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Showing 1 to 20 of 214 for “"Hospital stay"”.
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Older Adults’ Implementation of Discharge Instructions Following an Acute Care Hospital Stay
… for patients after discharge from an acute care hospitalization. The discharge process starts on admission to the hospital and continues until discharged. Many patients rely on informal caregivers to provide support after a discharge. However, it is often unclear whether the patients or …
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Length of Hospital Stay, Delirium and Discharge Status Outcomes Associated With Anticholinergic Drug Use in Elderly Hospitalized Dementia Patients
… Gill et al., 2005; Kogut et al., 2005). Methods: Hospitalized patients > 65 years of age with dementia (AD, other dementias, or with inferred dementia based on ChEi or NMDA antagonist medication use) were studied using UHC clinical database. This document was created in Microsoft Word 2000. …
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Ban Bedcentricity: Stimulating patients’ physical activity during hospital stay by cultural change. Beter uit bed: Stimuleren van fysieke activiteit bij patiënten tijdens een ziekenhuisopname door middel van cultuurverandering.
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Study of epidemiology, management and outcome of acute kidney injury post noncardiac surgery over 12 months at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town
… urine output. It occurs in approximately 1-7% of hospitalized patients and is a major predictor of morbidity and mortality. It increases the costs and duration of hospital stay. AKI has been extensively studied post cardiac surgery, but there has been little attention on AKI occurring after non …
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A Bronchiolitis Study: The Overuse of Bronchiolitis Therapies in Children Admitted into the Hospital
… and the effect it had on the patient’s average hospital stay. Past medical records were used in this clinical study. Statistical analyses and graphs depicted the results of ineffective procedures causing about an hour of difference in hospital stay for the patient, as well as a low amount of …
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Physician compliance with registered dietitian recommendations in total parenteral nutrition patients
… patients and its effect on patient length of hospital stay, days of TPN administration, body weights, albumin and prealburnin levels, and mortality rates. Closed medical charts, from a 350-bed acute care hospital, were reviewed for 202 patients who had received TPN during 2007. Data was …
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Evaluation of pediatric acute ulcerative colitis management protocol
… population with severe disease that requires hospitalization. This study evaluates the impact of implementing an acute UC management protocol on 39 pediatric patients. After analysis, significant trends were shown for admitted pediatric patients post-protocol implementation, helping to …
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Enhancing recovery in non-critical care emergency bowel resection
… were post-operative complications and length of hospital stay. Study endpoints were inpatient discharge home, transfer to another speciality, death, insertion/re- insertion of NG tube and re-operation.<br/><br/>Results: Between October 2013 and February 2015, 61 patients (27 ERP, 34 TRAD) met the …
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The Patient Experience as Rated By Consumers
… a numeric rating (0-10) to their overall hospital stay. The overall satisfaction question is significant because it is considered to be the “top box” question. The top box question is the patientrated experience measure reported to Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and …
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Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) in penetrating abdominal trauma
… strong evidence for decreased lengths of hospital stay without increase in postoperative complications. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the role and benefits, if any, of ERAS / ERP (early recovery programmes) implemented in patients undergoing emergency laparotomy for trauma at a …
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An investigation into morning light therapy, circadian rhythms and sleep-wake cycles in postoperative cardiac patients
Hospitalisation, surgery and anaesthesia have been shown to cause disruption of sleep-wake cycles and circadian rhythms in animal models and in humans. These disturbances may adversely affect the well-being and recovery of patients. In this thesis, I describe a stepwise investigation to determine …
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The effect of intravenous fluids and other factors on patient recovery following elective abdominal surgery
… (3.2-6.9) versus 4.7 (3.7-6.1) days; p=0.80) or hospital stay (5.9 (4.0-7.9) versus 5.8 (4.1-7.3) days; p=0.90). Analysing our findings in the context of what is already known suggests that the immediate perioperative period when the effect of the metabolic-endocrine response is at its greatest …
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Selective non-operative management of abdominal gunshot wounds at Groote Schuur Hospital : a cohort study of clinical outcomes and financial costs
… or mortality in patients and decreases total hospital costs. [Methods] A retrospective cohort study of257 consecutive patients admitted to a level I trauma centre in South Africa for the management of abdominal gunshot wounds over a one year period from I April 2004 to 31 March 2005 was …
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Outcomes of failure of selective non-operative management of penetrating abdominal trauma
… as a primary outcome, mortality and length of hospital stay as secondary outcomes. Results: A total of 944 patients with PAT were managed over the 33-month study period. After excluding 100 patients undergoing damage control surgery; 402 (47.6%) and 542 (52.4%) patients were treated with SNOM …
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To determine the short-term outcome of combined Ventriculoperitoneal Shunting and Myelomeningocele repair at the University Teaching Hospital
… majority (90%) were referred from clinics and hospitals outside Lusaka, and most hail from poor socioeconomic backgrounds (64%). The malformation occurred in the lumbar and sacral regions in 77.4%. Most of the patients presented with normal and mild forms of neurological impairment. Ultrasound …
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To determine the short-term outcome of combined Ventriculoperitoneal Shunting and Myelomeningocele repair at the University Teaching Hospital
… majority (90%) were referred from clinics and hospitals outside Lusaka, and most hail from poor socioeconomic backgrounds (64%). The malformation occurred in the lumbar and sacral regions in 77.4%. Most of the patients presented with normal and mild forms of neurological impairment. Ultrasound …
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