Sentences with phrase «with safety of the patient»

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«An all - electronic format with barcode scanning brings elements to increase patient safety and decrease errors because the patient and the unit of blood are positively identified as well as matched against the provider's transfusion order,» says nursing informaticist Meg Furukawa.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Announced a clinical trial collaboration with Pfizer, Inc. (Pfizer) to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the investigational combination of Yescarta and Pfizer's utomilumab, a fully humanized 4 - 1BB agonist monoclonal antibody, in patients with refractory large B - cell lymphoma.

We do this by conducting clinical trials in which we collect safety and efficacy data about our experimental drugs with the goal of submitting those data to regulatory authorities, like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), so that these experimental drugs can be approved for use by patients.

Presentations will highlight the short and long - term effects of Ingrezza on tardive dyskinesia symptoms by body region, long term safety and efficacy data from the KINECT 4 phase 3 open label study and also from RE-KINECT (real - world screening study of patients with possible TD).

On and on it goes, where it stops, nobody knows: Now UK hospitals are being accused of putting patients» lives at risk by failing to comply with safety orders from central control.

Palladio Group, together with E Ink, was granted a Silver Award in the 28th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation for their patient - forward packaging design for PhutureMed ™ — an excellent example of packaging innovation that benefits the greater good by advancing patient safety.

The HAI Education Program is part of a national infection awareness campaign for healthcare professionals called «Not on My Watch» and provides facilities with a toolkit that contains informational flyers, patient safety tips and posters.

Women & Infants Hospital was one of the first hospitals in the country to provide around - the - clock coverage for obstetrical patients, and we maintain a record of excellence with respect to patient care and safety.

They started with patient safety and showed that planned home birth has unnecessary, preventable, irremediable increased risk of harm for pregnant, fetal, and neonatal patients.

NHS England has today issued a Patient Safety Alert rapidly notifying the healthcare system — and specifically midwives — to the possible risks associated with the use of these heated birthing pools at home.

The decision whether or not to continue naltrexone treatment for a woman already using naltrexone before pregnancy should involve a careful discussion with the patient that compares the limited safety data versus the potential risk of relapse with treatment discontinuation.

With the imminent closure of the National Programme for Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAIs) and the radical reform of NHS services, it is vital that during the period of change patient safety remains at the forefront of everyone's priorities.

«We are pleased to continue to work with all parties to protect patients and ensure the safety and well - being of thousands of hospital workers and other health care professionals across the state,» the statement issued Wednesday afternoon read.

The bill, which passed unanimously in both chambers last June, would have narrowed the definition of a safety net to include: a public hospital, with the exception of SUNY; a federally designated critical access or sole community hospital; or a hospital that has at least 50 percent of its patients uninsured or on Medicaid, 40 percent of its inpatient population covered by Medicaid, not more than 25 percent of its discharges using commercial insurance, and at least 3 percent of its patients uninsured.

COMELS, a group of medical laboratory scientists, together with the Patients Safety Advocacy Africa, condemned attempts by authorities of the Hospital to privatize the Hospital's...

A group of medical laboratory scientists calling itself the Concerned Medical Laboratory Scientists (COMELS), together with the Patients Safety Advocacy Africa, has condemned attempts by authorities of the Tamale Teaching Hospital to privatize the Hospital's laboratory department.

«We are pleased to continue to work with all parties to protect patients and ensure the safety and well - being of thousands of hospital workers and other health care professionals across the state.

They would argue it's a matter of patient safety, but I would argue it's more to do with an interest in not promoting competition.»

«Until we have further evidence on the efficacy of medical cannabis for the treatment of sleep apnea, and until its safety profile is established, patients should discuss proven treatment options with a licensed medical provider at an accredited sleep facility,» said lead author Dr. Kannan Ramar, professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Further studies in animal models and patients (with altered TRPM7 channel function) have been initiated, in order to evaluate the efficacy and safety of magnesium as a therapeutic for this disease.

The grant was to study what types of computational systems, in conjunction with physiological patient monitors, could be implemented into vehicles to achieve the safety objective.

The NAPOLI - 1 (NAnoliPOsomaL Irinotecan) Phase 3 study — a final confirmation of a drug's safety and effectiveness — was conducted among patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer who previously received gemcitibine, which has been the standard - of - care therapy for such patients.

It is hard to understand why governments defend a system with such a poor record, or why they are dismissive of new technologies that promise increased patient safety while decreasing the time and cost of drug development, not to mention the savings to healthcare systems from fewer adverse drug reactions.

With A3AR drugs demonstrating good safety profiles in clinical trials as anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer agents, Salvemini and colleagues are enthusiastic about the potential of these new drugs to treat chronic pain in patients.

Primarily supported by a $ 5.6 million grant from the The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and conducted at 17 sites across the U.S., SURE - PD (Safety of URate Elevation in Parkinson's Disease) enrolled 75 recently diagnosed Parkinson disease patients with relatively low blood levels of urate (less than 6 mg / dL).

It typically takes many years to initiate such trials because of the stringent safety testing that must be done before testing in humans begins, but Reynolds said it may be possible to move faster as the therapy only involves modifying a patient's dietary intake and supplementing with a medium - chain triglyceride oil, both of which have no known side effects.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

They are launching a clinical trial to evaluate the safety of their approach and gauge its effectiveness in patients with lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system.

However, treatment of pain and the administration of opioids in the ED can be challenging for physicians because of a lack of familiarly with the patient, time constraints and concerns about patient safety.

Respondents in this year's survey pointed to five main causes of the field's less than favorable reputation: drug and product recalls such as the withdrawal of Avandia; safety issues such as the discovery of problems with raw material from China used in medical products; scandals, including evidence that pharmaceutical companies have failed to release data from trials whose results cast doubts on their drugs» safety and efficacy; lawsuits brought against companies that failed to warn patients of problems with their products; and ethical issues such as kickbacks for physicians promoting specific medications.

For example, the results of one study, known as UPLIFT, one of four large - scale studies conducted in 2008, demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of a drug called Spirivain about 6,000 patients with respiratory disease.

Further trials are planned to document the efficacy and safety of the combination in patients infected with the other HCV genotypes and in particularly vulnerable groups, to enable a public health approach to the treatment of hepatitis C.

«While Massachusetts safety - net hospitals (many of which are minority - serving) received large cuts in payments with the idea that other hospitals would assume the care of previously uninsured patients, this study demonstrates the importance of securing the future of safety - net and minority - serving hospitals through policy - based interventions to assure the continued care of vulnerable and underserved patient populations.»

They base their findings on an analysis of cases submitted between 2005 and 2012 to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS)-- a database of patient safety incidents associated with the delivery of healthcare across the NHS in England and Wales.

Wyss - Coray was critical of this trial, but Alkahest, a company he co-founded, recently completed its own more rigorous small safety trial on 18 Alzheimer's patients with «no adverse side effects.»

For instance, from the manufacturer's point of view, an «improvement in the safety of health care» and a «better integration of patients with hemophilia into a normal social life» already arise through market entry.

In a phase 1b clinical trial with 21 patients, researchers tested the safety and efficacy of combining the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab with an oncolytic virus called T - VEC.

The data safety monitoring board of the trial, as mandated by the study protocol, continues to monitor outcomes in patients with a Recurrence Score of 11 to 25 randomized to chemo - endocrine therapy or endocrine therapy alone.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is planning a leadership overhaul at its hospital after an outside review found widespread problems with patient safety.

The Suleman brouhaha showed that even routine uses of reproductive technologies can be fraught with issues that bear on ethics and patient safety.

«Through this research we have found and established an equally effective means of accomplishing the same goal with an added layer of safety for patients.»

«Licensure is critical because it will ensure the quality, consistency and safety of the islet product; provide greater patient access to islet transplantation; and accelerate continued research that we hope would make this procedure suitable for a broader population of people with type 1 diabetes.»

A clinical trial in the Republic of Korea for patients with degenerative eye diseases is the first to test the safety of an embryonic stem cell therapy for people of Asian descent.

«In order to ensure the safety of patients, further research is still vital to ensure that our findings can be repeated with different groups of doctors and patients.

In a Safety Communication in 2013, the agency said that it «is not aware of any patient injuries or deaths associated with these incidents nor do we have any indication that any specific devices or systems in clinical use have been purposely targeted at this time.»

AHRQ is the lead federal agency charged with improving patient safety and the quality of America's health care system.

«Currently, most victims of elder abuse and neglect pass through our emergency departments with a life - threatening condition unidentified,» said the latter paper's lead study author, Tony Rosen, MD, MPH, of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, N.Y. «A multi-disciplinary, team - based approach supported by additional research and funding has the potential to improve the identification of elder abuse and improve the health and safety of our most vulnerable patients.»

«By considering that stethoscopes are used repeatedly over the course of a day, come directly into contact with patients» skin, and may harbor several thousands of bacteria (including MRSA) collected during a previous physical examination, we consider them as potentially significant vectors of transmission,» commented lead investigator Didier Pittet, MD, MS, Director of the Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals.

«The recommendations developed by our work groups should be paired with those issued by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2011 in its report «Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care,»» said Dr. Farley.