Sentences with phrase «usual care group»

The researchers found that patients receiving usual care were three times more likely to be readmitted or die (one death in usual care group treated as readmission within 30 days for statistical reasons) following surgery than patients receiving NP home visits (11.54 % vs. 3.85 %, respectively).

Results indicate both MTFC - A and usual care groups tended towards improved functioning over time, but there was no evidence that use of MTFC - A resulted in better overall outcomes than usual care on the primary outcome of adaptive functioning or on secondary education or offending outcomes.

Results showed significant drops in self - reported depression in the IP relative to the usual care group that were maintained at one month post-treatment.

Likewise, stopping exclusive breastfeeding before four to six weeks postpartum was not explicitly reported, however, it appears that 12 out of 16 women in the telephone support group and six out of six women in the usual care group stopped exclusive breastfeeding before four weeks.

Similarly, stopping any breastfeeding before six months postpartum andstopping exclusive breastfeeding before six months postpartum were not explicitly reported, however, it appears that 11 out of 13 women in the telephone support group and eight out of nine women in the usual care group stopped exclusive breastfeeding before six months, and 14 out of 16 women in the telephone support group and six out of six women in the usual care group stopped exclusive breastfeeding before six months.

Five patients in the intervention group (1.4 percent) experienced serious adverse cardiac events within 24 hours of the end of the intervention period compared with none in the usual care group.

The primary outcome, a composite of postoperative complications and death at 30 days following surgery, was met by 36.6 percent of patients in the intervention group and by 43.4 percent in the usual care group.

In this study, obese or overweight women were randomized into two groups — those who received weight loss and exercise counseling — and a usual care group that received a brochure about lifestyle changes.

After six months, women in the weight loss counseling group experienced an approximate 30 % decrease in C - reactive protein (CRP) levels compared with a minimal decrease in women randomized to the usual care group.

At 24 weeks, patients receiving palliative care were significantly more likely to report using active and engaged coping styles compared to the usual care group.

• Patients in the usual care group were almost twice as likely to experience worsening of pain by 6 months compared with those in the intervention group (36 percent vs 19 percent);

Kurt Kroenke, M.D., of Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, and colleagues randomly assigned 250 patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain to an intervention group (n = 124) or to a usual care group whose members received all pain care as usual from their primary care physicians (n = 126).

The authors report that the palliative care consultation intervention was associated with increased quality - of - life scores from study enrollment to week 12 (average increase of 5.91 points in the intervention vs an increase of 1.08 in the usual care group).

The yearlong study concluded that the fluticasone furoate and vilanterol cohort had an 8.4 % less frequent occurrence of moderate to severe exacerbations than the usual care group, leading the team to state that the fluticasone furoate and vilanterol combination was superior to usual COPD care — with no significantly higher risk of serious adverse effects.

Median survival was longer for patients in the intervention (289 days) compared with the usual care group (132 days), although the difference was not statistically significant.

It seems very likely to me that more people died in the intervention group than in the usual care group, but p was > 0.05.

Relation of food and nutrient intakes to body mass in the special intervention and usual care groups in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial

Primary care clinicians may also learn from experiences with their quality improvement patients and carry this learning over to patients in the usual care group, again resulting in a conservative estimate of the intervention effect.

Participants in the Usual Care group continued to receive support through their usual health care providers.

We examined the demographic and baseline clinical characteristics of the enrolled sample, and compared the quality improvement and usual care groups to assess the balance across experimental groups at baseline using t tests for numerical variables and χ2 tests for categorical variables (Table 1).

However, our effects were similar to those in other quality improvement effectiveness trials.52 Intervention effects were also averaged across the entire quality improvement group (including untreated patients), and patients in the usual care group were free to receive «usual care» treatments, likely attenuating intervention effects.

The number of patients reporting suicide attempts or deliberate self - harm declined from 14.2 % at baseline to 6.4 % at 6 months in the quality improvement group and from 11.6 % to 9.5 % in the usual care group.

Limitations include minor adaptations were made for implementation in a UK setting and it was delivered in a substantially different publicly funded and configured health - care system than the previous studies in the U.S., which may have impacted the services received by the usual care group.

Children in the treatment group received DDP, while children in the usual care group received an evaluation only.

Results indicated children in the DDP group showed significant decreases in symptoms of attachment disorder, withdrawn behaviors, anxiety and depression, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, rule breaking behaviors, and aggressive behaviors, compared to the usual care group.

A treatment group composed of thirty - four subjects and a usual care group composed of thirty subjects was compared.

The usual care group received standard care with no psychological intervention.