BACKGROUND/AIMS In Japan, more than 50,000 patients with dementia are housed in psychiatric facilities, a trend precipitated by prolonged hospitalizations. This study aimed to determine predictors for the time to discharge in patients hospitalized for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). METHODS Medical charts of patients admitted to an acute psychogeriatric ward for trea...

PURPOSE Chest radiography is often performed on patients hospitalized with typical clinical manifestations of bronchiolitis. We aimed to determine the proportion of subjects with pathologic chest radiographic findings and the clinical predictors associated with pathologic chest radiographic findings in young children admitted with the typical presentation of bronchiolitis. METHODS We obtained...

The aims of this study were to describe the clinical, biological and radiological features of community-acquired (CA) Legionnaires' disease (LD) and identify the predictors of mortality in hospitalised patients. Demographic data, risk factors, clinical and biological features, medical management, complications, and outcome from 540 hospitalised patients with confirmed CA LD were prospectively r...

PURPOSE Little is known about the impact of weekend admission on acute variceal hemorrhage (AVH). Thus, we investigated whether day of admission due to AVH influenced in-hospital mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 294 patients with cirrhosis admitted between January 2005 and February 2009 for the management of AVH. Clinical characteristics were...

BACKGROUND Patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) commonly require hospitalization and admission to intensive care unit (ICU). It is useful to identify patients at the time of admission who are likely to have poor outcome. This study was carried out to define the predictors of mortality in patients with acute exacerbation of COPD and to device a scoring...

AIM The present study considers of the prevalence of heart failure (HF) in patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the University Hospital Centre of Tirana (UHCT) "Mother Theresa"; the demographic and clinical characteristics of the sample during hospitalization; and the main predictors of heart failure occurrence inside the group of patients suffering an AMI. MATERIAL AN...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the rate of inappropriate admissions to a pulmonology department over the period of a year and to establish the reasons for such admission and predictors. PATIENTS AND METHODS All 2004 admissions to the pulmonology department of the Hospital de Valme were analyzed using a version of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) developed for concurrent review. Two physic...

Objective: To identify clinical markers available within the first 48 hours of admission that are associated with poor outcome in infective endocarditis. Designs: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: Teaching hospital. Patients: 208 of 220 patients with infective endocarditis. Methods: Consecutive patients with infective endocarditis presenting between 1981 and 1999 to a tertiary centre were st...

OBJECTIVE To identify clinical markers available within the first 48 hours of admission that are associated with poor outcome in infective endocarditis. DESIGNS Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Teaching hospital. PATIENTS 208 of 220 patients with infective endocarditis. METHODS Consecutive patients with infective endocarditis presenting between 1981 and 1999 to a tertiary centre were...