How Much Is Postacute Care Use Affected by Its Availability?

How much is postacute care use affected by its availability?

OBJECTIVE To assess the relative impact of clinical factors versus nonclinical factors-such as postacute care (PAC) supply-in determining whether patients receive care from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) or inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) after discharge from acute care. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING Medicare acute hospital, IRF, and SNF claims provided data on PAC choices; pre...

Optimal Aminoglycoside Therapy Following the Sepsis: How Much Is Too Much?

Severe sepsis and septic shock are major problems as the result of high rates morbidity andmortality in intensive care units (ICUs). In the presence of septic shock, each hour of delay inthe administration of effective antibiotics is associated with a measurable increase in mortality.Aminoglycosides are effective broad-spectrum antibiotics that are commonly used in ICUs forthe treatment of life...

Optimal Aminoglycoside Therapy Following the Sepsis: How Much Is Too Much?

Severe sepsis and septic shock are major problems as the result of high rates morbidity andmortality in intensive care units (ICUs). In the presence of septic shock, each hour of delay inthe administration of effective antibiotics is associated with a measurable increase in mortality.Aminoglycosides are effective broad-spectrum antibiotics that are commonly used in ICUs forthe treatment of life...

Commentary Well - Child Care : How Much Is Enough ? by Judith

Tolerance by transplantation: how much is enough, how much is too much?

In 1900, Ehrlich and Morgenroth observed that the infusion of foreign hematopoietic cells into goats elicited a potent immune response, whereas the infusion of autologous cells did not. They speculated that “the organism possesses certain contrivances by means of which the immunity reaction, so easily produced by all kinds of cells, is prevented from working against the organism’s own elements”...