BACKGROUND The evaluation of liver disease in HIV patients is cumbersome because may result from a number of different causes. The aim of this retrospective study was to estimate the incidence of severe drug induced liver injury (DILI) in a group of HIV inpatients and investigate potential risk factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of data from HIV-infected patie...

PURPOSE The evaluation of syncope is often disorganized and ineffective. The objective of this study was to examine whether implementation of a standardized emergency department (ED) protocol improves the quality of syncope evaluation. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was a prospective, non-randomized study conducted at a 1900-bed, tertiary teaching hospital in South Korea. We compared two sp...

BACKGROUND To study the prevalence of eighteen geriatric conditions in older patients at admission, their reporting rate in discharge summaries and the impact of these conditions on mortality and functional decline one year after admission. METHOD A prospective multicenter cohort study conducted between 2006 and 2008 in two tertiary university teaching hospitals and one regional teaching hosp...

OBJECTIVES Patients with cancer frequently require unplanned admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Our objectives were to assess hospital and 180-day mortality in patients with a non-haematological malignancy and unplanned ICU admission and to identify which factors present on admission were the best predictors of mortality. DESIGN Retrospective review of all patients with a diagnosis o...

BACKGROUND Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common cause of pediatric admission to hospital. The objectives of this study were twofold: 1) to describe the clinical characteristics of CAP in children admitted to a tertiary care pediatric hospital in the pneumococcal vaccination era and, 2) to examine the antimicrobial selection in hospital and on discharge. METHODS A retrospective revie...

OBJECTIVE To compare risk factors for severe disease as measured by admission to hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) and other clinical outcomes in children with pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) versus those with seasonal influenza. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of children admitted to hospital with pH1N1 versus seasonal influenza A. SETTING Canadian tertiary referral children's hospital. PARTICI...

Serum Cl (sCl) alterations in hospitalized patients have not been comprehensively studied in recent years. The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence and outcome significance of (1) sCl alterations on hospital admission, and (2) sCl evolution within the first 48 hr of hospital admission. We conducted a retrospective study of all hospital admissions in the years 2011-2013 at Mayo Cli...

Rather general results are obtained for determining the nature of infinitesimal generators which can be admitted by a given differential equation. Simple criteria are given to determine whether or not (1) the infinitesimals of independent variables can depend only on independent variables and (2) the infinitesimal of the dependent variable can depend at most linearly on the dependent variable. ...

BACKGROUND Identification and clinical impact of preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) on in-hospital outcomes in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (HF) remain poorly defined. OBJECTIVE To describe clinical predictors and in-hospital outcomes of acute decompensated HF patients and preserved LVEF, and to develop a clinically-based predictive rule based on data acqui...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The influence of body temperature on stroke outcome remains uncertain. The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic role of admission body temperature on short-term and long-term mortality in a retrospective cohort study of patients with acute stroke. METHODS A retrospective cohort of 509 patients with acute stroke, admitted to a tertiary hospital between Jul...