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Showing 1 to 20 of 188 for “"hospitalizations"”.
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Predicting influenza hospitalizations
… a dynamic Bayesian estimator to predict weekly hospitalizations due to influenza related illnesses in the state of Texas. The prediction of peak hospitalizations using our model is accurate both in terms of number of hospitalizations and the time at which the peak occurs. For 1-to 8 week …
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Springtime asthma hospitalizations and pollen levels: Are they related?
In this ecological study hospital emergency admissions in London, Ontario were examined during the peak spring months of the years 1983-88 to determine if asthma morbidity was associated with tree and grass pollen levels. Pollutants and weather factors were also analyzed because they may have …
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Sepsis-Related Hospitalizations and Outcomes in HIV-Infected Veterans
… Sepsis continues to be a significant cause of hospitalizations and death especially among HIV-infected patients. However, little is known about the impact of sepsis hospitalizations, hospital mortality, and hospital length of stay (LOS) in HIV-infected patients in the modern era of HIV and …
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Physical Activity and Psychiatric Hospitalizations among Canadian Adolescents and Young Adults: A Longitudinal Study Utilizing Record Linkage
… (AYAs; 12-24 years) and incidence of psychiatric hospitalizations.Methods: We used data from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS; 2001-2014) linked to the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD; 1999-2018). Physical activity was measured among AYAs from the CCHS, and psychiatric hospitalizations …
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Neighborhood historical redlining, present-day social vulnerability and sports and recreational injury hospitalizations in the United States
… (SVI), and sports and recreational injury (SRI) hospitalizations are interconnected topics that highlight the intersection of race, class, and health in the United States but the relationships have not been studied to date. Thus, the overall aim of this dissertation is to examine the effects of …
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The impact of market forces and public health insurance on inpatient care
… of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations," addresses the relationship between health insurance availability and the nature and frequency of hospitalization. Together with co-author Jonathan Gruber, I find that the Medicaid expansions from 1983 to 1996 were associated with …
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Enhancing The Self-Efficacy Of Nurses In The Reduction Of Potentially Avoidable Nursing Home To Hospital Transfers
<p>Nursing home hospitalizations are classified as potentially avoidable when they do not improve quality of life or change the course of illness. These hospitalizations are costly, disruptive and detrimental to the quality of nursing home care. Nurses maintain the interconnection amongst the key …
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The Association of Socioeconomic Status with Mortality and Hospital Length of Stay in Patients with Parapneumonic Empyema
… database was queried for parapneumonic empyema hospitalizations between January 1, 2014 and October 1, 2015. The prevalence of empyema was calculated and compared in subjects with different age groups, sexes, races and socioeconomic status. The annual hospitalization rate of empyema, length of …
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Preserving the Health & Well-being of Elderly Adults: Encouraging Standards of Care within Residential Care Facilities
<p>Hospitalizations are expensive to our healthcare system, and too often can be prevented. A large portion of preventable hospital stays are elderly individuals. In this case, these hospitalizations can also be detrimental to the health of the individual, as they may begin to decline while not …
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Transitional Care to Reduce 30-day Heart Failure Readmissions Among the Long-Term Care Elderly Population
… adverse health effects of repeated preventable hospitalizations. The purpose of this project is to provide and promote evidence-based transitional care methods to the nursing staff at a long-term care (LTC) facility in NJ in order to reduce 30-day HF hospital readmissions.</p> <p>This project’s …
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Proactive Prescribing Enhancing Hospice Care Through Anticipatory Pharmacy Practices
Purpose: This project aims to reduce avoidable hospitalizations, alleviate caregiver stress, improve patient comfort during the end-of-life phase through assessing RN case manager confidence in educating families about anticipatory medications and rolling out the educational pamphlet as a teaching …
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The Epidemiology and Health System Impact of Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency Among Affected Children and Those with False Positive Newborn Screening Results in Ontario, Canada
… physician visits, emergency department care, and hospitalizations. Results: Relative to comparison birth cohorts, children with MCADD (n=40) experienced significantly higher rates of all health service types, regardless of age at the time of visit; infants with false positive results for MCADD …
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Modeling the Effects of Traffic Reduction on the Severity of the COVID-19 Epidemic in U.S. States
… and COVID-19 infections, and ultimately hospitalizations and deaths, throughout various U.S. States using the infection curve and equations from the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model.</p> <p>As a result of state and national governmental restrictions and public perception of the …
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When Boys Hurt: A Pilot Study on Adolescent Males with Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
… the program, number of previous psychiatric hospitalizations, and levels of overall distress at baseline and post-treatment. A case study analysis showed that typical male patient graduates included in the case study largely differed from the typical female patient graduates on some key …
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Cost-Effectiveness of Exercise Facilitation Post-Cardiac Rehabilitation
… [control], 0.22±0.51 [intervention]) and hospitalizations (0.16±0.39[control], 0.07±0.28[intervention]). At 52 weeks, interventional participants had higher hospitalizations (p<0.05). There were minimal differences in quality of life (QoL) means score and QALYs throughout the trial among …
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Do Statins Improve Outcomes in Patients With Asthma on Inhaled Corticosteroid Therapy? A Retrospective Analysis of the Mississippi Medicaid Database 2002-2004.
… therapy are less likely to have asthma-related hospitalizations and emergency room (ER) visits. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using Medicaid data for 2002–2004. Asthma patients ?18 years old were identified using the ICD9 code 493.xx, from Jul 1, 2002 through Dec 31, 2003. The index …
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Medical and Parental Predictors of Self-Efficacy in Pediatric Chronic Illness
… status, and youth factors such as number of hospitalizations have been examined as contributing to self-efficacy in children. The aim of the current study was to assess the extent to which these variables predict self-efficacy in a sample of youth 8-17 suffering from CI. Data were collected …
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Medication Adherence, Rates of Rehospitalization, and Depot Medications In Forensic Patients With A Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
… (NGRI) tend to have frequent bounce back hospitalizations from violating some aspect of their General Sessions Court order or from decompensation of their conditions. Nonadherence, one of the major factors, is increasingly regarded as one of the foremost challenges facing professionals in …
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Non-Psychiatric Hospitalization For Patients With Psychotic Disorders: A Mixed-Methods Study
… on adverse events during medical-surgical hospitalizations for these patients and identified differences at the patient, provider and system levels between these patients and the general population. Next, a mixed methods, exploratory sequential study was conducted to: 1) explore the …
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