How are drug regimen changes during hospitalisation handled after discharge: a cohort study

How are drug regimen changes during hospitalisation handled after discharge: a cohort study

OBJECTIVES To investigate drug regimen changes during hospitalisation and explore how these changes are handled after patients are transferred back into the care of their general practitioners (GPs). DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Patients in this multicentre study had undergone at least one change in their drug regimens at discharge from the general medicine departments at six hospitals in N...

The characteristics of suicides within a week of discharge after psychiatric hospitalisation – a nationwide register study

BACKGROUND The characteristics of victims of immediate post-discharge suicides are not well known. We explored these characteristics for the purposes of better recognition and preventive efforts of potential immediate post-discharge suicides. METHODS Suicides from a Finnish nationwide register were linked with preceding periods of psychiatric inpatient treatment. Characteristics of suicides w...

Venous thromboembolism in medical patients during hospitalisation and 3 months after hospitalisation: a prospective observational study

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to assess the incidence and risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in a cohort of medical patients both during the period of hospitalisation and following discharge. DESIGN This was a prospective observational study to document the risk profile and incidence of VTE posthospitalisation among all medical patients admitted to our institution during the ...

Pnm-19: How Are Prenatal Screening Results after ART Success?

Background Down syndrome screening at first-trimester may cause a higher false positive rate in pregnant patients who have undergone assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Combining the second largest series of biophysical and biochemical tests in the first trimester of pregnancy after ART is mentioned in few studies. MaterialsAndMethods Ghisoni et al explored that NT measurement between ART...

Prolactin level changes in pemphigus vulgaris: A cohort study