For the method of radiation therapy performed as part of the first course of treatment, we collapsed patients who received any radiation (such as bean radiation, radioactive implants, radioisotopes or combination) as yes for radiation.
With managed-care cost controls collapsing, patient-protection legislation promising to set off a round of expensive lawsuits, and costly genomic technologies on the horizon, the price of insurance is almost certain to continue its upward spiral in the years ahead.
Further, we examined the outcome variable aortic SUVmax in separate multivariate linear regression models using either slice-by-slice SUVmax measures or collapsed individual patient values.
We searched across all voxels for significant differences (p < 0.001 uncorrected) between hits and CRs regardless of patient status (i.e., collapsed across patients and controls).
In a perspective observational trial by Kitamura and his team [ 7], they pointed out there were only 40% laypersons that which tended to perform CPR when witnessed a collapse patient.
In other words, after computing the ROI times series and correlation matrix at the individual level, data were collapsed across patients at the group level into results representing the hemisphere ipsilateral and contralateral to the seizure focus (left and right hemisphere for the controls, respectively) (Maccotta et al. 2013).
Results: When a doctor equipped with a defibrillator witnessed an arrest or was able to initiate resuscitation within 4 min of the patient collapsing, 90% of patients were found to have developed a rhythm likely to respond to a defibrillatory shock.
"Patient's roommate states that patient collapsed last night, 12 hours ago, but no one at the facility responded to her calls for help until this a.m.," the report said.
Health care for EHF patients collapsed towards the end November, when the influx of patients increased drastically (9 patients within 3 days) and deaths from the virus increased including six HCWs and patients in the Ebola ward.
In the worst case reported, a chest tube was inserted into the wrong lung — the healthy one — and it collapsed, killing the patient.
Eight days after discharge, the patient collapsed again and suffered from respiratory insufficiency with dyspnoea, cyanosis and an oxygen saturation of 70%.
