The most common method of suicide attempts and completions on inpatient mental health units is hanging. It is recommended that common lanyards and anchor points be removed from the environment of care. We provide more information about such hazards and introduce a decision tree to help healthcare ...
"Use of the MHEOCC [Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist] was associated not only with an initial reduction in the number of suicides on inpatient mental health units but also with a sustained reduction over more than seven years," the authors report. "In looking at the more lasting ...
utilizing the National Inpatient Sample database also reported 40.8% survival with use of VA-ECMO in patients with AMICS. The study analyzed 2962 patients over a period of 14 years. There was a notable trend toward improving survival over the course of time, and 12% of patients were bridged...
a hub-and-spoke system organized around five polytrauma rehabilitation centers (PRCs), which provide acute inpatient rehabilitation; 23 polytrauma network sites providing TBI-related care, referrals, and education services; and polytrauma support clinic teams, which evaluate, monitor, and support vetera...
AIM 1. To determine the efficacy of FACE on congruence in treatment preferences between PLWA and their surrogates over time, and the effect of the pattern of congruence development trajectory on healthcare utilization (i.e., distal outcomes: number of hospitalizations, dialysis, ER visits). ...
psychological morbidity differentiates the irritable bowel syndrome from health and provides novel pathophysiological leads. michael p. jones, william d. chey, sharat singh, h. gong, reshma shringarpure, n. hoe, emil chuang, nicholas j. talley inpatient burden of constipation in the united states:...
Inpatient careThis technical report describes the indirect cost of specialized inpatient mental health treatment programs of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). We defined the direct costs of treatment programs as the cost of the staff and supplies used by the treatment program. We ...