Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised Patient - Clinical Critical Care Medicine - Chapter 54ELSEVIERClinical Critical Care Medicine
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs caused by a bacteria, virus, or fungus. In healthy individuals, pneumonia is not usually life-threatening and does not…
complicated urinary tract infection COVID-19 pneumonia Non–COVID-19/other viral pneumonia Bacterial pneumonia COPD and asthma exacerbation Heart failure exacerbation General Safer@Home Interventions Nurse provides education, medications, and equipment to patient prior to discharge; monitoring h...
Hospitalisation rate was measured in all included reviews (Bryant et al., 2019; Dixon et al., 2018; Robinson et al., 2012; Wickson-Griffiths et al., 2014), of which three showed a significant decrease in hospital use related to the presence of an advance care plan. 6.3. Patient and ...
EEG monitoring may be discontinued in preparation for the transition to comfort-focused care. Decision-making for antiseizure drug management should be based on the patient’s disposition plan. If the patient will remain hospitalized for EOL care, antiseizure drugs should be continued. However, if...
There is a similar trade-off in patient cost-sharing. This suggests that health policy, from insurance design to payment models, should calibrate payments to be high enough to discourage stinting and promote access, but low enough to avoid overuse of low-value care that threatens affordability ...
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2b). The number of children younger than 5 years of age seeking treatment for diarrhea or pneumonia declined by 16–99% in all seven countries reporting (Fig. 2c). Declines in childhood immunizations greater than 10% were also observed in all countries reporting, except in Ethiopia and ...
Two patients were discharged from the HITH to be re-admitted to the in-patient service on the same day or following day. This was for the management of a lower respiratory tract infection in a patient with COPD, and pneumonia in another with diabetes. One of these patients selected hospital...
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