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Showing 1 to 20 of 457 for “"hospitalization"”.
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The Chaldean Lived Experience of Hospitalization
… patient or Chaldean family member during their hospitalization. Individual interviews provided a description of aspects of the participants' lived experiences. Four key themes emerged: navigating communication, needs as a patient, comfort and courtesy, and trust. Through the sharing of their …
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In-home health care and hospitalization status
… recently discharged from inpatient care and re-hospitalization rates. The design was descriptive and the hypothesis was that the provision of in-home health care services would mitigate a decline in the health status, of an elderly patient, following discharge from inpatient care and prevent …
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School reintegration following hospitalization in rural communities.
School reentry following hospitalization is a critical transition period for children and adolescents. Despite the critical role that school professionals play in facilitating successful hospital-to-school transitions, their experiences in rural schools have been largely underexplored in the …
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Changes in indicators of nutritional status during hospitalization
… indicators that changed significantly during hospitalization, with both decreasing from admission to discharge. Considering the four indicators together, changes in nutritional status of the patients during hospitalization were determined. Eighty three patients were found to be at least at …
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Predictors of Re-Hospitalization for Home Healthcare Patients
… of OASIS admission data for acute care re-hospitalization of home healthcare patients. Secondary data analysis using logistic regression was conducted on retrospective data from OASIS collected during the time period of July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007. This study was conducted in a Medicare …
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Seasonal patterns in asthma hospitalization rates in Saskatchewan
Objectives Monthly hospitalization rates in Saskatchewan from January 1979 to December 1989 were examined in order to see if they exhibited a seasonal pattern. The agegroups studied were 0-4, 5-14, 15-34, 35-49 and 50-64. Male and females rates, as well as native and non-native patterns were …
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Applications of healthcare analytics in reducing hospitalization days
… lead to a significant reduction in avoidable hospitalization days and improvement in patients outcomes. The first area of focus is around avoidable bed-days in the ICU. Many surgical patients experience non-clinical delays when they transfer from the ICU to a subsequent general care unit where …
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Implementing Prediabetes Screening During Hospitalization In An Internal Medicine Unit
… prediabetes have 1.3 times higher risk for hospitalization. Extending prediabetes screening to the inpatient hospital setting offers opportunity to identify undiagnosed prediabetes. The purpose of this DNP project was to implement a prediabetes screening algorithm in the hospital setting to …
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Implications of a Family Systems Orientation for Preventing Psychiatric Hospitalization
… systems approach for preventing psychiatric hospitalization by comparing the behavior of field clinicians who professed a systems view versus clinicians who held more traditional nonsystems views. The focus of the investigation was the clinical assessments and decisions of 31 clinicians who …
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Bacterial pneumonia hospitalization and pneumonia inpatient mortality in Texas, 1999-2007
… care can potentially prevent the need for hospitalization or for which early intervention can prevent complications or more severe disease that lead to death. This project evaluated the trends in bacterial Pneumonia hospitalization and pneumonia inpatient mortality rates of older Texans …
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The expectant father’s experience of high risk pregnancy and antenatal hospitalization
… of coping with a high risk pregnancy and the hospitalization of his partner. This study was undertaken to further understanding regarding the experience of the expectant father from his own unique perspective. Using the grounded theory method, fathers' experience of the phenomenon of high risk …
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The Effects of Partial Hospitalization on Acute Psychiatric Hospital Readmission Days
… a combination of partial and acute psychiatric hospitalization and only acute psychiatric hospitalization on the total number of acute hospital readmission days over a 12 month period using a causal-comparative design. Two hundred and forty cases were randomly selected from an existing database …
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The Role of School Psychologists in Partial Hospitalization Program-to-School Transitions
… and adolescents transitioning from partial hospitalization programs-to-schools have both mental health and educational needs. As the leading mental health experts in schools, school psychologists are uniquely suited to address the needs of these students. However, their role in this …
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The Lived Experience of Women Prior to Hospitalization for Acute Myocardial Infarction
… of women with AMI immediately prior to hospitalization. The lines of inquiry focused on descriptive language regarding pre-event feelings, the symptoms experienced at AMI onset, their response to those symptoms, and the circumstances leading to hospital admission. Giorgi's method for …
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Non-Psychiatric Hospitalization For Patients With Psychotic Disorders: A Mixed-Methods Study
… and are more likely to have a non-psychiatric hospitalization. In the hospital, these patients have an increased risk of adverse events, readmission and extended length-of-stay. Working with a Health Equity lens and the Quality Health Outcomes Model, we reviewed the literature on adverse events …
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A path-analytic study of coping with and recovery from surgical hospitalization
Surgical hospitalization can be a highly stressful event that compromises both the physical and psychological well-being of a patient. Current correlational evidence suggests that certain psychological characteristics and coping strategies shown by patients may be predictive of poor postsurgical …
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Relationship of direct casework services to length of hospitalization for mentally ill
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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