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Echocardiographic subtypes of heart failure in consecutive hospitalised patients with dyspnoea
... tive hospitalised patients with dyspnoea and elevated NT-proBNP, where 41% could be ascribed to HFpEF and 10% to ...HFpEF patients lacked ‘definite diastolic dysfunc- ...in patients with ...
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Pharmacist services for non-hospitalised patients
... targeting patients with specific conditions (Greer 2016; Koshman 2008) and risk factors (Altowaijri 2013; Charrois 2012) at specific stages in their journey of care (Mekonnen 2016; Walsh 2016) and with specific ...
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How do hospitalised patients with Turkish migration background estimate their language skills and their comprehension of medical information – a prospective cross sectional study and comparison to native patients in Germany to assess the language barrier and the need for translation
... between hospitalised patients and their phy- sicians essentially takes place during daily ...the patients’ perception of important aspects of the in- teraction with the ...
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Clinical Profile of Hospitalised Patients with Episode of Hypoglycemia
... The purpose of this study is to identify the incidence, clinical pattern, associated risk factors and mortality rate among hospitalised patients with hypoglycaemic episodes. We are selecting certain cases, ...
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Contribution of adverse events to death of hospitalised patients
... of hospitalised patients in our trust, including ...general hospitalised population is appropriate for identifying more common temporary adverse events, but the sample size is too small to provide ...
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Managing Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalised patients
... for patients with ...of patients with CDI using a series of prompts (not dissimilar to a checklist) on antimicrobial prescribing, hand hygiene, environmental decontamination, isolation or cohorting ...
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Prevalence of distressing symptoms in hospitalised patients on medical wards: A cross-sectional study
... In a recent review of symptom prevalence in advanced, life-threatening disease, the three symptoms pain, breath- lessness, and fatigue were described among more than 50% of patients with advanced cancer, AIDS, ...
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Energy expenditure of acutely ill hospitalised patients
... 8 patients on two consecutive days following acute admis- sion; for 35 patients within 72 hours of admission and 5 days later in hospital; and for 20 patients in hospital and 6 weeks later following ...
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The prevalence of pain at pressure areas and pressure ulcers in hospitalised patients.
... Pain has been reported by patients to be a major symptom associated with PUs, with dressing changes be- ing particularly painful times [6]. PU pain can be debili- tating, reducing the individual ’ s ability to ...
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Nosocomial acquisition of methicillin resistant Staphyloccocus aureus (MRSA) and extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) Enterobacteriaceae in hospitalised patients: a prospective multicenter study
... for patients newly colonised by ARB will be defined by the number of days between the inclusion in the study and the date of the first positive ...for patients not colonised will be defined by the number of ...
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Using technology to engage hospitalised patients in their care: a realist review
... After initial exploratory searches were conducted to ‘get a feel of the literature’ and identify theories (or proposi- tions) behind HIT interventions (as outlined in Table 1), a more focused and purposive literature ...
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The prevalence of pain at pressure areas and pressure ulcers in hospitalised patients
... Pain has been reported by patients to be a major symptom associated with PUs, with dressing changes be- ing particularly painful times [6]. PU pain can be debili- tating, reducing the individual ’ s ability to ...
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A Study on Incidence and Etiology of Hyponatremia in Hospitalised Patients
... In euvolumic hyponatremia, the body water content is increased with a normal to mild decrease in total body sodium. In most cases of euvolumic hyponatremia, the intravascular volume is normal. Post-surgical hyponatremia ...
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Patients' perceptions and experiences of the prevention of hospital acquired thrombosis : a qualitative study
... that patients lack a clear understanding of VTE is consistent with previous research; a recent US study found that while hospitalised patients were aware of risk of VTE following orthopaedic surgery ...
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Pre-albumin as a marker for predicting weight loss in hospitalised children
... The sensitivity and specificity of serum pre-albumin using a cut off level of < 0.15 g/l on admission in predicting weight loss were 76.7% (CI 67.3–84.5%) and 29.0% (CI 18.2–42.0%) respectively, with a negative ...
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<p>Frailty in Older Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome in Vietnam</p>
... older hospitalised patients was ...older patients with ...older patients hospitalised with ACS and its associated factors, and to investigate the impact of frailty on percutaneous ...
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Challenges and opportunities in understanding dementia and delirium in the acute hospital
... of hospitalised patients with demen- tia ...of patients with dementia in hospital had behavioural and psycho- logical symptoms of dementia (BPSDs), and 43% had symptoms that challenged the staff ...
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A Culture-Proven Case of Community-Acquired Legionella Pneumonia Apparently Classified as Nosocomial: Diagnostic and Public Health Implications
... continuously hospitalised for 24 days prior to the onset of overt ...of hospitalised patients poses limitations to the rule-of-thumb surveillance definition of nosocomial pneumonia based on 2–10-day ...
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Adverse drug reaction monitoring: support for pharmacovigilance at a tertiary care hospital in Northern Brazil
... The frequency of ADRs found in this study, which was based on inpatient records, was 3.1%. This value could have been greater if HGP had adopted intensive monitor- ing techniques or computer programs to supervise ADRs. ...
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Reducing overutilisation of serum vitamin D testing at a tertiary care centre
... to hospitalised patients or patients in subspecialty clinics, we recognised that our patients may be more likely than the general population to have appropriate indications for 25- OH vitamin ...
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