Those with terminal illnesses who have 6 months or less to live can benefit from hospice care – it lets them live out their final days with dignity and happiness, minus the stress of hospital visits. They aren’t hooked up to loud machines, aren’t poked or prodded hourly by medical per...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Mission Oaks, an inpatient psychiatric facility located atLos Gatos' Good Samaritan Hospital inSanta Clara County, is closing Aug. 20. HCA Healthcare, which operates Mission Oaks, attributed the closure mainly to staffing shortages, according toThe Mercury News. The facility was...
The effect of brief case management on emergency department use of frequent users in mental health: Findings of a randomized controlled trial. PLoS One. 2017;12(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182157 McLaughlin-Davis M. The practice of hospital case management: a white paper. Prof...
it is not known if goals-of-care discussions have an immediate impact on the cost of the same hospital stay. In this real-world study, we examined the hospitalization cost before and after the implementation of a goals-of-care program. We found that the overall cost in unselected medical ...
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Mental Health Service, Clínica Universidad de los Andes, Santiago 7591047, Chile 3 Department of Psychiatry, Medicine School, Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), Santiago 8370146, Chile 4 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8380456, Chile 5 Medicine Sch...
Assessment of violence risk is a problem that causes a high burden for both patient and hospital staff. It has been described well in psychiatry literature, but has never been approached by applying machine learning techniques to EHR data. Related Work Applications of Deep Learning methods to the...