During the study period, no specific selection was carried out in assigning patients to the control or the MICPB group, assignment to groups was based only on the availability of the different CPB circuits.
When assigning patients to treatment groups, what is ethically appropriate?
The "early" and "discharge" models had comparable accuracy in assigning patients to the highest and lowest deciles of re-admission risk.
HHC providers that employ their caregivers have to manage operational decisions such as assigning patients to caregivers and planning the caregivers' routes.
We find that this is mainly caused by the current practice of assigning patients to FT based only on the emergency severity index.
The problem consists of assigning patients to different resources in any surgical stage in order to minimize related costs of the system and maximize the satisfaction of patients.
After exhaustively gathering data about accommodation costs and the distribution of patients in different levels of accommodation, Shieh and Svec estimated that assigning patients to more intensive levels of care than necessary was costing Stanford Hospital millions every year.
The results show that the cumulative group up-and-down design has the best overall performance in terms of selecting the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), assigning patients to the MTD and patient safety.
Problems and Risks One problem in conducting good studies is the difficulty of randomly assigning patients into treatment and control groups in a way that "blinds" them to the group they are in, Dr. Charles S. Graffeo, a specialist in hyperbaric medicine at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, said in an interview.
These trials involved randomly assigning patients to the antibiotic Rocephin (often administered intravenously) or a placebo, with neither patients nor those evaluating their symptoms aware of who got what.
To support the needs of Tennessee Medicaid beneficiaries, we launched three comprehensive care centers, assigning patients to primary-care nurse practitioners who have access to a number of on-site disease-management programs to help patients manage their individual medical conditions.
