Hospitalized Patient
Clinical review: Outreach – a strategy for improving the care of the acutely ill hospitalized patient
... The problems described above require a systems approach to improving the safe care of the acutely ill hospitalized patient. The USA, the UK, Australia, Canada and Denmark are instituting national systems ...
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Interstitial lung diseases in the hospitalized patient
... Pharmacological treatment and supportive measures may be ineffective for treating the hospitalized patient with ILD. This is especially true for patients with an acute worsening of IPF or those with ...
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Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a computer assisted medication review in hospitalized patient
... individual patient was discussed with regard to reason for admission, clinical course, vital signs, laboratory parameters, other diagnostics and medication in order to establish a treatment ...
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The Nurse Education and Transition (NEAT) model: educating the hospitalized patient with diabetes
... scale patient recruit- ment and assessment of patient-level ...full patient load was difficult and ...address patient needs such as pain management are often the priority of bedside nurses ...
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Comparison of hospitalized patient satisfaction with nursing care in government and private hospitals of sikkim
... compare patient satisfaction with nursing care in government and : Descriptive comparative research design was adopted and 120 in-patients were selected through convenience sampling technique from the medical, ...
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Age Is the Only Predictor of Poor Bowel Preparation in the Hospitalized Patient
... Colonoscopy is an important diagnostic and therapeutic tool to assess and treat patients hospitalized with gastrointestinal disease. Adequate colonic mucosa visualization is necessary for proper assessment and is ...
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Determination of the Cost of Cesarean Surgery in a Public Hospital of Iran
... a hospitalized patient with the prescribed surgeries of obstetrics and gynecology in expert hospital of 29 Bahman (direct ...a patient who had an insurance credit (indirect treatment) and had to make ...
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Identification of causative organisms and role of Ceftriaxone in Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP) secondary to Decompensated Liver Disease
... SPB is a serious complication of liver cirrhosis. Its reported mortality is up 90 % without treatment. Therefore, early recognition, high index of suspicion and prompt treatment is necessary. There are various methods to ...
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Clinical Outcomes of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
... Baseline patient characteristics between the control group, DM ≤ 250 mg/dL and DM > 250 mg/dL were compared using chi- squared tests for categorical variables and the Mann-Whitney U- test for continuous ...
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Validity of Pediatric Yorkhill Malnutrition Score to detect pediatric hospitalized malnutrition
... the sensitivity of high-risk group was 64.7% and the specificity was 57.2%. However when the high risk combined with medium risk the sensitivity was 97.1% and the specificity was 47.1%. Patients who had BMI less than -2 ...
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Clinical and Financial Benefits of Rapid Detection of Respiratory Viruses: an Outcomes Study
... access to crucial information sooner, enabling them to treat viral diseases more appropriately. The average length of stay in the hospital was 5.3 days less than that for similar patients hospitalized the previous ...
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Concept analysis of human dignity in patient care: Rodgers' evolutionary approach
... moral patient care with emphasis on HD preservation is an essential component of care provision, it can be concluded that attention to the attributes, antecedents and consequences identified in this study can be ...
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A Study on Knowledge, Perceptions and Attitudes about Screening and Diagnosis of Diabetes in Saudi Population
... All patients were provided a set of instructions regarding diet and to call in case of fever, nausea, vomiting, excessive pain, constipation, diarrhea and wound site discharge or redness. Follow-up was scheduled on 2nd, ...
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Vancomycin resistant enterococci colonizing the intestinal tracts of hospitalized patients
... Epidemiological investigation. A case-control study was performed. For each patient colonized with VRE, two patients present in the same ward at the time of study were chosen as controls. The following factors ...
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Delirium in older hospitalized patients—signs and actions: a retrospective patient record review
... Healthcare professionals disregarded signs of delirium and sometimes the patients were given a lot of infor- mation simultaneously. It was frequently described that the patient was disoriented but no action was ...
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Assessment of acid suppressant drug use in current clinical practice and patient satisfaction analysis
... in hospitalized patients and to gain a better understanding of attitudes towards PPIs and H2 receptor blockers and usage patterns of these The present study was carried out for a period of 6 months among 400 ...
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Assessment of inpatient antibiotic use in Halibet National Referral Hospital using WHO indicators: a retrospective study
... and patient-care indicators were developed to be used at primary healthcare facilities and later adapted to tertiary hospitals [4] (Additional file 1: Annex ...
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Predictors of one-year mortality after hospitalization for an exacerbation of COPD
... Methods: In a prospective, observational, multicentre study, we evaluated data from two cohorts: the Spanish audit of hospital COPD exacerbation care (our derivation sample) and the Spanish cohort of the European audit ...
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Behavioral activation versus treatment as usual in naturalistic sample of psychiatric patients with depressive symptoms: a benchmark controlled trial
... The study setting, a benchmark controlled trial, allowed the evaluation of BA treatment among ordinary patients in a routine clinical setting of secondary psychiatric care. The findings provide essential information for ...
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JSundermann_Masters_Paper_FINAL_120417Signed.pdf
... on patient meal ordering trends extracted for this project suggest that hospitalized patients appear to order all types of foods and beverages, regardless of heart-designation (but statistical inference is ...
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