• Patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) have a higher prevalence of depression compared with those without diabetes. (medscape.com)
  • Higher Prevalence of Depression in Patients with Diabetes - Medscape - 12 February 2021. (medscape.com)
  • While the prevalence of suicidal behavior among Parkinson's patients was 1.25% (95% CI 0.64-2.41), about one in five people with Parkinson's had suicidal ideation (prevalence 22.2% in 14 studies, 95% CI 14.6-32.3), the researchers reported in JAMA Neurology . (medpagetoday.com)
  • High Prevalence spp. (cdc.gov)
  • In humans, 1%-64% of colonic of antimicrobial drug therapy) during the spring cholera specimens demonstrate intestinal spirochetosis, with the outbreak of 2006 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, at the Interna- highest prevalence in developing countries and immuno- tional Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, compromised populations ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Due to the high prevalence of weight loss and malnutrition in cancer, doctors often recommend high calorie drinks for people with cancer to help add energy and nutrients in a more accessible form. (healthline.com)
  • A multi-centre study led by MedUni Vienna shows that the prevalence of atrial fibrillation in haemodialysis patients in Vienna is significantly higher than previously thought. (news-medical.net)
  • In patients with end-stage kidney disease, who require renal replacement therapy by haemodialysis, the prevalence of atrial fibrillation has hitherto been underestimated. (news-medical.net)
  • We found that the prevalence of atrial fibrillation increases with age and is particularly common in male patients,' reports lead author Oliver Königsbrügge, 'but, despite the risk of stroke associated with atrial fibrillation, only half of those affected are being treated with an anticoagulant. (news-medical.net)
  • A team, led by Zobair M. Younossi, MD, Betty and Guy Beatty Center for Integrated Research, Inova Health System, determined the prevalence of fatigue and its association with all-cause mortality in patients with NAFLD. (hcplive.com)
  • Hepatitis B is highly endemic in West Africa with a prevalence of 8%, the highest in the world. (who.int)
  • Although we did not examine it specifically for Parkinson's disease, the findings from our study published in JAMA in 2020 revealed that the suicide rate is highest during first months after being diagnosed with a neurological disorder," Erlangsen told MedPage Today . (medpagetoday.com)
  • New analysis, published in the journal The Lancet Microbe, shows that, between February 6 and June 8 2020, 85% of coronavirus patients received one or more antibiotics during their hospital stay, while 37% were prescribed the drugs prior to admission. (stv.tv)
  • The detailed trial results regarding stroke patients and stroke outcomes were published in the May 2020 issue of Stroke . (uclahealth.org)
  • The study, of more than 1 million procedures performed in U.S. hospitals between 2000 and 2020, found that Black patients were 42% more likely than white patients to die within 30 days of surgery. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Between 2000 and 2020, death rates dipped for Black, Hispanic and white patients alike. (msdmanuals.com)
  • They focused on adult patients younger than 65 who underwent over 1.5 million high-risk surgeries performed between 2000 and 2020. (msdmanuals.com)
  • otherwise, "patients were treated according to usual practice," Mark reported during his presentation at the virtual European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association 57th Congress. (medscape.com)
  • In the past, observational studies have suggested that high doses of IV iron could have negative effects on dialysis patients, and there was no good evidence to support the practice, said Lucia Del Vecchio, MD, from Alessandro Manzoni Hospital in Lecco, Italy. (medscape.com)
  • Two Yale economists are calling for states to end a practice that allows some doctors to surprise patients with large medical bills after visits to a hospital emergency room. (foxnews.com)
  • In the Care Management Plus program at Intermountain Healthcare in Utah, a care manager, embedded in a primary care practice and supported by specialized information technology tools, works with patients who have complex needs to develop and implement plans for care, coaches patients and their caregivers, and more. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Deliver quality care more easily with customizable documentation templates, automatic patient record sharing, and the ability to practice when and where it's convenient. (athenahealth.com)
  • Care management programs have emerged as one strategy to reduce health care costs and utilization for these patients-in particular, through practice-based programs in which care managers embedded in primary care or other clinical sites assist panels of high-risk patients in managing their medical conditions and related psychosocial problems. (springer.com)
  • His business continues to grow and patients are very satisfied with his lasting dental practice in a new state-of-the-art building. (prleap.com)
  • Race matching is the practice of transplanting donor hearts into patients of the same ethnic group. (sciencedaily.com)
  • As of August 2012, the practice had achieved a 90 percent control rate for all patients with hypertension. (cdc.gov)
  • Entrants will provide information about their practice, share their verifiable high blood pressure control data, and describe how use of health information technology such as electronic health records, incentives for providers and patients, team based care, attention to medication use and persistence, and community involvement contributed to success. (cdc.gov)
  • Through use of this non-invasive device, Dr. Lanman and his practice are bringing high-intensity focused electromagnetic energy to patients experiencing weakness related to nerve or muscle injuries, compression due to spinal stenosis, or loss of muscle mass. (prweb.com)
  • However, drug-induced hyperkalemia is considered the most important cause of high potassium in everyday clinical practice. (kidney.org)
  • We are constantly pushing the boundaries of science to change the practice of medicine and transform the lives of patients living with cancer. (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • Highly capable billing and reporting platform plus market-leading practice management, EHR, and patient engagement for clients. (advancedmd.com)
  • This indicates that HANDOC can be implemented in clinical practice to identify patients with a low risk of IE in whom echocardiography can be omitted. (lu.se)
  • Bourne added that the study "is an interesting example of how a very large primary care dataset of electronic patient data, in this case the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, can be used to investigate risk factors for eye disease. (medscape.com)
  • Patient advocacy, as a hospital-based practice, grew out of this patient rights movement: patient advocates (often called patient representatives) were needed to protect and enhance the rights of patients at a time when hospital stays were long and acute conditions-heart disease, stroke and cancer-contributed to the boom in hospital growth. (wikipedia.org)
  • The practice of patient advocacy emerged to support and represent patients in this medico-legal and ethical discussion. (wikipedia.org)
  • Three trials ( ARTESiA , NOAH , and LOOP ) are underway to assess whether oral anticoagulation therapy improves outcomes in patients with device-detected AF. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • MarsoSPBainSCConsoliAet alSUSTAIN-6 InvestigatorsSemaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes. (aafp.org)
  • In recent years, tight control of blood glucose levels has been shown to improve a wide array of outcomes in patients with diabetes. (medindia.net)
  • A complete molecular remission is associated with superior outcomes in patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL," said Short. (mdanderson.org)
  • However, high-dose iron does not protect against type 2 MIs, which are caused by an acute imbalance in myocardial oxygen supply and demand without accompanying atherothrombosis, the same analysis shows. (medscape.com)
  • As a Medicare Advantage plan that also provides medical care to its members, CareMore partners with primary care physicians to identify and refer high-risk patients who would benefit from support at its Care Centers, where multidisciplinary care teams manage patients' needs holistically and oversee acute care. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • As part of the Isaric (International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium) study, scientists from the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool and Imperial College London looked at data from nearly 49,000 Covid-19 patients admitted to 260 hospitals in England, Scotland and Wales. (stv.tv)
  • Long delays by patients before seeking medical attention, incomplete assessment of acute attacks, underuse of corticosteroids prior to admission and overuse of sedation were important factors often influencing the necessity for IPPV. (nih.gov)
  • A combination of ponatinib and blinatumomab was found to be safe and highly effective in patients with newly diagnosed or relapsed/refractory Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center . (mdanderson.org)
  • The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) adapted select, evidence-based patient and care partner-centered acute care discharge tools to create a toolkit specifically for use in the ambulatory care setting. (ahrq.gov)
  • The management and treatment focus of individuals exposed to PAHs differs for high dose acute and low dose chronic exposures. (cdc.gov)
  • Decontamination and supportive measures are the primary objectives after acute high dose PAH exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • All the viruses can cause acute disease but the highest numbers of deaths result from liver cancer and cirrhosis which occur decades after infection with hepatitis B or C. (who.int)
  • For meta-analyses with high heterogeneity, the researchers performed influence analyses to identify outliers. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Heterogeneity in study design, geographic variation, and patient demographics were factors, which the researchers mitigated somewhat by identifying outliers. (medpagetoday.com)
  • In the study, published on medRxiv , researchers from University College London (UCL) analysed data from 4,032 Covid-19 patients who were admitted to NHS Intensive Care Units (ICU) between April 2 and June 1. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • In the study, which goes by the acronym VIVALDI (Vienna InVestigation of AtriaL fibrillation and thromboembolism in hemoDIalysis patients), the researchers investigated the clinical-scientific conflict regarding the risk of stroke and thromboembolic complications in patients on haemodialysis, especially those with atrial fibrillation. (news-medical.net)
  • Researchers say that high-intensity strength training produced significant improvements in quality of life, mood and motor function in older patients with Parkinson's disease. (scienceblog.com)
  • In the current study, the researchers report the success of the BASILICA procedure in seven gravely ill patients who qualified for compassionate use of the technique-then untested in humans-because no other care options were available. (nih.gov)
  • By contrast, the researchers said, bacterial co-infections are far more common with severe influenza, occurring in nearly a quarter of patients. (stv.tv)
  • In the largest retrospective population-based study to date, Jefferson researchers showed that hospitalization increase by as much as 114% in patients battling breast, prostate, and lung cancers, when those patients took 15 or more medications prior to chemotherapy treatment. (jefferson.edu)
  • The researchers identified a pool of 13,959 patients with prostate, lung, and breast cancer from a national database of Medicare cancer patients. (jefferson.edu)
  • The researchers saw that the cancer patients studied were starting at a high number of medications already. (jefferson.edu)
  • The researchers found that lung cancer patients taking between 5-9 medications had a 42% higher rate of hospitalization, those taking 10-14 medications had a 75% increase, and those taking over 15 medications prior to chemotherapy had a 114% higher rate compared to patients taking fewer than five medicines. (jefferson.edu)
  • The researchers saw similar increases in both breast and prostate cancer patients as well. (jefferson.edu)
  • The recent PREDATE AF and ASSERT-II studies also found that previously undiagnosed AF was common among high-risk patients, the researchers noted. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • In the two-part study, researchers looked at data from 5,944 patients who had a wide variety of surgeries, including gallbladder removal, hysterectomy, hip replacement and prostate surgery. (asahq.org)
  • The researchers emphasize the need for "tight control" of glucose levels before surgery for diabetic patients at high risk of wound complications. (medindia.net)
  • High Blood Glucose Levels Linked to Higher Risk of Wound Complications The researchers analyzed rates of wound-related complications in 79 patients undergoing surgery for closure of chronic wounds a common and troublesome complication of diabetes. (medindia.net)
  • The risk is even higher among younger diabetes patients, say UK researchers in a large registry-based study. (medscape.com)
  • The researchers identified 56,510 patients with a first-time diagnosis of diabetes and the same number of control persons without diabetes. (medscape.com)
  • In a nested case-control analysis, the researchers compared 5800 cataract patients and 21,432 control persons, whose mean age was 72.1 years. (medscape.com)
  • The researchers conclude: "This large observational study demonstrates that incidence rates of cataract diagnosis in patients with diabetes are higher than among diabetic-free patients, particularly at younger age. (medscape.com)
  • Previous researchers had dealt with concerns raised by families, because physicians emphasized patient physical health rather than the inclusion of bedside manners with the families. (wikipedia.org)
  • MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- High-risk surgeries are more deadly for Black and Hispanic Americans than for their white counterparts, new research reveals. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The primary outcome of their retrospective single-center study was all-cause mortality from time of diagnosis of PH or ILD in the patients who had SSc-PH (n = 88) and SSc-ILD (n = 195), respectively, for which the study authors "adjusted risks of time to all‐cause mortality using Cox proportional hazards models. (ajmc.com)
  • Also, the more severe the ILD, the younger the patient age at PH diagnosis. (ajmc.com)
  • The study opened the door to mitigate late diagnosis through embedding these simple questions into the patient-physician dialogue. (scienceblog.com)
  • The incidence rates of cataract diagnosis in diabetic patients with a diagnosis of macular edema were considerably higher than in the general diabetic population, at 59.0 per 1000 person-years. (medscape.com)
  • Incidence rates of cataract diagnosis in diabetic patients with retinopathy appeared to be only slightly higher than in the overall diabetic population. (medscape.com)
  • SOFA admission score in patients with the diagnosis of ACS was of 8.42 ± 1.27. (bvsalud.org)
  • Periodic evaluations of healthy patients who have been significantly exposed to PAHs, even in the absence of symptoms, may facilitate early diagnosis and intervention if a malignancy develops. (cdc.gov)
  • Periodic evaluations of healthy patients who have been significantly exposed to PAHs, even in the absence of symptoms, is recommended by some clinicians to facilitate early diagnosis and intervention if a malignancy develops. (cdc.gov)
  • Chiang Rai Hospital (CRH), the largest provincial government hospital, provides free TB diagnosis and treatment for patients who declare that health-care costs are unaffordable. (who.int)
  • Pain threshold levels in patients with autism were significantly higher than the comparison group. (bvsalud.org)
  • Proactive treatment with high-dose intravenous (IV) iron reduces the risk for classic atherothrombotic myocardial infarction - a type 1 MI - in dialysis patients, an analysis of data from the PIVOTAL trial shows. (medscape.com)
  • If a patient on dialysis has an MI, sadly, it's not surprising that the mortality rate over the subsequent year is high," given that the average annual mortality rate in dialysis patients is roughly 20%, Mark told Medscape Medical News . (medscape.com)
  • Because large clinical trials have shown that statins do not provide either primary or secondary prevention of cardiovascular events, "it is worth considering that what we are showing here is that high-dose IV iron is one of the few therapies that might actually reduce MI in patients on maintenance dialysis," Mark said. (medscape.com)
  • Marcus Säemann, Head of the 6th Medical Department of the Wilhelminen Hospital, says: 'Atrial fibrillation is extremely common in dialysis patients, giving rise to an above-average stroke risk. (news-medical.net)
  • The lead investigator Cihan Ay further explains: 'It is more difficult to treat the stroke risk with anticoagulants in dialysis patients, because they have a much greater risk of bleeding and many of the new drugs for stroke prevention are not licensed for patients on haemodialysis. (news-medical.net)
  • Renate Klauser-Braun, Head of the 3rd Medical Department of Danube Hospital, says: 'The available treatments for preventing the complications of atrial fibrillation, especially strokes, in people with healthy kidneys are contraindicated for patients on dialysis or are problematic, because of the complex clinical picture, so that further treatment and antithrombotic prophylaxis must be decided on a case-by-case basis. (news-medical.net)
  • Our study underscores the importance of this concomitant disease for patients on dialysis. (news-medical.net)
  • 70% of these patients are treated with dialysis. (cdc.gov)
  • And more than half of all U.S. patients who are receiving dialysis belong to a racial or ethnic minority group. (cdc.gov)
  • In the emergency department all too often I saw patients who didn't have access to regular dialysis treatments and had to wait each time until they were in kidney failure to get emergency dialysis. (cdc.gov)
  • The patients will come in very sick and short of breath and after dialysis, we're able to return home. (cdc.gov)
  • Preventing infections among patients receiving dialysis requires a comprehensive, equitable approach across the stages of kidney disease from prevention to care. (cdc.gov)
  • Educate patients about the infection risks of the different ways blood circulation is connected to the dialysis machine or vascular access types and empower patients to ask questions. (cdc.gov)
  • Now, a worrying new study reveals Covid-19 patients admitted to very full intensive care units are up to 19 per cent more likely to die than if the ICUs were less busy. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • The new law does not affect the purchase limits that restrict patients to buying no more than one ounce of marijuana per day and five ounces per month, although the daily limit is currently suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (hightimes.com)
  • Emergency medical personnel walk by a high-speed TGV train in Strasbourg station on Wednesday, preparing to evacuate 20 COVID-19 patients to hospitals in western France. (npr.org)
  • New analysis shows 85% of Covid patients during the first wave received one or more antibiotics while in hospital. (stv.tv)
  • Antibiotic use was "very high" among Covid-19 hospital patients in the UK during the first wave of the pandemic, even though confirmed bacterial infections were rare, scientists have found. (stv.tv)
  • The scientists say that giving antibiotics to Covid-19 patients who do not have a bacterial co-infection risks worsening global antimicrobial resistance. (stv.tv)
  • She added: "However, we now know that bacterial co-infection is uncommon in patients with community-acquired Covid-19. (stv.tv)
  • Dr Clark Russell, of the University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research, said antimicrobial usage in Covid-19 hospital patients was "very high" during the first wave but there is evidence of a reduction towards the end of that period, with less usage in May compared with March and April. (stv.tv)
  • Stroke survivors and those with heart disease, including high blood pressure and congenital heart defects, may face an increased risk for complications if they become infected with the COVID-19 virus. (heart.org)
  • Data from several cities and counties found black people there had higher death rates from COVID-19. (heart.org)
  • COVID-19 survivors weren't at higher risk for all cerebrovascular complications (HR, 1.12), including stroke (HR, 1.06) and temporal ischemic attack (HR, 1.21), but there was a moderate weighted EB per 1,000 infected people (EB, 0.08). (umn.edu)
  • Relative to controls, unvaccinated COVID-19 survivors had higher risks of cardiovascular complications such as IHD (HR, 1.45), dysrhythmias (HR, 2.04), and other heart problems (HR, 1.92). (umn.edu)
  • Public health legal scholars, data experts, former and current federal officials, and patients at high risk of severe covid outcomes worry the scaling back of data access could make it harder to control covid. (cnn.com)
  • Conclusions: HANDOC has a sensitivity of 100% and a relatively high specificity (62%) also in a prospectively enrolled cohort of patients from another country than its origin. (lu.se)
  • within a subset of these patients was the true incidence may reach 2 million cases/year ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • However, a small subset of these patients may develop coronary artery obstruction during the TAVR procedure. (nih.gov)
  • In a first for Europe, 20 critically ill coronavirus patients were evacuated aboard a fully medicalized, high-speed train. (npr.org)
  • Among coronavirus patients with confirmed bacterial infections, 71% were found to be secondary infections, meaning these were acquired more than 48 hours after hospital admission. (stv.tv)
  • Findings highlight the need for effective chronic disease management in patients with diabetes, particularly in specialist care settings. (medscape.com)
  • An initially elevated hemoglobin A1c, an indicator of high blood sugar such as in prediabetes or diabetes, was a risk factor for later developing hyperglycemia. (news-medical.net)
  • Among patients who developed hyperglycemia, 66.4% received treatment, most commonly with the diabetes drug metformin. (news-medical.net)
  • Does semaglutide reduce the likelihood of subsequent cardiovascular (CV) events in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and known CV or chronic kidney disease? (aafp.org)
  • People with chronic kidney disease, heart failure, diabetes mellitus, and those taking blood pressure medicines called renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors (RAASi) have an estimated 2 to 3 times higher risk for hyperkalemia. (kidney.org)
  • A new study among patients undergoing surgery for chronic wounds related to diabetes, finds the risk of wound-related complications is affected by how well the patient's blood sugar levels are controlled before surgery. (medindia.net)
  • The risk of serious wound complications is more than three times higher for patients who have high blood glucose before and after surgery, and in those with poor long-term diabetes control, according to the study by ASPS Member Surgeons Drs. Matthew Endara and Christopher Attinger of the Center for Wound Healing at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. (medindia.net)
  • The risk of wound dehiscence was also higher for patients with high blood glucose levels after surgery and for those with high hemoglobin A1c levels (that is, poor long-term diabetes control). (medindia.net)
  • For patients with chronic skin ulcers occurring as a complication of diabetes, hyperglycemia has been linked to delayed wound healing and an increased risk of infections. (medindia.net)
  • Surprisingly, the new study is one of the first to look at how blood glucose levels affect the risk of complications in patients undergoing surgical treatment for chronic diabetes-related wounds. (medindia.net)
  • They note that episodes of high blood glucose can occur around the time of surgery even in many patients with previously good diabetes control. (medindia.net)
  • They note that surgeons may need to consult with specialists to manage diabetes control in these "medically complex patients. (medindia.net)
  • If your blood glucose levels get very high, you can develop diabetes-related ketoacidosis (DKA). (medlineplus.gov)
  • If you have diabetes, you'll most likely need to check your blood glucose every day and make sure that it's not too high. (medlineplus.gov)
  • If you have diabetes and often have high blood glucose, your health care team may make changes to your diabetes meal plan, physical activity plan, and/or diabetes medicines. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Patients with diabetes have a twofold increased risk of developing cataracts compared with the general population. (medscape.com)
  • Seeking to clarify the relationship between diabetes and cataract risk, they examined data on more than 112,000 patients and control persons. (medscape.com)
  • They found that the risk for cataract was more than fivefold greater among diabetes patients aged 45 to 54 years. (medscape.com)
  • The research, published online in the journal Eye , also showed that among diabetes patients who had been living with the disease for more than a decade, the cataract risk was more than five times greater than that for patients diagnosed in the past 2 years. (medscape.com)
  • These patients were matched with diabetes-free patients on the CPRD for age, sex, general practitioner, and start of follow-up. (medscape.com)
  • Overall, the incidence rate of cataract diagnoses and surgery cases was 20.4 per 1000 person-years among patients with diabetes, vs 10.8 per 1000 person-years in those without diabetes. (medscape.com)
  • Bourne reiterated: "The report has shown that having diabetes doubles your risk of being diagnosed with a cataract, and that this risk is six times higher if a diabetic patient has significant diabetic retinal disease, called diabetic maculopathy. (medscape.com)
  • However, certain medical conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure can lead to chronic kidney disease, which is the gradual loss of kidney function where the kidneys can no longer clean the blood effectively. (cdc.gov)
  • That's why it is essential for health care providers to promote practices to prevent and manage medical conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure. (cdc.gov)
  • [ 50 , 51 ] Similarly, it was found that compared with high-intensity statin monotherapy, mid-intensity statin therapy combined with ezetimibe results in a 5-15% greater reduction in LDL-C in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and a 3-21% greater LDL-C reduction in patients with diabetes. (medscape.com)
  • In the systematic review and meta-analysis, the investigators searched various databases between inception and May 25, 2021 for observational cross-sectional or longitudinal studies in patient populations representative of the general adult population for which NAFLD was diagnosed using an imaging method in absence of excessive alcohol consumption and viral hepatitis. (hcplive.com)
  • LOS ANGELES , June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Leading spinal neurosurgeon and innovator Dr. Todd Lanman , and founder of the Advanced Disc Replacement Spinal Restoration Center in Beverly Hills , has become the first neurosurgeon in California to offer patients the Emsculpt to help strengthen and rehabilitate their muscles much more rapidly following injury or pre- or post-surgery. (prweb.com)
  • For their prespecified secondary analysis of PIVOTAL data, Mark and his colleagues compared proactive high-dose IV iron with reactive low-dose IV iron in 2141 hemodialysis patients. (medscape.com)
  • The study showed "compelling findings regarding suicide ideation and behavior, which ought to motivate healthcare staff to be attentive towards patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease," noted Annette Erlangsen, PhD, of the Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention in Copenhagen, Denmark, who wasn't involved with the meta-analysis. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP, the American Heart Association's Chief Medical Officer for Prevention, shares advice and resources for patients and others concerned about the coronavirus. (heart.org)
  • This high rate of incident AF makes ICM-based screenings of high-risk individuals a potentially attractive stroke prevention strategy. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • Over the next 3-4 years, subgroup analyses, economic evaluations, and randomized clinical trials will help determine if this insight can be translated into a cost-effective stroke prevention strategy for high-risk individuals. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • The recognition follows the release earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of data on uncontrolled high blood pressure. (cdc.gov)
  • Substantial evidence supports the use of statins in the secondary prevention of CAD, and the efficacy of statins has recently been extended to include primary prevention of CAD in patients with average cholesterol levels. (medscape.com)
  • It continues to look like older people with coronary heart disease or high blood pressure are more likely to develop more severe symptoms. (heart.org)
  • Comorbid PH was seen among 26.2% of the SSc-ILD patient cohort, with most having severe or moderate PH, at 39.2% and 51.0%, respectively. (ajmc.com)
  • Some patients experience more severe pain after surgery and need higher doses of opioids for longer periods of time, which increases their risk for opioid abuse disorder. (asahq.org)
  • By knowing which patients are at higher risk for severe post-surgical pain, physician anesthesiologists can create an anesthesia plan using non-opioid alternatives - such as nerve blocks, epidurals and other medications - to more effectively address pain and reduce the need for opioids. (asahq.org)
  • Currently physicians use time-consuming questionnaires to identify patients at higher risk for severe post-surgical pain, asking about their history of anxiety, sleep quality and depression. (asahq.org)
  • If the patient is determined to be at high risk for severe post-surgical pain, the physician anesthesiologist can then adjust the patient's anesthesia plan to maximize non-opioid pain management strategies that would reduce the need for opioids after surgery. (asahq.org)
  • Regeneron is a combination of two drugs - casirivimab and imdevimab - that is shown to have reduce mortality in seronegative patients with severe infections. (org.in)
  • In response, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) released a statement in which its president, Dr. Rebecca Parker, complained that "the study does not discuss that insurance companies are misleading patients by selling so-called 'affordable' policies that cover very little until large deductibles are met - then blaming physicians for charges. (foxnews.com)
  • In their study, Cooper and Morton found that 22 percent of visits involved patients going to an in-network hospital emergency room staffed by out-of-network doctors. (foxnews.com)
  • The potential for pathogenic study, spirochetes from the genus Brachyspira were identi- synergy between V . cholerae and other pathogens has been fi ed at high titers in more than one third of cholera patients in Bangladesh. (cdc.gov)
  • This case study focuses on the development and effects of the Advanced Illness Management program at Sutter Health in Northern California, where nurses and social workers engage terminally ill patients, elicit and document their goals, and support them as they navigate their physical and emotional challenges. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Dr Harrison Wilde, first author of the study, said: 'What is unique about this study is that we've been able to put a number on the increased risk to patients for the first time in the context of surge capacity. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • The current study addresses a cross-disciplinary internistic problem and identifies the underestimated role of the concomitant disease atrial fibrillation when it comes to the care of patients with end-stage kidney disease. (news-medical.net)
  • We pushed these patients throughout the exercise period," said Neil Kelly, M.A., a graduate student trainee and first author of the study. (scienceblog.com)
  • This study is concrete evidence that patients can benefit from an exercise program and can do so rapidly in only 16 weeks. (scienceblog.com)
  • Standaert says he hopes this study will open the door to a more complete understanding of the role of exercise in this patient population. (scienceblog.com)
  • My patients who participated in the study told me that they enjoyed the exercise regimen and that they saw distinct improvement in their health and physical condition," he said. (scienceblog.com)
  • These patients are either not eligible for conventional TAVR, or they are at high risk for it," said Robert J. Lederman, M.D., the senior investigator in NHLBI's Division of Intramural Research who led the study with Khan. (nih.gov)
  • The BASILICA technique will be evaluated in a multicenter early feasibility study, sponsored by NHLBI, which began enrolling patients in January. (nih.gov)
  • It does not matter whether a white, black, Hispanic or Asian donor heart is transplanted into a patient of any other particular race," says senior study investigator and Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon Ashish Shah, M.D. "Other factors must be the reason for any differences in how well people do after transplantation, in particular, why blacks have poorer outcomes. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The study, " The Impact of Fatigue on Mortality of Patients with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD): Data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005-2010 and 2017-2018 ," was published online in Liver International . (hcplive.com)
  • We are in the process of designing a randomized study to test whether we can improve cancer-patient outcomes by reducing the number of medications in the older population of patients. (jefferson.edu)
  • Sixty-one patients were enrolled in the pilot clinic with 210 consultations held during the study period. (nih.gov)
  • Hematopoietic cell transplantation improved survival among high-risk genetic subgroups of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome, a recent study found. (curetoday.com)
  • This pivotal prospective study demonstrates that allogeneic HCT represents an important, potentially curative, therapeutic strategy in patients with high-risk genetic sub-groups of MDS, including patients with TP53 mutated MDS," Journal of Clinical Oncology associated editor Dr. Charles F. Craddock of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England wrote in a contextual commentary published along with the study. (curetoday.com)
  • The latest study findings were reached via genetic analysis of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network 1102 multicenter study of comparing different therapy options among 309 patients with MDS ages 50 to 75 with International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) intermediate-2 or high-risk MDS. (curetoday.com)
  • Among the 309 participants in the recent study there was a similar distribution of genetic mutations between the 229 patients who received HCT (the donor arm) and the 80 who did not (the non-donor arm): TP53 (28% vs. 29%), ASXL1 (23% vs. 29%) and SRSF2 (16% vs. 16%) were the most common genetic mutations. (curetoday.com)
  • For patients already living with systemic sclerosis, also having both pulmonary hypertension (SSc-PH) and interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) exacerbates their risk of all-cause mortality, and this risk only goes up with increasing severity of both comorbidities, reports a recent published study in Pulmonary Circulation . (ajmc.com)
  • Among patients with SSc‐ILD or SSc‐PH, concomitant PH or ILD disease, respectively, may increase risk of all‐cause mortality in a severity‐response relationship," the study investigators concluded. (ajmc.com)
  • A study featured in the November issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology confirms the success of a simple questionnaire designed to identify patients at high risk of lung cancer. (scienceblog.com)
  • Initiated in 2001, the current study confirmed 18 cases of cancer of the original 430 patients who qualified as high risk after completing a five-minute questionnaire. (scienceblog.com)
  • The study was conducted in primary care physician offices among patients seeking care for general health issues. (scienceblog.com)
  • After five years, the study confirmed lung cancer in eight patients with obstructed airflow and 10 in of the patients without. (scienceblog.com)
  • We plan to integrate the models with our electronic medical records to provide a prediction of post-surgical pain for each patient," said Mieke A. Soens, M.D., lead author of the study and an anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and anesthesiology instructor at Harvard Medical School, Boston. (asahq.org)
  • In the first part of the study, they used 163 potential factors to predict high pain post-surgery, based on a literature search and consultation with experts. (asahq.org)
  • Methods: Patients with NBHS in blood cultures between March and September 2016 in a Danish centre were included as part of an on-going study. (lu.se)
  • Study after study has shown that minority patients, particularly Black Americans, fare worse in many areas of medical care. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The study did find a positive trend: Over time, high-risk surgery became safer for everyone. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Study coauthor Rupert Bourne, MD, Vision and Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, said this study is only the second on the incidence of cataracts in the UK's diabetic patients since the 1980s. (medscape.com)
  • Patients in the study were aged 40 years or older. (medscape.com)
  • The aims of the study were to evaluate responsiveness to pain in patients with and without autism, using an electric stimulation on tooth and a subjective measure, the faces pain scale. (bvsalud.org)
  • The objective of the present study is to determine the profile of extra-abdominal septic shock patients with IAH/ACS admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and correlating with admission SOFA score. (bvsalud.org)
  • The study enrolled all critically ill patients more than 18 years old admitted to the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) of a university teaching hospital between April and October 2016, who had been diagnosed with extra-abdominal septic shock , according to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and SEPSIS -3. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this study SOFA score higher than 7 is correlated with IAH, with an accuracy of 68.8% (P (bvsalud.org)
  • Purpose: In the BRCAsearch study, unselected breast cancer patients were prospectively offered germline BRCA1/2 mutation testing through a simplified testing procedure. (lu.se)
  • A previous study shows unaffordable travel expense was one of the reasons of patient default. (who.int)
  • Our previous study 4 reported that a majority of TB patients had to borrow money during their TB treatment course (six to nine months). (who.int)
  • Lamhaut told French TV the ride is much smoother than a helicopter - another quick alternative to transfer critically ill patients - and said patients will be stable, allowing medical personnel to perform emergency care aboard the trains, if needed. (npr.org)
  • Patients at risk of hospitalisation, critically ill or seronegative (have not mounted an internal antibody response) should be prioritised for the therapy, the United Nations health agency suggested. (org.in)
  • Patients are nearly as likely to blame hospitals for their surprise medical bills as their insurance company, finds a new survey from NORC at the University of Chicago . (healthleadersmedia.com)
  • With total coronavirus cases in the UK now exceeding 3million and 3,500 patients on ventilators, hospitals across the country are stretched to their limits. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • The patients were transferred from the hard-hit eastern region of France, where hospitals are operating at overcapacity, to the western Loire Valley, where facilities still have plenty of beds. (npr.org)
  • Simple by design, our initiative received widespread community support from physicians, patients and hospitals," said lead investigator Thomas Petty, MD. By providing the guidelines for pointed questions when patients are face-to-face with physicians, we can begin to identify those at risk. (scienceblog.com)
  • Patient advocates give a voice to patients, survivors and their carers on healthcare-related (public) fora, informing the public, the political and regulatory world, health care providers (hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies etc.), organizations of health care professionals, the educational world, and the medical and pharmaceutical research communities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Clinical isolates of patients from University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Uyo and General Hospital , Ikot Abasi (GHIA) were investigated based on the strategic location of the hospitals . (bvsalud.org)
  • New research has uncovered elevated rates of high blood sugar , or hyperglycemia, among patients with breast cancer who are treated with the oral medication alpelisib. (news-medical.net)
  • Likewise, OS at three years was 68% among patients with very high risk IPSS (IPSS-M) without a TP53 mutation in the donor arm was 68%, but 0% for patients in the non-donor arm. (curetoday.com)
  • Among patients who had experienced AF by 18 months, 10% had one or more episodes lasting at least 24 hours, and 72 (56%) were prescribed oral anticoagulation therapy. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • The authors emphasized that knowing the severity of PH or ILD among patients who have SSc can help to risk stratify patients and that in turn can help to guide treatment decisions that include intensifying treatment referral for lung transplantation. (ajmc.com)
  • Between 2007 and 2011 the Ellsworth Medical Clinic in western Wisconsin improved blood pressure control among patients with cardiovascular disease from 68 percent to 97 percent. (cdc.gov)
  • McNamara LA, Topaz N, Wang X, Hariri S, Fox L, MacNeil J. High risk for invasive meningococcal disease among patients receiving eculizumab (Soliris ® ) despite receipt of meningococcal vaccination. (cdc.gov)
  • Lower death rates in all groups were observed among patients receiving financial support. (who.int)
  • Future research should investigate the reasons for the high treatment success among patients who received home visits. (who.int)
  • Coronary artery disease is highly prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease and in those who require hemodialysis, but there are surprisingly few data about how frequently MI occurs, what kind of MIs patients have, or the prognostic significance of these infarctions," said Patrick Mark, MBChB, PhD, professor of nephrology at the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. (medscape.com)
  • Across 10 studies, the odds of suicidal behavior were 2.15-fold higher (95% CI 1.22-3.78, P =0.01) among Parkinson's patients compared with general population controls, according to Eng-King Tan, MD, of Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, and co-authors. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Foster and Dr. Dana Hunnes , senior clinical dietician at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, support making your own high calorie beverages. (healthline.com)
  • The bill was featured in Kaiser Health News' and NPR's " Bill of the Month " series, which scrutinizes high or confusing medical bills. (healthleadersmedia.com)
  • Medical marijuana patients in Montana will gain improved access to their medicine under a state law that goes into effect next week. (hightimes.com)
  • Medical marijuana patients are not required to make any changes and their existing identification cards will remain valid until they expire. (hightimes.com)
  • Each rail car can accommodate four patients, is equipped like an emergency room - including ventilators and oxygen - and attended by six medical staff. (npr.org)
  • Thursday's maiden voyage is expected to be the first of many, and Lamhaut says the medical train will allow critical care beds in the east to be freed up for new patients. (npr.org)
  • High-risk patients reported helpful interactions with their care team around medical and social determinants of health, particularly those who knew their care manager. (springer.com)
  • 1 , 2 These programs are predicated on trusting relationships between patients and their care teams to help them navigate complex medical and social issues. (springer.com)
  • We hypothesized that patients who identified the presence of a care manager were more likely to report helpful interactions with their care team around medical and social determinants of health. (springer.com)
  • Please note that medical information found on this website is designed to support, not to replace the relationship between patient and physician/doctor and the medical advice they may provide. (news-medical.net)
  • There's some controversy brewing in Hawaii regarding Honolulu's medical marijuana patients. (hightimes.com)
  • The Honolulu Police Department had a simple message for medical marijuana patients with registered firearms-give up all of your guns. (hightimes.com)
  • Susan Ballard, Honolulu's new police chief, has mailed letters to around 30 medical marijuana patients thus far, stating they have 30 days to surrender all firearms in coherence with state law. (hightimes.com)
  • Additionally, MMJ patients would have to wait an entire calendar year after the expiration of their medical cards to re-apply for a gun permit. (hightimes.com)
  • And to continue to criminalize medical cannabis patients is archaic and wildly inappropriate. (hightimes.com)
  • Transplant surgeons at Johns Hopkins who have reviewed the medical records of more than 20,000 heart transplant patients say that it is not simply racial differences, but rather flaws in the health care system, along with type of insurance and education levels, in addition to biological factors, that are likely the causes of disproportionately worse outcomes after heart transplantation in African Americans. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In what is believed to be the largest and most detailed review of medical records ever conducted on the subject, the Johns Hopkins team combed 20,185 North American transplant patients' records. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The medical billing coordinator meets with the patient to discuss payment options for his upcoming procedure. (gettyimages.com)
  • They created three machine learning models that analyzed patients' electronic medical records, which identified that younger age, higher body mass index, female gender, pre-existing pain and prior opioid use were the most predictive factors of post-surgical pain. (asahq.org)
  • From there they created three machine learning algorithm models (logistical regression, random forest and artificial neural networks) that mined the patients' medical records and whittled the 163 predictor factors down to those which most accurately predicted patients' pain severity and potential opioid needs after surgery. (asahq.org)
  • These two practices have shown that by making high blood pressure a priority every day with every patient, control can be achieved by both large and small providers-and everyone in between," said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, "We are encouraged by the efforts of Kaiser Permanente Colorado and Ellsworth Medical Clinic to lower high blood pressure and be an example for other healthcare providers to follow. (cdc.gov)
  • Ellsworth Medical Clinic serves about 5,500 patients in a rural town of about 1,500 people, 50 miles from Minneapolis. (cdc.gov)
  • This treatment combination is very attractive since it minimizes the risk of treatment-related complications for the patient, especially for older patients who have existing medical comorbidities and typically have a poor prognosis. (mdanderson.org)
  • Dr. Anil Kukreja, Vice President, Medical Affairs and Regulatory, AstraZeneca India, said, "The new data from the OlympiA Phase III trial also confirms that it significantly extends the lives of the patients. (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • Patient characteristics were collected to classify bacteria according to Dukés criteria and the components of the HANDOC score were collected retrospectively from the patients' medical records. (lu.se)
  • If the test shows that your ketones are moderate or high, or if you don't have a ketones test, contact your health care provider right away or get emergency medical help. (medlineplus.gov)
  • And more radical health analysts coined the term health empires to refer to the increasing power of these large teaching institutions that linked hospital care with medical education, putting one in the service of the other, arguably losing the patient-centered focus in the process. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was not surprising, then, that patient advocacy, like patient care, focused on the hospital stay, while health advocacy took a more critical perspective of a health care system in which power was concentrated on the top in large medical teaching centers and a dominance of the medical profession. (wikipedia.org)
  • The results help to make the case for "tighter glycemic control" in diabetic patients undergoing surgery with a high risk of wound complications, Dr. Attinger and co-authors believe. (medindia.net)
  • If you are diabetic and you often have high blood glucose levels or the symptoms of hyperglycemia, talk with your health care team. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The team calculated that the incidence rate ratio (IRR) of cataracts between diabetic patients and nondiabetic individuals was 1.9 overall. (medscape.com)
  • Grover and colleagues showed statin therapy in diabetic patients without CAD to be as cost-effective as statin therapy in nondiabetic patients with CAD. (medscape.com)
  • ESAs have been associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events in patients with chronic kidney disease, so it is "plausible" that lower doses of ESA are associated with a lower risk for MI, he said. (medscape.com)
  • The authors recruited a high-risk group of patients: 50 years or older with known CV disease or chronic kidney disease, or 60 years or older with at least one CV risk factor. (aafp.org)
  • Published studies to date demonstrate that both patiromer and ZS-9 can safely and effectively reduce potassium levels in patients with diverse underlying diseases, including heart failure and chronic kidney disease. (kidney.org)
  • Fully integrated workflows, functionality, and an intuitive patient interface make athenaTelehealth easy for clinicians and patients alike. (athenahealth.com)
  • Background: Invasive infections with non-beta-haemolytic streptococci (NBHS) is quite common and presents the clinicians with difficulties regarding which patients are at risk for infective endocarditis (IE). (lu.se)
  • The method, called Bioprosthetic Aortic Scallop Intentional Laceration to prevent Iatrogenic Coronary Artery obstruction (BASILICA), will increase treatment options for high-risk patients who need heart valve procedures. (nih.gov)
  • Sherry Shen, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and her colleagues set out to describe the incidence, risk factors, and treatment patterns of alpelisib-associated hyperglycemia in patients with metastatic breast cancer treated in a clinical trial or as standard care at their institution. (news-medical.net)
  • If a patient is identified to have a PI3KCA mutation and thus eligible for treatment with alpelisib, we should be checking hemoglobin A1c level and partnering with the patient's primary care physician and/or endocrinologist to optimize their blood sugar levels. (news-medical.net)
  • Patients with public insurance, specifically Medicaid, had a 30 percent higher risk of needing some kind of antirejection treatment and a 39 percent higher risk of dying than transplant recipients with private insurance. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The older patients get, typically the more complex their care becomes - this is especially true when cancer treatment is combined with pre-existing conditions," says co-author Andrew Chapman , DO, co-director of the Senior Adult Oncology Center and chief of Cancer Services at the SKCC. (jefferson.edu)
  • With improved treatment options, patients are living longer and have specific survivorship needs such as low exercise levels that need to be addressed. (nih.gov)
  • the time a patient lives following treatment) at three years was 21% for patients with a TP53 mutation, less than half of the 52% of patients without a TP53 mutation and was similar among different genetic subcategories of patients with a TP53 mutation. (curetoday.com)
  • Minimally invasive prolonged electrocardiographic monitoring with insertable cardiac monitors might help hasten detection and treatment of AF, but diagnostic yield in high-risk patients has been unclear. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • Dr. Lanman is often bringing safe, effective and innovative treatment options to elevate the standard of care for his patients. (prweb.com)
  • For high-risk patients, does prophylaxis against venous thromboembolism (VTE) with the combined modalities of leg intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) and pharmacologic prophylaxis provide more protection than either treatment alone? (aafp.org)
  • A discussion about treatment for high-risk patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). (onclive.com)
  • After chemotherapy treatment and disease remission, patients traditionally undergo a stem cell transplant to reduce the chance of disease recurrence. (mdanderson.org)
  • AstraZeneca India , a biopharmaceutical company, on Friday said that it had received the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) approval to market its drug Lynparza (Olaparib) as a monotherapy for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with BRCA-mutated HER2- negative high-risk early breast cancer. (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • At the end of follow-up, the hazard of unfavorable treatment outcome (dead, lost, stopped HAART) for clients who restarted treatment at months 6, 12, 18 and 24 was higher by a factor of 1.9, 2.4, 2.6 and 2.4, as compared to those who never discontinued treatment at those times. (researchgate.net)
  • In May, 2017, the FDA granted accelerated approval for the use of Keytruda for treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic solid tumors having either microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) biomarkers. (cms.gov)
  • Patient advocacy in the United States emerged in the 1950s in the context of cancer research and treatment. (wikipedia.org)
  • In those early days of cancer treatment, patients and their families raised ethical concerns around the tests, treatment practices, and clinical research being conducted. (wikipedia.org)
  • Trial sequential analysis showed that a 25% or higher treatment effect, i.e. (lu.se)
  • The treatment goals for patients with coronary artery atherosclerosis are to relieve symptoms of coronary artery disease (CAD) and to prevent future cardiac events, such as unstable angina, AMI, and death. (medscape.com)
  • Large, multicenter randomized trials of various pharmacologic modalities have recently achieved great success in the treatment of patients with coronary artery atherosclerosis. (medscape.com)
  • The 2008 tuberculosis (TB) surveillance of Chiang Rai Hospital, Chiang Rai, Thailand reported that 8.4% of Thai, 22.7% of hill tribe minority and 25% of migrant patients ( n = 736) defaulted from treatment. (who.int)
  • TB surveillance and patient-fund register data were used to evaluate TB treatment outcomes. (who.int)
  • However, financial assistance alone did not improve treatment outcomes for migrant patients. (who.int)
  • Thirty-seven patients (25 Thai, eight hill tribe, four migrants) who were visited by women volunteers at home achieved 95% TB treatment success. (who.int)
  • Although treatment is free, TB patient management in CRH is complicated due to poverty, HIV stigma, language and cultural differences, as well as the legal status of some patients. (who.int)
  • Unaffordable travel expense was referred to as a main cause of treatment interruption, especially for hill tribe and migrant patients. (who.int)
  • During the investigation into reasons for default from TB treatment, we learnt about the difficulties experienced by poor patients. (who.int)
  • High-risk subgroups, in particular, can be targeted for early intervention. (medscape.com)
  • For more than half the patients who experience coronary artery obstruction during the TAVR, this complication has been fatal. (nih.gov)
  • We aimed to delineate clinical features of patients with SSc‐PH and SSc‐ILD and determine to what degree PH and ILD severity contribute to mortality in patients with SSc. (ajmc.com)
  • The results showed a higher risk of wound complications in patients who had high blood glucose levels either before or after surgery. (medindia.net)
  • Of 8,649 patients with recorded blood tests, bacterial infections were detected in 1,107 of them. (stv.tv)
  • In the Guided Care model, specially trained nurses create care plans, educate and support high-need patients and their caregivers, and coordinate care among providers, using formal assessment and planning tools to set priorities for stabilizing health and achieving patients' goals. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Patient advocacy is a process in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors, and caregivers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Alternatively, it might be that the high-dose iron group required lower doses of an ESA than the low-dose iron group, which might also have been beneficial, he added. (medscape.com)
  • Bamman hopes the findings will pave the way for larger studies to define optimal exercise doses for Parkinson's patients across the disease spectrum. (scienceblog.com)
  • Numerous barriers prevent patients from reaching out and getting the help they need, such as stigma toward receiving mental health care, lack of knowledge, limited accessibility, and financial or logistical issues," they continued. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Patients "are not thinking of the bill when they need to get care and they get walloped later with a bill from a physician they didn't know, couldn't choose and couldn't avoid," Cooper told Reuters Health in a telephone interview. (foxnews.com)
  • Our Scorecard ranks every state's health care system based on how well it provides high-quality, accessible, and equitable health care. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • At the One Care: MassHealth plus Medicare program at Commonwealth Care Alliance, interprofessional care teams provide integrated, high-touch care to patients in homes, primary care practices, and community settings, using flexible benefits that cover services not traditionally reimbursed by Medicare or Medicaid. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • This paper highlights for the first time that putting such strain on ICUs during pandemic peaks does, sadly, mean that that chances of someone dying in intensive care are higher. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • A convenient and secure way to deliver virtual care to your patients. (athenahealth.com)
  • Deliver quality care more easily with support that lets you focus on your patients. (athenahealth.com)
  • See how we can help you coordinate care and engage patients wherever your organization falls on the risk spectrum. (athenahealth.com)
  • Meet patients where they are and deliver vital care while helping maintain your practice's schedule density. (athenahealth.com)
  • There is growing interest in coordinating care for high-risk patients through care management programs despite inconsistent results on cost reduction. (springer.com)
  • Patients enrolled in a Boston-area primary care-based care management program. (springer.com)
  • Our main outcome was the number of topics in which patients reported having "very helpful" interactions with their care team in the past year. (springer.com)
  • We analyzed awareness of one's care manager as an intermediate outcome, and then as a primary predictor of the main outcome, along with patient demographics, years in the program, attitudes, and worries as secondary predictors. (springer.com)
  • As provider organizations take on greater financial risk for patients under value-based payment contracts, there is growing focus on the highest risk patients who incur an outsized portion of health care costs. (springer.com)
  • Telephone-based surveys of patients enrolled in the Partners HealthCare care management program were conducted by an independent survey research firm between December 7, 2015 and January 26, 2016. (springer.com)
  • After several years his business has grown continually, and he eventually decided he needed a bigger establishment to take care of his growing number of patients. (prleap.com)
  • During the first wave, there was huge uncertainty as this is a new disease (and) patients were very sick - a lot of patients were in critical care. (stv.tv)
  • The question is whether we can work with patients and their multiple healthcare providers to de-prescribe medicines that might no longer be essential and may interfere with their cancer care," says Dr. Nightingale. (jefferson.edu)
  • Colorado's Primary Care Partners surveyed more than 1,000 patients to evaluate their corresponding risk of lung cancer. (scienceblog.com)
  • Enroll in NACOR to benchmark and advance patient care. (asahq.org)
  • High blood pressure-blood pressure greater than or equal to 140/90 mm Hg-is responsible for direct health care costs of almost $131 billion each year. (cdc.gov)
  • Health care systems and professionals have important roles to play in helping patients reduce blood pressure and prevent heart attacks and strokes, according to CDC Director Thomas Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. (cdc.gov)
  • Health care systems can improve care by establishing targets for their staff to achieve and then recognizing and rewarding them for high performance," Frieden said. (cdc.gov)
  • POEMs (patient-oriented evidence that matters) are provided by Essential Evidence Plus, a point-of-care clinical decision support system published by Wiley-Blackwell. (aafp.org)
  • Our personalized portal helps you refer your patients and communicate with their MD Anderson care team. (mdanderson.org)
  • Your ideal care workflow in a paperless environment with anywhere, anytime access to all patients and health histories. (advancedmd.com)
  • Transitions of care among ambulatory sites are vulnerable to patient safety gaps. (ahrq.gov)
  • Patients who transition from one ambulatory care facility clinician to another are especially vulnerable to patient safety errors. (ahrq.gov)
  • This toolkit is designed to help staff actively engage patients and their care partners to prevent errors during transitions of care. (ahrq.gov)
  • The findings for this project frame the opportunities and challenges in engaging patients and their care partners as active participants in preventing harm during transitions of care. (ahrq.gov)
  • As a specific example, Mpody said that could mean health care providers asking patients if they have reliable transportation, and helping them with resources if they don't. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Some patient advocates are independent (with no conflict-of-loyalty issues) and some work for the organizations that are directly responsible for the patient's care. (wikipedia.org)
  • Health education and risk communication are important aspects of patient care. (cdc.gov)
  • Effective risk communication and education for patients at risk for PAH-related disease is an important part of patient care. (cdc.gov)
  • Written pre-test information has now replaced in-person pre-test counseling for breast cancer patients in our health care region. (lu.se)
  • There was a significant improvement in patients' exercise score (p = 0.02) after PrISMS clinic. (nih.gov)
  • For an allogeneic stem cell transplant , after the bone marrow is destroyed, the patient receives blood-forming stem cells from another person - the donor," the American Cancer Society explained. (curetoday.com)
  • Historically, we've sent more patients to stem cell transplant, but that's still an option. (onclive.com)
  • Of the 23 patients still alive, 14 have well controlled asthma, five have a pattern of persistent airflow obstruction, two have markedly labile asthma, and two have gradually deteriorating airflow obstruction. (nih.gov)
  • By contrast, seven patients who died sufficiently long after IPPV to enable categorization of their patterns showed either markedly labile asthma or gradually deteriorating airflow obstruction. (nih.gov)
  • Of the patients with airflow obstruction, 88 underwent a full lung cancer screening. (scienceblog.com)
  • Early evidence suggests patient-centered benefits, but we know little about how participants engage with the programs and what aspects they value. (springer.com)
  • Conclusions: Satisfaction with a simplified BRCA1/2 testing procedure was very high. (lu.se)
  • Older patients see multiple specialists, and those specialists rarely coordinate with each other to ensure that the medications are absolutely essential, or weighed against a patient's priorities. (jefferson.edu)
  • Should maintain a high index of suspicion for meningococcal disease in patients taking eculizumab who present with any symptoms consistent with either meningitis or meningococcemia, even if the patient's symptoms initially appear mild, and irrespective of the patient's meningococcal vaccine or antimicrobial prophylaxis status. (cdc.gov)
  • As a major advocacy organization during the time, the National Welfare Rights Organization's (NWRO) materials for a patient's bill of rights influenced many additional organizations and writings, including hospital accreditation standards for the Joint Commission in 1970 and the American Hospital Association's Patient Bill of Rights in 1972. (wikipedia.org)
  • Among 100 patients who were treated during a clinical trial, rates were lower (34.0% any grade and 13.0% serious hyperglycemia). (news-medical.net)
  • For example, wound dehiscence occurred in about 44 percent of patients who had high glucose levels before surgery, compared to 19 percent of those without preoperative hyperglycemia. (medindia.net)
  • With adjustment for other factors, the risk of wound dehiscence was more than three times higher for patients with hyperglycemia or elevated hemoglobin A1c around the time of surgery. (medindia.net)
  • Hyperglycemia means high blood glucose. (medlineplus.gov)
  • What Do High-Risk Patients Value? (springer.com)
  • defined as deep venous thrombosis [DVT] and pulmonary embolism [PE], or both) in high-risk patients. (aafp.org)
  • To assess the effectiveness of intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) combined with pharmacologic prophylaxis versus single modalities in preventing DVT in high-risk patients. (aafp.org)
  • Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and controlled clinical trials of combined IPC and pharmacologic interventions used to prevent VTE in high-risk patients. (aafp.org)
  • The results of the current review support the use of combined modalities, especially in high-risk patients. (aafp.org)
  • Rates of asymptomatic DVT range from less than 10 percent in low-risk patients (e.g., those having minor surgery) to 40 to 80 percent in high-risk patients (e.g., those having hip or knee arthroplasty). (aafp.org)
  • Chronic and perioperative glucose management in high-risk patients undergoing surgical closure of their wounds is significantly associated with outcomes," Dr. Attinger and colleagues write. (medindia.net)
  • But we do see high-risk patients with 17p deletion and mutated TP53 . (onclive.com)
  • According to the report, in high-risk patients with hyperlipidemia, a combination of low-intensity statin therapy and a bile acid sequestrant produces a 0-14% greater reduction in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) than does mid-intensity statin monotherapy. (medscape.com)
  • Niacin is superior to ezetimibe for combination therapy in high-risk patients being treated with statin monotherapy. (medscape.com)
  • Suicidality can be difficult to detect in patients with Parkinson's disease and is frequently missed even in those on long-term follow-up," Tan and colleagues wrote. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Studies that reported only on Parkinson's patients after deep brain stimulation were excluded. (medpagetoday.com)
  • The final analysis included 505,950 Parkinson's patients across 28 studies. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Patients with Parkinson's often have psychiatric comorbidities, most prominently depression, Tan and colleagues pointed out. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Depressive mood disorders are the greatest risk factors for both suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior and are present in almost half of patients with Parkinson's disease," they observed. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Fifteen subjects with moderate Parkinson's underwent 16 weeks of high-intensity resistance training combined with interval training designed to simultaneously challenge strength, power, endurance, balance and mobility function. (scienceblog.com)
  • Physicians who treat Parkinson's patients, such as UAB's David Standaert, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Neurology, say they have long believed that exercise is beneficial to their patients. (scienceblog.com)
  • What we do not know is what kind of exercise and how much exercise will prove best for individual patients with Parkinson's," Standaert said. (scienceblog.com)
  • All patients had a successful TAVR with no coronary obstruction, stroke or any major complication," said Lederman. (nih.gov)
  • My opinion is also that patients who are refractory to a BTK inhibitor are high risk because they have a shorter progression-free survival with venetoclax-based therapy, at least in the monotherapy experience. (onclive.com)
  • The risks and burdens were higher for hospitalized than for nonhospitalized patients. (umn.edu)
  • Cardiovascular risks and excess burdens were higher for abnormal heart rhythms (HR, 1.32), specifically, sinus bradycardia ([slow heart rate] HR, 1.64) and other arrhythmias (HR, 1.68) in the infected group. (umn.edu)
  • Patients with non-alcohol fatty liver disease (NAFLD) who are fatigued are at an increased risk of a number of negative outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, poor sleep, and mortality. (hcplive.com)
  • Exercise training meta-analysis of trials in patients with chronic heart failure (ExTraMATCH). (scirp.org)
  • Future randomised controlled trials will help to confirm its benefits on patient clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness. (nih.gov)
  • Future randomized controlled trials should evaluate ILD- and PAH-specific therapies in patients with SSc-PH and SSc-ILD, the investigators recommended, and they said their findings should be confirmed in a larger patient cohort. (ajmc.com)
  • All patients in the trials selected were surgical or trauma patients. (aafp.org)
  • The trials included 7,431 patients. (aafp.org)
  • It has been studied in three double-blind, placebo controlled trials and in one ongoing 12-month open label clinical trial in patients with hyperkalaemia, which represents over 1,600 patients treated. (kidney.org)
  • 65 mmHg in patients after cardiac arrest (CA). Recent trials have studied the effects of targeting a higher MAP as compared to a lower MAP after CA. We performed a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis to investigate the effects of higher versus lower MAP targets on patient outcome. (lu.se)
  • Results: Four eligible clinical trials were identified, randomizing a total of 1,087 patients. (lu.se)
  • In the 2005-2010 cohort, 37.6% of the patient population were diagnosed with NAFLD. (hcplive.com)
  • Here, 36.9% of the patient population was diagnosed with NAFLD. (hcplive.com)
  • The comprehensive real-world data we looked at gives us a sense of what's happening today, and offers clues on how we could reduce hospitalizations in older cancer patients," says senior author Grace Lu-Yao , PhD, associate director of Population Science at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC)-Jefferson Health. (jefferson.edu)
  • More detailed subgroup analyses may help identify a patient population with an even higher risk of developing AF. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • It is also conceivable that this population could have a sufficiently high risk of AF and stroke that a strategy of empiric oral anticoagulation, without the need for AF monitoring, could prove beneficial. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • We applaud these first two High Blood Pressure Control Champions for making sustainable changes that improved high blood pressure control rates for their entire patient population," said Janet Wright, M.D., a board-certified cardiologist and executive director of Million Hearts. (cdc.gov)
  • It's a different patient population. (onclive.com)
  • BASILICA was developed by Jaffar M. Khan, M.D., at the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of NIH, to increase the safety of TAVR for this subset of patients. (nih.gov)
  • However, in some patients whose hearts have uncommon structures, such as unusually large valve leaflets or small aortic roots, the large leaflets block the flow of blood to the coronary arteries as the new valve's scaffolding opens. (nih.gov)
  • Patients were required to complete blood tests and a questionnaire about their symptoms and concerns before each consultation. (nih.gov)
  • Your blood sugar gets so high that your blood becomes highly acidic, your cells dehydrate, and your body stops functioning. (npr.org)
  • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Million Hearts Initiative today recognized two practices for success in helping patients control their high blood pressure. (cdc.gov)
  • were named Million Hearts High Blood Pressure Control Champions for achieving blood pressure control rates of greater than 80 percent among their patients with high blood pressure. (cdc.gov)
  • Since January 2008, Kaiser Permanente Colorado's focus on managing hypertension has improved the blood pressure control rate of its patients from 61 percent to 82.6 percent. (cdc.gov)
  • Both systems credit the improvement to using electronic health records to track and monitor patients, sending email and phone reminders to increase medication adherence and encourage healthy lifestyle changes, and working closely with staff to prioritize high blood pressure control. (cdc.gov)
  • Nearly 1 in 3 American adults (67 million) has high blood pressure, and more than half (36 million) don't have it under control, according to the CDC's Vital Signs report. (cdc.gov)
  • High levels of potassium in the blood (called hyperkalemia) is unpredictable and can be life-threatening. (kidney.org)
  • Need for 'Tight Control' of Glucose Levels during Surgery Patients with wide swings in blood glucose levels variation of more than 200 points were about four times more likely to undergo repeat surgery. (medindia.net)
  • If you have an an at-home test for ketones, check your ketone level every 4 to 6 hours when your blood glucose is very high or when you are having these symptoms. (medlineplus.gov)
  • There are also blood tests that providers can use to check if your blood glucose is too high. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The machine filters toxins from the blood and then returns it to the patient. (cdc.gov)
  • For instance, they expressed concern to the National Institute of Health (NIH) about the cruelty of the repeated collection of blood samples (for blood marrow examination) and raised questions about whether this was more harmful than beneficial to the patient. (wikipedia.org)
  • Patients typically had their first AF episode about 4 months (median, 123 days) after the device was inserted. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • Typically, patients with CAD are first seen after they present with a cardiac event. (medscape.com)
  • The approval will provide oncologists with a potential therapeutic option to be given with curative intent to eligible early breast cancer patients. (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • This is owing to its involvement in the evolution of MDR strains and difficulty in therapeutic management of infected patients . (bvsalud.org)
  • He went to school in St. Louis, graduating from Augustinian Academy High School in 1972. (prleap.com)
  • If I have a patient who's refractory to a BTK inhibitor, I'm thinking, "What am I going to do? (onclive.com)
  • Our health industry is already stretched incredibly thin, and we simply do not have the resources to handle a tsunami of high risk Ebola patients. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
  • Last month, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services notified patients and providers that the change would go into effect on June 2. (hightimes.com)
  • This problem is not just about biology or race, it is also about the health system that supports our patients," says Shah, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart and Vascular Institute. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Patients with NAFLD who have fatigue could have worsened health-related quality of life and higher rates of mortality. (hcplive.com)
  • Too high to qualify for Medicaid and, Smith-Holt says, too high to qualify for subsidies in Minnesota's health insurance marketplace. (npr.org)
  • Ranking the events based on their significance provides references for the decision-makers of NRRAs to better understand where resources may be most needed in order to protect patients' health and safety. (who.int)
  • 2 The World Health Organization (WHO) classified Thailand as a country with high prevalences of TB, HIV and TB with HIV co-infection (TB/HIV). (who.int)
  • We found that rates of type 1 MI were 2.5 times higher than type 2 MIs, while non-STEMIs were 6.6 times more common than STEMIs, but that patients randomized to the high-dose iron group had a substantial reduction in fatal and nonfatal MI, compared with those in the low-dose group," Mark said. (medscape.com)
  • Cases of IE were found in patients with. (lu.se)
  • The incidence of ACS in patients with extra-abdominal septic shock admitted to a university teaching hospital MICU was higher than those found in the literature . (bvsalud.org)
  • No difference in serious adverse events was found between the higher and lower MAP groups. (lu.se)
  • More than half (56%) of patients consequently started oral anticoagulation therapy, noted James A. Reiffel, MD, of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, with his associates, for the REVEAL AF investigators. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • 50 A number of interventions have been tried to improve patients' effectiveness at advocating for themselves. (wikipedia.org)
  • A new look at NAFLD data show the disease is increasing worldwide and remains especially high among men. (hcplive.com)
  • Patients with multiple myeloma suffer from disease-related complications such as bone destruction, toxicities from repeated therapies and age-related co-morbidities. (nih.gov)
  • Nine patients had disease progression and were referred safely back to face-to-face clinics. (nih.gov)
  • It points out that you really have to consider how the patient got to where they're at, why they have recurrent disease, and what they have previously received before making your decision. (onclive.com)
  • This trial shows that the combination of ponatinib and blinatumomab produces high rates of complete molecular response, which reduces the chances that patients will relapse and increases the likelihood that they will be disease-free. (mdanderson.org)
  • The term "high risk," as applied to autopsy, is generally used to refer to those autopsies in which there is a high risk of transmission of disease to those doing the autopsy. (medscape.com)
  • The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved prescribing information for eculizumab includes a black box warning for increased risk of meningococcal disease, and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends meningococcal vaccination for all patients receiving eculizumab. (cdc.gov)
  • Recent data show that some patients receiving eculizumab who were vaccinated with the recommended meningococcal vaccines still developed meningococcal disease, most often from nongroupable Neisseria meningitidis , which rarely causes invasive disease in healthy individuals. (cdc.gov)
  • When a patient comes into my office, I like to educate them about what kind of procedures are available. (prleap.com)
  • Shah says the data "really prompts us to re-evaluate everything that we do for our more vulnerable patients and to tailor our efforts to the specific needs of each patient, especially African Americans, if we hope to fix racial disparities in surviving heart transplantation. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Willingness to support TB patients was driven by presenting provincial TB epidemiology information, research data on the experience of poor patients and the inspiring experiences of other women volunteers. (who.int)
  • The Chiang Rai provincial TB surveillance data indicates that, on average, one patient dies of TB every 36 hours in the province. (who.int)
  • Three hundred clinical samples were collected from male and female in and out-patients of all ages and processed using standard bacteriological methods . (bvsalud.org)