Inpatients - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Treatment-related risk factors for hospital mortality in Candida bloodstream infections.

30 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between treatment-related variables for Candida bloodstream infection and hospital mortality. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort analysis. SETTING: Thousand two hundred-bed academic medical center. PATIENTS: A total ... Read more...

Risk factors for negative blood cultures in adult medical inpatients--a retrospective analysis.

26 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: The identification of clinical factors associated with negative blood cultures could help to avoid unnecessary blood cultures. C-reactive protein (CRP) is a well-established inflammation marker commonly used in the management of medical ... Read more...

[The DGAI CPR registry - the datasets "hospital care" and "long-term process"]

26 Oct 2008 After several years of preparation the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin--DGAI) has, during its annual conference 2007, officially launched the DGAI CPR ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Inpatients'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Treatment-related risk factors for hospital mortality in Candida bloodstream infections. 30 Oct 2008
• Risk factors for negative blood cultures in adult medical inpatients--a retrospective analysis. 26 Oct 2008
• [The DGAI CPR registry - the datasets "hospital care" and "long-term process"] 26 Oct 2008
• Without judgment. 13 Oct 2008
• Smoking cessation interventions for hospitalized smokers: a systematic review. 11 Oct 2008
• Derivation and validation of a clinical prediction score for isolation of inpatients with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis. 29 Sep 2008
• Survival after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 29 Sep 2008
• The outcome of tactile touch on oxytocin in intensive care patients: a randomised controlled trial. 29 Sep 2008
• Patients' expectations of the maintenance of their dignity. 29 Sep 2008
• Reliability of nurse assessment of malnutrition risk in hospital patients. 29 Sep 2008
• Hypophosphataemia at a large academic hospital in South Africa. 29 Sep 2008
• Internal medicine training in the 21st century. 29 Sep 2008
• Hepatitis C is a predictor of acute liver injury among hospitalizations for acetaminophen overdose in the United States: a nationwide analysis. 29 Sep 2008
• Coagulopathy and inhospital deaths in patients with acute subdural hematoma. 29 Sep 2008
• [Prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism] 29 Sep 2008
• The effectiveness of inpatient rehabilitation in the acute postoperative phase of care after transtibial or transfemoral amputation: study of an integrated health care delivery system. 29 Sep 2008
• Surgical resident and attending physician attitudes toward glucose control in the surgical patient. 29 Sep 2008
• Quantitation of serum free light chains in combination with protein electrophoresis and clinical information for diagnosing multiple myeloma in a general hospital population. 16 Sep 2008
• Use and prescribing patterns for erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in inpatient and outpatient hospital settings. 13 Sep 2008
• The inpatient management of physical activity in young people with anorexia nervosa. 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Inpatients'

Definition: Persons admitted to health facilities which provide board and room, for the purpose of observation, care, diagnosis or treatment.

Descriptor UI: D007297

Alternative terms: Inpatients; Inpatient;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: M01.643.470;

History Note: 91(80); was see under PATIENTS 1980-90

Technical Notes: inpatients as people or as a social, sociol, psychol, etc., group; do not confuse with HOSPITALIZATION