background the pursuit of equity in health and healthcare has been the key feature of health policy in india. however, despite the policy significance, the volume of literature available on this issue is scarce. therefore, this paper is an attempt to examine the horizontal inequities in healthcare utilization, consisting of outpatient and inpatient care in 15 major states and north-eastern regi...

UNLABELLED Hospital-associated acute kidney injury (HA-AKI) is associated with increased inpatient mortality. Our objective was to categorize HA-AKI based on the timing of minimum and peak inpatient serum creatinine (sCr) and describe the association with inpatient mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study is a retrospective analysis of an administrative data set for adults admitted to a si...

m n s i r cute coronary syndromes (ACS) account for approxiately 1.6 million annual inpatient hospital discharges in he U.S. (1). Approximately 80% of these are due to on–ST-segment elevations ACS (NSTE-ACS). In this ear’s review, we highlight publications and presentations etween May 2006 and April 2007 in 6 areas: risk assessent, antithrombotic therapy, anti-ischemic therapy, perutaneous coro...

To incorporate family therapy into an inpatient treatment program for spinal cord injured substance abusers required overcoming both staff and patient resistance. Since it became an integral part of the program, family therapy has shown itself to be helpful in dealing with this population's tendency to adapt to their injury either by overdependency or overachievement. Its usefulness to patients...

INTRODUCTION Diagnosis related costs analyses are the subject of science and research and are of great relevance and importance for decision makers in the hospital and for funding bodies, but also for international health policy. Up to now, standardized costs analyses with valid costs data have not been available for inpatient care of patients with affective and somatoform disorders. BACKGROU...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate inpatient rehabilitation in public facilities in Australia against a utilization review tool used in the USA. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SUBJECTS Patients identified in the acute wards of a regional referral hospital and subsequently transferred to a public inpatient rehabilitation facility. METHODS The InterQual utilization review criteria were applied to days...

The benefits of β-lactam/macrolide combination therapy over β-lactam therapy alone for the treatment of hospitalised community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in relation to pneumonia severity are uncertain. We studied 5240 adults hospitalised with CAP from 72 secondary care trusts across England and Wales. The overall 30-day inpatient (IP) death rate was 24.4%. Combination therapy was prescribed in 3...

BACKGROUND We reviewed the care of a large cohort of patients with diabetes mellitus on insulin pump therapy who required an inpatient stay. METHODS Records were reviewed of patients hospitalized between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2011. RESULTS A total of 136 patients using insulin pumps had 253 hospitalizations. Mean (standard deviation) patient age was 55 (16) years, diabetes durat...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of an intensive, inpatient rehabilitation programme on individuals affected by Huntington's disease. DESIGN A pilot study. Within-subjects design. SETTING Inpatient rehabilitation home of the Italian welfare system. SUBJECTS Forty patients, early and middle stage of the disease, were recruited to an intensive, inpatient rehabilitation protocol. INTER...

Parenteral antimicrobial therapy is traditionally offered in the inpatient setting in many parts of the world. In the USA, the past three decades have seen an unprecedented increase in the delivery of these therapies in the non-inpatient setting, and outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) is now an established standard of care in North America. However, the uptake of OPAT within Europe...