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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Patient discharge"”.
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Impact of technology on patient discharge decision making
Approximately 20 to 25 percent of patients discharged from primary healthcare facilities are readmitted within 30 days at a cost of roughly $42 billion dollars per year to insurance providers. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) create a network of healthcare providers aimed at improving the …
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The effectiveness of a "patient discharge information" booklet in patient education programs in Saudi Arabia
1 PDF file (xiv, 230 pages)
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Analysis of a process and computer user interface for data analytics results for patient discharge decision making
… aid for healthcare, a tool to aid in the patient discharge decision. The motivating problem is the large number of patients who are readmitted to hospitals within 30 days of discharge. The design problem addressed here includes identifying the decision process the users should employ, as …
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A Profile of Diabetes-related Below Knee Amputations Using Nation-wide Patient Discharge Data: Patient, Provider, And Insurance Characteristics
<p>Background: Lower extremity amputation among patients with diabetes is a rarely studied topic. Providers' decisions regarding a below-knee Diabetes-Related Lower Extremity Amputation (DRLEA) single vs. repeat DRLEA terminating in a below-knee final amputation status are important for patient …
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Developing a New Model of Care for Patients' Medication Supply at Hospital Discharge: A Multi-Perspective Approach
Hospital discharge is a complex process that can result in errors and delays for patients, particularly around the supply of medicines and communication of information. This programme of work (PoW) aimed to develop an innovative model of care for the supply of medication at hospital discharge to …
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Sustaining a Cultural Change in the Discharge Process
… these incidents are reflective of the lack of discharge preparation, discharge education, and communication within the health care team. Certain factors have been overlooked, such as patient's health literacy, defragmented delivery of resources, and an ineffective process of teaching. …
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Should Hospitals and Managed Care Organizations Compete for the Health of It
… research uses data from the population of inpatient Medicare hospitalization occurrences in Florida during 1995. Seventeen diagnoses are selected and examined using patient discharge data from this state. Measures of local competition, including Herfindahl indices as measures of hospital and …
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Throughput and Nurses' Workloads: Influences on Nurse and Patient Outcomes
Patient turnover, or throughput, through nursing units can significantly impact the workloads of nurses. However, very few staffing measures account for patient throughput, thus underestimating nurses' workloads. Research has shown that when nurse staffing is more favorable, patient and nurse …
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Groundtruth budgeting : a novel approach to semi-supervised relation extraction in medical language
… relation extraction in hospital discharge summaries. Sentences with pre-identified concept types (for example: medication, test, problem, symptom) are labeled with the relationship between the concepts. We present a novel technique for weakly-supervised bootstrapping of a …
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Preventing Hospital Readmission In The Sepsis Patient: A Multi-Modal Discharge National Framework
… (HRRP) requires hospitals to provide efficient patient discharge coordination to prevent readmissions or risk financial penalties. Although a substantial value capture opportunity exists to reduce avoidable readmissions, a significant gap exists in sepsis-specific discharge interventions. The …
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De-Escalation and Safety Intervention in Mental Health Crisis
… are to decrease the number of incidents in which patients are escorted out of the clinic via staff or SFPD due to violent/aggressive behavior, are put on a 5150 hold, or who are absent without official leave (AWOL) or leave against medical advice (AMA) by 70% within 12 months of initiating an …
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A comparison of standard C-reactive protein laboratory measurement to point of care C-reactive protein test in a neonatal intensive care unit setting
… There were 139 measured CRP sample pairs from patients with suspected or proven neonatal sepsis. Using 10 mg/L as the cutoff value for both CRP tests, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value were 97.4%, 99%, 97.4% and 99% respectively. The area …
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Extensions and Applications of Ensemble-of-trees Methods in Machine Learning
… to forecast unplanned hospital readmissions upon patient discharge with asymmetric costs taken into account. Finally, we explore the construction of stable decision trees for forecasts of violence during probation hearings in court systems.
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Copper status in multiple trauma patients: measurement of copper balance, serum copper and ceruloplasmin
… data regarding copper status in multiple trauma patients (MTP) are nonexistent. Hypercatabolism following multiple trauma may increase copper utilization, deplete copper stores and compromise cuproenzyme synthesis and function. The purpose of this study was to provide information on copper status …
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Exploration of care continuity during the hospital discharge process
… Communication regarding medicines at hospital discharge via discharge summaries is notoriously poor and negatively impacts on patient care. With the process being dependant on the quality of patient records during admission, junior doctors who write them and General Practitioners (GPs) who …
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Learning to Improve Clinical Decisions and AI Safety by Leveraging Structure
… as multivariate physiological signals of ICU patients, patient discharge summaries, biomedical scientific articles, radiology reports, chest radiography imaging and spoken utterances. We tackle tasks such as forecasting patient states, relationship extraction, disease prediction, medical …
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Predicting department of medicine inpatients' discharges at US hospitals
… that leads to capacity congestion. Delivering patients to the right bed at the right time is very important to patient care quality. However, the current process employs a self-reporting system to receive bed availability from each unit. This method does not provide consistent estimates nor …
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Differences of weekend versus weekdays, nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, patient diagnoses, and direct nursing care time
… care time on weekends versus weekdays, nurse-to-patient ratios, medical-surgical nursing units, and weekend versus weekday patient diagnoses. Specific aims were (a) determine differences in nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and direct care time on medical-surgical inpatient units in an acute care …
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Hospital-associated functional status decline in pulmonary patients
… which can lead to decreased functional status at discharge. Disease-related factors and elements of the hospital environment make older adults with COPD vulnerable to hospital-associated functional status decline. The purpose of this dissertation was to identify activity factors that contribute to …
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Prediction of Discharge Destination from Initial Physical Therapy Assessment using the Physical Assessment Key (PAK)
… purpose of this study was to determine if a patient’s discharge destination could be predicted by information available upon the physical therapy initial evaluation using the Physical Assessment Key (PAK). There were 141 subjects (58 male, 83 female) included in this study and their ages …
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