OBJECTIVE To determine whether the quality of care during a hospital stay is associated with unplanned readmission within 14 days. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING 12 Veterans Affairs hospitals. PATIENTS Men discharged after a hospitalization for diabetes (n = 593), chronic obstructive lung disease (n = 1172), or heart failure (n = 748). The ratio of controls (men without an unplanned r...

PURPOSE Early discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU) may constitute a strategy of resource consumption optimization; however, unplanned readmission of hospitalized patients to an ICU is associated with a worse outcome. We aimed to compare the effectiveness of the Stability and Workload Index for Transfer score (SWIFT), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score (SOFA) and simplified Therap...

BACKGROUND Home-based secondary prevention programs led by nurses have been proposed to facilitate patients' adjustment to acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The objective of this study was to conduct secondary analyses of the three-year follow-up of a nurse-based case management for elderly patients discharged from hospital after an AMI. METHODS In a single-centre randomized two-armed parall...

objective: to ascertain the unmet needs of family planning & identify the practice of family planning among the urban to rural migrated slum dwellers. materials and methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was done randomly among selected 600 slum dwellers residing in two selected slums of dhaka city. data collected by face to face interview using pretested semi structured questionnaire. re...

BACKGROUND Hospitalisation for heart failure is common and post-discharge outcomes, including readmission and mortality, are often poor and are poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to examine patient- and hospital-level variation in the risk of 30-day unplanned readmission and mortality following discharge from hospital with a diagnosis of heart failure. METHODS Prospective cohort...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed (1) to investigate the pattern of perinatal depressive symptoms, and (2) to determine the relationships between sociodemographic characteristics, obstetric factors, antenatal morbidities, postnatal conditions, and perinatal depressive symptoms using a structural equation model (SEM). METHOD A three-wave prospective longitudinal design was used for 361 women in thei...

Stope design optimisation defines three-dimensional extraction volumes aiming to maximise cashflows, subject geotechnical and operational constraints. Available stope layout methods are deterministic, failing account for grade uncertainty variability that affect locations sizes, as well value. A two-stage stochastic integer programming model is proposed, integrating quantified through geostatis...