Pediatric falls occur commonly in all areas of the hospital, but are more common on inpatient units. Institutional measures to prospectively identify pediatric patients at risk for falling are needed in order to initiate falls prevention programs in children's hospitals....
Global prevalence of falls in the older adults: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis. J Orthop Surg Res. 2022;17(1):1–13. Google Scholar Rajati F, Rajati M, Rasulehvandi R, Kazeminia M. Prevalence of stroke in the elderly: a systematic review and meta-analysis. ...
eTable 4.Preventability of Death in Academic vs Community Hospitals eTable 5.Preventability of Death in Patients with Hospital-Onset Sepsis vs Sepsis Present on Admission eTable 6.Preventability of Death in Patients Where Sepsis Was the Immediate Cause of Death ...
Ibach B, Koch H, Koller M, Wolfersdorf M; Workgroup for Geriatric Psychiatry of the Psychiatric State Hospitals of Germany; Workgroup for Clinical Research of the Psychiatric State Hospitals of Germany. Hospital admission circumstances and prevalence of frontotemporal lobar degeneration: ...
The BASEL IX study (BAsel Syncope EvaLuation Study) is an ongoing prospective international diagnostic multicenter study enrolling unselected patients in 13 hospitals in 8 countries (Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States of America) in 3 regions (...
This paper describes a method of determining the prevalence of pressure damage in hospital patients and gives some preliminary results. The same method and data collection systems were applied to seven different hospitals in the UK, and involved over 3 000 patients. The approach allows comparisons ...
South-West Nigeria. The institution provides multi-specialist care and serves as a major referral center for hospitals within and outside Ogbomoso, including towns in three states. The hospital was initially established as a general hospital in 1907 but was upgraded to a teaching hospital in 2009...
To date, several communities (i.e., NGOs, hospitals and facilities) for accommodation, health and welfare have been organized for homeless persons, following the Stop TB Strategy [5, 6]. The prevalence of active TB in Osaka City decreased by 50% from 2000 to 2008. However, there are ...
Studies suggest that chronic conditions may in some cases be underreported on administrative claims data, particularly among inpatient hospitals.25,26 Moreover, to the extent that prevalence estimates rely on administrative claims, our prevalence estimates reflect treated prevalence among this population, ...
experienced high anxiety and/or depression during the last week of life.11 However, symptom management and quality of care at end of life is generally better in hospice compared to hospital deaths,8 suggesting that anxiety and depression may be even higher at the end of life in hospitals. ...