BACKGROUND Relatively few articles have focused on exploring factors influencing soldiers' overall satisfaction and differences between inpatients' and outpatients' satisfaction, particularly in the Chinese army. Elucidating factors influencing military inpatient and outpatient care separately and analyzing their differences may provide more information for the health system. METHODS The Revi...

OBJECTIVES Group B Streptococcus is a primary source of pneumonia, which is a leading cause of death worldwide. During the last few decades, there has been news of growing antibiotic resistance in group B streptococci to penicillin and different antibiotic agents. This clinical study retrospectively analyzes antimicrobial resistance in inpatients who were diagnosed with group B streptococcal pn...

BACKGROUND Previously, most dengue cases in Singapore were hospitalized despite low incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) or death. To minimize hospitalization, the Communicable Disease Centre at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) in Singapore implemented new admission criteria which included clinical, laboratory, and DHF predictive parameters in 2007. METHOD All laboratory-confirmed dengue ...

BACKGROUND China in 2009 committed to reach universal health coverage by promoting three forms of health insurance; NCMS for the rural population, UEBMI for formally employed urban residents and URBMI for other urban residents. NCMS has expanded to near universal coverage in rural China since launching in 2003. The objective of this study aimed to assess the effect of NCMS on inpatient care uti...

BACKGROUND Medical spending on psychiatric hospitalization has been reported to impose a tremendous socio-economic burden on many developed countries with public health insurance programmes. However, there has been no in-depth study of the factors affecting psychiatric inpatient medical expenditures and differentiated these factors across different types of public health insurance programmes. I...

BACKGROUND Bright artificial light improves non-seasonal depression. Preliminary observations suggest that sunlight could share this effect. METHODS Length of hospitalization was recorded for a sample of 415 unipolar and 187 bipolar depressed inpatients, assigned to rooms with eastern (E) or western (W) windows. RESULTS Bipolar inpatients in E rooms (exposed to direct sunlight in the mornin...

Cancer patients are at high risk for suicide, particularly when they are informed about the cancer diagnosis or hospitalized for cancer treatment. Therefore, oncology healthcare settings such as large general hospitals in China, may represent an ideal setting to identify and treat suicidality in cancer patients. However, the clinical epidemiology of suicidality of Chinese cancer patients remain...

The statistics obtained for the 716 inpatients and 550 operations at our clinic between January 1981 and December 1985 were reviewed. The patients were most frequently in their sixties, and there was a predominance in males. The most frequent diseases of the inpatients were benign prostatic hypertrophies and bladder tumors. The most performed operations were also those for urological tumors.

A clinical statistic survey was carried out on the patients, diseases and operations experienced at our urological clinic in 1984. The total number of inpatients was 1314, the male to female ratio being 2.97:1. The major diseases of the inpatients were urolithiasis (452 cases, 34.4%), and BPH (297 cases, 22.6%). Among the operations, TUR-P 34.1%, ESWL 33.0%, TUR-BT 6.9% were predominant.

This study further explores the association between schizophrenia and caffeine use by combining two prior published Spanish samples (250 schizophrenia outpatients and 290 controls from the general population) with two Spanish long-term inpatient samples from the same hospital (145 with schizophrenia and 64 with other severe mental illnesses). The specific aims were to establish whether or not, ...