BACKGROUND Re-admissions to hospital in childhood asthma are common with studies reporting that 25% or more of children will be re-admitted within a year. There is a need for strategies to reduce re-admissions. METHODS A prospective randomised control study of an asthma home management training programme was performed in children aged two years or over admitted with acute asthma. Two hundred ...

BACKGROUND The utility of tigecycline as compared with other antibiotic therapies in the treatment of patients with complicated intra-abdominal infection (cIAI) and the short- and long-term outcomes of a large cohort of severely ill patients were examined. We provide the first published data on post-discharge events for these patients. METHODS Retrospective data for the cIAI cohort were obtai...

BACKGROUND We retrospectively examined the records of 822 patients who underwent a total of 901 operations for acute peripheral arterial occlusion of the upper or lower extremities between 1999 and 2009. We analyzed the effects of atherosclerotic structure, the time of admission to hospital, and re-embolectomies on amputation in the early postoperative period. METHODS There were 466 (56.7%) m...

AIM The morbidity of surgical site infections (SSIs) were compared in patients who underwent open (OS) vs laparoscopic (LS) colorectal surgery. METHOD Data from 603 consecutive LS patients and 2246 consecutive OS patients were prospectively recorded. Morbidity of SSIs was assessed by the need for emergency department (ED) evaluation, subsequent hospital re-admission and re-operation. The cost...

Objective : To evaluate the function and impact of a highly specialist psychologist working with high risk patients in an acute mental health inpatient setting. The was examined on outcomes such as related incidents, re-admission, average length stay, use restrictive practice.<br/> Method A mixed methods service evaluation pilot project undertaken to examine role these over 17-month perio...

OBJECTIVES We sought to identify the incidence, predictors, and clinical consequences of one-month reinfarction (RE-MI) in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). BACKGROUND One-month reinfarction after AMI significantly increases long-term mortality; however, little is known about the incidence and predictors of RE-MI in patie...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: patients’ decision-making and legal capacity are major factors of informed consent considered as a basis of medical ethics. this study aimed to determine the undergoing surgery inpatients capacity to sign the consent form and admission clerks’ performance in taking the form in teaching hospitals in kashan. me...

BACKGROUND Older adults hospitalized with fragility fractures are at high risk of negative events that can culminate in re-presentations to hospital emergency departments or readmissions to hospital. This systematic review aimed to identify patient, clinical, or hospital-related factors that are identifiable at the index admission and that may be associated with re-presentations to hospital eme...

background digestive and liver diseases (ld) are among the most common causes of mortality and morbidity in iran and throughout the world. we have aimed to report the etiology and outcome of gastrointestinal and ld that needed admission in a typical tertiary referral hospital in tehran during the last decade. methods shariati hospital gastroenterology and liver disease department (gi & ld) was ...

BACKGROUND Unplanned re-attendance at the Emergency Department (ED) is often monitored as a quality indicator of the care accorded to patients during their index ED visit. High bed occupancy rate (BOR) has been considered as a matter of reduced patient comfort and privacy. Most hospitals in Singapore operate under BORs above 85 %. This study aims to explore factors associated with the unplanned...