Background and Objective: Screening and timely diagnosis of positive individuals is one of the important issues in controlling pandemic of Covid-19. Early and timely diagnosis of asymptomatic individuals, contact tracking, disconnection of Covid-19 transmission chain through early detection of patients and decreasing R0 were the main objectives of the current study. Materials and Methods: The ...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of involuntary outpatient commitment in reducing rehospitalizations among individuals with severe mental illnesses. METHOD Subjects who were hospitalized involuntarily were randomly assigned to be released (N = 135) or to continue under outpatient commitment (N = 129) after hospital discharge and followed for 1 year. Each subj...

BACKGROUND Outpatient unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) has been shown to be safe and feasible when compared with inpatient surgery; however, no studies have evaluated the cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of performing outpatient versus inpatient UKA. HYPOTHESIS Significant cost savings can be achieved by transitioning UKAs from an inpatient to an outpatient procedure in an outpatie...

BACKGROUND Work disability involves large costs to the society as well as to the individual. Work disability is common among people with chronic pain conditions, yet few effective interventions exist. Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence-based work rehabilitation model originally developed to help people with severe mental illness obtain and maintain employment. The effectivene...

BACKGROUND In the vast state of Queensland, Australia, access to specialist paediatric services are only available in the capital city of Brisbane, and are limited in regional and remote locations. During home-based palliative care, it is not always desirable or practical to move a patient to attend appointments, and so access to care may be even further limited. To address these problems, at t...

The article discusses the relationship between the objects and the physical environments devoted to research and health promotion. It analyzes the physical environment of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/Fiocruz) research laboratories in light of such health promotion principles as expanding the concept of health, participation by the players in the decision making process regarding health areas...

retinal detachment surgery has been considered an inpatient hospital procedure requiring preoperative and postoperative hospitalization. in this pilot study, outpatient retinal detachment surgery was performed on sixteen patients and the results (100% success rate after an average follow-up of 8.3 months) were comparable or better than reported overall success rates for retinal detachment in th...