• Taiwan's 1,300-bed Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital (KSVGH) is a public medical center that provides veterans, their families and the wider public with first-class healthcare services. (vistacominc.com)
  • Out of 1 228 539 infants screened between 1 January 2010 and 28 February 2021, 33 newborns had confirmed IOPD in Taipei Veterans General Hospital. (bmj.com)
  • Twenty-six were regularly treated and monitored at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. (bmj.com)
  • Teens with chronic daily headache should be screened for psychiatric disorders so they can get the treatment and help they need," said study author Shuu-Jiun Wang, MD, of the Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine in Taipei, Taiwan. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The study was supported by grants from the Taiwan National Science Council and the Taipei Veterans General Hospital. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In a recent article published in JAMA Network Open , researchers performed a retrospective cohort study among 64,856 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) enrollees aged ≥65 years to describe VHA characteristics and community hospitals delivering care for veteran coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. (news-medical.net)
  • In 2019, among adults aged 25-64 years, veterans (11.5%) were less likely than nonveterans (20.1%) to be very worried about their ability to pay their medical bills if they get sick or have an accident. (cdc.gov)
  • We analyzed data from a nationally representative, prospective cohort of US veterans who participated in the 2019-2020 National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study. (psychiatrist.com)
  • She earned her Bachelor's in Political Economy (1997), a Master's of Divinity (2003), and a PhD in Existential Psychology (2019) with her dissertation Profoundly changed: The homecoming of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. (veteransforpeace.org)
  • Numerous studies, including a 2019 publication about Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, demonstrate that MRSA prevention efforts can reduce infections. (cdc.gov)
  • Do veterans with COVID-19 experience similar outcomes when hospitalized in Veterans Health Administration hospitals vs. community hospitals? (news-medical.net)
  • Also, VHA needs to know the frequency or care outcomes in VHA vs. community hospitals among veterans with severe COVID-19. (news-medical.net)
  • In the present study, researchers combined data from five sources, such as VHA, Medicare, and American Hospital Association (AHA) surveys, to describe the outcomes of COVID-19-related hospitalizations among VHA enrollees aged ≥65 years, stratified by location of their hospital admission. (news-medical.net)
  • Further, they developed an analytic cohort to compare outcomes in VHA vs. community hospitals. (news-medical.net)
  • In the secondary analyses, the researchers examined outcomes separately for community hospital admissions paid by FFS Medicare and VHA's CITC program. (news-medical.net)
  • The two primary study outcomes were mortality within 30 days of hospitalization and re-admission to a hospital in 30 days after getting discharged. (news-medical.net)
  • The problem addressed in this paper is the difficulty of assessing across nations the impact of different policies on health outcomes without a reliable way of comparing routine hospital morbidity data. (ahima.org)
  • In addition, collaborations, such as the Cochrane group and other evidence-based groups, are using complex meta-analysis studies to compare outcomes and inform treatment practices. (ahima.org)
  • Nevertheless, the question remains whether hospital morbidity data can enhance the assessment of outcomes for health policy globally. (ahima.org)
  • The successful outcome of that project lead to our interest in whether other nations could be used to report outcomes similar to those reported in the Australian study and further, if the data would be suitable for a larger scale retrospective comparative study. (ahima.org)
  • Our findings, in fact, show just the opposite - in this study, the patients with the best outcomes were those who received an aggressive therapy that included so-called 'extremely dose-escalated radiotherapy' along with hormonal therapy. (ucla.edu)
  • The study builds upon previous research led by Kishan and colleagues, which provided the first evidence that surgery and standard radiation-based treatments offer equivalent treatment outcomes for men with prostate cancer, and suggested a potential benefit over both with radiation treatments in higher than the standard dose. (ucla.edu)
  • Several studies have shown that increasing the dose of radiotherapy beyond standard doses (known as extreme dose-escalation), in combination with hormonal therapy, has improved short-term treatment outcomes, but no previous studies have shown a difference in mortality rates or long-term survival in any group of patients with prostate cancer. (ucla.edu)
  • While a new study found that differences in outcomes from nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC) exist based on race and ethnicity, Black and Hispanic men might have considerably improved survival rates when treated in an equal-access setting. (usmedicine.com)
  • Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, and early detection through lung cancer screening has been shown to improve patient outcomes, according to the study. (consultantlive.com)
  • This long-term follow-up study demonstrates our diagnostic and treatment strategies for IOPD and compares our clinical outcomes with those of other medical centres. (bmj.com)
  • Methods In this long-term follow-up study, we analysed the outcomes of very early ERT with premedication hydrocortisone in patients with IOPD. (bmj.com)
  • Compared with patients in other studies, our patients had better outcomes in all aspects. (bmj.com)
  • The objective of this study was to examine the association of CIH participation with Veterans' patient-reported outcomes over time. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • Mixed hierarchical models with repeated variables were used to test the hypothesis that participating in any CIH approach would be associated with Veterans' overall physical/mental health [Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System 28 (PROMIS 28)], pain intensity, perceived stress (Perceived Stress Scale-4), and engagement in their care (Patient Activation Measure-13), controlling for age, male sex, site, participation in other CIH approaches, and surveys completed. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • As specific CIH approaches are associated with improvements in patient-reported outcomes, clinicians, Veterans, and family members may use this information in discussions of nonpharmacological options to address health and well-being. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • We assessed 1-year outcomes in UK veterans treated for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (bmj.com)
  • Following the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, large-scale epidemiological studies explored the health outcomes within the Coalition forces involved. (bmj.com)
  • Secondary outcomes were in-hospital cardiovascular death and all-cause mortality. (medscape.com)
  • COVID-19-Related Hospitalization Rates and Severe Outcomes Among Veterans From 5 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers: Hospital-Based Surveillance Study. (cdc.gov)
  • His compliance and employment expertise, which has evolved for more than three decades, truly makes him an invaluable component in the creation, strategizing, and management of workforce development initiatives, job centers and training particularly as they pertain to providing opportunities for veterans, socioeconomically disadvantaged and disabled populations. (bartleby.com)
  • A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 80 percent of urine samples from both children and adults in the U.S. contain the herbicide glyphosate . (naturalnews.com)
  • CDC is engaged in several short- and long-term MRSA surveillance (infection tracking) projects that involve collaboration with health departments, individual hospitals, and academic medical centers, among others. (cdc.gov)
  • Veterans participating in any type of CIH approach at 2 Veterans Affairs medical centers. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • We recruited adults with NB due to spinal cord injury/disorder (SCI/D) or multiple sclerosis (MS) at three Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers to participate in 11 virtual focus groups. (bvsalud.org)
  • DESIGN: This is a retrospective cohort study of adults with neurogenic bladder due to spinal cord injury/disorder, multiple sclerosis, and/or Parkinson disease and urinary tract infection encounters at four medical centers between 2017 and 2018. (bvsalud.org)
  • Comparative Effectiveness and Antibody Responses to Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccines among Hospitalized Veterans - Five Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, United States, February 1-September 30, 2021. (cdc.gov)
  • Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19-Associated Hospitalization - Five Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, United States, February 1-August 6, 2021. (cdc.gov)
  • Design Pooled analysis of a retrospective cohort study. (bmj.com)
  • [ 140 ] In a retrospective study of 16,186 patients with initial serum uric acid levels above 7 mg/dL, Levy and colleagues found that patients with gout who remained on urate-lowering therapy were less likely to develop kidney damage leading to chronic kidney disease than those who were untreated. (medscape.com)
  • DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. (bvsalud.org)
  • This retrospective cohort and case-control study aimed to determine the readmission rate for diabetic patients within 28 days after discharge and the association between quality of inpatient care and unplanned readmission. (who.int)
  • What Hastings and her team did see were shorter hospital stays, by one day on average, for patients in the STRIDE program, and a 92 percent discharge to home rate. (va.gov)
  • However, routine hospital discharge data have been used within nations to compare severity-adjusted in-hospital death rates and invasive procedure use. (ahima.org)
  • The research project report here began as an Australian study, commissioned by a non-government organisation that evaluated hospital discharge data for specific conditions. (ahima.org)
  • Evaluating the implementation of Project Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) in five Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals. (ahrq.gov)
  • Readmissions occur frequently after hospital discharge and may reflect opportunities to improve the quality and safety of care provided during the index admission. (ahrq.gov)
  • Effective treatment algorithms are needed to guide diabetes care at hospital discharge in general medicine and surgery patients with type 2 diabetes. (diabetesjournals.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • ventilation, or when the veteran had multiple comorbidities, Some patients experience ongoing sequelae after discharge, in- smoked, or lived in an urban area. (cdc.gov)
  • We examined read- that hospital over-capacity may have resulted in earlier discharges missions within 90 days of hospital discharge for veterans hospit- and increased readmissions. (cdc.gov)
  • ABSTRACT Readmission of diabetic patients after discharge from hospital has potential value as a quality of care indicator. (who.int)
  • In two surveys taken four years apart, the percentage of Veterans Affairs hospitals that have a flu vaccine mandate rose only slightly, from 1 percent in 2013 to 4 percent in 2017, the study shows. (newswise.com)
  • All hospitals with vaccination mandates, on the other hand, had formal declination policies in 2017. (newswise.com)
  • One-third of the non-VA hospitals were teaching hospitals, meaning that they train new doctors through residency programs, but they were no more likely than non-teaching hospitals to require flu vaccination by 2017. (newswise.com)
  • In 2017, they repeated the survey, but changed the methodology slightly, to randomly sample 900 general medical/surgical hospitals of any size that have an intensive care unit. (newswise.com)
  • While the percentage of hospitals that responded to the survey dropped from 69 percent in 2013 to 59 percent in 2017, the researchers say their results are still nationally representative. (newswise.com)
  • the 2017 data are from 526 non-VA and 73 VA hospitals. (umich.edu)
  • Data from the Emerging Infections Program (EIP) MRSA population surveillance (2005-2016) and from the Premier and Cerner Electronic Health Record databases (2012-2017) were analyzed to describe trends in incidence of hospital-onset and community-onset MRSA and MSSA bloodstream infections and to estimate the overall incidence of S. aureus bloodstream infections in the United States and associated in-hospital mortality. (cdc.gov)
  • A 2017 study from the University of California, San Diego pointed that since "Roundup Ready" genetically modified crops that tolerate the weed-killer were introduced in 1994, the use of Roundup had increased by a factor of around 15. (naturalnews.com)
  • Their observational cohort study of patients with migraine and matched controls found that the association between migraine and Bell's palsy, an acute, ipsilateral facial nerve paralysis that results in weakness of the platysma and muscles of facial expression, was not affected by sex or migraine subtype. (medscape.com)
  • Comparative evaluation of clinical manifestations and risk of death in patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 and seasonal influenza: cohort study. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Observational cohort study. (medscape.com)
  • This paper presents the findings of a study that evaluated the accessibility and comparability of hospital morbidity data from seven nations. (ahima.org)
  • 2. Publish findings from the Nurses' Health Study on use of protective gloves and gowns by pregnant and non-pregnant nurses who administer antineoplastic drugs. (cdc.gov)
  • Short of a mandate, all VA hospitals have a general goal of increasing flu vaccination among their health care workers, and a national VA directive last fall set an expectation that employees would get vaccinated or wear a mask when caring for patients during flu season. (newswise.com)
  • Among all hospitals without a mandate, efforts to prevent the flu virus from spreading among patients and workers were mixed, the study shows. (newswise.com)
  • In the United States of America (USA), the VHA runs 123 acute care hospitals in rural and urban settings, where elderly patients with severe COVID-19 receive primary care. (news-medical.net)
  • In statistical analyses, the researchers compared the patient characteristics of all patients admitted to VHA or community hospitals. (news-medical.net)
  • For older patients and those battling chronic illnesses, long-term hospital stays can often lead to undesirable consequences. (va.gov)
  • One of the main issues is that studies show patients spend less than 5 percent of their time in the hospital on their feet," says Dr. Nicole Hastings, geriatrician and investigator at the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, or GRECC, and the Center for Health Services Research at the Durham VA Medical Center in North Carolina. (va.gov)
  • Hastings, also an associate professor of medicine at Duke University, set out to address the functional decline older patients sometimes experience during their hospital stays by developing the STRIDE program. (va.gov)
  • In a recent study of 127 older Veterans, Hastings found that patients enrolled in STRIDE had shorter hospital stays and were more likely to be discharged to their homes rather than to nursing or rehab facilities. (va.gov)
  • Plus it opens up hospital beds for other patients that need them. (va.gov)
  • CA-CDI) among patients treated at 6 North Carolina hos- in Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatients and Durham County pitals. (cdc.gov)
  • Consequently some hospitals, especially those treating particularly complex patients, have been concerned that standard adjustment methods do not adequately reflect the challenges of treating their patients. (blogspot.com)
  • The survey asked patients about their experiences with hospital care. (blogspot.com)
  • Are the types of patients and the hospital admission practices comparable? (ahima.org)
  • Intervention The palliative care teams studied served different geographies and varied in team composition and size but had the same core team members and role: a core group of palliative care physicians, nurses, and family physicians who provide integrated palliative care to patients in their homes. (bmj.com)
  • 1 2 3 Moreover, policy makers internationally want to deliver integrated palliative care in the home and community, since many patients prefer to be cared for at home, community care is often less expensive than hospital care, and acute care hospitals are overwhelmed. (bmj.com)
  • By 1978, Mount Carmel Hospital had extended to 96 beds, with two operating theatres, a full recovery ward and had a high turnover of patients. (palliativecare.org.au)
  • Dr Wang said he was somewhat surprised by the study results, although he and his colleagues had already reported that patients with migraine have a higher chance of developing sudden sensorineural hearing loss related to the eighth cranial nerve, or the cochlear nerve. (medscape.com)
  • Dr Wang noted that the study excluded patients with concomitant herpes zoster infection within 30 days but that researchers had no access to patient laboratory data. (medscape.com)
  • The treatments received by men included in the study are much more likely to be similar to those being offered to patients at various medical institutions throughout the world today, compared to the treatment methods assessed in previous research studies. (ucla.edu)
  • A recent study suggested, that Paxlovid, which is prescribed to patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, who are at risk for severe symptoms, also might help protect against the condition. (usmedicine.com)
  • Over 20% of patients taking Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir therapy, commonly known as Paxlovid, suffer from the rebound, compared to less than the 2% chance seen in other treatment groups, a Harvard Medical School study revealed. (medicaldaily.com)
  • Using a modified Delphi process, an expert panel reviewed 30-day postoperative readmissions over a 7-year period for patients who had received surgery within the Veterans Affairs system. (ahrq.gov)
  • In a second study, 60 patients who presented with flulike symptoms for 48 hours or less and who had not had flu vaccinations were enrolled in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. (clinicaladvisor.com)
  • As a general rule, asymptomatic hyperuricemia should not be treated, though ultrasonographic studies have demonstrated that urate crystal deposition into soft tissues occurs in a minority of patients with asymptomatic hyperuricemia. (medscape.com)
  • In a study of gout flares in patients newly started on urate-lowering therapy, Rashid et al found that 68% of these patients had one or more gout flares during the first 12 months of therapy. (medscape.com)
  • OBJECTIVE: Inappropriate diagnosis and treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) and urinary tract infection (UTI) are leading causes of antibiotic overuse but have not been well-studied in patients with risks for complicated UTI such as neurogenic bladder (NB). (bvsalud.org)
  • OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is to characterize patient-reported signs and symptoms of urinary tract infections in patients with neurogenic bladder to inform development of an intervention to improve the accuracy of urinary tract infection diagnosis. (bvsalud.org)
  • RÉSUMÉ La réadmission de patients diabétiques après leur sortie de l'hôpital peut être une information utile en tant qu'indicateur de la qualité des soins. (who.int)
  • La présente étude cas-témoin, de cohorte et rétrospective visait à déterminer le taux de réadmission des patients diabétiques dans les 28 jours suivant leur sortie de l'hôpital et la relation entre la qualité des soins en séjour hospitalier et une réadmission non programmée. (who.int)
  • Dia- study aimed to determine the 28-day sion among diabetic patients exposed betic patients may face problems in readmission rate for diabetic patients to substandard care was 2.24, and the controlling or managing blood sugar at a hospital in the Eastern province fraction of early unplanned readmis- levels. (who.int)
  • Compared with statin nonusers who were never treated with lipid-lowering drugs, this study found that statin users had a lower risk of lower-extremity amputation and cardiovascular death in patients with DM and PAD. (medscape.com)
  • and · conduct a feasibility assessment to address the issues involved in planning future studies at the base. (cdc.gov)
  • In response, ATSDR has prepared this assessment of the feasibility of conducting future epidemiological studies at the base. (cdc.gov)
  • Several criteria were used to determine the feasibility of conducting future epidemiological studies at the base. (cdc.gov)
  • As a result, a feasibility study was undertaken to review the accessibility of morbidity data from several nations and to develop a generalisable model for comparing such data for clinical interest areas. (ahima.org)
  • San Juan County was awarded a $2 million grant for a feasibility study on a new railway. (krqe.com)
  • Control technology feasibility study of the use of engineering controls in hospitals, preliminary survey report of Veteran's Administration Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. (cdc.gov)
  • For the study, the researchers surveyed 7,900 students age 12 to 14 at five middle schools in Taiwan. (sciencedaily.com)
  • We used VA administrative data to characterize hospitals. (blogspot.com)
  • In this qualitative study, researchers applied an organizational learning perspective to characterize the various approaches used by four Veterans Health Administration hospitals to determine their patient safety priorities. (ahrq.gov)
  • The researchers also looked at differences by hospital-level characteristics. (newswise.com)
  • During the study, the researchers noted 127,156 COVID-19-related hospitalizations of VHA enrollees aged ≥65 years. (news-medical.net)
  • With recent outbreaks of infectious diseases such as measles, mumps, and whooping cough, a team of medical researchers at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for help delivering CANImmunize, a free, bilingual app designed to close the gaps in Canada's immunization strategy and meet national targets for vaccinations. (amazon.com)
  • A study team involving VA researchers looked at death rates during the COVID-19 pandemic through a different lens and came up with intriguing information from individual-level instead of aggregate data. (usmedicine.com)
  • In a new study, researchers manipulated gut microbiota using flaxseeds and found it could be beneficial in the prevention of breast cancer. (medicaldaily.com)
  • In a complementary study, the researchers found that some minority groups are at considerably higher risk for sexual assault in college than peers in majority groups. (upmc.com)
  • Researchers analyzed postprocedure emergency department visits and hospital admissions to better understand factors associated with the safety of outpatient procedures performed within the Veterans Health Administration. (ahrq.gov)
  • Participants with Bell's palsy at baseline were excluded from the study, as were those in whom migraine and Bell's palsy were both diagnosed within 30 days. (medscape.com)
  • Although the study group participants remained confined to the building, they were attended to by the same personnel as the control group, and there were no restrictions on visits from the community. (scienceblogs.com)
  • In a study of 12 healthy participants, the use of a patented elderberry extract marketed and sold under the brand name "Sambucol" showed a significant increase in the production of inflammatory cytokines, with the most striking increase seen in the production of tumor necrosis factor-α. (clinicaladvisor.com)
  • Participants The sample included 401 veterans who completed a standardised 6-week residential treatment. (bmj.com)
  • Mortality Among US Veterans Admitted to Community vs Veterans Health Administration Hospitals for COVID-19. (news-medical.net)
  • These cancers could be evaluated in a mortality study and in a cancer incidence study. (cdc.gov)
  • The proposed mortality study would evaluate all causes of death occurring in the cohort of Marines and naval personnel who began active duty on or after June 1975 and who were assigned to the base anytime during the period June 1975- December 1985. (cdc.gov)
  • Yet he also said it probably will benefit northeastern Indiana's veterans if the document's conclusions on Fort Wayne Veterans Affairs Hospital are kept under wraps. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • But my job is to keep the hospital open … and if I have reasonable expectation to believe a report has illogical, bad conclusions in it, I'm glad when they eat their words. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • Conclusions Community based specialist palliative care teams, despite variation in team composition and geographies, were effective at reducing acute care use and hospital deaths at the end of life. (bmj.com)
  • Conclusions This uncontrolled study suggests the longer term benefits of a structured programme to treat UK veterans with PTSD. (bmj.com)
  • The study did not employ a randomised controlled trial design, so there are limitations about the conclusions that can be drawn. (bmj.com)
  • In general, future epidemiological studies at the base should be capable of 1. (cdc.gov)
  • This is in contrast to prior studies on vascular comorbidities," which showed that migraine with aura but not migraine without aura is associated with stroke or myocardial infarction. (medscape.com)
  • Thus, we sought to quantify resilience to pandemic-related distress and identify factors associated with greater resilience in a national cohort of US veterans. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Acute kidney injury in a national cohort of hospitalized US veterans with COVID-19. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Likewise, they compared hospital characteristics using the hospital as an analysis unit. (news-medical.net)
  • The original mission of the hospital was to provide neuropsychiatric care to veterans, and the historic district preserves the general characteristics" of the period. (wikipedia.org)
  • Comparisons of hospital scores based on patient experience surveys should be adjusted for patient characteristics that might affect survey results. (blogspot.com)
  • To compare scores for different types of hospitals after making adjustments using only survey-reported patient characteristics and using more complete clinical and hospital information. (blogspot.com)
  • This study did not support concerns that measures of patient care experiences are unfair because commonly used models do not adjust adequately for potentially confounding patient clinical characteristics. (blogspot.com)
  • Suicide and attempted suicide have (the Scientific Magazines Bank of Iran), been occurring throughout human his- PubMed (database of United States Demographic characteristics tory and studies of suicide epidemiol- National Library of Medicine) and da- The demographic characteristics of the ogy have an important role in assessing tabases of the World Health Organiza- people attempting suicide are given in the psychological health of a society [7]. (who.int)
  • The study also suggests that girls who start menstruation before the age of 10 or younger, are at an increased risk of having a stroke before the age of 65. (medicaldaily.com)
  • The study suggests that more than 50% of postoperative readmissions may be related to the quality of surgical care provided during the index admission. (ahrq.gov)
  • They covered admissions to VHA and community hospitals, accessed via fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare and Care in the Community (CITC) program. (news-medical.net)
  • The team identified all hospital admissions with a COVID-19 diagnosis based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10-clinical modification (CM) code. (news-medical.net)
  • Of 63,562 men enrolled in the VHA, 17,035 (26.3%) sought admissions in VHA hospitals, 36,362 (56.1%) in community hospitals via FFS Medicare, and 11,459 (17.7%) in community hospitals via the CITC program. (news-medical.net)
  • Further, there are differences in the population representativeness of hospital data, how hospitals define admissions, and how nations classify diseases and monitor clinical indicators. (ahima.org)
  • Factors associated with emergency department visits and hospital admissions after invasive outpatient procedures in the Veterans Health Administration. (ahrq.gov)
  • May 6, 2020 Adding yoga to your regularly prescribed migraine treatment may be better than medication alone, according to a new study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • 02). Veterans readmitted from September (median of 14 days) and were related to people who were sickest during through December 2020 were more often White, lived in a rural or their initial hospitalization. (cdc.gov)
  • Risk for In-Hospital Complications Associated with COVID-19 and Influenza - Veterans Health Administration, United States, October 1, 2018-May 31, 2020. (cdc.gov)
  • The main Inter- than in 2020 about 1 530 000 people net search engines and resources used As Table 1 shows, for the 7 studies in will attempt suicide [3,4]. (who.int)
  • In 2015, they published data from the 2013 survey, which sent a questionnaire to the infection prevention specialists at all U.S. general hospitals that had 50 beds or more and an intensive care unit, and to all VA hospitals. (newswise.com)
  • A supervised walking program for older Veterans, STRIDE aims to get older Veterans out of their beds and moving during hospitalization. (va.gov)
  • The hospital currently has 26 beds. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • A portion of the released sections said the hospital would need 31 beds by 2015, but it predicts that would drop to 29 beds by 2025 because the population of veterans in northeastern Indiana will drop. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute is the research arm of The Ottawa Hospital, one of Canada's largest learning and research hospitals with more than 1,100 beds, approximately 12,000 staff and annual budget of more than $1.2 billion. (amazon.com)
  • The hospital initially had 19 beds for general surgery and obstetrics, to serve the newly opened Housing Commission estate at Seven Hills. (palliativecare.org.au)
  • When I came back from St Christopher's Hospice and Royal Victoria Hospital, I wanted to show people what could be accomplished, and I was in a unique position to do that because the hospital beds were already there. (palliativecare.org.au)
  • However, these VHA hospitals were more than one hour drive for over one-third of VHA enrollees, whereas community hospitals with acute care facilities were relatively near. (news-medical.net)
  • See the Strategies to Prevent Hospital-onset Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections in Acute Care Facilities . (cdc.gov)
  • After working as a theatre sister for a time, Teresa decided in 1955 to go into business with Raymond Sobel when they opened Cavell House in Rose Bay as a surgical hospital (now part of the Moran Corporation). (palliativecare.org.au)
  • Costs associated with surgical site infections in Veterans Affairs hospitals. (ahrq.gov)
  • We used clinical and survey data from a national sample of 1858 veterans hospitalized for an initial acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center during fiscal years 2003 and 2004. (blogspot.com)
  • The report was submitted in September by the consultant, but the Veterans Affairs Department had refused to release it. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • The pooled relative risks of being in hospital and having an emergency department visit in late life comparing exposed versus unexposed were 0.68 (95% confidence interval 0.61 to 0.76) and 0.77 (0.69 to 0.86) respectively. (bmj.com)
  • Corresponding author: Robert H. Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, US Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Ave 151E, West Haven, CT 06516 ([email protected]). (psychiatrist.com)
  • Even fewer interventions are tailored for racial and ethnic minorities, and not one intervention has been evaluated with sexual- and gender-minority people," said Robert Coulter, M.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Pitt Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and lead author of both studies. (upmc.com)
  • Such engagement immersed Mr. Hunt in veteran's initiatives in alignment with the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 4215, which provides priority of service to veterans and eligible spouses in all Department of Labor-funded job 5 training programs. (bartleby.com)
  • Existing databases from 13 Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals between 1997 and 1999. (hsr.org)
  • 3 Identification of factors associated with resilience to pandemic-related stressors is critical to informing therapeutic efforts to assist veterans and other vulnerable populations in coping more effectively with the pandemic. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Treatments for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) seem to be less effective than for matched populations, 1-3 and veterans with PTSD are at increased risk of high levels of dysfunction and social exclusion. (bmj.com)
  • The dependent variable for primary analysis was hospitalization in the VHA hospital. (news-medical.net)
  • The Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which is part of the Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District, was built in 1929, and is located near Coatesville, Pennsylvania. (wikipedia.org)
  • The hospital serves as the medical center for 44,000 of northeast Indiana's 160,000 veterans. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • Newswise - ANN ARBOR, MI - In just a few short months, hospitals across the country will start their annual push to make sure their workers get vaccinated against influenza, to protect themselves and others. (newswise.com)
  • Despite efficacy against other influenza viruses, no human studies support elderberry's efficacy against avian flu. (clinicaladvisor.com)
  • Additionally, they compared COVID-19-related deaths and re-admission rates in VHA vs. community hospitals. (news-medical.net)
  • Due to poor access to VHA hospitals, community hospitals played a crucial role in caring for veterans with severe COVID-19, especially in rural settings. (news-medical.net)
  • They received care for COVID-19 in 121 VHA hospitals and 4,369 community hospitals. (news-medical.net)
  • Compared with VHA enrollees admitted to VHA hospitals, those admitted to community hospitals were likely White, older, living in rural areas, and less socially vulnerable. (news-medical.net)
  • The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute team's familiarity with AWS made it the natural choice for the organization's cloud services. (amazon.com)
  • Substantial progress has been achieved in preventing MRSA bloodstream infections in U.S. health care facilities ( 3 - 5 ) after widespread introduction of enhanced infection control efforts in acute-care hospitals. (cdc.gov)
  • The Guideline for Infection Control in Hospital Personnel is part of the Guidelines for Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Infections. (cdc.gov)
  • It should be emphasized that these guidelines represent the advice of CDC on questions commonly asked of the Hospital Infections Program, but are not intended to have the force of law or regulation. (cdc.gov)
  • Results showed veterans who are Black had lower rates of completing the screening process for lung cancer when compared with White veterans, even after accounting for various demographic and socioeconomic risk factors. (consultantlive.com)
  • The genetic study showed promising results in "silencing" the genes that translate into tau protein, the primary component behind dementia. (medicaldaily.com)
  • Although there is evidence to support the beneficial effects of statins on major cardiovascular events, few studies address the protective effect of statins on limb outcome. (medscape.com)
  • ATSDR also concludes that it may be feasible to include in the cancer incidence study those who participated in the ATSDR 1999-2002 survey and those who will participate in the congressionally mandated Navy/Marine Corps health survey scheduled for 2009. (cdc.gov)
  • A review of renal cell carcinoma surveillance in a four-state region found that veterans treated at the VA had a significant incidence of high-risk lesions and poor compliance with follow-up imaging. (usmedicine.com)
  • Only 41 percent of non-mandate hospitals required unvaccinated workers to wear a mask during patient interactions in flu season, and only 21 percent had penalties for non-compliance with the hospital's policy. (newswise.com)
  • Last month, the VA ordered a new study to focus on the hospital's outpatient care. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • The hospital's 29 radiologists can read medical images efficiently wherever they are, thanks to the internal 'Healthcare Enhancement and Leverage Platform (H.E.L.P)'. Thanks to Barco's medical display solutions, they can view the images in extremely fine detail, both in their hospital reading rooms (Coronis Fusion 6MP) and at their home offices (Nio Color 2MP). (vistacominc.com)
  • The rankings thus provide additional useful information for hospital officials who must decide on the recommendations (e.g., those in Category II and, especially, Category III) that best suit their hospital's needs and resources. (cdc.gov)
  • A national commission recommended in 2004 that only outpatient care be offered and that northeastern Indiana veterans go to Indianapolis for in-patient services. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • Factors associated with hospital admission after outpatient surgery in the Veterans Health Administration. (ahrq.gov)
  • Studies of US military personnel have observed higher rates of PTSD in individuals who have served on deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. (bmj.com)
  • The study sampled from a national treatment programme offered by the largest provider of interventions for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder in the UK. (bmj.com)
  • We discuss the impact of differences in coding systems on hospitalisation rates and the number of codes included in the hospital morbidity data and demonstrate how these data can be used to compare clinical interest areas for the improvement and measurement of global healthcare. (ahima.org)
  • The use of routine hospital data for international comparison is difficult as there are known differences in how nations define and measure disease. (ahima.org)
  • Faucette, a Navy veteran and father of two from Frederick, Maryland, had been turned down for a traditional heart transplant because of other health problems when he came to the Maryland hospital, out of options and expressing a wish to spend a little more time with his family. (phl17.com)
  • It ranks fourth out of more than 600 Canadian hospitals for competitive, peer-reviewed grants from the prestigious Canadian Institutes of Health Research. (amazon.com)
  • PEER REVIEWED period, 13% (n = 2,643) died in the hospital. (cdc.gov)
  • In the three-year study, the UCLA-led team analyzed 1,809 men who were treated for Gleason score 9-10 prostate cancer from 2000 to 2013 at UCLA and other sites in the United States and Europe. (ucla.edu)
  • Has greater use of community care for veterans with prostate cancer meant more overtreatment? (usmedicine.com)
  • JL: Veterans are known to differ in their health and health care access and utilization from non-veterans. (cdc.gov)
  • A study in Veterans Health Administration hospitals. (blogspot.com)
  • But, due to the changes in technology and politics, even the Government hospitals are eager to cater the needs of specialized category of health services and hence led to the improved medical services. (ipl.org)
  • In the first phase of a broader realignment, the Defense Health Agency has created nine Defense Health Networks (DHN) to take the place of what had been 20 direct-reporting medical markets, each a grouping of military hospitals and clinics with varying leadership rank structures. (usmedicine.com)
  • A new study conducted at the Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System (DVAHCS) exposed the racial disparities in lung cancer screening. (consultantlive.com)
  • How hospitals select their patient safety priorities: an exploratory study of four Veterans Health Administration hospitals. (ahrq.gov)
  • Chris Nerney is a veteran technology journalist specializing in healthcare technologies, including EHRs, health information exchanges, revenue cycle software, patient portals and wearables. (samsung.com)
  • 1. Added a module to NIOSH's Occupational Health Safety Network (OHSN) which allows participating hospitals to track sharps injuries and benchmark their performance. (cdc.gov)
  • 1. Evaluate best practices for bariatric patient handling in U.S. Veterans Health Administration hospitals. (cdc.gov)
  • 3 HSR&D Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy, VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • Veterans Affairs is dedicated to providing a Whole Health approach to care, including offering complementary and integrative health (CIH) approaches to Veterans. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • Setting The intervention was offered by Combat Stress, a mental health charity for veterans in the UK. (bmj.com)
  • 4-6 Furthermore, PTSD has been shown to create a higher financial burden to the society than any other mental health conditions in veterans. (bmj.com)
  • The CDC guidelines were developed to provide a central reference for professionals involved in infection control that contains CDC recommendations and is easily accessible to the infection control personnel in hospitals. (cdc.gov)
  • To address these last 2 types of practices, realizing that hospitals must make decisions in the absence of definitive data, we have sought the advice of working groups composed of non-CDC experts with broad experience in infection control. (cdc.gov)
  • In just four years, the non-VA hospitals have really stepped up on requiring the vaccine, rather than just encouraging it," says Todd Greene, Ph.D., M.P.H., the U-M and VA researcher who led the study. (newswise.com)
  • It's difficult to account for these gaps because a variety of different healthcare providers carry out immunizations and every province does things differently," says Cameron Bell, an electrical engineer and lead technical architect who designed the original version of CANImmunize in 2014 during a work placement with Dr. Kumanan Wilson, a physician and researcher in immunization at The Ottawa Hospital. (amazon.com)
  • Recreation aide Ural Kincaid walks with Veteran Wyatt Brinkley on a VA inpatient unit as part of the STRIDE Program. (va.gov)
  • The study, by a team from the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, is published in JAMA Network Open , a new open-access journal from the publishers of the Journal of the American Medical Association . (newswise.com)
  • Nearly 83 percent of hospitals with mandates required unvaccinated healthcare workers to wear masks during patient interactions. (newswise.com)
  • The goal is to prevent potentially serious conditions that can result in a hospital stay - the most expensive type of healthcare. (samsung.com)
  • Information about MRSA rates in hospitals across the United States is available through the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) , the nation's most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system. (cdc.gov)
  • 1 VA Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • 5 Veterans Affairs New Jersey Healthcare System, East Orange. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • FILE - In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Lawrence Faucette sits with his wife, Ann, in the school's hospital in Baltimore, Md., in September 2023, before receiving a pig heart transplant. (phl17.com)
  • Changes in the US burden of chronic kidney disease from 2002 to 2016: An analysis of the global burden of disease study. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Laboratory studies are performed as indicated for the evaluation of a patient with trauma. (medscape.com)
  • Middleton JW, Dayton A, Walsh J, Rutkowski SB, Leong G, Duong S. Life expectancy after spinal cord injury: a 50-year study. (medscape.com)
  • Approximately two-thirds of US veterans who reported high severity of pandemic-related stressors were psychologically resilient nearly 1 year into the pandemic. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Our studies highlight the need for college prevention and treatment programs to focus efforts on sexual, gender, racial and ethnic minority groups. (upmc.com)