Interventions to Reduce Psychologic Morbidity After PICU Discharge

Nutrition interventions to reduce diarrhoea morbidity and mortality.

Despite improved case management, diarrhoeal diseases still account for an estimated 23 % of all deaths among children aged 0-4 years (World Health Organization (WHO), 1995~). Diarrhoeal diseases are largely confined to developing countries and, given their very limited health budgets (typically < US $5/person per year), it is essential to identify cost-effective strategies for disease preventi...

Drug-related problems in older people after hospital discharge and interventions to reduce them.

Drug-related problems in older people during care transitions have become a major public health problem since they threaten patient safety. The objective of our paper is to investigate the extent and frequency of drug-related problems (discontinuity, adherence, errors, interactions and adverse events) after hospital discharge and the efficacy of interventions intended to reduce them. We include...

antibiotic and interventions to reduce inappropriate prescribing

NEUROLOGIC AND PSYCHOLOGIC COMPLICATIONS AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION

Neurologic and psychologic complications are usually related to drug toxicity, infections or symptoms induced by deterioration of renal allograft function. Metabolic encephalopathy, hypertensive encephalopathy, cerebrovascular events, and new-onset seizures have all been reported in organ-transplant recipients. Infections can be caused by listeria, cryptococcus, nocardia, aspergillus and mu...

The Costs, Benefits, and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Mexico

BACKGROUND In Mexico, the lifetime risk of dying from maternal causes is 1 in 370 compared to 1 in 2,500 in the U.S. Although national efforts have been made to improve maternal services in the last decade, it is unclear if Millennium Development Goal 5--to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015--will be met. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We developed an empirically calibrated m...