"Based on doctors' opinions there is insufficient evidence to show knowing failure to provide personal information for hit and run, " the evaluation stated.
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Jaffe was diagnosed with papillary carcinoma in 2011 and said the cancer experience can make young people feel powerless -- like their recovery is based on passively allowing doctors and others to do their work.
Based on past experience in places like the state of New York, a tool that prompts patients to start differentiating among doctors based on clinical criteria could create a political firestorm the Medicare agency is ill-equipped to handle.
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Doctor ratings found in magazines are based on surveys of other doctors.
On Jan. 6, Leerink Swann analyst Howard Liang wrote that, based on a survey of doctors, the drug could be an even bigger seller than expected.
The deal includes provisions that are more specific than the sort of restrictions that the Feds often impose on drug makers, such as agreeing not to misuse continuing medical education programs for marketing or awarding grants to doctors based on their prescribing habits.
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The researchers said a test based on the chemicals would help doctors prioritise the sickest children.
The medical services offered at each clinic vary and are based on the specialties of the doctors volunteering.
The figures were based on a survey of 350 doctors and nurses.
One possible problem the company identified was a mismatch between what doctors expected based on sales pitches, and what the products delivered.
Geneticist Elizabeth Worthey worked on the first-ever treatment of a patient based on DNA sequencing, helping doctors decide to give a bone marrow transplant to a 6-year-old boy who had suffered through more than a hundred operations.
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Doctors get paid based on the number of patients they see and for the procedures they perform.
The idea is to pay doctors and hospitals based on how good a job they do for their patients.
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Significantly, drug companies can only promote medicines to doctors and patients based on the package inserts approved by the FDA. In the case of the most severe warning, called a black box, the effect on sales can be huge.
This requires all doctors in the UK to show they are keeping up to date and are fit to practise, based on an annual appraisal and feedback from patients, doctors, nurses and other colleagues.
The company has racked up impressive sales based on nothing but word of mouth from doctors and patients.
Again, however, official output figures, based on indicators such as the number of doctors and hospital beds, fail to take account of higher quality, so growth is understated.
Doctors make dosage adjustments based on the patient's weight.
But there are genes that are more likely to occur in Europeans, who are descended from a relatively tiny population that made its way up the continent, than in Africans. (There is also far more genetic diversity in Africa than anywhere else.) And sometimes these genes are medically important enough that guessing at their presence based on skin color is worthwhile to some doctors.
In its place will be decentralised arrangements based on partnership, quality and efficiency to put doctors and nurses in the lead in shaping local services.
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"Doctors understand this is all based on evidence and not someone at corporate telling them what to do, " says Marcie Williams, vice president of safety and risk management.
Mainstream doctors say their guidelines are based on scientific evidence.
You can find doctors, or restaurants, based on friends' endorsements.
Doctors fell into three clusters based on how often they reported such difficulties, with 27 percent having a high number of difficult encounters, 63 percent a medium number, and 10 percent a low number.
It turns out, she writes, that the whole diagnosis is based on one experiment from the 1960s in which doctors strapped 50 monkeys onto a track and slammed them into a wall at high speed.
But though Thalomid is widely used by doctors to treat multiple myeloma based on preliminary data, it is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration only to treat a skin condition associated with leprosy.
The company has racked up impressive sales based on nothing but word-of-mouth from doctors and patients.
So now doctors focus on treating each concussion based on individual symptoms.
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"Doctors who make child protection decisions based on the guidance will be able to justify their actions if a complaint is made against them, " he added.
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