Patient Admission
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Prolonged acquired neutropenia in children.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: Acquired neutropenia is not uncommon in childhood. This study investigated the risk factors associated with developing prolonged acquired neutropenia. PROCEDURE: We reviewed 66,062 hospital admission medical records from the 5-year ... Read more...

The effects of a nurse case manager and a community health worker team on diabetic control, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations among urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial.

24 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Although African American adults bear a disproportionate burden from diabetes mellitus (DM), few randomized controlled trials have tested culturally appropriate interventions to improve DM care. METHODS: We randomly assigned 542 African ... Read more...

Management of injecting drug users admitted to hospital.

8 Oct 2009 General hospital clinicians frequently deal with injecting drug users because substance use has diverse medical and psychiatric complications. Non-specialist clinicians often initiate management when specialist consultation is not available or ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient Admission'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prolonged acquired neutropenia in children. 13 Dec 2009
• Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis on inpatient psychiatry units. 30 Oct 2009
• The interdisciplinary approach to culturally tailored medical care: "Social networking" for decreasing risk: Comment on "The effects of a nurse case manager and a community health worker team on diabetic control, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations among urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial" and "Trial of family and friend support for weight loss in African American adults". 24 Oct 2009
• The effects of a nurse case manager and a community health worker team on diabetic control, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations among urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial. 24 Oct 2009
• [What happened to the epicrisis from the out-of-hours care?] 17 Oct 2009
• Management of injecting drug users admitted to hospital. 8 Oct 2009
• Utilisation of inpatient cardiology services including by Maori: a study of hospital discharges for patients enrolled with Partnership Health practices for the 2 years ending June 2007. 7 Oct 2009
• [Can psychiatric acute teams reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards?] 6 Oct 2009
• [A community short-term crisis unit does not reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards] 6 Oct 2009
• Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in the intensive care unit: time to look beyond a single, threshold-based measurement? 29 Sep 2009
• The influence of neighborhood environment on treatment continuity and rehospitalization in dually diagnosed patients discharged from acute inpatient care. 29 Sep 2009
• Methodological challenges in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards: findings from a pilot patient preference RCT. 29 Sep 2009
• Clinical review of factors leading to perioperative dissatisfaction related to orthognathic surgery. 29 Sep 2009
• Factors related to time to admission to specialized multidisciplinary clinics in patients with congestive heart failure. 29 Sep 2009
• Impact of 24-hour in-house intensivists on a dedicated cardiac surgery intensive care unit. 29 Sep 2009
• Cardiovascular effect of bans on smoking in public places: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 27 Sep 2009
• [Drug-drug interactions in intensive care patients] 19 Sep 2009
• Complication rates among trauma centers. 17 Sep 2009
• Efficacy and safety of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for malaria in African infants: a pooled analysis of six randomised, placebo-controlled trials. 14 Sep 2009
• Identification of children at very low risk of clinically-important brain injuries after head trauma: a prospective cohort study. 12 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Patient Admission'

Definition: The process of accepting patients. The concept includes patients accepted for medical and nursing care in a hospital or other health care institution.

Descriptor UI: D010343

Alternative terms: Patient Admission; Admission, Patient; Admissions, Patient; Patient Admissions; Voluntary Admission; Admission, Voluntary; Admissions, Voluntary; Voluntary Admissions;

Related Mesh Headings: Patient Readmission;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; statistics & numerical data; trends;

Tree Number: E02.760.400.600; N02.421.585.400.600;

History Note: 78