Sentences with phrase «of hospitalization during»

A health insurance policy is a shield that protects you and your family from the financial loss at the time of hospitalization during a medical emergency.

Principal investigator for the study and a professor at UNICAMP's Medical School (FCM - UNICAMP), José Dirceu Ribeiro recalls that bronchiolitis is the most common disease during the first year of life, and also the leading cause of hospitalization during this period of infancy worldwide.

''... they used the self - controlled case series statistical methodology to assess the relative incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of hospitalizations during the hot and cold waves in comparison to reference time periods with normal temperature exposure.

Not exact matches

The resident had to be hospitalized twice more and died during the last hospitalization, after the failure of multiple organs, septic shock and a heart attack.

The treatment consisted of Antabuse and individual discussion with the patients during brief hospitalization, plus social work services for their relatives.

In many cases, these feelings have been accumulating during the long weeks, months, or even years of growing stress preceding hospitalization.

I remember well an experience of confronting my own vulnerability and fear of death, during an unexpected hospitalization, several years ago.

Some indication of what the illness is like may be gleaned from a journal my wife kept during her seven - week hospitalization.

Seudat Hodaa is also meant for all the family, friends and neighbors who provided endless comfort and help during the darkest times of his illness and beyond, and who offered prayers, Tehilim, good wishes, meals and visits around the clock during my husband's multiple hospitalizations.

The following are questions you should ask your doctor and yourself when faced with surgery or a hospital stay during the course of breastfeeding: • Is there an alternative to hospitalization?

«Some toddlers experience regression during a stressful event (e.g. the birth of a sibling, hospitalization).

In previous research, benefits of KC have extended from childbirth to age 16, showing improved cognitive and motor development in newborns that received KC during hospitalization.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all newborns, whether breastfed or formula fed, receive a one - time intramuscular shot of vitamin K1 (phytonadione) at a dose of 0.5 to 1.0 milligrams shortly after birth (this is usually given during the birth hospitalization).

Studies comparing human milk from preterm mothers with that from term mothers suggest that these immunologic benefits may be even greater for preterm infants because secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA), lysozyme, lactoferrin, and interferon are found in greater concentrations in preterm human milk compared with term milk.2 — 4 Very low birth weight (VLBW) infants do not benefit from the transplacental transfer of maternal immunoglobulins that occurs primarily after 34 weeks of gestation.5 These infants are exposed to abundant pathogenic organisms during neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization and may benefit from the host defense factors present in preterm human milk.6 — 9

The growth of head circumference, an indicator of brain development, is not lower during premature hospitalization in infants fed human milk, even when the breastfed infant weighs less.

These findings demonstrate a protective effect of human milk feedings against infection and sepsis / meningitis for VLBW infants during NICU hospitalization and further underscore the potential immunologic benefit of providing maternally expressed human milk to hospitalized VLBW infants.

Out of the 18 pregnant women who needed to be sent to ICU, 12 delivered their babies, including one set of twins, during their hospitalizations.

Rush University Medical Center faculty and staff have been international leaders in conducting translational research to provide the scientific evidence for the use of mothers» own milk to reduce complications in very low birthweight infants infants during the NICU hospitalization.

Conclusions: Maternity care policies and practices supportive of breastfeeding are improving nationally; however, more work is needed to ensure all women receive optimal breastfeeding support during the birth hospitalization.

In recognizing the provision of non — breast milk fluids to breastfed infants as a quality - of - care issue, in 2010, The Joint Commission, a major organization that accredits and certifies U.S. hospitals, added exclusive breast milk feeding during the newborn's entire hospitalization as a new quality of care measure.

During the period of the hospitalization of President Muhammadu Buhari in London, when Nigeria witnessed floods and other disasters including conflicts in some communities in Cross Rivers State, the current Director General showed a high degree of non-challance and even when the then Acting President ordered NEMA to collect N1.6 billion and distribute to states affected by floods just before the Benue state's massive floods, but this Director General has reportedly disrespected the order.

During this long process, critics suggested that many individuals may become unstable and may run the risk of hospitalization.

In both groups, 1.5 percent of patients died during hospitalization.

In addition to having a higher rate of freedom from atrial fibrillation, participants who underwent catheter ablation also had lower rates of hospitalization and mortality during the two - year follow up.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the risk of hospitalization is one in five during the flu season, the same as in this study.

Overall, of the more than 62 million hospitalizations among children in the U.S. during this time frame, less than one percent experienced ADEs.

In the largest and most rigorous impact analysis of Medicare Part D to date, researchers found that gaining prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D reduced hospitalizations by 8 %, decreased annual Medicare expenditures for hospitalization by 7 % and reduced hospital charges associated with hospitalization by 12 % during the program's first four years.

They also distinguished between inappropriate initial testing — during a clinician's first evaluation of a patient or in response to new signs or symptoms — and inappropriate repeat testing, which occurs when the same tests are repeated — often multiple times — during a patient's hospitalization.

To address the possibility that some exacerbations might have been missed because participants either moved out of state or died without coming to a hospital, the team focused on a group of 524 patients for whom some sort of emergency room visit or hospitalization was recorded in the databases during the third year after surgery.

In the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.

The findings will be published in the November issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health along with an accompanying editorial and two supporting studies, challenging the current conservative approach to feeding adolescents with anorexia nervosa during hospitalization for malnutrition.

Future research is needed to more fully explore the best messaging during the birth hospitalization that will enhance safe - sleep practices recommended by both the National Institutes of Health and the AAP and help to prevent SUID.»

Only 2.3 percent of patients were readmitted for the same complication they had experienced during their index hospitalization.

Researchers observed a 23 % increase in risk of asthma hospitalizations when there was an extreme heat event during summer months.

Our study shows is that increases in the number of extreme heat and extreme precipitation events, particularly during summer months, lead to more asthma hospitalizations in Maryland.»

Similarly, extreme precipitation events during summer months increased the risk of asthma hospitalizations by 11 %.

Dr Kristensen said: «We found that patients with new - onset IBD had a 37 % increased risk of hospitalization for heart failure during a mean follow - up of 6.4 years compared to the healthy population.

He added: «When IBD patients had flares their risk of hospitalization for heart failure was 2.5 times greater, and it was 2.7 times greater during persistent activity.

Results show that the rate of hospitalization for HAV infection as a principal diagnosis decreased from 0.72 to 0.29 per 100,000 cases during the study period.

The analysis showed that, during the two years prior to surgery, around 22 percent of the studied patients had at least one emergency department (ED) visit or hospitalization in each one - year period.

During the same time period the average age of hospitalized patients increased from 38 to 46 years, with the percentage of HAV - related hospitalizations covered by Medicare also increasing from 12 % to 23 %.

Heart failure hospitalization more than doubles during inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) flares, according to a study of more than 5 million Danish people.

Rush University Medical Center faculty and staff have been international leaders in conducting translational research to provide the scientific evidence for the use of mothers» own milk to reduce complications in very low birthweight infants infants during the NICU hospitalization.

Gravenstein said the finding of a significant reduction in hospitalizations was particularly notable because the predominant flu strain during the 2013 - 14 season, A / H1N1pdm, was believed to be less virulent in older people who had spent a long lifetime building up immunity to similar strains.

In previous genetic studies, this variant had been linked to a greater risk of wheezing illnesses and asthma hospitalizations during childhood.

The study compared hospitalization rates among more than 38,000 residents of 823 nursing homes in 38 states during the 2013 - 14 flu season based on Medicare claims data.

Amongst the remaining participants, a median of 1.5 (IQR 0.75 - 2.75) HE episodes and 3.0 (IQR 0.75 - 5.75) hospitalizations were reported during the subsequent 6 months of the study in the SOC arm compared with 0 (range 0 - 1.0) and 0 (range 0 - 1.5) in the FMT arm (p < 0.05 and p < 0.02, respectively).

The researchers examined two different sets of indicators — whether patients have resumed smoking after a stroke and the severity of their craving for a cigarette during their hospitalization.

In a new study from the University of Pennsylvania, a group of researchers have identified key intervention points where patients perceived overlap between healthcare and law enforcement activities: at the scene of injury; in transport to the hospital; during emergency care; and throughout hospitalization and rehabilitation.

«Our findings confirm the utmost importance of co-contribution of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines in reduction of burden of severe diarrhea and respiratory diseases reduction, especially during winter, the season with peak hospitalization rates of young children,» said principal investigator, Ron Dagan, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel.