Hospice care can occur at home, in a hospice center, at a nursing home or in a hospital. The Medicare Hospice Benefit, which covers most hospice care, requires that two doctors verify a patient has less than six months to live. A 2007 Duke University study published in Social ...
There is increasing focus on how best to optimize patient outcomes and achieve cost-effective care—not just in the short-term, in-hospital, or 30-day time frame following a cardiac surgical procedure, but also long-term survival and freedom from rehospitalizations and reinterventions. Importantly...
21,22,−23]. Briefly, PHH of prematurity is caused by the rupture of blood vessels within the germinal matrix, a transient anatomical region in the developing human brain home to neural and glial precursor cells. Extravasation of blood into the ventricles constitutes intraventricular hemorrhage...
While TCR gene-engineered T-cell therapy has certainly proven to be potent, and efficacious in some cases, it faces a number of caveats. First and foremost is that it is necessarily restricted to a subset of patients. Not only do patients' tumors have to express the protein of interest, t...
In late March, my family were driving home from a wedding through the mountains to our rural hometown. I fell asleep in the passenger seat, and my next___was being in a rehabilitation center (康复中心) ten days later with a broken leg and a brain injury. My husband and daughter were...