Sentences with phrase «after hospital discharge»
Because there is an elevated risk for suicide after hospital discharge, discharge from a hospital is a moment for increased intervention.
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Studies included in this research evaluated survivors older than 16 and assessed for depressive symptoms after hospital discharge.
The next step of this research is to begin study specific interventions that benefit vulnerable patients at - risk for a poor quality of life after hospital discharge, he added.
Physical rehabilitation after hospital discharge was assessed in three of the studies reviewed and found to be potentially beneficial.
Women were identified through web based screening after routine contact by a public health nurse 24 — 48 h after hospital discharge.
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.
Dr. Hwang and her colleagues analyzed data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) to compare the prevalence of supine sleep positioning after hospital discharge for preterm and term infants.
Programs providing a series of home visits soon after hospital discharge can reduce 30 - day readmission rates by 66 %.
No studies have looked at co-bedding twins at home, but it's likely that these benefits continue after hospital discharge.
«The most common time that I see moms for nipple pain or damage is after their milk supply drastically increases, which is usually after hospital discharge,» shares Jennifer Pitkin, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC).
The authors describe how 90 % of mothers initiate breastfeeding at birth, yet very quickly after hospital discharge these rates fall and neither exclusive breastfeeding, nor duration, come close to the WHO / UNICEF infant feeding recommendations.
«Medical Position Paper: Feeding Preterm Infants After Hospital Discharge.»
«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.
To find out more about the symptoms that persist or develop after hospital discharge Dr Janet Scott and Dr Calum Semple from the University's Institute of Translational Medicine, and their colleagues at the 34th Regiment Military Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone examined and interviewed every survivor discharged from the Ebola Treatment Unit at that hospital.
«The nurse practitioners are the key to this program's success because they provide patients they know from the hospital setting with robust continuity of care they need immediately after hospital discharge, while helping community resources better prepare for the patient handoff,» said Dr. Hall.
Despite a dearth of large clinical trials to test interventions aimed at improving outcomes for sepsis patients after hospital discharge, Angus and Prescott recommend three strategies that aim to prevent long - term disabilities:
The most severe form of hospital - acquired anemia was independently associated with a 39 percent increase in the odds of being readmitted or dying within 30 days after hospital discharge compared with not developing hospital - acquired anemia.
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicines attempts to determine whether e-cigarette use after hospital discharge is associated with subsequent tobacco abstinence among smokers who plan to quit and are advised to use evidence - based treatment.
«Tool helps evaluate likely outcomes for elderly patients with traumatic brain injury: Report on method for calculating probability of survival, independence after hospital discharge.»
Improving patients» access to follow - up care after hospital discharge is a primary goal.
«Predicting U.S. Army suicides after hospital discharge.»
Psychological symptoms occurring before an ICU stay and psychological distress experienced during the ICU stay or hospitalization were risk factors most associated with depressive symptoms after hospital discharge, the review found.
Results showed both preterm and term infants had suboptimal rates of supine sleep positioning after hospital discharge.
«Many health care systems are currently focused on providing interventions at or soon after hospital discharge to reduce readmissions,» Nguyen said.
A team of investigators at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center 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.
After hospital discharge, patient remains in China for five more days while she regains strength to travel back to the U.S. HTH coordinates business class travel for return trip.
After his hospital discharge, the traveler was medically evacuated to the U.S. accompanied by a nurse and traveled in business class.