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Post-discharge extended care contributes to the disease control of patients with COPD: a Chinese study. [PDF]

Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis, 2018
Min Li,1 Rong Hu,2 Xiaoyang Liu,3 Shuping Tao,4 Biaoxue Rong1,5 1Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shenmu Hospital, Shenmu, Shaanxi, China; 2Department of Nursing, Shenmu Hospital, Shenmu, Shaanxi, China; 3Department of Surgery, Shenmu Hospital ...
Li M, Hu R, Liu X, Tao S, Rong B.
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Effectiveness of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in Long-Term Care: A Five-Year Prospective Single-Center Study

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2022
Objective. To report the effectiveness of the antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) in a long-term care (LTC) facility, by analyzing the change in antimicrobial consumption and cost and multidrug resistance (MDR) rates over a 5-year period. Method.
Maha Mahmoud Alawi, Wail A Tashkandi, Mohamed A Basheikh, Faten M Warshan, Hazem Ahmed Ghobara, Rosemarie B. Ramos, Mary Leilani Guiriba, Omar Ayob, Safiah Saad Janah, Anees Ahmad Sindi, Suheib Ali Abdulhamid Ahmed, Salah Dammnan, Esam Ibraheem Azhar, Ali A. Rabaan, Salma Alnahdi, Maged Mohammed Bamahakesh   +15 more
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Comparison of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Upper Limb Recovery Among Patients With Recent Stroke [PDF]

Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020
Objective To compare the efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on upper limb function recovery among patients who recently had stroke.
Ka Ying Doris Miu, Ching Kok, Sau Shan Leung, Elaine Y. L. Chan, Elaine Wong   +4 more
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Costs and economic evaluations of Quality Improvement Collaboratives in healthcare: a systematic review

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background In increasingly constrained healthcare budgets worldwide, efforts to improve quality and reduce costs are vital. Quality Improvement Collaboratives (QICs) are often used in healthcare settings to implement proven clinical interventions within ...
Lenore de la Perrelle, Gorjana Radisic, Monica Cations, Billingsley Kaambwa, Gaery Barbery, Kate Laver   +5 more
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Nephrological Care Extended to Immigrants [PDF]

Nephron, 2018
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Li Cavoli, Gioacchino, Turdo, Rosanna, Li Cavoli, Tancredi Vincenzo   +2 more
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COVID-19 Infection in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Associated with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome

Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2021
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is usually less severe and less prevalent in the pediatric population. Children with preexisting conditions such as neuromuscular impairments and chronic lung disease are more susceptible to COVID-19 and may incur ...
Rafat Mosalli, Amirah Al Matrafi, Mohammed A. Ghazi, Gamal A. Aboumousatafa, Bosco Paes   +4 more
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Do functional status and Medicare claims data improve the predictive accuracy of an electronic health record mortality index? Findings from a national Veterans Affairs cohort

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Electronic health record (EHR) prediction models may be easier to use in busy clinical settings since EHR data can be auto-populated into models. This study assessed whether adding functional status and/or Medicare claims data (which are often
William James Deardorff, Bocheng Jing, Sun Y. Jeon, W. John Boscardin, Alexandra K. Lee, Kathy Z. Fung, Sei J. Lee   +6 more
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Psychotropic medications in older people in residential care facilities and associations with quality of life: a cross-sectional study

BMC Geriatrics, 2018
Background Psychotropic medications have been associated with many adverse outcomes in older people living in residential care. Home-like models of residential care may be preferable to traditional models of care and we hypothesized that this model may ...
Stephanie L. Harrison, Clare Bradley, Rachel Milte, Enwu Liu, Lisa Kouladjian O’Donnell, Sarah N. Hilmer, Maria Crotty   +6 more
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Evaluating an extended rehabilitation service for stroke patients (EXTRAS): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Development of longer term stroke rehabilitation services is limited by lack of evidence of effectiveness for specific interventions and service models.
McMeekin, P, Anne-Marie Laverty, Price, Christopher, Laverty, AM, Laverty, Anne Marie, Avril Drummond, Lisa Shaw, Christopher Price, Peter McMeekin, Rodgers, H, Hills, K, Cant, R, Cant, Robin, Drummond, Avril, McMeekin, Peter, Christopher McKevitt, Forster, A, Ford, Gary, Howel, D, Gary A Ford, Katie Hills, Shaw, L, Drummond, A, Denise Howel, Forster, Anne, McKevitt, Christopher, Ford, GA, Rodgers, Helen, Robin Cant, Helen Rodgers, Price, C, Ford, Gary A., Hills, Katie, Anne Forster, Helen Rodgers, Howel, Denise, Laverty, Anne-Marie, Shaw, Lisa, McKevitt, C   +38 more
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Costs of potentially inappropriate medication use in residential aged care facilities

BMC Geriatrics, 2018
Background The potential harms of some medications may outweigh their potential benefits (inappropriate medication use). Despite recommendations to avoid the use of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in older adults, the prevalence of PIM use ...
S. L. Harrison, L. Kouladjian O’Donnell, R. Milte, S. M. Dyer, E. S. Gnanamanickam, C. Bradley, E. Liu, S. N. Hilmer, M. Crotty   +8 more
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