• CONCLUSIONS In primary care, BHR testing has limited value in predicting subsequent respiratory tract disease for patients who have asthma diagnosed by a physician. (annfammed.org)
  • CONCLUSIONS Only modest numbers of patients achieve established targets of diabetes control. (annfammed.org)
  • Findings 1053 patients were subdivided into 4 subgroups depending on the main motif for admission. (medrxiv.org)
  • In addition, although these findings are unique to Japan, they can be said to be universal from the viewpoint of human relations. (intechopen.com)
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Findings in Relation to Clinical Characteristics, Subtype, and Disease Course in Patients With Guillain-Barré Syndrome. (ox.ac.uk)
  • OBJECTIVE: To investigate cerebrospinal fluid findings in relation to clinical and electrodiagnostic subtypes, severity, and outcome of Guillain-Barré syndrome based on 1500 patients in the International GBS Outcome Study. (ox.ac.uk)
  • RESULTS BHR or the presence of asthma symptoms at screening did not result in a significantly disproportionate number of physician visits during the next 10 years for 4 or more upper or lower respiratory tract infections when compared with patients who did not have these findings at the beginning of the study. (annfammed.org)
  • The findings will support efforts to identify more aggressive courses of this rare condition at an earlier stage, and adapt and improve the treatment these patients receive. (openpr.com)
  • We also investigated general practitioners' clinical practice in relation to previous findings-for example, prescribing antibiotics to maintain the doctor-patient relationship, overestimation of patients' expectations for antibiotics, and discomfort experienced on prescribing antibiotics. (bmj.com)
  • Both the MHRA and NICE have now responded to the findings, with the regulatory agency confirming that they are reviewing the situation to determine if there are any safety implications for patients. (nursinginpractice.com)
  • The MHRA is aware of the new study on the use of blood thinners in patients with kidney disease and will review the findings to determine whether they have any implications for the safe use of these medicines. (nursinginpractice.com)
  • We studied mammographic appearances and mode of breast cancer detection in relation to physical activity for the first time and also proposed novel findings supporting a role for the FGF/FGFR1 system in MBD-driven breast carcinogenesis. (lu.se)
  • More severe rachitic knees than wrists are also characteristic findings. (medscape.com)
  • We excluded 124 (8%) patients due to other diagnoses, protocol violation or insufficient data. (ox.ac.uk)
  • In such cases, the physician frequently diagnoses psychogenic dizziness. (koreamed.org)
  • Their family physicians' diagnoses of upper and lower respiratory tract disease and asthma were prospectively collected during the next 10 years and were analyzed. (annfammed.org)
  • In 2002, visits to primary care physicians accounted for 62.7% of all office visits in the United States, and diabetes mellitus ranked third, accounting for 3.1% of illness-related diagnoses. (annfammed.org)
  • These essays cover a wide range, from the more conventional (such as differential diagnosis of anxiety or the clinical characteristics of delirium) to the unusual and intriguing (such as creativity and mental illness or an analysis of the case in relation to the classic, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ). (appi.org)
  • Original publication: Clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of adult patients with pilocytic astrocytoma. (openpr.com)
  • The data collected will be fully anonymised so the team will be able to report how many healthcare workers have had the disease and whether this relates for example to their ethnicity or age or other clinical characteristics. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • Methods This prospective, observational study in a surgical ICU of a French tertiary hospital reports mHLA-DR measurements (fixed flow cytometry protocol) done 1st within the 3 days post-admission and 2nd after the 7th day. (medrxiv.org)
  • The effective characteristics of the disease have been identified using data mining and its methods. (scirp.org)
  • MATERIAL AND METHODS: We report acute toxicities and early outcomes of 22 consecutive patients with OC and OPx cancers treated with IMPT, and compare the dosimetry and normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) of ≥ grade 3 mucositis for IMPT and HT. (bvsalud.org)
  • METHODS: We included 50 cervical cancer patients who received volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) from September 2017 to June 2018 in the Department of Radiotherapy at The First Affiliated Hospital Soochow University. (bvsalud.org)
  • METHODS Patients referred to the outpatients clinic between 1995 and 1996, with a symptom duration of less than three years and fulfilling the American Rheumatism Association 1987 revised criteria for RA within one year after entry were included. (bmj.com)
  • Our results show that in the tract with "crossing fibers" the relation between FA/MD and memory was stronger with CSD than with DTI based FT. By contrast, in the fiber bundle where one fiber population predominates, the relation between FA/MD and memory was comparable between both tractography methods. (plos.org)
  • METHODS We undertook a cross-sectional study of 95 primary care clinicians and 822 of their established patients with type 2 diabetes from 4 practice-based, primary care research networks in the United States. (annfammed.org)
  • Methods Data were used from the FLOW (Function, Living, Outcomes, and Work) cohort of patients with COPD (n=1202) and matched controls without COPD (n=302). (bmj.com)
  • The dataset is from the largest China-based online medical consultation platform, which covers 1,582,564 consultation records between patient-physician pairs from 2009 to 2018. (jmir.org)
  • We retrospectively investigated all 953 disciplinary actions for doctors given by the Board between 2011 and 2018. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It contained anonymised data from 46 patients who were diagnosed with and received treatment for PA between 2000 and 2018. (openpr.com)
  • AHRQ Projects funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund. (ahrq.gov)
  • The associations between mHLA-DR and outcomes were tested by adjusted Fine and Gray sub-distribution competing risk models. (medrxiv.org)
  • Inclusion of such concepts into formal postgraduate curricula might improve patient safety attitudes among younger and less experienced doctors, support behaviour change and improve patient outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Conversely, negative attitudes, when potential risks are not recognized or not openly discussed and patient safety is considered to be an individual responsibility, have been linked to poorer patient outcomes [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These subgroups interact with the physician differently, resulting in different payment outcomes. (jmir.org)
  • Shared decision-making is advocated as a key component of patient-centred care and associated with many benefits that improve patient outcomes. (who.int)
  • This is confirmed by Houssien et al 9 who concluded that those patients with delayed specialist referrals have worse physical function outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • Our purpose was to describe the processes and outcomes of care of type 2 diabetes achieved by clinicians and their patients in member practices from 4 practice-based research networks (PBRNs). (annfammed.org)
  • Once anxiety develops among patients with COPD, it is related to poorer health outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • 5 Psychological functioning in particular may influence why two patients with the same degree of lung function impairment have different health outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • 9 A recent workshop conducted by the American College of Chest Physicians concluded that further research was needed to assess the impact of anxiety on health outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • The following sections will compare and contrast the retail outlet strategies of two market leading luxury brands, Burberry and Prada, in order to identify particular traits and characteristics that are conducive to competitive advantage and demand-enhancing outcomes. (oxbridgeessays.com)
  • On July 20, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert cautioning physicians and other health-care practitioners to use "heightened scrutiny" when entering into telemedicine arrangements that have "suspect characteristics" of a fraud scheme. (audiology.org)
  • Acute systemic inflammation characterizes the vast majority of the patients admitted in intensive care (ICU) related to various acute injuries such as sepsis 1 , major surgical procedure 2 , severe polytrauma 3 and medical diseases 4 . (medrxiv.org)
  • The recent evidence of an early and profound acquired immunodepression (AID) in ICU patients has led to a change in the paradigm of acute inflammation. (medrxiv.org)
  • Thus, the treating physician should be aware of the nuances in the management of patients with acute and recurrent mood disorders so that treatment can be optimized from the outset and the impact of the illness on patients, their lives, and their families can be minimized. (beatcfsandfms.org)
  • Early recognition and intervention in an acute episode not only may save the patient months of pain and suffering but also may be lifesaving. (beatcfsandfms.org)
  • Thus, a variety of factors and guidelines shape the physician's approach to the patient with an acute episode of mood disorder. (beatcfsandfms.org)
  • Acute toxicities, grade III dermatitis and mucositis, were noted in 50% and 45.5% patients, respectively, while 22.7% patients had grade 3 dysphagia. (bvsalud.org)
  • One of the key components in the revised kit is the Acute Concussion Evaluation (ACE) assessment tool which can help physicians with their initial evaluation and diagnosis for patients of all ages with a known or suspected concussion. (cdc.gov)
  • 1 Patients with type 2 diabetes often have acute or chronic comorbid health problems that force the clinician to prioritize and address the most pressing or symptomatic problems first. (annfammed.org)
  • Several clinical, radiological and laboratory variables have been reported as prognostic factors in patients with early RA: the number of swollen joints, the number of tender joints, functional indices, erosions on radiology, a positive rheumatoid factor test and the presence of the genetic marker HLA-DR4. (bmj.com)
  • The presence of asthma symptoms correlated with an increased risk of an asthma diagnosis or allergic rhinitis in the group of patients who did not have asthma diagnosed at start of the study. (annfammed.org)
  • Although much has been attributed to physicians' problems in interpretation of clinical information, there are growing indications that patients' reluctance to complain of symptoms or to adhere to follow-up visits also contribute to underdiagnosis. (annfammed.org)
  • Although the majority of patients live with them without problems, others are triggered to obsessive symptoms with affectation of sleep and concentration and cause stress. (doctorgonzalezotorrino.com)
  • Working with CDC staff, researchers at Children's National Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center developed the ACE assessment to guide physicians through an evaluation of characteristics of the injury, symptoms and risk factors. (cdc.gov)
  • 1-4 Nonetheless, many patients continue to suffer from marked respiratory symptoms and activity limitation despite optimal medical management. (bmj.com)
  • In the SAMS (SAMS-FU and SAMS-ObsQoL) the quality of life and pelvic symptoms of patients on active surveillance will be investigated and compared to those of patients receiving immediate treatment with curative intent. (cancercentrum.se)
  • However, many patients have no demonstrable physiologic abnormalities, and, even in those who do, the abnormalities may not correlate with symptoms. (msdmanuals.com)
  • At his Manhattan Facial Plastic Surgery practice, Dr. Rizk offers patients the opportunity to view photographs, and upon request, to speak to other patients who have undergone a nose job procedure. (drsamrizk.com)
  • At his New York practice, Dr. Rizk has mastered a 3D high-definition technique, which increases surgical precision and minimizes trauma. (drsamrizk.com)
  • and practice characteristics (e.g., years in practice). (nih.gov)
  • Shoulder pain is a common problem and it is responsible for a high proportion of patients presenting to general practice, causing work absenteeism and claims for sickness. (intechopen.com)
  • In particular, we examined practice design strategies for diabetes care, the composition of the health care team, the complexity of the health problems experienced by patients with type 2 diabetes (including comorbid conditions), control of diabetes (including cardiovascular risk-factor control), and the spectrum of treatment provided by their clinicians. (annfammed.org)
  • PBRNs are collaboratives of physicians or clinics committed to performing research of importance and relevance to their clinical practice. (annfammed.org)
  • BACKGROUND We examined the natural history of asthma in a primary care cohort of patients 10 years after the cohort was stratified for asthma risk by responses to a questionnaire and bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) testing. (annfammed.org)
  • To better define the role of anxiety in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a study was conducted of the inter-relations between anxiety and COPD in a large cohort of subjects with COPD and a matched control group. (bmj.com)
  • Job Stress and Work Schedules in Relation to Nurse Obesity. (cdc.gov)
  • Rural general practitioners received the most disciplinary actions of all doctors and had their licence revoked or restricted 2.1 times more frequently than urban general practitioners. (biomedcentral.com)
  • General practitioners and private specialists received respectively 98.7 and 91.0 disciplinary actions per 1000 doctors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • General practitioners are uncertain which patients will benefit from antibiotics but prescribe for sicker patients and for patients from socioeconomically deprived backgrounds because of concerns about complications. (bmj.com)
  • 9 We initially constructed a maximum variety sample of 25 general practitioners to reflect a range of practitioner characteristics that could influence prescribing (table). (bmj.com)
  • In most countries, patients with RA are initially seen by general practitioners who have less experience in diagnosing RA because of the low disease prevalence, subsequently appropriate referral and treatment may be delayed. (bmj.com)
  • Patient satisfaction correlates positively with nursing care and perceptions of the quality of patient service [ 7 ]. (intechopen.com)
  • A World Health Organization sponsored study (SAGE) that included 47,443 adults from six middle-income countries (China, Ghana, India, Russia, Mexico, and South Africa) sampled between 2007 and 2010 documented that more than 90% of the hypertensive patients had uncontrolled BP, and insurance as well as income status emerged as significant correlates to diagnosis and treatment [ 6 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The aims of this study were to investigate the frequency and distribution of disciplinary actions by the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision for doctors in Norway and to uncover nation-wide patient safety issues. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Tinnitus can be very variable in its characteristics of frequency, , intensity and loudness, but these characteristics have no relation to its severity. (doctorgonzalezotorrino.com)
  • Irritable bowel syndrome is characterized by recurrent abdominal discomfort or pain with at least two of the following characteristics: relation to defecation, association with a change in frequency of stool, or association with a change in consistency of stool. (msdmanuals.com)
  • 2-6 Specifically, research demonstrates a small proportion of physicians in any medical group are associated with disproportionate numbers of patient/family complaints. (ahrq.gov)
  • Longitudinal outcome studies of primary care patients with asthma should help us create this linkage and understand the developmental epidemiology of asthma. (annfammed.org)
  • It is important to recognise as early as possible the factors that predict a poor outcome in order to treat patients with such characteristics more aggressively than the mild cases. (bmj.com)
  • No obvious predictors for maternal events or child outcome were determined, except for a possible relation between severe pulmonary regurgitation and symptomatic heart failure. (bmj.com)
  • Second, PARS works to reduce patient dissatisfaction and overall claims-related expenditures via interventions involving high-risk physicians in a large, geographically complex health care system. (ahrq.gov)
  • Thus, diagnosis and treatment should be approached with the knowledge that the patient is experiencing a potentially recurrent, disabling medical illness. (beatcfsandfms.org)
  • Physicians in primary care provide initial diagnosis and treatment for a diverse set of patients. (diw.de)
  • I investigate the role of patient-physician similarity regarding socio-economic and individual characteristics in shaping physicians' diagnosis and treatment decisions. (diw.de)
  • Weight-related perceptions among patients and physicians: how well do physicians judge patients' motivation to lose weight? (nih.gov)
  • 1) To measure the extent to which obese patients and their physicians have discrepant weight-related perceptions, and (2) to explore patient and physician characteristics that may influence patient-physician discrepancy in motivation to lose weight. (nih.gov)
  • Patients reported more optimistic weight-related perceptions and expectations than their physicians. (nih.gov)
  • 2014). For luxury fashion retailers, the brand identity is a composite of both the marketing enterprise and the retail experience, aligning consumer perceptions with a robust and transparent spectrum of identifying characteristics that unify the brand message and identity (Gentile et al. (oxbridgeessays.com)
  • The clinic staff frequently mislead the patients about the severity of their disease and often discharge patients they cannot help, so the number of dead patients is kept to a minimum. (wikipedia.org)
  • Interpretation the association between the early mHLA-DR expression and ICU mortality does not improve the prediction given by the severity scores. (medrxiv.org)
  • Determining the impact of variables beyond the ED physicians control such as inpatient boarding and severe ED crowding is extremely important as these factors may have negative impacts on perceived quality of care and incentive programs. (cdc.gov)
  • Patients who have more severe flat feet develop this pain. (beaconortho.com)
  • Both patients who developed symptomatic heart failure had severe pulmonary regurgitation. (bmj.com)
  • For those critically ill patients, mechanical ventilation (MV) is essential to provide life support during treatment. (techscience.com)
  • By contrast, portable chest X-ray (pCXR) is convenient to perform, has a fast turnaround, and is well suited for imaging contagious patients and longitudinal monitoring of critically ill patients in the intensive care units because the equipment can be readily disinfected, preventing cross-infection. (peerj.com)
  • OBJECTIVE To find disease parameters that can predict the functional capacity of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at the first visit to the rheumatologist and one year after entry. (bmj.com)
  • I reviewed etiology including biological and psychological relations between dizziness and psychiatric disorder(especially anxiety), diagnostic approaches of, characteristics of dizziness of various psychiatric disorders related to, and the treatment of psychogenic dizziness. (koreamed.org)
  • This therapy combined with relaxation exercices allow to eliminate the anxiety generated by the fact that the patient is concentrated in the noise and associated with the mental sensation of danger. (doctorgonzalezotorrino.com)
  • Anxiety is likely to be a problem for many patients with COPD. (bmj.com)
  • There remain significant unanswered questions about the prevalence and impact of anxiety among patients with COPD. (bmj.com)
  • The researchers showed that pilocytic astrocytoma has very specific characteristics when it affects adults - recurrence or progression occurs almost twice as frequently following operative resection in comparison with child sufferers. (openpr.com)
  • There are specific characteristics to the shape of the foot that determine the foot alignment and position. (beaconortho.com)
  • 2007). In an effort to differentiate in the highly competitive luxury marketplace, retailers are increasingly relying upon a range of aesthetic and identity-specific characteristics within their retail outlets to manifest a unique and compelling experience (Maxwell, 2016). (oxbridgeessays.com)
  • In order to produce such a work environment for healthcare staff, commitment for patient safety practices and understanding of patient safety concepts must be nurtured on multiple levels, including the organization, the leadership and the workforce. (biomedcentral.com)
  • CDC, our planners, and presenters wish to disclose they have no financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. (cdc.gov)
  • If you are a patient, please refer your questions to your healthcare provider. (cdc.gov)
  • and healthcare system factors (organizational characteristics, time constraints, continuity of care, and healthcare resources). (who.int)
  • This activity is intended for lipidologists, cardiologists, and other healthcare professionals involved in the management of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). (medlearninggroup.com)
  • Healthcare workers are at higher risk of being infected by COVID-19 than the general population because of their contact with patients and the general public. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • We want to know how many of our doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals have already had the virus," says Mr Ben Ollivere, Clinical Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant Trauma Surgeon from the School of Medicine at the University, and one of the lead researchers on the study. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has said it will review the use of anticoagulants, following a new study that showed increased risks for atrial fibrillation patients with comorbid chronic kidney disease patients. (nursinginpractice.com)
  • The study was conducted on 600 patients from Masih-e-Daneshvari tuberculosis research center during 2015-2016. (scirp.org)
  • In this work, we evaluated the applicability of a hybrid framework, in which CSD based FT is combined with conventional DTI metrics to assess white matter abnormalities in 25 patients with early Alzheimer's disease. (plos.org)
  • In consideration of the influence of Japanese culture, introduce studies for resolving conflict between nurses and patients. (intechopen.com)
  • While a patient has certain fixed goals regarding the completeness of care and restoration of health, satisfaction during the treatment period is, in many cases, influenced by the patient's relationship with nurses. (intechopen.com)
  • This program would be beneficial for nurses involved in the care of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia. (medlearninggroup.com)
  • Verbal abuse of staff nurses by physicians. (cdc.gov)
  • Many patients with dizziness present with a symptom pattern that does not reveal the cause by neurotologic diagnostic approaches. (koreamed.org)
  • A conundrum of COPD treatment is that patients with a given level of lung function may differ substantively in their symptom burden and activity limitation. (bmj.com)
  • Background post-injury acquired immunodepression (AID) is frequently assessed by the diminished expression of Human Leukocyte Antigen-D Related on circulating monocytes (mHLA-DR). The relation with mortality and the occurrence of ICU-acquired infections (IAI) requires confirmation in large cohorts of patients. (medrxiv.org)
  • This study tested in a large number of ICU patients from a single center the association of mHLA-DR with mortality and secondary infections. (medrxiv.org)
  • No clear relation between offspring mortality, premature birth or being small for gestational age, and cardiac characteristics of the mother was identified. (bmj.com)
  • DT analysis further identified five distinct subgroups of patients delineated by five top-ranked features: previous offline connection, total dialog, physician response rate, patient privacy concern, and social return. (jmir.org)
  • The persistence or a decrease of low mHLA-DR expression are independent and reliable predictors of ICU-acquired infection. (medrxiv.org)
  • The variables used as predictors were related to the sociodemographic characteristics of respondents, burden related to chronic disease, and the use of the Internet and its perceived usefulness in making personal health-related decisions. (springer.com)
  • The plot focuses on a group of patients as they undergo crude and frightening treatment in a squalid hospital. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here treatment given to the patient in unable to provide relief to the patient. (planetayurveda.com)
  • Content will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use, with the exception of Dr. Louise Francois Watkins's discussion of treatment options for shigellosis, some of which are considered off-label use for infectious diarrhea. (cdc.gov)
  • The results show that, compared with features related to physician reputation, service-related features, such as service delivery quality (eg, consultation dialog intensity and physician response rate), patient source (eg, online vs offline returning patients), and patient involvement (eg, provide social returns and reveal previous treatment), appear to contribute more to the patient's payment decision. (jmir.org)
  • If the incidence of RE in patients can be predicted in advance, and targeted clinical preventive treatment can be carried out, the side effects of radiotherapy in cervical cancer patients can be significantly reduced. (bvsalud.org)
  • One half of the known asthmatic patients at the onset of the study (21 of 44) had no further visits to their physicians for treatment of asthma during the next 10 years. (annfammed.org)
  • The highly variable nature of the clinical course of asthma makes it difficult for physicians and patients to know at any given time how much treatment is necessary and for how long. (annfammed.org)
  • Whether asthma disappears as a consequence of the natural history of asthma, adherence by the patient to treatment, or another phenomenon is not well known. (annfammed.org)
  • In future, these new insights could result in more accurate prognosis for adult patients, and enable corresponding optimisation of treatment approaches. (openpr.com)
  • Patient involvement in the monitoring and treatment of disease is of crucial importance for the effectiveness of the therapy [ 3 , 4 ]. (springer.com)
  • In the CVHP patients are provided access to treatment and screening for cardiovascular risk factors plus a multidisciplinary approach to modify unfavorable life style and habits free of copayments. (hindawi.com)
  • I focus on the relation between patient-physician similarity and the quality of diagnostically relevant information that physicians can uncover as well as potential biases in physicians' treatment decisions. (diw.de)
  • Patients completed a self-administered questionnaire about their care, and medical records were reviewed for complications, treatment, and diabetes-control indicators. (annfammed.org)
  • Any patient who is concerned about their treatment with blood thinners should contact their doctor but continue to take their medicine in the meantime. (nursinginpractice.com)
  • Hopefully, SAMS will increase our knowledge on active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer, so that more patients with aggressive cancer will receive curative treatment and fewer patients will receive un-necessary treatment for indolent tumours and thereby maintain their quality of life better. (cancercentrum.se)
  • Treatment with vitamin D produced no change in the rachitic state of these patients, even at rather high doses, leading to the term vitamin D-resistant rickets. (medscape.com)
  • Based on the perspectives of Reason [ 15 ] and Donabedian [ 16 ] regarding quality and errors in health care, factors such as system design, organizational culture and lack of management or training can create 'latent' upstream errors that in the end cause 'active' patient harm. (biomedcentral.com)
  • however, few studies have directly compared patients' and physicians' perspectives. (nih.gov)
  • 1- 3 Although patients with corrected tetralogy of Fallot achieve a good quality of life, late complications do occur in 10-15% at 20 years after the initial repair, of which the most important are right sided heart failure caused by pulmonary regurgitation and supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmia. (bmj.com)
  • VIF, positive relation between serum PCB level and both systolic variance inflation factor and diastolic blood pressure. (cdc.gov)
  • Finally, XLH patients demonstrate a normal or low serum concentration of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, suggestive of inadequate formation of this vitamin D metabolite. (medscape.com)
  • Serum phosphate reduction in relation to normal levels was equal for male and female subjects. (medscape.com)
  • Even the serum concentration of 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D is inappropriately normal or low in XLH patients. (medscape.com)
  • 5 This may results from the heterogeneity of the patients and from the interplay with the host fitness of complex inflammatory pathways, particularly when co-morbidities and chronic treatments are present. (medrxiv.org)
  • Dr Valdes says: "This is important in order for us to understand what treatments may work, and why patients become sick we need to study those who have been exposed to COVID-19 and those who have not. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • To yield better results with greater longevity, Dr. Rizk routinely employs the use of suture reshaping techniques for cartilage sculpting. (drsamrizk.com)
  • The results showed that both groups were aware of PHC but those of the innovative school had received practical training in PHC centres, had skills to approach solving community problems, and gave due emphasis to promotional and preventive aspects of patient management. (who.int)
  • RESULTS: Twenty two patients, 77% males, 41% elderly and 73% OC subsite, were reviewed. (bvsalud.org)
  • RESULTS 133 patients were included in the study. (bmj.com)
  • Results of a survey among primary care physicians/internists have been supplemented by a comparison with the literature. (scirp.org)
  • RESULTS Participating clinicians (average age, 45.7 years) saw an average of 32.6 adult patients with diabetes per month. (annfammed.org)
  • In addition to the case and discussions, each chapter offers an overview and summary points designed to facilitate further consideration of the patient and clinical situation and to focus on the key points. (appi.org)
  • In view of this, the Committee recommended that working relations continue and consideration of an application from the International Union be deferred until such time as a new workplan had been agreed. (who.int)
  • According to Langlois, "Another unique and very important component of the tool kit is the ACE Care Plan which we believe can help physicians to devise a course of action for their patients to prevent re-injury and to aid in their recovery. (cdc.gov)
  • Krems (Austria), September 30th, 2020 - Age and body mass index are among the factors that have a significant impact on the clinical course of a particular type of brain tumour, known as pilocytic astrocytoma, in adult patients. (openpr.com)
  • We believe that the ACE assessment tool will provide a needed diagnostic tool for physicians because it provides the most up-to-date information on how to recognize and treat concussion" said Dr. Jean Langlois, one of CDC’s leading TBI researchers and one of the authors of the tool kit. (cdc.gov)
  • Most participants (62.0%) had never received patient safety training. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, no significant impact on overall APSQ scores was found by workplace, specialty or whether the participants had received previous training about patient safety. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Patient complaints can help health care organizations identify physicians whose behaviors undermine a culture of safety and increase lawsuit risk. (ahrq.gov)
  • More than 1,400 SHS-affiliated physicians provide care for a large patient volume outside major metropolitan areas, and SHS sought ways to enhance its culture of safety using the PARS tool and process for promoting professional self-regulation. (ahrq.gov)
  • 1 If patient complaints-a proxy for malpractice claims-are reported, addressed via service recovery efforts, recorded, analyzed, aggregated, and used to provide feedback to the health care professionals involved, risk can be reduced. (ahrq.gov)
  • The Donabedian [ 2 ] framework is often referred to in discussions relating to quality of medical care and patient satisfaction. (intechopen.com)
  • The introduction of email as a method of communication in health care has the potential to impact on both patients and health care professionals. (jmir.org)
  • This study aims to describe the characteristics of people who have sent or received an email to or from their doctor, nurse, or health care organization, by country and in relation to demographics, health care resource use, and health status factors. (jmir.org)
  • The alert's release follows significant enforcement actions by federal regulators as patients and practitioners have become more accustomed to delivery of care via telemedicine. (audiology.org)
  • In many instances, the telemedicine companies solicit and recruit the purported "patients" and then sell the practitioners' prescriptions or orders to another party, which then fraudulently bills the items and services to federal health-care programs and/or other payers. (audiology.org)
  • A comparative study of the attitudes and performances of graduates from an innovative medical school and a conventional one in relation to primary health care (PHC) was conducted. (who.int)
  • The appearance of various commercial products for the care of neonatal patients in the transport environment paralleled the proliferation of neonatal transport programs. (medscape.com)
  • However, many online medical consultation platforms are struggling to attract and retain patients who are willing to pay, and health care providers on the platform have the additional challenge of standing out in a crowd of physicians who can provide comparable services. (jmir.org)
  • This study focuses on multisided online medical consultation platforms where various health care providers from different hospitals and medical institutes provide remote medical consultation services to patients. (jmir.org)
  • Eight times more actions were received by primary care doctors than secondary care doctors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Doctors working in primary care were given a warning 10.6 times more often and had their licence revoked or restricted 4.6 times more often than those in secondary care. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Unlike the litigation system in the United States, decisions by the NBHS do not award financial compensation to patients, and the NBHS assesses only the legal aspect, i.e. whether the health care provider is responsible according to health care legislation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Similarly, in physicians and patients work jointly, utilizing the best many of the high-income Western countries, the concept available evidence, to make decisions that considers the of patient-centred care or SDM is being integrated into patients' preferences ( 1 ). (who.int)
  • SDM is considered to be a key health systems, but this is not yet the case in the Region component of patient-centred care and corroborated in and other developing countries. (who.int)
  • Provision of care to patients with chronic diseases remains a great challenge for modern health care systems. (springer.com)
  • eHealth is indicated as one of the strategies which could improve care delivery to this group of patients. (springer.com)
  • The survey was carried out among patients with diagnosed chronic conditions who were treated in three health care facilities in Krakow, Poland. (springer.com)
  • The perception of the usefulness of the Internet in making health-related decision is a key determinant of the acceptance of provision of health care services online among patients with chronic diseases. (springer.com)
  • In recent years, the provision of care to patients with chronic conditions has become one of the greatest challenges faced by health care systems. (springer.com)
  • Patients with chronic diseases require care for prolonged periods. (springer.com)
  • Furthermore, expenditures related to care provided to patients with chronic diseases are a significant part of health care budgets [ 2 ]. (springer.com)
  • Chronic care requires regular interactions between patients and health care systems. (springer.com)
  • The growing incidence of chronic diseases can lead to a shortage of health care resources available to patients and their families. (springer.com)
  • All these circumstances trigger intensive searches for new models of care which would enable an adequate and cost-effective support offered to patients with chronic diseases. (springer.com)
  • The performance of the health care system in Poland is a continuous source of frustration for patients. (springer.com)
  • mean BMI = 37.9) and their 28 primary care physicians (22 males, mean age = 44.1 years) from nonmetropolitan practices completed an anonymous survey after an office visit. (nih.gov)
  • Further research is needed to determine how these patient-physician discrepancies may influence weight loss counseling in primary care. (nih.gov)
  • In the period from October 5-20, 2015, a survey was sent to 414 primary care physicians/internists in four German cities (n = 10 were undeliverable). (scirp.org)
  • PURPOSE We wanted to describe how primary care clinicians care for patients with type 2 diabetes. (annfammed.org)
  • 8 - 11 The American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network (AAFP-NRN), the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians Research Network (MAFPRN), the Texas Academy of Family Physicians Research Network (TAFP R-Net), and the Southern Primary Care Urban Research Network (SPUR-Net) each recruited constituent members for the study. (annfammed.org)
  • The AAFP-NRN is a nationally distributed network of primary care physicians. (annfammed.org)
  • Violence towards health care staff and possible effects on the quality of patient care. (cdc.gov)
  • In their current advice, the MHRA has said that prescribers should take 'special care' when prescribing new oral anticoagulants to patients with other conditions, and should pay particular attention to renal function. (nursinginpractice.com)
  • The scientific hypothesis is that this alternative schedule for follow-up will identify the aggressive cancers earlier with less health-care resources and better quality of life for the patients, without increasing the total proportion of patients receiving radical therapy within 5 years. (cancercentrum.se)
  • Psychologic distress is common among patients with IBS, especially in those who seek medical care. (msdmanuals.com)
  • 2 , 6-14 Research also demonstrates strong relationships between physicians' unsolicited patient complaints, malpractice claims, and other risk management actions. (ahrq.gov)
  • Moreover, the supervisory authorities should assess whether their procedures for reacting to malpractice are efficient and adequate for all types of physicians working in Norway. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In 2010, the Sanford Health System (SHS) sought to plan and implement the Vanderbilt Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy's (CPPA) Patient Advocacy Reporting System ® (PARS ® ), which effectively addresses "high-risk" physicians identified via analysis of unsolicited patient complaints. (ahrq.gov)
  • SHS patient complaint databases were coded and analyzed to calculate a "Risk Score" for all affiliated physicians. (ahrq.gov)
  • SHS peer physicians were trained as "messengers" to share local and national PARS data comparisons with physicians whose Risk Scores exceeded intervention thresholds. (ahrq.gov)
  • Patients and families are well positioned to help identify physicians whose behaviors undermine a culture of safety and increase lawsuit risk. (ahrq.gov)
  • Further interventions to reduce prescribing would need to improve identification of patients at risk of complications and be workable in busy clinical situations. (bmj.com)
  • The risk of not treating patients with aggressive cancers early enough, the long-term effects and the impact on quality of life are unknown. (cancercentrum.se)
  • Based on an abundance of available information, patients select a preferred medical institution, from which they receive medical services doi analyzes Japanese expectations from the perspective of "amae" [ 1 ]. (intechopen.com)
  • They need to strike a balance between the expectations of their patients and the society at large. (who.int)
  • 1 - 3 Qualitative studies in the United Kingdom over the past decade found that doctors overestimated patients' expectations for antibiotics, 4 prescribed antibiotics to maintain the doctor-patient relationship, 4 and often felt uncomfortable prescribing antibiotics. (bmj.com)
  • 5 Australian and American doctors also overestimate patients' expectations for antibiotics. (bmj.com)
  • History of medicine and surgery and physicians and surgeons of Chicago, endorsed by and published under the supervision of the council of the Chicago Medical Society. (upenn.edu)
  • Patient safety is important, as in increasingly complex medical systems, the potential for unintended harm to patients also increases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study assessed the attitudes of doctors in the Gaza Strip towards patient safety and medical error. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Doctors in Gaza demonstrated relatively positive patient safety attitudes in areas of "team functioning" and "working hours as a cause for error", but neutral attitudes in understanding medical error or patient safety training within the curriculum. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In an increasingly complex medical system with increasing patient demands and choices, the potential for error and unintended harm to patients also increases with potentially serious consequences, including short-term and long-term patient harm or even death [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The recurrent mood disorders should be conceptualized not as trivial, mental, or illusory phenomena that can easily be modified by patients' acts of will, but as serious and potentially life-threatening medical illnesses that have clearly defined mood, cognitive, motor, somatic, and neurobiological concomitants. (beatcfsandfms.org)
  • and Dr. Louise Francois Watkins, a Medical Officer, all with CDC's National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria Team within the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Med Learning Group is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. (medlearninggroup.com)
  • 14% of the doctors who took part in the survey said that they had been asked for MPH prescriptions without any medical indication. (scirp.org)
  • Data were collected from 83 patients through interviews and review of medical records. (bmj.com)
  • pCXR of COVID-19 infection has certain unique characteristics, such as predominance of bilateral, peripheral, and low lobes involvement, with ground-glass opacities with or without airspace consolidations as the disease progresses. (peerj.com)
  • Older doctors with more professional experience had significantly higher scores than younger doctors ( p = 0.003), demonstrating more positive attitudes toward patient safety. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Email use, poor health, multimorbidity, and number of visits to a physician are positively correlated. (jmir.org)
  • The relationship between high email use, poor health, doctor visits, and multimorbidity is especially pertinent: provision of asynchronous communication for such groups is favored by policymakers. (jmir.org)
  • A fascinating text that addresses the clinical and educational challenges of treating psychiatric patients from a truly multidisciplinary perspective using a case-based format, Approach to the Psychiatric Patient: Case-Based Essays is the only book of its kind and an indispensable addition to the mental health practitioner's library. (appi.org)
  • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted on October 25, 2023 Advisory Opinion No. 23-08, in which OIG rejected a proposed arrangement from a cochlear implant device manufacturer (the requestor) that would provide a free hearing aid to certain qualified patients who received a cochlear implant. (audiology.org)
  • We analyzed clinical data of patients with anosmia using Korean National Health Insurance Service data from 2006 to 2016. (nature.com)
  • However, the medico-legal principles are universal in that patients or their relatives must express a concern or file a complaint about a physician or a health institution. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In Norway, this process is the responsibility of the National Board of Health Supervision (NBHS), which receives the most serious patient complaints and assesses whether a doctor should be disciplined. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Data were evaluated from 46 patients aged between 19 and 74 who had undergone operative resection of the brain tumour," explained Prof. Stefan Oberndorfer, head of the Clinical Department of Neurology at St. Pölten University Hospital, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences. (openpr.com)
  • However, some of the major challenges include access to medicines in vulnerable groups, increasing costs and demand for new medicines, access to prescribers, budgetary constraints, cultural and health literacy, patient affordability and evidence requirement for gaining subsidy for medicines. (bmj.com)
  • Cross-sectional study in randomly selected 992 hypertensive patients under a Chilean national comprehensive Cardiovascular Health Program (CVHP). (hindawi.com)
  • Assessments of the duration of morning stiffness, the Disease Activity Score (DAS: a composite score based on erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), number of painful and swollen joints and patient global assessment), pain (Visual Analogue Scale), the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scale (AIMS) and the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) were performed every three months. (bmj.com)
  • But this public health issue has far reaching consequences that impact not just the daily lives of those injured, but also their families and their overall quality of life," said CDC Injury Center director Dr. Ileana Arias. (cdc.gov)
  • In accordance with the Principles governing relations between the World Health Organization and nongovernmental organizations,1 the Standing Committee on Nongovernmental Organizations2 met on 19 January 2010. (who.int)
  • The Secretariat noted that it continues to value its relations with the International Union and wished to pursue a plan for collaboration that would be aligned with WHO's current priorities in health technology and budgetary exigencies. (who.int)
  • Writer and literary critic Jeffrey Meyers writes that the novel is the "most complete and accurate fictional account of the nature of disease and its relation to love. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the other hand, some physicians call disease a phase that hinders normal function of the body. (planetayurveda.com)
  • When the patient suffers from a disease caused due to the entry of a foreign organism like virus or bacteria, into the system. (planetayurveda.com)
  • The characteristic feature of this type is that disease can be cured in the course of medication. (planetayurveda.com)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is announcing a revision to the multimedia educational physicians' tool kit to help provide earlier diagnosis, management and appropriate referral for patients with concussions. (cdc.gov)
  • Patients (average age, 59.7 years) reported a mean duration of diabetes of 9.1 years, with 34.3% having had the disease more than 10 years. (annfammed.org)
  • The CONCOR (CONgenital COR vitia) database is a Dutch national registry of patients with congenital heart disease, founded by the Netherlands Heart Foundation, that started to enrol patients in 2001. (bmj.com)
  • The team will also undertake a genotype to establish if there are any genetic characteristics that contribute to susceptibility for the disease. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • The remaining 20% of familial hypophosphatemia patients have autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets from gain-of-function autosomal recessive hypophosphatemic rickets and hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets with hypercalciuria. (medscape.com)
  • Young patients with congenital olfactory disorders show tend not to aware of olfactory disturbances of their own 5 . (nature.com)
  • Due to the high percentage of people with tuberculosis infection and the high number of death among these patients, this study is a prospective study aimed to categorize and find the relationship between different clinical and demographic characteristics. (scirp.org)
  • Eric Ebel] Well, in lieu of a direct comparison of exposure pathways between outbreak and sporadic foodborne illnesses, we compared selected demographic, clinical, temporal, and geographic characteristics of outbreak and sporadic cases. (cdc.gov)
  • However, whereas patients are demographically and socio-economically heterogeneous, physicians typically come from affluent and highly-educated backgrounds. (diw.de)
  • In conclusion, ED crowding primarily decreases system-level satisfaction scores and affects not only patient s who are admitted and boarding but also discharged patient s. (cdc.gov)
  • Vehicles for ground transport of pediatric and neonatal patients in the United States are usually truck chassis-based and either large enough to transport a single patient, similar in size to most ambulances (on the right), or larger units designed to transport several critically ill infants in transport incubators (on the left). (medscape.com)
  • The K-Means clustering data mining algorithms and decision trees are used to perform the categorization and determine common indicators among patients. (scirp.org)
  • However, I think that it is very important to understand the concept of "Amae" in considering the relationship between a nurse and a patient. (intechopen.com)
  • Postmortem examination verified that the lungs in patients died of COVID-19 are indeed filled with sticky mucus, suggesting a great need to improve airway mucus clearance in critically ill COVID-19 patients. (techscience.com)
  • These characteristics generally differ from other lung pathologies, such as bacterial pneumonia or other viral (non-COVID-19) lung infection. (peerj.com)