Disease relevance of Ambulatory Care

• The continuation of digoxin therapy in these patients with congestive heart failure nationally would avoid an estimated 185,000 clinic visits, 27,000 emergency visits and 137,000 hospital admissions for congestive heart failure [1].
• Insulin requirements, body weight, and pre- and postprandial blood glucose were recorded at weekly clinic visits [2].
• At each clinic visit, patients were assessed for depression (Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale and Geriatric Depression Rating Scale) and lithium-induced toxicities (a 21-item side-effect checklist, renal and thyroid biochemistry) [3].
• While the advantages of parenteral cephalosporin therapy in the ambulatory care setting outweigh the disadvantages in terms of cost effectiveness and rapid onset of action, adverse events such as pain at the injection site following intramuscular administration and phlebitis after intravenous infusion should be borne in mind [4].
• Antibodies to Campylobacter jejuni and Escherichia coli O157:H7 lipopolysaccharide (O157 LPS) immunoglobulin G were measured, and the incidence of clinic visits for diarrheal illness was determined [5].

Psychiatry related information on Ambulatory Care

• DESIGN, SETTING, AND SUBJECTS: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial conducted March to October 2000 at a US ambulatory-care referral center among 105 men with a mean (SD) age of 66 (9) years who had erectile dysfunction and known or highly suspected CAD [6].
• The AUDIT alcohol consumption questions (AUDIT-C): an effective brief screening test for problem drinking. Ambulatory Care Quality Improvement Project (ACQUIP). Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test [7].
• Rural and urban groups were compared on health service utilization indices (PTSD, primary and specialty care clinic visits), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2, the Mississippi Combat PTSD Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Dissociative Experiences Scale [8].

High impact information on Ambulatory Care

• Health Stop is a major chain of ambulatory care centers operating for profit [9].
• MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Clinical diagnoses, likelihood and frequency of inpatient and outpatient hospitalizations, emergency department (ED) visits, and total medical costs (including ambulatory care), compared among individuals with and without ADHD [10].
• The continuous infusion was safe, well tolerated, and done in an outpatient setting with weekly clinic visits and monitoring of creatinine and acyclovir levels [11].
• Subjects with positive responses to E6 or E7 peptides at one clinic visit were 4.4 times more likely to be HPV negative at the next visit than were nonresponders (P = .142) [12].
• Smoking histories were taken at 3-monthly clinic visits and verified by measurement of salivary cotinine concentrations [13].

Chemical compound and disease context of Ambulatory Care

• The procedure was not associated with bacteriuria, as measured by a home nitrite test each day for three days following the clinic visit [14].
• PATIENTS AND METHODS: We identified a population-based cohort of non-pregnant women aged 18-65 years, initially treated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole or a fluoroquinolone for community-acquired pyelonephritis in an ambulatory care setting [15].
• Medical histories, physical examinations, and blood tests were obtained at Cooper Clinic, Dallas, Texas, from 3,250 men aged 26-83 years (mean, 51 years) without erectile dysfunction at their first visit, who had one more clinic visit, all between 1987 and 1991 [16].
• After disease recurrence or dissemination, patients who had been treated previously with radiation with or without surgery for cancer of the head and neck were given either cisplatin (16 patients), cisplatin/etoposide (15 patients), or cisplatin/etoposide/5-fluorouracil (5-FU) (19 patients) in an ambulatory care clinic [17].
• On a follow-up clinic visit, because of the patient s chronic renal failure, CT perfusion was performed successfully using gadolinium without further renal complications [18].

Biological context of Ambulatory Care

• Starting before the 28th week of gestation, a good control of diabetes was achieved with the help of initial hospitalization, regular home blood glucose monitoring, and frequent clinic visits [19].
• Safety and tolerability were assessed at weekly clinic visits, and the steady-state pharmacokinetics of cyclosporine in whole blood were characterized at the end of each study period [20].
• Histamine inhalation challenge PC20, clinic visit symptom scores and lung function tests reflecting either large or small airways obstruction were also unchanged [21].
• METHODS: Consecutive patients with a diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis who attended two secondary care outpatient rheumatology clinics were included in the study [22].
• METHODS: Patients 5-17 years, with a >or=3 month history of epilepsy, a development quotient >or=80, no major motor or sensory impairments, and at least one sibling without epilepsy in a similar age range, were identified from the Neurology Clinic database or at the time of clinic visit [23].

Anatomical context of Ambulatory Care

• The mean stimulation of erythrocyte alanine aminotransferase activity by pyridoxal 5'-phosphate was 34.8 +/- 21.1% at the first clinic visit and 29.4 +/- 14.5% for a subsample of 30 subjects at the 30th wk of pregnancy [24].

Associations of Ambulatory Care with chemical compounds

• We administered a topical solution of 1% tropicamide to 30 adults to determine the course of pupillary dilation over time and whether adequate dilation could be attained within a routine clinic visit [25].
• Cobalamin-responsive disorders in the ambulatory care setting: unreliability of cobalamin, methylmalonic acid, and homocysteine testing [26].
• Participants in this study were 463 nonobese men and women aged between 45 and 60 years with normal glucose tolerance and with metabolic and anthropometric assessments at baseline and follow-up clinic visits [27].
• Reducing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in an ambulatory care system. Results of a multidisciplinary collaborative practice lipid clinic compared with traditional physician-based care [28].
• Morning plasma cortisol was measured at clinic visits and a corticotropin stimulation test was performed after three months of treatment [29].

Gene context of Ambulatory Care

• For patients with anterior AMI, CT-1 levels were higher at the clinic visit than at earlier times [30].
• Patients were assessed clinically (pain score, articular index and summated change score) and in terms of acute-phase reactants (CRP, haptoglobin, fibrinogen, ESR and plasma viscosity) at eight separate clinic visits during the 6-month treatment period [31].
• We measured SPLA2 levels in 35 SCD patients during 20 admissions for ACS, 10 admissions for vaso-occlusive crisis, and during 12 clinic visits when patients were at the steady state [32].
• Analysis of the ompP2 sequences, in combination with the PFGE patterns, indicated that ompP2 horizontal transfer between 2 strains occurred in the respiratory tract, between clinic visits 13 and 14 [33].
• STUDY DESIGN: Blood samples from 263 black mother/child pairs (217 mothers and 239 children) were analyzed to determine incidence of the ADH1B allele and the relation of the maternal allele to pregnancy drinking assessed at every prenatal clinic visit [34].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Ambulatory Care

• Control group patients continued the standard of care of quarterly clinic visits, and modem group patients were instructed to transmit blood glucose data every 2 weeks for 6 months instead of a usual quarterly clinic visit [35].
• RESULTS: HAART was more likely to be used in patients who were > 39 years, White, had CD4 counts < 350 cells/mm3, had fewer missed clinic visits, and did not have intravenous drug use as their risk factor for HIV transmission [36].
• METHODS: A cohort of 971 men and women aged 50 and older from the adult population of Rancho Bernardo, California had an oral glucose tolerance test and completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) at two clinic visits, 1984-87 and 1992-96 [37].
• At each clinic visit (-2, 0, 3 and 6 weeks) morning serum cortisol levels, bone markers and spirometry were assessed [38].
• As part of a routine evaluation, 1,408 men and 1,618 women from the Framingham Heart Study who were free of clinical cardiac disease underwent echocardiography and exercise treadmill testing according to the Bruce protocol at the same clinic visit [39].

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