• Indeed, if there are many possible prognostic factors there will almost certainly be differences between the groups despite the use of random allocation. (bmj.com)
  • In October of 2018, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) changed how we prioritize patients for heart transplantation in the U.S. to make sure the sickest patients were prioritized first. (upenn.edu)
  • Prioritize allocation of TSTs, in consultation with state and local public health authorities. (cdc.gov)
  • Within days of receiving the data, it generates an opportunity heatmap with highest impact initiatives that will help prioritize allocation of resources for both payer and providers. (oliverwyman.com)
  • The Special Allocation Scheme (SAS) is a process within the National Health Service in England, that allows general practitioners to deny their patients access to their general practice and others general practice if they think a patients behaviour is aggressive or violent, limiting a patients access to primary care to centres that have mitigations for risk of violence. (wikipedia.org)
  • 6.4.25 In South West England, patients are entitled to appeal, but must appeal within a month of being referred to the special allocation scheme. (wikipedia.org)
  • The following guidance is intended to clarify the situations in which it would be appropriate to remove a patient from your list for referral to the Special Allocation Scheme, and the process that should be followed. (shropshiretelfordandwrekin.nhs.uk)
  • All lung transplant candidates will now receive a lung composite allocation score (lung CAS). (hrsa.gov)
  • C the allocation of the recurrent budget between salary and nonsalary expenditures. (who.int)
  • The Hospital Authority (HA) Chairman, Mr Anthony Wu, welcomed the 2012-13 Budget announced by the Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang, today (February 1) and the continual increase in the recurrent budget allocation to the authority. (gov.hk)
  • He stated, "In my experience as a longtime disability rights advocate and an original of the Americans with Disabilities Act, I view this as a process that is aligned with our mantra of 'Nothing About Us Without Us' and therefore urge you to outreach directly to our disability community as you wrestle with difficult questions related to vaccine allocation even after the comment deadline. (pipcpatients.org)
  • Central allocation was used for concealment. (bvsalud.org)
  • Paradoxically, it is the international donor community which has helped governments avoid making difficult resource allocation decisions. (who.int)
  • Under the previous lung allocation policy, a set of different matching classifications (such as donor compatibility, candidate urgency, and distance from donor hospital to transplant hospital) were determined individually and then applied in a sequence to decide the order of lung matches. (hrsa.gov)
  • Methods We enrolled 970 patients (mean age 58 years, 79% women) in a prospective, randomised, controlled, open-label, 6-month trial. (bmj.com)
  • For the purposes of this article, we refer to two nurse staff allocation methods used in various forms in some hospitals in Australia and New Zealand: nurse patient ratios (NPRs) and computerized nurse dependency workload systems. (edu.au)
  • 2002) The method of minimization for allocation to clinical trials A review. (scirp.org)
  • Our aims were to develop a health related quality of life questionnaire specifically for chronic cough that is brief, simple to administer and score, suitable to monitor individual patients, assess different aspects of health affected in patients, be sensitive enough to detect changes in health status within an adult chronic cough population, and be an outcome measure in clinical trials of new antitussive agents. (bmj.com)
  • The advent of fair treatment allocation schedules in clinical trials during the 19th and early 20th centuries. (jameslindlibrary.org)
  • Using the universe of patient transitions from inpatient hospital care to skilled nursing facilities and home health care in 2005, we show how integration eliminates task misallocation problems between organizations. (editjems.org)
  • The physician universe, sample size, and response rates by physician specialty are shown in table I. Of the participating physicians, 237 saw no patients during their assigned reporting period because of vacations, illness, or other reasons for being temporarily not in practice. (cdc.gov)
  • How do we realize patient activation at the practice level? (mgma.com)
  • Guide resource allocation at the practice level. (mgma.com)
  • For more information about how your practice can utilize the Patient Activation Measure contact MGMA Consulting at 877.275.6462 ext. 1877. (mgma.com)
  • With Jotform's free Medical Report Form template, you can collect information from patients instantly by embedding the form in your website - and the form can be filled out using a computer or tablet at your office, or using a mobile device at home.Just customize the Medical Report Form to match your practice - add your logo and colors, and easily add more form fields. (jotform.com)
  • New patient-friendly video explains the factors that will determine lung allocation in the continuous distribution framework. (unos.org)
  • Tony Coelho sent a personal letter to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to amplify the comments submitted by the disability community in response to the Discussion Draft of the Preliminary Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine, commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. (pipcpatients.org)
  • The evidence suggests that integration solves coordination problems that arise in market exchange through improvements in the allocation of tasks across care settings. (editjems.org)
  • Although the report of the streptomycin trial is rightly iconic, the attention it has attracted has led many historians to overlook earlier evidence relevant to the evolution of unbiased prospective allocation of patients to treatment comparison groups. (jameslindlibrary.org)
  • Of note, given the scale and impact of mood disturbance among patients with diabetes, evidence for psychological interventions that successfully treat depression and distress and, ideally, concurrently improve metabolic outcomes is limited. (diabetesjournals.org)
  • OCR made clear that treatment decisions must be made consistent with federal law - based on an individualized assessment of the patient based on objective medical evidence - not influenced by stereotypes, assessments of quality of life, or judgments about a person's relative "worth" based on the presence or absence of disabilities. (ncd.gov)
  • This coded information along with some patient demographic data (such as age, sex, patient's length of stay) is used to allocate acute patient admissions to an AR-DRG class. (edu.au)
  • But is it ethically appropriate for productivity-based values and goals to cross over to healthcare allocation? (edu.au)
  • Can other constructions of productivity be valued in terms of healthcare allocation or is the American work ethic (benefiting people in the prime of their productive years) an ethically appropriate route? (edu.au)
  • Bramstedt, KA 2002, ' Patient productivity as a value and a variable in geriatric healthcare allocation ', Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 94-96. (edu.au)
  • Patient safety experts debate how to define and classify events such as errors, near misses, and adverse events that should be monitored by patient safety reporting systems, 1, 2 but relatively little attention has been paid to how this process actually occurs in healthcare organizations. (bmj.com)
  • Patient activation refers to a person's ability to manage their health and healthcare. (mgma.com)
  • Physicians and ethicists warned unapologetically that the U.S. healthcare system lacked the capacity to provide care to every COVID-19 patient and people with disabilities and the elderly would likely be deprioritized for life saving care or denied care completely. (ncd.gov)
  • Estimates of healthcare utilization during an influenza pandemic are needed in order to plan for the allocation of staff and resources. (cdc.gov)
  • Other encouraging findings of the survey include the establishment of alternative strategies to support the continuation of NCD care during this COVID-19 pandemic including triaging, use of novel supply chain or dispensing approaches for NCD treatments, redirection of patients to other health care facilities, telemedicine (advice by telephone or online means), and hotline support. (who.int)
  • A new CCG allocation formula, in defence of the Liverpool Care Pathway and the inevitable outcome of all those health scare stories. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • Q In older patients with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) with or without diabetes, what is the long term effectiveness of a diuretic based, stepped care antihypertensive therapy compared with placebo? (bmj.com)
  • Fewer patients who received stepped care died from CV causes than did those who received placebo (table). (bmj.com)
  • Patients with diabetes at baseline had higher mortality than did those without diabetes at baseline in both the stepped care and placebo groups. (bmj.com)
  • Patients who developed diabetes during follow up had higher mortality than did those who did not develop diabetes in the placebo group (47% v 40%, hazard ratio [HR] 1.3, 95% CI 1.1 to 1.7) but not in the stepped care group (39% v 40%, HR 1.2, CI 0.9 to 1.4). (bmj.com)
  • Patients who had diabetes at baseline or who developed diabetes during follow up and received stepped care had lower all cause (44% v 52%, HR 0.8, CI 0.7 to 0.95) and CV (20% v 29%, HR 0.7, CI 0.5 to 0.8) mortality than did those who received placebo. (bmj.com)
  • In older patients with isolated systolic hypertension, diuretic based, stepped care antihypertensive therapy reduced long term cardiovascular mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Patients who had diabetes at baseline or who developed diabetes during follow up and received stepped care had lower mortality than did those who received placebo. (bmj.com)
  • 6.4.10-15 Primary care guidance state that there should be an appeal process and this appeal should occur within 28 days and if appropriate allow for a patient to be represented,: 6.4.26 but that removal occurs prior to an appeal. (wikipedia.org)
  • SEE NAMCS PATIENT DATASET NAMES FOR DSN ABSTRACT General Information This material provides documentation for users of the Micro-Data tapes of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. (cdc.gov)
  • The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey provides data from samples of patient records selected from a national sample of office-based physicians. (cdc.gov)
  • Only visits in the offices of nonfederally employed physicians classified by the American Medical Association (AMA) or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) as 'office-based, patient care' were included in the 1990 NAMCS. (cdc.gov)
  • DSN: CC37.NAMCS90.PATIENTS ABSTRACT This material provides documentation for users of the Micro-Data tapes of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. (cdc.gov)
  • The high prevalence of cell phone use presents opportunities to develop innovative ways to engage patients in care. (bmj.com)
  • The two redevelopment projects, in addition to the expansion project of United Christian Hospital committed to by the Chief Executive in his latest Policy Address, are going to give a facelift to the outdated building structures and obsolete facilities our patients and health-care staff are now using. (gov.hk)
  • Most cancer patients have no access to screening, early diagnosis, treatment or palliative care. (who.int)
  • The RAA module performs rapid assessment of clients' transactional dataset to "hot spot" key drivers of suboptimal financial performance, clinical and non-clinical gaps in population health management, and quantify opportunities for improvement in patient care and financial performance. (oliverwyman.com)
  • CMHCs are cluster-randomized by county to Adapted TranS-C or Standard TranS-C. Within each CMHC, patients are randomized to immediate TranS-C or usual care followed by delayed treatment with TranS-C (UC-DT). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Compared with patients and caregivers, OHNS physician allocations differed significantly in all 15 benefit categories except home care. (duke.edu)
  • The terms patient acuity, nurse dependency, and patient dependency refer to similar phenomenon where patient needs for nursing care are described and/or measured. (edu.au)
  • Casemix classifications provide the health care industry with a consistent method of classifying types of patients, their treatment and associated costs. (edu.au)
  • In popular usage, casemix refers to the mix of types of patients treated by a hospital or other health care facility (Eagar and Hindle 1994). (edu.au)
  • The AR-DRG Classification System is used to classify acute admitted patients, with other casemix classifications being used to classify other patient care. (edu.au)
  • A hospital's AR-DRG profile reflects the mix of acute care patients treated by the hospital. (edu.au)
  • Other casemix classifications are required to classify the other patient care that hospitals provide. (edu.au)
  • The chronic care model was built with the understanding that the patient would learn how to manage their care on a day by day basis. (mgma.com)
  • As the diagram below indicates, activation is developmental and moving patients along the scale of activation will yield positive outcome results for meeting the goal of value based models of care. (mgma.com)
  • Nelson has also worked with numerous commercial payers on quality outcomes and effectiveness measures, including compliance with Medicaid care management programs, along with Medicaid insurance contracts and high-risk and dual-eligible patient programs. (mgma.com)
  • Patient is an 82-year-old female, who is currently a resident at a long-term care facility. (practicalbioethics.org)
  • Sohal has focused on pancreatic cancer research and what is called precision medicine, or customized health care, with medical decisions, treatments, practices or products being tailored to patients, instead of a one‐drug‐fits‐all model. (uc.edu)
  • At the same time, States began developing and revising their Crisis Standards of Care - plans describing which patients should receive care if rationing became necessary. (ncd.gov)
  • This innovative new system will be more equitable and patient-focused," said Marie Budev, D.O., M.P.H., chair of the OPTN Lung Transplantation Committee . (hrsa.gov)
  • The authors conducted a retrospective analysis of all adult patients in the OPTN registry listed for isolated heart transplantation from January 1, 2014 to June 30, 2019, excluding re-transplantation. (upenn.edu)
  • An asset allocation form is a questionnaire that is used to help investors determine which investment portfolio is right for their assets. (jotform.com)
  • Secondary outcome variables Calculus index, tooth staining , subgingival microbiological samples, patient -based variables ( questionnaire , compliance , and remaining mouth rinse ), side-effects (debonded braces or mucosal injuries ). (bvsalud.org)
  • The aim of this study was to assess the number, age, and arrival time of patients with influenza-like-illness (ILI), and associations between their symptoms during the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • During the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic, patient arrivals at SHS and ED varied over the week. (cdc.gov)
  • ABSTRACT: Current minimization programs do not permit full control over different aspects of minimization algorithm such as distance or probability measures and may not allow for unequal allocation ratios. (scirp.org)
  • In other health services, nurse-patient ratios have been adapted by hospital managers internally as a model for setting safe staff levels external to formalized structures. (edu.au)
  • The number of measures taken for comorbidities and the percentage of patients recording a change (initiation, switch or increased dose) in disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in the 6 months follow-up period of the study defined the outcomes of the trial. (bmj.com)
  • MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Medicare resource allocation. (duke.edu)
  • In fact, for half a century before the MRC trial and Fisher's writings, some medical practitioners wishing to evaluate the effects of treatments had used alternate allocation to assemble similar groups of patients, and so ensure that like would be compared with like. (jameslindlibrary.org)
  • Reflecting a time-honoured device for ensuring fairness ( Silverman and Chalmers 2002 ), van Helmont ( 1648 ) proposed casting lots to decide which patients should be assigned to orthodox physicians (to be bled and purged), and which to his own, alternative treatments. (jameslindlibrary.org)
  • METHODOLOGY Scope of the Survey The basic sampling unit for the NAMCS is the physician-patient encounter or visit. (cdc.gov)
  • Technical Description of Tape Data Set Name: NAMC1990 Number of Reels: 1 Number of Recording Tracks: 9 Density (bpi): 1600 or 6250 Language EBEDIC Parity ODD Record Length: 153 Blocksize: 15,300 Number of Records 43,469 Computer Compatibility IBM 360 OR 370 METHODOLOGY Scope of the Survey The basic sampling unit for the NAMCS is the physician-patient encounter or visit. (cdc.gov)
  • Scholars@Duke publication: Physician and Patient and Caregiver Health Attitudes and Their Effect on Medicare Resource Allocation for Patients With Advanced Cancer. (duke.edu)
  • These preferences are, for these patients and their caregivers, affected by their baseline health attitudes, but physician preferences are not. (duke.edu)
  • A randomised controlled trial (RCT), WelTel Kenya1, demonstrated that weekly text messages improved antiretroviral adherence and clinical outcomes among patients initiating HIV treatment. (bmj.com)
  • Thus, the purpose of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to evaluate the effects of self-compassion training on mood and metabolic outcomes among patients with diabetes. (diabetesjournals.org)
  • Several reasons exist to continue the search for psychotherapeutic interventions to improve mental and physical health outcomes among patients with diabetes. (diabetesjournals.org)
  • It is projected to decrease deaths among waitlisted patients and provide more lung transplants for the most medically urgent candidates. (hrsa.gov)
  • It replaces the lung allocation score (LAS) previously calculated for candidates age 12 and older (For lung candidates younger than age 12, the two existing priority rankings will be included within their lung CAS). (hrsa.gov)
  • Because this portion of the lung CAS may be different for every organ offer, the total score will not remain the same for all patients and all matches. (hrsa.gov)
  • This drug has shown a lot of promise in lung and uterine cancer in patients, as well as pancreatic cancer in the lab, in animals and in tissues taken from humans. (uc.edu)
  • DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (OHNS) physicians were recruited to use a validated online tool to create a Medicare health plan for advanced cancer patients. (duke.edu)
  • Little is known about the proportion of eligible VA patients ("candidates") who participate in the program, the characteristics of participants, or the program's effectiveness. (cdc.gov)
  • The aim of this study is to determine whether the WelTel intervention can improve treatment completion among patients with LTBI and to evaluate the intervention's cost-effectiveness. (bmj.com)
  • This trial will test the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the WelTel intervention to improve treatment completion among patients with LTBI. (bmj.com)
  • Aim 3 will evaluate whether Generation 2 providers' perceived fit mediates the relation between TranS-C treatment condition and patient outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A key feature of this reform proposal is the national introduction of Activity Based Funding (ABF) with the AR-DRG classification being used to define and count hospital 'activity' in relation to the treatment of acute admitted patients. (edu.au)
  • 3 With this method the group allocation does not rely solely on chance but is designed to reduce any difference in the distribution of known or suspected determinants of outcome, so that any effect can be attributed to the treatment under test. (bmj.com)
  • The treatment allocation is then made, not purely by chance, but by determining in which group inclusion of the patient would minimise any differences in these factors. (bmj.com)
  • Davendra Sohal spends his days putting pieces of the puzzle that is cancer treatment together to find new ways to help patients. (uc.edu)
  • Treatment was open-label, but investigators assessing primary efficacy outcomes were masked to treatment allocation. (lu.se)
  • The placement of central venous catheters was studied prospectively in 138 selected adult patients with hypovolemic shock or in whom rapid volume replacement was needed. (nih.gov)
  • These investigators recruited mechanically ventilated adult patients who were ready for extubation and who met the criteria for low risk for reintubation. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • The symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy may range from mild to severe and may be observed in as many as 70% of patients with cirrhosis. (medscape.com)
  • Perform biopsies of appropriate areas if the patient exhibits symptoms of systemic disease. (medscape.com)
  • Major depression is estimated to affect at least 12% of patients with diabetes ( 1 ), with subclinical mood symptoms and distress apparent in nearly one-third (31%) of those living with this chronic condition ( 2 ). (diabetesjournals.org)
  • Aim 1 will assess the effectiveness of TranS-C (combined Adapted and Standard), compared to UC-DT, on improvements in sleep and circadian problems, functional impairment, and psychiatric symptoms for Generation 2 patients. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The aim of this trial was to evaluate the impact of a nurse-led programme on comorbidities and the impact of patient self-assessment of disease activity on the management of RA. (bmj.com)
  • In the self-assessment group (n=488), the nurse taught the patient how to calculate his/her Disease Activity Score which had to be reported on a booklet to be shared with the treating rheumatologist. (bmj.com)
  • The financial condition assessment will also be relaxed to benefit more patients. (gov.hk)
  • The Patient Activation Measure is a global assessment of an individual's self-management competency. (mgma.com)
  • Additionally, many countries in the Eastern Mediterranean collected data on the number of COVID-19 patients with an NCD. (who.int)
  • COVID patients card. (who.int)
  • The transplant program to which Sonya is referred urges all patients to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. (practicalbioethics.org)
  • The patient is suffering from severe dementia, COPD, and other conditions, and recently tested positive for COVID-19. (practicalbioethics.org)
  • Heart transplantation is generally reserved for patients with end-stage chronic heart failure (CHF) who are estimated to have less than 1 year to live without the transplant and who are not candidates for or have not been helped by conventional medical therapy. (medscape.com)
  • The required share threshold for simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) allocation has expanded from 250 nautical miles to 500 nautical miles for eligible adult candidates (e.g. (unos.org)
  • We find that vertical integration allows hospitals to shift patient recovery tasks downstream to lower-cost organizations by discharging patients earlier (and in poorer health) and increasing post-hospitalization service intensity. (editjems.org)
  • By understanding more clearly how hospitals define and classify their experience, we may improve our capacity to learn and ultimately improve patient safety. (bmj.com)
  • By incorporating SDoH and episodic groupers, RAA's visualization tool helps providers in finding areas of improvement in their clinical programs to manage their patients more effectively. (oliverwyman.com)
  • Exploratory analyses will (1) evaluate whether the effectiveness of TranS-C for patient outcomes is moderated by generation, (2) compare Adapted and Standard TranS-C on patient perceptions of credibility/improvement and PhenX Toolkit outcomes (e.g., substance use, suicidality), and (3) evaluate other possible moderators. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Mood effects, nausea reduction, incidence of side effects, and drug preference were the same in patients under and over 50 years of age. (nih.gov)
  • Patients with a history of illicit drug use reported fewer side effects from THC, but reported no difference in drug preference or nausea reduction compared to those patients without a history of illicit use. (nih.gov)
  • The legal rights of a GP to remove a patient in response to violence or behaviour causing fear of violence that is reported to the police was created by secondary legislation applying to the National Health Service Act 1977. (wikipedia.org)
  • A review of patients is made each year, and if the panel deems the patient to not present a risk to health staff they are removed from the scheme. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although integration facilitates a shift in the allocation of tasks and resources, health outcomes either improved or were unaffected by integration on average. (editjems.org)
  • To frame the debate about priority setting and resource allocation, it is helpful to think about different types of decisions. (who.int)
  • OBJECTIVE: To determine how baseline attitudes toward quality vs quantity of life affect end-of-life resource allocation. (duke.edu)
  • They make use of data about patients that are clinically meaningful and that explain variation in resource use. (edu.au)
  • The authors showed that, under the new transplant rules, fewer patients are being listed for transplant on LVAD while a growing number of patients are being listed on VA ECMO. (upenn.edu)
  • After screening and professional prophylaxis, patients received a baseline examination, and started to use the assigned products. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this study, patients who have metastatic pancreatic cancer, or cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, will all receive standard chemotherapy in addition to the study drug, but half will receive the drug and the other half will receive a placebo. (uc.edu)
  • Patients were randomly assigned to both brush and rinse with placebo or with CPC-based products. (bvsalud.org)
  • Responsiveness in nine patients whose cough was successfully treated varied within domains from an effect size of 0.84 to 1.75. (bmj.com)
  • Patients with type 1 diabetes or those who required diuretic therapy were excluded. (bmj.com)
  • Heart transplantation (HTx) has become the preferred therapy for select patients, with a 1-year survival of almost 90% and a conditional half-life (the time at which 50% of patients who survived the first year are still alive) of 13 years. (medscape.com)
  • These changes could be detrimental to waitlist or post-transplant outcomes if lower-acuity patients are prioritized for transplantation, or if VA-ECMO support in the pre-transplant period is itself directly harmful compared with LVAD," the authors write. (upenn.edu)
  • These data were compared with preliminary data from patients with cancer and their caregivers obtained from a separate study using the same tool. (duke.edu)
  • Research shows that clinicians have been slow to embrace support for patient self-management. (mgma.com)
  • Patient activation can be measured with a tool that has over 12 years of research. (mgma.com)
  • THC or Compazine for the cancer chemotherapy patient--the UCLA study. (nih.gov)
  • The present study will evaluate implementation and effectiveness outcomes of an EBPT for sleep and circadian dysfunction-the Transdiagnostic Intervention for Sleep and Circadian Dysfunction (TranS-C)-delivered to CMHC patients with serious mental illness by Generation 2 providers (i.e., trained and supervised within CMHCs via TTT). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Notably, the study population had a high proportion of surgical and neurocritical patients, resulting in one-third of the reintubations occurring because of nonrespiratory causes such as repeat surgery or altered mental status. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • About 100 patients will be enrolled, with three other partner institutions across the country," Sohal says, adding that UC is the lead institution on this study. (uc.edu)
  • Few eligible patients participated in the program during the study period, and overall estimates of effectiveness were low. (cdc.gov)
  • I once saved one group [of patients] by it, while I intentionally neglected [to bleed] another group. (jameslindlibrary.org)
  • Data collected from this group were compared with data collected from 146 patients and 114 caregivers. (duke.edu)
  • Thus, if group A has a higher average age and a disproportionate number of smokers, other things being equal, the next elderly smoker is likely to be allocated to group B. The allocation may rely on minimisation alone, or still involve chance but "with the dice loaded" in favour of the allocation which minimises the differences. (bmj.com)
  • The most common serious adverse event in the active surveillance group was myocardial infarction (three patients). (lu.se)
  • Attitudes toward quality vs quantity of life were assessed for both physicians and patients and caregivers. (duke.edu)
  • Factors influencing preference for THC vs. Compazine (prochlorperazine) as an antiemetic agent during cancer chemotherapy were studied in 139 patients who received both medications in a double-blind randomized crossover design trial. (nih.gov)
  • At the point when it is decided that a patient is definitely to enter a trial, these factors are listed. (bmj.com)
  • He's now opening a clinical trial that is available for patients. (uc.edu)
  • Clinical and microbiological effects of the use of a cetylpyridinium chloride dentifrice and mouth rinse in orthodontic patients: a 3-month randomized clinical trial. (bvsalud.org)
  • Findings: Between March 8, 2011, and April 30, 2013, we randomly assigned 206 patients to vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy and 207 patients to active surveillance. (lu.se)
  • Current portfolio allocations differ considerably from our target allocations, set as a long-term aspirational goal, due to elevated market risk, over-priced sectors, and opportunities in cyclicals (including gold and precious metals). (thepatientinvestor.com)
  • Objectives Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients are at an increased risk of developing comorbid conditions. (bmj.com)
  • Does the use of high-flow oxygen therapy for 24 hours following extubation reduce the risk of reintubation in low-risk patients? (the-hospitalist.org)
  • Using high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy for 24 hours following extubation of patients who are already at low risk of reintubation further reduces the risk of reintubation. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • The hypoglycemic effect of berberine was first reported in 1988 when it was used to treat diarrhea in diabetic patients [ 22 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The use of CPC-based toothpaste and mouth rinse in orthodontic patients had limited effect in reducing plaque accumulation and gingival inflammation . (bvsalud.org)
  • To assess the clinical, microbiological, and patient -based effects of using a cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) toothpaste and mouth rinse in orthodontic patients . (bvsalud.org)
  • to form a just comparison and calculate right in this case, the circumstances of the patients, must and ought to be as near as may be on a par . (jameslindlibrary.org)
  • Percutaneous subclavian vein catheters can be used successfully in patients with hypovolemic shock and can be place quickly with low complication rates. (nih.gov)
  • We propose that definitions and classification schemes can have profound implications for a hospital's capacity to gather information about and learn from events related to patient safety. (bmj.com)