Background Previous studies have found emergency medicine physicians have a reduced life expectancy compared to other doctors, using small subsets of data from the obituary section of the British Medical Journal. Technological advances now allow the entire catalogue of obituaries to be interrogated, ...
第一段 “More primary care doctors in a community (社区)appear to lead to improved life expectancy for people living there,though a lack of such physicians across U.S. could be a cause of concern for overall population health in years to come.”是文章的主旨句,说明基础保健可延长寿命,但...
In contrast, the number of specialty physicians is positively and significantly related to total mortality, deaths due to heart diseases and cancer, shorter life expectancy, higher neonatal mortality, and higher low birth weight. From a policy perspective, a likely implication is to reorient the ...
T hey found that an increase of 10 primary carephysicians per 100,000 population was associated with a 51. 5-day increase in life expectancy, while an increase of 10 specialty physicians per 100, 000 population increased life expectancy by 19. 2 days. An increase in primary care physicians...
Location of work did not affect the ability to predict life expectancy (p = 0.48), and no particular specialty did significantly better (p = 0.24) (Table 2). Challenging the 10-year rule: The accuracy of patient life expectancy predictions by physicians in relation to prostate cancer managemen...
More primary care doctors in a community (社区)appear to lead to improved life expectancy for people living there,though a lack of such physicians across U.S. could be a cause of concern for overall population health in years to come. For the study, researchers looked at physician counts pe...
be on Adcirca or Revatio but not Letairis or Tracleer. It is becoming more and more difficult to find pulmonary arterial hypertension patients to enroll in studies as many of them are starting therapies with physicians outside of specialty clinics and disqualifying themselves as research candidates....
5-day increase in life expectancy, while an increase of 10 specialty physicians per 100, 000 population increased life expectancy by 19. 2 days. An increase in primary care physicians also was associated with reductions of many deaths including heart diseases and cancers. Along with those ...
One of the most important and ethically challenging decisions made for children with life-limiting conditions is withholding/withdrawing life-sustaining treatments (LST). As important (co-)decision-makers in this process, physicians are expected to have
Palliative care professionals have regular access to the ICU to screen and identify patients who may benefit, and more often rely on the judgment of the ICU physicians to initiate the professional palliative intervention. The factors that initiate consultation include acute disease status, and patient...