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Antibiotic Overuse After Hospital Discharge: A Multi-hospital Cohort Study
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020 Background Antibiotics are commonly prescribed to patients as they leave the hospital. We aimed to create a comprehensive metric to characterize antibiotic overuse after discharge among hospitalized patients treated for pneumonia or urinary tract ...
Valerie M. Vaughn +12 more
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Pharmacy, 2020 The ethos of the pharmacy service at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) could be described as ‘let’s make things better’. We have a history of innovation involving technology and people; one without the other does not work but together they are ...
Alistair Gray +9 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2019 BackgroundResearchers have shown that hospitalisation can decrease older persons’ ability to manage life at home after hospital discharge. Inadequate practices of discharge can be associated with adverse outcomes and an increased risk of readmission ...
C. H. Hestevik +4 more
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Functional status in ICU survivors and out of hospital outcomes: a cohort study [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVES: Functional status at hospital discharge may be a risk factor for adverse events among survivors of critical illness. We sought to examine the association between functional status at hospital discharge in survivors of critical care and risk ...
Amrein, Karin +5 more
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Frequency and trends of hospital treated pesticide poisonings in Germany 2000–2014
GMS German Medical Science, 2017 Objectives: To analyze the occurrence, trends, and patterns of hospital treated pesticide poisonings in Germany Methods: Data from the German diagnoses statistics of hospital discharges are analyzed for the years 2000–2014.
Moebus, Susanne, Boedeker, Wolfgang
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Nurse and Patient Perceptions of Discharge Readiness in Relation to Postdischarge Utilization [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Prevention of hospital readmission and emergency department (ED) utilization will be a crucial strategy in reducing health care costs. There has been limited research on nurse assessment and patient perceptions of discharge readiness in ...
Bobay, Kathleen L. +2 more
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The Hospital Discharge Survey [PDF]
Public Health Reports (1896-1970), 1967 A NATIONAL PROGRAM for producing short-term-hospital patient statistics on a continuing basis did not exist in the United States until the advent of the Hospital Discharge Survey in 1965. Prior to that date, patient statistics were being collected on a continuing basis for Federal hospitals, including those administered by the Veterans Administration ...
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Diagnostic error increases mortality and length of hospital stay in patients presenting through the emergency room [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Diagnostic errors occur frequently, especially in the emergency room. Estimates about the consequences of diagnostic error vary widely and little is known about the factors predicting error.
Birrenbach, T. +9 more
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The Bone & Joint Journal, 2018 Aims The objective of this study was to compare early postoperative functional outcomes and time to hospital discharge between conventional jig‐based total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and robotic‐arm assisted TKA. Patients and Methods This prospective cohort
B. Kayani +4 more
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Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2015 An Acute Coronary Syndrome is a fine example of the communicative difficulties that precede and characterize hospital discharge. In recent years, due to the rapid changes in therapeutic approaches, hospitalizations have become extremely brief.
Francesco Fattirolli +1 more
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