Sentences with phrase «with standards of patient care»

Ministers are taking unacceptable risks with standards of patient care and they can not continue to ignore the warnings from nurses» and doctors» leaders.

Not exact matches

While Canadian physiotherapist had progressed with the standard of care they provided to all patients, Irish physiotherapists were slipping behind.

At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high - quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards.

Advancing the Patient Experience ™ with tailored solutions that align with your standards of care.

Telehealth technologies may be employed for patient care if these technologies are used in a manner that is consistent with the standard of care.

«The 15 measures will help ensure people with diabetes are getting the care they need, and if they're not, Diabetes UK wants people to use the checklist and ask for the standards of care that have been recommended by expert bodies and patients across the UK.

«Everyone diagnosed with breast cancer should receive the highest level of treatment and care, regardless of their age, which is why Breast Cancer Care would welcome the introduction of evidence - based minimum standards of treatment for this patient grcare, regardless of their age, which is why Breast Cancer Care would welcome the introduction of evidence - based minimum standards of treatment for this patient grCare would welcome the introduction of evidence - based minimum standards of treatment for this patient group.

With the ZMapp trial, the researchers had originally wanted to enroll 200 patients, 100 of whom would received ZMapp in addition to the standard of care, and 100 of whom would only receive the standard of care.

They have formed the National Headache Consortium — with Silberstein as cochairman — to establish standards for care and treatment of headache patients.

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.

«These exciting results indicate that there is a new standard of care option for a population of head and neck cancer patients with no other treatment options,» said the trial's international co-chair Robert Ferris, M.D., Ph.D., UPMC Endowed Professor, and chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery and co-leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at UPCI.

Despite current standard of care, the prognosis for patients with PDAC is poor and effective new therapies are needed.

The standard of care is surgical resection, but even with surgical resection, most patients fail to regain their normal range of motion and often suffer from chronic pain and joint contractures,» explained Thomas A. Davis, PhD, Vice Deputy Chair of Research, Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (Bethesda, MD), and the Naval Medical Research Center (Silver Spring, MD).

Virtual Wembury was created by Professor Bob Stone and colleagues at the University of Birmingham, and the fact that only patients who visited Wembury, and not the virtual city, had better experiences than standard care is consistent with a growing body of work that shows that natural environments, and marine environments in particular, can help reduce stress and anxiety.

The results of this trial are encouraging and deserve additional testing prior to becoming a standard of care for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.

«Our goal is that this procedure will become the standard of care of for all patients with rheumatoid arthritis.»

«All endpoints of efficacy and tolerability favoured treatment with pembrolizumab, suggesting it should become one standard of care for first line treatment of patients with advanced NSCLC and high PD - L1 expression.

KEYNOTE - 024 investigated the efficacy of pembrolizumab compared to standard of care with platinum - based chemotherapy in untreated patients with advanced NSCLC and high PD - L1 expression (defined as expression in at least 50 % of tumour cells).

Although treatment for sickle - cell disease with marrow from related donors is now accepted as a standard of care, treatment with marrow taken from an unrelated donor is still evolving, reserved for only the most seriously sick patients.

The investigators found that within the first five days of admission, 12.2 % of patients treated with standard of care had an episode of worsening heart failure, compared to 6.7 % in patients treated with serelaxin.

In this study, researchers compared the effectiveness of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab (pronounced «nye VOL ue mab,» marketed at Opdivo), with standard - of - care chemotherapy in 541 patients with previously untreated or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that expressed PDL - 1 antibodies.

For example, twice as many patients treated with standard care therapies had worsening heart failure requiring new intravenous therapies, doubling of their diuretic dose or mechanical support, compared to those treated with serelaxin.

For this trial, 1,359 patients (583 with VF and 776 without VF) with prehospital cardiac arrest and resuscitated by paramedics were assigned to standard care with or without prehospital cooling, accomplished by infusing up to 2 liters of 4 °C normal saline as soon as possible following return of spontaneous circulation.

After six months of treatment with edaravone on top of standard - of - care, data showed the intravenous drug reduced the rate of functional decline in patients by about a third, Dr Jean Hubble, VP of medical affairs, at Mitsubishi Tanabe's U.S. unit MT Pharma America Inc (MTPA), said.

Hepatic encephalopathy occurs when the liver can not remove certain toxins and chemicals, such as ammonia, from the blood.1 These toxins and chemicals then build up and enter the brain.1 Hepatic encephalopathy is one of the major complications of cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), and a leading cause of hospital re-admission due to its recurrence, despite treatment.1 It can occur suddenly in people with acute liver failure, but is seen more often in those with chronic liver disease.1 Symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy include mild confusion, forgetfulness, poor concentration and personality or mood changes, but can progress to extreme anxiety, seizures, severe confusion, jumbled and slurred speech and slow movement.1 The first step in treatment is to identify and treat any factors that cause hepatic encephalopathy.2 Once the episode has resolved, further treatment aims to reduce the production and absorption of toxins, such as ammonia.1 Generally, there are two types of medication used to reduce the likelihood of another hepatic encephalopathy episode — lactulose and rifaximin.2 However, it remains a leading cause of hospitalisations and re-hospitalisations in cirrhotic patients, despite the use of the above - mentioned standard of care treatment.

The current standard of care for patients with bladder cancer that has not invaded muscle is surgery to remove the tumor plus immunotherapy or chemotherapy.

«We need to find ways of integrating palliative care concepts in patients» usual care experiences so it isn't a luxury, but a standard part of health care for those living with serious illness.»

As part of an ongoing clinical trial at Rutgers Cancer Institute exploring rare and poor prognosis cancers, investigators sought to identify genomic alterations in 69 patients with gynecologic cancers that were not responding to standard care.

Together with Liberian officials, Lane is poised to launch a randomized study of an antibody cocktail called ZMapp; that study does include a control group in which patients will receive standard care but not the drug.

Currently, there is no standard of care for treating patients with pancreatic cancer for whom surgery is not an option.

Patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treated with an experimental vaccine made from the patient's own resected tumor tissue showed an improved survival compared with historical patients who received the standard of care alone, according to an analysis of a phase 2 trial of this vaccine that was recently published in the journal Neuro - Oncology and accompanied by an editorial highlighting the importance of thPatients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treated with an experimental vaccine made from the patient's own resected tumor tissue showed an improved survival compared with historical patients who received the standard of care alone, according to an analysis of a phase 2 trial of this vaccine that was recently published in the journal Neuro - Oncology and accompanied by an editorial highlighting the importance of thpatients who received the standard of care alone, according to an analysis of a phase 2 trial of this vaccine that was recently published in the journal Neuro - Oncology and accompanied by an editorial highlighting the importance of the trial.

In recent years, SBRT has become the standard of care for patients with inoperable early stage NSCLC.

«Five - year survival data: Brentuximab vedotin may be curative in some with Hodgkin lymphoma: Phase II trial suggests therapy should be standard of care for patients facing relapsed or treatment - resistant Hodgkin lymphoma.»

With the decreasing cost and increasing efficiency of genome sequencing, he predicts that sequencing a cancer genome in a patient will soon become a standard of care, similar to an magnetic resonance imaging scan before surgery.

«Autologous stem cell transplant should be standard care for HIV - associated lymphoma: Multicenter, Phase II trial suggests autologous transplant should be standard of care for HIV patients with relapsed / treatment - resistant lymphoma.»

Based on our data, autologous stem cell transplant should be considered the standard of care for patients with HIV - related lymphomas for the same indications and under the same circumstances that we would use it in patients without HIV infection.»

The current standard of care for detecting and diagnosing prostate cancer is contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which involves intravenously injecting patients with a contrast agent to highlight blood flow.

In the U.S., the Prosigna Assay is indicated in female breast cancer patients who have undergone surgery in conjunction with locoregional treatment consistent with standard of care, either as:

In summary, CLND as standard of care for patients with SLN - positive metastatic melanoma is supported by a wealth of compelling prospective data.

July 13, 2016 Simple procedure could improve treatment for common eye disease: Rejuvenating the cornea could reduce the need for cornea transplants A new, minimally invasive procedure appears to be effective for many patients with Fuchs endothelial dystrophy (FED), a common eye disease, without the potential side effects and cost of the current standard of care, a cornea transplant.

With the recent announcement that a first - line immunotherapy trial for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is positive for survival improvement, I can see the standard of care for lung cancer patients radically changing over the next few years.

The new publication, «A Family Guide to the Consensus Statement for Standard of Care in Spinal Muscular Atrophy,» is designed to guide patients and families in their discussions with doctors and health - care specialiCare in Spinal Muscular Atrophy,» is designed to guide patients and families in their discussions with doctors and health - care specialicare specialists.

For newly diagnosed GBM patients treated with current standard of care, median progression free survival is just 6.9 months, and median overall survival is 14.6 months.

New Standard of Care A 50 - year - old method for delivering chemotherapy directly into the abdomen was reevaluated for patients with ovarian cancer after a seven - year study of more than 400 patients revealed increased survival rates in patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

«It's our goal to make minimally invasive partial nephrectomy the gold standard for how patients with appropriate kidney masses are cared for surgically, as clinical evidence shows it should be,» said S. Duke Herrell, M.D., professor of Urologic Surgery, Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering, and director of Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery and Robotics.

Pembrolizumab was approved by the FDA in 2014 and is quickly becoming the standard of care for patients with metastatic melanoma.

Okyanos treats patients who have chronic diseases including osteoarthritis, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and heart disease who seek additional therapies in conjunction with or beyond what is currently offered by the available standard of care.

Okyanos treats patients with conditions such as heart failure, Parkinson's, osteoarthritis and others who are seeking advanced therapies in conjunction with or beyond what is offered by the currently available standard of care.

A: It looks like about 60 % of patients with chronic pain have flairs that can be called breakthrough pain, and in the cancer population, the use of a short - acting opioid co-administered with a long - acting drug is the standard of care.

«If our findings can be confirmed in a planned clinical trial with a larger group of patients, this treatment may indeed become the new standard of care,» Schneider said.