BACKGROUND Patients with Parkinson disease (PD) are at high risk of hospital encounters with increasing morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to determine the rate of hospital encounters in a cohort followed over 5 years and to identify associated factors. METHODS We queried the data from the International Multicenter National Parkinson Foundation Quality Improvement study. Multivariate l...

background: currently, the number of premature deliveries has been increasing, resulting in early postnatal discharge due to shortage of beds in the neonatal intensive care units (nicu). methods: this descriptive-analytical study was conducted through investigating the premature infants’ files for gestational age (ga), birth weight (bw) and duration of the first hospitalization. furthermore, th...

INTRODUCTION Post-mastectomy seroma and related complications are common problems in modern oncological surgery. Occurrence rates of up to 59% have been reported in literature. High-risk patients, that is, those who have undergone previous surgeries, present with a high body mass index, have had radiation or chemotherapy, present a particular challenge. Noninvasive measures such as fibrin-based...

BACKGROUND Surgical ventricular restoration is an option in patients with coronary artery disease, heart failure, postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm or ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy with or without ventricular tachycardia. The aims of this study were to investigate survival and re-admission for heart failure and to identify predictors for early and long-term mortality and re-admission a...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a re-emerging health problem in developed countries. This paper is part of large guidelines on the global management of TB in children, by a group of scientific societies. It describes the indications to hospitalization of children with suspected or diagnosed TB, the isolation measures, hospital discharge, and re-admission into the community. Using the Consensus Conference ...

The purpose of this study is to describe potential precipitants re-hospitalization and dis-engagement during the first three years diagnosing a psychotic episode, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). A retrospective cohort that included 56 patients, with episode psychosis (FEP). 55.4% sample were men, 52% single, 80% ethnicity, 50% unemployed. mean age was 29.51 old. 42% had non-affective ...

ADHERENCE TO THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY I AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION GUIDELINES FOR PHARMACOTHERAPY IN NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS II-IV HEART FAILURE PATIENTS AND ASSOCIATED RE-HOSPITALIZATION RATES Matthew T. Mefford