Sentences with phrase «at hospital discharge patients»

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If you said, «Discharge the patient at 2:30 in the morning and send her home alone in the wintry night in a cab,» well then I've got a job for you: Welcome to today's modern hospital system.

To meet a patient's care needs, discharge planning starts early, sometimes prior to hospital admission or at the start of a patient's admission.

Under a new pilot scheme that was reportedly considered at Southend Hospital in Essex, patients who are waiting to be discharged from hospital could end up staying in a spare room of a stranger's home if they are not well enough to look after theHospital in Essex, patients who are waiting to be discharged from hospital could end up staying in a spare room of a stranger's home if they are not well enough to look after thehospital could end up staying in a spare room of a stranger's home if they are not well enough to look after themselves.

According to the legislation, safety - net hospitals would be defined as those where at least half of patients are on Medicaid or uninsured, 40 percent of inpatient discharges are covered by Medicaid and no more than 25 percent of patients are commercially insured.

The bill, which passed unanimously in both chambers last June, would have narrowed the definition of a safety net to include: a public hospital, with the exception of SUNY; a federally designated critical access or sole community hospital; or a hospital that has at least 50 percent of its patients uninsured or on Medicaid, 40 percent of its inpatient population covered by Medicaid, not more than 25 percent of its discharges using commercial insurance, and at least 3 percent of its patients uninsured.

Such hospitals would be defined as those where at least half of patients are on Medicaid or uninsured, 40 percent of inpatient discharges are covered by Medicaid and no more than 25 percent of patients are commercially insured.

The rate at which cardiac arrest patients survived until their discharge from the hospital rose from 10.8 to 16.8 percent for public cardiac arrests and from 5.7 to 8.1 percent for cardiac arrests in the home.

«We find that patients who go to hospitals that rely more on skilled nursing facilities after discharge, as opposed to getting them healthy enough to return home, are substantially less likely to survive over the following year,» says Joseph Doyle, the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of a paper detailing the study.

«The hospital psychiatry consultation and liaison service has to figure out quickly if patients are at imminent risk in the hospital and upon discharge to the community once medically stable.

A new study led by researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) found that the proportion of discharges among minority patients receiving inpatient care at minority - serving hospitals in Massachusetts increased after the implementation of health insurance reform measures which expanded access to care in non-safety net hospitals.

Until now, scientists haven't understood why about a third of patients who undergo anesthesia and surgery experience some kind of cognitive impairment — such as memory loss — at hospital discharge.

Roy H. Perlis, M.D., M.S., of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and coauthors examined whether computer - aided natural language processing of narrative hospital discharge notes could help identify patients at risk for death by suicide after medical or surgical discharge from the hHospital, Boston, and coauthors examined whether computer - aided natural language processing of narrative hospital discharge notes could help identify patients at risk for death by suicide after medical or surgical discharge from the hhospital discharge notes could help identify patients at risk for death by suicide after medical or surgical discharge from the hospitalhospital.

Words in narrative hospital discharge notes may help to identify patients at high risk for suicide, according to an article published online by JAMA Psychiatry.

The observational study of nearly 9,000 patients found that those prescribed antidepressants at discharge from hospital after a heart attack had a 66 % greater risk of mortality one year later than patients not prescribed the drugs, although they noted the cause is not necessarily related directly to the antidepressants.

This study assessed the association of antidepressant prescription at hospital discharge with the one - year outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction (heart attack).

A total of 565 (6.3 %) patients received antidepressants at discharge from hospital.

Lisa K. McIntyre, M.D., of the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, and colleagues conducted a study that included 173 general surgical patients (91 men) who were identified as being unplanned readmissions within 30 days among 2,100 discharges (8 percent) at a Level I trauma center and safety - net hospital.

«Our goal here was to get a picture of what is happening when patients go to a SNF after hospital discharge, and we found that some of the assumptions about the impact of nursing home quality on outcomes may have been overstated,» says the study's lead author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSc, an assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

In the related studies presented at the annual meeting, «Trends in Total Hip Arthroplasty in the United States: The Shift to a Younger Demographic» and «Trends in Total Knee Arthroplasty in the United States: Understanding the Shift to a Younger Demographic,» researchers conducted a retrospective review of 2000 - 2009 hospital discharge data on TKR and THR patients from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP).

A so - called meta - analysis of reports on more than 4,000 patients suggests that almost one in three people discharged from hospital intensive care units (ICUs) has clinically important and persistent symptoms of depression, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

A team of investigators at Wake Forest University in Winston - Salem, N.C., has developed a tool that accounts for variables such as age and severity of brain injury to help physicians and hospital staff calculate a patient's likelihood of survival and returning to independence after hospital discharge.

Patients at high risk of complications could also be more closely monitored after they are discharged from the hospital and sent home in order to uncover and treat surgical complications earlier in their course, before patients require re-hospitalPatients at high risk of complications could also be more closely monitored after they are discharged from the hospital and sent home in order to uncover and treat surgical complications earlier in their course, before patients require re-hospitalpatients require re-hospitalization.

In a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session, these drugs, specifically amiodarone and lidocaine, did not significantly improve such patients» likelihood of surviving to hospital discharge overall.

Overall, patients who survived to hospital discharge left with at most only a slight disability.

Patients discharged in December 2014 and patients who were out of the hospital for fewer than 30 days at the time of admission were excluded from the analyses of 30 - day readPatients discharged in December 2014 and patients who were out of the hospital for fewer than 30 days at the time of admission were excluded from the analyses of 30 - day readpatients who were out of the hospital for fewer than 30 days at the time of admission were excluded from the analyses of 30 - day readmission.

The Rude Ranch Spay / Neuter clinic plans to partner with local full service veterinary hospitals through a referral program to provide information about participating practices at the time of patient discharge.

For hospital patients, a deposit of at least 50 percent of the low estimate is expected at the time your pet is admitted, and payment of the remainder of the bill is required at discharge.

Discharge: At the time of discharge from the hospital (usually between 4PM - 6PM), the cardiologist will discuss the patient's condition with the owner and answer any qDischarge: At the time of discharge from the hospital (usually between 4PM - 6PM), the cardiologist will discuss the patient's condition with the owner and answer any qdischarge from the hospital (usually between 4PM - 6PM), the cardiologist will discuss the patient's condition with the owner and answer any questions.

For hospital patients, a deposit of at least 50 percent of the highest estimate is expected at the time your pet is admitted, and payment of the remainder of the bill is required at discharge.

Patient 25: A man admitted to hospital with congestive heart failure and 12 other medical conditions is discharged home without the necessary home care follow up, placing him at a much higher risk of readmission.

In a cashless scheme, the patient does not settle the hospitalization expenses at the time of discharge from hospital.

Patient education concerning diagnosis, lab results, medications and adverse reactions, disease prevention, wellness counseling, post hospital discharge counseling aimed at preventing hospital readmission, communication liaison between outside facility nurses and physicians

«Upon discharge, patients are asked to complete a survey of questions about their hospital stay, many of which focus on their interactions with care - givers,» says Matthew J Miller, president of Brainspires Inc. «Negative experiences with hospital staff, anywhere at any time, can result in big financial losses for a hospital.»

For example, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients self - discharge from hospital at a rate six times higher than non-Indigenous patients.