intermediate care
The second national audit of intermediate care
... Intermediate care services have developed internationally to expedite discharge from hospital and to provide an alternative to an emergency hospital ...the care quality, outcomes and provision of ...
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The influence of an intermediate care hospital on health care utilization among elderly patients a retrospective comparative cohort study
... The Intermediate Care Hospital Municipality (ICHM) and the Comparative Municipality (CM) are located in the catchment area of a 200-bed general hospital named “Sykehuset Levanger” within the Health ...
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Economic evaluation of a nursing-led intermediate care unit
... nursing-led intermediate care unit (NLIU) in an inner London teaching ...hospital. Care on the unit was nurse-managed and modeled on the clinical nursing unit developed in Oxford, UK ...patient ...
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Hospital mortality of adults admitted to Intensive Care Units in hospitals with and without Intermediate Care Units: a multicentre European cohort study
... of care available both during the transfer and at the des- ...more care than could be provided on wards, Intermediate Care Units (IMCUs), with a level of nursing staff (and costs) lower than ...
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Changes in hospital costs after introducing an intermediate care unit: a comparative observational study
... Admission and discharge criteria for the ICU and IMC were based upon the criteria defined by Knaus and colleagues and Keenan and colleagues [11-14]. Identification of ICU patients was based upon interventions that could ...
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The relationship between staff skill mix, costs and outcomes in intermediate care services
... of intermediate care’ [22] found that the evidence supporting the development of specific intermediate care services is quite heterogeneous, and still ...overall, intermediate ...
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Evaluation of the clinical and cost effectiveness of intermediate care clinics for diabetes (ICCD) : a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial
... All general practices in participating PCTs were invited to take part. Randomisation was undertaken by an independent clinical trials unit after written agreement had been obtained. Randomisa- tion was stratified by ...
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Validation of the Italian version of the Patient Reported Experience Measures for intermediate care services
... so-called intermediate care [IC] services) are one of the organizational responses to the emerging needs of these ...of care with IC services, using a questionnaire originally developed in ...
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The relationship between staff skill mix, costs and outcomes in intermediate care services
... of intermediate care’ [22] found that the evidence supporting the development of specific intermediate care services is quite heterogeneous, and still ...overall, intermediate ...
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The role of the Intermediate Care Team in detecting and responding to loneliness in older clients
... The Intermediate Care Team (ICT), which includes nurses, occupational therapists, and physiotherapists, are ideally placed to come in to contact with older adults at risk of ...
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Noninvasive ventilation for severely acidotic patients in respiratory intermediate care units
... Background: Severe acidosis can cause noninvasive ventilation (NIV) failure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure (AHRF). NIV is therefore contraindicated ...
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Overcrowding in a neonatal intermediate care unit: impact on the incidence of multidrug resistant gram negative organisms
... an intermediate care unit are unrepresented in recent ...neonatal intermediate care unit (NIMCU) at a level III (international categorization) perinatal center at University Hospital ...
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Admission and Discharge Guidelines for the Pediatric Patient Requiring Intermediate Care
... T he purpose of this statement is to provide lists of criteria that may be incorporated into mul- tidisciplinary guidelines for the admission and discharge of children requiring intermediate care. Because ...
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Intermediate care: for better or worse? Process evaluation of an intermediate care model between a university hospital and a residential home
... Background: Intermediate care was developed in order to bridge acute, primary and social care, primarily for elderly persons with complex care ...of intermediate care models and ...
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Home-based intermediate care program vs hospitalization
... These programs might improve a community’s abil- ity to deal with surge capacity in the event of a seri- ous influenza epidemic or other large-scale disaster and could aid in shortening wait times, in general, by free- ...
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Does intermediate care improve patient outcomes or reduce costs?
... As well as direct admissions to the IMCU for low-risk patients requiring short-term intensive monitoring, these units are also used as a ‘step-down’ facility for patients who no longer need intensive therapy, but are ...
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Intermediate care units in progressive patient care model: a systematic literature review
... The healthcare professionals’ point of view about intensity of care was assessed in two studies [10, 14]. Chesi et al. [10] reported the point of view of 31 internists heading operative units in an Italian region ...
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'Does the design of settings where acute care is delivered meet the needs of older people? Perspectives of patients, family carers, and staff
... Three care settings were chosen, representing different steps on the acute-care pathway for older people, different building types, and different building ...elderly care ward of a middle-sized ...
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Comorbidities and the referral pathway to access joint replacement surgery: an exploratory qualitative study
... The referral pathway towards joint replacement surgery in England generally involves three professional groups: GPs, intermediate care professionals and orthopaedic surgeons. While all professionals ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Causing Neonatal Toxic Shock Syndrome Like Exanthematous Disease in Neonatal and Perinatal Wards
... intensive care area and two were in the interme- diate care ...intensive care area. The incidence of MRSA isolation in the intensive care area (22 of 25; ...the intermediate care ...
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