Standardized discharge programs individualized for family needs can ensure a safe transfer of care to parents, decrease the length of stay and hospital costs, and improve parents' satisfaction. To assess the degree of variability in the current discharge criteria of preterm infants less than 34?
BACKGROUND For children hospitalized with bronchiolitis, there is uncertainty about the expected inpatient clinical course and when children are safe for discharge. OBJECTIVES Examine the time to clinical improvement, risk of clinical worsening after improvement, and develop discharge criteria. DESIGN Prospe...
Interventions to improve access to health and social care after discharge from hospital: a systematic review literature review, following NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination guidelines, of randomised controlled trials evaluating needs assessment methods and patient ... Suzanne Richards and Joanna Coast...
Characteristics and medical information including age, sex, height, weight, date of hospital admission, time of NCU admission, medical history, clinical diagnosis, medical order records, disease course records, and discharge information, were obtained from electronic medical records. The worst Acute Phys...
No significant difference was found between the rates of re-intervention and re-admission between day case and admitted patients. We suggest standardising care pathways and provision of adequate education to both patients and staff as a method of safe day care discharge. 展开 ...
Studies have shown that with balloon tamponade, 59% of patients survive to discharge from hospital and 1-year survival is 41%, which makes it an effective rescue therapy.41 Intensive care admission is mandatory when balloon tamponade is being implemented. Balloon tamponade is often used as a ...
perinatal outcomes, including more admissions to the intensive care unit (ICU), longer hospital stays, and higher rates of labour induction, and it may be advisable to monitor these patients before pregnancy or in the first trimester [66]. When the study population comprised women, who were dia...
Criteria-based audits have been used to improve clinical management in developed countries, but have only recently been introduced in the developing world. This study discusses the introduction of a criteria-based audit in a tertiary hospital in an Afric
We conducted a process improvement initiative to change our institutional discharge criteria for HD-MTX from 0.05 mol/L to ≤ 0.1 mol/L to reduce cost and length of stay (LOS) for this patient population. METHODS After an assessment of drivers of LOS among patients receiving HD-MTX, we ...
She described a strange burning sensation on the soles of her feet, as if she were walking on coals. Two weeks after discharge from the hospital, she began noticing odd memory lapses—inexplicably forgetting phone numbers and similar routine facts once recalled without effort. ...