Severity of Illness Confusion [PDF]
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2016 To the Editor:I’d like to thank Drs. Tasker and Randolph (1) for a thoughtful and occasionally provocative commentary on the article published in a recent issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pollack et al (2).
M. Pollack
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Mental capacity, insight, and severity of illness in psychiatric in-patients: A prospective study [PDF]
Indian Journal of PsychiatryBackground: Capacity is a dynamic, task-specific, time-specific clinical construct that may be impaired either temporarily or permanently due to the medical or psychiatric illness, necessitating varying degrees of support from caregivers.
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Severity of illness and the weekend mortality effect: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Weekend admission to the hospital has been found to be associated with higher in-hospital mortality rates, but the cause for this phenomenon remains controversial.
Eric Bressman +3 more
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SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies in patients with varying severity of acute COVID-19 illness [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 In order to support vaccine development, and to aid convalescent plasma therapy, it would be important to understand the kinetics, timing and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies (NAbs), and their association with clinical disease severity ...
Chandima Jeewandara +12 more
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Severity of illness and risk of mortality in Mayo Clinic’s virtual hybrid advanced care at home program: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background In July 2020, Mayo Clinic launched Advanced Care at Home (ACH), a high-acuity virtual hybrid hospital-at-home model (HaH) of care at Mayo Clinic Florida and Northwest Wisconsin, an urban destination medical center and a rural community ...
Margaret R. Paulson +8 more
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Journal of Patient Experience, 2014 Background The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is used by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to assess inpatient satisfaction.
James I. Merlino MD, FACS, FASCRS +5 more
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Evaluation of Severity of Illness Scores in the Pediatric ECMO Population [PDF]
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021 Though commonly used for adjustment of risk, severity of illness and mortality risk prediction scores, based on the first 24 h of intensive care unit (ICU) admission, have not been validated in the pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO ...
Venessa L. Pinto +5 more
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The acute-to-chronic glycemic ratio correlates with the severity of illness at admission in patients with diabetes experiencing acute ischemic stroke [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 Acute hyperglycemia is a powerful indicator of the severity of acute ischemic stroke (AIS); however, the relationship between these two factors is not very clear in patients with diabetes.
Chao Liu +5 more
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THE ACCEPTANCE OF CHANGES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE PANCREATITIS AFTER THE REVISED ATLANTA CLASSIFICATION [PDF]
Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2021 BACKGROUND: New recommendations for the management of patients with acute pancreatitis were set after the Atlanta Classification was revised in 2012. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present systematic review is to assess whether these recommendations have ...
José Roberto ALVES +3 more
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Evaluation of Nail Psoriasis: Delving into Some Useful Scores
Nepal Journal of Dermatology, Venereology & Leprology, 2023 Introduction: Several scoring systems have been established for nail psoriasis severity assessment. However, there is a lack of consensus on these tools.
Sudha Agrawal, Shikha Khare
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