HOSPITAL careEMERGENCY room visitsMany individuals with serious mental illness are at high risk for hospitalization or death due to inadequate treatment of medical conditions or unhealthy behaviors. The authors describe demographic and clinical characteristics associated with increased risk in this population...
This retrospective analysis study was approved by the Joint Institutional Review Board of the Tri-Service General Hospital (TSGH IRB no. 1–105–05-142). Fig. 1 A flowchart of the study sample selection from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan Full size image Comorbidity ...
eFigure. US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Grades and Levels of Evidence 1. O’Connor E, Henninger M, Perdue LA, Coppola EL, Thomas R, Gaynes BN. Screening for Depression, Anxiety, and Suicide Risk in Adults: A Systematic Evidence Review for the US Preventiv...
"Unfortunately, the virus doesn't know that, the virus is still there. It's still infecting people, killing people and putting people in hospital." "This is what it's like now in Australia. There are very few public health restrictions. The state and territory governments and the federal ...
The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomised studies in meta-analyses. The Ottawa Hospital; 2012. Accessed April 24. 2019. https://www.ohri.ca/programs/clinical_epidemiology/oxford.asp 17. Higgins JPT, Green S, eds. 13.5.2.3. Tools for assessing methodo...
488 – Mortality in people with serious mental illness in a psychiatric hospital in Greece A total of 39 deaths were recorded (mean annual mortality: 1.7 per 1000 inpatients). Patients were predominantly male (67%), mean age 64 years, most of them farmers (41%), with low educational level...
The effectiveness of a regulatory strategy in containing hospital costs. The Ontario experience, 1967-1981. This study documents the increases in real inputs (e.g., labor and equipment) employed in Ontario's hospital sector between 1968 and 1981--a period of univ... AS Detsky,SR Stacey,C ...
Aim: The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for suicide in Japanese substance use disorder (SUD) patients, adjusting for age and sex, and to examine sex differences in suicide risk among these patients.Methods: A self-reporting questionnaire on age, sex, types of abused substance...
Objective To determine if daily low-dose aspirin (100 mg) reduces the risk of fractures or serious falls (fall-related hospital presentations) in healthy older men and women. Design, Setting, and Participants This substudy of a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial studied older adul...
This cohort study examines the characteristics of patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 who will need admission to an intensive care unit,