News tagged with suboptimal adherence
Feelings of stigmatization may discourage HIV patients from proper care
The feeling of stigmatization that people living with HIV often experience doesn't only exact a psychological toll —new UCLA research suggests it can also lead to quantifiably negative health outcomes.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Electronic medical records improve quality of care in resource-limited countries
A new study, conducted by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the schools of medicine at Indiana University and Moi University, is one of the first to explore and demonstrate the impact of electronic record systems ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Adverse drug events costly to health care system: research
Patients who suffer an adverse medical event arising from the use or misuse of medications are more costly to the health care system than other emergency department (ED) patients, say physicians and research scientists at ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Virtual colonoscopy option could improve colorectal cancer screening rates, patient survey suggests
Providing computed tomography colonography (CTC) -- otherwise known as virtual colonoscopy -- as an alternative to conventional colonoscopy could improve colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates, according to a study in the ...
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Racial differences in medication use
Older adults experience a number of medication-related problems, including under treatment, suboptimal drugs, suboptimal dosing, and non-adherence, which can have negative effects on their quality of life. Now new research, ...
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Insulin, metformin do not reduce inflammatory biomarkers for diabetes patients
In patients with recent onset type-2 diabetes, treatment with insulin or the diabetes drug metformin did not reduce inflammatory biomarkers, such as high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, although the treatment did improve ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Intensive management can improve blood pressure in non-adherent hypertensive patients
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that patients with uncontrolled hypertension respond to treatment intensification regardless of their degree of adherence to antihypertensive medications. ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Less invasive CT-scan based colorectal cancer screening method shows good accuracy
Computed tomographic (CT) colonography may offer patients at increased risk of colorectal cancer an alternative to colonoscopy that is less-invasive, is better-tolerated and has good diagnostic accuracy, according to a study ...
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Growing danger from post-birth bleeding
Post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) immediately after giving birth is the largest threat to new mothers in high-income countries. An Australian study, featured in the open access journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, shows that a ...
Feb 25, 2009 |
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Disclosure of organ transplant risks: A question of when, not if
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine physicians and bioethicists are calling for a new, more standardized way for patients in need of organ transplants to be informed of the risks they face. If adopted, their policy ...
Jun 26, 2008 |
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