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Efficacy of Osteopathic Manipulation As an Adjunctive Treatment for Hospitalized Patients with ...
By: Kat    Thursday, Mar 08, 2012
Conditions: Pneumonia
Analysis of adverse events comparing treatment groups. OMT = osteopathic manipulative treatment, LT = light-touch treatment, CCO = conventional care only. Subjects may be included in more than one category. For example, three subjects had respiratory failure as their treatment endpoint and subsequently died while still in the hospital. * Serious adverse event category excludes respiratory failure and death. A, Intention-to-treat analysis. † OMT significantly greater than LT and CCO, P < 0.05. B, Per-protocol analysis. ‡ OMT significantly less than CCO, P < 0.05. Noll et ...Read More
Efficacy of Osteopathic Manipulation As an Adjunctive Treatment for Hospitalized Patients with ...
By: Kat    Thursday, Mar 08, 2012
Conditions: Pneumonia
Kaplan-Meier curves and hazard ratios for hospital length of stay comparing treatment groups. OMT = osteopathic manipulative treatment, LT = light-touch treatment, CCO = conventional care only. A, Kaplan-Meier curves - intention-to-treat analysis on subjects aged 50 and above. B, Kaplan-Meier curves - per-protocol analysis on subjects aged 50 and above. C, Kaplan-Meier curves - per-protocol analysis on subjects aged 60 and above. D, Hazard ratios comparing treatment groups. Hazard ratios >1 correspond to an earlier discharge from the hospital for the first treatment group compared to the ...Read More
Efficacy of Osteopathic Manipulation As an Adjunctive Treatment for Hospitalized Patients with ...
By: Kat    Thursday, Mar 08, 2012
Conditions: Pneumonia
Table 2 Comparison of Treatment Groups on Primary and Secondary MOPSE Outcomes Primary Outcomes OMT LT CCO p valuea Hospital Length of Stay (days) ITT Analysis (n = 130) (n = 124) (n = 133) mean (SD) 4.5 (2.7) 4.9 (2.7) 4.5 (2.6) median (95% CI) 3.9 (3.4-4.7) 4.5 (3.8-4.9) 4.3 (3.9-4.9) 0.53 PP Analysis (n = 96) (n = 95) (n = 127) mean (SD) 4.0 (2.0) 4.4 (2.4) 4.5 (2.6) median (95% CI) 3.5 (3.2-4.0) 3.9 (3.5-4.8) 4.5 (3.9-4.9) 0.01 (OMT<CCO) Time to Clinical Stability (days) ITT Analysis (n = 121) (n = 118) (n = 130) mean (SD) 2.5 (1.6) 2.5 (1.4) 2.6 (1.6) median (95% CI) 2.0 (2.0-2.0) 2.0  ...Read More
Efficacy of Osteopathic Manipulation As an Adjunctive Treatment for Hospitalized Patients with ...
By: Kat    Thursday, Mar 08, 2012
Conditions: Pneumonia
Comparison between intention-to-treat and per-protocol analyses on MOPSE subject pneumonia severity. ITT = intention-to-treat, PP = per-protocol, OMT = osteopathic manipulative treatment, LT = light-touch treatment, CCO = conventional care only. Noll et al. Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2010 4:2 doi:10.1186/1750-4732-4-2 Back to Part 2 of the Study Read the Osteopathic Study Overview by VitalityLink.com Read Part 1 of the StudyRead More
Efficacy of Osteopathic Manipulation As an Adjunctive Treatment for Hospitalized Patients with ...
By: Kat    Thursday, Mar 08, 2012
Conditions: Pneumonia
Comparison between intention-to-treat and per-protocol analyses on MOPSE subject comorbidities. ITT = intention-to-treat, PP = per-protocol, OMT = osteopathic manipulative treatment, LT = light-touch treatment, CCO = conventional care only, COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Noll et al. Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2010 4:2 doi:10.1186/1750-4732-4-2 Back to Part 2 of the Study Read the Osteopathic Study Overview by VitalityLink.com Read Part 1 of the StudyRead More
Efficacy of Osteopathic Manipulation As an Adjunctive Treatment for Hospitalized Patients with ...
By: Kat    Thursday, Mar 08, 2012
Conditions: Pneumonia
Flow diagram of the Multicenter Osteopathic Pneumonia Study in the Elderly. ITT = intention-to-treat, PP = per-protocol, OMT = osteopathic manipulative treatment, LT = light-touch treatment, CCO = conventional care only. Data on each site are presented in the following order: Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, and Texas. Noll et al. Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2010 4:2 doi:10.1186/1750-4732-4-2 Read the Osteopathic Study Overview by VitalityLink.com Back to Part 1 of the Study Read Part 2 of the StudyRead More
Efficacy of Osteopathic Manipulation As an Adjunctive Treatment for Hospitalized Patients with ...
By: Kat    Wednesday, Mar 07, 2012
Conditions: Pneumonia
Table 1 Baseline Characteristics of the MOPSE Subjects OMT Group (n ITT = 130) (n PP = 96) LT Group (n ITT = 124) (n PP = 95) CCO Group (n ITT = 133) (n PP = 127) Sex - no. (%) Male ITT Analysis 59 (45) 55 (44) 60 (45) PP Analysis 43 (45) 39 (41) 59 (46) Age (yrs) - mean (SD) ITT Analysis 73.8 (11.8) 74.6 (12.5) 72.8 (12.6) PP Analysis 74.4 (12.0) 74.9 (12.8) 72.3 (12.6) Race - no. (%) White ITT Analysis 122 (94) 110 (89) 119 (89) PP Analysis 91 (95) 84 (88) 114 (90) Body Mass Index (kg/m2) - mean (SD) ITT Analysis 27.6 (8.5) 27.8 (8.9) 27.4 (8.1) PP Analysis 27.5 (7.8) 26.4 (7.3) 27.3 (8.3) ...Read More
Efficacy of Osteopathic Manipulation As an Adjunctive Treatment for Hospitalized Patients with ...
By: Kat    Monday, Feb 06, 2012
Conditions: Pneumonia
Efficacy of osteopathic manipulation as an adjunctive treatment for hospitalized patients with pneumonia: a randomized controlled trial Donald R Noll(1*), Brian F Degenhardt(2), Thomas F Morley(3), Francis X Blais(4), Kari A Hortos(5), Kendi Hensel(6), Jane C Johnson(2), David J Pasta(7) and Scott T Stoll(8) Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2010, 4:2 doi:10.1186/1750-4732-4-2 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at:http://www.om-pc.com/content/4/1/2 Received:11 September 2009 Accepted:19 March 2010 Published:19 March 2010 © 2010 Noll et ...Read More
Evidence Based Study on Osteopathic Manipulation for Hospitalized Patients with Pneumonia
By: Kat    Monday, Feb 06, 2012
Conditions: Pneumonia
This study was done in submitted in 2009 and looked at the efficacy of osteopathic manipulation as an adjunctive treatment for hospitalized patients with pneumonia. The study was done as a registered, double-blinded, randomized controlled trial. The study itself is © 2010 Noll et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. It is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The ...Read More
Efficacy of Osteopathic Manipulation As an Adjunctive Treatment for Hospitalized Patients with ...
By: Kat    Sunday, Feb 05, 2012
Conditions: Pneumonia
Efficacy of osteopathic manipulation as an adjunctive treatment for hospitalized patients with pneumonia: a randomized controlled trial Donald R Noll(1*), Brian F Degenhardt(2), Thomas F Morley(3), Francis X Blais(4), Kari A Hortos(5), Kendi Hensel(6), Jane C Johnson(2), David J Pasta(7) and Scott T Stoll(8) *Corresponding author: Donald R Noll - <email> Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care 2010, 4:2 doi:10.1186/1750-4732-4-2 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at:http://www.om-pc.com/content/4/1/2 Received:11 September 2009 Accepted:19 ...Read More