Risk score system predicts contrast nephropathy.

Internal Medicine News;  June 15, 2005 ;     620 words ......the risk that patients face from contrast-induc...more than 3,000 patients. Applying the risk score in routine practice...identify at-risk patients who should receive...closely linked with risk score in this new cohort. (See box above.) Patients who scored ...

Exercise Stress Test Combined With Health Risk Assessment Helps Predict...

PR Newswire;  September 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ......combine a global risk score with the exercise...treadmill test in which patients walk or jog until...smoking status. The risk score was developed in...study involved 3,554 patients (81 percent men...The Framingham Risk Score was not predictive...occurred among ...

Risk score stratifies peripheral arterial disease.(Cardiovascular...

Internal Medicine News;  February 1, 2007 ;     426 words ......first defined with a derivation cohort of 1,498 patients, and then were confirmed by a separate validation cohort of 1,144 patients, Dr. Harm H. Feringa and his associates reported...Netherlands, and his associates in the poster. The patients in the derivation and validation cohorts were...The overall ...

CT angiography efficient for initial screening: patients who underwent CT...

Internal Medicine News;  August 15, 2007 ;     609 words ......included. These were patients who did not have...calculated a cardiac risk score. The score was...matched with four patients in the SPECT group...gender, and cardiac risk score. Both groups had...two-thirds of the patients in each group...average cardiac risk ...

CT trumps SPECT for cost-effective screening: average 12-month downstream...

Family Practice News;  August 15, 2007 ;     630 words ......included. These were patients who did not have...calculated a cardiac risk score. The score was...matched with four patients in the SPECT group...gender, and cardiac risk score. Both groups had...two-thirds of the patients in each group...average cardiac risk ...

Predicting mortality risk in patients undergoing bariatric...

American Family Physician;  January 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Surgery Mortality Risk Score was prospectively...distinct groups of patients undergoing bariatric...medical centers). The risk score validated well, and three groups of patients with increasing...identified one other risk score for bariatric surgery...evaluated in only ...

Bariatric surgery scoring system assesses patients' mortality...

Family Practice News;  September 15, 2007 ;     508 words ......The Obesity Surgery Mortality Risk Score (OS-MRS) is an easy-to-use system...431 consecutive bariatric surgery patients at four university medical centers...simplicity,' he said, adding that a risk score that also predicts post-op major...

Bariatric surgery Mortality Risk Score...

Internal Medicine News;  June 15, 2007 ;     618 words ......The Obesity Surgery Mortality Risk Score (OS-MRS) is an easy-to-use system...431 consecutive bariatric surgery patients at four university medical centers...looking at liver disease today. A risk score that also predicts postop major...

Two questions tweak Framingham CVD assessment: some patients shift to...

Family Practice News;  May 1, 2006 ;     555 words ......you're calculating patients' Framingham risk score, if they score as...compared with those patients in the same Framingham risk score category who answered...how the Framingham risk score is supposed to operate. Patients with self-reported...

PREDICTING EARLY MORTALITY AMONG ELDERLY PATIENTS HOSPITALISED IN MEDICAL...

The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......position to assign elderly patients to different mortality...hundred and six (1 306) patients aged 75 and over, hospitalised...ED). Measurements: Patients were assessed using...model. A mortality risk score is proposed to define...001) across the three risk groups: 1.1% ...

Results of conventionally fractionated radiotherapy in supratentorial...

Turkish Journal of Cancer;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Sixty patients with the diagnosis of supratentorial...1997, were retrospectively analyzed. The patients had a median age of 47 years and a median...and glioblastoma multiforme in 39 (65%) patients. Median survival was 13 months for all...

New Dementia Risk Score Highlights Heart Health Factors, May Predict...

U.S. Newswire;  July 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Four New Research Studies A new dementia risk score that highlights the role of heart health...s Association. "Because the Dementia Risk Score is tied to heart health risk factors...treatment and prevention." New Dementia Risk Score Predicts Dementia Risk Tiia Ngandu, PhD...

Patients dissatisfied at two-tier GP funding

The Independent - London;  June 1, 1995 ;     499 words ...Patients of fundholding GPs are still getting to hospital faster...treatment, a new survey says. But the report says fundholders' patients are less satisfied than non- fundholders' with some of...There are 2,600 fundholding GPs covering 40 per cent of patients in England and Wales. They have budgets and buy ...

Abdominal surgery in chronic hemodialysis patients

The American Surgeon;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The number of patients with end-stage renal disease who benefit from...abdominal surgery in chronic hemodialysis (CHD) patients. A 7-year retrospective study was conducted including all the patients on CHD who underwent abdominal surgery in...

Lack of Complications in Minor Skin Lesion Excisions in Patients Taking...

The American Surgeon;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Many patients undergoing surgical procedures take medications...study the incidence of complications in patients receiving aspirin or warfarin and undergoing...Two thousand three hundred twenty-six patients, operated on by a single surgeon, were...