using a paradigm that considers patients to exist in a variety of states, each of which is a deciding factor with respect to determining what treatment(s) a patient will receive, and that the treatment received by a patient dictates what resources the hospital will use in order to provide ...
Fig. 1: Patient flow diagram. aPatients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer treated with radium-223 any time between January 2013 and June 2019. Full size image Baseline patient and disease characteristics for all patients and by survival duration are shown in Table 1. For patients...
Hospital management had expressed a need for empirical data relating to the patient flow and journey through the ED as there was a lack of evidence to support proposals for improvements in the ED. There are examples in the literature that utilised models and identified factors contributing to ...
Case-mix adjustment of the CAHPS Hospital Survey. Health Serv Res. 2005;40(6, pt 2):2162-2181. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6773.2005.00470.xPubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 47. Szanton SL, Alfonso YN, Leff B, et al. Medicaid cost savings of a preventive home visit program for disabled older ...
Patients must move through various locations as their needs evolve, making intrahospital transfers a daily practice in health systems worldwide. Many initiatives have attempted to optimise this process, otherwise known as ‘patient flow’2,3, typically by predicting demand on the most commonly used ...
Critically ill patients require complex care and experience unique needs during and after their stay in the intensive care unit (ICU). Discharging or transferring a patient from the ICU to a hospital ward or back to community care (under the care of a general practitioner) includes several eleme...
This was used as a basis for the development of a computer simulation model which represents the way in which a patient moves through the department, from referral by a consultant, to the planning of the treatment, to the treatment itself, and finally discharge from the hospital. A series ...
Methods: Survey Setting: 1 department in 1 university hospital Sample: Patients undergoing general, visceral, thoracic, and vascular surgery (n = 321) Hunt, 2016, United Kingdom Aim: Evaluate the use of Leukomed™ Control postoperatively within acute wounds in conjunction with the pro...
Health system-oriented outcomes included length of hospital stay, number of hospital visits, and costs. Interven- tions with condition and treatment education (inform) and practical management (activate) engagement supports were generally effective in improving patient-reported out- comes. For caregiver...
The flow diagram of the study methodology is shown in Fig. 1. RNA-Seq data was used for transcriptomic analyses, and GWAS and WGS data were used to identify genomic relationships to susceptibility to severe COVID-19 outcomes, as well as to bipolar disorder, PTSD and schizophrenia. RNA-Seq ...