BACKGROUND Patients with elevated clinic blood pressure and normal ambulatory blood pressure have a better prognosis than patients with sustained ambulatory hypertension, and may not have to be treated with antihypertensive drugs. On the contrary, current guidelines emphasize repeated clinic blood pressure measurements for the initiation of antihypertensive therapy. OBJECTIVE To examine the r...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost-effectiveness of nurse practitioners delivering primary and specialised ambulatory care. DESIGN A systematic review of randomised controlled trials reported since 1980. DATA SOURCES 10 electronic bibliographic databases, handsearches, contact with authors, bibliographies and websites. INCLUDED STUDIES Randomised controlled trials that evaluated nurse practi...

BackgroundA small number of studies have confirmed the presence oxidative damage in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Nevertheless, it is unknown if there a relationship circulating markers stress muscle injury.ObjectiveWe evaluated and anti-oxidant are associated DMD.MethodsThis cross-sectional study included 24 DMD classified ambulatory non-ambulatory. Markers (creatine kinase ...

OBJECTIVES This report presents national estimates of surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed on an ambulatory basis in hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in the United States during 2006. Data are presented by types of facilities, age and sex of the patients, and geographic regions. Major categories of procedures and diagnoses are shown by age and sex. Selected estimat...

Since the early 80s, many surgical procedures have moved from the inpatient to outpatient setting. Outpatient surgical visits now account for about two-thirds of all surgical visits in the U.S. Over the same period, freestanding ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) have arisen as alternatives to traditional hospital-based outpatient surgical departments. The number of ASCs grew from 240 in 1983 to...

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Ambulatory surgery was introduced to Asia in the 1990s. Acceptance of ambulatory surgery by oriental patients remains largely unknown. A telephone survey was conducted to evaluate the level of patient satisfaction following ambulatory inguinal hernia repair. A total of 157 patients (61%) completed the telephone survey. More than 90% of the respondents expressed satisfaction with regard to the p...

Ambulatory blood pressure measurement, which has been confined to research for many years, is now an accepted investigation in clinical practice [ l ] . In an effort to ensure that the devices meet the requirements of clinical practice the British Hypertension Society (BHs) has published a comprehensive protocol for the evaluation of blood pressure measuring devices with special reference to am...

Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) correlates more significantly with hypertension-associated cardiovascular mortality and morbidity than BP obtained in the doctor's office. Assessing ambulatory BP, either through 24-h monitoring or through protocolized self-measurement at home, is essential in diagnosing and monitoring patients with hypertension. Several ambulatory BP-derived indicators are relate...

National inpatient and ambulatory surgery data were combined to examine changes over time in the location and amount of surgical care. The main pattern was a decline in the rate of inpatient operations that was outweighed by growth in ambulatory operations. However, the rate of inpatient operations did not decrease for patients age 65 years or over, despite the growth in ambulatory surgery. Oth...