Abstract Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) hospital admissions represent significant AF related treatment costs nationally. In the year 2019–2020 our reported 1,333 with a primary diagnosis of AF, 10% annual increase. A virtual ambulatory ward providing multidisciplinary care remote hospital-level monitoring could reshape future model management. Methods An was implemented at UK tertiary cent...

OBJECTIVES Re-admissions after hospitalisation are a burden for patients and costly. Our objective was to examine whether re-admissions were increased among older patients when they or their surrogates disagreed with the discharge disposition recommended by the clinical team at hospital discharge. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Large academic medical centre in New York, NY. PA...

In this paper, we study Distributed Admission Control (DAC) procedure for anycast flows with QoS requirements. We focus on algorithms that perform destination selection, which is critical in anycast. Several algorithms are proposed. These algorithms differ from each other in their dependence on system status information. We also address the issue of resource reservation and re-trial control in ...

BACKGROUND Pharmacies often provide prescription records to private research firms, on the assumption that these records are de-identified (i.e., identifying information has been removed). However, concerns have been expressed about the potential that patients can be re-identified from such records. Recently, a large private research firm requested prescription records from the Children's Hospi...

background: overwhelming life experiences can trigger stress disorders including acute stress disorder (asd) and post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). the objective of this study was to investigate the frequency of and predictive factors for asd and ptsd in snakebite victims. methods: in this study, snakebite victims who were admitted to mashhad medical toxicology centre, imam reza hospital, i...

Abstract Aims Patients with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) often require a Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) as palliative procedure during the later stages of their illness, due to swallowing difficulties. More recently these are being inserted earlier before inevitable decrease in nutritional intake and subsequent fall albumin levels. This allows patients eat food they enjoy rather than ...