Clinical pathway (CP) is a medical management tool made by a group of medical specialists and specialized for certain diseases. It has been proved that CP was an efficient way to optimize the hospitalization management and control medical cost. In this paper, we focused on the effect of CP in the patients with acute complicated appendicitis via total duration of hospitalization, hospitalization...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous endoscopic laminar discectomy is a typical minimally invasive discectomy operation that is classified into the percutaneous endoscopic transforaminal discectomy and the percutaneous endoscopic interlaminar discectomy. Based on whether the surgeon chooses to deal with the ligamentum flavum under endoscope guidance, percutaneous endoscopic discectomy by the interlaminar ap...

BACKGROUND The optimal duration of dual antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains uncertain. The objective of this study was to examine the association between duration of dual antiplatelet therapy and re-hospitalization for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in ACS patients who underwent PCI. METHODS We identified 975 newly diagnosed ACS patients who underwent PC...

BACKGROUND Robotic video-assisted surgery (RVATS) has been reported to be equally effective to video-assisted surgery (VATS) in lung resection (pneumonectomy, lobectomy, and segmentectomy). Operation time, mortality, drainage duration, and length of hospitalization of patients undergoing either RVATS or VATS are compared in this meta-analysis. METHODS A systematic research for articles meetin...

BACKGROUND Because of increased pressure to shorten hospital stays, some advocate discharging patients with pyloric stenosis within four hours of pyloromyotomy. Because some patients have persistent emesis after pyloromyotomy and thus require prolonged hospitalization to prevent dehydration, it would be helpful to be able to predict in which patients this will occur. METHODS We conducted a re...

i.v. buprenorphine hydrochloride (Subutex) misuse has been creating a number of medical complications, and cutaneous manifestations such as soft tissue infection are one of the commonest consequences. Between January 2004 and December 2006, amongst 130 i.v. buprenorphine abusers who presented to the National University Hospital, Singapore, cutaneous complications were identified in 45 patients ...

INTRODUCTION Psychiatric treatment in developed countries has significantly changed in the last few decades, with a significant shortening of the duration of hospitalization. Numerous West European countries are undertaking health system reforms to improve treatment efficiency. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to present the structure of hospitalized patients according to diagnostic categor...

switch group and 25.1 days in the late-switch group (þ68% compared with early switch group; P1⁄4 0.13). In the lateswitch group, renal toxicity resulted in an increased hospitalization duration (from 4 to 10 days) in 3 patients (vs. zero patients in the early switch group). In the early switch group, no patients were given dialysis vs. one patient that required two sessions in late-switch group...