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Pediatrics
Zeyad M. Abdulkader, Neetu Bali, Karla Vaz, Desalegn Yacob, Carlo Di Lorenzo, Peter L. Lu
Summary: A quarter of all CVS patients presented to the ED, with almost two-thirds of these visits resulting in hospitalization. Factors predicting hospitalization included male sex, younger age, delayed presentation to the ED, and longer wait time before treatment with antiemetics.
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
(2021)
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Management
W. Veneklaas, A. G. Leeftink, P. H. C. M. van Boekel, E. W. Hans
Summary: The admission lounge is a new type of hospital facility that can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the perioperative process. A five-step approach is proposed for design, suitability assessment, and optimization, which utilizes case mix optimization and Erlang loss model to determine patient allocation and required capacity. Integrated into a decision support system, it helps hospitals identify suitability and optimize configuration.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2021)
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Oncology
Vincenzo Restivo, Giuseppa Minutolo, Marianna Maranto, Antonio Maiorana, Francesco Vitale, Alessandra Casuccio, Emanuele Amodio
Summary: This study aims to assess the effectiveness of preventive strategies in Italian HPV-related hospital admissions. From 2008 to 2018, all HPV-related diseases showed a decrease. The increase in cervical cancer screening adherence and HPV vaccine coverage led to a decrease in invasive cervical cancer and in situ cervical cancer. The study highlights the need to improve acceptance of preventive strategies and provide consistent information by healthcare workers.
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Rasheed El-Bouri, David W. Eyre, Peter Watkinson, Tingting Zhu, David A. Clifton
Summary: The paper presents a deep learning method for predicting the admission location of emergency patients in a hospital, allowing for better resource planning and faster care provision. The model achieved success in predicting initial hospital admission locations with significant AUROC values, demonstrating its potential value in improving patient care and optimizing hospital resource allocation.
IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Lixue Huang, Qun Yao, Xiaoying Gu, Qiongya Wang, Lili Ren, Yeming Wang, Ping Hu, Li Guo, Min Liu, Jiuyang Xu, Xueyang Zhang, Yali Qu, Yanqing Fan, Xia Li, Caihong Li, Ting Yu, Jiaan Xia, Ming Wei, Li Chen, Yanping Li, Fan Xiao, Dan Liu, Jianwei Wang, Xianguang Wang, Bin Cao
Summary: The study aimed to compare the health outcomes and sequelae symptoms between 6 months and 12 months after discharge among COVID-19 survivors. Most survivors had good physical and functional recovery during the 1-year follow-up, but their health status at 12 months was still lower than that of the control population.
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Psychology, Clinical
Kayla R. Donaldson, Katherine G. Jonas, Yuan Tian, Emmett M. Larsen, Daniel N. Klein, Aprajita Mohanty, Evelyn J. Bromet, Roman Kotov
Summary: This study followed a cohort of 428 patients with first-episode psychosis for a decade and found that life events have an impact on symptoms. Negative events increase positive symptoms and decrease negative symptoms, while positive events have an effect on decreasing negative symptoms. There is a need for increased symptom monitoring following negative events, as symptoms may worsen during that time.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
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Virology
Ignacio Perez Catalan, Celia Roig Marti, Daniela Palomo de la Sota, Alejandro Cardenal Alvarez, Maria Jose Esteve Gimeno, Sergio Fabra Juana, German Herrero Rodriguez, Elena Dominguez Bajo, Nuria Tornador Gaya, Jorge Uso Blasco, Jose Manuel Ramos Rincon
Summary: This study analyzed the long-term symptoms of COVID-19 patients and found that treatment with corticosteroids during the acute phase may attenuate the presence of long-term symptoms and improve patients' quality of life.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
(2022)
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Pediatrics
Joanna Leyenaar, Vanessa Hill, Vinh Lam, Rebecca Stern, Kristin Williams Vaughan, Committee Hospital Care
Summary: One in four unscheduled hospital admissions for children and adolescents in the United States occurs through direct admission without first receiving care in the emergency department. This policy statement provides recommendations to optimize the quality and safety of this approach, including guidelines, communication systems, triage systems, resource identification, consideration of high-risk populations, local factors, and ongoing evaluation.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Alessia Raffagnato, Marina Miscioscia, Gaia Bruni, Lara Del Col, Annalisa Traverso, Martina Ferrarese, Caterina Ancora, Silvia Zanato, Michela Gatta
Summary: This study investigated the specific risk factors and psycho-social and clinical features of hospitalized neuropsychiatric patients during the COVID pandemic. It also analyzed the increased hospital readmission phenomenon, which was found to be more frequent in the early stages of the pandemic.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
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Critical Care Medicine
Wytske W. Geense, Marieke Zegers, Marco A. A. Peters, Esther Ewalds, Koen S. Simons, Hester Vermeulen, Johannes G. van der Hoeven, Mark van den Boogaard
Summary: The study found that 50% of ICU survivors experience new physical, mental, and/or cognitive problems within 1 year after admission. There are differences in symptom manifestation among medical patients, urgent surgical patients, and elective surgical patients post-ICU, and pre-ICU health status is a key predictor of post-ICU health issues.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Filipa Sampaio, Paulo Nogueira, Raquel Ascencao, Adriana Henriques, Andreia Costa
Summary: Between 2010 and 2018, there were 383,016 fall-related admissions in Portugal, involving 344,728 patients, accounting for 2.1% of total hospitalizations during the same period. Higher rates of falls were observed among younger and older age groups, males until the age of 60, females from the age of 60, and areas with a higher aging index.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Robert P. Pierce, Seth Raithel, Lea Brandt, Kevin W. Clary, Kevin Craig
Summary: This study validates the feasibility of using machine learning models to identify inpatients at risk and prompt discussions on end-of-life care preferences. The random forest model performs better in accuracy and predictive values.
JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Charlie Moss, Matt Sutton, Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Caroline Sanders, Thomas Allen
Summary: The study observed that homeless patients in England have significantly higher hospital admission rates compared to housed patients, particularly in terms of emergency admissions. The rate of ambulatory care-sensitive admissions for homeless patients is also higher, suggesting that some admissions could be prevented with improved primary care access, although these admissions only represent a small fraction of total admissions.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Sasha Shepperd, Chris Butler, Andrea Cradduck-Bamford, Graham Ellis, Alastair Gray, Anthony Hemsley, Pradeep Khanna, Peter Langhorne, Sam Mort, Scott Ramsay, Rebekah Schiff, David J. Stott, Angela Wilkinson, Ly-Mee Yu, John Young
Summary: This study assessed the clinical effectiveness of hospital at home with comprehensive geriatric assessment for older persons. The results showed that at 6 months, the proportion of older persons living at home was similar between the CGA HAH group and the hospital group, but there was a decrease in admissions to long-term residential care.
ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Ka Chun Chong, Eng Kiong Yeoh, Chi Chiu Leung, Steven Yuk Fai Lau, Holly Ching Yu Lam, William Bernard Goggins, Shi Zhao, Jinjun Ran, Kirran N. Mohammad, Renee Wan Yi Chan, Christopher Koon Chi Lai, Paul Kay Sheung Chan, Cecilia Shih Ya Leung, Victor Xin Yuan Chen, Yawen Wang, Yuchen Wei
Summary: The study found that increased influenza activity and higher temperature were associated with a higher risk of tuberculosis admissions, while short-term exposure to air pollutants was not significantly related to tuberculosis hospitalization.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)