Browsing by Subject "Tertiary Care Centers"
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A qualitative analysis of the Three Good Things intervention in healthcare workers.
(BMJ open, 2017-06-13)BACKGROUND:Intensive care unit (ICU) personnel have an elevated prevalence of job-related burn-out and post-traumatic stress disorder, which can ultimately impact patient care. To strengthen healthcare workers' skills to ... -
Antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of outpatients and their physicians.
(BMC Fam Pract, 2018-03-01)BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are a common reason for antibiotic overuse worldwide. We previously showed that over 80% of outpatients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka ... -
Guideline-based decision support has a small, non-sustained effect on transthoracic echocardiography ordering frequency.
(BMJ Qual Saf, 2016-01)BACKGROUND: Guidance for appropriate utilisation of transthoracic echocardiograms (TTEs) can be incorporated into ordering prompts, potentially affecting the number of requests. METHODS: We incorporated data from the 2011 ... -
Isolation, speciation and antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida isolates from various clinical specimens at a tertiary care hospital, Nepal.
(BMC research notes, 2017-06)<h4>Background</h4>Candida species are responsible for various clinical infections ranging from mucocutaneous infection to life threatening invasive diseases along with increased resistance to antifungal drugs has made a ... -
Novel model for predicting inpatient mortality after emergency admission to hospital in Singapore: retrospective observational study.
(BMJ open, 2019-09-26)OBJECTIVES:To identify risk factors for inpatient mortality after patients' emergency admission and to create a novel model predicting inpatient mortality risk. DESIGN:This was a retrospective observational study using data ... -
Predicting mortality for paediatric inpatients where malaria is uncommon.
(Arch Dis Child, 2012-10)OBJECTIVE: As the proportion of children living low malaria transmission areas in sub-Saharan Africa increases, approaches for identifying non-malarial severe illness need to be evaluated to improve child outcomes. DESIGN: ... -
Predicting non-home discharge in epithelial ovarian cancer patients: External validation of a predictive model.
(Gynecologic oncology, 2018-10)OBJECTIVE:To externally validate a model predicting non-home discharge in women undergoing primary cytoreductive surgery (CRS) for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). METHODS:Women undergoing primary CRS via laparotomy for ... -
Prevalence and phenotypic trajectories of hypoxaemia among hospitalised adults in Kenya: a single-centre, prospective cohort study.
(BMJ open, 2023-09)<h4>Objective</h4>Global medical oxygen security is limited by knowledge gaps in hypoxaemia burden and oxygen access in low-income and middle-income countries. We examined the prevalence and phenotypic trajectories of hypoxaemia ... -
Temporal Delays Along the Neurosurgical Care Continuum for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Kampala, Uganda.
(Neurosurgery, 2019-01)BACKGROUND:Significant care continuum delays between acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) and definitive surgery are associated with poor outcomes. Use of the "3 delays" model to evaluate TBI outcomes in low- and middle-income ... -
Torsemide versus furosemide in heart failure patients: insights from Duke University Hospital.
(J Cardiovasc Pharmacol, 2015-05)Furosemide has historically been the primary loop diuretic in heart failure patients despite data suggesting potential advantages with torsemide. We used the Duke Echocardiography Lab Database to investigate patients admitted ... -
Transapical versus transfemoral approach and risk of acute kidney injury following transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a propensity-adjusted analysis.
(Renal failure, 2017-11)<h4>Background</h4>The aim of this study was to compare the incidence of post-procedural acute kidney injury (AKI) and other renal outcomes in patients undergoing transapical (TA) and transfemoral (TF) approaches ... -
Validity of low-intensity continuous renal replacement therapy*.
(Critical care medicine, 2013-11)OBJECTIVE: To study the hospital mortality of patients with severe acute kidney injury treated with low-intensity continuous renal replacement therapy. DESIGN: Multicenter retrospective observational study (Japanese Society ...
