Welsh government officials stress that passing the bill will not change key aspects of clinical procedure.

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Medicare assigns each clinical procedure a different RVU and then multiplies this figure by a fixed amount of money to arrive at how much it will pay a doctor for a given task.

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In clinical medicine, a new procedure or medication is tested and compared to current practice in a proper clinical trial.

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She served as the medical monitor of clinical trials of the procedure in the United States, which led to Food and Drug Administration approval.

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During clinical trials, the overall success rate of the procedure was 97.6%.

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Given the extent of the procedure, that CPM is done on patients without clinical reason raises strong concerns about overtreatment.

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But he plans to conduct a clinical trial to properly assess the risks and benefits of the procedure, and document how bodies react to the transplanted devices.

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Among nine patients who underwent the venoplasty to clear blockages, clinical outcomes and brain lesion measures were generally worse after 6 months than in the 10 patients who received a sham procedure, Adnan Siddiqui, MD, of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and colleagues found.

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