Disease relevance of Patient Discharge

• Optimizing discharge planning: clinical predictors of longer stay after recombinant tissue plasminogen activator for acute stroke [1].

High impact information on Patient Discharge

• The DVT pathway synthesizes recommendations for all aspects of patient care, including laboratory evaluation at admission, dosing and management of heparin therapy, timing of warfarin initiation, elements of patient education, discharge planning, and anticipated duration of heparinization and hospitalization [2].
• These conditions resulted in poor oral absorption of Sandimmun; the children were converted to the new oral microemulsion formulation Neoral, which significantly improved oral absorption, allowing intravenous cyclosporine weaning and patient discharge [3].
• Criteria for patient discharge home included sufficient urine output, toleration of a liquid diet, adequate pain control with oral analgesics and "parental readiness." Renal and bladder ultrasound was obtained no earlier than 1 month following surgery [4].
• The Medicus PCS produced daily scores that, when summed after patient discharge, correlated highly with the same outcome variables [5].
• However, depending on the institution's criteria for ambulatory surgical patient discharge, desflurane may or may not affect the overall hospitalization time [6].

Anatomical context of Patient Discharge

• Particular attention was paid to temperature, blood cell counts, renal and hepatic function tests, arterial gases, and clotting factors, both at the termination of parenteral antibiotic administration as well as at patient discharge from the hospital [7].

Associations of Patient Discharge with chemical compounds

• The data highlight that although the southeastern United States has the highest patient discharge rate for stones, this high discharge rate appears to be correlated specifically with a high discharge rate for calcium oxalate stones and not with a high discharge rate for any of the other common stone components [8].
• At patient discharge, postoperative allogeneic blood administration was significantly more in group Control when compared with each of the three TA treatment groups [9].
• CONCLUSIONS: Rapidly available and reliable results from the urea-membrane test can facilitate clinical decision prior to patient discharge from the endoscopy suite [10].
• Hospital billing data for patients with a primary procedure of PCI was examined for the period of July 1998 to June 1999 from HCIA-Sach's Clinical Pathways Database. Data were analyzed for all patient discharges whose records indicated use of abciximab or tirofiban with a PCI [11].
• CONCLUSION: Levalbuterol treatment in the ED for patients with acute asthma resulted in higher patient discharge rates and may be a cost-effective alternative to racemic albuterol [12].

Gene context of Patient Discharge

• The annual rate of isolation increased from 7.1 to 14.1 per 10,000 patient discharges [13].
• One such case is presented and the "catch-22" situation described where the case manager determined that the chronicity and severity of the case deemed the patient "custodial" and discharge planning was ordered despite the fact that the patient had excellent continued inpatient benefits [14].
• Management of 131I therapy for thyroid cancer: cumulative dose from in-patients, discharge planning and personnel requirements [15].
• MC was considered present if either: 1) CPK-MB was greater than or equal to 5% of total CPK, or 2) an abnormal admission ECG reverted to normal before patient discharge [16].
• CONCLUSION: Neural network modeling is useful in the prediction of functional recovery and helps in discharge planning and allocation of rehabilitation resources [17].

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