Conclusions: This scoring system may help the clinicians to decide which patient to refer to a tertiary step hospital which may also decrease the cost and improve the functionality of healthcare staff.doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2012.05.495A.M. Monta?ez Ayala...
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In comparison, 30-day mortality (N=32, 4.0%) and in-hospital death (N=39, 5.0%) were relevantly less. No patient died between postoperative days 80 and 90. The causes of mortality within 30days and from days 30–80 did not greatly differ, especially regarding posthepatectomy liver ...
Anticoagulants may raise a patient’s risk of bleeding, and treatment often requires a short hospital stay, but, in virtually every case, the benefits of treatment with anticoagulants outweigh the risks.” Dr. Lyman also noted that the frequency of diagnosed blood clots in cancer patients has be...
of slow or non-healing wounds also affect burn victims. In the United States alone, more than 1.25 million people per year suffer from burns, where local infections cause delayed healing and risk for invasive infections and sepsis. Also notable is that a significant part of hospital antibiotics...
All methods and experimental protocols were approved by the Ethics Committee of Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol. The patients provided their written informed consent to participate in the study. The study was conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki. ...
The article reports on a survey which identified and defined the terms used by suppliers to the integrated delivery network and a multihospital system for acute care providers in the United States. They include: MHS, a corporate entity which owns, manages or leases two or more hospitals; IDN,...
It displayed a higher sensitivity for the prediction of 90-day mortality (85% [83.6 to 86.4] versus 70.3% [68.5 to 72]) and acute kidney disease at hospital discharge (85.6% [84.2 to 87] versus 71.8% [70 to 73.6]). However, its specificity was lower for both outcomes (29.8% [28.9...
the greatest clinical egs burden and may serve as the focus of future quality and benchmarking efforts to improve operative egs care nationwide. methods analytic sample from november 15, 2015, to february 16, 2016, we queried data from the 2008 to 2011 hospital cost and utilization p...
Human cord blood was obtained from 11 healthy full-term newborns at the Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, with parental informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and CD34+ cells were enriched by a MACS cell-separation system using anti-CD34 microbeads, ...