• Outcome measure Risk-adjusted mortality rates for adult patients (administrative data). (bmj.com)
  • Objectives To quantify the relationship between a national primary care pay-for-performance programme, the UK's Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), and all-cause and cause-specific premature mortality linked closely with conditions included in the framework. (bmj.com)
  • Primary care has enormous potential to improve population health outcomes-including mortality from common chronic conditions-through early intervention in the disease process 1 2 and coordinated provision of care. (bmj.com)
  • Whenever possible, clinical outcomes such as in-hospital mortality should be additionally assessed. (hindawi.com)
  • The author compiles an annual hospital-level data set from 1948-1975 for six hospital outcomes: total expenditures, payroll expenditures, employment, beds, admissions, and patient-days. (nber.org)
  • If the introduction of Medicare affected these hospital outcomes, there should be a break in any pre-existing trend in these variables at the time of its introduction, and the break should be larger in areas with a lower rate of insurance coverage prior to its introduction. (nber.org)
  • Having established these outcomes, I ventured to investigate the commonly used mortality measures in the literature. (bl.uk)
  • I was able to demonstrate that a significant number of adverse outcomes occur beyond the initial hospital stay. (bl.uk)
  • Outcomes The monthly rate of hospital admissions for head injury and traumatic brain injury. (bmj.com)
  • The remaining three of ten specialist surgical societies will publish outcomes data for individual hospital consultants, including mortality rates, from today. (england.nhs.uk)
  • They show the number of times a consultant has carried out a procedure, mortality rates and whether clinical outcomes for each consultant are within expected limits. (england.nhs.uk)
  • This study used CTAS data to determine the impact of this delay on population health outcomes: transmission events, hospitalisations and mortality. (bvsalud.org)
  • Successive contacts and cases were identified and matched to hospital episode and mortality outcomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Outcomes were the 1) severity of COVID-19 and 2) mortality due with the evolving pandemic (7). (cdc.gov)
  • There was no difference in mortality among patients admitted during working-hours and off-hours Mortality was significantly higher in older and more severe cases, regardless of time of admission. (scirp.org)
  • Despite a significantly higher median ISS in direct admissions, there was no difference in mortality. (scielo.org.za)
  • Conclusions Ward-based RN staffing is significantly associated with reduced mortality for medical patients. (bmj.com)
  • Higher doctor staffing levels is associated with reduced mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Main outcome measures All-cause and cause-specific mortality rates for six chronic conditions: diabetes, heart failure, hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, stroke, and chronic kidney disease. (bmj.com)
  • Main outcome measures In-hospital deaths within 30 days of emergency admission or of elective surgery. (bmj.com)
  • Death is the most tractable outcome of care- it is easily measured, of undisputed importance to everyone, and is common in hospital settings. (bmj.com)
  • Outcome measures included admission to hospital for acute myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, heart failure or pneumonia/influenza, and death. (cmaj.ca)
  • Similar patterns are evident in the other hospital outcome variables, including expenditures. (nber.org)
  • S. Ala, N. Pakravan and M. Ahmadi, "Mortality Rate and Outcome among Patients Admitted to General Intensive Care Unit during "Morning-Hour" Compared with "Off-Hour"," International Journal of Clinical Medicine , Vol. 3 No. 3, 2012, pp. 171-177. (scirp.org)
  • I found that national outcome following elective or planned colorectal resection are comparable with other published cancer registry reports in England. (bl.uk)
  • These structure and process measures may be utilised by policy makers to improve outcome following gastrointestinal resection in England. (bl.uk)
  • The logical outcome of this would be that the hospitals that have to respond to these crises would also operate on the same basis. (globalsurance.com)
  • The main outcome measure was difference between perceived and reported levels of support for smokefree hospital entrances. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Effect of a pediatric early warning system on all-cause mortality in hospitalized pediatric patients. (ahrq.gov)
  • Objective To examine the association of mortality by day of the week for emergency and elective patients. (bmj.com)
  • we observed a 'Friday effect' for elective patients in the six Dutch hospitals. (bmj.com)
  • Research from English and Scottish hospitals has shown a significant increase in the risk of death for emergency patients admitted on a weekend, even after adjusting for possible confounders. (bmj.com)
  • a recent study showed that patients undergoing elective surgery later in the week presented higher risk of death compared with patients having surgery on a Monday, 4 although some high-risk procedures did not show significant higher mortality on weekends compared with a weekday. (bmj.com)
  • 4 A large study of emergency admissions to New South Wales hospitals 5 suggests that the weekend effect might be specific to some diagnoses and procedure groups only, and many studies report higher mortality for emergency patients admitted with some specific diagnoses on a weekend. (bmj.com)
  • In this cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes, influenza vaccination was associated with reductions in rates of admission to hospital for specific cardiovascular events. (cmaj.ca)
  • Although a high prevalence of cardiovascular comorbidities has been demonstrated in psychiatric patients, the impact of these on mortality are yet to be studied. (bmj.com)
  • Methods Anonymous information on adult psychiatric patients was obtained from hospitals in North England, UK between 1stJanuary 2000 and 31 st March 2013. (bmj.com)
  • ICD-10 and OPCS-4 codes were used to trace patients coded for psychiatric disease, demographics, prevalence of cardiovascular comorbidities and mortality data. (bmj.com)
  • Mortality of psychiatric patients with and without cardiovascular comorbidities were compared by logistic regression. (bmj.com)
  • Conversely mortality was significantly reduced in psychiatric patients with comorbid hypertension (OR 0.630), hyperlipidaemia (OR 0.416) and angina (OR 0.779). (bmj.com)
  • Conclusion We have demonstrated that cardiovascular comorbidities are highly prevalent amongst psychiatric patients and contribute significantly to mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Improved management of cardiovascular risk amongst psychiatric patients could prevent mortality in this at-risk group. (bmj.com)
  • Effect of a Veterans Health Administration mandate to case review patients with opioid prescriptions on mortality among patients with opioid use disorder: a secondary analysis of the STORM randomized control trial. (ahrq.gov)
  • Patients whose opioids were discontinued after case review showed even higher odds of mortality. (ahrq.gov)
  • Background Several studies have identified higher mortality for patients admitted as emergencies at the weekend compared with emergency admissions during the week, but most have focused on specific conditions or have had a limited sample size. (bmj.com)
  • Previous North American studies have found that mortality among patients admitted on weekends was higher than for those patients admitted on weekdays. (bmj.com)
  • A recent European study suggested that although all-cause mortality was similar in patients admitted during the week and at weekends, death within the first 48 h was higher for patients admitted at weekends. (bmj.com)
  • 4 Barnett et al 5 found a 9% increase in risk-adjusted mortality among patients admitted to intensive care units in Iowa on weekends when compared with weekdays. (bmj.com)
  • A small Scottish study looked at acute medical admissions to a single hospital trust over one year and found no increase in mortality for patients admitted at weekends. (bmj.com)
  • 6 A study of patients admitted to intensive care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland found that after adjustment for case mix, there was no significant association between day of admission and increased mortality. (bmj.com)
  • You can buy an oximeter online for Ā£15-Ā£35 - though if you live in England, you may not need to because NHS England has just purchased 200,000 of them for distribution to eligible NHS patients as part of a new model of care. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • 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)
  • In light of this controversy, the goal of this study is to determine the relationship between BMI and intrahospital mortality in patients admitted consecutively for ACS. (hindawi.com)
  • Staff at South Bristol Communtiy Hospital use electric bikes to visit patients at home. (uhbristol.nhs.uk)
  • Sustainable food at Southmead Hospital including locally-sourced, seasonal food for patients and staff, a weekly organic veg stall open to the public, and staff allotments. (uhbristol.nhs.uk)
  • Method: To explore effect estimators in a pilot trial (DRKS00010530), patients with AKI on regular wards of a university hospital were treated either in the usual way (control group) or more intensively (intervention group). (aerzteblatt.de)
  • In a survey of physicians involved in the treatment of patients with AKI at a total of 423 hospitals, nephrologists were involved in the most severe disease manifestation, i.e. (aerzteblatt.de)
  • Aim: This study aim to evaluate the effect of time of admission on mortality of patients admitted to the ICU. (scirp.org)
  • Method: This retrospective study included 391 of patients admitted to the ICU of an academic hospital during one year. (scirp.org)
  • Mortality among Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Units During Weekday Day Shifts Compared with 'Off' Hours," Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2007, pp. 3-11. (scirp.org)
  • I. J. Morales, S. G. Peters and B. Afessa, "Hospital Mortality Rate and Length of Stay in Patients Admitted at Night to the Intensive Care Unit," Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 31, Vol. 3, 2003, pp. 858-863. (scirp.org)
  • To understand this excess mortality that is not taken into account by short term metrics, we studied the causes of deaths in these patients. (bl.uk)
  • Data on patients admitted to the level I trauma unit and trauma intensive care unit at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, from March 2007 to December 2008 were retrieved from the hospital informatics system and an independent database in the trauma unit. (scielo.org.za)
  • Of those surviving more than 12 hours, patients admitted directly had a significant decrease in mortality. (scielo.org.za)
  • The health service employers have welcomed the approach as an example of the innovative style which hospitals will increasingly have to adopt if they are to meet the expectations of patients and their families. (globalsurance.com)
  • Participants Patients admitted to hospital for head injury or traumatic brain injury (TBI) diagnosed by CT imaging identified using administrative Scottish Information Services Division data. (bmj.com)
  • Conclusion Increased CT imaging of head injured patients recommended by SIGN guidelines reduced hospital admissions. (bmj.com)
  • This is the hospital where hundreds of patients died after inadequate treatment. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • 5. "Hospital left patients 'sobbing and humiliated'", BBC News, 24 February 2010 -02-24. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • 6. "Stafford hospital patients still at risk, says watchdog", Guardian , 2011-10-10. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • While the average hospital has a 1 to 8 nurse-patient ratio, the study found some nurses treated up to 18 patients at a time, according to The Telegraph . (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • It has been suggested that some of the excess deaths observed during heat waves are due to "mortality displacement", meaning that the deaths of patients who would have died in the coming days or weeks are shifted forward. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The majority of participants agreed that patients ( n = 849, 90% agreed), staff ( n = 863, 92% agreed), and visitors ( n = 850, 90% agreed) should not smoke in the hospital entrance. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Over 90% of respondents reported not smoking in the hospital entrance, but the perception was that between 50 to 75% of hospital staff, patients, and visitors did not smoke in the hospital entrance. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The mean percentage of hospital staff, patients, and visitors who respondents thought did not smoke in entrances was higher for respondents responding after, compared to those responding before, the campaign. (biomedcentral.com)
  • in all instances the mean percentage of hospital staff, patients, and visitors the participants believed agreed that hospital entrances should be smokefree was higher for those responding after, compared with before, the campaign. (biomedcentral.com)
  • COVID-19-positive patients undergoing an invasive strategy for acute coronary syndrome presented hours later than uninfected historical controls, had a far higher incidence of cardiogenic shock , and their in-hospital mortality rate was four- to fivefold greater, according to data from the Global Multicenter Prospective COVID-ACS Registry. (medscape.com)
  • There are important public information messages to be taken from these data about getting patients to come to hospital during such pandemics. (medscape.com)
  • He presented prospectively collected registry data on 144 patients with confirmed ST-elevation MI (STEMI) and 122 with non-ST-elevation MI (NSTEMI), all COVID-19 positive on presentation at 85 hospitals in the United Kingdom, Europe, and North America during March through August of 2020. (medscape.com)
  • Since the initial message to the public early in the pandemic in many places was to try to avoid the hospital, the investigators selected for their no-COVID comparison group the data on more than 22,000 STEMI and NSTEMI patients included in two British national databases covering 2018-2019. (medscape.com)
  • The in-hospital mortality rates were strikingly different: 27.1% in COVID-positive STEMI patients versus 5.7% in controls. (medscape.com)
  • So was stroke , with a 2.1% in-hospital incidence in COVID-positive STEMI patients and a 0.1% rate in the comparator arm. (medscape.com)
  • The same pattern held true among the COVID-positive NSTEMI patients: They were younger, sicker, and slower to present to the hospital than the non-COVID group. (medscape.com)
  • The in-hospital mortality rate was 6.6% in the COVID-positive NSTEMI patients, compared with 1.2% in the reference group. (medscape.com)
  • Nearly two-thirds of in-hospital deaths in COVID-positive ACS patients were cardiovascular, and three-quarters of those cardiovascular deaths occurred in patients with cardiogenic shock. (medscape.com)
  • THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), tight glucose control does not affect the length of time that ICU care is needed, according to a study published in the Sept. 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine . (msdmanuals.com)
  • Counts and rates of deaths and hospital admissions associated with temperature for England and Wales from 2001 to 2020. (ons.gov.uk)
  • There are 3.82 million neonatal deaths each year with a global neonatal mortality rate of 30 per 1000 live births [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Neonatal mortality from birth asphyxia ranges from 40 to 610 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births [ 3 - 5 ], and nearly 1 out of every 4 neonatal deaths in Malawi is a result of birth asphyxia [ 6 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • As neonatal deaths make up 41% of under-5 mortality [ 8 ], neonatal resuscitation training is key. (hindawi.com)
  • 8 Assuming an overall hospital death rate of about 5% this implies that around one in 20 inpatient deaths are preventable, while 19 of 20 are unavoidable. (bmj.com)
  • Methods Using routinely collected hospital administrative data, we examined in-hospital deaths for all emergency inpatient admissions to all public acute hospitals in England for 2005/2006. (bmj.com)
  • Results Of a total of 4 317 866 emergency admissions, we found 215 054 in-hospital deaths with an overall crude mortality rate of 5.0% (5.2% for all weekend admissions and 4.9% for all weekday admissions). (bmj.com)
  • They found that 90-day mortality fell from 0.56% in 2003 (72 deaths/12,621 operations) to 0.29% in 2011 (164 deaths/60,727 surgeries). (medscape.com)
  • I also studied the timing and causes of deaths following colorectal resection in English NHS Trust hospital. (bl.uk)
  • Results All-cause and cause-specific mortality rates declined over the study period. (bmj.com)
  • In general, there was no significant relationship between practice performance on quality indicators included in the QOF and all-cause or cause-specific mortality rates in the practice locality. (bmj.com)
  • The contribution of smoking to adult mortality in a population can be estimated indirectly from disease-specific death rates in that population (using absolute lung cancer rates to indicate proportions due to smoking of mortality from certain other diseases). (nih.gov)
  • Post-iGBS episode 30-day and 12-month all-cause mortality rates in nonpregnant adults were 12% and 24%, respectively. (cdc.gov)
  • A new study posted on the medRxiv* preprint server examines hospitalization and mortality rates from COVID-19 before and after the rollout of the vaccine in England. (news-medical.net)
  • The study's objective was to evaluate the training's impact on hospital staff and neonatal mortality rates. (hindawi.com)
  • Conversely, a recent study of ENC among 57 643 infants and NRP among 62 366 infants showed no reduction in mortality rates for either program [ 21 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Mortality rates, especially overall hospital mortality rates, have therefore become the natural focus for measurement of clinical quality. (bmj.com)
  • So what is the problem with measuring clinical performance by comparing hospital mortality rates and what alternatives can we offer? (bmj.com)
  • In fact, mortality rates for similar conditions are 16% higher in respect of weekend as compared to midweek admissions. (globalsurance.com)
  • [ 5 ] Benefits of tight glycemic control include not only continued reductions in the rates of microvascular complications but also significant differences in cardiovascular events and overall mortality. (medscape.com)
  • Every extra patient on a nurse's caseload increased mortality rates by 7 percent, according to the study. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • The overall results show that mortality rates for almost all surgeons are within the expected range. (england.nhs.uk)
  • Mortality rates increased by 35 percent per year during this period. (cdc.gov)
  • Emergency admissions to the six Australian hospitals showed no daily variation in adjusted 30-day mortality, but showed a weekend effect at 7 days post emergency admission (OR 1.12, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.22 on Saturday). (bmj.com)
  • We sought to examine the effectiveness of influenza vaccination against admission to hospital for acute cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and all-cause death in people with type 2 diabetes. (cmaj.ca)
  • Complications occurring during admission and mortality during hospital stays were also evaluated. (hindawi.com)
  • A. Uusaro, A. Kari and E. Ruokonen, "The Effects of ICU Admission and Discharge Times on Mortality in Finland," Intensive Care Medicine, Vol. 29, No. 12, 2003, pp. 2144-2148. (scirp.org)
  • We aimed to describe the spectrum of major trauma managed at the IALCH level I trauma unit from 2007 to 2008, and to determine whether direct admission confers a survival advantage compared with inter-hospital transfers. (scielo.org.za)
  • Inappropriate admissions were 66.3% and 78.9% of admissions in the surgery departments of 2 hos- pitals compared with 1.9% in the 3rd hospital that followed a specific admission protocol for elective surgery. (who.int)
  • process is assessing the appropriateness of The sample size was estimated to be 200 pa- hospitalization, from the appropriateness of tients per hospital according to a percentage admission through to the appropriate length of inappropriatene admissions of 15% [ 5 ] of stay. (who.int)
  • The current study aimed to measure the records about each case admitted: the pa- rate of inappropriate admissions to 3 general tient's personal data, time of admission, day hospitals in Egypt and the characteristics as- of admission, payment method, reason for sociated with the inappropriateness. (who.int)
  • Unconfirmed factors include understaffing in hospital wards (at night and at the weekend), inadequate numbers of experienced doctors on Fridays/weekends, different patient case-mix over weekends compared with weekdays and reduced availability of testing facilities. (bmj.com)
  • In some areas, virtual wards are used mainly for pre-hospital care (for example, your GP may refer you to one). (ucl.ac.uk)
  • As such, the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal 4-to reduce the 1990 mortality rate among under-five children by two-thirds by 2015-cannot be realized without educational efforts in neonatal resuscitation. (hindawi.com)
  • In England a high death rate "attracted the attention of the [Healthcare Commission] (HCC) and caused it to launch its investigation" into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. (bmj.com)
  • Going further back and examining maternal mortality records in England (which were likely also underreported) the maternal death rate was approximately five per 1000 women from 1800-1899 and 10 per 1000 women from 1700-1750.3 That is 1 percent of women! (kevinmd.com)
  • Our maternal mortality rate, although down from 1915, is now increasing. (kevinmd.com)
  • The 90-day mortality rate associated with hip replacement fell by half in conjunction with the adoption of 4 clinical management strategies, according to a study of more than 400,000 cases in Wales and England, published in the September 28 issue of the Lancet . (medscape.com)
  • The prevalence rate of smoking in England is 15.5% in the adult population [ 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • ABSTRACT We measured the rate of inappropriate admissions, and associated factors, in 3 general hospitals in Egypt. (who.int)
  • The sample size was doubled an unnecessarily high bed occupancy rate for each hospital in order to allow a suffi- and has been linked to poor quality of care ciently large sample for cross-tabulation and due to hospital overload [ 2 ]. (who.int)
  • A Neonatal Resuscitation Curriculum in Malawi, Africa: Did It Change In-Hospital Mortality? (hindawi.com)
  • An observational, longitudinal study of secondary data assessed neonatal mortality. (hindawi.com)
  • Neonatal mortality did not change. (hindawi.com)
  • A lack of protocol and systemized training in neonatal resuscitation to reduce neonatal mortality secondary to birth asphyxia is common across sub-Saharan Africa [ 7 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Curriculums with components of NRP have significantly improved healthcare providers' knowledge, skills, and attitudes in developing countries [ 15 , 16 ] and decreased neonatal mortality in the developing world up to 65.7 percent [ 10 , 17 , 18 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • One study revealed declines in national trends of neonatal mortality over an 8-year period following NRP integration across Malaysia [ 19 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Furthermore, a 44.6% decline in neonatal mortality was seen with WHO's Essential Newborn Care (ENC) curriculum in Zambia, a resuscitation curriculum separate from the NRP [ 20 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Because the literature reports conflicting results following NRP training, a meta-analysis was performed which was inconclusive on all-cause neonatal mortality [ 22 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • 3 Neonatal mortality has also been shown to be higher for babies born on weekends than among those born on weekdays. (bmj.com)
  • The aim of this study was to characterize iGBS disease in adults by creating a national retrospective cohort of cases in England identified through laboratory surveillance linked to hospital admissions data. (cdc.gov)
  • Participants Two data sets are examined: Administrative data from 137 NHS acute hospital trusts (staffing measured as beds per staff member). (bmj.com)
  • The inclusion of medical staffing data however creates a limitation, in that the quality of the data available in England is restricted to posts: bed ratios. (bmj.com)
  • In the current study, researchers examine population-level data from the 2021 Census in England that, comprised over 580,000 individuals 16 years or older. (news-medical.net)
  • Design Retrospective observational study using the international dataset from the Global Comparators (GC) project consisting of hospital administrative data. (bmj.com)
  • We conducted a retrospective cohort study using primary and secondary care data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink in England, over a 7-year period between 2003/04 and 2009/10. (cmaj.ca)
  • In 18th- and 19th-century England, maternal mortality data was gathered from parish registries . (kevinmd.com)
  • In the United States before 1986, maternal mortality data was gathered from vital statistics, such as death certificates. (kevinmd.com)
  • Then, in 1986, the CDC started "requesting" that states report maternal mortality data. (kevinmd.com)
  • One can also see by examining the available data that mortality increases with increasing poverty and limited access to care. (kevinmd.com)
  • This data was analysed according to the ACALM (Algorithm for Comorbidities, Associations, Length of stay and Mortality) study protocol. (bmj.com)
  • We aimed to take advantage of the large numbers of records available within routinely collected hospital admissions data in England and compared mortality for emergency admissions occurring at weekends with that occurring during the rest of the week in England for a wide range of diagnoses. (bmj.com)
  • Linda P. Hunt, PhD, research associate, Musculoskeletal Research Unit, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, and colleagues analyzed data from the National Joint Registry for England and Wales, which was linked to a national mortality database and the Hospital Episode Statistics database. (medscape.com)
  • The study used the Mass General Brigham Research Patient Data Registry to identify all 1,420 adults who had thymectomy at Massachusetts General Hospital from January 1993 to March 2020. (medpagetoday.com)
  • The general population comparison with CDC data included an adjustment of 17% to account for the difference between overall U.S. mortality and that in Massachusetts, as well as proportional weighting to the distribution of ages at thymectomy and years in which surgery was performed. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Extrapolating the data from cost surveys in England and Canada ( 10 , 11 ), approximately 1 billion is spent annually on the treatment of AKI and AKI-related complications in Germany. (aerzteblatt.de)
  • This thesis represents research from Hospital Episode Statistics data and provides an insight into gastrointestinal resectional surgery in England. (bl.uk)
  • ED and ambulance data were obtained from surveillance and administrative databases, while mortality data were obtained from the state death registry. (biomedcentral.com)
  • NHS England originally outlined its commitment to publishing this data in its 2012/13 planning guidance 'Everyone Counts', in December 2012. (england.nhs.uk)
  • The reporting of the data was led for NHS England by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). (england.nhs.uk)
  • Our study looked at mortality throughout the United States from 1999 through 2004 to determine the extent of this trend, as well as the relationship between CDAD and other demographic data or coexisting conditions. (cdc.gov)
  • We have developed a nowcasting model using generalised additive models that makes novel use of individual-level patient data to correct the mpox epidemic curve in England. (bvsalud.org)
  • METHODS: We collated data for all diagnosed mpox cases (3621) from England from May 1, 2022, to Nov 16, 2022. (bvsalud.org)
  • A data collection sheet was designed to sion and days of care in hospitals [ 4 ]. (who.int)
  • Information on occupational poisonings in other data sets, such as hospital discharges, is limited in that the capture of work-related events is based on the workers' compensation as payer field and on an accompanying external cause code for poisoning. (cdc.gov)
  • Objectives We aimed to investigate the prevalence of cardiovascular comorbidities and their contribution to mortality amongst psychiatric patient in North England, UK. (bmj.com)
  • The introduction and implementation of the smokefree legislation in England in 2007 has had public health benefits by helping smokers to quit, reducing cigarette consumption and smoking prevalence [ 6 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Reduction in hospital mortality over time in a hospital without a pediatric medical emergency team: limitations of before-and-after study designs. (ahrq.gov)
  • This study found a reduction in hospital mortality without a pediatric medical emergency team (PMET). (ahrq.gov)
  • This study makes a unique contribution by including medical and healthcare support worker staffing in examining the observed relationships between trust staffing and mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Estimating the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination against COVID-19 hospitalisation and death: a cohort study based on the 2021 Census, England. (news-medical.net)
  • We have corroborated this figure in a study of the quality of care in 18 English hospitals (submitted for publication). (bmj.com)
  • Conclusions This is the largest study published on weekend mortality and highlights an area of concern in relation to the delivery of acute services. (bmj.com)
  • Thymectomy carried a substantially increased risk of all-cause mortality and cancer for adults, a "landmark" study showed. (medpagetoday.com)
  • This study aims to assess the impact of these guidelines and any effect the national 4-hour ED performance target had on hospital admissions for head injury. (bmj.com)
  • This is the first study to assess the impact of the SIGN head injury guidelines and 4-hour emergency department target on hospital admissions for head injury. (bmj.com)
  • The National Audit Office has conducted a study focusing in particular on whether acute hospitals are minimising the delays through the older patient pathway. (rcplondon.ac.uk)
  • For the study, researchers at Southampton University in England polled nurses at 31 National Health Service trusts about missed nursing care caused by understaffing. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to quantify the excess heat-related and all-cause ED visits and ambulance calls, and excess all-cause mortality, associated with the heat wave. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study explored the impact of a social norms approach campaign to reduce levels of misperceptions surrounding support for smokefree hospital entrances. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Objectives To examine associations between mortality and registered nurse (RN) staffing in English hospital trusts taking account of medical and healthcare support worker (HCSW) staffing. (bmj.com)
  • differences in the quality of care within hospitals are much greater than differences between hospitals. (bmj.com)
  • Analysis of differences in hot-weather-related mortality across 44 U.S. metropolitan areas. (cdc.gov)
  • However, because of its sample size, it was limited in its power to detect differences in mortality. (bmj.com)
  • The highest and lowest social strata were based on social class (professional vs unskilled manual) in England and Wales, neighbourhood income (top vs bottom quintile) in urban Canada, and completed years of education (more than vs less than 12 years) in the USA and Poland. (nih.gov)
  • Invasive GBS (iGBS) disease in adults is of growing clinical and public health concern ( 4 - 6 ), with incidence in England and Wales during 1996-2010 increasing almost 3-fold ( 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • There are 1.4 million annual attendances to emergency departments (ED) in England and Wales following a head injury (blunt trauma to the head). (bmj.com)
  • The proportion of children with acute asthma presenting to primary care in England and Wales fell between 1993 and 1998. (aafp.org)
  • The proportion of all children admitted to the hospital in England and Wales who had acute asthma fell slightly between 1998 and 2004, from around 19 per 1,000 admissions to 17 per 1,000. (aafp.org)
  • Matthew Redelings] Well, several previous studies in the United States, England, and Wales had reported an increase in C. difficile -associated disease, or CDAD. (cdc.gov)
  • adjusted odds of 30-day death were higher for weekend emergency admissions to 11 hospitals in England (OR 1.08, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.13 on Sunday), 5 hospitals in USA (OR 1.13, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.24 on Sunday) and 6 hospitals in the Netherlands (OR 1.20, 95% CI 1.09 to 1.33 on Saturday). (bmj.com)
  • Mandatory case review increased the odds of all-cause mortality, but not SAE. (ahrq.gov)
  • The extent to which comorbidities are recorded in hospital statistics (the coding depth) is a potent source of this form of bias. (bmj.com)
  • Setting Secondary care provided in acute hospital National Health Service (NHS) trusts in England. (bmj.com)
  • Bristol's two NHS hospital trusts have joined the international movement to declare a climate emergency, recognising the impact climate change is having on the world. (uhbristol.nhs.uk)
  • The National Mortality Case Record Review (NMCRR) toolkit has been developed to support trusts in implementing a standardised way of reviewing the case records of adults who have died in acute hospitals across England and Scotland. (rcplondon.ac.uk)
  • Despite increasing expenditure and focus on patient safety in many countries, there remains considerable variation in hospital trust mortality that cannot be explained by measurable variation in case mix or individual patient risk. (bmj.com)
  • The risk of mortality declined by almost 60% after one vaccine dose. (news-medical.net)
  • A common but naive response is to argue that risk adjustment to produce a standardised mortality ratio (SMR) solves this problem. (bmj.com)
  • We also demonstrate that diagnoses of some cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension and hyperlipidaemia, but not diabetes) has a protective effect on mortality, probably due to effective monitoring and management of risk factors. (bmj.com)
  • In addition to being a crucial underlying circumstance in the primary cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs), obesity is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular illness and mortality [ 1 , 2 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • In particular, undetected AKI, or delayed treatment of AKI, is an independent risk factor for increased hospital mortality ( 1 ). (aerzteblatt.de)
  • A. Numa, G. Williams, J. Awad and B. Duffy, "After-Hours Admissions Are Not Associated with Increased Risk-Adjusted Mortality in Pediatric Intensive Care," Intensive Care Medicine, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2008, pp. 148-151. (scirp.org)
  • The most commonly used measure of post-operative risk was in-hospital or 30-day mortality. (bl.uk)
  • This calls for further research to define a new intermediate term metric that accurately quantifies the mortality risk. (bl.uk)
  • With increasing surgeon caseload, risk of 30-day mortality is lower. (bl.uk)
  • The substantially lower risk of death when care is provided in a dedicated trauma centre instead of a general hospital 3 comes at considerable cost. (scielo.org.za)
  • There is also mounting evidence that people in hospital over the weekend are at risk of being exposed to poorer care which can be particularly grave for those undergoing surgery just before, or through the course of a weekend. (globalsurance.com)
  • Researchers also looked at the nurses' qualifications and found hospitals staffing more nurses with higher degrees had lower patient mortality risk. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • There are substantial social inequalities in adult male mortality in many countries. (nih.gov)
  • In these populations, most, but not all, of the substantial social inequalities in adult male mortality during the 1990s were due to the effects of smoking. (nih.gov)
  • We extracted laboratory-confirmed cases of iGBS infection diagnosed from specimens taken during January 1, 2015-December 31, 2016 from the Public Health England (PHE) Second Generation Surveillance System (SGSS), the national communicable disease surveillance database, for analysis. (cdc.gov)
  • Logistic regression showed mortality was increased significantly by comorbid diagnoses of ischaemic heart disease (OR 1.221), atrial fibrillation (OR 1.357), cerebrovascular disease (OR 1.657), heart failure (OR 2.555), ischaemic stroke (OR 1.386), myocardial infarction (OR 1.234), peripheral vascular disease (OR 1.581), type 1 diabetes (OR 1.836) and type 2 diabetes (OR 1.171). (bmj.com)
  • University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Chief Executive Robert Woolley said: "Preventing avoidable illness, promoting health and wellbeing and being operationally resilient are all fundamental to the future of the NHS. (uhbristol.nhs.uk)
  • Setting All Scottish hospitals between April 1998 and March 2016. (bmj.com)
  • In 2015/2016, there were 571 221 emergency hospital admissions in Scotland. (bmj.com)
  • There is a perception it has led to smokers congregating around hospital entrances (Selbie D. 2016, It's time for a truly smokefree NHS. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Responding to safe care: healthcare staff experiences caring for a child with intellectual disability in hospital. (ahrq.gov)
  • Fighting MRSA infections in hospital care: how organizational factors matter. (ahrq.gov)
  • We used multiple linear regressions to investigate the relationship between spatially estimated recorded quality of care and mortality. (bmj.com)
  • This review was ordered by the Prime Minister in response to the Francis Inquiry into poor care at Mid Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. (wikipedia.org)
  • HES includes all NHS secondary care activity (98% of all hospital activity in the country [ 17 ]) that requires a hospital bed, including emergency and planned (elective) admissions, day cases, and births. (cdc.gov)
  • Ensuring the safety of hospital care is a paramount concern for healthcare systems worldwide. (bmj.com)
  • Quality of care accounts for only a small proportion of the observed variance in mortality between hospitals. (bmj.com)
  • 8 9 However, intensive care units have well-established shift working systems with dedicated nursing and direct consultant input at a level not generally applicable to more general emergency hospital care. (bmj.com)
  • We obtained an extract of all finished consultant episodes of care for inpatients in all acute public hospitals in England from the NHS Wide Clearing Service with discharge dates between 1 April 2005 and 31 March 2006. (bmj.com)
  • A finished consultant episode is defined as a period of admitted patient care under a consultant or allied healthcare professional within an NHS hospital trust. (bmj.com)
  • In other areas, they are used mainly for "step-down care" (after you've been an inpatient, or assessed at, a hospital). (ucl.ac.uk)
  • For example, market wide changes in health insurance may increase market demand for health care enough to make it worthwhile for hospitals to incur the fixed cost of adopting a new technology. (nber.org)
  • K. B. Laupland, R. Shahpori, A. W. Kirkpa-trick and H. T. Stelfox, "Hospital Mortality among Adults Admitted to and Discharged from Intensive Care on Weekends and Evenings," Journal of Critical Care, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2008, pp. 317-324. (scirp.org)
  • All complementary surgical sub-specialties and necessary allied health care professionals are available in the hospital. (scielo.org.za)
  • 2 Admissions are derived direct from scene (DIR) in consultation with the pre-hospital care providers, or by interhospital transfer (IHT). (scielo.org.za)
  • Fortunately, as part of the ongoing shake up of hospital services that has followed the recent crisis of confidence in the National Health Service, there is now a new commitment to ensuring that hospital care, technical support and management in England will move swiftly to being provided at a consistent high level through the whole duration of a seven day week. (globalsurance.com)
  • A 10 percent increase in the amount of care left undone was associated with a 16 percent jump in patient mortality following a common surgery. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • It primarily affects people 65 or older and is usually contracted in hospitals, nursing homes, and other long-term care facilities. (cdc.gov)
  • Controlling health expenditure is a key admitted for free services, general hospitals element of health care management. (who.int)
  • Further lowering of blood-glucose levels into the normal fasting range, guided by a computer algorithm, avoided iatrogenic hypoglycemia without affecting the length of time that ICU care was needed or mortality," the authors write. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The health burden caused by seasonal influenza in the general population is substantial and explains much of the excess winter mortality. (cmaj.ca)
  • Ellis FP, Nelson F. Mortality in the elderly in a heat wave in New York City, August 1975. (cdc.gov)
  • However, using several different empirical strategies, the authors find that in its first ten years, the establishment of universal health insurance for the elderly had no discernible impact on their mortality. (nber.org)
  • In the elderly population, we demonstrated high mortality up to one year following emergency colorectal resection. (bl.uk)
  • 0.01) employed by the trust whereas, lower HCSW staffing was associated with lower mortality (RR 0.95, 95% CI 0.91 to 1.00, p=0.04). (bmj.com)
  • The estimated association between RN staffing and mortality changes when medical and HCSW staffing is considered and depending on whether ward or trust wide staffing levels are considered. (bmj.com)
  • ActualizaciĆ³n sobre el virus la influenza aviar A (H5N1) en los seres humanos. (cdc.gov)
  • Setting 32482 LSOAs (neighbourhoods of 1500 people on average), covering the whole population of England (approximately 53.5 million), from 2007 to 2012. (bmj.com)
  • 15 years of age) were recorded in England, corresponding to an annual incidence of 3.48/100,000 population. (cdc.gov)
  • University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust are among the first NHS organisations in the UK to make the declaration, which shows a clear and positive commitment to tackle climate change and the effects on the health of our population. (uhbristol.nhs.uk)
  • The mRNA vaccines showed waning VE against hospitalization at three months or more from the booster dose, whereas both vaccine types exhibited waning VE against mortality three months or more following the second dose. (news-medical.net)
  • Development of the Leapfrog Group's bar code medication administration standard to address hospital inpatient medication safety. (ahrq.gov)
  • The participating hospitals represent varied models of service delivery, and there is a potential to learn from best practice in different healthcare systems. (bmj.com)
  • The results from this analysis suggest that, in its first five years, the introduction of Medicare was associated with a 23 percent rise in total hospital spending (for all ages). (nber.org)
  • Internationally, countries report mixed results after implementing smokefree policies within hospital settings. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Autoimmune disease did not differ substantially between groups overall, reported David T. Scadden, MD, of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine . (medpagetoday.com)
  • Early Goal-Directed Therapy in the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock," New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 345, No. 19, 2001, pp. 1368-1377. (scirp.org)
  • New England Journal of Medicine 295(8):450. (cdc.gov)
  • C. difficle is usually a hospital-acquired infection, and hospital hygiene would be very important in preventing C. difficile infection. (cdc.gov)
  • 5] Yet less than a year after inspectors found that there were still too few staff to ensure patient safety [6], this very hospital was offering an "exciting" post to a top-ranking chaplain. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • David Akiva Miller, an Orthodox Jew, was a patient in the US veterans' hospital in Iowa City in 2005-2007: "Three times, while in bed, wired to a heart monitor, I have been visited by Christian Chaplains telling me how Jesus is the Messiah of the Jews too. (concordatwatch.eu)