Clinical scores clarify bacterial meningitis risk.(News)

Pediatric News;  January 1, 2007 ;     374 words ......which children require hospital admission, according to Dr. Lise...Bacterial Meningitis Score prediction rule to assist with clinical...substantially reduce unnecessary hospital admissions for children...and those who required hospital admission for severe illness; ...

Routine hospital admission for patients undergoing upper aerodigestive...

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......commonly performed, the need for hospital admission remains controversial. A retrospective...comparison of various approaches to hospital admission demonstrated that selective admission...period, and 3) of the approaches to hospital admission examined, it was the most economical...

Air pollution raises childhood asthma hospital admission count in HK

Xinhua News Agency;  September 21, 2006 ;     201 words ......pollution raises childhood asthma hospital admission count in HK HONG KONG, Sept. 21...Thursday a study result that asthma hospital admission counts of children increased with...2002 and found that childhood asthma hospital admission counts in Hong Kong increased with...

Is Nutritional Depletion by Nutritional Risk Index Associated With...

JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Background: Malnutrition is common at hospital admission and tends to worsen during hospitalization...by Nutritional Risk Index (NRI) at hospital admission are associated with increased length...were prospectively determined at hospital admission in Geneva (n = 652) and Berlin (n...

Diagnosing severe acute respiratory syndrome.(Tips)

American Family Physician;  June 15, 2005 ;     589 words ......and associates developed a clinical prediction rule for diagnosis to identify SARS in...by laboratory testing, a two-step prediction rule was derived. Step one identified the...the highest-risk group. Using this prediction rule achieved a sensitivity of 0.90 and...

Hospital admission following ambulatory surgery. (Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  March 1, 1993 ;     284 words ......outpatient procedures. Unscheduled hospital admission following ambulatory surgery reflects...specificity of 90 percent in predicting hospital admission within one week of surgery. The most...best hope of reducing unscheduled hospital admission following ambulatory gynecologic...

New health programme trial to improve older patient care.

M2 Presswire;  May 3, 2004 ;     682 words ......and improve their health and avoid hospital admission under a new healthcare programme...be identified and treated before hospital admission becomes necessary - The work is already...age of 65 are more vulnerable to hospital admission and we must look at new ways of reducing...

Diabetes services: seamless or segregated?

Journal of Diabetes Nursing;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......recent years. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hospital admission rates for chronic disease patients...et al (1998) have suggested that hospital admission rates are a marker for poor primary...good primary care alone can decrease hospital admission rates. It is unavoidable that the...

Identifying patient's medical conditions at hospital admission provides a...

Nursing Economics;  November 1, 2007 ;     119 words ......data are not date stamped to distinguish between conditions present at the time of hospital admission and complications that occur after hospital admission. Treating complications as pre-existing conditions gives poor-performing hospitals...

Health effects of forest fires concern medical experts.(news Scan)(Brief...

Industrial Safety & Hygiene News;  December 1, 2003 ;     208 words ......aggravate heart and lung diseases. A 2001 study of Montana hospital admission records by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...to smoke from forest fires. The results: increases in hospital admission for respiratory and circulatory problems among residents...

Candesartan improves outcomes in chronic heart failure.(Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......remain at increased risk of hospital admission and cardiovascular death...is the main reason for hospital admission in older adults, and its...included cardiovascular death, hospital admission for CHF, MI, stroke, cardiac...

American Home Products Announces Positive Final Results in First...

PR Newswire;  November 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ......lidocaine in improving survival to hospital admission for patients with shock-refractory...resistant to defibrillation survived to hospital admission vs. 12 percent who received lidocaine...equal to 24 minutes, survival to hospital admission was 28 percent after administration...

Clinical prediction rule for stratifying patients with PE.(pulmonary...

American Family Physician;  August 15, 2006 ;     516 words ......set out to develop a purely clinical prediction rule for stratifying the risk of mortality...intubation/mechanical ventilation. The prediction rule was derived from 11 clinical variables...validated internally and externally. The prediction rule was internally validated using 5,177...

Risk Factors and Outcomes Associated with Hospital Admission for...

Rehabilitation Nursing;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The hospital admission rate for dehydration is one...rehabilitation or result in hospital admission. Prevention, monitoring and...rehabilitation or result in hospital admission. Dehydration is a common water...

NSAID use among elderly increases risk of first-time hospitalization for...

Formulary;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Kingdom, stated that the risk of first hospital admission because of HF was slightly higher...a greater risk of having a first hospital admission for HF decompensation at the beginning...conditions had a higher risk of first hospital admission for HF compared with non-users of...