• We analyzed data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) from 1997 to 2006. (nih.gov)
  • Title : CDC mPINC Hospital Survey : Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care : 2022 Wyoming results report Corporate Authors(s) : National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity. (cdc.gov)
  • The study included infants younger than 6 months of age who were admitted to 30 pediatric hospitals in 22 states from July 1, 2021, to March 8, 2022. (newswise.com)
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008) Movement from hospital to residential aged care: preliminary results , AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 01 October 2023. (aihw.gov.au)
  • Drug use is associated with increased morbidity and mortality but people who use drugs experience significant barriers to care. (springer.com)
  • Although obesity is a well-established cardiovascular risk factor, some controversy has arisen with regard to its effect on hospital mortality in patients admitted for acute coronary syndrome. (hindawi.com)
  • Clinical and anthropometric variables were analyzed in patients consecutively admitted for acute coronary syndrome to a university hospital between 2009 and 2010, and the correlation of those variables with hospital mortality was examined. (hindawi.com)
  • There is something of a paradox in the relationship between body mass index and hospital mortality in patients with acute coronary syndrome in that the mortality rate decreases as body mass index increases. (hindawi.com)
  • Complications occurring during admission and mortality during hospital stays were also evaluated. (hindawi.com)
  • We examined the effect of hospital type and medical coverage on the risk of 1-year mortality of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants while adjusting for possible selection bias. (lww.com)
  • Using the PS matching method, VLBW infants delivered at a hospital with a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) were associated with a 35% relative decrease (95% bootstrap confidence interval, 18.5%-48.9%) in the risk of 1-year mortality as compared with those infants delivered at non-NICU hospitals. (lww.com)
  • Acute chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations use many hospital bed days and have a high rate of mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Both inpatient mortality (odds ratio (OR) 0.67, CI 0.50 to 0.90) and 90 day mortality (OR 0.75, CI 0.60 to 0.94) were associated with a staff ratio of four or more respiratory consultants per 1000 hospital beds. (bmj.com)
  • Units with more respiratory consultants and better quality organised care have lower mortality and reduced length of hospital stay. (bmj.com)
  • Hospital admissions carry a high mortality and patients may have extended lengths of stay. (bmj.com)
  • There is a wide variation in both length of stay (LOS) and mortality between hospitals. (bmj.com)
  • For the section dealing with clinical prediction rules, we identified original research articles describing the derivation or validation of a clinical prediction rule for all-cause mortality after hospital admission by searching for articles in any language in MEDLINE and Embase (from inception to July 2011) using the following search terms: "prognostic tool," "prognostic model," "prognostic index," "mortality" and "hospitalization. (cmaj.ca)
  • The increased mortality risk associated with weekend admission to hospital (the 'weekend effect') has been reported across many health systems. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Variations in the organisation and delivery of in-hospital care between weekends and weekdays have been identified, but this is not always to the detriment of weekend admissions, and the impact on mortality is uncertain. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, the focus on mortality has to some extent obscured questions about how features of weekend care impact on patient and staff experience of care quality. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The latter saw significantly fewer 6-month rehospitalizations with cardiologist hospital care, but there wasn't a similar effect on 6-month mortality. (medscape.com)
  • and (2) investigate hospital SCSS scores' relationship to readmission or mortality among Medicare beneficiaries. (nih.gov)
  • Greater provision of hospital-level senior services may be associated with mortality reduction among Medicare beneficiaries. (nih.gov)
  • We also compared friends and family test ratings with the latest results for the summary hospital mortality indicator for January to December 2012, obtained from the Health and Social Care Information Centre. (bmj.com)
  • Topics to include Advances in Treatment for Graft Versus Host Disease, Reducing ICU Mortality in Pediatric Onco-Critical Care: Past, Present and Future, Tracheostomy: Selection and Timing in the Pediatric Onco-Critical Care Patient, Development of Clinical Pathways in Onco-Critical Care, Moral Distress in Critically Ill Pediatric Oncology Patients, and Global POCCS. (stjude.org)
  • Age 65 years, presence of septic shock, and presence of carbapenem-resistant bacteria were independently associated with in- creased in-hospital mortality. (who.int)
  • The mortality rate at the hospital was 51.6%, 33 patients from a total of 64 patients . (bvsalud.org)
  • Medication nonadherence leads to poor health outcomes and increased health care costs. (cdc.gov)
  • This study aimed to explore associations between resources and organisation of care and patient outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • 234 UK acute hospitals each prospectively identified 40 consecutive acute COPD admissions, documenting process of care and outcomes from a retrospective case note audit. (bmj.com)
  • Wide variation was observed in all outcomes between hospitals. (bmj.com)
  • An earlier pilot study suggested that better resourced hospitals achieve better outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • 7 This study aimed to explore possible relationships between resources available for the care of COPD patients and organisation of care with the patient outcomes of death, LOS, and readmission. (bmj.com)
  • Results The friends and family test, a single item measure of patient experience was associated with patients' perceptions of safety, but was not associated with safety outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • Little is known about the effectiveness of these frameworks to facilitate change in processes of care and patient outcomes within the inpatient setting. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The aim of this review was to assess the effectiveness of the application of theoretical implementation frameworks in inpatient healthcare settings to change processes of care and associated patient outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We extracted process of care and patient outcomes and described descriptively. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We conducted meta-analysis for process of care and patient outcomes with reference to framework category. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The success or otherwise of health service implementation projects can be measured through changes in process of care and patient outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Changes in process of care are likely to be the result of the implementation strategies targeting health professional behavior change [ 7 ], whereas patient outcomes (health outcomes and satisfaction) are likely the result of a complex interaction between the process of care, the organizational structure where this care is provided, patient characteristics, and the nature of the clinical intervention itself [ 8 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This has stimulated the UK government to prioritise the development of 'seven day services', a flagship health policy intended to improve care provision, safety, quality and outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Outcomes: Hospital readmission, or death, within 30 and 90 days of discharge. (nih.gov)
  • There was no significant association between Home-Care-and-Hospice and Post-Acute-Community-Care scores and study outcomes. (nih.gov)
  • THA's end-of-session report summarizing the 88th legislative session and outcomes for Texas hospitals is available now. (tha.org)
  • Outcomes for critically ill hematology/oncology and hematopoietic cell transplant patients, while improved over the last two decades, remain unacceptably poor compared with other patients we care for in our ICUs. (stjude.org)
  • For example, research has found that care coordination activities that help patients transition out of the hospital and back into the community are effective at avoiding undesirable outcomes, such as unnecessary readmissions. (ajmc.com)
  • Background: Interventions to reduce patient - handl ing injuries in the hospital setting are often evaluated based on their effect on outcomes such as injury rates. (cdc.gov)
  • But before we get into that, I know you have had an incredible educational background at Brown and Johns Hopkins, a master's of public health from Harvard, and Brigham and Women's Hospital emergency room training. (medscape.com)
  • Methods: Unit-level data related to adoption of patient lift equipment were systematically collected at several points in time over 5 years on nursing units at two hospitals, including hours of lift equipment use, equipment accessibility, and supply purchases and availability. (cdc.gov)
  • We reviewed the cases of children aged between 1 and 59 months hospitalized between January and December 2015 in the pediatric intensive care unit of the CHU of Brazzaville and retained those whose diagnosis of discharge was an ALRI. (scirp.org)
  • This retrospective descriptive and analytical study was conducted in 12 months, between January and December 2015, at the Brazzaville Hospital and University Hospital Level Three Public Hospital, in the pediatric intensive care unit, the only service that supports vital distress of the child. (scirp.org)
  • The goal of this symposium is to advance the care of critically ill pediatric hematology/oncology patients through improvements in patient care, multidisciplinary collaboration, as well as clinical and translational research. (stjude.org)
  • This educational pre-day will describe current literature and management of oncologic specific emergencies in critical care in all potential settings (including middle- and lower-income settings) and outline key differences between critically ill oncologic patients and critically ill general pediatric patients. (stjude.org)
  • Find Numbers & Addresses Of The Top 10 Urgent Care Here. (wow.com)
  • Discover The Top 10 Rated Urgent Care Clinics Here! (wow.com)
  • If any of these symptoms develop, urgent care should be sought by the patient. (medscape.com)
  • We recruited people with a history of active drug use at the time of an admission to an acute care hospital, who were living with HIV or hepatitis C, in Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. (springer.com)
  • 1, unplanned admission to intensive care unit before surgery, associated anomalies, and Gross type A/B were significant independent risk factors for treatment abandonment before surgery. (frontiersin.org)
  • Objectives To examine links between clinical and other characteristics of people with Alzheimer's disease living in the community, likelihood of care home or hospital admission, and associated costs. (bmj.com)
  • Statistical analyses examined effects of cognition, physical health, mental health, sociodemographic factors and living circumstances on risk of admission to care home or hospital over 6 months and associated costs, adjusting for repeated observations. (bmj.com)
  • Main outcome measures Risk of admission to, and days spent in three settings during 6-month period following routine clinical assessment: care home, mental health inpatient care and general hospital inpatient care. (bmj.com)
  • Better treatment in the community that reduces health and social care needs of Alzheimer's patients would reduce admission rates. (bmj.com)
  • Living alone, poor living circumstances and functional problems all raise admission rates, and so major cuts in social care budgets increase the risk of high-cost admissions which older people do not want. (bmj.com)
  • All patients were followed until the end of hospital admission for the outcome of case fatality and length of stay. (bmj.com)
  • This was a prospective, multicenter open-label study aimed to determine the safety and efficacy of a hospital discharge algorithm based on admission HbA 1c . (diabetesjournals.org)
  • A retrospective study was conducted on 360 patients with EA admitted to Beijing Children's Hospital between January 1, 2007 and June 1, 2020. (frontiersin.org)
  • Our results reinforce the importance of COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy to protect both the women and their babies from COVID-19," said co-author Bria Coates, MD , Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. (newswise.com)
  • Research at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is conducted through Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute. (newswise.com)
  • This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Le Bonheur Children's Hospital/University of Tennessee Health Science Center. (stjude.org)
  • This article presents the experience of an Asian acute care tertiary hospital in the management of giant PEH and parahiatal hernia. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • TY - JOUR T1 - Para-oesophageal and parahiatal hernias in an Asian acute care tertiary hospital: an underappreciated surgical condition. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Palliative Screening Tools to Identify Palliative Care Consultation at Tertiary Hospital. (bvsalud.org)
  • We looked at three institutional destinations separately: care home, general hospital inpatient and mental health inpatient. (bmj.com)
  • The updated SCSS had three service groups: Inpatient Specialty Care, Post-Acute Community Care, and Home Care and Hospice. (nih.gov)
  • Older adults admitted to high Inpatient-Specialty-Care-scoring hospitals had lower risk of death within 30 days (RR .94, 95% CI .91-.98), and 90 days (RR .94, 95% CI .91-.97). (nih.gov)
  • In an early analysis, we compared the test's first three months' findings for inpatients with those of the most recent (2012) NHS inpatient survey (using the overall score question) at the hospital level, obtained from the UK Data Service. (bmj.com)
  • CCR defines a hospital as "a health facility that, under an organized medical staff, offers and provides twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week inpatient services, emergency medical and surgical care, continuous nursing services, and necessary ancillary services, to individuals for diagnosis or treatment of injury, illness, pregnancy or disability. (who.int)
  • We observed health-care worker hand hygiene in four nursing units that provided similar patient care in both the old and new hospitals: medical and surgical intensive care, hematology/oncology, and solid organ transplant units. (cdc.gov)
  • Observations were made in the 33-bed hematology/oncology unit, the 23-bed solid organ transplant unit, the 16-bed surgical intensive-care unit (SICU), and the 11-bed medical intensive-care unit (MICU). (cdc.gov)
  • The reasons for treatment abandonment included financial difficulties, multiple malformations with poor prognosis, belief of incurability and concerns about the prognosis of the diseases, postoperative complications, and extensive length of intensive care unit stay. (frontiersin.org)
  • Dr. Coates and colleagues found that most infants (90 percent) who needed intensive care due to COVID-19 infection were born to mothers who were not vaccinated during pregnancy. (newswise.com)
  • Of those, 21 percent were admitted to the intensive care unit and 12 percent required mechanical ventilation, or extra help getting enough oxygen to the body, or vasoactive infusions. (newswise.com)
  • The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Guidelines for Handwashing and Hospital Environmental Control (1985, 2001) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee each highlight specific indications for handwashing compliance ( 1 - 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Hospital emergency departments play a central role in the health care system. (inspq.qc.ca)
  • As a result, emergency department utilisation is a good barometer of how the health system is working. (inspq.qc.ca)
  • Going to the emergency also seems to be a way of gaining quicker access to specialised services and resources that are perceived as meeting all health care needs. (inspq.qc.ca)
  • Unaffordability, female sex, and long waiting times in the health care facility were predictors of nonadherence to antihypertension medicines. (cdc.gov)
  • We assessed the effect of medical staff role models and the number of health-care worker sinks on hand-hygiene compliance before and after construction of a new hospital designed for increased access to handwashing sinks. (cdc.gov)
  • Our results suggest that health-care worker hand-hygiene compliance is influenced significantly by the behavior of other health-care workers. (cdc.gov)
  • One of the key components for limiting spread of health-care-associated infectious disease is adequate infection control practice. (cdc.gov)
  • A cornerstone of infection control is ensuring that health-care workers wash their hands at appropriate times. (cdc.gov)
  • Although CDC guidelines state that handwashing is the single most important procedure to prevent nosocomial infection ( 2 , 4 ), studies continue to report unacceptable health-care worker hand-hygiene compliance rates ( 5 - 12 ). (cdc.gov)
  • We also evaluated whether the frequency of health-care worker hand hygiene was influenced by the behavior of senior medical-care providers. (cdc.gov)
  • The non-ICUs had a limited number of handwashing sinks for health-care worker use located on walls in the middle of each hallway, in clean storage rooms, and in soiled-linens utility rooms. (cdc.gov)
  • However, despite their complex health challenges, they face significant barriers to accessing and receiving equitable care [ 18 ] including healthcare provider stigma, inadequate pain management, and organizational factors including requirements for abstinence. (springer.com)
  • To use the EHR system to improve patient care coordination within the rural health IT setting's local referral network. (healthit.gov)
  • Participants Every individual with diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease seen and treated by mental health services in the catchment area, with at least one rating of cognition, not resident in care home at time of assessment (n=3075). (bmj.com)
  • St Mungo's Hospital Discharge Network was established in June 2014 as part of the £10m Department of Health Homeless Hospital Discharge Fund. (mungos.org)
  • Our Hospital Discharge Network (HDN) offers safe temporary accommodation for people who are homeless with support to recover from their stay in hospital, engage with health and social care services and find a suitable place to live. (mungos.org)
  • This hospital is part of the greater BayCare Health System. (wow.com)
  • 1 Advance care planning can increase the quality of life of dying patients, improve the experience of family members and decrease health care costs. (cmaj.ca)
  • Advance care planning is a process by which patients consider options for future health care decisions and identify their wishes. (cmaj.ca)
  • In other settings, the plan may result in an advance care directive - a verbal or written instruction describing what kind of care a patient would want (or not want) if he or she were no longer able to speak for him or herself, and the values that guide the patient in making important health care decisions. (cmaj.ca)
  • 4 , 5 however, hospital-based health care providers infrequently engage patients and families in such conversations. (cmaj.ca)
  • Although health care providers in the outpatient setting (e.g., family physicians, consultant physicians) play a key role in advance care planning, hospital-based providers share this responsibility. (cmaj.ca)
  • The gap between the care patients should get and what they actually receive likely contributes to thousands of preventable deaths each year, and health care systems worldwide continue to face the challenge of delivering quality care at an affordable cost. (rand.org)
  • RAND has conducted research designed to measure and improve health care quality and to provide reliable decision support data to patients, providers, and purchasers. (rand.org)
  • What can be done to ensure service members have timely and equitable access to high-quality behavioral health care? (rand.org)
  • The study aimed to evaluate and compare perceived adverse psychological symptoms (stress, anxiety, depression), and insomnia by health-care professionals working in quarantine and non-quarantine hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt, and to explore associated factors with adverse psychological symptoms and insomnia. (who.int)
  • Female and younger age health care professionals were more prone to report adverse psychological symptoms. (who.int)
  • More and earlier screening for health-care professionals dealing with COVID-19, in addition to providing psychological support, is highly encouraged. (who.int)
  • SARS-CoV-2 is very contagious and has an efficient person-to-person transmission, which could be more evident in health-care settings (2). (who.int)
  • The pandemic has been a source of numerous stressors on health-care professionals who have been found to display heightened stress, become emotionally affected and traumatized, and have higher levels of depression and anxiety (5-7). (who.int)
  • Moreover, health-care professionals are vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorders, which may develop following exposure to traumatic events among workers operating in such a pandemic context (8,9). (who.int)
  • One of the major global health challenges has been to protect health-care professionals and prevent the health-care system from being overwhelmed. (who.int)
  • As a response to the COVID-19 epidemic, Egypt established a unique care model under World Health Organization (WHO) supervision, whereby specific hospitals are assigned as "quarantine hospitals" for COVID-19 patients. (who.int)
  • Setting National Health Service hospitals. (bmj.com)
  • 2 Center for Health Care Human Factors, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. (nih.gov)
  • For some years the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has been developing an event-based data linkage method (termed E linkage) to link national hospital morbidity data and residential aged care data. (aihw.gov.au)
  • To further improve the transparency of Home Care Package pricing for senior Australians, their families and carers, the Department of Health publishes national median prices for common home care services, care management and package management. (health.gov.au)
  • HealthBreak is a community health education program produced by Dignity Health Central Coast that features local physicians and other health care professionals discussing current health topics, procedures, and treatments. (dignityhealth.org)
  • Health and Social Care Information Centre. (bmj.com)
  • The health care provider will perform a physical exam. (medlineplus.gov)
  • However, it is best to check with your health plan to confirm that University Hospitals is included. (uhhospitals.org)
  • However, internal closure, the construction of the separation wall, and the permit system continue to affect patients' access to various levels of health care in the West Bank. (who.int)
  • The Gaza Strip continues to be largely isolated from the outside world as a result of the external closure in place, and the increasing levels of violence experienced there may lead to a humanitarian health crisis. (who.int)
  • There are reports of decreased access to secondary and tertiary health care. (who.int)
  • The lack of essential spare parts, basic consumables, supplies and medicines further weakened the health-care delivery system. (who.int)
  • WHO has provided technical support to the Ministry of Health's noncommunicable disease control and prevention programme, responding to specific training needs for specialized health care, preparing diagnosis and treatment guidelines, introducing a surveillance system for risk factors and launching an educational campaign on the prevention of chronic diseases. (who.int)
  • 1. Despite efforts made by countries, the situation of hospitals in the African Region is getting worse in both scope and quality of health care. (who.int)
  • In view of the importance of hospitals in national health systems and the declining trend in hospital performance, it is necessary to review their role. (who.int)
  • 3. The document provides a framework for strengthening the role of hospitals in national health systems. (who.int)
  • Region despite significant endeavours initiated for improvement.1 The role of hospitals within national health systems is one of the fundamental issues which requires priority attention. (who.int)
  • Despite these efforts, the situation of hospitals is getting worse in terms of both the scope and quality of health care they provide. (who.int)
  • 3. Given the importance of hospitals, the Regional Committee, at its thirty-eighth session, adopted resolution AFR/RC38/R123 on improving primary health care (PHC) through hospital sector development, and the forty-second session adopted resolution AFR/RC42/R64 on reorientation and restructuring of hospitals based on PHC. (who.int)
  • 4. In view of the importance of hospitals in national health systems and because of their current poor performance, there is a need to review and strengthen their roles. (who.int)
  • 6. In many countries, hospital beds are inadequate and inequitably distributed between rural and urban areas, with availability ranging from 0.9 to 2.9 beds per 1,000 people.8 Lack of national health infrastructure development planning and irrational interference in the location of hospitals account for this situation. (who.int)
  • These include the local hospital and primary care and specialty clinics that use the same EHR product (DocLinks™) or a software interface that connects different EHR products. (healthit.gov)
  • Morton Plant Hospital is community-based and provides services in more than fifty specialty areas. (wow.com)
  • Design Observational data extracted from clinical records using natural language processing and Hospital Episode Statistics. (bmj.com)
  • This briefing presents evidence and lessons from our Hospital Discharge Network, which offers safe temporary accommodation and clinical support for people who are homeless and leaving hospital. (mungos.org)
  • 7 We used Spearman's rank correlation coefficient to compare unadjusted scores for the 156 acute hospitals with results from friends and family tests. (bmj.com)
  • A recent study of people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada, found the hospital to be a "risk environment" wherein social and structural factors contributed to participants experiencing inadequate pain and withdrawal management, consequent drug use, and increased likelihood of discharge against medical advice [ 29 ]. (springer.com)
  • The length of stay was reduced in units with more respiratory consultants, better organisation of care scores, an early discharge scheme, and local COPD management guidelines. (bmj.com)
  • For example, during an acute stay in hospital, the plan may pertain to the goals of care for the current stay in addition to any care that may be required after discharge. (cmaj.ca)
  • Perhaps the most important result of this study is the fact that patients managed by cardiology were more likely to demonstrate continuity of care," he said, pointing the much greater likelihood that such patients would have a cardiology appointment within 7 days of discharge. (medscape.com)
  • Effective treatment algorithms are needed to guide diabetes care at hospital discharge in general medicine and surgery patients with type 2 diabetes. (diabetesjournals.org)
  • The primary outcome was HbA 1c concentration at 12 weeks after hospital discharge. (diabetesjournals.org)
  • Diabetes is the fourth leading comorbid condition associated with any hospital discharge in the U.S., and individuals with diabetes have higher rates of hospitalization compared with people without diabetes for all age-groups than the general population ( 1 ). (diabetesjournals.org)
  • The design of this study is cross-sectional and was conducted at Cipto Mangunkusumo National Central Public Hospital in July - October 2019. (bvsalud.org)
  • Staff on these wards were asked to complete the four outcome measures of the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture, while patients were asked to complete the Patient Measure of Safety and the friends and family test. (bmj.com)
  • We also collated publicly reported safety outcome data for 'harm-free care' on each ward. (bmj.com)
  • Outcome measures Number of admissions, including the birth episode, and days spent in hospital were examined. (bmj.com)
  • The current study assessed the bacteriologic profile, resistance pattern, and treatment outcome in Lan- cet General Hospital. (who.int)
  • Lions Gate Hospital was dealing with a backlog of requests for pain management injections that had been long even before the COVID-19 pandemic began. (vch.ca)
  • Objectives To determine if there is an association between acuity level of care (ALC), case fatality and length of stay in patients admitted to hospital due to COVID-19. (bmj.com)
  • All patients admitted consecutively between 2009 and 2010 for ACS were included in the RENACI database of the Working Group on Ischemic Heart Disease and Coronary Care Units of the Spanish Cardiology Society. (hindawi.com)
  • Conclusion High and intermediate acuity level is associated with higher case fatality rate and prolonged length of hospital stay in patients admitted with COVID-19. (bmj.com)
  • GRAPEVINE, TX - A third of patients admitted with acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) were assigned to care by generalist physicians, and a cardiology consult was sought in only a few of those cases, in a retrospective analysis covering a recent 4 months at a major academic tertiary-care center [ 1 ] . (medscape.com)
  • The objective of this study is to describe and characterize the experience of acute care for people who use drugs. (springer.com)
  • We conducted focus groups and interviews with clinicians and patients with experience of acute medical care, recruited from three UK hospital Trusts. (biomedcentral.com)
  • They have become the main entry point for hospitalised patients and the resource of choice when primary care services are not available. (inspq.qc.ca)
  • The survey is part of a larger study whose aim is to better understand the organisation models of primary care services in Québec and their influence on accessibility and continuity of care. (inspq.qc.ca)
  • It is clear that an individual's choice to go to the emergency is affected by the perception that access to primary care services is limited. (inspq.qc.ca)
  • Since 2006, cleft services in England have been centralised to 13 hospital cleft treatment sites, which provide primary repair surgery for all children with a cleft. (bmj.com)
  • The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that most hospitals will receive an inflation update of 2.1 percent in their payment rates for services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries in outpatient departments. (cms.gov)
  • A statewide effort to improve care for patients with diabetes across Mississippi, particularly for patients considered to be "medically underserved ," is being announced today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). (cms.gov)
  • The Senior Care Services Scale (SCSS) describes hospital provision of older adult services before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. (nih.gov)
  • The proposed rule - called Medicaid and CHIP Managed Care Access, Finance, and Quality - was recently issued by the Centers Medicare & Medicaid Services. (tha.org)
  • The interface between acute hospital care and residential aged care has long been recognised as an important issue in aged care services research. (aihw.gov.au)
  • Care coordination-defined as the deliberate organization of patient care activities between 2 or more participants (including the patient) involved in a patient's care to facilitate appropriate delivery of healthcare services 1 -is an essential component of high-quality, high-value care. (ajmc.com)
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering was founded in 1884, and today is a world leader in patient care, research, and educational programs. (mskcc.org)
  • Setting Internal Medicine Service of the Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan, from 26 February 2020 to 30 June 2020. (bmj.com)
  • More information about the survey may be found in the Office of the Seniors Advocate's September 2017 provincial results report. (surveybcseniors.org)
  • Hospital emergency departments: Substitutes for primary care? (inspq.qc.ca)
  • The goal of this report is to provide up-to-date information on hospital emergency department utilisation from the population's perspective. (inspq.qc.ca)
  • An analysis of recent care experiences demonstrates that users of emergency departments are responsible consumers. (inspq.qc.ca)
  • Hospital Emergency Departments: Substitute for Primary Care? (inspq.qc.ca)
  • Despite CPR and advanced life support administered by emergency responders, the ambulance crew, and personnel in the hospital emergency department, the Chief died. (cdc.gov)
  • No one anticipates an emergency, but if one happens, you have French Hospital ready to care 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (dignityhealth.org)
  • Negative experiences influenced their willingness to seek care, often resulting in delayed care seeking and targeting of certain hospitals. (springer.com)
  • Egypt has assigned certain hospitals specifically for the quarantine of COVID-19 patients, where operational medical teams work continuously for 14 days, after which they are released for self-isolation at home for a similar period. (who.int)
  • Data are needed about the care experiences of people who use drugs to inform interventions and quality improvement initiatives. (springer.com)
  • Interventions to decrease stigma and improve our consistency and approach to pain management are necessary to improve the quality of care and care experiences of those who use drugs. (springer.com)
  • The Leapfrog Group, one of the nation's leading hospital ratings organizations, awarded French Hospital Medical Center an 'A' Hospital Safety Grade in its latest rating report. (dignityhealth.org)
  • Technology-laden end-of-life care is associated with poorer quality of life, lower satisfaction with care and increased anxiety and depression for family members. (cmaj.ca)
  • The Office of the Seniors Advocate's Residential Care Survey asked residents in all of B.C.'s publicly-funded residential care homes questions on a variety of functions and experiences that happen on a day-to-day basis in care homes, from questions about food quality and staff responsiveness to observations of physician care and social connectedness. (surveybcseniors.org)
  • The first set of questions asked residents and their MFVs to rate overall aspects of their care experience, including quality of care, willingness to recommend the care home to others, and the cleanliness of the care home. (surveybcseniors.org)
  • A set of standards can help identify providers who serve veterans and deliver high-quality care. (rand.org)
  • This article reports a qualitative study of patients and clinicians, to explore their views on quality and safety of care at weekends. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We analysed the data using a thematic analysis approach, aided by the use of NVivo, to explore quality and safety of care at weekends. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The consequences in terms of quality and safety and patient experience of care are undesirable. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Letter from Minister for Aged Care the Hon. Anika Wells to Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner Janet Anderson about care minutes compliance. (health.gov.au)
  • That is why we are proud to partner with the initiatives of Hospital Quality Institute to share our quality of care data with you. (dignityhealth.org)
  • These results suggest that the friends and family test is associated with other measures of hospital quality, but that these associations are only mild to moderate, possibly because of sampling and response bias. (bmj.com)
  • 2-4 However, research has also documented varying degrees of care coordination capabilities among providers, 5 highlighting an important opportunity for improving the quality of care. (ajmc.com)
  • Conclusions The burden of hospital care in the first 2 years of life varied according to cleft type and presence of additional anomalies. (bmj.com)
  • The study population was limited to singleton live birth infants having birth weight between 500 and 1500 g with no congenital anomalies who were born in Arkansas hospitals between 2001 and 2007. (lww.com)
  • This report provides preliminary results from this linkage process when applied to data for four states and two territories for 2001-02, and investigates a particular issue - the use of residential aged care for interim care following a period in hospital. (aihw.gov.au)
  • Having successfully demonstrated the utility of this method for examining the movement of people between the two sectors, data have now been linked for six states and territories for 2001-02 and preliminary results are now available. (aihw.gov.au)
  • During 2001-02, across the six jurisdictions included in the study, there were 620,000 hospital separations for stays lasting at least 1 night for people aged 65 years and over. (aihw.gov.au)
  • The data presented in this thematic report are from a survey of the primary care experiences of individuals in Montréal and Montérégie. (inspq.qc.ca)
  • The EHR system can generate a transition of care summary that includes progress notes, problem lists, orders, medication lists, and demographics and transmit the information electronically to the local hospital, primary care provider, or specialist. (healthit.gov)
  • My husband, a primary care doctor at a Boston teaching hospital, had been seeing patients virtually since we'd returned home. (kevinmd.com)
  • Surgical records dated between January 2003 and January 2013 from the Department of Surgery, Changi General Hospital, Singapore, were retrospectively reviewed. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Participants described significant barriers to pain management, often resulting in inconsistent and inadequate pain management. (springer.com)
  • 3 4 Opponents suggest that the test is not sufficiently validated, has inadequate methodological consistency (hospitals can choose how to collect responses), and asks questions that are inappropriate in some patient groups (who would ever recommend a cancer service? (bmj.com)
  • RESULTS: Ten patients underwent surgical repair for giant PEH or parahiatal hernia during the study period. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • The prognosis for patients with EA/TEF has greatly improved with advances in surgical techniques and preoperative and postoperative care. (frontiersin.org)
  • Search When typing in this field, a list of search results will appear and be automatically updated as you type. (prnewswire.com)
  • AMGN ) today announced that it will report its first quarter financial results on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 , after the close of the U.S. financial markets. (prnewswire.com)
  • From diagnosis to treatment, our experts provide the care and support you need, when you need it. (mskcc.org)
  • Units also completed a resources and organisation of care proforma. (bmj.com)
  • We extracted theoretical implementation frameworks and study design against the Workgroup for Intervention Development and Evaluation Research (WIDER) Checklist and implementation strategies mapped to the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) taxonomy. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Progressive herniation can result in giant PEHs, which are associated with significant morbidity. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Before data linkage for this project began, ethics approvals were obtained from required ethics committees, and permission to use the hospital morbidity and residential aged care data was obtained from all data custodians (national and state and territory). (aihw.gov.au)
  • Our highly-specialized educational programs shape leaders to be at the forefront of cancer care and research. (mskcc.org)
  • Do Hospital Characteristics Predict Racial-and-Ethnic Disparities in Patient Experience? (rand.org)
  • Large, for-profit hospitals and hospitals serving higher proportions of Black and Hispanic patients tend to be lower performing overall but have smaller disparities in patient experience. (rand.org)
  • If the results of the negotiation with the company are acceptable based on the regions' willingness to pay, the New Therapies Council can issue a recommendation to the regions to use the pharmaceutical for hospital care. (janusinfo.se)
  • Large differences in total time in hospital were revealed between children without and children with additional anomalies and between the four main cleft types. (bmj.com)
  • Total time spent in hospital for cleft-related procedures before the age of 2 years reduced between 1997 and 2008 among children without additional anomalies. (bmj.com)
  • Having that kind of short-term follow-up outside of the hospital to make sure everything is going kind of as planned and whether any further adjustments need to be made at that time-that someone is seeing the patient and making those adjustments-I think that probably plays quite a large role in keeping patients out of the hospital. (medscape.com)
  • But he knew he could be called into the hospital at any time to help with COVID patients, so when I became sick, he encouraged me to get tested. (kevinmd.com)
  • 6 Accordingly, the focus of our review is to provide guidance for advance care planning as it pertains to the in-patient setting (i.e., determination of goals of care for the patient in hospital). (cmaj.ca)
  • Background Patients have the potential to provide feedback on the safety of their care. (bmj.com)
  • Recently, tools have been developed that ask patients to provide feedback on those factors that are known to contribute to safety, therefore providing information that can be used proactively to manage safety in hospitals. (bmj.com)
  • Current hospital and residential aged care national data sets have been designed primarily to provide data on the specific program rather than to examine program interfaces. (aihw.gov.au)
  • The movement of people between acute hospital care and residential aged care has long been recognised as an important issue, but existing national data sets provide only limited information on such movement. (aihw.gov.au)
  • This diagram outlines the requirements to provide a qualifying disclosure, under the proposed new Aged Care Act. (health.gov.au)
  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. (stjude.org)
  • Hospital participation in value-based programs, especially accountable care organizations, may provide a catalyst to adopt and spread care coordination activities. (ajmc.com)
  • It is necessary to identify palliative patients in order to provide the proper care according to the needs of the patients . (bvsalud.org)
  • Effective counseling and state-covered medical care were associated with improved medication adherence. (cdc.gov)
  • Thought you might appreciate this item(s) I saw in Medical Care. (lww.com)
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common causes of acute hospital admissions in the UK, 1 accounting for 10% of all medical admissions 2 and over 90 000 admissions to hospital every year. (bmj.com)
  • At French Hospital Medical Center, our orthopedic doctors work to get you back to your active life as quickly, and painlessly, as possible. (dignityhealth.org)
  • French Hospital Medical Center has a long and rich history. (dignityhealth.org)