Cognitive Function and Acute Care Utilization

compactifications and function spaces on weighted semigruops

chapter one is devoted to a moderate discussion on preliminaries, according to our requirements. chapter two which is based on our work in (24) is devoted introducting weighted semigroups (s, w), and studying some famous function spaces on them, especially the relations between go (s, w) and other function speces are invesigated. in fact this chapter is a complement to (32). one of the main fea...

Association between acute care and critical illness hospitalization and cognitive function in older adults.

CONTEXT Studies suggest that many survivors of critical illness experience long-term cognitive impairment but have not included premorbid measures of cognitive functioning and have not evaluated risk for dementia associated with critical illness. OBJECTIVES To determine whether decline in cognitive function was greater among older individuals who experienced acute care or critical illness hos...

Acute care utilization and rehospitalizations for sickle cell disease.

CONTEXT Published rates of health care utilization and rehospitalization by people with sickle cell disease have had limited generalizability and are not population based. OBJECTIVE To provide benchmark data for rates of acute care utilization and rehospitalizations for patients with sickle cell disease. DESIGN Retrospective cohort of sickle cell disease-related emergency department (ED) vi...

Calorie Restriction, Longevity and Cognitive Function

Utilization of intensive care unit resources in severe acute pancreatitis.

CONTEXT Severe acute pancreatitis is a common abdominal emergency; it is a potentially fulminant disease with no specific treatment. The incidence of severe acute pancreatitis is increasing, but the overall population mortality rate has remained unchanged as the case fatality rate has decreased over time. The hospital mortality rate of patients with severe acute pancreatitis has dropped to 20% ...