background: to identify and analyze factors that influence the grading and zoning management model of emergency triage as a first step in the improvement of the system. methods: questionnaires were used to extract data from clinical histories of 286 patients who attended the emergency department of binzhou central hospital (binzhou city, shandong province, china) from september to november of 2...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the discharge destination for older adults can be predicted using functional mobility as measured by the Modified Elderly Mobility Scale (MEMS), associated with demographic and primary reason for admission variables. METHODS A retrospective cohort population audit of 257 patients admitted and discharged from four tertiary older adult rehabilitation wards in a ...

The objective is to investigate the matching between emergency department and discharge diagnosis as well how investigations affect accurately of diagnosis. study was conducted retrospectively over a six-month period. Setting: Department at king Saud medical (KSMC), including four in-patient specialties: orthopedics, surgery, medicine. Subjects: All patients that entered room during correlation...

AIM To assess the changes in health-related quality of life in patients discharged from the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS At the General University ICU, Trauma Hospital in Athens, 242 patients were enrolled prospectively over a study period of 18 months. Out of these, 116 participants (47.9%) completed all survey components at 6, 12, and 18 months. We used Quality of Life-Spanish (QOL-SP...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Little is known about the nutritional status of critically ill children during hospitalisation in and after discharge from an intensive care unit. We set up a prospective, observational study to evaluate the nutritional status of children in an intensive care unit from admission up to 6 months after discharge. A secondary aim was identifying patient characteristics that influe...

Previous history.?The patient and his relatives were preparing some <jur (treacle) and accidentally dropped some of the boiling stuff inside the ear about a month before his admission, and scalded it badly. Me had violent inflammation accompanied with great pain and profuse discharge from the ear. The pain and the discharge went on increasing till he was obliged to seek admission into the hospi...

BACKGROUND Hospitalization, a sentinel event for many older persons, may mark a transition from independent living to either community-based or institutionalized long-term care. We determined the independent risk factors, including loss of function, of nursing home (NH) admission at hospital discharge and NH use at 3 months after hospital discharge among a diverse group of hospitalized older pe...

BACKGROUND Anemia is prevalent at pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission and incident during PICU stay, but little is known about anemia at PICU discharge . Anemia after critical illness is an important issue because it could impact post-PICU outcome. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of anemia at PICU discharge and to determine its risk markers. METHODS This is an ancillary study o...