Financial burdens are associated with inade- quate medical technology use and maintenance, inappropriate supervision of children, nonadherence to treatment, and lack of follow-up (24). These factors in turn are associated with increased hospitalization among children with medical com- plexity. While ...
Treatment Zika virus disease is usually relatively mild and requires no specific treatment. People sick with Zika virus should get plenty of rest, drink enough fluids, and treat pain and fever with common medicines. If symptoms worsen, they should seek medical care and advice. There is currently...
One type of patients that has not been considered in the litera- ture so far is that of "important patients", individuals that many people might consider worthy of priority treatment for the contribution they made or might make to society as a whole. Summary: In this article, we ...
A recent editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association noted that genomics has the potential to "bend the cost curve" by ensuring that the most effective treatment is used in the most appropriate patients—but that it is "too soon to know the extent of this potential benefit....
Based on previous case reports and small case series studies, we provide a comprehensive overview of the challenges and uncertainties surrounding the use of PLEX for the management of AAG and provide current practice recommendations to guide treatment decisions....
Other medical procedures used in the treatment of myasthenia gravis include plasmapheresis and high-dose immune globulin injections — the same treatments as are used for myasthenic crises. In plasmapheresis, a filtering process like kidney dialysis, blood is routed through a machine that removes the ...
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For both definitions, the term genetic discrimination also conveys that adverse treatment is based solely on the genotype of asymptomatic individuals. Differential treatment on the ba- sis of phenotype is frequently rational and accepted as a social necessity, such as where an employer bases a ...
Headache-subgroup specific demographic and clinical characteristics of the sample based on the medical diagnoses classified by the doctors are displayed in a table in Additional File 1. Intervention Interdisciplinary treatment, which is defined by the Ger- man statutory health insurance as "multi-modal...
medical problems,elderly patients often require extra time and effort from theirphysicians. Research indicates that patient age is inverselyrelated to visit length and treatment options.5,10In the processof examining what is needed by senior citizens to improvetheir medical encounters, four research ...