Hospital stays
Factors associated with the appropriate use of preoperatory hospital stays: historical cohort study
... The inclusion criteria were: patients already selected by means of random sampling from the admission database for a one-year period to participate in the wider study pre- viously mentioned, admitted and discharged by ...
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PatientNarr: Towards generating patient centric summaries of hospital stays
... Every year, 7.9% of the US population is hos- pitalized (CDC, 2011). Patients need to under- stand what happened to them in the hospital, and what they should do after discharge. PatientNarr will ultimately be ...
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Feasibility of the Short Hospital Stays after Laparoscopic Appendectomy for Uncomplicated Appendicitis
... short hospital stays after laparoscopic appendectomy for uncomplicated ...mean hospital stay was ...of hospital stay after laparoscopic appendectomy to reduce hospital ...
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Impaired chair-to-bed transfer ability leads to longer hospital stays among elderly patients
... longer hospital stays among elderly pa- tients were significantly associated with several variables, including age, stroke, congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, dementia, delirium, incontinence, ...
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Improving Hospital Stays with Community Wide Programs
... The data concerning the Difficult to Place Program demonstrated annual ad- missions to nursing homes increased from 1027 to 1984 between 2007 and 2015 before declining to 1485 in 2017. The increase resulted from a ...
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Reducing Hospital Stays through Subacute and Complex Care Programs
... The study data suggested that, for the amount of Program Development funds invested in these programs by the Syracuse hospitals, area nursing homes, and the Hospital Executive Council, the return on investment was ...
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The impact of delays to admission from the emergency department on inpatient outcomes
... Eligible patients were all persons ≥ 18 years of age who presented to either of the EDs between April 1 2006 and March 30 2007 and who were subsequently admitted to the operating room (OR), ICU, or an inpatient ward. ...
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Guiding Effect of Serum Procalcitonin (PCT) on the Antibiotic Application to Patients with Sepsis
... The results of this paper showed that the differ- ence of APACHE-IIscores and CRP and WBC levels had no statistical significance. The antibiot- ic usage time of patients in the observation group was (7.74±0.61) d which ...
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Early Discharge From the Newborn Nursery—Effect on Scheduling of Follow-up Visits by Pediatricians
... shorter hospital stays on pediatric ...shorter hospital stays would lead pediatricians to decrease the interval between newborn discharge and follow-up visits to the ...
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Impact of Chylous Ascites on Colon Cancer in Laparoscopic Surgery
... Most authors consider a patient to have chylous ascites if the fluid contains a minimum of 150 mg/dl or 200 mg/dl in triglycerides [5]. Others use laboratory findings of a drainage fluid/serum ratio greater than 1.0 for ...
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Original Article Laparoscopic and open hemihepatectomy procedures: a literature review and meta-analysis
... Abstract: Background: The laparoscopic approach has been widely performed by surgeons, worldwide, in recent years. However, previous studies were conducted with a retrospective nature and small sample sizes. Thus, it has ...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Meta-analysis on the efficacy of tourniquet on ankle trauma surgery
... The clinic use of a tourniquet would extend hospital stays and limit patients’ range of motion. No statistically signifi- cant differences in operation time, postoperative infection rate, and incidence of ...
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IDENTIFICATION OF ADVERSE REACTIONS TO ORAL ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY IN HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
... their hospital stays were assessed to identify the indications for vitamin K administration (thrombocytopenia due to oral anticoagulation or other drugs, vitamin K deficiency, or dietary ...
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Original Article Efficacy of proximal humeral internal locking system combined with allogeneic femoral head bone grafts for complex osteoporotic proximal humeral fractures
... In summary, PHILOS combined with allogeneic femoral head bone grafting has the advanta- ges of fast fracture healing, shorter hospital stays, and less postoperative complications for treatment of complex ...
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Perinatal Care in Canada
... One recommendation for strengthening the current sys- tem of perinatal surveillance in Canada through the CPSS concerns the monitoring of economic implications of perinatal care. At present there is no systematic review ...
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Facilitating post traumatic growth
... extended hospital stays, intensive rehabilitation, loss of earning capacity, domestic dependence and long-term therapeutic care, this qualitative study was conceived to further explore the consequence of a ...
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<p>Increased Surgical Duration Associated With Prolonged Hospital Stay After Isolated Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction</p>
... overnight hospital stays postopera- tively; however, these risk factors did not reach statistical signi fi cance (Table ...the hospital overnight ...
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Sensitivity and specificity of an algorithm based on medico-administrative data to identify hospitalized patients with major bleeding presenting to an emergency department
... all hospital stays of adult patients referred to Rennes University Hospital, France, through the emergency ward in 2014, we identified major bleeding events according to an index test based on a list ...
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Postnatal Glucocorticoids in Very Preterm Infants: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”?
... for long-term injury of both the lungs and the brain. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is one of the most frequent sequelae in extremely premature in- fants and results in increased health care costs, pro- longed ...
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PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY ON PERI OPERATIVE USAGE PATTERN OF ANALGESICS
... The non pharmacological methods can be used as adjutants to the main method of pain relief. Herbal medicine, Hypnosis, Homeopathy, Meditation, Transcutaneous nerve stimulation (TENS), Acupuncture, Heat application are ...
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