BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is associated with high direct healthcare costs due to progression of disease and frequent occurrence of relapses. Aripiprazole once-monthly (AOM) has been shown to reduce total psychiatric hospitalizations among patients who switched from oral standard of care (SOC) therapy to AOM in a multicenter, open-label, mirror-image study of patients with schizophrenia. Because ...

Results Seven hundred eighty-six hospitalizations attributable to KD were identified between 2001 and 2007, representing 0.03% of hospitalizations in children younger than 18 years. Median age of diagnosis was 1 year (range 0-17). Twenty-five percent of patients were younger than 1 year, 60% were between 1 and 4 years, 11% between 5 and 9 years, and 4% between 10 and 17 years. Male to female ra...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate health care resource use and direct medical costs attributable to herpes zoster (HZ) among elderly residents of skilled nursing facilities (SNF). METHODS This was a retrospective matched cohort study using data from 300 SNF in the United States. A total of 404 patients with HZ were matched with 1616 patients with no documented HZ or post-herpetic neuralgia using propens...

introduction:apache (acute physiologic and chronic health evaluation) score is a medical tool designed to measure the severity of disease for adult patients admitted to intensive care units (icu). however, it is designed based on the american patients’ data and is not well suited to be used for iranian people. in addition, iranian hospitals are not equipped with high dependency units which is r...

This study aimed to evaluate causative factors for prolonged hospitalization based on hospitalization status, type of hospital ward, and comorbidities, specifically diabetes mellitus and infectious diseases, in 20,876 patients hospitalized in Saga University Hospital from April 1, 2012, to February 28, 2015. Prolonged hospitalization was defined as hospital days exceeding period 3 in the diagno...

Background & Aim: Spinal cord injury (SCI) has a very long history, and its cases form a large proportion of patients admitted to trauma centers in Iran. Studies show that repair after spinal cord injury can be done. In fact, many pharmaceutical agents, such as erythropoietin (EPO), are applied to reduce secondary injury following the initial disorder and to maintain the nerve tissue. Methods &...

INTRODUCTION The nutritional state is the independent factor that most influences the post-operational results in elective surgeries. OBJECTIVE to evaluate the influence of the nutritional state on the hospitalization period and on the post-operative complications of patients submitted to abdominal surgery. METHODS prospective study with 99 surgical patients over 18 years of age, submitted ...