Many diabetes patients, for example, must inject insulin every day.
The badges worn by patients, for example, have panic buttons that can alert doctors and nurses.
For asthma patients, for example, an Advair Diskus will cost $118.
Others involve direct work with patients, for example, measuring the function of a particular organ.
Anosognosia is often seen in Alzheimer's patients, for example.
Surgical patients, for example, were typically readmitted for such medical conditions as pneumonia, heart failure or bacterial infections.
Customization — of orthopedic parts tailored from digital scans of patients, for example — will become far simpler.
Arthritis patients, for example, might try to be more physically active and better control their weight.
It is beneficial for patients whose tissues were damaged by radiation therapy — cancer patients, for example, who can develop oxygen-deficient wounds that do not heal well.
Non-adherence, he said, is worst among patients with co-infections that require more pills -- tuberculosis patients, for example, must also take four antibiotics.
A 1991 study of some 2,000 Nigerian breast cancer patients, for example, showed that fear of mastectomy was the most common reason for delays.
