Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
...commended medications, heart catheterizations, and discharge recommendations for non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome," said the study's lead author Ali F. Sonel, M.D., assistant professor of cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at the Veterans...Health care report cards may increase racial/ethnic disparities in bypass operations
...roject (HCUP-3), a data set that includes hospital discharge information nation-wide. Researchers only used da...onsin. Werner and her colleagues compared hospital discharge data on 928,551 acute heart attack patients including 310,412 patients in New York. Blacks and Hisp...Drug therapy may be comparable to invasive cardiac procedures for elderly patients with heart attack
...iption of beta-blockers to appropriate patients at discharge from hospital). The researchers found that the patients' initial AMI severity was similar across all regions. "In all regions, younger and healthier patients were more likely than older high-risk patients to receive intensive treatment and medical t...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
.... Investigators compared prestroke, admission, and discharge functional status of 305 patients age 75 and older who were hospitalized for rehabilitation following stroke. A patient's age did not affect the length of stroke rehabilitation. Fifty-three percent of patients between the ages of 7584 and 40 percent ...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...h men and women who had this session, and signed a discharge contract with their doctors and nurses that includ...d national guidelines for their care, and used the discharge tool and contract. This major effect on mortality rates was the first evidence that standardized hea...Serum sodium level is a major predictor of a poor prognosis for heart failure patients
...ients with a serum sodiuim improvement at hospital discharge had a 15.6 percent mortality rate at 60 days post discharge, compared with a 30.4 percent mortality rate in those showing no improvement. "Currently, the medical community is not paying much attention to serum sodium levels in heart failure patient...Chest radiographs can predict risk of death in SARS patients
...he hospital until death (in 48 of the patients) or discharge from the hospital. The researchers found that by looking at the amount of lung opacification (white shadows in the lungs on the radiographs where black areas denoting air should be), they could predict with a reasonable degree of accuracy whether the...Hard choices: Pitt researcher presents findings on when to accept organ transplants
...g the optimal time to switch HIV medications or to discharge a patient from intensive care. Schaefer and his team plan to work with the clinical team at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's world-renowned Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute to put their research to clinical use. "Pitt is the pl...Heart attack treatment gap may be closing for women
...escribed appropriate drug intervention at hospital discharge at the same frequency as men, researchers reported...ta-blockers, aspirin and statins was determined at discharge in patients from two teaching hospitals and again with follow-up phone calls six-months after discha...Opportunity missed: TIA patients receive less aggressive attention than those with stroke
...ients. The rate of documented stroke education at discharge for TIA patients was 35 percent versus 67 percent for stroke patients. In light of the findings, Dandapani recommended improved public education about TIA and stroke and improved diagnosis and therapy for TIA. Dandapani plans to extend this TIA res...Early supported discharge services can reduce long term dependency for stroke patients
...ts to receive conventional care or early supported discharge (ESD). Trials were selected if ESD provided rehabilitation and support in a community setting with the aim of shortening hospital care. ESD services were mostly provided by a specialist multi-disciplinary team (comprising physiotherapy, occupational ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February 2005 (first issue)
...a is high (22 to 54 percent), survival to hospital discharge in the study patients was 100 percent in the hydrocortisone group, and 70 percent in the control group. The study appears in the first issue for February 2005 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Crit...Balancing care decisions for gravely ill patients
...11 days. While these patients survived to hospital discharge at a higher rate than others (33 percent versus 17...t). Nearly all survivors were severely disabled at discharge and at one year. "Perhaps the best way to avoid vast expenditures of resources on patients very unli...Auditory screening for newborns can be successful, UT Southwestern researchers report
... rescreening those with a suspected problem before discharge and, if necessary, retesting infants at 10 days ol... and fluid in the middle ear. Rescreening prior to discharge from the hospital can help prevent over-referral of infants for diagnostic evaluation," Dr. Shoup sa...Heart patients treated by non-cardiologists less likely to receive medications
...ibitor (prescribed for 61 percent of patients upon discharge by cardiologists versus 35 percent by non-cardiolo...locker (prescribed for 65 percent of patients upon discharge by a cardiologist versus 32 percent by non-cardiologists) Aldosterone antagonist (prescribed for 1...Potential cure for lymphoma in HIV patients
...s, though, did resume the HAART therapy soon after discharge from the hospital. Although two Patients died of relapsed lymphoma a few months after transplant, 17 of the 20 Patients (85 percent) are currently alive and in remission. In addition, the underlying HIV infection did not worsen as a result of the tra...Youki spray curbs spread of superbug MRSA
... dressings used previously, enables the exudate to discharge freely away from the wound (prolonged and excessive exposure can irritate the skin and lead to a loss of epithelial cells), suitable for difficult to reach and awkward areas, no need for a huge collection of dressings and minimal cost of disposal....American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for December 2004 (second issue)
...rbations, researchers showed that within 7 days of discharge their use of prescribed inhaled corticosteroids an...d oral corticosteroids was common within 7 days of discharge from the hospital. The participants were almost exclusively African-American with 65 percent (34 pa...Risks from labor after prior cesarean delivery low, study reports
...ation on this topic was from studies that reviewed discharge codes from hospital records, Dr. Spong said. Such analyses, undertaken after the fact, may fail to include important information about the birth. Moreover, the few studies that had been conducted generally didn't include a large enough number of wo......rved infants and their parents at birth (or before discharge from the hospital if the child was born prematurely) and at 3, 6, and 12 months. We focused on the development of the mother-infant relationship and we explored how the relationship developed under conditions in which mothers are caring for three inf...