coexisting condition
comorbid condition

Common coexisting conditions, such as cigarette smoking and obesity were taken into account.

Identify any coexisting conditions (medical, psychiatric, physical etc.) that indicate need for additional professional assessment and/or services.

Calculations are based on real-time data of laboratory results, demographics, coexisting conditions and vital signs.

"It's becoming a coexisting condition," said Bailey Susic, outreach program and professional education manager there.

Treatment of coexisting conditions e.g. hypovolemia.

However, it may be useful to manage commonly coexisting conditions that correlate with aortic stenosis:

In this observational study with data on more than 286,000 people, those receiving the influenza vaccine had on average more coexisting conditions at base line.

They were also slightly younger, had a higher body mass index (BMI) and more coexisting conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes.

If the patient has a coexisting condition associated with increased insulin requirement, IV insulin doses need to be increased.

Additional benefits include identifying and treating reversible causes of renal impairment and managing the multiple coexisting conditions associated with chronic renal disease.

Patients diagnosed with a substance use illness should receive a multidimensional, biopsychosocial assessment to guide patient-centered treatment planning for substance use illness and any coexisting conditions.

Fewer people suffering from insomnia are considered to have primary insomnia, which is defined as a difficulty falling asleep or maintaining sleep in the absence of a coexisting condition.

Comorbidity Software assigns variables that identify coexisting conditions on hospital discharge records that may contribute to a patient's death using ICD-9-CM diagnosis coding.

Selection of the patient population that may benefit from angiogenic therapy may thus have to involve screening for coexisting conditions that could be activated or worsened by exposure to proangiogenic agents.

Although these conditions contributed substantially to the disability of this cohort of tenascin-X deficient patients, it is not yet clear whether these additional disorders were related to tenascin-X deficiency or were unrelated coexisting conditions.

The average Medicare patient with depression also has at least four other coexisting conditions, such as hypertension, heart failure, and diabetes, and the researchers found adherence to drugs for those conditions also was affected by being in the doughnut hole.

Patients with substance use illness should be offered long-term, coordinated management of their care for substance use illness and any coexisting conditions, and this care management should be adapted based on ongoing monitoring of their progress.

In one study, while women were more likely than men to seek treatment for arthritis and had similar levels of coexisting conditions, "women with a potential need for arthroplasty were less likely than men to report ever having discussed arthroplasty with a physician" (Hawker et al.

Furthermore, these terms have different connotations, and some of them have been applied to diverse groups of patients with a variety of two or more coexisting conditions such as learning disability and mental health problems, personality disorder with an additional psychiatric illness, or sexual dysfunction and an associated mental disorder.

To examine coexisting conditions that may be involved in this disparity, Dr. Dejana Braithwaite at the University of California, San Francisco, and co-investigators analyzed data for women with invasive breast cancer treated at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California between 1973 and 1986 and followed through 1999.

Maybe the treatments helped with comorbid conditions that he had?

Comorbid conditions were more common among women than men (Chart 1).

There was only 1 death over 2 years in the group of 14 patients with mild comorbid conditions.

The four variables related to comorbid conditions were entered as a group.

Treatment methodology is informed by the presence of comorbid conditions.

In this European population, comorbid conditions and the use of multiple medications were common.

In addition, psychosocial treatment has been proved to be effective on several comorbid conditions.

The assigned weights for each of the comorbid conditions are listed in Table 4.

However, "drug treatment may be considered in the overall treatment of comorbid conditions."

Cause of death can be from comorbid conditions, suicide, and the actual behaviors," she says. "

Any comorbid conditions to determine which next-step treatment would be the most appropriate.

There is no specific matching between comorbid conditions and corresponding medications.

However, among patients free of all these comorbid conditions, elective surgery rates were still lower for women (Table 2).

For other patients, radiation may have been contraindicated due to comorbid conditions.

Among those men aged 80 or older, comorbid conditions were not significant determinants of survival.

Perhaps an interaction between cancer treatment and comorbid conditions is having a negative effect on Hawaiians.

Poorer survival was also observed for those subjects reporting comorbid conditions.

Finally, only one comorbid condition, heart attack history, was a significant predictor of death at two-year follow-up.

As we expected, the group with moderate comorbid conditions had a mortality intermediate between these two extremes.

Comorbid conditions and correlations with mortality risk among 3,399 incident hemodialysis patients.

Because comorbid conditions are common with sensory integration issues, a person may have other conditions as well.

Our results show that careful control of the comorbid conditions before treatment and close monitoring during therapy can produce effective outcomes.

The prognostic value of common comorbid conditions among males aged 60–79 is presented in this study.

Each comorbid condition was coded using an indicator variable.

Introduction Comorbid conditions are significant determinants of survival for most chronic diseases.