OBJECTIVE We aim to examine the relationships between substance use disorders and preventable hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions among adult Medicaid beneficiaries. METHODS Cross-sectional analysis using de-identified Medicaid claims data in 2012 from 177,568 beneficiaries in Missouri was conducted. Logistic regression models were estimated for the associations of subst...

The Canadian Hypertension Society has developed guidelines for the use of ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring in clinical practice. Published articles with the best available levels of evidence were used to support the following recommendations: Physicians should only use ambulatory BP monitoring devices that have been validated independently using established protocols. A decision to wit...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring is commonly used to assess the circadian pattern of BP. Circadian BP pattern is influenced by physical activity and sleep cycle. The effect of BP monitoring itself on the level of physical activity and sleep remains unknown. If BP monitoring affects these parameters, then monitoring itself may influence the circadian BP pattern...

BACKGROUND Patients with COPD on long term oxygen therapy frequently do not adhere to their prescription, and they frequently do not use their ambulatory oxygen systems as intended. Reasons for this lack of adherence are not known. The aim of this study was to obtain in-depth information about perceptions and use of prescribed ambulatory oxygen systems from patients with COPD to inform ambulato...

PURPOSE Outpatient ambulatory EEG may be followed by inpatient video telemetry EEG when investigating children for possible seizures and for classification of epilepsy. We investigated the value of ambulatory EEG and subsequent video telemetry recording in our centre. METHOD The departmental EEG database was interrogated retrospectively for children undergoing ambulatory recording followed by...

Long-term oxygen therapy may limit a patient's ability to remain active and may be detrimental to the rehabilitation process. This study aimed to determine the effect of ambulatory oxygen on quality of life and exercise capacity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease fulfilling the usual criteria of long-term oxygen therapy. In a 1-yr, randomised, three-period, crossover trial, ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the value of ambulatory urodynamic monitoring in the assessment of patients with lower urinary tract symptoms. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study including patients who underwent both conventional urodynamic and ambulatory urodynamic assessment at our Center between December 2002 and February 2013. The ambulatory urodynamic studies were interpreted in a standardi...

background and purpose: medical education is a complex process that intends to train the students in situation like they should work in future such as hospital, clinics, health care center and theire oficess. so, first, it should be clear that, how much the curriculum of medical education meets the professional needs. method: questionnaires were designed and distributed among 125 physicians (gp...

BACKGROUND Patients with elevated clinic blood pressure and normal ambulatory blood pressure have a better prognosis than patients with sustained ambulatory hypertension, and may not have to be treated with antihypertensive drugs. On the contrary, current guidelines emphasize repeated clinic blood pressure measurements for the initiation of antihypertensive therapy. OBJECTIVE To examine the r...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost-effectiveness of nurse practitioners delivering primary and specialised ambulatory care. DESIGN A systematic review of randomised controlled trials reported since 1980. DATA SOURCES 10 electronic bibliographic databases, handsearches, contact with authors, bibliographies and websites. INCLUDED STUDIES Randomised controlled trials that evaluated nurse practi...