Both telephone and internet-based treatment have produced weight loss comparable to an in-person intervention.
Although outpatient treatment is modestly correlated with reduced recidivism, the efficacy of institution-based treatment has proved difficult to measure.
The point is to produce a body of empirical evidence that can ultimately be used to determine an evidence based treatment plan.
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By promoting models like family drug courts, family-based treatment, and family-centered reentry programs, we can help families stay together and get better, together.
Is the notion of the superiority of the evidence based treatment (EBT) an empirically bankrupt notion that for a particular problem, there is a specific treatment that is best?
Recent Home Office research found that offenders participating in community-based treatment programmes were half as likely to be re-convicted within two years as offenders who were simply placed on probation.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is working with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) to ensure evidence-based treatment services are provided to federal prisoners.
One of the studies it helped fund has led to a promising antibody-based treatment called anti-PD-1, which activates the immune system against cancer and helps shrink or eliminate tumors in melanoma, lung, and kidney cancer patients.
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Jacobs now has taken the CBT insomnia cure online, devising a Web-based interactive treatment for insomnia.
The firm has made investments in small companies like Aquarius Technologies, a Wisconsin-based wastewater treatment firm.
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Hydro Industries is a high-tech company specialising in the design, manufacture and operation of electro-based water treatment products.
We know early intervention and prevention is essential and that more needs to be done to divert offenders with mental health problems away from prison and into community-based health treatment.
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Health insurance companies, as we speak, sit down and think about what services you can and can't get -- not based on what you should have, not based on the best treatment sometimes, but based on what kind of insurance you have.
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"New treatments for cancers are often introduced for end-stage treatment based on slim evidence, " says Dillon.
Police in many of the cases deny that there was differential treatment based on caste or class.
Professor Lai said a drug treatment based on artemisinin would be very cheap.
"We have repeatedly disciplined judges for requesting, or even appearing to request, special treatment based on their judicial status, " Emery wrote.
But the family rejected standard treatment, opting instead for a holistic medical treatment based on Native American healing practices called Nemenhah.
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They say the proposals eventually will lead to a system that rations treatment based on an individual's ability to contribute to society.
The amount of evidence we require may vary based on the treatment.
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Smaller rivals claim that sheer bulk sits uneasily with the essence of private banking: attentive treatment based on close, long-term personal relationships.
He said doctors could already assess whether a patient was likely to experience side-effects from a particular treatment based on their genetic profile.
The new study may point toward more individualized medicine -- one day people may be screened for these brain abnormalities that indicate high depression risk, and receive treatment based on that, he said.
When the Department of Environmental Protection noticed hydrogen sulfide in the city's water supply, Stephen Hollowell, general manager of Steinhatchee's chlorine-based water-treatment plant, and his board were willing to a take a chance on new technology.
Someday, you might go to the doctor, and the doctor may prescribe a pill, and in that pill may be a microbe or a collection of microbes that have met FDA standards upon which you can make health claims based on that treatment.
The new treatment is based on the theory that excess integrin compensates for the lack of dystrophin.
In the long term gene-based tests could enhance treatment of most major diseases, including asthma, arthritis and even schizophrenia.
All of these changes and the concept of outcome based evidence for guiding treatment (that many physicians grumbled about) I am very familiar with.
"We welcome this research because it recognises that patients should have the right to a wide range of treatment options based on individual needs, " he said.
Those drugs aim to improve on current treatment regimens based on the immune protein alpha interferon--which often don't work and have an array of nasty side effects.
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