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Evaluating the Causes and Consequences of Leaving the Hospital With Personal Consent in Patients of the Emergency Department

open access: yesHealth in Emergencies & Disasters Quarterly, 2023
Background: Studies show that leaving the hospital with personal consent is increasing. This phenomenon has unpleasant and sometimes irreversible consequences.
Mohammad Abbasi   +3 more
doaj  

A qualitative formative evaluation of a patient facing intervention to improve care transitions for older people moving from hospital to home

open access: yesHealth Expectations, 2022
Background The Partners at Care Transitions (PACTs) intervention was developed to support older people's involvement in hospital to improve outcomes at home. A booklet, question card, record sheet, induction leaflet, and patient‐friendly discharge letter 
Rosie Shannon   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Implementing a Health Team Communication Redesign on Hospital Readmissions Within 30 Days [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background and Rationale Poor communication between health team members can interfere with timely, coordinated preparation for hospital discharge. Research on daily bedside interprofessional health team rounds and nursing bedside shift handoff reports ...
Beiler, Joseph   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Reduced Muscular Carnosine in Proximal Myotonic Myopathy—A Pilot 1H‐MRS Study

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Myotonic dystrophy type 2 (proximal myotonic myopathy, PROMM) is a progressive multisystem disorder with muscular symptoms (proximal weakness, pain, myotonia) and systemic manifestations such as diabetes mellitus, cataracts, and cardiac arrhythmias.
Alexander Gussew   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Opioid Use and Storage Patterns by Patients after Hospital Discharge following Surgery

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
Introduction Opioid-based analgesic therapy represents a cornerstone of pain management after surgery. The recent rise in opioid sales and opioid overdoses suggests it is important to maximize the safety of opioid prescribing after surgery.
K. Bartels   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Daratumumab Treatment for Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP): A Case Report

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is an immune‐mediated neuropathy featuring progressive weakness, sensory deficits, and areflexia. While corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulin, and plasmapheresis are effective first‐line immunotherapies, a subset of patients remains treatment‐refractory.
Xueyu Zhang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANMCO Position Paper: hospital discharge planning: recommendations and standards

open access: yesEuropean Heart Journal, Supplement, 2017
The hospital discharge is often poorly standardized and affected by discontinuity and fragmentation of care, putting patients at high risk of both post-discharge adverse events and early readmission.
M. Mennuni   +21 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Individual Nurse Productivity in Preparing Patients for Discharge Is Associated with Patient Likelihood of 30-Day Return to Hospital [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Objective: Applied to value-based health care, the economic term “individual productivity” refers to the quality of an outcome attributable through a care process to an individual clinician.
Bang, James   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Methods for identifying surgical wound infection after discharge from hospital: a systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Background: Wound infections are a common complication of surgery that add significantly to the morbidity of patients and costs of treatment. The global trend towards reducing length of hospital stay post-surgery and the increase in day case surgery ...
AJ Mangram   +19 more
core   +4 more sources

Age‐Related Characteristics of SYT1‐Associated Neurodevelopmental Disorder

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives We describe the clinical manifestations and developmental abilities of individuals with SYT1‐associated neurodevelopmental disorder (Baker‐Gordon syndrome) from infancy to adulthood. We further describe the neuroradiological and electrophysiological characteristics of the condition at different ages, and explore the associations ...
Sam G. Norwitz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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