... studies gauge results based on cost measures.
John S. Rhee, M.D., M ... validation being most common among the patient-reported outcome measures.”
As more attention has been focusing on improving patient ...
... a standard set of important outcomes for patients in diabetes trials, similar to the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) initiative. The OMERACT approach allows for the uniform measurement of ...
... length of stay, frequency of surgery, and length of post-operative stay were the main outcomes measured in this study.
Hospitals that had one to 50 patients with IBD were categorized as low-volume ...
... University in Nashville, Tenn.
Researchers identified four interventions:
Improve measurement and documentation of blood pressure by using a nursing protocol.
Initiate patient education efforts ...
... make more significant improvements in survival.”
Using the FDA-approved CellSearch™ technology, researchers measured the number of circulating tumor cells (CTC) in blood collected from women with ...
Objective, validated measures for assessing outcomes following facial plastic surgery have become more prevalent over the past decade, according to a review of previous studies published in the May/ ...
... , malalignment of the knee joint. Notably, quantitative cartilage loss outcome measures were more sensitive in revealing these relationships than previously applied qualitative approaches.
The ...
Primary care physicians caring for patients with diabetes have worse outcomes among their black patients than their white patients, reports a study conducted by Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and ...
... pressure and other quantifiable variables, psychiatry is the only medical discipline in which quantified measurements of outcome are not the standard of care. We believe that it is critical to do so, ...
... urgent intravenous procedures within 30-45 minutes at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ottawa. Outcome measurement of the vapocoolant spray was based on children's self-reported pain, the success ...
... the past five years, no studies until now have actually compared clinical outcomes or compliance with core measures for the management of AMIs in patients served by hospitals with accredited or non- ...
... or graft failure or poor scores on a combination of orthopaedic outcome measure tests. The study found that 15 (23.4 percent) of the 64 patients' ACL reconstructions failed as ...
... detected no differences in any measures of asthma between the groups.
"We observed no difference in the outcome measures related to asthma activity in adults with asthma and bronchial reactivity who ...
... distortion, which is thought to be dependent on cerebellar function).
In the secondary outcome measures, the researchers found a significant improvement in the simvastatin group in object assembly ...
... to Whitfield, help tie together basic and clinical science for scleroderma and could potentially be used as an outcome measure in clinical trials. Studies are in progress, he adds, to help define ...