Have a series of complex patients reviewed, analyzed, and then offered a management plan from Watson vs. several cancer experts, then judge which recommendations are more helpful to physicians and patients (based on perceived value by the recipients of those recommendations or, ideally, by treatment outcome).
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Study designed to determine whether the dose (amount) or type of treatment impacts outcome.
Swiss Re argues that competition on price and quality is rare because of a lack of data on the outcome of treatment.
The Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Justice say they have been given assurances at the "highest level" that both men will receive a fair trial and treatment, whatever the outcome of the case.
No one can guarantee the right outcome from a treatment for any individual patient.
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The outcome of the treatment is uncertain, but Mrs Clark said she had been given hope by the story of a little girl from Northern Ireland who had gone for the treatment only able to see light.
"He needs to commence treatment immediately to achieve a satisfactory outcome, " added Kountouris.
"If you tick all the right boxes in the Liverpool Care Pathway, the inevitable outcome of the consequent treatment is death, " they write.
All of these changes and the concept of outcome based evidence for guiding treatment (that many physicians grumbled about) I am very familiar with.
The worst outcome, a highly discriminatory treatment of foreign holders of government debt, has been avoided (or at least postponed) thanks to frantic lobbying by, among others, the International Monetary Fund, which threatened to cancel the second tranche of its aid programme to Russia.
Diagnosis at a later age reduces the chances of early treatment, which is thought to produce a better outcome.
By randomizing patients, almost all factors (known or unknown) that might influence the outcome are present in equal proportions in the various treatment groups.
"We were delighted to find that patients who get the current state-of-the-art treatment with platelet blockers, medical treatment and stents during procedures had a significant improvement in their outcome, " said Dr. Christopher Cannon, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a principal investigator for a number of heart-related studies at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
The results suggest that the treatment approach accounted for little more than 0% of the variance in outcome.
For example, if one group contains more older patients or more who are seriously ill, the outcome may be influenced by those differences rather than by the treatment itself.
Such an outcome seems unlikely: no government would stand by and let people be denied health treatment because a primary-care trust got its sums wrong.
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