Data from Canadian home care (-HC), mental health (-MH), nursing home, and complex continuing care facilities (Minimum Data .0). RESULTS:: Patients with TBI were significantly different on almost all items. They were among the youngest in care settings, and psychotropic drug use by this ...
The patients, also referred to as clients or residents in long-term care facilities, were aged between 20s and 90s. The resident population consisted of patients admitted for physical rehabilitation after a stroke or surgical procedure, deconditioning, respite care, skilled nursing or wound care, ...
INTRODUCTION: Racial disparities in outcomes have been reported in various medical conditions and in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Despite equal access to acute rehabilitation, blacks had significantly worse long-term funct... M Bah,S Eden,A Chen,... - 《Neurosurgery》 被引量: 0...
We decided to place my brother at Westpark after 8 previous facilities were unable to get him stabilized from his traumatic brain injury (TBI). A member of our family, who has a nursing background, suggested we place him here. Their staff is caring and very knowledgeable. They able to det...
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INTRODUCTION: Racial disparities in outcomes have been reported in various medical conditions and in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Despite equal access to acute rehabilitation, blacks had significantly worse long-term functional outcomes after TBI than non-Hispanic whites (NHWs). Much ...
for many years) include sedative–hypnotic agent dependence, self-medication with alcohol, depression, diminished quality of life, and in the case of older adults with dementing disorders, placement in long-term care facilities. Sleep disturbances in older adults have been linked to poor health, ...
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underway, but their use in paediatric populations will depend on future research to determine whether tau pathology is present in young patients after TBI or concussion. A PET tracer for the microglial cholesterol transporter protein might be useful for imaging of neuroinflammation associated with TBI....
Little is known about the natural history of comatose patients with brain injury, as in many countries most of these patients die in the context of withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies (WLSTs). The accuracy of predicting recovery that is used to guide goals-of-care decisions is uncertain. ...