Aims The Royal College of Psychiatrists' core standards include a comprehensive physical health review as vital part an inpatient admission. To determine whether using the KardiaMobile 6 lead (KM6L) device on psychiatric ward would increase: a. percentage patients who receive ECG during stay b. within 24 hours admission Methods KM6L provides recording 30 seconds. It enables ECGs to be performed...

BACKGROUND In Japan, the number of beds and average length of stay in a psychiatric ward are greater than in other developed countries. OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to investigate the association between family variables and the length of stay of patients with mental and behavioural disorders in a private psychiatric hospital in Japan. METHODS The medical records of patients discharged...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of a short-stay in-patient rehabilitation programme. DESIGN Prospective case-control cohort study. SETTING Regional medical centre, Hong Kong. PATIENTS One hundred and thirty symptomatic elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who had been treated for an acute respiratory illness in 1998. They were divided into two groups: the c...

PURPOSE This study sought to evaluate factors associated with hospital length of stay in cancer patients with febrile neutropenia. METHODS A prospective cohort study was performed at a single tertiary referral hospital in southern Brazil from October 2009 to August 2011. All adult cancer patients with febrile neutropenia admitted to the hematology ward were evaluated. Stepwise random-effects ...

BACKGROUND Delirium is a frequent and detrimental complication of inpatient hospitalization. Multicomponent intervention in selected groups has been shown to prevent and treat delirium, though little data exists on the effect of intervention in neurological patients. We studied the efficacy of a multicomponent delirium care pathway implemented on a largely neurology and neurosurgery hospital wa...

OBJECTIVE Documentation of the morbidity in sickle cell patients presenting at the Northern Area Armed Forces Hospital, Hafr Al Batin, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the burden of delivering care to these patients. METHODS The record charts of all Saudi patients with Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA) admitted between June 1994 through to July 2001 were retrospectively analyzed. Focus was on age of patien...

PURPOSE Many investigators have reported rising numbers of elderly patients admitted to the intensive care units (ICUs). The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition risk in the ICU by comparing the prevalence of malnutrition between older adults (aged 65 years and above) and adults (aged 18-64 years), and to examine the negative consequences associated with risk of malnu...