Sentences with phrase «patients after hospital discharge»

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¶ 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

«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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

A year after discharge from the hospital, patients were questioned about how well they were able to return to independence in regular activities, including walking, bathing, managing finances, light housework and simple shopping trips.

Veterinary technicians and nurses should also be familiar with surgical interventions performed on their patients and be able to answer clients» general questions regarding the initial recovery period in the hospital and after discharge.

After discharge from the hospital, the patient is required to return to UW Veterinary Care for follow - up visits weekly (Day 8, 15, 22 and 29) and on Day 56.

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.

Doctors and hospitals will often try to mask the severity of their mistakes and many errors are only discovered when patients review their medical records after they have been discharged.

In Harrop v. Markham Stouffville Hospital38 a nurse was dismissed by the hospital after it was learned that she had formed a close personal relationship with a recently discharged psychiatric patient.

There are important therapies and exercises that are important for a patient after he or she is discharged from the hospital.

MediSenior health insurance policy comes with a range of unique features that include In - patient hospitalization such as ICU, room rent, medicines and drugs, consumables, and nursing; Pre-and-post hospitalization expenses up to 30 days immediately before hospitalization and upto 60 days immediately after discharge; day care procedures, organ donor; domiciliary treatment; emergency ambulance; and a strong network of more than 3000 hospitals across India.

Patient Care: Available for above 60 years (attendant charges after discharge from hospital for maximum 5 days per hospitalisation and 14 days per policy period).

Make 50 outgoing calls a day to patients to see if they need assistance with getting health coverage, follow up appointments with primary care doctor or specialist, transportation and prescriptions after being discharge from the hospital.

Provided monitoring and assessment after hospital care and discharge providing follow up care in long - term facility or in - home hospice resulting in better patient outcomes.

Methods: Finally, 274 prostate cancer patients answered the Hornheide Screening Instrument... (HSI), HADS, EORTC QLQ - C 30, and LOT during their stay in the hospital (T1), two weeks (T2) and three months after discharge (T3).

Methods: Postal survey, 11 826 patients from 31 hospitals received a questionnaire after discharge.