CONVALESCENT HOMES ASSOCIATION

The Convalescent Mental Patient

cases helped and a substantial increase in the amount refunded by patients and their friends. The main difficulty, however, in securing an increase in our subscriptions (said Sir Charles) is that the appeal to the imagination?so necessary in all cases, and so simple and successful in pleading for, say, work amongst children?is not easy to frame in the case of mental after-care. The little orpha...

Invalid and Convalescent Cookery Book

An East Coast Convalescent Home

A Noble Bequest. A former President of the hospital?the late Dr. J. H. Bartlet?left a large residuary estate to the Board of Management for building, equipping and maintaining a Convalescent Home for the benefit only of patients from the hospital. Although the testator has been dead for over six years, the estate, owing to its magnitude and complications, has not yet been finally wound up, but ...

Association of Leukoaraiosis With Convalescent Rehabilitation Outcome in Patients With Ischemic Stroke.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We investigated the factors influencing inpatient convalescent rehabilitation outcomes in patients with ischemic stroke, particularly severity of leukoaraiosis on magnetic resonance imaging. METHODS Participants included 520 patients with ischemic stroke (317 men and 203 women; mean age, 72.8±8.4 years) who were transferred from acute care hospitals for inpatient conval...

Convalescent Plasma for Ebola Virus Disease.

n engl j med 374;25 nejm.org June 23, 2016 2498 cizumab according to two definitions of refractoriness.2,3 Regardless of the definition, a lower percentage of patients in the caplacizumab group than in the placebo group had disease that was refractory to treatment, which suggests that caplacizumab might prevent refractory TTP and its associated worse outcomes.1 To clarify, Table 3 of our articl...