Sentences with phrase «patients after discharge»

Maintain relationships with patients after discharge for continuing follow up, as appropriate.

A study that synthesized more than 50 years of research into suicide rates for patients after discharge from psychiatric facilities suggests the immediate period after discharge was a time of marked risk and that the risk remained high years after discharge, according to a new article published by JAMA Psychiatry.

Researchers said further studies are also planned that use other methods to analyze the relationship between volume and outcomes, follow patients after discharge from the hospital, and assess how patient outcomes are affected as hospitals gain more experience with TAVR and the technology is refined over time.

¶ Physical contact = home visit, hospital postpartum follow - up visit; active reaching out = follow - up phone call to patient after discharge; referrals = hospital phone number to call, hospital - based support group, other breastfeeding support group, lactation consultant / specialist, U.S. Department of Agriculture Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, outpatient clinic.

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His unit was also fielding waves of calls from discharged patients asking panicky questions after the fact.

In addition, the registry contains standard procedural and diagnostic codes of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision (ICD - 10), abstracted from patient records after discharge.

NHS hospitals will be made responsible for patients for 30 days after they are discharged, Andrew Lansley will announce later.

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 themselves.

About 20 percent of Medicare patients wind up being readmitted within 30 days after discharge.

The study, recently published in the journal Resuscitation, found that patients discharged in «good neurological condition» after a brief cardiac arrest (when the heart suddenly stops beating normally and can not pump blood effectively) had significant memory problems and a 10 to 20 per cent reduction in size of their brain's memory region, the hippocampus.

The study included 39,140 opioid - naive patients, of whom 53 percent received 1 or more opioid prescriptions within 90 days after discharge.

After all, epileptic seizures are hypersynchronized discharges that engulf the entire cortex in massive rhythmic activity that renders the patient unconscious.

Following hip fracture surgery (n = 319,804), 10,931 patients (3.4 percent) died before hospital discharge and 669 patients (0.18 percent) died after elective THR.

About 20 percent of Medicare patients wind up being readmitted within 30 days after discharge, according to government data.

Improving patients» access to follow - up care after hospital discharge is a primary goal.

Still, experts have argued that hospitals could go a long way toward reducing readmissions just by ensuring that patients receive proper follow - up care after discharge.

Patients who had visited a primary care physician or cardiologist in the preceding year were more likely to see a physician after discharge.

The findings reveal that breast cancer patients who received local anesthetic had superior pain relief, spent less time in recovery rooms after surgery, and were discharged an hour earlier than patients who were put under general anesthesia.

«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.

Patients who didn't seek follow - up care within a month received the lowest rate of care and had the worst health outcomes — demonstrating the need to improve follow - up with high risk chest pain patients after they're discharged from the emergency room, Patients who didn't seek follow - up care within a month received the lowest rate of care and had the worst health outcomes — demonstrating the need to improve follow - up with high risk chest pain patients after they're discharged from the emergency room, patients after they're discharged from the emergency room, Ko said.

The other important finding from the study is that patients» level of acuity in the hospital is not a significant predictor of a poor quality of life after they're discharged from the hospital.

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.

A quieter environment is also associated with fewer patients returning to hospital after discharge, perhaps because of the additional benefits that sleep brings.

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 hospital.

The pooled estimate discharge suicide rate was 484 per 100,000 person - years, according to the results, with the suicide rate the highest within three months after discharge (1,132 per 100,000 person - years) and among those patients admitted with suicidal ideas or behaviors.

This means that MI could be ruled out in a substantial proportion of patients after only one blood draw, allowing for safe, early discharge to outpatient management.

Patients were followed up by telephone 12 months after discharge.

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.

Patients who developed heart failure after heart attack were prescribed the same medications at discharge as those who were not, so researchers concluded treatment for heart attack was not likely responsible for the higher rate of cancer in heart failure pPatients who developed heart failure after heart attack were prescribed the same medications at discharge as those who were not, so researchers concluded treatment for heart attack was not likely responsible for the higher rate of cancer in heart failure patientspatients.

With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Cutler said, health care providers received new incentives to increase efficiency and reduce costly problems, such as readmitting patients soon after discharge and in - hospital infections.

«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.

Ultimately, the investigators focused on 42 reports composed of 4,113 patients, who were assessed for depressive symptoms generally between one and 12 months after ICU discharge.

As part of the Follow Your Heart program, patients received two home visits from an NP in the first week to 10 days after discharge, a routine surgeon office visit around 10 to 14 days after discharge, multiple phone calls from the NP, and the assurance that hospital personnel were available around the clock for questions, including an on - call surgeon.

The study indicated that 30.1 percent of CDI patients were readmitted after 30 days versus 14.4 percent of all - cause discharges.

Researchers looked at patient survival and discharge 30 days after the stroke.

«The original study only focused on how blood sugar control affected complications in the hospital, so we were interested in following those same patients over time to see if blood sugar control had any impact after discharge from the hospital.»

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.

Though the early readmission rate in the 30 days after discharge was initially lower in patients with diastolic heart failure, this soon increased such that it was similar to those with systolic heart failure.

Strategies that could safely identify a large proportion of patients suitable for discharge after a single sample of blood is taken on arrival in the ED would have major benefits to health care systems.

After controlling for severity of disease and surgical complexity, analyses showed that the rate of unplanned 30 - day readmissions was approximately 78 percent for patients with any complication diagnosed following discharge from the hospital.

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.

Post-discharge assessment and treatment that gets patients into rehabilitation with physical, occupational and speech therapy shortly after discharge, and quick referral to therapists if new impairments develop.

«We want to make sure that all patients, regardless of their social circumstances, receive the support they need after they are discharged,» Nagasako said.

Current, standard VTE prevention techniques include the use of an elastic stocking and / or other external compression device upon admittance to the hospital, patient movement and rehabilitation beginning the first day after surgery and continuing for several months, and anticoagulant therapy (blood thinning medications) starting the night before surgery and continuing after the patient is discharged.

In 2010, 35.1 million patients were discharged from the hospital after spending an average of 4.8 days as an inpatient.

Some hospitals facing financial penalties from Medicare for readmitting too many patients soon after discharge have said they are being unfairly penalized.

TORONTO, May 12, 2016 — A new Canadian study focusing on caregiver outcomes of critically ill patients reveals that caregivers of intensive care unit (ICU) survivors, who have received mechanical ventilation for a minimum of seven days, are at a high risk of developing clinical depression persisting up to one year after discharge.

In 2012 he recieved an NIH Director's Early Independence Award to examine why some people die unexpectedly after being seen and discharged from emergency rooms, so doctors can identify patients that are at high risk of dying after being discharged.

It involves extensive cleaning and disinfection after a patient has been discharged and before the next patient has been admitted to the room.

Clinicians should better document aspects of antibiotic use in their notes that can be shared with other providers caring for the same patient throughout his or her hospital stay and after discharge