 0.80 % to — 0.54 %; P <.001; number needed to treat [NNT] to prevent 1 death, 149) after accounting for patient characteristics (Table 2).

Patients treated by female physicians had lower 30 - day mortality (adjusted mortality, 11.07 % vs 11.49 %; adjusted risk difference, — 0.43 %; 95 % CI, — 0.57 % to — 0.28 %; P <.001; number needed to treat to prevent 1 death, 233) and lower 30 - day readmissions (adjusted readmissions, 15.02 % vs 15.57 %; adjusted risk difference, — 0.55 %; 95 % CI, — 0.71 % to — 0.39 %; P <.001; number needed to treat to prevent 1 readmission, 182) than patients cared for by male physicians, after accounting for potential confounders.