• Among adolescents, the observed rate of ED visits during the 30 pandemic months studied was 7.38 per 100,000 population, compared with 3.33 per 100,000 before the pandemic (incidence rate ratio [IRR], 2.21). (medscape.com)
  • The rate of emergency department visits also increased significantly, according to the study, rising from 190.1 visits per 100,000 population in 2006 to 238.5 visits per 100,000 population in 2011. (medscape.com)
  • Emergency department visits for hypertension with complications and secondary hypertension also rose, from 71.2 per 100,000 population in 2006 to 84.7 per 100,000 population in 2011, while again, admission rates fell, dropping from 77.79% in 2006 to 68.75% in 2011. (medscape.com)
  • A study was undertaken to examine the association between regular physical activity and both hospital admissions for COPD and all-cause and specific mortality in COPD subjects. (bmj.com)
  • Dates and causes of hospital admissions and mortality were obtained from Danish registers. (bmj.com)
  • Adjusted associations between physical activity and hospital admissions for COPD and mortality were obtained using negative binomial and Cox regression models, respectively. (bmj.com)
  • Subjects with COPD who perform some level of regular physical activity have a lower risk of both COPD admissions and mortality. (bmj.com)
  • 5 Currently only oxygen therapy, some bronchodilators and glucocorticoids, and influenza vaccinations are considered effective in improving the course of the disease-either by reducing the frequency of hospital admission for COPD or mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Association between waiting times and short term mortality and hospital admission after departure from emergency department: population based cohort study from Ontario, Canada. (ahrq.gov)
  • Antibiotic administration and hospital mortality. (researchgate.net)
  • In-hospital mortality was 29.7% for the cohort as a whole. (researchgate.net)
  • Hospital mortality adjusted for severity (sepsis severity score), ICU admission source (emergency department, ward, vs ICU), and geographic region increased steadily after 1 hour of time to antibiotic administration. (researchgate.net)
  • The results of the analysis of this large population of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock demonstrate that delay in first antibiotic administration was associated with increased in-hospital mortality. (researchgate.net)
  • Mental illness (including substance use disorders) is the main contributor to lower life expectancy and increased mortality in the Aboriginal population of New South Wales. (nsw.gov.au)
  • To effectively achieve this, consultation-liaison psychiatry must first establish its pertinence to other branches of medicine in the general hospital setting, and second, display adequately and reliably the magnitude and the impact of psychiatric morbidity and mortality in physically ill inpatients [1,3]. (who.int)
  • The in-hospital mortality rate for admitted patients dropped as well, from 1.95% in 2006 to 1.25% in 2011. (medscape.com)
  • In 2019, Discovery Health published a risk adjustment model to determine standardised mortality rates across South African private hospital systems, with the aim of contributing towards quality improvement in the private healthcare sector. (who.int)
  • African Medical Journal describing its use of service claims data to patient investigation and treatment, as well as providing a framework determine standardised mortality rates, across hospital systems, for against which clinical outcomes can be measured. (who.int)
  • Exposure of human populations to smoke emitted by these fires increases, thereby contributing to airborne pollution through the emission of gas and particulate matter (PM). The adverse health outcomes associated with wildland fire exposure represent an important burden on the economies and health systems of societies. (frontiersin.org)
  • Similar to the inherent difficulties in evaluating health effects data, no comprehensive data source describes contaminant levels, their location in space and time, and their potential interface with human populations. (cdc.gov)
  • Improved outcomes may include reductions in avoidable emergency department (ED) visits or admissions, reductions in inpatient hospital days, and improvements in disease-specific measures such as blood pressure and blood sugar. (manatt.com)
  • Rates of healthcare associated infections (HAIs) caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria remain high in the United States and HAIs are the most common complication during inpatient hospital care.7 According to Demirjian et al. (infectioncontroltoday.com)
  • 3 Position statements and recommendations from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians in 2001, 2013 and 2023 insist that hospitals implement demand-driven overcapacity protocols when crowding of emergency departments is compromising care delivery. (cmaj.ca)
  • In the last 5 years, immigrants have formed an increasing part of the population in Barcelona, their number rising from 74,019 in January 2001 to 260,058 in January 2006 [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A population-based electronic case-control study of all who died by suicide in Wales, 2001-2017, linking individuals' electronic healthcare records from general practices, emergency departments and hospitals. (suicideinfo.ca)
  • Psittacosis became a notifiable disease in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, in 2001, and 38 laboratory notifications were received by the state health department that year, an incidence of 5.7 cases per 1,000,000 population for NSW. (vetscite.org)
  • From March to May 2002, a total of 160 persons with pneumonia were seen at the BMH emergency department, compared with 82 from March to May 2001. (vetscite.org)
  • From October 24 to December 17, 2001, hospitals reported 240,160 visits and 7,109 intensive- care unit admissions in the surveillance area (population 6.7 million persons). (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: Our retrospective data analysis comprised adult (age ≥16 years) prisoners admitted to our emergency department, in transit to admission to our hospital-associated medical prison ward, between 2nd February 2000 and 30th April 2012. (smw.ch)
  • Purpose:To examine the associations between Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds (vs non-Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) and in-hospital death due to self-harm, repeat self-harm and mental health service use after self-harm.Method:A retrospective study of 42,127 self-harm hospital inpatients aged 15+ years in Victoria, Australia, from July 2008 to June 2019. (deepdyve.com)
  • An independent expert team identified ADEs present upon admission or occurring during hospitalization by a structured retrospective patient chart review. (springer.com)
  • 1. In total 1999 consecutive admissions to six medical wards were subjected to a prospective high-intensity drug event monitoring scheme to assess the extent and pattern of admissions caused by adverse drug reactions (ADRs) or dose related therapeutic failures (TF), in a population-based design. (nih.gov)
  • Diagnostic errors, inappropriate admissions to hospital and admission of patients to inappropriate wards were used as outcome measures. (bmj.com)
  • This meeting comes following a period of extreme busyness observed in our hospital A&E wards, with a number of Health Trusts issuing warnings over the last few weeks pleaing for the public to only attend in cases of serious medical emergency. (allianceparty.org)
  • The study cohort comprised 250 patients aged 65 years or older consecutively admitted to Internal Medicine wards of three hospitals in the Netherlands between April and November 2007. (springer.com)
  • The study was performed in the Internal Medicine wards of three teaching hospitals in the Netherlands: the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam, a 1,002-bed academic hospital, the Westfriesgasthuis (WFG) in Hoorn, a 506-bed regional teaching hospital, and the Spaarne Hospital (SH) in Hoofddorp, a 520-bed tertiary teaching hospital. (springer.com)
  • ABSTRACT Consultation-liaison psychiatry has emerged as an important sub-specialty in the general hospital setting during recent years as a result of psychiatric acute wards moving into these hospitals. (who.int)
  • Number of hospital discharges for firearm-related injuries per 100,000 children and young adults ages 0-24, by intent and biological sex (e.g., in 2021, the rate of hospitalization for firearm injuries due to assault among California males ages 0-24 was 10.3 per 100,000). (kidsdata.org)
  • Initial reductions in the odds of hospitalization and total healthcare cost associated with participation in the population-based diabetes management program were difficult to sustain. (ajmc.com)
  • Each year in the United States, bronchiolitis results in 287,000 emergency department visits, 32%-40% of which end in hospitalization. (jmir.org)
  • Influenza-related il ness is poorly recorded in Since a proportion of visits lead to admission and can be hospital and death databases, and counting only included in hospitalization estimates, we also prepared laboratory-confirmed influenza infections will markedly estimates for non-admitted visits. (who.int)
  • 3, 4 In a previous study conducted in a cohort of 346 patients with moderate to severe COPD followed up for 1 year in Barcelona, Spain, subjects with COPD who reported physical activity equivalent to walking at least 1 hour/day had a lower risk of admission for a COPD exacerbation than those who reported physical activity equivalent to walking only 20 minutes/day or less. (bmj.com)
  • METHODS: CircCOVID was a prospective multicentre cohort substudy designed to investigate the effects of circadian disruption and sleep disturbance on recovery after COVID-19 in a cohort of participants aged 18 years or older, admitted to hospital for COVID-19 in the UK, and discharged between March, 2020, and October, 2021. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Objective - To determine contemporary trends in case fatality, discharge destination, and admission to long-term care after acute ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) using a large, population-based cohort. (ices.on.ca)
  • We, therefore, carried out a prospective cohort study at King Fahad General Hospital. (who.int)
  • Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Discharged From the Emergency Department With Ankle Fractures: A Population-Based Cohort Study. (bvsalud.org)
  • Simple dashboards with Key Performance Indicators for your practice population, and strategies to help you impact quality and cost outcomes. (uchealth.org)
  • Frequently, emergency department disposition decisions (to discharge or hospitalize) are made subjectively because of the lack of evidence and objective criteria for bronchiolitis management, leading to significant practice variation, wasted health care use, and suboptimal outcomes. (jmir.org)
  • By improving population health outcomes, health systems can improve their financial results by deploying remote monitoring programs for high-risk and high-cost patients and lowering the total cost of care. (manatt.com)
  • Logistic regression and zero-inflated negative binomial regression models were used to estimate associations between cultural background and outcomes.Results:Culturally and Linguistically Diverse people accounted for 13.3% of self-harm hospital inpatients. (deepdyve.com)
  • She also has received a $100,000 Florida Department of Health grant for a pilot study of a cultural drumming intervention to improve psychosocial outcomes among African Americans with early stage Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers. (usf.edu)
  • They have been able to analyse workloads at various departments and clinics, categorise patients by medical history and their outcomes, and identify the best groups to target for various programmes. (todayonline.com)
  • This study identified the morbidity pattern and determinants of the outcomes of children with neurological emergencies in the Children Emergency Room (CHER) of the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH). (bvsalud.org)
  • 1 ). Weekly COVID-19 Community Levels (CCLs) will be to weekly cadence in October 2022, with some jurisdictions replaced with levels of COVID-19 hospital admission rates (low, continuing to report daily totals. (cdc.gov)
  • As of December 15, 2022, COVID-19 hospital data are required to be reported case reporting at the county or county-equivalent level. (cdc.gov)
  • In a repeated cross-sectional study that examined population-based data from January 2017 through August 2022, ED visits increased by 121% above expected levels, and hospital admissions increased by 54% above expected among patients aged 10 to 17 years during the pandemic. (medscape.com)
  • REVIEWER'S CONCLUSIONS: There is currently no evidence from clinical trials to support a radical shift in the care of acute stroke patients from hospital-based care. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • Emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions for eating disorders have increased significantly among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research. (medscape.com)
  • Methods - We used linked administrative data to identify all emergency department visits and hospital admissions for first-ever ischemic stroke or ICH in Ontario, Canada from 2003-2017. (ices.on.ca)
  • In January 2018 18% of patients needing admission from A&E had to wait more than four hours for a bed - an improvement in the Trust's performance against other NHS hospitals compared with previous years. (wikipedia.org)
  • In November 2018 it was reported that the trust was having severe problems running the Intensive Care Unit at Leicester General Hospital because of problems with staff recruitment and retention. (wikipedia.org)
  • 2018 ). Several mental health disorders tend to be more prevalent in the urban populations and are correlated with ambient air pollution concentration levels. (springer.com)
  • Given higher rates of patients requiring admission, 1 lack of acute care hospital beds 5 and hospitals regularly operating beyond capacity, 4 boarding of admitted patients in emergency departments will continue. (cmaj.ca)
  • These recommendations update previous recommendations regarding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) counseling and testing of patients in acute-care hospital settings (1). (cdc.gov)
  • 1 Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Odense University School of Medicine, Denmark. (nih.gov)
  • Objectives To examine links between clinical and other characteristics of people with Alzheimer's disease living in the community, likelihood of care home or hospital admission, and associated costs. (bmj.com)
  • Design Observational data extracted from clinical records using natural language processing and Hospital Episode Statistics. (bmj.com)
  • Main outcome measures Risk of admission to, and days spent in three settings during 6-month period following routine clinical assessment: care home, mental health inpatient care and general hospital inpatient care. (bmj.com)
  • Several comparable clinical decision rules can be used to assess the short-term risk of death and the need for hospital admission. (aafp.org)
  • Adopt provider-designed clinical protocols and programs to enhance population health care. (uchealth.org)
  • The clinical associations of this for recovery after hospital admission are poorly understood despite sleep disturbance contributing to morbidity in other scenarios. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • All three Hospital Pharmacy Departments offered only off-ward, daily clinical services, including preparation of parenteral medications by pharmacy technicians, on-call availability of a hospital pharmacist for pharmacotherapeutic or toxicological consultations, and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). (springer.com)
  • Examples abound of how the crunching and analysis of data have improved hospital operations in recent years, and experts say greater things are in store, with analytics possibly having a greater impact on the clinical side of healthcare in years to come. (todayonline.com)
  • On October 13, the New Jersey Department stimulated passive hospital-based surveillance (4) for inhala- of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) received reports of tional anthrax and enhanced passive surveillance for inhala- two postal employees with clinical symptoms compatible with tional anthrax and cutaneous anthrax. (cdc.gov)
  • Reporting criteria for possible inhalational anthrax ing, describing the spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms of included any emergency department patient with a diagnosis possible anthrax illness, characterizing the population at risk, of respiratory failure or severe respiratory distress or any and determining the magnitude of the outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • A provider may order a test under a variety of circumstances ranging from a drive-through testing site in a minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic person where very little clinical or epidemiologic data will be collected, to an acutely ill person presenting in an emergency department for hospital admission. (cdc.gov)
  • The addition of key condition-specific clinical data points at the time of hospital admission will dramatical y improve model performance. (who.int)
  • N-terminal B-type natriuretic peptide or troponin elevations, or the Background use of inotropes during admission, are much more powerful and Risk stratification and prediction is an integral part of clinical accurate predictors than admission to hospital alone. (who.int)
  • 2. Considering definite, probable and possible drug events, the prevalence of drug related hospital admissions was 11.4% of which 8.4% were caused by ADRs and 3.0% by TFs. (nih.gov)
  • We aimed to investigate the prevalence and nature of sleep disturbance after discharge following hospital admission for COVID-19 and to assess whether this was associated with dyspnoea. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • We used the merged data set to create vulnerability profiles by COPD prevalence, explore joint geographic patterns, and calculate COPD population estimates by vulnerability levels. (cdc.gov)
  • To determine if PBRN data could be used to make reasonable neighborhood-level estimates of smoking prevalence, we compared PBRN data to population-based, neighborhood-level estimates of smoking prevalence derived from the BRFSS. (cdc.gov)
  • We compared population-based smoking prevalence estimates derived from the BRFSS and the US Census with 2009 prevalence estimates derived from the Partners Primary Care PBRN. (cdc.gov)
  • We derived individual-level data for population-based smoking prevalence estimates from the BRFSS, a population- based telephone survey administered by the CDC and state health departments (1). (cdc.gov)
  • The BRFSS was designed for statewide or metropolitan area use and has been a primary source of population-based information on the prevalence of smoking. (cdc.gov)
  • Our aim was to calculate the morbidity, hospitalizations and subsequent hospital costs for the treatment of the smoking-attributable fraction of diseases in Greece using a prevalence-based annual cost approach. (who.int)
  • Number of hospital discharges for firearm-related injuries among children and young adults ages 0-24, by intent and biological sex (e.g., in 2021, there were 689 firearm injury hospitalizations for assault among California males ages 0-24). (kidsdata.org)
  • On kidsdata.org, measures of non-fatal injuries among children and young adults are based on hospital discharges. (kidsdata.org)
  • Appropriate hospital admissions include actual admissions with exposure to major medical interventions for more than 6 hours, as well as actual emergency department discharges, followed by an emergency department return within 12 hours ending in admission for bronchiolitis. (jmir.org)
  • Based on the definition, 0.96% (221/23,125) of the emergency department discharges were deemed unsafe. (jmir.org)
  • The diagnosis rate for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ({annual number of individual AIDS patients diagnosed and reported to the health department/annual number of discharges} x 1,000) was the only hospital-specific characteristic associated with hospital-specific seroprevalence. (cdc.gov)
  • Appendicitis is one of the most common causes of hospital admissions, and appendix removal is one of the most common types of surgery worldwide. (upi.com)
  • After adjustment for relevant confounders, subjects reporting low, moderate or high physical activity had a lower risk of hospital admission for COPD during the follow up period than those who reported very low physical activity (incidence rate ratio 0.72, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.53 to 0.97). (bmj.com)
  • Incidence rates were calculated, and demographics compared to the national population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The population-weighted incidence across Western Europe has been estimated to be 22.04/100,000 person-years [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the 90-day incidence of venous thromboembolism among patients discharged from an emergency department (ED) with ankle fractures requiring temporary immobilization . (bvsalud.org)
  • Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK. (bmj.com)
  • We evaluated the sensitivity of our findings to co-pollutant adjustment and investigated effect modification patterns by period of the year, age at admission and specific diagnoses. (ersjournals.com)
  • Diagnoses associated with annual, varying, excess deaths in commonly assigned to patients with an influenza infection populations internationally. (who.int)
  • 3 In times of economic recession, such as that from applying the SAFs to hospital diagnoses for the year 2011. (who.int)
  • Methods Information on all hospital deliveries in Canada (excluding Quebec) between 2003 and 2010 (n=2 193 425) was obtained from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. (bmj.com)
  • Influencing organisational culture to improve hospital performance in care of patients with acute myocardial infarction: a mixed-methods intervention study. (ahrq.gov)
  • Methods: Using qualitative methods, we held focus groups with parents and pediatric trauma providers of children hospitalized at a Level I Children's Hospital because of an injury in 2012. (cdc.gov)
  • A panel of four consultants audited the A&E notes and in-patient records of consecutive emergency medical and surgical patients admitted to two hospitals over the same 6 month period. (bmj.com)
  • The percentage of ED visits made by nursing home residents, patients arriving by ambulance, and patients admitted to the hospital increased with age. (cdc.gov)
  • The research included 989 patients admitted to the emergency department at Turku University Hospital with suspected acute appendicitis. (upi.com)
  • The revision was prompted by additional information regarding both the rates at which patients admitted to some acute-care hospitals have unrecognized HIV infection and the potential medical and public health benefits of recognizing HIV infection in persons who have not developed acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. (cdc.gov)
  • University Hospitals of Leicester achieved the highest possible ranking for service quality from the Healthcare Commission five years running - '3 Stars' in 2003/04 and 2004/05 followed by 'Excellent' from 2005/06 to 2007/08. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aim of this study was to give an overview of prisoners' healthcare problems leading to emergency department admission, in order to make recommendations to help to optimise treatment of this target group. (smw.ch)
  • The recent increase in the number of immigrants of Barcelona represents a challenge for the public healthcare system, the emergency department being the most used healthcare service by this group. (biomedcentral.com)
  • One of the most worrisome political issues regarding immigration is the ability of healthcare services to serve the increasing number of immigrants, and to provide equity of access to healthcare services among this population [ 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Using Intermountain Healthcare data from 2005-2014, we examined distributions of several relevant attributes of emergency department visits by children under 2 years of age for bronchiolitis. (jmir.org)
  • 1 The number of visits to primary-care and emergency departments, and ambulatory surgeries have all increased in the past decade making ambulatory care an important setting for healthcare delivery and therefore for patient safety. (bmj.com)
  • In fact, many healthcare professionals consider the question of whether to test patients for MRSA before admission to be one of the most compelling issues in modern healthcare. (infectioncontroltoday.com)
  • It is, however, important to represents an important step towards driving quality improvement in note that population-derived scores should general y not be used to SA's private healthcare sector. (who.int)
  • readmissions fell for healthier patients, but hospitals struggled with sicker patients and population health metrics also did not improve. (milbank.org)
  • Implications The high population burden and costs associated with injuries in the UK demonstrates the need for sustained policies and interventions in support of prevention. (bmj.com)
  • All parents and health professionals recommended that interventions be offered to parents either in the emergency department or close to discharge among admissions. (cdc.gov)
  • Successful participants have lowered costs by focusing on reducing avoidable hospital admissions, professional services, and postacute care utilization. (milbank.org)
  • The s tudy population included all adults residing in the area of study and visiting the emergency department of Hospital del Mar in 2004. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This is important because of the ED's role in treating acute illness and injury in older adults and providing a pathway to these patients for hospital admission. (cdc.gov)
  • However, some hospital systems are creating special geriatric EDs, which are spaces in the regular ED dedicated to the care of older adults. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Adverse drug effects account for at least 5% of hospital admissions for older adults. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Divisions of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Gastroenterology (Freedman), Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Alberta Children's Hospital, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta. (cmaj.ca)
  • Earlier this fall, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Children's Hospital Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry called the situation a national emergency. (keranews.org)
  • Heidi Baskfield is vice president of population health and advocacy at Children's Hospital Colorado. (keranews.org)
  • CHATTERJEE: Dr. Tami Benton is psychiatrist-in-chief at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. (keranews.org)
  • The health card, issued by the Health Department of each Autonomous Community through the primary care centers, is the official document that ensures this health coverage and is the basis of the health register. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Within hospital admission data ( n = 2066), most cases were either referred from primary care (28.8%, n = 596) or admitted via accident and emergency (A&E) (29.5%, n = 610). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Patients may present with Lyme disease in either a primary care or hospital setting, with an unknown proportion receiving confirmatory laboratory diagnosis. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We need a full-scale plan for addressing the issues felt in social care, through primary care and into our secondary care in hospitals. (allianceparty.org)
  • Unnecessary delays in accident and emergency departments: do medical and surgical senior house officers need to vet admissions? (bmj.com)
  • Moreover, 14.36% (432/3008) of the hospital admissions from the emergency department were deemed unnecessary. (jmir.org)
  • The model set fixed Medicare global budgets for hospitals-a set annual amount of funding to cover the vast majority of inpatient and outpatient services-based on historical spending trends and with the aim of limiting cost increases and unnecessary utilization. (milbank.org)
  • These findings will hopefully encourage physicians to implement low-dose CT modalities at emergency departments for acute appendicitis imaging to avoid unnecessary radiation in this very large patient population," Salminen said in a journal news release. (upi.com)
  • Routinely collected data can be used to reveal local patterns of admission and costs. (bmj.com)
  • Using the population-based data from the Colorado and Utah Medical Practices Study, we identified adverse events that occurred in an ambulatory care setting and led to hospital admission. (bmj.com)
  • Data from 1st January 1998 to 31st December 2015 was retrieved from the two administrative hospital datasets (HES and PEDW), based on patients coded with Lyme disease. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Patient Episode Database for Wales (PEDW) is a central administrative database that collects admissions data from NHS hospitals in Wales [ 17 , 18 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Follow-up data were collected at two timepoints: an early time point 2-7 months after hospital discharge and a later time point 10-14 months after hospital discharge. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Contacts with primary and secondary healhtcare prior to sucide: Case-control whole-population-based study using person-level linked routine data in Wales, UK, 2000-2017. (suicideinfo.ca)
  • Data for the state of Victoria (estimated population 4.7 million) were analyzed to complement the national data, particularly with respect to secular trends, using a log linear Poisson regression model, and circumstances of injury, including the identification of potential risk factors. (bmj.com)
  • Sources were the Victorian Inpatient Minimum Database (hospital admissions), the Victorian Injury Surveillance System (emergency department presentations), and the Victorian Coroner's Facilitation System (coronial data). (bmj.com)
  • Linked hospital and mental health service data were used to assess in-hospital death, repeat self-harm and mental health service use in the 12 months following index self-harm hospital admission. (deepdyve.com)
  • To tackle the issue at Changi General Hospital (CGH), Dr Chow Wai Leng and her team waded into three years' worth of data: Who were the patients coming to the department and what were their numbers? (todayonline.com)
  • With more available data, software and human expertise, the hospitals have been able to take on problems ranging from the simple to the increasingly complex. (todayonline.com)
  • Changi General Hospital dived into data of thousands of diabetic patients under its Health Management Unit tele-health programme, and found that it was patients with poorly controlled diabetes who benefitted most from the periodic phone calls from nurses. (todayonline.com)
  • This involves the use of environmental contamination and health outcome data from large populations within a geographic area such as an AOC or AOC county. (cdc.gov)
  • In two studies in which data were obtained regarding previous HIV testing or diagnosis, 63% and 65% of the HIV seropositive patients were unaware of their HIV infection before hospital admission (2,5). (cdc.gov)
  • Between 2006 and 2011, there was a 25% increase in the number of people visiting US emergency rooms for essential hypertension, according to a new analysis of data from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample. (medscape.com)
  • This article describes experiences in the community of Göteborg over 20 years with regard to treatment, outcome, and predictors of outcome among patients hospitalised alive after out of hospital cardiac arrest. (bmj.com)
  • NSW is the most populous state in Australia with a diverse urban and rural We model ed outcome time series as population rates for population of 7.5 mil ion over 800 000 km2. (who.int)
  • Although the federal government recently issued one-time health care transfers, intended to relieve immediate pressures on the health care system and alleviate pressures on emergency departments, 6 the money came with no requirement that provinces increase the number of staffed hospital beds, the root cause of overcrowding in emergency departments. (cmaj.ca)
  • Although it may seem that hospital-based efforts would be futile when there are no hospital beds left for use, concerted efforts initiated by senior hospital administrators have been shown to facilitate patients' disposition from the emergency department. (cmaj.ca)
  • While the number of patients presenting to A&E departments is worrying, the most pressing issue is the lack of beds for admission. (allianceparty.org)
  • The number of beds available in our hospitals has not kept up with population increases, and it is time that investment is made in building capacity before the situation gets any worse. (allianceparty.org)
  • national reporting of aggregate case and death analyzed to assess the usefulness of COVID-19-associated counts, which CDC compiles from official public health hospital admission rates as a primary indicator for monitoring jurisdiction sources, will also be discontinued ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Drugs with a particularly high rate of ADR related admissions per unit dispensed were nitrofurantoin and insulin (617 and 182 admissions per 1,000,000 defined daily doses), while low rates were seen for diuretics and benzodiazepines (10 and 7 admissions per 1,000,000 defined daily doses). (nih.gov)
  • Use of emergency departments increased at rates higher than population growth, and May to August were the busiest months. (cmaj.ca)
  • 2 Hospitals do not operate safely when occupancy rates exceed 90% for many days in a row, 3 and many Canadian hospitals have been exceeding 100% occupancy for months on end. (cmaj.ca)
  • Better treatment in the community that reduces health and social care needs of Alzheimer's patients would reduce admission rates. (bmj.com)
  • Living alone, poor living circumstances and functional problems all raise admission rates, and so major cuts in social care budgets increase the risk of high-cost admissions which older people do not want. (bmj.com)
  • There was no significant difference in the rates of diagnostic error or inappropriate admissions between those patients seen by an A&E SHO only, and those seen in A&E by the A&E and ward SHOs. (bmj.com)
  • It accounts for 1% to 1.5% of emergency department visits, resulting in high hospital admission rates and significant medical costs. (aafp.org)
  • We aimed to compare emergency department utilisation rates between Spanish-born and foreign-born residents in a public hospital of Barcelona. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Estimated numbers (and rates per 100 000) for UK population extrapolations were 750 999 (1240) for hospital admissions, 7 982 947 (13 339) for emergency department attendances and 22,185 (36.8) for injury related deaths, in the financial year 2005/6. (bmj.com)
  • This includes care to Aboriginal patients in the community at rates that are more than four times higher than the non Aboriginal population. (nsw.gov.au)
  • Since previous CDC recommendations regarding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) counseling and testing of patients in acute-care hospitals were published in 1987, studies have described HIV seroprevalence rates ranging from 0.3% to 6.0% among various patient populations (2-7). (cdc.gov)
  • The excessive utilization rates for patients aged over 22 lengths of time patients may wait before years from 1993-2003 in United States treatment in the ED may negatively colour hospitals [ 1 ]. (who.int)
  • Over the same period, however, admission rates decreased, from 10.47% in 2006 to 8.85% in 2011. (medscape.com)
  • In this role, they will round on the inpatients, see consults and trauma activations in the hospital, operate, take call, and staff clinic in an identical manner to the ACS faculty. (unm.edu)
  • Logistic regression components of zero-inflated negative binomial regression models showed no differences in the odds of (hospital-treated) self-harm reoccurrence between Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and non- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse self-harm inpatients. (deepdyve.com)
  • The rate of hospital admissions among adolescents increased by 54% above the expected rate during the pandemic. (medscape.com)
  • It treats in excess of 1 million patients per annum, delivers 10,000 babies a year and provides the largest emergency service (admissions and ED attendances). (wikipedia.org)
  • There was a reduction in long-term care admission after ischemic stroke, and an increase in discharge home or to rehabilitation for both stroke types. (ices.on.ca)
  • Medicare spending fell 2.8% relative to a comparison group, driven by a 4.1% reduction in total hospital expenditures, and contributed to slower spending growth systemwide. (milbank.org)
  • Examples of conditions that hospitals are often able to monitor and support at home are congestive heart failure, urinary tract infection, acute kidney disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (manatt.com)
  • BACKGROUND: Stroke patients are usually admitted to hospital for their acute care and rehabilitation. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Specialist coronary care and respiratory disease facilities are currently based at Glenfield Hospital, with a strong international reputation for medical research in cardiac and respiratory health. (wikipedia.org)
  • 4 Quality of care decreases, staff retention becomes problematic and overcrowding of emergency departments, a symptom of the problem, is assured. (cmaj.ca)
  • 3 Given federal and provincial leaders' inertia over increasing acute care capacity, hospital leadership, staff and physicians are left without system-level supports and will remain in a perpetual state of crisis management to mitigate harms to patients and staff. (cmaj.ca)
  • Using the emergency department as the gateway to facilitate care or planned admission is not a patient-centred option, as patients with nonemergent conditions sit in crowded waiting rooms and have extended lengths of stay. (cmaj.ca)
  • Statistical analyses examined effects of cognition, physical health, mental health, sociodemographic factors and living circumstances on risk of admission to care home or hospital over 6 months and associated costs, adjusting for repeated observations. (bmj.com)
  • We looked at three institutional destinations separately: care home, general hospital inpatient and mental health inpatient. (bmj.com)
  • Follow-up care for patients following a hospital admission or emergency department visit. (uchealth.org)
  • On any given day in our emergency departments, there are between 15 and 40 children with mental health needs seeking care. (keranews.org)
  • The emergency care episodes were selected from the Emergency Department register, and the population figures from the Statistics Department of Barcelona. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The lack of differences in minor and gynaecological emergency care supports the hypothesis that immigrants overcome certain barriers by using the emergency department to access to health services. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We reviewed 14 700-hospital discharge records and found 587 adverse events of which 70 were ambulatory care adverse events (AAEs) and 31 were ambulatory care preventable adverse events (APAEs). (bmj.com)
  • This population entering secondary care through A&E suggest a poor understanding of the recommended care pathways for symptoms related to Lyme disease by the general population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Since 1989 Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) have recorded every 'episode' of admitted patient care (APC) delivered in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in England [ 16 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • UNRWA's health care services are provided through a network of 51 primary health care facilities and one hospital in Qalqilia town in the West Bank. (who.int)
  • We determined trends in discharge home and to rehabilitation, and admission to long-term care at 1 year. (ices.on.ca)
  • Conclusion - We observed substantial reductions in acute stroke case fatality from 2003-2017 with a concurrent increase in discharge to home or rehabilitation and a decrease in long-term care admissions, suggesting continuous improvements in stroke systems of care. (ices.on.ca)
  • While the Maryland model is often touted as unique for state health care systems, the evaluation also showed that hospitals took similar steps and followed similar pathways as organizations nationwide participating in a wide range of payment models. (milbank.org)
  • 4 However, this chain (early access, early bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation, early defibrillation, and early advanced cardiac life support) does not include the hospital care of initial survivors. (bmj.com)
  • Health systems across the country are actively implementing or considering remote monitoring for a wide range of conditions and levels of acuity, ranging from population health management to episodic care to hospital-at-home. (manatt.com)
  • Home-based care programs that leverage remote monitoring are an opportunity to enable hospitals to preserve precious inpatient bed capacity for their sickest patients and to support patients. (manatt.com)
  • Health systems should look to other sources of revenue, such as direct contractual revenue from employers, health systems and customers, as well as indirect cost savings, such as lower spending on employee health and lower total cost of care for at-risk populations, to get a full view of the ROI of remote monitoring. (manatt.com)
  • They will be appointed as an instructor in the Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, and be credentialed as a member of the medical staff. (unm.edu)
  • The NSW Health network includes 15 Local Health Districts and the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network that provide care to patients during acute and severe phases of mental illness in hospitals, prisons and community service environments. (nsw.gov.au)
  • The NSW Government is reforming its mental health funding model to incrementally shift the balance from hospital care to enhanced community care. (nsw.gov.au)
  • In anonymous unlinked serologic surveys conducted by CDC, 0.2%-8.9% of persons receiving care in emergency departments and 0.1%-7.8% of persons admitted to acute-care hospitals were HIV antibody positive (8-10). (cdc.gov)
  • Voluntary and confidential HIV counseling and testing of patients in acute-care hospitals are useful for a) assisting in differential diagnosis of medical conditions, b) initiating early medical management of HIV infection, and c) informing infected persons or persons at risk for infection about behaviors that can prevent HIV transmission. (cdc.gov)
  • ABSTRACT We investigated the waiting time for patients before seeing a physician in the emergency department of a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (who.int)
  • Population distribution measurements of health indicators for chronic diseases can be used to target health care and community resources to areas with greatest need. (cdc.gov)
  • A hospital may provide emergency medical care, diagnostic testing, intensive treatment, or surgery, which may or may not require admission. (msdmanuals.com)
  • hospital admission or medical care treatment using as key variable the ICD-10 code. (who.int)
  • At present, no operational definition of appropriate hospital admission for emergency department patients with bronchiolitis exists. (jmir.org)
  • We completed the first operational definition of appropriate hospital admission for emergency department patients with bronchiolitis. (jmir.org)
  • A standardized approach to syncope evaluation reduces hospital admissions and medical costs, and increases diagnostic accuracy. (aafp.org)
  • HIV testing also must not be relied upon as a means of infection control in the hospital because a) test results may not be available in emergency settings, b) HIV tests will not detect a newly infected person who has not yet seroconverted, and c) other bloodborne pathogens (e.g., hepatitis B) may be present. (cdc.gov)
  • 2,3 Influenza is a vaccine- in hospital EDs in Australia include fever, an unspecified preventable disease, 1 and the extent of its contribution to infection or a non-respiratory il ness. (who.int)
  • Of the respiratory visits, 73.4% did not require admission. (who.int)
  • Hospitals can establish pathways for patients to access urgent but nonemergent diagnostic testing, receive anticipated red blood cell transfusions and have planned hospital admissions without involving the emergency department. (cmaj.ca)
  • Our aims were to explore the demographic characteristics of Lyme disease patients within the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and Patient Episode Database for Wales (PEDW), and to describe patient pathways. (biomedcentral.com)
  • UNMH cares for a diverse patient population with complex and urgent surgical needs over a large geographic catchment area. (unm.edu)
  • From a population-based sample recruited in Copenhagen in 1981-3 and 1991-4, 2386 individuals with COPD (according to lung function tests) were identified and followed until 2000. (bmj.com)
  • 2 Reducing admissions to hospital due to COPD exacerbations is a prime aim in the management of the disease 3, 4 because of its high economic and social costs. (bmj.com)
  • Extending the availability of hospital services, such as diagnostic imaging and specialist consultation, into evenings and weekends has been shown to decrease inpatient lengths of stay and may prevent need for hospital admission. (cmaj.ca)
  • Detaining emergency medical and surgical patients in the A&E department for further assessment by ward SHOs does not alter inappropriate admission rate or improve diagnostic accuracy. (bmj.com)
  • On a trouvé que la sensibilité et la spécificité des compétences des médecins référents en matière de diagnostic étaient généralement faibles, notamment pour l'anxiété. (who.int)
  • Secondary objectives were to examine individual factors associated with venous thromboembolism in this population and to compare the risk of venous thromboembolism in patients with ankle fractures against a priori-selected control groups . (bvsalud.org)
  • Emergency department (ED) presentations for substance abuse may be affirmations of mental health conditions. (springer.com)
  • Two comparable consultant-led A&E departments sharing the same catchment population and receiving similar numbers of new patients each year were studied. (bmj.com)
  • As Canadian hospitals are routinely operating at more than 90% occupancy, the additional hours during which an admitted patient waits for a test or procedure that may facilitate their discharge represent time spent by another patient in a waiting room chair. (cmaj.ca)
  • Why is it permissible for patient-to-provider ratios to exceed safe thresholds in the emergency department but not in other areas of the hospital? (cmaj.ca)
  • Major indicators for an increased chance of survival were initial ventricular fibrillation/tachycardia, bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation, arrest being witnessed, and the patient being conscious on admission. (bmj.com)
  • Three closely related but distinct reasons might be responsible for this wide variability in results, the nature of the patient population under investigation, the knowledge of hospital doctors and their attitude towards psychiatry, and the attitude of the patients themselves towards psychiatric consultation in the context of their current physical illness [3,4,8,9]. (who.int)
  • should be done in the ED. However, a standardized cognitive assessment is appropriate for any older patient visiting the ED. Cognitive impairment affects the reliability of the patient history as well as the diagnosis, increases the risk of delirium during a hospital stay, and must be considered when planning the patient's disposition. (msdmanuals.com)
  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust was created in April 2000 with the merger of the Leicester General Hospital, Glenfield Hospital and Leicester Royal Infirmary. (wikipedia.org)
  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust provide services across their three sites with Accident and Emergency facilities based at the Royal Infirmary site. (wikipedia.org)
  • The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is supported by multiple charitable organisations including: Leicester Hospitals Charity Heart Link Keep the Beat These charities provide additional funding and support to the NHS, patients and relatives. (wikipedia.org)
  • Assessing the impact of an educational program on decreasing prescribing errors at a university hospital. (ahrq.gov)
  • The University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) in Albuquerque is the State's only ACS verified Level 1 Trauma Center and only academic medical center and is the primary teaching hospital for the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. (unm.edu)
  • Classifying a test as confirmatory, presumptive, or supportive laboratory evidence is intended solely to assist a public health agency with case investigation and case counting, in the context of population health, that will lead to public health action. (cdc.gov)
  • To help mitigate extreme levels of crowding, other strategies include extending hours during which procedures and consults in hospitals are available. (cmaj.ca)
  • Avoid computed tomography of the head in asymptomatic adult patients in the emergency department with syncope, insignificant trauma, and a normal neurologic evaluation. (aafp.org)
  • In May 2002, clinicians at the Blue Mountains Hospital (BMH), in the Wentworth Area Health Service, NSW, a 1-hour drive west of Sydney's central business district, reported an increase in adult admissions for severe community-acquired pneumonia. (vetscite.org)
  • Even though cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the main of cause of the global burden of diseases attributable to PM exposure, it remains difficult to show reliable associations between exposure to wildland fire smoke and cardiovascular disease risk in population-based studies. (frontiersin.org)
  • Work was carried out to determine whether patients requiring emergency medical or surgical admission to hospital via accident and emergency (A&E) departments benefit from initial assessment by the ward senior house officer (SHO) as well as the A&E SHO. (bmj.com)
  • In the other hospital patients were seen by the A&E SHO and the medical or surgical SHO from the admitting unit. (bmj.com)
  • The medical teams did not recognize 19.9 % of all ADEs present upon admission {60.4 ADEs [95 % confidence interval (CI) 51.5-70.8] per 100 hospitalizations} and 20.3 % of all ADEs occurring during the hospital stay [47.2 ADEs (95 % CI 39.4-56.5) per 100 hospitalizations]. (springer.com)
  • 11 ] reports that in a general inpatient population, 24 % of ADEs subsequently identified by the researchers were not recognized by the medical teams. (springer.com)
  • As more SA private sector medical to be inferior to a model that uses `current admission to hospital for funders explore their use, it is important that the quality of the AMI' as a risk factor. (who.int)
  • Both objectives are only achievable through reliable and adequate research in the field, which should not only investigate the pattern of referral and the compliance with psychiatrists' recommendations, but also assess the knowledge and attitude of both the hospital doctors and the patients, which are crucial determinants in referrals for psychiatric consultation [4]. (who.int)
  • Determination of study population used to derive a bioclinical score that enables identification of patients more likely to develop severe NE. (cdc.gov)
  • 3 Highly visible involvement of hospital leaders, including regular, in-person conversations with emergency department staff, confirms that emergency department crowding is everyone's burden to share and improves staff morale, especially when crowding is severe. (cmaj.ca)
  • High-risk patients with cardiovascular or structural heart disease, history concerning for arrhythmia, abnormal electrocardiographic findings, or severe comorbidities should be admitted to the hospital for further evaluation. (aafp.org)