• however, the prognostic value of AS products and splicing events remains to be elucidated. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • micro (mi)RNAs have also been demonstrated to have a high prognostic value for PRAD, but the technology for the extraction and identification of relevant miRNAs in limited samples remains to be fully developed and implemented ( 8 , 10 ). (spandidos-publications.com)
  • To assess the incremental prognostic value of SYNTAX score II (SxSII) as compared to anatomical SYNTAX Score (SxS) and GRACE risk score in patients with acute coronary syndromes who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention. (hindawi.com)
  • Compared to current standards for AML patient stratification, such as age or ELN2017 risk classification, we demonstrate an added prognostic value of the IPRP risk score for providing improved prediction of AML patients. (nature.com)
  • Here, we describe two unrelated Korean patients with GSD-III and review their clinical and laboratory findings. (degruyter.com)
  • Biochemical and molecular investigation of two Korean patients with glycogen storage disease type III" Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine , vol. 46, no. 9, 2008, pp. 1245-1249. (degruyter.com)
  • Since pulmonary rehabilitation has traditionally focused on patients with COPD, its effectiveness in other chronic lung diseases has received little attention, although it has been implemented with clinical success in patients with cystic fibrosis 4 and in those with restrictive pulmonary defects. (bmj.com)
  • 2. If the patient cannot be completely removed from a drug regime, test result should be interpreted with appropriate clinical judgement based on expected physiology response to these drugs. (sgh.com.sg)
  • 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)
  • Identification of airway hyperresponsiveness thus has clinical value, particularly in the diagnosis of asthma in people with normal spirometry results or with symptoms uncharacteristic of asthma. (cmaj.ca)
  • To explore the clinical characteristics among elderly (aged ≥60 years) patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) of different durations. (frontiersin.org)
  • It is worth noting that the clinical characteristics of elderly patients with type 2 diabetes in different durations of diabetes are different. (frontiersin.org)
  • Furthermore, since age and diabetic duration are both major risk factors for diabetic complications ( 9 ), it is crucial to understand the differences in clinical characteristics in T2DM patients with different durations of diabetes, especially in elderly individuals. (frontiersin.org)
  • In the present study, the data of splicing events and the clinical information of PRAD patients were obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)SpliceSeq and TCGA databases, respectively. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Originally, the SxS was introduced to predict clinical outcomes in stable patients with 3-vessel and/or left main disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), respectively, based on data from the SYNTAX trial [ 3 , 4 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Later on, the SxS was applied to a variety of patient populations with diverse clinical presentations including those with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) undergoing primary PCI [ 5 , 6 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The addition of clinical variables was a promising step in improving risk stratification by reclassifying patients into more accurate risk categories. (hindawi.com)
  • Therefore, in order to account for the variability of clinical parameters affecting long-term outcomes and hence better classification of patients' risk, the SYNTAX score II (SxSII) was developed by complementing SxS with 7 prognostic variables including age, creatinine clearance, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), presence of unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) disease, peripheral vascular disease (PVD), female gender, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [ 9 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The aim of the study was to develop receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for gastrin and CgA levels and other clinical and biochemical parameters, as means for pretest probability of gastric ECLH in patients with HT. (karger.com)
  • Compared with solid tumor sampling, the bone marrow or peripheral blood of leukemia patients is easier to access, and therefore an accurate and practical prognostic signature for leukemia patients has potential for more direct clinical application. (nature.com)
  • Since most hematological malignancies are very heterogeneous diseases, robust patient-specific prognostic signatures are required for clinical applications. (nature.com)
  • In the current study we investigated how the ability of serum from SLE patients to degrade NETs varies during the course of SLE as well as what impact this may have for the clinical phenotype of SLE. (biomedcentral.com)
  • BMD was measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, at clinical remission, for lumbar spine and the neck of the femur in 38 osteosarcoma and 25 Ewing's sarcoma patients. (cun.es)
  • Up to a third of osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma patients in clinical remission had some degree of BMD deficit. (cun.es)
  • This App is particular useful especially in clinical settings where you need a quick results without losing time in looking for reference data in textbooks. (apple.com)
  • I'm sure that any of us engaged in clinical care have had patients ask about probiotics or seen patients who are already taking them. (medscape.com)
  • First, for patients with C difficile infections, the guidelines concluded that there was not enough evidence to support the use of probiotics outside of a clinical trial. (medscape.com)
  • Regarding inflammatory bowel disease, the guidelines found no strong evidence to recommend probiotics for patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease , outside of a clinical trial. (medscape.com)
  • The recommendation was that there was nothing to support the proactive use of probiotics in these patients outside of a clinical trial. (medscape.com)
  • METHODS: A total of 68 patients were studied, 34 with active or previous plantar ulcer. (smw.ch)
  • Methods: Fifteen patients with advanced COPD (nine men) were randomly assigned to either a home based 6 week quadriceps femoris NMES training programme (group 1, n=9, FEV 1 =38.0 (9.6)% of predicted) or a 6 week control period before receiving NMES (group 2, n=6, FEV 1 =39.5 (13.3)% of predicted). (bmj.com)
  • This article will introduce an important research development to provide an evidence-based approach to current treatment methods and practices for young patients. (lww.com)
  • Data sets profiled in various patient cohorts may also have been processed with different data processing methods, making the signatures extracted in one study suboptimal in the other cohorts. (nature.com)
  • Pulmonary rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary approach to treating patients with chronic lung disease and is advocated in American, 1 British 2 and European 3 guidelines on the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as an important component of medical care. (bmj.com)
  • 8 Theoretically, one would therefore expect pulmonary rehabilitation to be as effective in bronchiectasis as it is in COPD, but to date only one study has been performed which included only seven patients with the disease. (bmj.com)
  • The reduced exercise capacity and increased dyspnoea in patients with COPD is partly attributable to expiratory flow limitation resulting in dynamic hyperinflation and increased intrinsic positive end expiratory pressure, exacerbated by a reduction in inspiratory muscle force. (bmj.com)
  • The aim of the present study was to compare the evolution of pulmonary haemodynamics and of arterial blood gases in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with mild-to-moderate hypoxaemia, with or without sleep-related oxygen desaturation. (ersjournals.com)
  • COPD patients with daytime arterial oxygen partial pressure in the range 56-69 mmHg were included prospectively. (ersjournals.com)
  • Background: Passive training of specific locomotor muscle groups by means of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) might be better tolerated than whole body exercise in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (bmj.com)
  • It was hypothesised that this novel strategy would be particularly effective in improving functional impairment and the consequent disability which characterises patients with end stage COPD. (bmj.com)
  • Conclusions: For severely disabled COPD patients with incapacitating dyspnoea, short term electrical stimulation of selected lower limb muscles involved in ambulation can improve muscle strength and endurance, whole body exercise tolerance, and breathlessness during activities of daily living. (bmj.com)
  • We therefore propose that passive stimulation of locomotor muscle groups by neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) may provide an alternative approach for improving physical capacity in severely compromised patients with COPD who present with incapacitating dyspnoea. (bmj.com)
  • Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have decreased physical activity (PA) compared with healthy adults. (dovepress.com)
  • This large-scale, multicenter, non-interventional, cross-sectional study examined the activity status of COPD patients in Japan and explored factors related to PA. (dovepress.com)
  • Reduced PA was observed in the Japanese COPD patients with the majority of them being GOLD stage I/II. (dovepress.com)
  • We established reference values of clinically relevant locomotor and balance performances for geriatric patients. (galileo-training.com)
  • All information received from the software output must be clinically reviewed regarding its plausibility before patient treatment! (apple.com)
  • All patients were examined clinically by a factors [ 3 ]. (who.int)
  • 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)
  • Therefore, novel and effective predictors for the prognosis of patients with PRAD are urgently required. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • The prevalence and predictors of psychological distress in patients with early localized prostate cancer. (cancer.gov)
  • The differences in patient characteristics between the 2 groups and predictors of patients who have at least 1 68 Ga-PSMA−, 18 F-FDG+ lesion were analyzed. (snmjournals.org)
  • Gleason score and PSA are significant predictors of 68 Ga-PSMA−, 18 F-FDG+ lesions, and CRPC patients with a high Gleason score and PSA may benefit from additional 18 F-FDG PET/CT. (snmjournals.org)
  • Serum interleukin-6 concentrations were positively associated with the discordant pattern of high CRP and normal ESR values. (jabfm.org)
  • Serum from 69 patients with SLE, included in a prospective study, was taken every 60 days for a median of 784 days. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To evaluate the problem we measured bone mineral density (BMD) and serum markers of bone formation and resorption in a series of pediatric patients with bone tumors. (cun.es)
  • Serum markers of bone formation (PICP and OC) and resorption (ICTP) were, throughout, lower than reference values. (cun.es)
  • Despite inhibition of serum androgens, many patients develop castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and the tumor continues to grow, requiring multidrug therapy. (snmjournals.org)
  • Background & Objective: Patients with mild hypothyroidism often are depressed and have impaired quality of life despite serum free-T4 and T3 within reference values. (lu.se)
  • These findings might partly explain why some patients with hypothyroidism suffer from mental symptoms, despite adequate serum levels of free-T4. (lu.se)
  • Recent studies have suggested that the acoustic characteristics of snoring sound may differ between simple snorers and OSA patients. (researchgate.net)
  • We have studied a small number of patients with simple snoring and OSA, analysing the acoustic characteristics of the snoring sound. (researchgate.net)
  • Reference values of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association Back Pain Evaluation Questionnaire in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and characteristics of deterioration of QOL: Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Diagnosis Support Tool: DISTO project. (bvsalud.org)
  • This multicenter cross-sectional survey was performed to determine the reference values and disease -specific characteristics of deterioration of QOL caused by LSS itself, not by aging , through comparison of patients with and without LSS who had an outpatient visit for low back pain by age and sex groups. (bvsalud.org)
  • Primary study outcomes were measurement of daily steps (over 14 consecutive days, using an activity monitor), assessment of activity time by activity intensity (using metabolic equivalents [METs]), and evaluation of correlation between PA and patient characteristics. (dovepress.com)
  • Secondary outcomes included further investigation of the influence of patient characteristics on PA. (dovepress.com)
  • proponents of evidence-based medicine now accept that a good outcome must be defined in terms of what is meaningful and valuable to the individual patient. (annfammed.org)
  • 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)
  • The aim of this study was to assess the role of non-invasive scores in predicting the presence of EV in patients with liver cirrhosis, and to determine the value of these scores in predicting the outcome of patients with cirrhosis presenting with acute variceal bleeding. (mdpi.com)
  • Main outcome measure Using medical record review as the reference standard, we examined the PPV for cardiovascular diagnoses in the DNPR, coded according to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision. (bmj.com)
  • today, life spans of responding patients are considered comparable to the general population in contrast to the previously often lethal outcome (Gambacorti-Passerini et al. (ons.org)
  • 3 ] found that a pyroptosis-related signature can effectively predict the prognosis of patients with ovarian cancer. (nature.com)
  • Are correct biological reference intervals/decision values and alert/critical interval values included for all the examinations performed by the laboratory in the Laboratory Service Manual? (who.int)
  • If the biological reference interval/diagnostic decision value and/or alert/critical interval values turn out to be incorrect after changing the methodology of an examination, is this value directly adapted in both the Laboratory Service Manual and the Laboratory Result Report format and is the new version of the Laboratory Service Manual sent directly to the clients of the laboratory? (who.int)
  • Are correct biological reference intervals/decision values and alert/critical interval values included for all the examinations performed by the laboratory in the Laboratory Result Reports? (who.int)
  • Is the correctness of the biological reference intervals/diagnostic decision values and alert/critical interval values regularly verified for all the examinations performed by the laboratory? (who.int)
  • If the methodology of an examination is changed, does the laboratory verify if the biological reference interval/diagnostic decision value and alert/critical interval value is still correct for that examination? (who.int)
  • The recommended practices address the benefits of using a quality management system approach, factors to consider before introducing new tests, establishment and verification of test performance specifications, the total laboratory testing process (which consists of the preanalytic, analytic, and postanalytic phases), confidentiality of patient information and test results, and personnel qualifications and responsibilities for laboratory testing for inherited metabolic diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Analyze the laboratory parameters of CSF in patients with enterovirus meningitis, and then, theirrelationship by age group. (bvsalud.org)
  • Individual results should be examined in the context of the reference range provided by the performing laboratory. (medscape.com)
  • The L (luminance) value was measured by a colorimeter to obtain an objective pigmentation parameter. (karger.com)
  • Objective The majority of cardiovascular diagnoses in the Danish National Patient Registry (DNPR) remain to be validated despite extensive use in epidemiological research. (bmj.com)
  • The ADR offers an objective value in order to evaluate the acetabular remodelling. (apple.com)
  • For the 2017 version of HVBP, the measures are allocated as follows: eight for patient experience, seven for patient safety (1 of which is a roll up of 11 claims-based measures), three for process, and three for mortality. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • The guidelines are in line with a 2017 Cochrane review which reported that probiotics' benefits were driven by patients at high risk for C difficile rather than in those at low, indeterminate, or average risk. (medscape.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)
  • In conclusion, this study demonstrates significant differences in the sound power spectrum of snoring sound between subjects with simple snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea patients. (researchgate.net)
  • For patients in whom obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is suspected or is diagnosed, examination of the upper airway is essential for determining an optimal treatment, as many variables are involved in the pathogenesis of the disease, making the choice of the correct treatment a complex one. (medscape.com)
  • A prospective study by Magliulo et al found that of 50 patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), 70% had nasal obstruction, 80% had at least one rhinosinusal pathology, and 18% and 26% had, respectively, allergic or nonallergic rhinitis. (medscape.com)
  • Data from 417 patients with Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) stages I (29.5%), II (43.9%), III (23.5%), and IV (3.1%) were evaluated. (dovepress.com)
  • The JOABPEQ was measured for 8338 patients aged 20 years or over who came to an outpatient clinic for low back pain (LBP) and were examined for whether they had LSS using the LSS diagnosis support tool (LSS-DST). (bvsalud.org)
  • Gastrin and chromogranin A (CgA) levels have been tested for the diagnosis of enterochromaffin-like cell hyperplasia (ECLH) in patients with type 1 diabetes and autoimmune atrophic gastritis but not for patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT). (karger.com)
  • Their predictive values were calculated according to the histological findings for ECLH diagnosis from esophagogastroduodenoscopy-obtained biopsies. (karger.com)
  • The decrease was more pronounced in pubertal patients compared with those who had completed pubertal development at the time of disease diagnosis. (cun.es)
  • Participants For each cardiovascular diagnosis, up to 100 patients from participating hospitals were randomly sampled during the study period using the DNPR. (bmj.com)
  • A total of 115 patients with HT were prospectively studied for a median period of 4 (2-7) years. (karger.com)
  • As many as 41% of all patients in the study showed decreased ability to degrade NETs at least once, but with a median of 20% of all time points. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The parameters of the CSF in patients with enteroviral meningitis showed similar median concentrations to those found in the literature. (bvsalud.org)
  • Title : Sonographic reference values for median nerve cross-sectional area: A meta-analysis of data from healthy individuals Personal Author(s) : Roll, Shawn C.;Takata, Sandy C.;Yao, Buwen;Kysh, Lynn;Mack, Wendy J. (cdc.gov)
  • There is growing interest in coordinating care for high-risk patients through care management programs despite inconsistent results on cost reduction. (springer.com)
  • Values Version - this is the default view and lets you see the results of the formulas and functions in each cell. (wikibooks.org)
  • However, subanalyses of the SYNTAX trial and results from different studies have implied that the purely anatomy-based risk stratification of the SxS score made it prone to misclassification of patient's true risk, particularly for all-cause mortality and cardiac death in patients with stable CAD or ACS treated by PCI [ 7 , 8 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Results: All patients were able to complete the NMES training programme successfully, even in the presence of exacerbations (n=4). (bmj.com)
  • Results from the aggregated sample may serve as updated reference values for the general German population. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • This is the first report of confirmation of GSD-III in Korean patients by biochemical and genetic findings. (degruyter.com)
  • This study clearly shows that VISIONAIRE patient-matched technology improves outcomes for patients, simplifies the OR experience for surgeons and pulls cost out of the healthcare system. (smith-nephew.com)
  • The autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex and heterogeneous disease with the patients displaying a variety of symptoms ranging from glomerulonephritis to skin rashes and chronic fatigue. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Data on reliable upper reference ranges are missing. (bmj.com)
  • Based on algorithms and statistics the lab comes out with reference ranges. (nuhs.edu)
  • One problem with this is that the people used to determine the reference ranges probably aren't all optimally healthy, meaning the reference range values aren't necessarily indicative of health. (nuhs.edu)
  • Functional lab values usually have a narrower range that falls within the reference ranges. (nuhs.edu)
  • however, age-specific reference ranges have not been well-defined (Disanto et al. (cdc.gov)
  • Studies have shown that the reference ranges in such tests as uroflowmetry and cystometry are wide. (medscape.com)
  • So far, the SxSII was validated in patients with left main and multivessel disease showing more accurate patient stratification than SxS [ 10 , 11 , 12 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Treatment responses of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are known to be heterogeneous, posing challenges for risk scoring and treatment stratification. (nature.com)
  • The diagnostic value of measuring pressure nociception to detect ulcer risk is, however, unknown. (smw.ch)
  • Conclusions This is the first population-based study delineating age-adjusted upper reference limits of CBD and PD on MRCP. (bmj.com)
  • All patients (except the control group) underwent an 8 week training programme of either PR or PR plus targeted IMT. (bmj.com)
  • In patients with ACS who underwent PCI, SxSII is an independent predictor of mortality during 1-year follow-up. (hindawi.com)
  • The data of 56 patients with CRPC who underwent both 68 Ga-PSMA and 18 F-FDG PET/CT from May 2018 to February 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. (snmjournals.org)
  • There was a statistically significant correlation between the predicted PEFR values in Palestinians and both equations in both males and females regardless of age. (who.int)
  • 1. Novais EN1, Pan Z, Autruong PT, Meyers ML, Chang FM.Normal Percentile Reference Curves and Correlation of Acetabular Index and Acetabular Depth Ratio in Children. (apple.com)
  • Anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa are by far the most prevalent eating disorders among patients admitted to child and adolescent psychiatric (CAP) treatment or to paediatric units with a CAP liaison service, whereas patients with bulimia nervosa and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) are seen comparatively less often. (lww.com)
  • In adolescent bone sarcoma patients, bone mass acquisition is potentially compromised at a time in which it should be at a maximum. (cun.es)
  • A total of 386 patients with liver cirrhosis were included. (mdpi.com)
  • Inform the patient with vitamin B6 deficiency that yeast, wheat, corn, liver, and kidneys are good sources of pyridoxine. (vitamins-minerals-supplements.org)
  • Furthermore, in elderly T2DM patients with a duration of diabetes of 5~10 years or ≥ 10 years, the duration of diabetes was positively associated with diabetic macrovascular complications (coronary heart disease and peripheral artery disease). (frontiersin.org)
  • The PI for mutually exclusive exons had the greatest ability to predict the probability of five-year disease-free survival of patients with PRAD, with an area under the time-dependent receiver-operating characteristic curve of 0.7606. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • According to cancer statistics for 2015, 60,300 individuals were diagnosed with PRAD and 26,600 patients succumbed to the disease in China. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Davis-Ali SH, Chesler MA, Chesney BK: Recognizing cancer as a family disease: worries and support reported by patients and spouses. (cancer.gov)
  • Inclusion criteria Studies that had collected data prospectively in patients with suspected inflammatory bowel disease and allowed for construction of a two by two table. (bmj.com)
  • Conclusion Testing for faecal calprotectin is a useful screening tool for identifying patients who are most likely to need endoscopy for suspected inflammatory bowel disease. (bmj.com)
  • Endoscopic evaluation with histopathological sampling are generally considered indispensable in the investigation of patients with suspected inflammatory bowel disease. (bmj.com)
  • CD4+ T-lymphocyte levels also are used as prognostic indicators in patients who have HIV disease (17,18) and recently have been included as one of the criteria for initiating prophylaxis for several opportunistic infections that are sequelae of HIV infection (19,20). (cdc.gov)
  • 2019). Elevated concentrations of NfL have also been associated with disease severity in these patient populations, including in MS and other neurologic conditions (Disanto et al. (cdc.gov)
  • However, patients with a distant history that suggests porphyria may have porphobilinogen levels within the reference range, particularly if they have had prolonged disease latency. (medscape.com)
  • Using a robust gene pairing approach, which effectively eliminates batch effects across heterogeneous patient cohorts and transcriptomic data, we developed an immunity and pyroptosis-related prognostic (IPRP) signature that consists of 15 genes. (nature.com)
  • Using 5 AML cohorts ( n = 1327 patients total), we demonstrate that the IPRP score leads to more consistent and accurate survival prediction performance, compared with 10 existing signatures, and that IPRP scoring is widely applicable to various patient cohorts, treatment procedures and transcriptomic technologies. (nature.com)
  • In particular, using traditional prognostic signatures, it is often difficult to find a common cutoff for risk classification that would be suitable among multiple patient cohorts and studies. (nature.com)
  • Even though developed for AML patients, our pan-cancer analyses demonstrate a wider application of the IPRP signature for prognostic prediction and analysis of tumor-immune interplay also in multiple solid tumors. (nature.com)
  • All patients with PV should take aspirin, 81 mg daily, unless contraindicated by major bleeding or gastric intolerance. (medscape.com)
  • However, they should be interpreted with caution, as some patients may harbor gastric ECLH even if gastrin levels are not increased, necessitating further follow-up. (karger.com)
  • These may include but are not limited to children, patients in critical care and mental health patients and those most vulnerable or those highlighted through nutritional screening. (uk.com)
  • Patient-centered care has now made it to center stage in discussions of quality. (annfammed.org)
  • Insurance payments are increasingly linked to the provision of patient-centered care. (annfammed.org)
  • Lost in many of the discussions of patient-centered care, however, is the essential and revolutionary meaning of what it means to be patient centered. (annfammed.org)
  • The originators of client-centered and patient-centered health care were well aware of the moral implications of their work, which was based on deep respect for patients as unique living beings, and the obligation to care for them on their terms. (annfammed.org)
  • Thus, patients are known as persons in context of their own social worlds, listened to, informed, respected, and involved in their care-and their wishes are honored (but not mindlessly enacted) during their health care journey. (annfammed.org)
  • 2 - 6 There have been concerns that patient-centered care, with its focus on individual needs, might be at odds with an evidence-based approach, which tends to focus on populations. (annfammed.org)
  • 7 Patient-centered care, as does evidence-based medicine, considers both the art of generalizations and the science of particulars. (annfammed.org)
  • Patient-centered care is a quality of personal, professional, and organizational relationships. (annfammed.org)
  • Thus, efforts to promote patient-centered care should consider patient-centeredness of patients (and their families), clinicians, and health systems. (annfammed.org)
  • Systems changes that unburden primary care physicians from the drudgery of productivity-driven assembly-line medicine can diminish the cognitive overload and exhaustion that makes medical care anything but caring or patient-centered. (annfammed.org)
  • Confusion about what patient-centered care really means, however, can produce efforts that are superficial and unconvincing. (annfammed.org)
  • Although such amenities might enhance the patient's experience, they do not necessarily achieve the goals of patient-centered care. (annfammed.org)
  • Calls for patient-centered care have often emphasized the implementation of infrastructural changes. (annfammed.org)
  • 10 These changes, such as electronic health records and advanced access scheduling, may be necessary to move medical care into the 21st century, but they should not be conflated with achieving patient-centered care. (annfammed.org)
  • Simply implementing an electronic health record in itself is not patient-centered unless it strengthens the patient-clinician relationship, promotes communication about things that matter, helps patients know more about their health, and facilitates their involvement in their own care. (annfammed.org)
  • With social changes in medicine, the operational definition of patient-centered care is changing, and measures should reflect those changes. (annfammed.org)
  • 11 Early measures of patient involvement in care, for example, asked patients whether they had opportunities to ask questions. (annfammed.org)
  • A patient who is accustomed to a passive role in care might be satisfied by the physician's rushed, "Any questions? (annfammed.org)
  • Patients enrolled in a Boston-area primary care-based care management program. (springer.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The 20Ways is a quarterly publication dedicated to educating pharmacy managers on products and services that serve to improve patient care or to improve a pharmacy's financial bottom-line through twenty unique product profiles. (rxinsider.com)
  • Let us show you how to improve patient care, increase your professional satisfaction, and diversify your business by adding compounding services to your practice. (rxinsider.com)
  • OTIS counselors offer pharmacists, health care providers and educators another source of support for their patients dealing with questions and anxiety about medications and other exposures during pregnancy or breastfeeding. (rxinsider.com)
  • Our consultants work with hospitals and health systems combining a wealth of expertise with personalized and comprehensive support to optimize your pharmacy operations and deliver better patient care. (rxinsider.com)
  • ScriptPro's game-changing pharmacy solutions enable you to make pharmacy the biggest financial strength of your healthcare system - improving accuracy, advancing patient care, and raising operational performance. (rxinsider.com)
  • 2 These features of robotic surgery enhance surgeon's skills to care for the patient. (bmj.com)
  • Handbook of Psychooncology: Psychological Care of the Patient With Cancer. (cancer.gov)
  • Instead, MACRA should delineate a simple measure set representing improvement activities that physicians and teams can incorporate into their regular work flow without more time taken away from patient care. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • Oncology nurses may help provide tailored support, thereby ameliorating care for these patients. (ons.org)
  • Educate patients or their caregivers and guardians about the health effects of lead exposure in children and the importance of seeking medical care. (cdc.gov)
  • There is evidence that probiotics should potentially be avoided in patients at higher risk for infection , such as those with indwelling lines, in the intensive care unit, or in immunocompromised states. (medscape.com)
  • 9 , 10 Helping patients to be more active in consultations changes centuries of physician-dominated dialogues to those that engage patients as active participants. (annfammed.org)
  • Early evidence suggests patient-centered benefits, but we know little about how participants engage with the programs and what aspects they value. (springer.com)
  • Most (n = 1123, 74.9%) of the participants showed normal CRP and ESR values. (jabfm.org)
  • Sixty-nine (4.6%) participants showed high CRP and ESR values. (jabfm.org)
  • These participants will be selected in part to have sNfL values that span the entire range of values observed in the overall cohort. (cdc.gov)
  • As of October 28, 2021, CDC uses a blood lead reference value of 3.5 micrograms per deciliter to identify children with blood lead levels that are higher than most children's levels. (cdc.gov)
  • The reference values of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association Back Pain Evaluation Questionnaire (JOABPEQ) in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) are still unknown. (bvsalud.org)
  • Patients had decreased lumbar and femoral BMD. (cun.es)
  • In this population, training has been shown to be associated with less consistent benefits than those characteristically found in patients with mild to moderate dyspnoea. (bmj.com)
  • Informed consent a major presenting feature in some patients was obtained from every patient and the with HCV infection and can lead to the study was approved by the ethical commit- discovery of occult HCV infection [ 8 ]. (who.int)
  • The aim of the present study was to assess the predictive performance of SxSII in patients presenting with ACS undergoing PCI and to compare it to the previously validated SxS and the commonly used Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) risk score [ 13 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • consider anagrelide in younger patients (aged 50-70 y). (medscape.com)
  • In this retrospective multi-cohort study, we investigated whether combining pyroptosis- and immune-related genes improves prognostic classification of AML patients. (nature.com)
  • The utility of a porphobilinogen level within the reference range depends on the patient's current presentation. (medscape.com)
  • An acute attack with a porphobilinogen level within the reference range effectively rules out porphyria as a cause of the patient's symptoms. (medscape.com)
  • In general, phosphorus-32 ( 32 P) therapy should be reserved for patients older than 80 years or patients with comorbid conditions in whom life expectancy is less than 5-10 years and the convenience of 32 P dosing outweighs the substantial risks of developing acute leukemia 5-15 years after 32 P administration. (medscape.com)
  • The plasma PDGF-B concentration was elevated above the upper limit of normal individuals in 12 (22%) of the 55 patients. (nih.gov)
  • Furthermore, the odds ratio for the patient to develop alopecia and fever after an episode of decreased NETs degradation was increased by four to five times compared to normal. (biomedcentral.com)
  • By clicking three points and inserting the age, the gender and the side of the patient in the App, the measured value is compared with values from normal reference database. (apple.com)
  • In case the measured value is beyond the normal range according to reference database, the hips are categorised as borderline, mild or severe dysplastic. (apple.com)
  • Also offers the ability all the data to be compared with medical reference database and help decide what could be considered normal or pathologic. (apple.com)
  • Patients requiring more specialist therapeutic diets should be catered for via a specialist à la carte menu so as not to limit choice for most other patients. (uk.com)
  • As damaged red blood cells passing through the red pulp of the spleen are removed by splenic macrophages, splenectomy is one possible therapeutic approach to the management of severely affected patients. (haematologica.org)
  • Splenectomy has been suggested as a possible therapeutic approach to manage severely affected patients, based on the evidence that abnormal or damaged red blood cells passing through the spleen red pulp are removed by the splenic macrophage system. (haematologica.org)
  • thus giving the formula: C O = H R × S V {\displaystyle CO=HR\times SV} Values for cardiac output are usually denoted as L/min. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gastrin levels have high diagnostic accuracy for ECLH identification in patients with HT, and are highly specific when combined with low B 12 levels. (karger.com)
  • Identification of low risk patients would reduce the number of unnecessary invasive endoscopic procedures. (bmj.com)
  • In the name of patient-centeredness, hospitals have been adopting models used by boutique hotels with greeters, greenery, and gadgetry. (annfammed.org)
  • We sampled patients only from hospitals in the Central Denmark Region. (bmj.com)
  • Improvements in process and patient experience measures for HVBP hospitals were no greater than those for the control group. (the-hospitalist.org)
  • In short, the Reference Model represents an opportunity to get your data house in order before trying to implement a solution. (fticonsulting.com)
  • Mature companies that are expanding the scope of their RIM system, or are acquiring new companies, can also benefit from the Reference Model as they work to align data. (fticonsulting.com)
  • If bad data is migrated, much of the value of a RIM solution may be lost. (fticonsulting.com)
  • A descriptive study was conducted based on data from a CSF reference service, located in São Paulo, Brazil, on 202 individuals who had enterovirus meningitis. (bvsalud.org)
  • The history and physical examination alone may not provide sufficient and accurate information on which to base surgical therapy, but such basic data may provide the foundation from which to select patients for more invasive and complex testing. (medscape.com)
  • In these patients, the tumour volumes were extensively large, and those elevated PDGF-B values decreased after treatment and became elevated again in three patients with recurrent glioblastoma. (nih.gov)
  • Suspicion is raised in patients with persistent (≥4 weeks) or recurrent (≥2 episodes in six months) abdominal pain and diarrhoea. (bmj.com)
  • General surgery residents and attendings undergo simulation training in order to gain skills in robotic surgery prior to performing robotic surgery on patients. (bmj.com)
  • Patients with an elevated porphobilinogen levels can undergo further testing to determine the subtype of porphyria present. (medscape.com)
  • patients who are elderly or have cardiovascular compromise should be phlebotomized cautiously, and smaller amounts should be removed. (medscape.com)
  • China has the largest number of patients with diabetes and the largest elderly diabetic population ( 1 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Our extensive line of MicroLingual products dissolve under the tongue and are perfect for children, the elderly, bariatric patients and the 38% of Americans who hate to swallow pills. (rxinsider.com)
  • At baseline ( t 0 ), patients with sleep-related desaturation had a significantly higher daytime (mean±sd) arterial carbon dioxide partial pressure ( P a,CO 2 ) (44.9±4.9 mmHg versus 41.0±4.1 mmHg, p=0.001) whereas mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) was similar in the two groups. (ersjournals.com)
  • For patients undergoing cancer treatment, anxiety can also heighten the expectancy of pain,[ 10 - 12 ] other symptoms of distress, and sleep disturbances, and it can be a major factor in anticipatory nausea and vomiting. (cancer.gov)
  • Consider tests for any patients who consumed recalled applesauce products and have concerning or persistent symptoms that cannot be readily explained, such as vomiting and diarrhea or signs of anemia. (cdc.gov)
  • Porphobilinogen (PBG) is measured in patients with symptoms that suggest acute intermittent porphyria, variegate porphyria, or hereditary coproporphyria. (medscape.com)
  • QUESTION UNDER STUDY: Repetitive skin trauma and reduced pressure pain sensation are necessary components of plantar ulcer risk in patients with diabetic neuropathy. (smw.ch)
  • Assessment of small and large fiber function in long-term type1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients with and without painful neuropathy. (smw.ch)
  • Only a small number of indicators are currently used for predicting the prognosis of PRAD patients, and each indicator has its own advantages and disadvantages. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Similarly, information should be tailored to patients' needs to permit meaningful deliberation and shared mind. (annfammed.org)