Up-To-Date Records of Long-Stay Patients

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Long-stay patients

• Objective: To determine the characteristics and resource utilization associated with long-stay patients in academic children’s hospitals. • Study design and methods: Retrospective cohort study using the Pediatric Health Information System database, which includes data from 34 noncompeting children’s hospitals in the United States. We defined long-stay patients as those with a length of stay (...

How to Stay Up-To-Date on Twitter With General Keywords

Microblogging platforms make it easy for users to share information through the publication of short personal messages. However, users are not only interested in sharing, but even more so in consuming information. As a result, they are confronted with new challenges when it comes to retrieving information on microblogging platforms. In this paper we present a query expansion method based on lat...

A Survey of Long-stay Schizophrenic Patients.

Cross, Harrington and Mayer-Gross (1957), in a survey of the long-stay population of a Birmingham mental hospital, came to the con clusion that “¿ onlyvery small proportions required constant vigilance and about two thirds required routine care only.. . . The large majority of patients were ambulant the whole day― but almost one-third had physical diseases of some kind. The major problem wa...

Up-to-date management of gout.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Gout is a true crystal deposition disease, extremely painful and bone and tissue damaging if untreated. It is the only curable form of arthritis. Although we have many treatments to cure gout, it is a disease that is consistently undertreated/mismanaged and perceived by clinicians and the lay public as a 'laughable condition' with the patients' lifestyle often held erroneously...