BACKGROUND Cardiac surgical reexploration is necessary in approximately 5% of all patients. However, the impact of routine, planned reexploration performed in the intensive care unit (ICU) remains poorly defined. This study evaluated postoperative outcomes after cardiac reexplorations to determine the safety and efficacy of a planned approach in the ICU. METHODS All patients undergoing ICU ca...

OBJECTIVES Unplanned readmissions to the intensive care unit (ICU) are highly undesirable, increasing variance in care, making resource planning difficult and potentially increasing length of stay and mortality in some settings. Identifying patients who are likely to suffer unplanned ICU readmission could reduce the frequency of this adverse event. SETTING A single academic, tertiary care hos...

AIM To compare estimates of unplanned hospitalizations associated with exposure to Beers potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) in elderly people receiving different levels of ongoing general practitioner (GP) care. METHODS Using the pharmaceutical claims and other linked health data of 245,436 Western Australians aged ≥65 years with one or more claims for a medication from a PIM-related...

In this work, we argue that current state-of-theart methods of aircraft localization such as multilateration are insufficient, in particular for modern crowdsourced air traffic networks with random, unplanned deployment geometry. We propose an alternative, a grid-based localization approach using the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm, to deal with the identified shortcomings. Our proposal doe...

Rak usne šupljine šesti je oblik karcinoma po učestalosti u svijetu (1). U Europi rak usne šupljine i rak ždrijela zajedno zauzimaju sedmo mjesto po pojavnosti (2, 3). U incidenciji tih bolesti postoje velike zemljopisne i regionalne varijacije te se bilježi porast stope incidencije osobito kod muškaraca (4 6). U Hrvatskoj je 2008. godine bilo 487 novooboljelih na 4 milijuna 437 tisuća i 460 st...

Building the knowledge culture is of increasing importance, not only because of its role in providing sound knowledge management and effective knowledge-based economic development, but also because of its support to environment protection, intercultural harmony and human well-being. This paper provides a review of the knowledge culture and its related issues, and introduces a development framew...

OBJECTIVES Rehospitalizations for elderly patients are an increasing health care burden. Nonetheless, we have limited information on unplanned rehospitalizations and the related risk factors in elderly patients admitted to in-hospital rehabilitation facilities after an acute hospitalization. SETTING In-hospital rehabilitation and aged care unit. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. PARTICIP...

BACKGROUND The identification of patients at high risk of unplanned readmission is an important component of discharge planning strategies aimed at preventing unwanted returns to hospital. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors associated with unplanned readmission in a Sydney hospital. We developed and compared validated readmission risk scores using routinely collected hospital ...

BACKGROUND Although drug-eluting stents and intensive secondary prevention have contributed to improved outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), repeat revascularization remains relatively common in contemporary practice. We used data from the multicenter Evaluation of Drug-Eluting Stents and Ischemic Events registry to evaluate the relative frequency and timing of staged revasc...