Five High-Cost Patient Groupsdoi:10.1007/S11606-017-4105-ZJohn M. WestfallKim GriswoldSpringer US
Therefore, we examined five of the highest cost patients at an academic medical center in a case series. We interviewed the patients, their family members, and their clinicians and analyzed their claims data and medical charts to explore how patient and health system characteristics influenced their...
"Even in this higher-risk patient population, so many people did not accept statin therapy," Turchin said. The study found that while about two-thirds of the patients who were being recommended statin therapy eventually tried it, about one-third never did. And it took three times as long f...
Nadir and current counts of CD4 + T-cells (CD4 + count) had a median of 304 (IQR 208–400) and 577 cells/mm3 (IQR 426–750), respectively. One-hundred eighty-five patients/204 (90.7%) were already on cART at enrolment (median duration: 4.0 years, IQR 1.4–9.2) and most...
Patient-derived models recapitulate heterogeneity of molecular signatures and drug response in pediatric high-grade glioma Chen He, Ke Xu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Paige S. Dunphy, Brian Gudenas, Wenwei Lin, Nathaniel Twarog, Laura D. Hover, Chang-Hyuk Kwon, Lawryn H. Kasper, Junyuan Zhan...
Does quality of life of COPD patients as measured by the generic EuroQol five-dimension questionnaire differentiate between COPD severity stages? These results demonstrate that a generic instrument can assess COPD impact on quality of life and that the scores discriminate between patient groups of .....
High fived too hard? ✋🏼Here’s a dodgevall injury that resulted in radius and ulnar shaft fracture, aka broken forearm!!The injury may be sustained from a direct blow or an indirect injury involving a bending or rotational force placed on the forearm.The patient with a midshaft forear...
China plans to train more than 150,000 general practitioners during the five years until 2020 to cope with a national shortage, according to a document unveiled Tuesday. Int'l training on high-speed trains held in central China More than 30 railway staff from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekista...
Flow chart of patient inclusion for this study. Full size image Self-reported questionnaire Participants completed a comprehensive demographic questionnaire on the internet, which included the five-item version of the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-5) for diagnosis of ED and the seven...
The proportion of falls that resulted in a physician visit did not differ: 27.2% (778 of 2892) in the vitamin D group vs 26.1% (657 of 2512) in the placebo group. Fracture Outcomes One hundred fifty-five women receiving vitamin D sustained 171 fractures and 125 receiving placebo sustained...