OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency of oral antihypertensive medication preceding the increase in blood pressure in patients in a university hospital, the drug of choice, and the maintained use of antihypertensive medication. METHODS Data from January to June 1997 from the University Hospital Professor Edgard Santos Pharmacy concerning the prescriptions of all inpatients were used. Variables ...

Many hospitals struggle with insufficient capacity for their inpatients. As a result, may benefit from an approach that evaluates the occupancy of inpatient wards. In this study, we approximate distributions wards, accounting cases where patients relocate due to shortage beds. The approximation employs homogeneous continuous-time Markov chain evaluate each ward as queue containing multiple clas...

OBJECTIVES To reveal differences in drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts and the reasons for alert overrides between admitting departments. METHODS A retrospective observational study was performed using longitudinal Electronic Health Record (EHR) data and information from an alert and logging system. Adult patients hospitalized in the emergency department (ED) and general ward (GW) during a 46...

BACKGROUND Hospital performance is frequently evaluated by analyzing differences between hospital averages in some quality indicators. The results are often expressed as quality charts of hospital variance (e.g., league tables, funnel plots). However, those analyses seldom consider patients heterogeneity around averages, which is of fundamental relevance for a correct evaluation. Therefore, we ...

To the Editor of The Indian Medical Gazette. SlK,?During the year under report 31 cases of kala-azar were admitted into the wards of the Mitford Hospital. Three cases were remaining under treatment from the previous year. Of the new admissions, four cases absconded from the hospital within a few days after admission, before the diagnosis could be confirmed in the wards. As regards the rest the ...

[Purpose] The convalescent rehabilitation ward (CRW) plays an important role for hip fracture patients in Japanese super-aged society. The purpose of this study is to clarify the usefulness of the CRW concomitant with acute wards in a single hospital. [Subjects and Methods] 110 hip fracture patients were evaluated; 63 patients were moved from acute wards to the CRW in the same hospital (Group C...