The opinion — by Judge Judith Rogers, a Clinton appointee, and Chief Justice Douglas Ginsburg, a Reagan appointee — shocked legal scholars and officials at the F.D.A., which had begun drafting proposals aimed at increasing patients' access to experimental drugs.
In the wake of Claritin's conversion to over-the-counter status, insurers have been increasing patients' copayments for Allegra and Zyrtec from Pfizer, hoping to nudge doctors and patients to use Claritin.
The risk register and other documents also show that the DH sees the NHS's 1.5 million staff, especially doctors, as a "barrier" to the high-profile but controversial ambition of increasing patients' access to hospitals and GP surgeries at weekends "because they do not believe in the case for change".
The helmet also had the additional benefit of increasing patients' tolerance for anti-depression medications.T-PEMF could ultimately replace controversial electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for some sufferers, a treatment graphically recalled in the writings of Sylvia Plath.
They would be promising alternates for eye drops; decreasing frequency of administration and increasing patients' compliance.
In recent years, more attention has been given to the use of complementary and alternative medicines, including osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), as possible effective interventions in increasing patients' health reported outcomes.
This three-year project has the ambition to provide new services for integrated care with breakthrough research and radical innovation by employing user-friendly Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools, ultimately increasing patients' quality-of-life and autonomy at home.
Such an approach is often seen, on one hand, as a cost- and time-effective solution for the healthcare system (at least in the short term), but on the other hand it contributes to substantially increasing patients' radiation dose [12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18].
It has been argued that the use of Cloud Computing will help the hospitals to move from the traditional healthcare model (doctor-centred model) to the new healthcare model (patient-centred model) by facilitating the sharing and access of patients' medical data and increasing patients' engagements [53].
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of a patient and family pain education program on reducing cancer patients' and their families' barriers to (i.e., concerns or misconceptions about) cancer pain management, on increasing patients' adherence to a prescribed analgesic regimen, and on decreasing pain intensity and pain interference with daily life.
To determine patients' perceptions and expectations about medication therapy management (MTM) services pertaining to the core elements of an MTM service in the community pharmacy setting, and to develop educational strategies and outreach programs aimed at increasing patients' knowledge of MTM services and the expanded role of pharmacists in the community pharmacy setting.
