Medical wards
Outcome of Bacteraemia in Patients Admitted to the Adult Medical Wards of the UKM Hospital
... have one’s own local epidemiological data to optimize care for the affected patients. Hence, the primary objectives of this study were to determine the outcome of blood stream infection (BSI) in adult medical ...
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Comparison of the clinical characteristics of central lines inserted in the ED, medical wards and ICUs.
... Christian medical college hospital, established in 1900, is a tertiary care teaching hospital situated in Vellore, Tamil ...care. Medical Intensive care unit (MICU) and Medical High Dependency Unit ...
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Prevalence of distressing symptoms in hospitalised patients on medical wards: A cross-sectional study
... Background: Many patients with advanced, serious, non-malignant disease belong to the population generally seen on medical wards. However, little research has been carried out on palliative care needs in ...
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The perceived and observed needs of patients with dementia admitted to acute medical wards
... female wards; one of which was being used as a transition ward for patients awaiting discharge to long-term ...from medical wards only, was taken in view of the fact that patient turnover in these ...
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Assessment of the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to acute medical wards
... The study was conducted in a general internal medical ward at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) during a three-month period from June 1 to August 31, 2007. Assessment of the capacity to consent to treatment was ...
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<p>Drug Therapy Problems and Predictors Among Patients Admitted to Medical Wards of Dilla University Referral Hospital, South Ethiopia: A Case of Antimicrobials</p>
... A six-month prospective interventional study was conducted among 229 admitted patients at the medical ward of DURH. 167 (70.74) of patients in the follow-up developed at least one antimicrobial-related drug ...
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A study of the clinical characteristics, risk factors and mortality outcomes of patients admitted with acute decompensated heart failure to general medical wards and intensive care units in a tertiary care hospital in South India (CHROME-HF)
... The largest cohort of patients with heart failure there is the Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry. It includes patients from the urban 5 rural hospitals in Trivandrum, who were admitted with heart failure in the year ...
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Acute catatonia on medical wards: a case series
... and medical team and was managed in an ICU environ- ment due to respiratory ...acute medical ward but an acute onset confusional state with bizarre behavior was noted over a period of 2 ...
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Clinical profile of 315 Dengue patients in a tertiary care centre in Kerala (India)
... Introduction: Dengue is a major arboviral infection which poses great public health problems globally. According to WHO, around 3.9 billion people, in 128 countries, are at risk of infection with dengue virus. As there ...
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A randomised, controlled trial of a pharmaceutical discharge service
... The overall study design is displayed in Figure 5 and required eligible patients to be randomised into control or intervention groups when they were admitted onto the medical wards. Intervention group ...
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Characteristics of patients with thromboembolic disorders on warfarin therapy in resource limited settings
... Discussion The study investigated the characteristics of patients admitted to the adult medical wards with thromboembolic disorders and on warfarin treatment, in order to establish the f[r] ...
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Ceftaroline fosamil for the treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia in the intensive care unit
... Clinical success among patients treated with ceftaroline fosamil was lower in the ICU (68%) than in the general medical wards (85%). Even though patients in both locations of care had comparable frequencies ...
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“I prefer a male nurse to a female nurse”: patients’ preference for, and satisfaction with nursing care provided by male nurses at the Komfo Anokye teaching hospital
... the medical and surgi- cal wards of the second largest hospital in Ghana, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), ...specific wards where the research was carried out were C1 (female ward), C2 (male ...
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Use of venous thromboprophylaxis and adherence to guideline recommendations: a cross-sectional study
... all medical records and nurse ...following wards: medical wards (internal medicine and other medical specialities), surgical wards (general surgery and other surgical ...
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The burden of co-existing dermatological disorders and their tendency of being overlooked among patients admitted to muhimbili national hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
... Table 2 shows the dermatological disorders among patients admitted to medical wards. A wide range of skin diseases was encountered, the most diverse being non- infectious conditions which put together ...
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Comprehensive geriatric assessment pilot of a randomized control study in a Swedish acute hospital: a feasibility study
... acute medical wards is poorly adapted to address the multiple needs of frail older people and is insufficient in providing health care services for problems which could have been readily recognized and ...
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Acute pain treatment on postoperative and medical non-surgical wards
... The medical staff on site is a mediator between patient and doctor, therefore it is very important to include them into the treatment of ...the medical treatment including side effects are ...the ...
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Study of causes and prognosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) in tertiary care institute
... Methods: Study is conducted on 100 AKI patients on haemodialysis admitted in various medical wards of the Mc Gann Hospital attached to Shimoga institute of medical sciences, Shimoga. From January ...
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Improving the quality of nursing care: A study of nursing errors and their reduction
... (c) Ten items rated on a 5-point scale concerned the causes of omissions. These ten items were selected from the information obtained following individual interviews with ten trained nurses working on the medical ...
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Economic evaluation of a nursing-led intermediate care unit
... of medical care as other medical wards, in addition to the cost of the ...the medical care given was provided from on-call physicians rather than the unit’s own medical ...
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