Sentences with phrase «use in a given patient»

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Their approach, he explains, is to use data to give patients and providers more information and reduce the amount of medical care people consume, or, in the lingo of the industry, «utilization.»

It then uses this data and machine learning to give providers a smart billing solution with improved methods of communication and payment in order to engage patients.

You are either intentionally or ignorantly — both then and now, i.e., 13 years later — are depriving those patients whom whom God of love is putting in your path to use your divinity school knowledge and your biblical faith experience to guide the path of that talk towards the absolute truth related to the love of God — i.e. true love which stems from God by giving his only Son for whoever to choose to believe on him to have «everlasting life» by having his / her sins forgiven.

The good Dr Bircher - Benner apparently used condensed milk and fresh lemon juice in his original version, since pre-pasteurisation, there were concerns about giving raw milk to hospital patients.

Let's be sensible here.Like it or not we have lost Sanchez.We are getting a vast improvement on Walcott in Mikki with (please god) Abua joining as well.Sanchez wanted to go so let's move on.I believe these 2 signings could reignite us and the credit will be with Sven and not Wenger.Soon everyone will start to give credit to Ivan Gaz as without doubt his Catylis For Change is beginning to take effect.12 months ago if we had banked the money for Coq Wally and That Chilean C *** what would we have done with it?Sven M is influencing transfer policy now without doubt.We have no option other than to be patient this season and just take whatever we get from Europa League and Caro Cup.Anything above 6th in Premier League let's take as a bonus.I can't help but believe we are seeing something happening that we are nor used to.

Let's be sensible here.Like it or not we have lost Sanchez.We are getting a vast improvement on Walcott in Mikki with (please god) Abua joining as well.Sanchez wanted to go so let's move on.I believe these 2 signings could reignite us and the credit will be with Sven and not Wenger.Soon everyone will start to give credit to Ivan Gaz as without doubt his Catylis For Change is beginning to take effect.12 months ago if we had banked the money for Coq Wally and That Chilean C *** what would we have done with it?Sven M is influencing transfer policy now without doubt.We have no option other than to be patient this season and just take whatever we get from Europa League and Caro Cup.Anything above 6th in Premier League let's take as a bonus.I can't help but believe we are seeing something happening that we are nor used to.Things are different because Wenger has lost his influence.

Even though Dr. Fisk won't be able to help me directly, I intend to carry printed articles about his theories to my doctors to use as ammo / backup in begging for just a little kinder consideration than c - section patients are typically given around here.

He talked about publishing the salaries of those earning over # 150,000 in the public sector and giving parents, patients etc more information online about the services they are using.

The main purpose of the Welsh Liberal Democrat policy was to give Welsh patients access to the latest innovations in health, but instead the money was used to replace old and tired equipment.

Advocates had countered that it was highly unlikely, given legal use of marijuana in other states, that the feds would tie up New York over offering expedited access to the drug to a limited number of patients.

In the early 2000s, Johns Hopkins scientists Leo Luznik and Ephraim Fuchs found that giving patients high doses of cyclophosphamide — a drug derived from nitrogen mustard and used to treat blood cancers — three days after bone marrow transplant successfully thwarts acute and chronic GVHD.

Now a large survey using data from all patients hospitalized in psychiatric wards in Israel, and their siblings, has given some answers: having a sibling with schizophrenia increases your risk of developing the condition by a factor of x10, with increased risks of developing bipolar disorder and other mental disorders.

«If you give patients immune cells to eradicate any remaining cancer cells that might be present,» he says, «those immune cells would not be prevented from doing their job by ongoing immune suppression drugs that are being used in patients treated with conventional transplant approaches.»

The researchers believe the test could be used in the clinic to make decisions about which patients should be given chemotherapy.

Since randomized clinical trials — the gold - standard in research — don't accommodate patients» preferences, Zoellner and her research team used a study design called a «doubly randomized preference trial» to investigate whether giving patients a choice affects their treatment outcomes.

In addition some drugs have been revealed to have dramatic side effects, so that they can only be given to select patients through a restricted - use program.

«These are remarkable data,» says Amit Nathwani at University College London, who is using AAVs in potential treatments for a blood disorder called haemophilia B. «Liver fibrosis is a major clinical problem and if these data can be reproduced clinically, the National Health Service would save billions and patients would be given a new lease of life.»

«However, given that IGF - 1 is approved for human use in people who are deficient in this hormone, a clinical trial of IGF - 1 in lithium - resistant bipolar disorder patients is warranted.»

Medical specialists use similar calculations when giving cancer patients radiation treatments or when they need to estimate how much damage X-rays might produce in DNA.

In a different study Waghmare presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation in Orlando, Florida, the researchers teased out a few risk factors that can drive the development of lower respiratory tract infections — namely, high levels of steroid use (commonly given to transplant patients for other complications such as graft - vIn a different study Waghmare presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation in Orlando, Florida, the researchers teased out a few risk factors that can drive the development of lower respiratory tract infections — namely, high levels of steroid use (commonly given to transplant patients for other complications such as graft - vin Orlando, Florida, the researchers teased out a few risk factors that can drive the development of lower respiratory tract infections — namely, high levels of steroid use (commonly given to transplant patients for other complications such as graft - vs.

In the past, researchers have used several approaches to give paralyzed patients control of their hands.

Clinicians at Albany Medical Center and the State University New York Empire State College in Saratoga Springs used a treatment called image - guided, intranasal sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) blocks to give patients enough ongoing relief that they required less medication to relieve migraine pain.

When epidural methods are used, clinicians can not give patients easy - to - use, high potency blood thinners, but must instead use alternatives, which in some require frequent monitoring of blood parameters via a test called International Normalized Ratio.

They found that patients given the medication buprenorphine were more likely to engage in addiction treatment and reduce their illicit opioid use.

Using a robot arm that gives them precise control, they detach and remove the kidney, complete with its blood supply, and immediately transplant it into the patient in an adjoining operating theatre.

«Due to a shortage of mental health professionals in rural and underserved areas, we see primary care physicians using this class of drugs to give relief to their patients with psychiatric symptoms.

Using available databases reflecting the utilization of health services in California, Florida and Nebraska — all three of which give access to deidentified information on individual patients — the research team identified 2,261 obese patients with asthma who underwent bariatric surgery from 2007 to 2009 and for whom information covering the two years before and after their surgery was available.

They found that in all but one hospital, fluoroquinolone use, expressed as the number of doses given to the average patient each day, had gone up — in one case by 264 %.

Because cancer cells grow and divide rapidly, they use a lot of energy, sucking up glucose and giving themselves away; the red coloring denotes disease in the patient's liver and shoulder area.

In a clinical trial, the Caltech team and colleagues from Keck Medicine of USC have successfully implanted just such a device in a patient with quadriplegia, giving him the ability to perform a fluid hand - shaking gesture and even play «rock, paper, scissors» using a separate robotic arIn a clinical trial, the Caltech team and colleagues from Keck Medicine of USC have successfully implanted just such a device in a patient with quadriplegia, giving him the ability to perform a fluid hand - shaking gesture and even play «rock, paper, scissors» using a separate robotic arin a patient with quadriplegia, giving him the ability to perform a fluid hand - shaking gesture and even play «rock, paper, scissors» using a separate robotic arm.

More animal studies would be needed to move this drug toward human clinical trials, but «what we hope is that we could use this drug to intervene in patients who have had an episode of prolonged seizures and give it to them briefly following that episode to protect them from becoming epileptic,» said James McNamara, M.D., a professor in the departments of neurobiology and neurology at Duke University.

This can be done using a procedure called «drug - induced sleep endoscopy» (DISE), in which stepwise doses of anesthetic doses are given to put the patient to sleep and reproduce the airway obstruction causing apnea.

Kobinger said he had no idea whether the antibodies had any effect on viral load in these patients, as they were given the experimental ZMapp on a «compassionate use» basis.

Mice given a drug commonly used in patients to fight systemic fungal infections more often succumb to what would otherwise be a mild case of the flu.

If glucose gives results comparable to gadolinium in a large group of patients, the team expects to quickly receive FDA approval for broad use of the technique.

Patients in the control group were given the widely used anticoagulant unfractionated heparin, as well as glycoprotein IIb / IIIa inhibitors, another class of anticoagulants, at the physician's discretion.

«The advances in transplant techniques and the range of available cell sources that can be used to optimize the treatment of aberrant corneal wound healing can give reassurance to patients with corneal injuries that preserving vision may be possible in the near future,» wrote the authors of the Stem Cells review.

In a key departure from its predecessors, the MATRIX trial allowed interventional cardiologists to decide whether to give glycoprotein IIb / IIIa inhibitors as a complement to unfractionated heparin in control patients, whereas previous studies either required or forbade the use of these drugIn a key departure from its predecessors, the MATRIX trial allowed interventional cardiologists to decide whether to give glycoprotein IIb / IIIa inhibitors as a complement to unfractionated heparin in control patients, whereas previous studies either required or forbade the use of these drugin control patients, whereas previous studies either required or forbade the use of these drugs.

From 1991 to 1994 Ciba - Geigy, the company that then manufactured Ritalin (it subsequently merged with Sandoz to become Novartis), gave $ 748,000 to the patient organization, prompting the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to note that «the relationship between Ciba - Geigy and CHADD raises serious concerns about CHADD's motive in proselytizing the use of Ritalin.»

The MGH research team — including physicians from both the trauma service and the transfusion service — embarked on the current study in response to the observation that high - ratio transfusion was increasingly being used in massive transfusions given to non-trauma patients, a practice not previously studied in this population.

In this study, prior to giving intensive BEAM chemotherapy (which uses carmustine, etoposide, cytarabine, and melphalan), researchers collected stem cells from each patient's blood.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

The drugs and placebo were provided to paramedics in indistinguishable boxes containing three syringes, each containing a third of the maximum total dose, to ensure that neither patients nor care providers knew which treatment was used for a given patient.

In the future, doctors may be able to use this type of information to match the best treatment to the patients most likely to benefit and avoid giving treatment that is less likely to be effective.»

These findings give support to the use of the laboratory diagnostic workup of dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment.

In order to obtain the comprehensive designation, which is the highest ranking the National Cancer Institute (NCI) gives, a center must meet strict criteria that include a strong core of basic laboratory research in several fields, the ability to translate those research findings into therapies that can one day be used to treat patients, a program of high - priority clinical trials, and a commitment to community service and outreach activities related to cancer prevention and controIn order to obtain the comprehensive designation, which is the highest ranking the National Cancer Institute (NCI) gives, a center must meet strict criteria that include a strong core of basic laboratory research in several fields, the ability to translate those research findings into therapies that can one day be used to treat patients, a program of high - priority clinical trials, and a commitment to community service and outreach activities related to cancer prevention and controin several fields, the ability to translate those research findings into therapies that can one day be used to treat patients, a program of high - priority clinical trials, and a commitment to community service and outreach activities related to cancer prevention and control.

This new paper demonstrates that one of the more controversial reprogramming factors (c - myc) is not absolutely necessary to produce iPS cells which gives us hope that methods may be developed soon that produce cells which can be used in human patients.

In 1994, Schreiber and co-workers discovered that the proteins FKBP12 and mTOR are the simultaneous targets of the small molecule rapamycin, now approved for use as an immunosuppressant drug given to patients after organ transplantations to help prevent rejection.

He gave a similarly negative reply to a question about the use of the vaccine in patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for PD, «given the mode of action of disease modifiers,» because DBS is typically reserved to patients in relatively advanced stages of the disease.

One potential reason for this discrepancy is that the laboratory tests used in animal models of the disease do not resemble the clinical assessments given to patients, and thus are not predictive of human memory performance.