Patient Discharge: The administrative process of discharging the patient, alive or dead, from hospitals or other health facilities.Patient Discharge Summaries: Summaries that serve as the primary documents communicating a patient's care plan to the post-hospital care team.Length of Stay: The period of confinement of a patient to a hospital or other health facility.CaliforniaHospital Mortality: A vital statistic measuring or recording the rate of death from any cause in hospitalized populations.United StatesVaginal Discharge: A common gynecologic disorder characterized by an abnormal, nonbloody discharge from the genital tract.Stroke: A group of pathological conditions characterized by sudden, non-convulsive loss of neurological function due to BRAIN ISCHEMIA or INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES. Stroke is classified by the type of tissue NECROSIS, such as the anatomic location, vasculature involved, etiology, age of the affected individual, and hemorrhagic vs. non-hemorrhagic nature. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp777-810)Brain Ischemia: Localized reduction of blood flow to brain tissue due to arterial obstruction or systemic hypoperfusion. This frequently occurs in conjunction with brain hypoxia (HYPOXIA, BRAIN). Prolonged ischemia is associated with BRAIN INFARCTION.Risk Factors: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.KentuckyProspective Studies: Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.Severity of Illness Index: Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.Registries: The systems and processes involved in the establishment, support, management, and operation of registers, e.g., disease registers.Microvascular Decompression Surgery: Surgery performed to relieve pressure from MICROVESSELS that are located around nerves and are causing NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES.Neurosurgery: A surgical specialty concerned with the treatment of diseases and disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral and sympathetic nervous system.Decompression, Surgical: A surgical operation for the relief of pressure in a body compartment or on a body part. (From Dorland, 28th ed)Trigeminal Neuralgia: A syndrome characterized by recurrent episodes of excruciating pain lasting several seconds or longer in the sensory distribution of the TRIGEMINAL NERVE. Pain may be initiated by stimulation of trigger points on the face, lips, or gums or by movement of facial muscles or chewing. Associated conditions include MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, vascular anomalies, ANEURYSMS, and neoplasms. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p187)Neurosurgical Procedures: Surgery performed on the nervous system or its parts.Hemifacial Spasm: Recurrent clonic contraction of facial muscles, restricted to one side. It may occur as a manifestation of compressive lesions involving the seventh cranial nerve (FACIAL NERVE DISEASES), during recovery from BELL PALSY, or in association with other disorders. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1378)Nerve Compression Syndromes: Mechanical compression of nerves or nerve roots from internal or external causes. These may result in a conduction block to nerve impulses (due to MYELIN SHEATH dysfunction) or axonal loss. The nerve and nerve sheath injuries may be caused by ISCHEMIA; INFLAMMATION; or a direct mechanical effect.Electronic Health Records: Media that facilitate transportability of pertinent information concerning patient's illness across varied providers and geographic locations. Some versions include direct linkages to online consumer health information that is relevant to the health conditions and treatments related to a specific patient.PennsylvaniaContinuity of Patient Care: Health care provided on a continuing basis from the initial contact, following the patient through all phases of medical care.Communication: The exchange or transmission of ideas, attitudes, or beliefs between individuals or groups.Electronic Mail: Messages between computer users via COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS. This feature duplicates most of the features of paper mail, such as forwarding, multiple copies, and attachments of images and other file types, but with a speed advantage. The term also refers to an individual message sent in this way.Medication Reconciliation: The formal process of obtaining a complete and accurate list of each patient's current home medications including name, dosage, frequency, and route of administration, and comparing admission, transfer, and/or discharge medication orders to that list. The reconciliation is done to avoid medication errors.Physicians: Individuals licensed to practice medicine.Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A strain of Staphylococcus aureus that is non-susceptible to the action of METHICILLIN. The mechanism of resistance usually involves modification of normal or the presence of acquired PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEINS.Staphylococcus aureus: Potentially pathogenic bacteria found in nasal membranes, skin, hair follicles, and perineum of warm-blooded animals. They may cause a wide range of infections and intoxications.Staphylococcal Infections: Infections with bacteria of the genus STAPHYLOCOCCUS.Methicillin Resistance: Non-susceptibility of a microbe to the action of METHICILLIN, a semi-synthetic penicillin derivative.New England: The geographic area of New England in general and when the specific state or states are not indicated. States usually included in this region are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.Periodicals as Topic: A publication issued at stated, more or less regular, intervals.Journal Impact Factor: A quantitative measure of the frequency on average with which articles in a journal have been cited in a given period of time.Dyscalculia: Impaired ability in numerical concepts. These inabilities arise as a result of primary neurological lesion, are syndromic (e.g., GERSTMANN SYNDROME ) or acquired due to brain damage.Russia (Pre-1917)Faculty: The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in an educational institution.Education, Graduate: Studies beyond the bachelor's degree at an institution having graduate programs for the purpose of preparing for entrance into a specific field, and obtaining a higher degree.Faculty, Medical: The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in a medical school.Faculty, Dental: The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in a dental school.Faculty, Nursing: The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in a nursing school.Dementia: An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.Patient Isolation: The segregation of patients with communicable or other diseases for a specified time. Isolation may be strict, in which movement and social contacts are limited; modified, where an effort to control specified aspects of care is made in order to prevent cross infection; or reverse, where the patient is secluded in a controlled or germ-free environment in order to protect him or her from cross infection.Coercion: The use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance.Mental Disorders: Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.Nursing Stations: An area in a clinic, unit, or ward in a health care facility that serves as the administrative center for nursing care. (from Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th ed)Hospitals, Psychiatric: Special hospitals which provide care to the mentally ill patient.Psychiatric Department, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the organization and administration of psychiatric services.
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Outcomes18
- Our aim was to analyze clinical characteristics and outcomes of young patients with first-ever ischemic stroke compared to older patients. (frontiersin.org)
- Associations between risk factors for acute ischemic stroke and clinical outcomes have been analyzed predominantly in older rather than younger patients ( 5 - 10 ). (frontiersin.org)
- and to determine the impact of these differences on patient outcomes. (nih.gov)
- The goal of this study is to collect and describe patient and caregiver reported outcomes regarding surgical and non-surgical treatment for improving hand and arm function in the setting of cervical spinal cord injury. (stanford.edu)
- Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition, and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service, " American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 5(4), pages 134-66, November. (nber.org)
- Supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the NIH , the TRACK-TBI study has collected detailed information, including CT/MRI imaging, blood biospecimens and detailed clinical outcomes, for more than 2,700 brain injury patients from 18 different U.S. sites. (eurekalert.org)
- Older patients are at high risk for poor outcomes after acute hospital admission. (uva.nl)
- All outcomes will be measured at three, six and twelve months after discharge. (uva.nl)
- They stress that factors such as associated comorbidities and their severity, access to care, patient lifestyle decisions, patient compliance, physician adherence to diagnostic and therapeutic guideline recommendations, physician referral patterns, etc., which may have contributed to the observed outcomes, remain unknown. (elsevier.com)
- This project developed an automated system to provide feedback on patient outcomes to clinicians working in ambulatory settings. (ahrq.gov)
- Develop and evaluate an automated system for feedback to emergency medicine physicians of the concordance between their initial diagnoses and patients' final diagnostic outcomes. (ahrq.gov)
- The utilization of therapeutic hypothermia to improve patient outcomes after cardiac arrest dates back over 200 years to Russia, when patients were covered in snow to attempt to return circulation. (uspharmacist.com)
- Regional differences in quality of care may indicate opportunities to improve care for patients in places with worse outcomes. (ajmc.com)
- Identifying centers that have better outcomes than others and promoting the practice styles of those centers may be a practical way to improve patient outcomes. (ajmc.com)
- Using these data, we can learn so much about the care of heart and stroke patients and work with healthcare providers to improve treatment processes, ultimately improving patient outcomes and saving lives. (eurekalert.org)
- The investigators hypothesize that early treatment with chloroquine in patients with established COVID-19 is safe and will significantly improve prognosis and impact clinical outcomes. (clinicaltrials.gov)
- However, there is no cut-off, and many patients do have improved outcomes even in later cancer stages as a result of the procedure. (clevelandclinic.org)
- Strategies to improve the use of thienopyridines are needed to optimize the outcomes of MI patients treated with DES. (ahajournals.org)
Performed for approximately 6 hours1
- Pumping was performed for approximately 6 hours. (wikipedia.org)
Readmission14
- Understanding the frequency of, and risk factors for, readmission can inform clinical practice, discharge disposition decisions, and public health priorities such as health care planning to ensure availability of resources needed for acute and follow-up care of COVID-19 patients. (cdc.gov)
- For patients with heart failure (HF), optimal medicines management is crucial to control symptoms and prevent hospital readmission. (bmj.com)
- It evaluated readmission rates from approximately 15 million inpatient, all-payer discharges across more than 600 diverse hospitals. (medicalnewstoday.com)
- Heart attack patients with diabetes or renal failure had a 42% higher chance of readmission. (medicalnewstoday.com)
- Discharge status also plays a key role, with heart attack patients discharged to a nursing home having a 43% higher chance of a readmission when compared to those that are sent home. (medicalnewstoday.com)
- The 30-day ACSC-related readmission rate was approximately 6% in our study sample, costing the Medicare program about $62 million. (ajmc.com)
- Patients with the following conditions were at high risk for readmission: heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, renal failure, deficiency anemia, fluid and electrolyte diseases, depression/anxiety, pressure/ stasis ulcer, and incapability of managing medication. (ajmc.com)
- Previous studies reveal that identifying patients at high risk of a 30-day readmission can be useful for coordinating care and make transitional care more effective. (ajmc.com)
- Readmission is a national problem, currently costing the U.S. healthcare system approximately $30 Billion. (businesswire.com)
- Objective: To identify predictors of early hospital readmission in a diverse patient population and derive and validate a simple model for identifying patients at high readmission risk. (harvard.edu)
- We performed logistic regression analysis to identify significant predictors of unplanned readmission within 30 days of discharge and developed a scoring system for estimating readmission risk. (harvard.edu)
- A cumulative risk score of ≥25 points identified 5% of patients with a readmission risk of approximately 30% in each cohort. (harvard.edu)
- Conclusions: Select patient characteristics easily available shortly after admission can be used to identify a subset of patients at elevated risk of early readmission. (harvard.edu)
- The other patients who need readmission return to the hospital because of new or more unusual pain, fever or other symptoms. (uhhospitals.org)
Aged 65 years and older3
- 2,5 Over 80% of deaths from CDI occur in patients aged 65 years and older. (uspharmacist.com)
- We included patients aged 65 years and older who were discharged from hospital with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction between Apr. (cmaj.ca)
- Therefore, our study was restricted to patients aged 65 years and older who were discharged from hospital with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction. (cmaj.ca)
Results11
- Hospital patients who have methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can prevent future infections by following a standard bathing protocol after discharge, according to research results published in the Feb. 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine . (rush.edu)
- Results Interviews were conducted with 45 healthcare professionals, with 20 patients at three time points and 189 hours of observation were undertaken. (bmj.com)
- Full-thickness grafts but provide a subdartos pouch large e n o satisfactory form of wegener's granulomatosis presented with pulmonary hemorrhage in patients with mixed results, alternatively. (buffalo.edu)
- The data included such medical information as CT scan results, injury characteristics and the patients' admission score on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). (eurekalert.org)
- Approximately one of six patients with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) has normal angiographic results and an unidentified source of bleeding. (ajnr.org)
- Several studies have now shown that patients with focal SAH in front of the brain stem typically have normal angiographic results, do not rebleed, and have an excellent prognosis (1-7) . (ajnr.org)
- Results Overall 38 229 patients were included, and during 2012 the mean age was 76.8 (SD 8.2) years and 43% (13 212) were male. (bmj.com)
- Results- Of the 2460 IS/TIA patients, 291 (11.8%) had AF, of which 5.5% of patients were discharged on aspirin alone, 49.1% on warfarin alone, 1.4% on clopidogrel alone, 34.7% on warfarin plus aspirin, 2.1% on aspirin plus clopidogrel, and 1.0% on aspirin plus clopidogrel plus warfarin. (ahajournals.org)
- Results: Approximately 17.5% of patients were readmitted in each cohort. (harvard.edu)
- Results from 47 patients demonstrated that administering BPX-501 following an alpha/beta T-cell depleted haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplant (alpha/beta T-cell depleted haplo-HSCT) produced rapid immune reconstitution, low incidence of acute and chronic Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD), and a low rate of disease relapse. (globenewswire.com)
- Methods and Results- We used prospectively collected data from a 19-center study of MI patients to examine the prevalence and predictors of thienopyridine discontinuation 30 days after DES treatment. (ahajournals.org)
Admission and discharge2
- Therefore, the researchers aimed to examine the prescription of preventative medication in a cohort of patients with advanced lung cancer at hospital admission and discharge across different health care systems. (curetoday.com)
- 191 patients), the researchers evaluated prescription of preventative medication during hospital admission and discharge for patients who died of lung cancer. (curetoday.com)
Undergone3
- Examining the comprehensive experience of patients who have undergone cardiac procedures such as CABG and valve replacement may provide tremendous value, given the labor-intensive and costly nature of these procedures. (elsevier.com)
- If a patient has already undergone kidney transplantation, either through living or cadaveric donation, he/she can be evaluated for PAK. (barnabashealth.org)
- The authors analyzed the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) hospital discharge database from 2007 to 2009 to determine factors that influenced hospital charges in patients who had undergone transsphenoidal surgery for Cushing disease. (thejns.org)
Primary10
- Patients with RMS can present with an asymptomatic mass or with signs and symptoms that are associated with the primary tumor site and the presence or absence of distant metastases. (scirp.org)
- The most common primary site is head and neck (approximately 35 to 40 percent), the second common site are the genitourinary tract and the extremities (25 percent and 20 percent). (scirp.org)
- Patient adherence to visits with their primary physician remained stable during the study period. (ahrq.gov)
- An additional 214 injuries were managed and discharged at the 10 trauma stabilization points (TSP) and primary healthcare centers. (who.int)
- At presentation, 20-25% of patients will have clinically detectable liver metastases and up to 50% of all patients will develop liver metastases after re-section of the primary tumour within three years of follow up. (wikipedia.org)
- Problem definition: Inpatient beds are usually grouped into several wards, and each ward is assigned to serve patients from certain "primary" specialties. (ssrn.com)
- However, when a patient waits excessively long before a primary bed becomes available, hospital managers have the option to assign her to a non-primary bed though it is undesirable. (ssrn.com)
- There was no significant difference in the mean age (83 years), gender makeup (50% female), racial makeup (19% non-White), and primary payer between patients who did and did not have a 30dRA. (ahajournals.org)
- The primary end point was patient pain scores (visual analog scale [VAS], rated 0-10) for 48 hours after surgery. (thejns.org)
- 3 The primary symptoms in patients with uterine leiomyoma include feelings of pressure and pain in the pelvis, which tend to worsen as the size of the leiomyoma increases. (jaoa.org)
CONCLUSIONS1
- Conclusions- Almost 1 in 7 MI patients who received a DES were no longer taking thienopyridines by 30 days. (ahajournals.org)
Outcome5
- In order to avoid that outcome, it is advisable to electively repair Grynfeltt hernias in patients without significant contraindications to surgery. (hindawi.com)
- The main outcome is the level of ADL functioning six months after discharge compared to premorbid functioning measured with the Katz ADL index. (uva.nl)
- The aim of this study was to validate the predictive value of serial creatinine concentrations and to study the utility of cystatin C and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) as predictors of outcome in patients with acute paraquat poisoning. (biomedsearch.com)
- In the hypothermia group, 49% survived with a good neurologic outcome (discharged home or to rehabilitation facility), while only 26% in the normothermia group survived with good neurologic outcome ( P = .046). (uspharmacist.com)
- Sensitivity analyses were also performed by calculating patient demographic-and case-mix-adjusted COV values for each outcome using weighted age- and sex-standardized values. (ajmc.com)
Days21
- Nine days postpartum, the patient experienced facial numbness and neck pain, which progressed over 24 hours to stiff neck and jaw and difficulty swallowing and breathing. (cdc.gov)
- Approximately 200,000 fewer discharged patients would be readmitted within 30 days. (ibm.com)
- The patients were taught to self-administer the decolonization regimen daily for five days, twice a month, for six months. (rush.edu)
- Attributable LOS of CDI was approximately 4 days. (cambridge.org)
- More than one in five patients undergoing TAVR is readmitted within 30 days of the procedure, most commonly for heart failure and infection. (ahajournals.org)
- The hospital stay can be up to 2 days, and during that time the patient may require an IV catheter, pelvic drain, pain medication and a urinary catheter, as noted by Johns Hopkins Medicine's James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute. (reference.com)
- We analyzed diabetic Medicare beneficiaries who received home healthcare within 14 days of hospital discharges in 2009. (ajmc.com)
- Eligible patients randomly received (concealed allocation assignment) five or 14 days of systemic glucocorticoids, beginning with 40 mg of intravenous methylprednisolone (Solu-Medrol) on day 1, followed by 40 mg of oral prednisone daily for days 2 through 5, and then 40 mg of oral prednisone daily or matched placebo for days 6 through 14. (aafp.org)
- Most women lose approximately 35-40 milliliters (1.2-1.4 fl oz) of blood during menstruation, over the course of 4-8 days. (wikihow.com)
- With RightCare, hospitals can reduce the number of patients who are readmitted to hospitals 30 days after their initial discharge. (businesswire.com)
- Paraquat was detected in 20 patients and 7 of these died between 18 h and 20 days post-ingestion. (biomedsearch.com)
- We determined the annual percentage of patients who filled a prescription for statins, β-blockers and angiotensin-modifying drugs within 90 days after discharge. (cmaj.ca)
- The patient was in the hospital for approximately 5 days and was treated with immune globulin. (medalerts.org)
- A primarily educational intervention was implemented in the patient's home for up to 15 days after hospital discharge. (revespcardiol.org)
- Among 500 DES-treated MI patients who were discharged on thienopyridine therapy, 68 (13.6%) stopped therapy within 30 days. (ahajournals.org)
- Using data from a multicenter, prospective registry of MI patients, we estimated the rate of thienopyridine discontinuation 30 days after DES implantation for acute MI, a time period during which there is universal consensus that thienopyridines ought to be used. (ahajournals.org)
- In a secondary data analysis, we used prescription data for 181 037 patients who visited 127 hospitals and compared the numbers of patients with prescriptions of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs 50 days before and 50 or 100 days after hospitalisation. (smw.ch)
- The proportion of patients who received benzodiazepines or Z-drugs increased from 3.1% before admission to 3.6% at 50 days after discharge and fell to the former level after an additional 50 days. (smw.ch)
- Until menopause, menstruation occurs approximately every 28 days when a woman is not pregnant. (medindia.net)
- We evaluated the incidence of SSI, the days until the wound closure and discharge. (go.jp)
- There were no significant differences in the days until the wound closure and discharge. (go.jp)
Hospital admission5
- California mandates MRSA screening at hospital admission in high-risk patients. (rush.edu)
- The amount of preventative medicines given during hospital admission may be associated with an increased amount prescribed at discharge - resulting in higher costs and an increased risk for drug-drug interactions in patients with advanced lung cancer. (curetoday.com)
- Each year, 10.4-15.0% (3015/29 077 in 2015 to 4537/30 231 in 2014) of patients had at least one hospital admission. (bmj.com)
- Notably, black patients were less likely to have had a heart attack during hospital admission or a prior history of heart attack. (eurekalert.org)
- 10 ] found that 57% of hospital in-patients who received a benzodiazepine during their hospital stay had not taken benzodiazepines at home prior to hospital admission. (smw.ch)
Readmissions2
- Multiple readmissions occurred in 1.6% of patients. (cdc.gov)
- Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or renal failure had a 40% higher risk of 30-day ACSC-related readmissions than their counterparts. (ajmc.com)
Renal7
- Acute renal failure in critically ill patients: a multinational, multicenter study. (nih.gov)
- Prospective observational study of ICU patients who either were treated with renal replacement therapy (RRT) or fulfilled at least 1 of the predefined criteria for ARF from September 2000 to December 2001 at 54 hospitals in 23 countries. (nih.gov)
- Approximately 30% of patients had preadmission renal dysfunction. (nih.gov)
- Critically ill patients and acute renal failure. (nih.gov)
- Although oxycodone has been reported to be potentially safer than morphine in patients with renal impairment, active metabolites can still accumulate. (bpac.org.nz)
- The Renal and Pancreas Transplant Division offers the option of pancreas transplantation to patients who suffer from insulin dependent, type I diabetes mellitus. (barnabashealth.org)
- No patients needed treatment-related renal replacement therapy. (empr.com)
Adult6
- The Changing Lives by Eradicating Antibiotic Resistance, or CLEAR, trial divided 2,121 adult patients at random into one of two groups. (rush.edu)
- Although rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is rare in adults, accounting for 2 to 5 percent of adult sarcomas, approximately 40 percent of RMS cases arise in adults. (scirp.org)
- In 2009, only 63% of patients in the adult emergency department (ED) at Auckland City Hospital were admitted, discharged or transferred from ED within 6 hours of arrival. (nzma.org.nz)
- From 2001 to 2010, rates of CDI among hospitalized adults rose from 4.5 to 8.2 CDI discharges per 1,000 total adult hospital discharges. (apic.org)
- The efficacy, safety and tolerability of eslicarbazepine acetate (ESL) has been demonstrated in three phase III double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trials in 1,049 adult patients with partial onset seizures (2-4). (science20.com)
- This study was a single-center, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled intervention trial involving adult patients with planned transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumors randomized into 2 groups. (thejns.org)
Diagnoses4
- The five most common secondary diagnoses for patients hospitalized for AF were heart failure, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and acute kidney injury. (elsevier.com)
- A secondary study conducted in the emergency department (ED) setting looked at the agreement between diagnoses made in the ED versus those given at the time of hospital discharge. (ahrq.gov)
- In the ED portion of the study, the diagnoses made in the ED differed from those made at the time of hospital discharge 10 percent of the time. (ahrq.gov)
- Patients who had been admitted to hospital with myocardial infarction in the year before the index admission were excluded to restrict the sample to patients with new diagnoses. (cmaj.ca)
Onset4
- The EEG during seizures is most often high-voltage (200-400 µV) generalized discharges, which may appear to have a focal onset. (medscape.com)
- however, patients experience symptom onset before discharge in only 24.2% of cases. (uspharmacist.com)
- Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases, affecting approximately 1 in 100 people - and the successful treatment of partial-onset seizures (the most common type of epilepsy) remains a challenge. (science20.com)
- Nick Burgin, Managing Director Eisai in the UK, said The effective treatment of patients with partial-onset seizures remains a major challenge for clinicians as well as for patients with epilepsy and their families. (science20.com)
Medicare4
- All research was based on the following public data sets: Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare website. (ibm.com)
- A new study conducted by Premier, Inc. and published in the Journal for Healthcare Quality suggests women and Medicare patients are more likely to be readmitted to a hospital. (medicalnewstoday.com)
- 24% higher for Medicare patients versus those with commercial insurance. (medicalnewstoday.com)
- however, none of these studies specifically focused on Medicare home healthcare beneficiaries who are discharged from hospitals. (ajmc.com)
Cardiac5
- Investigators report on an analysis of the Canadian Patient Experience Survey responses obtained from cardiac patients in Alberta, which revealed areas that are highly rated by patients, but also reported findings around areas that could be the subject of future patient-centered quality improvements. (elsevier.com)
- Every year in the United States, an estimated 300,000 patients experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. (uspharmacist.com)
- Researchers studied patients 65 and older who suffered in-hospital cardiac arrest and survived until discharge between 2000-2011. (eurekalert.org)
- The black patients in this study were younger, more often female, and were sicker, with higher rates of kidney and respiratory insufficiency, pneumonia, and more often required dialysis prior to cardiac arrest, compared to white patients studied. (eurekalert.org)
- Patients with dementia, terminal non-cardiac disease, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were excluded. (revespcardiol.org)
Take approximately 15 minutes2
- The microspheres take approximately 15 minutes to be infused, the whole procedure taking about one hour. (wikipedia.org)
- Surveys take approximately 15 minutes to complete. (utm.edu)
Postoperative2
- The patient had an uneventful postoperative course and was discharged without development of neurological sequelae. (nih.gov)
- Postural control is the ability of the body to balance an upright body position under the influence of gravity.The aim of the study is to investigate whether training with the Galileo device by means of vibration on the soles of the feet and / or by changing the position to 15 ° can improve the postural control and thus the postoperative mobilization of patients. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Occurs2
- 7 The spores are resistant to environmental insults (e.g., pH and temperature), and transmission typically occurs from workers and the environment to patients. (uspharmacist.com)
- Doc, my wife got lots of white vaginal discharge till today, before she was pregnant she never had this kind of discharges, i know that discharging do occurs during pregnancy untill date of delivery but now its been already more than a month but her discharges seems to be increasing more than before, is there any relationship with the virus(HIV) in her body? (thebody.com)
Patterns1
- The MDP incorporates many realistic and important features such as patient arrival and discharge patterns depending on time of day. (ssrn.com)
Dialysis3
- The patient was successfully managed by blood transfusions and insertion of a tunneled dialysis catheter for dialysis access. (hindawi.com)
- Aneurysm should be considered in cases of acute vascular access bleeding in chronic dialysis patients. (hindawi.com)
- Dialysis dependence at hospital discharge was 13.8% (95% CI, 11.2%-16.3%) for survivors. (nih.gov)
Medication7
- This project will lead to better communication between physicians and could decrease medication errors that tend to occur as the patient goes from hospital to home. (clinicaltrials.gov)
- Medication cost and adverse effects are also considered because they may play a direct role in patient compliance. (medscape.com)
- In turn, the researchers highlighted the need for physicians to reduce the amount of preventative medication prescribed at discharge that can be burdensome and no longer appropriate given the reduced life expectancy associated with advanced disease. (curetoday.com)
- They also evaluated factors that could have influenced preventative medication prescribing during hospital discharge. (curetoday.com)
- During admission, about 73 percent of patients in the UK and 80 percent in the US received a preventative medication. (curetoday.com)
- The intervention achieved impressive reductions in potential ADEs, defined as any incompletely written medication order, but did not document the incidence of ADEs resulting in patient harm. (ahrq.gov)
- However, it is important for you to listen to your doctors instructions regarding changing your medication routine, every patient is different. (clevelandclinic.org)
Adverse events3
- Props were informal, temporary or impromptu actions taken by patients or healthcare staff to avoid potential adverse events. (bmj.com)
- Approximately 62% of these adverse events, which ranged from serious laboratory abnormalities to permanent disabilities, could have been prevented or alle- viated (7). (slideshare.net)
- Treatment-emergent adverse events affecting 10% of patients in the pivotal studies were dizziness, headache and somnolence. (science20.com)
Aspirin3
- Of 902 patients admitted to hospital, who did not undergo cardioversion or catheter ablation, 41% were prescribed aspirin either alone or in combination with an anticoagulant. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
- Aspirin use was particularly common among patients with CHD, whereas the authors stressed that anticoagulation is the best option in patients with stable CHD. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
- However the QOF still uses the CHADS 2 score and rewards GPs for putting patients on either aspirin or an anticoagulant, for those with a score of 1. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
Suffered an acute1
- The GCS scores range from 3 to 15, from severe to mild, and is intended to rate the consciousness of patients who have suffered an acute brain injury. (eurekalert.org)
Seizures4
- Perform brain computed tomography (CT) scanning, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or both of these studies in every patient with neonatal seizures to exclude structural lesions and intracranial hemorrhage. (medscape.com)
- Up to 40% of patients with partial seizures do not achieve seizure control with current anti-epileptics (1). (science20.com)
- Unfortunately despite advances in treatment and investigation many such patients continue to have seizures. (science20.com)
- Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease characterised by abnormal discharges of neuronal activity causing seizures. (science20.com)
Acute myocardial1
Pediatric Patients2
- MADRID, Spain, June 23, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:BLCM), a leader in developing novel, controllable cellular immunotherapies for cancers and orphan inherited blood disorders, today announced data from its ongoing multicenter BP-004 trial of BPX-501 and rimiducid in a cohort of pediatric patients with acute leukemias who lack a matched donor. (globenewswire.com)
- Commented Rick Fair, President and CEO of Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, "We are pleased by the profile observed with BPX-501 in pediatric patients receiving a haploidentical transplant, and by its potential to reduce disease relapse. (globenewswire.com)
Researchers2
- Using the sigma-1 receptor (S1R) detector and experimental radiotracer [18F]FTC-146 and positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) scanner, the researchers may potentially identify the source of pain generation in patients suffering from complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and chronic sciatica. (stanford.edu)
- The researchers noted in the paper that persistent symptoms can be debilitating in many ways for patients. (eurekalert.org)
Vaginal2
- If your wife has a persistent vaginal discharge, she should see her gynecologist and/or HIV doctor. (thebody.com)
- Nine weeks after delivery, the patient presented with acute pain and vaginal bleeding. (jaoa.org)
Physician2
- MedTrak, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) electronic physician communication tool, has proven successful and is poised to move forward with an initiative the investigators call virtual continuity, allowing PCPs to follow their patients electronically if they cannot do so physically. (clinicaltrials.gov)
- and 3) a telephone call to the patient 3 weeks after a visit with no physician feedback provided. (ahrq.gov)
Elderly2
- We examined trends in the use of evidence-based drug therapies after discharge among elderly patients with myocardial infarction. (cmaj.ca)
- We examined the trends in the use of evidence-based drug therapies after discharge in a population-based sample of elderly patients diagnosed with myocardial infarction. (cmaj.ca)
Psychiatric9
- The use of seclusion and restraint has a long history, with its origin in the inhumane treatment of patients with psychiatric disorders in the 18th century and earlier. (rcpsych.org)
- InFocus: Discharging Psychiatric Patients Against Medical Ad. (lww.com)
- It's difficult to keep a psychiatric patient in the hospital against his will. (lww.com)
- Assess the issues concerning discharge against medical advice (AMA) in psychiatric patients. (lww.com)
- Formulate objectives to minimize problems with psychiatric AMA patients. (lww.com)
- Psychiatric patients pose unique challenges, but after reading this article, emergency physicians should be better able to assess the issues concerning AMA discharge in psychiatric patients, evaluate the Tarasoff ruling concerns, and formulate objectives to minimize problems with psychiatric AMA patients. (lww.com)
- It is certainly no secret that psychiatric inpatients are discharged AMA at a high rate compared with the general medical population. (lww.com)
- On average, 17 percent of psychiatric patients initially admitted voluntarily will subsequently leave AMA. (lww.com)
- Psychiatric patients are motivated to leave the hospital by mistrust, denial, fear, paranoia, or irrational dissatisfaction with their treatment. (lww.com)
Percent9
- Patients at winning hospitals experienced 13.4 percent fewer complications and 18.7 percent fewer healthcare-associated infections than peer group hospitals. (ibm.com)
- Average inpatient costs per discharge were 7 percent lower (a difference of $460 per discharge) at 100 Top Hospitals versus peer group hospitals. (ibm.com)
- Patients who did not miss any doses of decolonization had 44 percent fewer MRSA infections and 40 percent fewer infections overall. (rush.edu)
- Approximately 5 percent of our patients are called back for additional studies following a screening mammogram. (vcuhealth.org)
- However, the amount reduced to 63 percent in the UK and 69 percent in the US at discharge. (curetoday.com)
- Approximately 15 percent of patients contacted at 1 week by telephone and IVR stated that their presenting issue remained unresolved. (ahrq.gov)
- Compared with white patients, blacks had substantially lower 1-year, 3-year and 5-year survival rates with 28 percent lower relative likelihood of surviving one year and a 33 percent lower relative likelihood of surviving to five years," said the study's lead author Lena Chen, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. (eurekalert.org)
- Approximately 10 percent of patients will need to be readmitted to the hospital after major abdominal surgery. (uhhospitals.org)
- These may occur in approximately 1 to 10 percent of patients, depending on the operation performed and the reason for surgery. (uhhospitals.org)
Tumors1
Urinary2
- Whole-lung tomograms: If findings are similar to those of female patients, with urinary diversion commentary by warren r. (buffalo.edu)
- When a patient is discharged, he still has the urinary catheter in place. (reference.com)
Opioids2
- Has the marketing of oxycodone been so effective that a whole new group of patients now "require" strong opioids? (bpac.org.nz)
- Group 1 patients were treated with scheduled IV ibuprofen, scheduled oral acetaminophen, and rescue opioids. (thejns.org)
Stroke1
- 3 - 8 Current American Heart Association/American Stroke Association guidelines advocate anticoagulation use as a class IA recommendation in patients with AF and IS or transient ischemic attack (TIA). (ahajournals.org)
Focal4
- The classic electroencephalogram (EEG) observed in 60% of patients with benign idiopathic neonatal convulsions (BINCs) is nonreactive, focal, rhythmic activity in the theta (4-7 Hz) frequency, which may be mixed with sharp waves. (medscape.com)
- The remaining patients with benign idiopathic neonatal convulsions have either a normal interictal EEG or focal abnormalities. (medscape.com)
- In a small percentage of patients, focal, often rolandic, discharges or spikes may be present. (medscape.com)
- Angiographic changes of vasospasm are uncommon in patients with this type of hemorrhage, and if vasospasm is present, it is mild and focal. (ajnr.org)
Independently1
- Each of the plurality of electrical contacts independently outputs electrical discharges in accordance with the processed electrical signals. (google.co.uk)