Sentences with phrase «use of medical care»

«It is often easier to find a French postdoc, or foreign students [who] have already been in France for several years,» says Pierre Chauvin, a scientist with an INSERM position who has used his Avenir award to launch a team looking at the social factors that affect health and people's use of medical care.

Wasteful use of medical care has «become so normalized that I don't think people in the system see it,» said Dr. Vikas Saini, president of The Lown Institute, a Boston think tank focused on making health care more effective, affordable and just.

If they shop around a little, and are more careful in their use of medical care, they might save some money and have lower premiums.

Wasteful use of medical care has «become so normalized that I don't think people in the system see it,» said Dr. Vikas Saini, president of The Lown Institute, a Boston think tank focused on making health care more effective, affordable and just.

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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.»

Also ask them to create a simple - to - use system, get rid of fees for service billing and develop a straightforward national electronic medical record built around great patient care, not billing.

The survey, released Tuesday, polled 500 small business owners from around the country and found that half of them are in favor of a policy that would allow employees to use earned sick time when they or an immediate family member falls ill or needs preventative medical care.

«However, the increased use of wireless technology and software in medical devices can also often offer safer, more efficient, convenient, and timely health care delivery.»

Microsoft is among a wave of tech companies including IBM and GE with major ambitions in the health care space, particularly when it comes to using machine learning and artificial intelligence to bolster the medical system.

CVS will extend use of Epic's EHR technology to its specialty care programs for managing complex and chronic medical conditions and rare diseases, the company announced on Friday.

The idea would be to encourage healthy people to buy coverage during open enrollment regardless of whether they expect to use significant medical care with the threat of being locked out of the market should they want to purchase coverage in the future.

Mark T. Bertolini, Aetna's chief executive, said that by using CVS's locations, the company can provide people with a better way of accessing medical care.

How far away are we from seeing widespread use of some of these futuristic ideas in our daily medical care?

With the rise of Managed Care resulting to enormous increase on payer denials, Infinit Healthcare uses our extensive experience in the medical billing industry to implement techniques that diminish these denials.

But I wonder, even though he didn't mention this in his article, while giving medical care, is he using this as an opportunity to be a witness to others of Jesus?

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

[9] Using a different, continuous weighted scoring system — which admittedly was, like Byrd's scoring, «an unvalidated measure of CCU outcomes» — Harris et al. concluded that «supplementary, remote, blinded, intercessory prayer produced a measurable improvement in the medical outcomes of critically ill patients», and suggested that «prayer be an effective adjunct to standard medical care.»

There's a church in Oregon that has several cases of adults denying medical care to their children using faith as an excuse.

For example, when Pope John XXIII spoke of medical care as a «right,» he used that term in a far different sense from the use of «right» in, say, the Declaration of Independence and in the Bill of Rights.

The church has also played an important part in the development of medical care in the West In Greek and Roman times, temples were used as hospitals.

My point, who cares, your religion is not what I want deciding if we need jobs or a way to create them or how victims of crime who are uninsured get medical bills paid or using your religion to decide who deserves what time in prison and who gets a slap on teh wrist.

He simply carried a Christian understanding of agape (love or covenant fidelity), relatively detached from its theological context, into medical ethics and then used this love as a principle by which to evaluate and transform the covenants already present in the world of medical care.

So I guess this university decided that the loss of life / health caused by not having medical coverage or going to the doctor for preventative care outweighs the possibility that some students * might * choose to use the morning after pill (Plan B) or contraception (note — plan B is not abortion).

This article marked the first time that premier physicians used a prominent journal to discuss not only «pulling the plug,» but whether physician - assisted suicide (performed by the patient) and euthanasia (performed by the physician) should be a part of the continuum of medical care.

Shall we reduce the defense budget and use more of our national income to meet social needs at home like housing and medical care?

Recognized as a standard of excellence in health care packaging, this advanced material is used in virtually every form of sterile medical packaging, as well as a wide variety of pharmaceutical packaging applications.

For more than 45 years, Tyvek ® has helped to protect the health of millions of patients worldwide and to reduce costs in the health care setting by maintaining sterility of medical devices and supplies to the point of use.

The information contained on this site is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition and is not to be used as a substitute for the care and guidance of a physician.

The Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire, which helps more than 2,200 animals each year, will use this funding to support general operating expenses, as 73 - percent of the League's operating budget goes to general animal care and medical expenses.

MEDICAL WONDER DOG Pet - care clinics have lately begun using a 25 - inch - high, foam - filled, synthetic - hair - covered creature called CPR Dog on which dog owners can learn the techniques of canine cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

It also provides the opportunity to educate athletes, parents, and guardians about the risks and benefits of sports participation, and, since it is the only exposure many teens have to medical care, should be used to provide lifestyle advice to adolescents who are not receiving regular medical care.

Have a medical professional teach you how to take care of your players, so that when the time comes, you will know how to apply a Steri - Strip to close a wound, mold a Sam Splint to support a sprained wrist, or use a pocket mask to perform rescue breathing.

As a companion piece to Keith Cronin's excellent article on the use of PRP in which the both sides of the debate about PRP are presented, and based on a point - counterpoint debate conducted via email between the two experts whose views are expressed in Keith's piece, Dr. Nathan Mall, associate physician for the St. Louis Cardinals and Director for the St. Louis Center for Cartilage Restoration and RepairRegeneration Orthopedics, and Andrew M. Blecher MD, a Primary Care Sports Medicine physician and Medical Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine at the Southern California Orthopedic Institute in Van Nuys, California, here are what Drs. Mall and Blecher have to say about the current state of the research on PRP.

Through the use of Skype, coordinated care, affordable care and innovative treatment options, we have broken down the geographic, financial and medical barriers to a family.

Use this form to ensure that your kids can receive emergency medical treatment even when they're in the care of another adult.

The information contained in this publication should not be used as a substitute for the medical care and advice of your pediatrician.

The material on this website is provided for educational purposes only and is not to be used for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, or in place of therapy or medical care.

The dentistry issued a statement of sympathy for Mykel and his parents and said that it would be premature to comment on any specifics until outside medical experts finish their review, but they said they have used general anesthesia more than 1,900 times for pediatric patients in the last three and a half years without incident, and that they contract with a board - certified anesthesiologist who follows all protocols including pre-operative check and approval by the child's primary care physician before putting the child under anesthesia.

The information contained on this Web site should not be used as a substitute for the medical care and advice of your pediatrician.

Chicco is the largest baby brand in Europe, but they have made their way into many countries because of their innovation and passion for caring for babies of all kinds, using everything from mobility products to cosmetics and medical supplies.

Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal - Fetal Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; the Departments of Medicine, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama.

The information contained on this website should not be used as a substitute for the medical care and advice of your pediatrician.

We used multivariable logistic - regression models to adjust for potential confounders, including maternal race or ethnic group (non-Hispanic white vs. other), parity (nulliparous vs. multiparous), insurance status (public or none vs. other), extent of prenatal care (≥ 5 visits vs. < 5 visits), advanced maternal age (≥ 35 years vs. < 35 years), maternal education (> 12 years vs. ≤ 12 years), history or no history of cesarean delivery, and a composite marker of conditions that confer increased medical risk.

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Because of limited financial resources, households that are food insecure also may use coping strategies to stretch budgets that are harmful for health, such as engaging in cost - related medication underuse, postponing or forgoing preventive or needed medical care, or forgoing the foods needed for special medical diets (e.g., diabetic diets).

Safe use requires careful monitoring and immediate access to lifesaving medical care, neither of which is available outside of a hospital.

Become familiar with local breastfeeding resources (eg, WIC clinics, breastfeeding medical and nursing specialists, lactation educators and consultants, lay support groups, and breast - pump rental stations) so that patients can be referred appropriately.215 When specialized breastfeeding services are used, the essential role of the pediatrician as the infant's primary health care professional within the framework of the medical home needs to be clarified for parents.

«Some chemicals naturally present in strawberries, pineapples or some insecticides used on fruit also bother some people,» said Michael B. Foggs, chief of allergy, asthma and immunology for Advocate Medical Group of Advocate Health Care.

(Tuesday, 5 November 2013) The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services Ireland (AIMS Ireland) today petitioned for accountability, a review into clinical care practices, and national guidelines on the use of the drug misoprostol (cytotec) following the verdict of medical misadventure returned at the inquest into the death of Bimbo Onanuga at the Dublin Coroner's Court today.

Meanwhile the general term «human milk feeding» is used by researchers and administrators to describe both mother's own milk and donated milk (or combinations of the two) despite the fundamental differences in the two, according to the lead author, Paula Meier, PhD, Rush University Medical Center's director for Clinical Research and Lactation, Special Care Nursery and a Professor of Pediatrics and Women, Children and Family Nursing.