Medical Inpatients
Medial temporal lobe atrophy is underreported and may have important clinical correlates in medical inpatients
... Regarding clinical associations, all three abnormal radiological findings had high positive predictive values when compared to cognitive tests. If a CT had been done, an abnormal finding would be associated with a 90 % ...
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Hypokalaemia: Improving the investigation, management and therapeutic monitoring of hypokalaemic medical inpatients at a district general hospital
... All medical inpatients over a one week period who met the criteria for hypokalaemia (serum potassium <3.5 mmol/L on standard biochemical sample) were included in the audit. Patient's notes were located ...
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High Frequency of Bipolar Disorder Comorbidity in Medical Inpatients
... This was a descriptive epidemiological study. The target sample of this study was the medical inpatients of Rasoul-Akram, Firoozabadi, and Firoozgar hospitals. The sample included 706 patients who were ...
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Delirium Severity and Correlates among Medical Inpatients Admitted through Accident and Emergency Unit of Jos University Teaching Hospital
... and Medical wards between the months of July and November ...among medical inpatients admitted through the Accident and Emer- gency unit of Jos University Teaching Hospital as well as assessing its ...
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VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM PROPHYLAXIS IN MEDICAL INPATIENTS AND ADHERENCE TO GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY
... risk medical patients receives VTE ...in medical inpatients at a large teaching ...in medical wards of “Alzahra” hospital, Isfahan, ...high-risk medical inpatients in our center, ...
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Multidisciplinary intervention reducing readmissions in medical inpatients: a prospective, non-randomized study
... Methods: This prospective, non-randomized intervention study was carried out at the department of general internal medicine at a tertiary university hospital. Two hundred medical inpatients living in the ...
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Cognitive impairment is undetected in medical inpatients: a study of mortality and recognition amongst healthcare professionals
... Our study highlights the need for improved detection of cognitive impairment in hospitals, by confirming that cognitive impairment is often underdiagnosed and asso- ciated with an increased risk of mortality. Given the ...
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Prevalence and overlap of sarcopenia, frailty, cachexia and malnutrition in older medical inpatients
... Age, sex, main medical diagnoses and number of drugs taken were extracted from medical records. Living si- tuation (alone / with other persons / nursing home) was asked in a personal interview. Independence ...
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Adherence to local guidelines for venous thromboprophylaxis: a cross-sectional study of medical inpatients in Argentina
... VTE prophylaxis has been shown to cost-effectively reduce the incidence of thromboembolic events in medi- cal inpatients [6-9]. For this reason, since 1986, the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) ...
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Nutritional care of Danish medical inpatients: Effect on dietary intake and the occupational groups' perspectives of intervention
... The average intake of energy and protein among hospital- ised medical patients did not cover their requirements. Prior to intervention, food ingested during hospitalisation on average met 72% of the patients' ...
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Effect of changed organisation of nutritional care of Danish medical inpatients
... Insufficient nutritional intake and consequent weight loss during disease remains a serious problem for many eld- erly inpatients. There is ample reason for countering under nutrition during hospitalisation, among ...
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Improving pneumococcal vaccination rates of medical inpatients in urban Nepal using quality improvement measures
... The 23-valent, non-conjugated, pneumo- coccal polysaccharide vaccine, which con- tains 23 of the most common and virulent serotypes, is recommended by the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention, advisory ...
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Nutritional care of medical inpatients: a health technology assessment
... The organisation is the key element of the HTA as the organisational analysis provides insight into how nutri- tional care is currently practised by the professional groups in three hospital medical wards. The ...
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Outcomes of thromboprophylaxis with enoxaparin vs. unfractionated heparin in medical inpatients
... Methods: Using a large, multi-hospital, US database, we identified persons aged ≥ 40 years hospitalized for ≥ 6 days for an acute medical condition (including circulatory disorders, respiratory disorders, ...
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Incidence of cutaneous adverse drug reactions among medical inpatients of Sultanah Aminah Hospital Johor Bahru
... General Medical Wards for suspected cADR, or developed cADR during hospitalization, were ...General Medical Ward physicians, medical officers, house officers and nurses in- charge were given briefing ...
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Mental Capacity for Medical Treatment Decisions in Medical and Surgical Hospital Inpatients in Ireland
... 300 medical and surgical inpatients in both an urban and rural general hospital setting in Ireland, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, County Dublin and Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, County ...
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Vol 6, No 2 (2012)
... A point prevalence survey of 381 paediatric medical inpatients in the 11 public hospitals in Cape Town in November 2008 showed that 70% of them were in central hospitals, with 39.4% requiring level 3 ...
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Early severe morbidity and resource utilization in South African adults on antiretroviral therapy
... African medical inpatients, among HIV- infected patients those on HAART were 10 times more likely than those not on HAART to be admitted to hospital with an adverse drug reaction [23], which is in keeping ...
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Measures of risk and their relationship to the relative size of a high-risk group: application to medical thromboprophylaxis
... in medical inpatients to avoid overstating the arguments made here against current thromboprophylaxis guidelines, but in fact most estimates using direct prospective observation or morbidity coding are in ...
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Prevalence and characteristics of suicidal ideation among 2199 elderly inpatients with surgical or medical conditions in Taiwan
... in medical settings or the community [23], for suicide prevention programs on a large scale [24, ...screening inpatients with medical illness and people receiving regular physical ...hospitalized ...
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