Sentences with phrase «worse than the patients»

The Hospital for Special Surgery study is the first to provide evidence that an intervention during surgery can improve outcomes in patients with sleep apnea who often fare worse than patients without this condition.

Patients with tongue cancer who started their treatment with a course of chemotherapy fared significantly worse than patients who received surgery first, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Those in the exercise group became more physically fit, but their dementia scores were actually slightly worse than the patients who received their usual care.

Not exact matches

Amgen unveiled some promising news during the American Heart Association's annual meeting involving its next - gen cholesterol - busting medication Repatha, which has been shown to significantly reduce the level of «bad» cholesterol in patients, announcing that more than 60 % of patients who were receiving the therapy in a trial had a reduction in arterial plaque.

Treating symptoms rather than causes is usually a good way to make a patient worse.

A disturbing article published in JAMA Internal Medicine propounded a «worse than death» category to measure patient suffering in the context of making treatment decisions for hospitalized patients.

Should the «worse than death» meme ever be accepted by society, or adopted into the standard - of - care guidelines established by healthcare technocrats, or implemented under Obamacare cost / benefit insurance coverage guidelines, then expanding access to assisted suicide to — and even rationing the healthcare of — such patients is an imminent possibility.

From «States Worse Than Death in Hospitalized Patients»:

The authors asked hospitalized patients to rate conditions — which they were not then experiencing — on a sliding scale, ranging from «worse than death, neither better nor worse than death, a little better than death, somewhat better than death, or much better than death.»

Patients displayed considerable heterogeneity in their ratings of health states relative to death... but significant percentages of patients rated each evaluated state of serious functional debility as equal to or worse thaPatients displayed considerable heterogeneity in their ratings of health states relative to death... but significant percentages of patients rated each evaluated state of serious functional debility as equal to or worse thapatients rated each evaluated state of serious functional debility as equal to or worse than death.

Lawsuits against physicians have forced them to present the «worse case» side effects of procedures, and they often tend to volunteer more information than the patient and family may be able to manage.

This is why cancer patients using alternative diet treatments as an adjunct to medicinal care often do * worse * than cancer patients who stick to just medical care.

Notorious for having a less - than - desirable bedside manner, many doctors have gotten a bad rap for their attitude toward patients, which is often a symptom of their desensitization to pregnancy.

Knowledgeable doctors have begun to counsel patients to continue nursing through a course of pharmaceuticals because they know that the alternatives are worse than the baby receiving a dose of the drug themselves.

For more than 30 years, the state allowed hospitals to be reimbursed for bad debt from patients who were insured but didn't pay their share of the bill, as well as those from patients who had no insurance at all.

Figures released today show Welsh A&E waits in March were worse than the «winter pressure» months, with only 70.8 % of patients at major emergency units discharged within 4 hours.

The current NCEP guidelines, published in 2001 and revised in 2004, recommend statins for heart disease patients with LDL («bad») cholesterol levels greater than 70 milligrams per deciliter of blood and for people who have a moderately elevated risk of heart disease as well as LDL levels above 100 mg / dL.

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.

Although a bad outcome was possible without the gene expression pattern, patients with the genetic signature were found to survive for less time than those who didn't have it, they wrote in the 9 December online edition of Nature Genetics.

Even more than other types of cancer, melanoma is a disease of aging, with older patients more frequently diagnosed with the disease and having a worse prognosis.

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School have found that patients who were prescribed corticosteroids as part of treatment for Lyme disease - associated facial paralysis had worse long - term outcomes of regaining facial function than those who were prescribed antibiotic therapy alone.

The 206 patients in the study shared a number of characteristics, including stable, untreatable, age - related macular degeneration in both eyes with visual acuity no better than 20/80 but no worse than 20/800, along with good peripheral vision.

«These symptoms are more severe than what the average non-PTLDS patient is experiencing even on a bad day.»

Should doctors treat patients in early stages of Parkinson's disease, when drug side effects may be worse than the symptoms they alleviate?

The common cold is a major source of annoyance for most of us, but new research has found that the most prevalent respiratory infection can be far worse than a stuffy nose for one sector of the population — bone marrow transplant patients.

The prognosis for HER2 - positive breast cancer patients is worse than for those with other subtypes of the illness.

Letting the patient go without medication is not an option; untreated schizophrenia is much worse than even the most serious side effects.

But if there was bad ventilation plus a patient shedding a greater than usual amount of the virus, it could make a difference.

A pre-surgery tumor size of greater than three centimeters was associated with worse LC, but local recurrence was not significantly affected by the number of brain metastases or the patients» histology or graded prognosis assessments.

However, a patient with a large volume of disease in the lung may, in fact, have a worse prognosis than someone with a small volume of disease in the liver,» Dr. Joseph says.

«Heart disease patients who sit a lot have worse health even if they exercise: Patients with coronary artery disease spend an average of 8 hours each day sitting; men were more sedentary than womenpatients who sit a lot have worse health even if they exercise: Patients with coronary artery disease spend an average of 8 hours each day sitting; men were more sedentary than womenPatients with coronary artery disease spend an average of 8 hours each day sitting; men were more sedentary than women.»

«While there is understandable excitement around new therapies that enlist the immune system to fight cancer, we are still in a situation where greater than half of patients don't respond in melanoma and the response rate is even worse in other cancer types,» Hanks said.

«Previous studies have also shown that patients with Alzheimer's Disease have poorer dental health than others of similar age and that the more severe the dementia the worse the dental health, most likely reflecting greater difficulties with taking care of oneself as dementia becomes more severe..»

Six months later, however, patients who had received the therapy were more likely to fare worse than those treated with standard care.

«When we compared non-depressed patients to those who had been diagnosed with depression, we found those who were not depressed and yet had a higher risk for depression had worse healthcare experiences, increased use of the emergency room, poorer perception of their health status and a lower health - related quality of life than those who actually had depression,» Okunrintemi said.

«Avoiding unnecessary FFP transfusion is important because there have been reports that associated the use of excess FFP with worse outcomes among patients that required less - than - massive transfusions.»

Patients who are unrealistically optimistic about their personal health risks are more likely to take preventive action when confronted with news that is worse than expected, while unrealistic pessimists are less likely to change their behavior after receiving feedback that is better than expected, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich..

In a separate study by a different group of researchers, stroke patients diagnosed with depression prior to having a stroke were more likely than those without depression to report functional declines and worse stroke impact on health and quality of life months after their stroke.

And once depressed, these patients tend to have worse outcomes than those who can feel pleasure.

Preliminary results from an early version of this technology demonstrate that it is capable of identifying patients whose glaucoma is getting worse 57 % sooner than existing approaches and it is able to significantly reduce the number of eye pressure and visual field measurements required to check for glaucoma worsening.

Reporting only aggregated adherence rates could create an incentive to avoid groups with worse outcomes rather than undertaking interventions to improve their care.41 Some health plans or clinicians may avoid enrolling minority patients, for whom performance rates are typically lower.42, 43 Stratifying performance rates by race, ethnicity, or other demographic characteristics may mitigate such undesired effects by not penalizing organizations that disproportionately treat minority patients.

However, it remains unclear whether patients with these coexisting problems fare better or worse than other people when diagnosed with colorectal cancer, so Adams will use the American Society of Preventive Oncology / Prevent Cancer Foundation / ASCO 2010 Cancer Prevention Research fellowship to answer this question.

Before rTMS, patients performed worse on the discrimination task than controls even though fMRI showed greater task - related activation bilaterally in the basal ganglia (BG).

More than half of patients (58 %) in both study phases had grade 3 or worse treatment - related adverse events.

They found that patients with Medicaid were also more likely to be diagnosed with late - stage cancer and have worse survival rates than those with private insurance, although they had better diagnoses and outcomes than uninsured women.

More than 50,000 patients are treated in emergency rooms annually for bad reactions to cardiovascular drugs.

Surgery patients covered by Medicaid come into their operations with worse health, do worse afterward, stay in the hospital longer and find themselves back in the hospital more often than those covered by private insurance, a new U-M analysis finds.

Examining expression levels of H2AX in breast cancer tumor data from The Cancer Genome Atlas, a large National Institutes of Health database containing genetic information about tumor tissue from more than 11,000 patients, the Roswell Park team found that breast cancer patients whose tumors had high levels of H2AX had a significantly worse prognosis than those with low levels.

Symptoms can return worse than they were originally, and patients often have to change doses, switch drug classes, or take a drug holiday to eventually get relief again.

Fibromyalgia patients — more than 90 % of whom are women — nearly always report trouble sleeping, while poor sleep is in turn associated with worse pain.