(CMS) Conditions of Participation Interpretive Guidelines to administer medications within 30 minutes before or after the scheduled time. The nurses who responded to the survey made it clear that changes to drug delivery methods and gradual increases in the complexity of care, number of prescribed ...
One advantage of high care (on an intensive care unit) with continuous monitoring is that shock states can be detected and treated earlier. If the intensive care personnel become aware of anaphylaxis, whether due to hypotension, tachycardia, a warning signal from the monitor, or low oxygen satur...
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At the forefront of clinical care for acute COVID-19 are multiple guidelines, recommendations, and best practices that have been disseminated and prioritized for prevention and management. However, no clear guidelines are currently available for postinfectious care or recovery, and there is a notable...
We explore the utility of frailty syndromes (as recommended by national guidelines) as a risk prediction model for the elderly in the acute care setting. English Secondary Care emergency admissions to National Health Service (NHS) acute providers. There were N=2099252 patients over 65years with ...
To determine whether a real-time system for monitoring key quality-of-care indicators using GAP would improve both process indicators and outcomes beyond those of the initial implementation of GAP. Prospective patient identification, prospective chart coding, retrospective data abstraction. All patients ...
Although participants were receiving outpatient mental health care, they were not receiving treatment from anyone affiliated with the study. Experimental design To clarify the role of normal E2 and P4 withdrawal in the cyclical worsening of SI and related symptoms, we employed a randomized, placebo-...
All experiments were conducted in accordance with the guidelines for care and use of laboratory animals provided by the National Research Council as well as with an approved animal protocol from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS)....
Recent KDIGO guidelines recommended that patients be followed up 3 months after an AKI episode to assess for CKD21; however, information is lacking to guide the care that these patients should receive. On the basis of our results, patients with AKI may benefit from ACEI or ARB therapy after ...
Association between hospital volume and within-hospital intensive care unit transfer for sickle cell disease in children’s hospitals. J Pediatr. 2015;167(6):1306-1313.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 46. Neumayr L, Lennette E, Kelly D, et al. Mycoplasma disease and acute chest syndrome in ...