Associations of Emergency Department Length of Stay With Publicly Reported Quality-of-care Measures. [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVE: The Institute of Medicine identified emergency department (ED) crowding as a critical threat to patient safety. We assess the association between changes in publicly reported ED length of stay (LOS) and changes in quality-of-care measures in a
Chang, Anna Marie +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Objective: This article examines the influence of the implementation of Soteria elements on coercive measures in an acute psychiatric ward after reconstruction in 2017, thereby comparing the year 2016 to the year 2019. The special feature is that this is
Theresa Wolf +3 more
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Glucocorticoid-endocannabinoid interaction in cardiac surgical patients: relationship to early cognitive dysfunction and late depression [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Endocannabinoids (ECs) are rapidly acting immune-modulatory lipid-signaling molecules that are important for adaptation to stressful and aversive situations. They are known to interact with glucocorticoids and other stress-responsive systems.
Beiras-Fernandez, Andres +9 more
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Decreasing Duration of Mechanical Restraint Episodes by Increasing Registered Nurse Assessment and Surveillance in an Acute Psychiatric Hospital [PDF]
, 2018 Background Application of mechanical restraints is a high-risk emergency measure that requires psychiatric intensive care in order to assure patient safety and expedite release at the earliest opportunity.
Allen, Diane
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The admission experience survey italian version (I-AES). a factor analytic study on a sample of 156 acute psychiatric in-patients [PDF]
, 2019 Coercive treatments are often regarded as an inevitable and yet highly debated feature of psychiatric care. Perceived coercion is often reported by patients involuntarily committed as well as their voluntary counterparts. The Admission Experience Survey (
Biondi, Massimo +6 more
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The bridge between classical and ‘synthetic’/chemical psychoses: towards a clinical, psychopathological and therapeutic perspective [PDF]
, 2019 © 2019 Orsolini, Chiappini, Papanti, De Berardis, Corkery and Schifano. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Chiappini, Stephania +5 more
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Well-Being With Objects: Evaluating a Museum Object-Handling Intervention for Older Adults in Health Care Settings. [PDF]
, 2016 The extent to which a museum object-handling intervention enhanced older adult well-being across three health care settings was examined. The program aimed to determine whether therapeutic benefits could be measured objectively using clinical scales ...
Chatterjee, HJ, Thomson, LJ
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Pharmacist intervention in patient monitoring in a psychiatric setting [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVES: To develop a ‘Patient Monitoring Tool’ (PMT) to evaluate the quality of pharmaceutical care provided to patients in a psychiatric setting and to determine benefits of ward-based pharmacist services in this setting.
Azzopardi, Lilian M., Mamo, Maria
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BMC Medical EducationBackground The increasing trend of patients with mental health conditions seeking emergency care is a global phenomenon. Numerous studies have emphasized the importance of emergency physicians' ability to recognize and manage psychiatric emergencies ...
Wei-Chen Chen +3 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2021 Background Patients with schizophrenia need continuous integrated healthcare, but many discontinue their treatment, often experiencing adverse outcomes.
Arnold P. M. van der Lee +3 more
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