BACKGROUND Teaching interns patient-centered communication skills, including making structured telephone calls to patients following discharge, may improve transitions of care. OBJECTIVE To explore associations between a patient-centered care (PCC) curriculum and patients' perspectives of the quality of transitional care. METHODS We implemented a novel PCC curriculum on one of four inpatien...

For efficient use of water, accurate measurement of flow in (field/laboratory) channels is required for many water resource projects. The present work is aimed to study the flow characteristics of a twin plate weir (two sharp-crested plates are placed one behind the other at some distance) under free and submerged flow conditions. Experiments are performed with four spacing of the twin plate we...

Our aim was to study the safety of outpatient treatment in low risk patients with acute pulmonary embolism compared with inpatient treatment, the current clinical standard. We searched Medline, Web of Science, Cochrane and EMBASE databases and included studies on outpatient treatment of pulmonary embolism. The outcomes were 3-month recurrent venous thromboembolism, major bleeding and all-cause ...

BACKGROUND There are no standard criteria for when to discontinue intravenous antimicrobial therapy (IVAMT) in children with febrile neutropenia (FN), but it is now common to discontinue IVAMT and discharge patients with an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) < or = 500/mm3. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcome of a large cohort of children with FN who had IVAMT discontinued with a...

The development of laparoscopic cholecystectomy has allowed the introduction of outpatient surgery for biliary tract disease. However, there appears to be a wide variation of the interpretation of "outpatient surgery," ranging from discharge the same day to keeping patients for overnight observation. We prospectively reviewed the last 50 chole-cystectomies performed at Spartanburg Regional Medi...

This paper presents a new resolution strategy for multi-scale streamer discharge simulations based on a second order time adaptive integration and space adaptive multiresolution. A classical fluid model is used to describe plasma discharges, considering drift-diffusion equations and the computation of electric field. The proposed numerical method provides a time-space accuracy control of the so...

OBJECTIVES Oral corticosteroids (CS) are standard treatment for patients discharged from the emergency department (ED) after treatment for acute asthma. Several recent, relatively small trials have investigated the replacement of CS with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), with varied results and conclusions. This systematic review examined the effect of using ICS in place of CS on outcomes in this ...

This paper presents a new resolution strategy for multi-scale gas discharge simulations based on a second order time adaptive integration and space adaptive multiresolution. A classical fluid model is used to model plasma discharges, considering drift-diffusion equations and electric field computation. The proposed numerical method provides a time-space accuracy control of the solution, and thu...

Medical discharge documents are summaries written by a physician about the patient’s condition and aim at transferring information to other health care personnel but also to the patient. According to the legislation, the patient should be able to understand the document. In practice, however, this has been shown to be problematic. This paper studies discharge documents from the patients’ perspe...