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A qualitative examination of inappropriate hospital admissions and lengths of stay
... The problems identified are interrelated and focus mainly on systemic issues with many identifying a lack of services and poor communication of information between clini- cians and different agencies as a problem. ...
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A retrospective population-based study of childhood hospital admissions with record linkage to a birth defects registry
... This was a population-based historical cohort study of administrative data relating to all live births in WA from 1980 to 1999 inclusive (N = 485,446) and hospital dis- charges from 1980–2000 inclusive. The WA ...
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Trends in hospital admissions for hypoglycaemia in England: a retrospective, observational study
... all hospital admissions for hypoglycaemia in ...experienced hospital admissions for ...for admissions, particularly age and ...of hospital admissions for hypoglycaemia ...
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Prevalence of Agro-chemical Poisoning; with special reference to Organophosphates and Carbamate Insecticide Poisoning among Hospital Admissions of Nuwaraeliya District General Hospital, Sri Lanka from 2014 to 2018
... of admissions) deaths were reported in government hospitals in Sri ...General Hospital, Nuwaraeliya, Sri Lanka to identify the prevalence (2018) and trends (2014- 2018) of organophosphates and carbamate ...
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Older patients’ participation in hospital admissions through the emergency department: an interview study of healthcare professionals
... in hospital admissions was influenced by five main factors: 1) routine treatment and care during hospital admission, and in particular certain procedures such as medical examinations; 2) the frail ...
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Acute and Chronic Effects of Particles on Hospital Admissions in New England
... [23,24,25,26]. For example, Oudin and colleagues [25] investi- gated whether the effects of major risk factors for ischemic stroke were modified by long-term exposure to air pollution in Scania, southern Sweden. They ...
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Disparities among pediatric hospital admissions according to gender
... Conclusions: Our study reported a significant difference among gender variances in pediatric hospital admissions. Overall, not only males were predominant in admission to pediatric wards, they were also ...
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Substance misuse brief interventions during psychiatric hospital admissions
... psychiatric hospital admissions ...psychiatric admissions it is worth asking the question, “have opportunities been ...psychiatric hospital has been suggested to present a “natural window of ...
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Features and outcomes of unplanned hospital admissions of older people due to ill-defined (R-coded) conditions: Retrospective analysis of hospital admissions data in England
... s admissions to hospital for ill-defined conditions have been identified as likely to be avoidable ...10. Admissions for ill-defined conditions (R-codes) are coded with an R prefix within Chapter ...
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Hospital admissions in older people with visual impairment in Britain
... on hospital admis- sion was collected by trial nurses on an ongoing basis for each patient from the date of the baseline ...1998; hospital admissions were collected by study nurses for each patient ...
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Gravity for Health: an Application to State Mental Hospital Admissions in Texas
... the hospital utilization rate does not vary with the market demographic size, then population proxies the internal demand for hospital admissions arising at a given ...in hospital production ...
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Understanding Hospital Admissions Close to the End of Life (ACE) Study
... avoid hospital admissions. How deci- sions that lead to admissions at the very end of life are actually made in practice is largely ...to hospital as their illness progresses ...
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Are waiting times for hospital admissions affected by patients' choices and mobility?
... Prior to the reform Norwegian policymakers blamed long waiting times for elective care both to the lack of patient choice and administrative borders creating bar- riers for patients moving to hospital facilities ...
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Is there a clinically significant seasonal component to hospital admissions for atrial fibrillation?
... Results: This study found evidence of weak seasonality, most apparent at aggregate levels including both ages and sexes. There was dramatic increase in hospitalizations for atrial fibrillation over the years studied and ...
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The impact of the environment on patient experiences of hospital admissions in palliative care
... to hospital admission data (unpublished data, December 2012) general medicine, oncology (medical and radiation), urology and general surgery account for nearly 31% of admissions for patients with a GSF ...
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Disease management in the treatment of patients with chronic heart failure who have universal access to health care: a randomized controlled trial
... Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials have shown that, compared to usual care, disease management programs reduced hospital admissions and mortality related to heart failure and to all causes among ...
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Public and private in italian health care: trends and market quotas
... of hospital admissions and length of stay or number of times the service was accessed stratified by year 2000, 2001, 2002; DRG; type of hospital admission (ordinary or day hospital/surgery); ...
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User-held personalised information for routine care of people with severe mental illness (Review)
... decrease hospital admissions, and did not decrease compulsory admissions or encourage people with severe mental illness to attend appointments (when compared to treatment as ...
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Changes in occurrence of capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae at Boston City Hospital during selected years between 1935 and 1974
... Number of patients with pneumococcal bacteremia, empyema, and meningitis, and number of bacteremic patients per 1,000 hospital admissions at Boston City Hospital during 18 selected years[r] ...
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Economic impact of hospitalisations among patients in the last year of life: An observational study
... final hospital admissions to a UK District General Hospital (DGH) in 2006-2007 reported that 20-33% of admissions in the last year of life could have been avoided if more comprehensive ...
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