Although several articles about suicide in general hospitals have been published, the rates of self-destructive individuals among various diseases and departments have not been reported previously. Moreover, self-dest...
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Although several articles about suicide in general hospitals have been published, the rates of self-destructive individuals among various diseases and departments have not been reported previously. Moreover, self-destructive acts in Chinese general hospital inpatients have been neglected. We retrospectively investigated self-destructive incidents among medical general inpatients. A total of 75 self-destructive incidents, including 15 fatalities, were identified during the 10-year study period. The self-destructive rate was 8.7 per 100,000, and the fatality rate was 1.8 per 100,000 admissions. The highest self-destructive rate occurred in patients admitted to the rehabilitation weird (33.4 per 100,000) followed by the neurology ward (29.9 per 100,000). The highest fatality rate occurred among patients in the neurology ward (6.7 per 100,000). The majority of self-destructive patients suffered from a chronic or terminal illness with the most frequent types of illnesses being malignant neoplasm (31.1%), neurological disease (20.3%), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, 10.8%). COPD patients had the highest rate of self-destructive behavior (64.0 per 100,000) and the highest fatality rate (16.0 per 100,000) due to these incidents. The most common self-destructive incident was knife-cutting More than one-half (53.4%) of the self-destructive incidents occurred within the first 2 weeks of admission, and nearly one-half (46.7%) occurred during the night shift. Moreover, the majority of severe or fatal incidents also occurred during the night shift. The results suggest that close supervision of high-risk patients should be mandatory within the first 2 weeks following admission, especially during the night shift. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc.
Objective: The objective of this article is to describe a pediatric neurosurgery patient population receiving vancomycin and examine the indications for and appropriateness of vancomycin use. Methods: A cross-sectiona...
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Objective: The objective of this article is to describe a pediatric neurosurgery patient population receiving vancomycin and examine the indications for and appropriateness of vancomycin use. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on the pediatric neurosurgery patients at Egleston Children's Hospital who received vancomycin from January 1 through December 31, 1996. Vancomycin use was compared with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee recommendations for vancomycin use. Results: Thirty patients received 115 doses of vancomycin. The median patient age was 8.0 years, and 17 (56.7%) were male. Vancomycin was used for prophylaxis in 28 (93.3%) patients and empiric therapy in 3 (10.0%) patients;one patient received vancomycin for surgical prophylaxis followed by empiric therapy for suspected meningitis. Vancomycin prophylaxis was initiated after the incision in 6 (21.4%) patients and was continued as prophylaxis for more than one dose in 26 (92.9%) patients. Conclusions: Vancomycin was used primarily as surgical prophylaxis in pediatric neurosurgery patients, and use was not consistent with the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee recommendations. These data suggest that for certain subpopulations, such as pediatric neurosurgery patients, there is a need for more specialized recommendations. Furthermore, prudent vancomycin use is warranted to successfully decrease the risk of further emergence of vancomycin resistance. Because vancomycin use may be prevalent in this population, assessment of vancomycin use in pediatric neurosurgery patients followed by establishment of vancomycin clinical guidelines may help improve the appropriateness of vancomycin use in this population.
This paper reports on a study of 600 hospital administrators, half of which were in non-profit institutions and half of which were in hospitals owned or managed by the Hospital Corporation of America. The project was ...
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In 1990 Canadian hospitals provided more services at less cost than did acute care facilities in the United States. Canadians spent $2, 720 less per discharge for 48 percent longer stays. If U.S. acute care facilities...
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This study examined the relationships of patients' self-report of their physical and mental health to their satisfaction with care received during recent hospitalization. These associations were examined within an...
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This study examined the relationships of patients' self-report of their physical and mental health to their satisfaction with care received during recent hospitalization. These associations were examined within and across 11 service groups in a mid-Atlantic academic medical center. The sample size of 944 patients was distributed among the service groups, with 68-105 patients in each service. The instruments were a portion of the institution's patient satisfaction survey and the SF-12 (a 12-item generic measure of health status), both administered through telephone interviews. Across all hospital services, the relationships between satisfaction and health were too weak to interpret, with only 0.36% and 0.81% of the variance explained between overall satisfaction with care delivery and physical and mental health, respectively. At the service level, however, a number of significant but weak associations were found between satisfaction and health status in the otolaryngology, orthopedic, cardiothoracic, and transplant populations. Mental health and patients' likelihood to return to the hospital were negatively correlated in the neurology/neurosurgery populations, indicating that at higher levels of mental function, patients reported lower likelihood of their returning to the hospital.
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