Dependent older patients may cost hospitals more
...ntions such as physical therapy could decrease the length of stay and improve outcomes for older inpatients....ays versus 5.7 days. Yet even after accounting for length of stay, dependent patients cost the hospital 6 percent more than independent patients. "There were ...Tiny nanotube antennas may yield better signals in cell phones, televisions
...rtificial limbs, he adds. By adjusting the shape, length and chemical composition of the nanotubes, as well as the size of the tube array, they can in essence be customized for a wide-variety of electronic needs, Kosko predicts. "There are likely many good applications for the technology that we have not f...New act will restrict patient choice
...for any patient who stays longer than the "average length of stay." These measures could see the chronically sick and older patients being forced into accommodation which is inappropriate and does not serve their needs, write Allyson Pollock and David Rowland of University College London. The effect of the...'Camera pill' promising for diagnosis of small bowel disease
...e endoscopy (CE) displays the small bowel's entire length (as long as 25 feet) as the intestine's involuntary muscles push this "camera pill" forward.CE heralds an important step forward in the diagnosis of small bowel disorders, demonstrating more abnormalities than standard small bowel imaging techniques....Pioneering implants for deaf people
...onding to audible frequencies are spread along the length of the cochlea. By stimulating different points on the cochlea it is possible to activate eight or more channels- enough to understand speech over the phone. ABIs, on the other hand, tend to stimulate only a single channel. But Shannon hopes that h...Measures of healthcare quality are of little use to patients
...mple ability to walk after a hip replacement. The length of reporting periods meant that most of the measures reflected care delivered between two and five years ago. The researchers conclude that the shortage and inadequacy of the data available means that consumers cannot yet choose between providers on ...Radiotherapy improves survival after breast-conserving surgery
...g their breast. However, radiotherapy prolongs the length of time that women are treated for breast cancer, the treatment can be costly, radiotherapy facilities are not common in all areas, and there are some side effects to radiotherapy. For these reasons, several studies have examined the consequences of...Robotic surgery for young heart patients shortens hospital stay and speeds recovery, study indicates
...y-related trauma and scarring, while extending the length of the operation by just over half an hour. Their finding suggests that the minimally invasive surgical techniques made possible by the surgeon-controlled, camera-guided robot system can give the same surgical result as open-chest techniques, with le...Risk of stillbirth on weekends
...was reduced when the authors took into account the length of gestation, a known risk factor for stillbirth and neonatal death. The authors state that the disappearance of excess risk of overall stillbirth and early neonatal death after adjustment for gestational age can probably be explained by the selectiv...Trouble sleeping in the hospital? Maybe it's that jackhammer
... involving the lungs or esophagus, and the average length of their hospital stay is five to 10 days. "We wanted to experience the patient's perspective, so we became patients for one night," says Cmiel. "We got an earful." Peak dosimeter readings as high as 113 decibels - roughly equivalent to the noise of...Patients are less satisfied with better company doctor
...ctor can assess a number of factors to predict the length of the absence. Important predictors of an unfavou...gher age, the employee being pessimistic about the length of absence, an average or high level of education, and a diagnosis of an anxiety disorder or a depre...Jefferson researchers find immune response, dosing keys to vaccine's success against melanoma
...g if the melanoma grew back, but also affected the length of their survival after relapse. In fact, about 25 percent of the DTH (+) patients who relapsed were still alive after five years. "That observation suggests that the vaccine changed the biology of the disease," says Dr. Berd. He believes that these ...Unnecessary hospital stay after heart attack common in European countries
...be keeping patients in hospital for an unnecessary length of time. Previous research has outlined how early discharge of low-risk patients with heart attack (acute myocardial infarction) is feasible after four days hospital stay, and can be achieved at no additional risk of adverse events. Padma Kaul from A...Long-term use of antibiotics possibly linked with increased risk of breast cancer
...ident breast cancer, after controlling for age and length of enrollment," the researchers state. For examp...h death due to breast cancer, controlling for age, length of enrollment, and ever use of postmenopausal hormones. All classes of antibiotics were associated ...Metabolic syndrome predicts heart risk in women with coronary artery disease, study finds
...ion, stroke, congestive heart failure). The median length of follow-up was 3.5 years among the 715 participants who did not die during four-year follow-up and 1.4 years for the 40 non-surviving participants....UMHS study finds surgery safer at teaching hospitals
...or liver. The researchers compared death rates and length of hospital stay for teaching hospitals with those from non-teaching hospitals by looking at patient data from 1996 and 1997 from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which tracks 20 percent of all hospital discharges in the United States. Death rates ...Hair dye use increases risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...type of hair coloring products they had ever used, length of time used, and their age when they stopped using it. The study included a control group of 717 women. Zheng and his colleagues did not find an increased risk of NHL overall among women who started using hair-coloring products in 1980 or later....Metabolic syndrome, not BMI, predicts future cardiovascular risk in obese women, study finds
...ion, stroke, congestive heart failure). The median length of follow-up was 3.5 years among the 739 surviving women and 1.3 years for the 41 non-surviving women. The study found that compared with normal-weight women with normal metabolic status, dysmetabolic women (with diabetes and metabolic syndrome) who ...Laws designed to prevent too-short hospital stays allow mothers more time, study shows
...nd became the first of many states to regulate the length of hospital stays after birth. In 1998, a similar ... over time. "We found that the laws increased both length of stays and hospital charges, but the size of the effect wasn't as large as those estimated in prev...Earlier diagnosis of schizophrenia improves results of treatment
...of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, said the length of time between the onset of psychosis and detection and treatment can stretch from several weeks to several years. This time span is a concern because the patient is sick and untreated and because there is some indication that the untreated psychoti...