STUDY DESIGN Prospective comparative study. PURPOSE To compare the incidence and severity of adverse reactions associated with myelography performed in outpatients vs. in inpatients and report the safety and usefulness of outpatient myelography in Japanese patients. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Myelography is normally performed as an inpatient procedure in most hospitals in Japan. No studies have...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of two medical insurers' policies on the hospitalization of people with schizophrenia and the economic burden they faced during a period of rapid health services reform in China. METHODOLOGY A comparative analysis was made of Urban Employee-Basic Medical Insurance (UE-BMI) and Urban Residents-Basic Medical Insurance (UR-BMI) policies on the medical management ...

This poster will outline the psychology services available to inpatients and outpatients who present for treatment at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Eating Disorder Unit. A brief outline of the inpatient, outpatient, and daypatient psychological services will be provided with clear rationales for the basis for offering the service delivery approaches. In addition, the role psychology on the unit ...

BACKGROUND Physicians are considered to be the most informed consumers in the use of medical services since they have more information about diseases or medical technology. However, although plenty of researchers have suggested that different medical seeking behavior exists among physicians, very few empirical studies have been conducted to investigate differences in medical utilization between...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare clinical and health services outcomes in pediatric inpatients prescribed an atypical antipsychotic (AA) to those not prescribed an AA at discharge. METHODS Descriptive statistics, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and, where necessary, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) were used to compare differences between and within an inpatient group prescribed ri...

OBJECTIVES The two-child policy took effect in China on 1 January 2016, thus officially ending the one-child policy. The resultant growth in the population will create a considerable demand for public services such as paediatric healthcare, even while there are limited paediatric resources. We estimated the relationship between paediatric health resources and services and child mortality to det...

OBJECTIVES To determine potential obstacles to postdischarge followup of hospitalized diabetes patients and to inform planning to better ensure continuity of service when care is transferred from inpatient to outpatient settings. DESIGN Surveys of hospital inpatients. SETTING Urban hospital PATIENTS Inpatients with diabetes mellitus. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Identification of barriers to p...

OBJECTIVES To clarify the prevalence of underweight and overweight/obesity, and laboratory data for nutritional status in Japanese outpatients and inpatients with schizophrenia. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING A questionnaire conducted in inpatient and outpatient facilities in Japan. PARTICIPANTS The population of adult patients with schizophrenia in Japan (N=23,116). MAIN OUTCOME...