Medical News Today: Reasons for discharge in males
Some types of male discharge are normal and healthy. Others may signal an underlying medical condition. Read on to find out what is normal and...
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Factors Impacting Practice of Home Kangaroo Mother Care with Low Birth Weight Infants Following Hospital Discharge
Abstract Objective To identify enablers and barriers related to home Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) adoption after hospital discharge. Study design An exploratory study, using a...
Caregiver Medication Management and Understanding After Pediatric Hospital Discharge
OBJECTIVES: Caregivers frequently make mistakes when following instructions on discharge medications, and these instructions often contain discrepancies. Minimal literature reflects inpatient discharges. Our objective was...
Feasibility and Safety of Early Oral Intake and Discharge After Total or Proximal Gastrectomy: An Analysis of Consecutive Cases Without Exclusion Criteria.
Feasibility and Safety of Early Oral Intake and Discharge After Total or Proximal Gastrectomy: An Analysis of Consecutive Cases Without Exclusion Criteria. Ann Surg Oncol....
Earlier Hospital Discharge With Prospectively Designated Discharge Time in the Electronic Health Record
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Hospital discharge requires multidisciplinary coordination. Insufficient coordination impacts patient flow, resource use, and postdischarge outcomes. Our objectives were to (1) implement a...
Lonely heart patients at greater risk of death after hospital discharge finds study
A new study has found that cardiac patients who are lonely are at a greater risk of death within a year of their discharge from...
Lonely cardiac patients at increased risk of death within year of hospital discharge
Cardiac patients who feel lonely are at heightened risk of dying within a year of being discharged from hospital, reveals research published online in the...
Balancing Value and Risk in Early Discharge of Patients With Kawasaki Disease
Balancing Value and Risk in Early Discharge of Patients With Kawasaki Disease Source link...
Executive Summary: Criteria for Critical Care of Infants and Children: PICU Admission, Discharge, and Triage Practice Statement and Levels of Care Guidance
This is an executive summary of the 2019 update of the 2004 guidelines and levels of care for PICU. Since previous guidelines, there has been...
Medical News Today: Non-STD causes of penile discharge
Male discharge is not always a sign of a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Discharge from the penis could have many causes. Find out about non-STD...
Patient factors may predict opioid use after discharge
(HealthDay)—Certain factors may help clinicians identify which patients are more likely to have greater opioid use in the first month after major surgery, according to...
A Discharge Vital Sign Documentation Improvement Initiative in the Pediatric Emergency Department
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Vital signs are important data elements in the pediatric emergency department (PED). The presence of unexplained tachycardia at discharge has been associated...
Follow-up Trends after Emergency Department Discharge for Acutely Symptomatic Hernias: A Southwestern Surgical Congress Multi-Center Trial
The objective of this multi-center study was to examine the follow-up trends after emergency department (ED) discharge in a large and socioeconomically diverse patient population....
Discharge incentives in emergency departments could increase patient return visits, readmissions
In an effort to address emergency department overcrowding, pay-for-performance (P4P) incentive programs have been implemented in various regions around the world, including hospitals in Metro...
Outpatient VTE linked with age, C. diff, discharge after IBD hospitalizations
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease are at increased risk for venous thromboembolism for up two months after discharge from the hospital, according to study results.“Patients...
Factors affecting the catch-up growth of preterm infants after discharge in China: a multicenter study based on the health belief model
The purpose of this study was to analyze the growth status and to identify the risk factors that influence the catch-up growth of preterm infants...
Completeness of Written Discharge Guidance for English- and Spanish-Speaking Patient Families
OBJECTIVES: Written discharge guidance for hospitalized pediatric patients should include language-appropriate key elements to ensure positive discharge outcomes. Our objective in this study was to...
An Improvement Effort to Optimize Electronically Generated Hospital Discharge Instructions
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of hospital discharge instructions (HDIs) is to facilitate safe patient transitions home, but electronic health records can generate lengthy documents filled with...
Factors Associated With Pickup of Pediatric Discharge Prescriptions
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Lack of medication pickup is associated with worse clinical outcomes for select patients. Identification of risk factors for not picking up discharge...
Preparing for Discharge From the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
BACKGROUND: Discharge readiness is a key determinant of outcomes for families in the NICU. Since 2003, using a broad set of outcome and process measures,...