The first is, did the patient want the case to be raised?
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Or the patient is given market incentives to consider the full costs of the health care he chooses to consume, in which case the patient weighs the personal benefits of his health care against the costs of that care.
Frazier said Merck would fight any effort to create Vioxx class-action suits, because each patient represents a particular case.
And Denver Health said it will evaluate each patient "on a case-by-case basis" and discount bills by 70% for those unable to pay.
In addition, having a shorter DAPT duration after stent implantation may be beneficial in case a patient needs to interrupt or discontinue the medication prior to surgery or for other considerations.
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Sophisticated patient relationship management (PRM), as outlined in the aforementioned business case article, is where patient portal technologies are going.
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Thus, the routine reporting system missed most patient safety incidents that were identified by case note review and detected only 5% of those incidents that resulted in patient harm.
In one case, a patient got an infection when he resused compresses on a surgical wound.
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In a recent case, a patient lost an arm because a health assistant injected a drug into an artery.
Brady says an independent body of experts should now be convened to examine the case of every patient detained there.
In one case, a patient with a brain tumour said they felt dismissed by ambulance staff after becoming unwell whilst out and about.
The findings, reported Sunday by researchers, mark only the second documented case of a patient being cured of infection with the human immune-deficiency virus.
Police are to begin a fresh inquiry into the case of a patient allegedly punched in the face at a private hospital in Bristol.
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One case involved a patient in the West Midlands who died unexpectedly and there have been reports of calls going unanswered and poor advice being given.
Solicitor general Lesley Thomson QC, prosecuting, asked the consultant if the police would be contacted in a case where a patient was taken to hospital with all of these injuries.
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Every patient pathway is managed on a case by case basis and every effort is made to minimise delays.
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The case was brought by patient advocates who argued the price of the drug was out of reach for the vast majority of patients, who may now look forward to lower-cost generics.
However, it says Rami cannot be looked at in isolation and that reviewing case notes after a patient dies is a better way to find out whether improvements to care are needed.
By one line of thinking, it should have been an easy case, because the patient was said to have died of an arrhythmia, a type of heart problem that Vioxx has not been shown to cause.
She said the worst case was that of a patient who had to wait six hours to see an ambulance.
Mr Sissling said the board was unable to release details about each individual case in the report for patient confidentiality reasons.
In this case, however, the patient - a professional magician - was given an epidural anaesthetic, similar to that given to a woman during labour.
There have been several anecdotal reports of leprosy in humans who have handled, killed or eaten armadillos, or who may have been indirectly exposed by gardening in soil where the animals burrow, as was the case for Abide's patient.
There is a strong business case for providers to become more patient focused.
Alpha-gal's reactions vary on a case-by-case basis, sometimes with a patient experiencing a severe reaction and other times nothing at all.
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In another case, 73 year old dementia patient, Kenneth Chin lived in an assisted living community, and went regularly to an Adult Day Care Facility by van.
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Informed consent case law dictates that if the patient does not suffer the injury that the surgeon failed to warn of, proximate cause between injury and failure to warn cannot be established.
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Among the "dehumanising" examples of care being provided was a case where a male care home patient was told to go to the toilet in his incontinence pad despite asking someone to help him use a toilet.
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