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However, while family members will typically express concern over the IP's problems, they may instinctively react to any improvement on the identified patient's part by attempting to reinstate the status quo. (wikipedia.org)
From the beginning of the patient's journey through the end of treatment, IDENTIFY plays an important role during each step. (varian.com)
IDENTIFY helps to minimize treatment variables and reduces the opportunity for error over the course of a patient's treatment. (varian.com)
It chose IDENTIFY as its surface-guidance solution to complement its new SRS program, but has found value beyond just SRS and now use it for almost every patient's treatment. (varian.com)
So, Oliver, I think you would agree that we, as clinicians, investigators, those who care for patients with prostate cancer, really are seeking ways to find the patient voice, the patient experience from the patient's own perspective. (urotoday.com)
As McCabe's (2004) study shows, communication in nursing care is an area that is largely overlooked, often because nurses within a hospital setting will tend to focus on practical tasks involving a patient, and on occasion may feel unable to communicate with patient's due to lack of time. (nmmra.org)
It is possible that the person who volunteers to be involved in your patient's care may not be the person your patient prefers to be involved with. (medlineplus.gov)

A model using ultrasonic biomarkers could help physicians identify patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) who have advanced fibrosis. (auntminnie.com)
Clearance on this basis means EpiCept is having to perform post-approval studies to further elucidate the clinical pharmacology of Ceplene by assessing certain biomarkers in AML patients in first remission and to assess the effect of combination therapy using Ceplene and IL-2 on the development of minimal residual disease in the same patient population. (genengnews.com)
However, no biomarkers have been clinically validated that can identify patients most likely to respond to this treatment," said study lead Robert Orlowski, M.D., Ph.D., chair ad interim of Lymphoma/Myeloma . (mdanderson.org)
The identification of new biomarkers may further help to identify appropriate patients with this incurable disease for such treatment. (amgen.com)
The RAS biomarkers were identified in a predefined retrospective subset analysis of the PRIME trial, where RAS was defined as exons 2, 3 and 4 of KRAS and NRAS . (amgen.com)
One of the major issues going forward is to identify the appropriate asymptomatic patient, either with biomarkers or imaging findings, that physicians should be referring for aortic valve replacement. (tctmd.com)
65 years-old at diagnosis treated in the Spanish PETHEMA-FLUGAZA clinical trial in order to identify new prognostic biomarkers in this population. (cun.es)
This unique signature highlights the potential of transcriptomics to identify prognostic biomarkers in in elderly AML. (cun.es)

Identified patient (IP) is a clinical term often used in family therapy discussion. (wikipedia.org)
Misdiagnosis happens, when patients that are diagnosed with COPD do not present with airway obstruction below the clinical cutoff for the definition of COPD. (nature.com)
In this article, we take a closer look at how two cancer care centers, one in the USA and the other in the Netherlands, have successfully implemented IDENTIFY to support single-fraction stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and Deep Inspiration Breath Hold (DIBH), in order to help increase clinical confidence and improve patient safety. (varian.com)
As IDENTIFY continues to transform their clinical practices, the staff at Mountain View Hospital are now planning to use this technology in their CT room. (varian.com)
A delayed neurological response to processing the written word could be an indicator that a patient with mild memory problems is at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to new research published in Neuroimage Clinical. (gulf-times.com)
Transcranial ultrasound identifies structural alterations of the substantia nigra such as increased iron presence, before Parkinsonism gives rise to clinical manifestations. (sciencedaily.com)
It needs to be joint decision-making, clinical decision-making between patient and provider. (ajmc.com)
Risk stratification tools, such as the widely used Johns Hopkins ACG (formerly Adjusted Clinical Groups) System, play an important role in the identification of specific patient groups for PHM, aiming to identify subgroups in whom avoidable adverse health events could be prevented. (ajmc.com)
And we've tried to do that from clinical trial analyses and certainly by talking to patients in our own clinic. (urotoday.com)
Patients will then have clinical follow-up before undergoing a repeat CTCA at 2 years to assess progression of coronary disease. (ed.ac.uk)
Clinical review of all patients will continue until study completion (given 2 years of recruitment this is likely to last 4 years) and following this the investigators will continue to monitor for further cardiovascular events via review of patient electronic health records for a further 5 years. (ed.ac.uk)
Researchers searched Medline, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Clinical Trials to collect all relevant data from randomized clinical trials that assessed antifungal prophylaxis in patients with hematological disease. (cancernetwork.com)
There are clinical challenges related to adjuvant treatment in colorectal cancer (CRC) and novel molecular markers are needed for better risk stratification of patients. (frontiersin.org)
The integration of IFNG -rs1861494 in our previous clinical genetic multiparametric score of DFS improved the patients' risk stratification (Log-rank P = 0.0026 in the pooled population). (frontiersin.org)
An active follow-up means we need to clearly follow patients and identify any occurrence of symptoms or clinical deterioration. (tctmd.com)
The American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) recommend a watch-and-wait approach that includes serial clinical and echocardiographic examinations for patients with asymptomatic AS. (tctmd.com)
To TCTMD, Lancellotti said they selected heart valve centers because they wanted to accurately identify the natural history of asymptomatic AS in patients who would be stringently followed over time and managed and/or treated according to the clinical guidelines. (tctmd.com)
In an FDA notice on Friday , the agency said that patients in one of the identified subgroups should contact their VAD coordinator if they need to make a controller exchange, so that it can take place in a clinical setting. (medtechdive.com)
CancerTherapyAdvisor.com is a free online resource that offers oncology healthcare professionals a comprehensive knowledge base of practical oncology information and clinical tools to assist in making the right decisions for their patients. (cancertherapyadvisor.com)
Patient-clinician communication: American Society Of Clinical Oncology consensus guideline. (medlineplus.gov)
During this COCA call, CDC flu experts will address clinical issues for influenza patients, including those with severe disease, and provide the latest updates on the 2017-2018 influenza season. (cdc.gov)
While some publications have described the clinical features of adult patients with the B.1.1.7 variant, little information is available on newborn patients. (who.int)
We report the clinical characteristics, treatment and care practices for a 21-day-old newborn patient who was confirmed to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 in Viet Nam during contact tracing after her father was confirmed to be infected with SARS-CoV-2. (who.int)
Providing patients with clinical summaries for each visit? (cdc.gov)

To identify gene expression patterns that may affect long-term outcomes in this high-risk group, a group of Spanish researchers, led by Marta Casarrubios, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Puerta de Hierro-Segovia de Arana (IDIPHISA), Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Spain, analysed surgical samples of non-CPR patients and characterized the differences between progressors and non-progressors. (eurekalert.org)
As more and more research indicated improved patient outcomes and minimal cognitive impairment from brain SRS treatments compared to regular radiotherapy, we decided to offer our patients this type of treatment closer to home," says Dr. Calvin McAllister, radiation oncologist with Intermountain Radiation Oncology. (varian.com)
Dr. Frederico Asch of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, shared findings from the Cardiovascular Outcomes Assessment of the MitraClip Percutaneous Therapy for Heart Failure Patients with Functional Mitral Regurgitation (COAPT) trial. (auntminnie.com)
The group found that patients who underwent TMVR had equally beneficial outcomes compared with those who underwent traditional medical therapy at follow-up, leading the team to conclude that patients with similar characteristics to those in the trial could be considered for this intervention, Asch said in the statement. (auntminnie.com)
Facilitated by Air Force Lt. Col. (Dr.) Renée Matos, assistant dean of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, the RCA W3 course was developed to ensure and improve quality care and reduce negative outcomes at MTFs. (health.mil)
It is becoming evident that identifying physical and psychological symptom burden and effectively managing symptoms in chronic disease is the key to reducing undesirable outcomes and costs. (vitas.com)
These results suggest that RAS mutation status beyond KRAS may be predictive of negative outcomes in patients receiving Vectibix plus FOLFOX in mCRC. (amgen.com)
Patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) followed at specialty heart-valve hospitals are at a low risk of sudden cardiac death and have "good midterm survival" outcomes, suggest the results of a new analysis. (tctmd.com)
But with asymptomatic patients, we don't know when to intervene or if we intervene whether it would be associated with improved outcomes. (tctmd.com)
The researchers analyzed outcomes from 1,375 patients treated at dedicated heart valve centers in Europe, Canada, and the United States between 2001 and 2014. (tctmd.com)
Highlights of the findings were recently presented at the CBI Coupon and Co-Pay Off-set Strategies conference, where MPRS, a division of McKesson Corporation dedicated to improving health outcomes by increasing patient adherence to prescribed medication regimens, served as the educational sponsor. (pharmacytimes.com)
This provides an opportunity for physicians, pharmacists, payers and pharmaceutical manufacturers to integrate efforts designed to better manage health and chronic disease, optimize patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs. (pharmacytimes.com)
Shannon Davila, MSN, RN, CIC, CPHQ Director, NJHA's Institute for Quality and Patient Safety At the Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey, an affiliate of the New Jersey Hospital Association, we are dedicated to helping our members improve patient outcomes. (cdc.gov)

Scientists have pinpointed 16 new genetic differences in people who developed severe COVID-19 in a large study that could help researchers develop treatments for very sick patients. (cbc.ca)
CEST) - Researchers from Spain have identified an immune expression signature in surgical specimens associated with disease progression for non-complete pathological responders patients treated with neo adjuvant chemo-immunotherapy, which could help the follow-up and therapeutic management of these high-risk patients. (eurekalert.org)
The researchers found that using a combination of a short, two-question test with a longer survey correctly identified patients with alcohol problems in 90.9 per cent of all cases. (sciencedaily.com)
Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) - a test that detects electrical activity in a person's brain via electrodes attached to their scalp - researchers at the University of Birmingham, the University of Kent, and the University of California studied the brain activity of a group of 25 patients to establish how quickly they processed words shown to them on a computer screen. (gulf-times.com)
Researchers hope to test the validity of the biomarker in a large group of patients in the UK to see if it's a specific predictor of Alzheimer's disease or a general marker for dementia involving the temporal lobe. (gulf-times.com)
COAPT enrolled 614 patients with heart failure and moderate to severe secondary mitral regurgitation, and the researchers randomly assigned them to undergo TMVR or traditional medical therapy (e.g., diuretics, beta-blockers and other medications, and/or a pacemaker). (auntminnie.com)
In 2006, and after 5 years of follow-up, researchers showed that one-half of all patients with REM sleep disturbances develop a neurodegenerative disorder such as Parkinson's disease. (sciencedaily.com)
The researchers found that social frailty was prevalent in 36.8% of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the study population. (ajmc.com)
Researchers from Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine and Merck & Co. created and validated a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm to identify patients with chronic cough. (medicalxpress.com)
Patients who are unlikely to benefit from a commonly used immunotherapy for bladder cancer could be identified by a simple blood test, according to researchers at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). (medicalxpress.com)
US researchers have identified an enzyme that may explain the reason why people with diabetes are at especially high risk of developing severe illness or dying from coronavirus infection. (weather.com)
Researchers from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, analyzed stool samples from 320 patients showing no symptoms of C. difficile at hospital admission using a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. (analytica-world.com)
In order to identify relevant studies, the investigators had 2 researchers conduct independent searches in the Web of Science, PubMed, and EMBASE databases to find relevant research published prior to January 09, 2023. (consultantlive.com)
The findings of the systematic literature review are expected to inform researchers on the components required for building a smart health ecosystem for asthma patients. (plymouth.ac.uk)
The researchers studied the test in two groups of patients. (cancertherapyadvisor.com)
Prostate cancer researchers have developed a genetic test to identify which men are at highest risk for their prostate cancer to come back after localized treatment with surgery or radiotherapy. (cancertherapyadvisor.com)
He adds that the researchers "were able to identify the principal prognostic risk factors, both negative and positive. (medscape.com)
Among the positive risk factors, researchers identified routine treatment with metformin and a history of COVID-19 symptoms before hospitalization. (medscape.com)

MitraClip was shown to be beneficial in the study population in all subgroups analyzed, regardless of patients' echocardiographic characteristics," he said. (auntminnie.com)
As part of its protocol preparation process for the new pivotal study, EpiCept conducted additional analyses of AML subgroups from its original 320 patient Phase III trial in AML patients in first remission. (genengnews.com)
Medtronic previously identified two other subgroups of patients that face an increased likelihood of pump problems. (medtechdive.com)

A new study by the same group uses SPECT and transcranial ultrasound neuroimaging techniques to identify those patients at greatest risk of developing neurodegenerative disease. (sciencedaily.com)
All of them belonged to the group of 27 patients (62.8%) showing low FP-CIT uptake at SPECT and/or hyperechogenicity in the substantia nigra in transcranial ultrasound. (sciencedaily.com)

The research team, led by Dr Alex Mitchell, honorary senior lecturer at the University's Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine and an NHS consultant in psycho-oncology at Leicestershire Partnership Trust, believe the findings could make it easier for GPs to identify drinking problems which would otherwise remain hidden. (sciencedaily.com)
In turn, the patients with normal neuroimaging findings showed no neurological disorders after 2.5 years of follow-up. (sciencedaily.com)
This report documents the findings from qualitative interviews that assessed clinician and patient perspectives on various options for displaying MBC data. (rand.org)
This report documents the findings from qualitative interviews that assessed clinician and patient perspectives on various options for displaying MBC data, with the goal of identifying core features of MBC data displays. (rand.org)
Our findings provide a rationale for use of TJP1 as the first biomarker to select patients who are most and least likely to benefit from proteasome inhibitors. (mdanderson.org)
Findings published in JAMA Network Open suggested that voriconazole (Vfend) may be the best prophylaxis option for patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), and posaconazole (Noxafil) may be the best prophylaxis option for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). (cancernetwork.com)
These findings could improve the discrimination of patients who would benefit from adjuvant treatment. (frontiersin.org)
The research spanned across six therapeutic categories and findings were compared to MPRS's 2011 patient research. (pharmacytimes.com)
She further explains that these findings may suggest a specific killer T cell response common to both patients driving this response, with the possibility that other people with HIV have also achieved a sterilizing cure. (scitechdaily.com)
The study findings highlight the need for leadership support for formal integrated models of palliative care for patients with COVID-19, a palliative care role in pandemic planning, and educational initiatives with primary palliative care providers. (nih.gov)
The findings could assist health professionals identify and intercede more quickly with interventions for PTSD-such as cognitive behavioral therapy-that have been shown to be effective in treating the disorder, especially in the emergency room setting-where most victims of trauma are often first seen. (integrativepractitioner.com)
The investigation, initiated during the first wave of the pandemic, has already accumulated a large amount of data, with early findings published in May 2020 suggesting 10.6% of patients with type 2 diabetes and COVID-19 and 5.6% of those with type 1 diabetes and COVID-19 died within 7 days of hospital admission. (medscape.com)

Indeed, the transcriptomic landscape of AML in the elderly has been less explored and it might help stratify this group of patients. (cun.es)
We identified a specific transcriptomic signature for high-risk patients with mutated TP53 or complex karyotype, revealing that low expression of B7H3 gene with high expression of BANP gene identifies a subset of high-risk AML patients surviving more than 12 months. (cun.es)
Given the unique trial design of SweBCG91-RT, where adjuvant endocrine and chemotherapy were largely unadministered, we sought to evaluate the potential of transcriptomic profiling for identifying patients who may be spared adjuvant endocrine therapy. (lu.se)
Most transcriptomic signatures were highly prognostic for distant metastasis, but considerable discordance was observed on the individual patient level. (lu.se)
Conclusions: Transcriptomic profiling identifies patients with an excellent outcome without any systemic adjuvant therapy in clinically low-risk patients of the SweBCG91-RT and METABRIC cohorts. (lu.se)

Several case-finding tools for identifying undiagnosed disease have been developed 6 , 7 , but the only available methods to identify cases of misdiagnosed disease is manual evaluation of patients, health records or through autopsies. (nature.com)
Furthermore, to the best of our knowledge, no methods to identify overdiagnosis at the single patient level have been developed. (nature.com)
What are the best methods to visually display MBC data to clinicians and patients within behavioral health settings? (rand.org)
Little is known about the best methods to display MBC data in a way that is clear and useful to both clinicians and patients. (rand.org)
METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of 859 community-dwelling patients aged ≥70 years treated at 15 primary care practices. (annfammed.org)
Methods - Patients from randomly selected primary care practices were assigned to four categories according to their previous diagnoses: asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, related respiratory conditions and nonasthma conditions. (ices.on.ca)
Comparison of methods for identifying patients at risk of medication-related harm. (ahrq.gov)
METHODS: Videos of 55 patients with different IEMs were scored by experienced movement disorder specialists (n = 12). (lu.se)

As a family system is dynamic, the overt symptoms of an identified patient draw attention away from the "elephants in the living room no one can talk about" which need to be discussed. (wikipedia.org)
The identified patient - also called the "symptom-bearer" or "presenting problem" - may display unexplainable emotional or physical symptoms, and is often the first person to seek help, perhaps at the request of the family. (wikipedia.org)
Measurement-based care (MBC) in behavioral health is intended to improve the effectiveness of care through routine monitoring of patient symptoms to inform treatment and engage patients. (rand.org)
Repeated assessment of patient symptoms, such as depression symptoms, yields multiple scores over time. (rand.org)
Clinicians and patients preferred the inclusion of interpretive ranges that indicated the severity of depression symptoms (e.g., mild, moderate) on the graph. (rand.org)
Clinicians preferred the inclusion of a threshold line indicating the level of symptoms associated with a probable posttraumatic stress disorder diagnosis, but patient perceptions were more mixed. (rand.org)
She said that all I have been doing over the years is running away from the effects of the sex abuse by gambling and taking excess medication to block out the symptoms of the sex abuse," the patient said. (irishtimes.com)
We feel good that this patient not only had mild symptoms but actually the symptoms appear to be improving. (theblaze.com)
Patients were asked if they had experienced any of a list of 74 symptoms classified by physiologic system in the previous 6 months and if (1) they believed the symptom to be related to their medication, (2) the symptom had bothered them, (3) they had discussed it with their family physician, and (4) they required hospital care due to the symptom. (annfammed.org)
13 In the United States, a study of 11 common adverse events in cancer treatment found that patients assigned greater severity to their symptoms than did their clinicians. (annfammed.org)
In the introduction to the study " The Relationship Between Physical and Psychological Symptoms and Health Care Utilization in Hospitalized Patients with Advanced Cancer ," it is noted that more than half of patients with cancer are admitted to the hospital at least once during their last month of life. (vitas.com)
The critical need is for the cancer care team to monitor and effectively address physical and psychological symptoms early in the course of treatment and establish ongoing palliative and hospice care support teams to help maintain the patient in their choice of care residence. (vitas.com)
These services can be the win-win solution for many of these declining, chronically ill patients, their encumbering symptoms and their overutilization of healthcare. (vitas.com)
The symptoms of sleep disordered breathing in patients with neuromuscular diseases can be subtle because often the disease processes are slowly progressive in nature. (sleepreviewmag.com)
Tom Cahill, MBBS (Oxford University Hospitals, England), who was not involved in the study, praised the robust analysis, and said these new data suggest the current strategy of simply waiting for symptoms to develop before intervening isn't the right approach for every patient. (tctmd.com)
Valve replacement is also recommended if the patient is undergoing concomitant valve or coronary surgery or has induced symptoms on a treadmill stress test. (tctmd.com)
The patient displayed no symptoms of COVID-19 on admission but 3 days later developed diarrhoea, vomiting, a runny nose and a productive cough. (who.int)
During treatment, the patient received Vietnamese traditional herbal peppermint extracts for cough and digestive probiotics for diarrhoeal symptoms. (who.int)

The new data contributed by the investigators of the Hospital Clínic -- IDIBAPS make it possible to identify the disease at preclinical stages in patients with REM sleep disturbances. (sciencedaily.com)
The investigators have concluded that the neuroimaging tests make it possible to identify patients with REM sleep disturbances who are at high risk of early development of a neurodegenerative disorder such as Parkinson's disease. (sciencedaily.com)
The investigators intend to recruit 700 patients hospitalised with myocardial infarction and proven multivessel coronary artery disease. (ed.ac.uk)
Importantly, though this subgroup analyses found different results among different patient populations, the data did not allow investigators to perform more detailed analyses, such as those for different ages and races/ethnicities. (cancernetwork.com)
However, asymptomatic patients with very severe AS, specifically those with markers of impaired valve hemodynamics or heart function, fared worse than individuals with less severe AS, suggesting that certain patients might benefit from an earlier valve intervention, according to investigators. (tctmd.com)
Furthermore, the investigators identified 3 risk factors associated with acne scars: being male (odds ratio [OR]: 1.58, 95% CI: 1.19 - 2.09), having a positive family history of acne (OR: 2.73, 95% CI: 1.26 - 5.91), and experiencing moderate (OR: 2.34, 95% CI: 1.54 - 3.57) or severe acne (OR: 5.51, 95% CI: 2.45 - 12.41). (consultantlive.com)

The Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Location should be used to report Dialysis Events, and denominator data, for patients who have acute kidney injury and do not have an end-stage renal disease (ESRD) diagnosis at the time of the Event, or denominator data collection. (cdc.gov)
Patients with non-CPR were further categorized as progressors (P, n=5) or non-progressors (NP, n=9) depending on whether they had disease progression or not at 34.2 months from diagnosis. (eurekalert.org)
Here, we adopt the following definition of overdiagnosis, namely that overdiagnosis is when the diagnosis is correct in the sense that it exists but will cause more harm than benefit for the patient 4 , whereas misdiagnosis is defined as an incorrect diagnosis where the patient does not match the definition of the diagnosis. (nature.com)
In the previous work of this same team, 45% of the patients studied had developed a neurodegenerative disorder 5 years after diagnosis of the sleep disturbance. (sciencedaily.com)
In this study, the authors developed a method for use in primary care to identify a group of patients with complex care needs using Aggregated Diagnosis Groups. (ajmc.com)
Aggregated Diagnosis Groups-the ACG System's categorization of diagnosis types-seem to be an effective multimorbidity marker, which can be used in primary care to identify complex patient groups. (ajmc.com)
The goal of this survey was to map patient experiences, expectations, and attitudes, and to identify challenges and unmet needs in diagnosis, therapy patterns, care teams, quality of life (QoL), patient organizations, and resources. (urotoday.com)
Identify other tests that can assist with diagnosis of beryllium-related diseases. (cdc.gov)

It is potentially possible in future that we will be able to make predictions about patients based on their genome at the point of presenting [for] critical care,' Kenneth Baillie, consultant in critical care medicine at the University of Edinburgh and one of the study authors, told reporters. (cbc.ca)
The genetic analysis of nearly 56,000 samples from people in Britain showed differences in 23 genes in COVID-19 patients who became critically ill, when compared with the DNA of other groups included in the study, including 16 differences that had not been previously identified. (cbc.ca)
Crucially, what we found in our study is that this brain response is aberrant in individuals who will go on in the future to develop Alzheimer's disease, but intact in patients who remained stable," said Dr Katrien Segaert of the University of Birmingham. (gulf-times.com)
Elastography could help with treatment strategies for colorectal cancer patients, a study presented November 26 at the RSNA annual meeting found. (auntminnie.com)
A new study published by the same team in Lancet Neurology applies neuroimaging techniques to identify patients with REM sleep disturbances who will develop neurodegenerative disorders over the short term. (sciencedaily.com)
The new study goes beyond this point and presents the data relating to the follow-up of 43 new patients during two years and a half after undergoing the neuroimaging tests. (sciencedaily.com)
The study describes how 19% of the patients had developed a neurodegenerative disorder in the two and a half years following the neuroimaging tests. (sciencedaily.com)
New analyses of trial data with EpiCept's acute myeloid leukemia (AML) drug Ceplene® (histamine dihydrochloride) have identified a subgroup of treated patients who exhibit particular survival benefit, a finding the firm says will help the design of a new Phase III study to support resubmission of its NDA. (genengnews.com)
With this study, the ACG System has proven to be a useful tool in the identification of patients with complex care needs in primary care, opening up possibilities for tailored interventions of care management for this complex group of patients. (ajmc.com)
A gene known as TJP1 (tight junction protein 1) could help determine which multiple myeloma patients would best benefit from proteasome inhibitors such as bortezomib, as well as combination approaches to enhance proteasome inhibitor sensitivity, according to a study led by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center . (mdanderson.org)
This study allows us to identify promising future directions to overcome proteasome inhibitor resistance in patients with high signaling through EGFR/JAK1/STAT3 pathway by offering combination therapies such as bortezomib with either the EGFR inhibitor erlotinib, or a JAK1 inhibitor such as ruxolitinib," said Orlowski. (mdanderson.org)
The validation paper, published in the journal Chest , is the first to use NLP to identify and examine this condition, and the study created the largest assembled cohort of chronic cough patients to this point. (medicalxpress.com)
In a separate predefined secondary objective subset analysis of the PEAK study, patients with wild-type RAS mCRC treated with Vectibix in combination with FOLFOX had a median PFS of 13.1 months compared to 9.5 months (HR = 0.63, 95 percent CI, 0.43-0.94) for patients treated with bevacizumab in combination with FOLFOX. (amgen.com)
The PRIME ( P anitumumab R andomized trial I n combination with chemotherapy for M etastatic colorectal cancer to determine E fficacy) ('203) trial is a global, multicenter, randomized Phase 3 study designed to evaluate (primary endpoint of PFS) Vectibix (6.0 mg/kg every two weeks) plus FOLFOX versus FOLFOX alone in patients with wild-type KRAS exon 2 mCRC. (amgen.com)
Patient harm in general surgery--a prospective study. (ahrq.gov)
The study suggested that voriconazole (Vfend) may be the best prophylaxis option for patients undergoing HSCT, and posaconazole (Noxafil) may be the best prophylaxis option for patients with AML or MDS. (cancernetwork.com)
The study population included a total of 270 stage II-III CRC patients treated with adjuvant FL with (FL + OXA, n = 119) or without oxaliplatin (FL, n = 151). (frontiersin.org)
To TCTMD, Cahill highlighted the ongoing EVOLVED study, which is testing whether cardiac fibrosis detected on MRI can successfully guide early valve replacement in asymptomatic patients with severe AS. (tctmd.com)
The pilot study, conducted under the supervision of Professor Florian Kern, Chair of Immunology at BSMS, shows that a test measuring the release of the pro-inflammatory molecule, Interleukin-2, from immune cells performed before therapy appears to immediately identify about 50% of the patients who will not benefit from the treatment. (medicalxpress.com)
If confirmed in a larger study, this test could save tens of thousands of patients valuable time and the negative experience of undergoing eventually unsuccessful therapy. (medicalxpress.com)
In the new study, the team found blood serum from patients in the ICU with diabetes and severe COVID-19 had reduced levels of interferon-beta compared to patients without diabetes. (weather.com)
Testing patients with just three risk factors upon hospital admission has potential to identify nearly three out of four asymptomatic carriers of C. difficile, according to a new study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Infection Control. (analytica-world.com)
According to the authors, one or more of the three independent risk factors were present in 155 (48 percent) of study participants, and screening only those with one or more of these factors would have identified 23 C. difficile carriers (74 percent). (analytica-world.com)
However, the authors also state that these results should be interpreted keeping in mind that only 22 percent of all eligible patients provided stool for C. difficile PCR, and the study population was not representative of all patients admitted to the hospital. (analytica-world.com)
This is the first study to demonstrate the feasibility of performing C. difficile surveillance on hospitalized patients at admission. (analytica-world.com)
While more research needs to be conducted on the transmission of C. difficile infection from colonized patients, this study may help institutions with persistently high rates of transmission develop an expanded strategy for targeted C. difficile surveillance," said APIC 2013 President Patti Grant, RN, BSN, MS, CIC. (analytica-world.com)
Patients in the study, who had experienced trauma ranging from traffic and workplace accidents to assaults and terrorist attacks, were initially evaluated using the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-IV (CAPS), considered the "gold standard" for assessing PTSD. (integrativepractitioner.com)
For example in a recent case study, poor communication occurred between a nurse and patient, with pressure ulcers, due to a language barrier, and because of this, the patient was deeply anxious and psychologically distressed as she could not understand what the nurse was explaining about her condition. (nmmra.org)
Although half of patients with diabetes hospitalized with COVID-19 will be discharged from hospital within a month of admission, a fifth will have died, suggest the latest results from the French CORONADO study. (medscape.com)
For the study, 2796 patients with diabetes were hospitalized with COVID-19 at 68 institutions across France between March 10 and April 10, 2020, and followed for 28 days. (medscape.com)
[ 2 , 4 ] More alarming, in a large Canadian study, 48% of patients who had suicidal ideation and 24% of those who had made a suicide attempt reported not receiving care or even perceiving the need for care. (medscape.com)
for example, the regional research study on the magnitude and scope of adverse events in 6 EMR countries, as well as the following patient safety interventions being undertaken in the Region and coordinated in WHO-EMRO. (who.int)
The aim of the present study was to eluci- date the biology and prognostic role of the second ER, ERh, in patients treated with adjuvant tamoxifen. (lu.se)

Beginning January 1, 2018, dialysis facilities should include acute kidney injury (AKI) patients in National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Dialysis Event Surveillance. (cdc.gov)
Patient safety and acute care medicine: lessons for the future, insights from the past. (ahrq.gov)

Identifying and characterizing a chronic cough cohort through electronic health records, Chest (2020). (medicalxpress.com)

As populations age and the presence of multimorbid and complex patients becomes the norm, the pressure on health systems in terms of workload and costs is immense. (ajmc.com)
PURPOSE To evaluate a patient-report instrument for identifying adverse drug events (ADEs) in older populations with multimorbidity in the community setting. (annfammed.org)
Identify the populations most heavily exposed to beryllium. (cdc.gov)

The SPH Portal provides a comprehensive one-stop platform for partners and donors to identify gaps in a country's health security capacities, assess opportunities to target their financial and technical resources for the maximum public health benefit, and explore mechanisms for collaboration with countries. (who.int)
The patient safety tool kit that includes the methodology that field teams may refer to and a set of tools (solutions) to support them in reducing patient safety gaps at the institutional level. (who.int)
We need an evaluation of health care quality in the Region and what quality improvements have been made that not only identifies the challenges and gaps, but also the priorities and needed future action. (who.int)

The primary objective of this predefined retrospective subset analysis was to determine the effect of Vectibix plus FOLFOX versus FOLFOX alone on overall survival in patients with mCRC based on RAS or BRAF mutation status. (amgen.com)
ExperimentalDesign: We investigated ERh by immunohistochemistry in 353 stage II primary breast tumors from patients treated with 2 years adjuvant tamoxifen, and generated gene expres- sion profiles for a representative subset of 88 tumors. (lu.se)

Palliative care is well suited to support patients hospitalized with COVID-19, but integration into care has been variable and generally poor. (nih.gov)

A transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., with virus particles seen emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. (cbc.ca)
Blood clotting is one of the main reasons why patients with COVID develop a shortage of oxygen. (cbc.ca)
The drug was shown last week to cut the risk of death and hospitalization in COVID-19 patients by 13 per cent in a trial. (cbc.ca)
The very first case of the newly identified COVID-19 Omicron variant has been detected in California, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Wednesday. (theblaze.com)
To understand barriers and facilitators of palliative care integration for hospitalized patients with COVID-19. (nih.gov)
Internists, Intensivists and palliative care physicians completed semi-structured interviews about their experiences providing care to patients with COVID-19. (nih.gov)
Six thematic categories were described including: patient and family factors, palliative care knowledge, primary provider factors, COVID-19 specific factors, palliative care service factors, and leadership and culture factors. (nih.gov)
We also found that 12.2% of patients were still in hospital and 16.9% had been transferred," says Wargny, who underlines that the data were gathered during the first wave of the pandemic and would certainly be different today, with in-hospital mortality having decreased among patients with COVID-19. (medscape.com)
However, "these are post-hoc studies that are not able to answer questions over the treatment of diabetic patients hospitalized with COVID," warns Wargny. (medscape.com)

Peak aortic velocity and LVEF can help physicians select asymptomatic patients who might benefit from an early AVR intervention. (tctmd.com)
We don't know exactly how to manage these patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis," lead investigator Patrizio Lancellotti, MD, PhD (University of Liège Hospital, Belgium), told TCTMD. (tctmd.com)
These parameters would probably change our minds, and also hopefully the guidelines, about when to intervene in patients with severe aortic stenosis when the patient is still asymptomatic. (tctmd.com)
In fact, there's an appreciable mortality in patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis. (tctmd.com)
Surgical valve replacement is recommended in asymptomatic severe AS patients with impaired valve hemodynamics and/or impaired LVEF (less than 50%) at low- or intermediate-risk for surgery. (tctmd.com)

We have used a national patient registry, which contains hospital diagnoses for 6.9 million patients across the entire Danish population for 21 years and identified statistically significant disease trajectories for COPD patients. (nature.com)
However, EpiCept says more detailed analysis of subgroup data suggests that patients with AML of monocyte origin achieve a statistically significant increase in overall survival when treated using Ceplene plus low-dose IL-2. (genengnews.com)

Low lung volumes leading to collapse of the lung on a microscopic level (microatelectasis) can occur, resulting in lower arterial oxygen level, which predisposes patients to severe desaturation even when mild hypoventilation occurs. (sleepreviewmag.com)
OBJECTIVE: The aim is to develop a user-friendly rapid screening tool for nonmovement disorder specialists to detect moderate and severe movement disorders in patients aged ≥4 years with IEMs. (lu.se)
Treatment was mainly suggested for patients with moderate or severe movement disorders. (lu.se)

This result supported that FLs monotherapy is the preferred treatment for a patient with stage II disease, even if the routine administration of adjuvant therapy is not recommended in these patients. (frontiersin.org)

The current ELN 2017 genetic risk classification considers cytogenetic and mutational characteristics to stratify fit AML patients into different prognostic groups. (cun.es)
Statin therapy was a negative prognostic factor, with a 42% increased risk of death among patients on statins for whom complete data were available. (medscape.com)

An ERh gene expression profile was identified and was markedly different from the ERa signature. (lu.se)
Conclusion: Expression of ERh is an independent marker for favorable prognosis after adjuvant tamoxifen treatment in ERa-negative breast cancer patients and involves a gene expression program distinct from ERa. (lu.se)

Identifying these patients is important for characterizing treatment and unmet needs. (medicalxpress.com)

In this sense, non-complete pathological response (non-CPR) patients present higher risk of disease progression compared to complete pathological responders (CPR). (eurekalert.org)
Additionally, we have identified an immune expression signature in surgical specimens associated to disease progression for non-CPR patients which could help in the follow-up and therapeutic management of these high-risk patients. (eurekalert.org)
We present a data-driven, generic approach for identifying patients at risk of being mis- or overdiagnosed, here exemplified by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (nature.com)
Out of the 9597 patients, we identified one subgroup comprising 2185 patients at risk of misdiagnosed COPD without the typical events of COPD patients. (nature.com)
With predictive modeling, high-risk patients can be successfully selected for extensive and proactive care management programs. (ajmc.com)
One group for whom it seems beneficial to set up a PHM approach, including risk stratification, is that of patients with complex care needs, who have medical problems involving multiple health domains and experience a mismatch of care offerings with their needs. (ajmc.com)
To identify facilities at risk of receiving patients colonized or infected with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), we developed an interactive web-based interface for visualization of patient-sharing networks among healthcare facilities in Tennessee, USA. (cdc.gov)
The interface visualizes the facility of interest with its connected facilities that receive or send patients, the number of interfacility transfers, and facilities at risk of receiving transfers from the facility of interest. (cdc.gov)
Patients with neuromuscular diseases are at high risk for sleep disordered breathing. (sleepreviewmag.com)
18F-Fluoride positron emission tomography identifies ruptured and high-risk coronary atherosclerotic plaques. (ed.ac.uk)
Comparison of potential risk factors for medication errors with and without patient harm. (ahrq.gov)
However, the results from the QUASAR and MOSAIC trials demonstrated no further benefit when adding OXA to 5-FU in stage II patients, even those at high risk. (frontiersin.org)
In our population, by targeting those with identified risk factors, we would need to screen approximately half of those patients with anticipated stays longer than 24 hours, to identify three-fourths of those colonized with C. difficile," said the authors. (analytica-world.com)
Therefore, through a systematic and comprehensive literature search, we performed a meta-analysis designed to assess the prevalence and risk factors of acne scars in patients with acne," Chen and colleagues wrote. (consultantlive.com)
In conclusion, based on the published data, this meta-analysis found that 47% of patients with acne suffered from acne scars and male gender, positive family history of acne, and acne severity were risk factors for acne scars," they wrote. (consultantlive.com)
Prevalence and risk factors of acne scars in patients with acne vulgaris. (consultantlive.com)
We are moving from the near impossible task of trying to predict who will develop PTSD to more accurately identifying a risk score for each individual who was exposed to a traumatic event," says Arieh Shalev, MD, the Barbara Wilson Professor of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and lead author of the report. (integrativepractitioner.com)
Medtronic has identified a group of patients that may face a higher risk of problems with its HeartWare ventricular assist device (HVAD), the company said in an urgent medical device communication sent to customers last week. (medtechdive.com)
Medtronic has identified three groups of users that face a higher risk of problems restarting their HeartWare HVAD after it stops. (medtechdive.com)
All three groups of pumps flagged by the company share the same unnamed supplier, while other pumps that weren't identified as having an increased risk were made by a different company. (medtechdive.com)
Using both factors, the test can determine in 3 days with nearly 80% accuracy which patients with prostate cancer have the highest risk for disease recurrence. (cancertherapyadvisor.com)
Results: In SweBCG91-RT, 454 patients were node-negative, postmenopausal, and systemically untreated with ER-positive, HER2-negative cancers, which constitutes a low-risk subgroup and potential candidates for therapy omission. (lu.se)
Within the MET141 low-risk subgroup (lowest 25th percentile of scores), 95% of patients were free of metastasis at 15 years, even in the absence of adjuvant endocrine therapy. (lu.se)
In a clinically low-risk subgroup of the METABRIC cohort not treated with systemic therapy, no breast cancer death occurred among the MET141 low-risk patients. (lu.se)
Identify who is at risk of exposure to beryllium in the home. (cdc.gov)
No patient should be at risk of being harmed by the very process of health care. (who.int)

Their first project involved delivering radiotherapy treatment without masks for palliative patients. (varian.com)

Identifying and characterizing a chronic cough cohort through electronic health records" was published online ahead of print in Chest . (medicalxpress.com)

It is assessing whether the positron emission tomography (PET) tracer 18F-sodium fluoride is as a marker of coronary plaque vulnerability and can detect culprit and non-culprit unstable coronary plaques in patients with recent myocardial infarction. (ed.ac.uk)
All patients will undergo a combined CT coronary angiogram (CTCA) and PET scan using 18F-NaF as a tracer. (ed.ac.uk)

Our research is showing that maybe if we are able to target patients with diabetes with interferon, especially early in their infection, that may actually make a big difference,' Melvin said. (weather.com)
The authors wanted to estimate the reservoir of colonized patients as a source of potential transmission because despite rigorous infection control measures, C. difficile infection was increasing at their institution. (analytica-world.com)
Dried blood spots perform well to identify patients with active HCV infection in Vietnam. (bvsalud.org)
However, in resource -limited countries, identification of patients with active HCV infection is still challenging in remote settings due to the limited access to laboratories able to measure HCV viral load . (bvsalud.org)
In conclusion, DBS sample types, with either uncalibrated capillary blood or calibrated venous blood , performed well to distinguish patients with active HCV infection , and who therefore need treatment , from other patients . (bvsalud.org)

Alcohol problems are often undetected in primary care but by asking two simple questions, GPs could quickly uncover which patients have drinking problems -- including patients who would otherwise remain undetected -- according to new research. (sciencedaily.com)
Alcohol problems are often undetected in primary care but by asking two simple questions such as the two listed below, GPs could quickly uncover which patients have drinking problems -- including patients who would otherwise remain undetected -- according to new research by University of Leicester experts. (sciencedaily.com)
As part of its ongoing commitment to Intelligent Cancer Care, Varian combines innovation with advances in patient identification, safety, and motion tracking to offer a comprehensive patient guidance system. (varian.com)
The conversation needs to begin with the health care provider and the patient, and a good history has to be taken. (ajmc.com)
By 2012, the patient had informed the medical director of St Patrick's, Prof Jim Lucey, of his dissatisfaction with the care he was receiving. (irishtimes.com)
To produce an efficient and practically implementable method, based on primary care data exclusively, to identify patients with complex care needs who have problems in several health domains and are experiencing a mismatch of care. (ajmc.com)
A prediction model for patients with complex care needs was developed using a primary care population of 105,345 individuals. (ajmc.com)
The prediction model was externally validated on 30,793 primary care patients. (ajmc.com)
The Johns Hopkins ACG System appears to hold promise for identifying a complex group of patients with mismatched care. (ajmc.com)
Identifying complex groups of patients in primary care is the first step in providing appropriate and proactive care management. (ajmc.com)
Linkage of other data sources, especially social data, to general practitioners' data will provide complete patient profiles, allowing general practitioners to provide more adequate care. (ajmc.com)
1 Single-disease management approaches are no longer sufficient to meet the needs of an increasing number of complex patient groups who need care oriented toward their overall health. (ajmc.com)
5 One of the reasons is the incorrect assignment of patients to this intense but effective individualistic approach, leading to a greater mismatch in care. (ajmc.com)
Our personalized portal helps you refer your patients and communicate with their MD Anderson care team. (mdanderson.org)
Patient reporting of suspected ADEs has the potential to increase knowledge regarding the safety of drugs and is an important additional source of information for health care professionals. (annfammed.org)
11 Health care professionals have been shown to underestimate the prevalence and severity of ADEs among their patients. (annfammed.org)
12 In a literature review, health care professionals reported rates of constipation ranging from 0.6% to 1% with the use of blood glucose-lowering drugs in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, compared with 21% when reported by patients. (annfammed.org)
Older adults, patients with underlying medical conditions, and residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are more likely to have multiple healthcare exposures, making them more likely to develop infections ( 7 ). (cdc.gov)
So to do this, we worked with this survey development group, as I mentioned, and the group worked again with patient advocacy organizations and worked with search engine optimization to put out this survey, which was an adaptive survey to the population of men in these countries to try to see if they would answer questions related to their care and their experience. (urotoday.com)
The effect of transitions intervention to ensure patient safety and satisfaction when transferred from hospital to home health care-a systematic review. (ahrq.gov)
For more than two decades 5-FU-based adjuvant chemotherapy has been the standard of care for patients with stage III and selected stage II CRC. (frontiersin.org)
Understanding the Patient is Critical to Impacting Adherence and Care - While patients are concerned about their condition and committed to working to remain healthy, an increasing number do not fully understand their condition. (pharmacytimes.com)
Patient and family factors included patient prognosis, characteristics that implied prognosis (i.e., age, etc.), and goals of care. (nih.gov)
Journals and texts will be used to support the theory of how communication is important in patient care. (nmmra.org)
These factors can all work to enhance the nurse-patient relationship to make care more patient-centred (Dougherty & Lister, 2008). (nmmra.org)
However, if the care a patient receives in hospital is to be a positive experience then the care must be more patient-centred. (nmmra.org)
In addition to considerable pain and suffering that interfere with individual functioning, depression affects those who care about the ill person, sometimes destroying family relationships or work dynamics between the patient and others. (medscape.com)
Patient education allows patients to play a bigger role in their own care. (medlineplus.gov)
It also aligns with patient- and family-centered care. (medlineplus.gov)
Teachers and health care providers need to be able to assess patient needs and communicate clearly. (medlineplus.gov)
Often, the first step is to find out what your patient already knows and believes about their health care and condition. (medlineplus.gov)
Talk to the health care team members and observe your patient. (medlineplus.gov)
Ask if your patient wants other people involved with the care process. (medlineplus.gov)
The goal of Case Studies in Environmental Medicine (CSEM) is to increase the primary care provider's knowledge of hazardous substances in the environment and to help in evaluation and treating of potentially exposed patients. (cdc.gov)
Fundamental to health care quality is patient safety. (who.int)
Other interventions address education issues, such as the multi-professional patient safety curriculum guide that is being implemented in some universities in the Region, and the Patient for Patient safety that aims to identify and build the capacities of patient safety champions as advocates for a safer care. (who.int)
Given the need for information and direction on improving health care quality in the Region, WHO EMRO, in partnership with the Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions, held a regional consultation in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in June 2014 to address improving the quality of care and patient safety in EMR countries. (who.int)
Identifying patients due for preventive or follow-up care in order to send patients reminders? (cdc.gov)
The aim of both the HITECH Act and the ACA is to enhance efficiency and to improve quality in the health care system, including increasing the adoption rate of electronic health records, expanding access to care, and improving patient health. (cdc.gov)

In subgroup analyses which considered efficacy and tolerance, voriconazole was suggested to be the best choice for patients undergoing HSCT, especially those undergoing allogenic HSCT. (cancernetwork.com)

Ceplene was approved in the EU back in 2008, and in Israel in December 2010, for maintaining remission and preventing relapse in adult AML patients in first remission. (genengnews.com)
Objective - To evaluate the accuracy of population-based provincial health administrative data in identifying adult patients with asthma for ongoing surveillance and research. (ices.on.ca)
Conclusion - Definitions of adult asthma using health administrative data are sensitive and specific for identifying adults with asthma. (ices.on.ca)

The verification of this biomarker could lead the way to early pharmacological intervention and the development of a new low cost and non-invasive test using EEG as part of a routine medical evaluation when a patient first presents to their GP with concern over memory issues, as Segaert added. (gulf-times.com)

Conjoint family therapy stressed accordingly the importance in group therapy of bringing not only the identified patient but the extended family in which their problems arose into the therapy - with the ultimate goal of relieving the IP of the broader family feelings they have been carrying. (wikipedia.org)
Survival analysis showed that this group died significantly earlier than COPD patients following a trajectory. (nature.com)
This group of patients was first described by Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, in his 2011 article in The New Yorker , "The Hot Spotters. (ajmc.com)
4 For this group of patients, it would seem that a multidisciplinary and personalized approach would be advantageous, but evidence for the effectiveness of this kind of approach is still ambiguous. (ajmc.com)
But the team that I worked with, that worked with this group, Don't Be Patient, that was assembled across the UK, the US and Germany really sought to work with patient advocacy organizations, create a survey, and then deploy that survey within patients in these three countries to see if we could get a clearer picture of what life was like for a large group of men. (urotoday.com)
So really I think from my perspective, very surprising that we were able to get such a group of patients, but at the same time, almost not surprising because I think these men really wanted their voices to be heard. (urotoday.com)
Her research group identified one patient who had no intact HIV viral sequence in her genome, indicating that her immune system may have eliminated the HIV reservoir - what scientists call a sterilizing cure. (scitechdaily.com)
Yu's group now reports a second untreated HIV-infected patient, known as the Esperanza Patient, who, like the San Francisco Patient, has no intact HIV genomes found in more than 1.19 billion blood cells and 500 million tissue cells sequenced. (scitechdaily.com)
Medtronic identified a group of people who may be more likely to experience problems restarting their HeartWare ventricular assist devices. (medtechdive.com)
Medtronic added a third subgroup after determining the pump failure rate for that group of patients had increased over time. (medtechdive.com)
means of identifying this group is currently known. (lu.se)

Identify the primary drug for treatment of chronic beryllium disease (CBD). (cdc.gov)

We sought to develop screening questions for identifying patients with inadequate or marginal health literacy. (nih.gov)
Patients (n=332) at a VA preoperative clinic completed in-person interviews that included 16 health literacy screening questions on a 5-point Likert scale, followed by a validated health literacy measure, the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (STOHFLA). (nih.gov)
Based on the STOFHLA, patients were classified as having either inadequate, marginal, or adequate health literacy. (nih.gov)
These questions were weaker for identifying patients with marginal health literacy. (nih.gov)
The patient in the St Patrick's Mental Health Services case was seven or eight when he was sexually abused by an elderly cleric in his home town. (irishtimes.com)
In time, the patient grew more concerned about the role abuse might have had in his mental health problems. (irishtimes.com)
Population health management (PHM) approaches aim to allocate available health resources to the appropriate patient groups within the population. (ajmc.com)
Despite numerous research publications on the role patient-sharing networks play in elucidating MDRO transmission, few address the application of these networks in public health practice. (cdc.gov)
We used patient-sharing networks to design tailored strategies to help public health contain the spread of MDROs. (cdc.gov)
provincial records and compared with health administrative algorithms designed to identify asthma. (ices.on.ca)
That makes it hard to identify people with the condition through electronic health records (EHRs). (medicalxpress.com)
Are health professionals' perceptions of patient safety related to figures on safety incidents? (ahrq.gov)
Compared to previous patient research conducted by MPRS, 61% of patients were more concerned about their condition than any other health issue in 2014 versus only 33% in 2011. (pharmacytimes.com)
Psychologists have defined communication as a basic human need, and have identified that when there is a lack of communication, this can have adverse consequences on a person's psychological, social, and even physical health (Ellis et al 2003). (nmmra.org)
This forms the idea that how nurses communicate with patients can have a major influence on their health and wellbeing and it can help to explain why communication is so important within nursing. (nmmra.org)
With asthma being one of the leading causes of death in different countries, the emphasis on improving the health of asthma patients is important. (plymouth.ac.uk)
While the use of smart technologies is a good approach for improving the health of asthma patients, technologies need to be connected in such a way that all components of smart health form an ecosystem. (plymouth.ac.uk)
The purpose of this chapter was to identify the components of a smart health ecosystem for asthma patients through a systematic literature review. (plymouth.ac.uk)
This chapter identified the components of a smart health ecosystem for asthma patients and provided a conceptual framework. (plymouth.ac.uk)
These actions can be identified through comprehensive tools such as all-hazards National Action Plans for Health Security (NAPHS), disease-specific plans, contingency plans, and other sources. (who.int)
Generating lists of patients with particular health conditions? (cdc.gov)
Ability for patients to electronically send their online medical record to a third party (e.g., another provider, Personal Health Records)? (cdc.gov)
The belief of CKD having a Faculty of Health Sciences, Marien supernatural cause was held by 46.9% of patients. (who.int)

51,6% d'entre eux pensaient que la MRC était incurable et 61,7% des patients considéraient cette maladie comme assez inquiétante. (who.int)

Using 284,154 patients diagnosed with COPD, we identified frequent disease trajectories comprising time-ordered comorbidities. (nature.com)
Comparison of the individual disease history for each non-follower to the COPD trajectories, demonstrated that 9597 patients were unusual. (nature.com)
It is possible that this breakdown of the brain network associated with language comprehension in MCI patients could be a crucial biomarker used to identify patients likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. (gulf-times.com)
The 123I-FP-CIT SPECT technique makes it possible to identify striatal dopamine dysfunctions typical of brain substantia nigra pathology, which can degenerate towards Parkinson's disease. (sciencedaily.com)
Of these subjects, 5 developed Parkinson's disease, two developed Lewy body dementia, and one patient developed multisystemic atrophy. (sciencedaily.com)
That method was instrumental in identifying 74 percent of people with chronic cough who did not have structured evidence of the condition and addressed the gap in ability to characterize the disease burden. (medicalxpress.com)
So what we sought to do was get a large number of patients from across the spectrum of disease to try to get an understanding, almost like a flip book of lots of different portraits of what the experience is like from many different perspectives, receiving many different types of treatments and try to put it together to give us some overall context of the patient voice. (urotoday.com)
One of the main causes for sleep disordered breathing in patients with neuromuscular disease is the occurrence of atony of skeletal muscles other than the diaphragm during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. (sleepreviewmag.com)
Patients with significant neuromuscular respiratory disease also have restrictive lung disease, meaning that lung volumes measured with pulmonary function tests are often much below normal, and the lung and respiratory system are not expanded to full capacity. (sleepreviewmag.com)
Specifically, 69 studies that compared any antifungal agent with a placebo, no antifungal agent, or another antifungal agent among patients with hematological disease or patients who were undergoing HSCT were included. (cancernetwork.com)
Wang J, Zhou M, Xu J, Zhou R, Chen B, Wan Y. Comparison of Antifungal Prophylaxis Drugs in Patients With Hematological Disease or Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. (cancernetwork.com)
Adding oxaliplatin (OXA) to therapy based on FLs (5-FU and capecitabine) further improves the disease-free (DFS) and OS rates in patients with stage III disease. (frontiersin.org)
Depressed patients are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (medscape.com)
Brazzaville University Hospital, considered a fairly worrying disease by 61.7% of patients. (who.int)
: [email protected] is a wrong perception of chronic kidney failure by patients in the end stage of their kidney disease due to the general public's low level of knowledge about kidney diseases. (who.int)

In 1988, a patient began seeing Dr John Griffin (above), then a consultant psychiatrist at St Patrick's Hospital in Dublin. (irishtimes.com)

This 41-bed off-site facility has been treating up to 45 patients a day using SRS, SBRT, and IMRT for a wide range of tumors. (varian.com)
The factors responsible for response to tamoxifen in 5% to 10% of patients with ERa-negative tumors are not clear. (lu.se)
Patients with tumors lacking ERa in general do not charges. (lu.se)

Sleep disordered breathing is much more likely to be present if patients have weaker respiratory muscles or if they have elevated daytime arterial carbon dioxide levels (PaCO 2 ). (sleepreviewmag.com)

Dr Lucey said he could find no fault in Dr Griffin's management of the case, but advised the patient he could make a complaint to the hospital or the Medical Council. (irishtimes.com)
Twenty-six (3%) patients attended a hospital outpatient clinic, and 32 (4%) attended an emergency department due to ADEs. (annfammed.org)
5 - 8 Studies have also indicated that more than one-half of hospital admissions for ADEs are preventable, with only 19% to 28% of ADEs causing hospital admission in older patients considered unavoidable. (annfammed.org)
The effect of prescriber education on medication-related patient harm in the hospital: a systematic review. (ahrq.gov)

An updated version of the Patient safety friendly hospitals initiative assessment manual is now finalized and being expanded throughout the EMR countries. (who.int)

Echocardiography can help determine which patients with heart failure and leaking heart valve would benefit from a valve repair procedure rather than traditional medical therapy, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting in New Orleans. (auntminnie.com)
The trial explored using a procedure called transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) using MitraClip (Abbott Laboratories) in patients with secondary mitral regurgitation, a condition in which the mitral valve does not close correctly due to problems with the heart's pumping chambers, the ACC said in a statement. (auntminnie.com)
We would typically wait for patients to develop angina or exertional breathlessness, presyncope, or syncope before offering them an intervention, be it surgical aortic valve replacement or TAVR," said Cahill. (tctmd.com)

Patients' answers could either rule out alcohol issues, or could bring to light potentially excessive or unsafe drinking habits. (sciencedaily.com)
This means that all patients visiting their GP could potentially be screened for alcohol problems in a relatively short length of time, with a high degree of accuracy, particularly in the recognition of people who do not need an intervention. (sciencedaily.com)

SCOTTSDALE, AZ, October 9, 2014 - New patient research commissioned by McKesson Patient Relationship Solutions (MPRS) identified emerging trends in medication adherence, the use of co-pay cards, and attitudes towards healthcare providers, including both physicians and pharmacists. (pharmacytimes.com)
Patient adherence and effective communication. (medlineplus.gov)

In total, the research team used 37 studies with 24,649 acne patients that were included in the analysis. (consultantlive.com)

In each practice, 10 charts from each category were randomly selected, abstracted, then reviewed by a blinded expert panel who identified them as asthma or nonasthma. (ices.on.ca)

The term emerged from the work of the Bateson Project on family homeostasis, as a way of identifying a largely unconscious pattern of behavior whereby an excess of painful feelings in a family lead to one member being identified as the cause of all the difficulties - a scapegoating of the IP. (wikipedia.org)

Medicare and most insurers will cover the cost of nocturnal treatment interventions in patients who show one of the above-mentioned abnormal laboratory values measured in the clinic or at home. (sleepreviewmag.com)

As physicians, we fail our patients when they fall into these cycles of hospitalizations and later rehospitalizations. (vitas.com)

Non-CPR patients showed an upregulation of proliferation, tumor marker, interferon signaling, housekeeping and tumor antigen pathways. (eurekalert.org)
Patients with mutant RAS tumor status had inferior progression-free survival (PFS) (HR = 1.34, 95 percent CI, 1.07-1.60) and OS (HR = 1.25, 95 percent CI, 1.02-1.55) when administered Vectibix in combination with FOLFOX chemotherapy versus FOLFOX alone. (amgen.com)
In this context, there is a need for new predictive markers, beyond the tumor stage, to select what patients will benefit from an adjuvant treatment and to better tailor treatment schemes and schedules. (frontiersin.org)

While the idea has been branched into meanings far beyond Jung's original understanding, some modern authors continue to use the term in reference to focus point of an accusing family who all suffer mental illness, rather than the individual the family identifies as mentally ill - positing that the IP may actually be the least troubled member of a dysfunctional family nexus. (wikipedia.org)

Also, find out what skills your patient may still need to develop. (medlineplus.gov)
The WHO-EMRO patient safety friendly initiative whose objective is to develop a culture which approaches patient safety as a comprehensive programme addressing patient safety domains, such as leadership and management, evidence-based practices, patient and family involvement, environmental safety and lifelong learning. (who.int)

Interestingly, as many as 42,459 patients did not present with these time-ordered, common comorbidities. (nature.com)
GPs may not have time to screen patients for alcohol problems as a matter of course, as the standard screening tests tend to be too time-consuming to administer for each person who visits the surgery. (sciencedaily.com)
GPs don't have the time to ask a long list of questions for every single patient. (sciencedaily.com)
In addition to the surface-guided setup, positioning, and motion monitoring features in IDENTIFY, the Welcome Desk feature is proving to be a valuable tool at the clinic for checking in patients and saving time previously spent verifying patient details. (varian.com)
Visual displays of MBC data, such as graphs of scores over time, can support clinicians sharing the results of data with their patients to facilitate discussions of progress, reinforce patient changes, and support shared decisionmaking about treatment adjustments. (rand.org)
Studies show that these pathogens can colonize patients for extended periods of time ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
Nearly one-third (31%) of patients wish their doctor would spend more time with them to explain their condition and their medication. (pharmacytimes.com)
Nurses spend a large amount of time communicating with patients, often not only conveying information but also conveying emotion, and transmitting a reaction to a patient that shows the patient that their feelings are being recognised (McCabe, 2004). (nmmra.org)
Patient teaching based on incorrect assumptions may not be very effective and may take more time. (medlineplus.gov)

CONCLUSION Older community-dwelling patients were often not correct in recognizing ADEs. (annfammed.org)

Oliver Sartor is joined by Alicia Morgans to discuss her presentation at the GU ASCO 2022 Annual Meeting on the largest digital survey conducted in patients with prostate cancer, the initial results of an international survey of patients with prostate cancer. (urotoday.com)

The data analysis was conducted on the basis of "patient phenotype. (medscape.com)

Pathological response is postulated as a surrogate for survival in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy. (eurekalert.org)

Patients were genotyped for a panel of 192 tagging polymorphisms in 34 immune-related genes. (frontiersin.org)

While 80% claim to be compliant and take their medications as directed, an increasing number of patients claim to be more forgetful or careless about taking their medication or stop taking it when they feel better. (pharmacytimes.com)
Reconciling lists of patient medications to identify the most accurate list? (cdc.gov)

Dr. Casarrubios and colleagues analyzed surgical tissue samples from 36 patients with resectable stage IIIA NSCLC from the NADIM trial (NCT03081689) were analysed. (eurekalert.org)
The upregulated pathways in surgical samples of CPR patients suggests that an effective immune response to PD-1 blockade was done," said Dr. Casarrubios. (eurekalert.org)
As many as half of surgical site infections in the United States are caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, as are more than one quarter of infections affecting chemotherapy patients, according to a meta-analysis published online October 15, 2015, by Lancet Infectious Diseases . (ecri.org)
Based on reviews estimating the effectiveness of antibiotics fighting various pathogens, the authors estimate that between 39% and 51% of surgical site infections and 27% of infections in chemotherapy patients are caused by pathogens that are resistant to front-line antibiotic therapy. (ecri.org)
It includes the most needed patient safety tools to assist teams at the field level especially in the field HAI, safe surgery, medication safety, surgical site infections, inculcating a patient safety culture, and implementing successful incident reporting systems. (who.int)

such patients can serve as reservoirs for MDROs in the community or in healthcare facilities. (cdc.gov)
Movement of patients across healthcare facilities can serve as a means of spreading MDROs across a community and introducing new pathogens into a region. (cdc.gov)
End-stage hospitalizations are stressful for patients and a sizeable expenditure of healthcare resources. (vitas.com)
Patients Expect More Personalized Support - Patients are more informed and engaged in their own healthcare than ever before. (pharmacytimes.com)
Nurses are in a unique position within a healthcare environment, and are often the first point of contact for patients. (nmmra.org)

However, higher proportion of activated dendritic cells or neutrophils in non-CPR patients were associated with lower PFS (p=0.019, p=0.053) and OS (p=0.033, p=0.003), respectively. (eurekalert.org)

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