To discharge or not to discharge?

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

Discharge planning from hospital to home.

BACKGROUND Discharge planning is a routine feature of health systems in many countries. The aim is to reduce hospital length of stay and unplanned readmission to hospital, and improve the co ordination of services following discharge from hospital thereby bridging the gap between hospital and place of discharge. Sometimes discharge planning is offered as part of an integrated package of care, w...

A Novel Approach to Partial Discharge Monitoring

On-line partial discharge (PD) monitoring has existed in some form since the early 1980s. It is the tool of choice to evaluate the health of the stator insulation on large rotating machines. However, analysis of partial discharge results remains difficult to most users and advanced interpretation is usually reserved for experts in the field. While the hardware development has matured, it hasn’t...

Addressing Glycemic Targets from Diagnosis to Discharge

Diabetes, an ever-increasing nationwide epidemic, affects > 29 million Americans, with 21 million people diagnosed and another 8.1 million undiagnosed.1 Of the 12.3% of the adult population with diabetes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that one in four is unaware that they are living with diabetes.2 Increasing obesity rates have greatly contributed to the increas...

Increasing river discharge to the Arctic Ocean.

Synthesis of river-monitoring data reveals that the average annual discharge of fresh water from the six largest Eurasian rivers to the Arctic Ocean increased by 7% from 1936 to 1999. The average annual rate of increase was 2.0 +/- 0.7 cubic kilometers per year. Consequently, average annual discharge from the six rivers is now about 128 cubic kilometers per year greater than it was when routine...