schizophrenia is one of the most severe psychiatric disorders and 25% of the patients need long term hospitalization. they have somatic illness that may be ignored and lead to death. considering the lack of information regarding the causes of death in schizophrenic patients, the aim of this study was to determine the main causes of death in the long term hospitalized schizophrenic patients in s...

introduction: anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which a person refuses to stay at even the minimum body weight considered normal for their age and height. persons with this disorder may have an intense fear of weight gain and a distorted body image. inadequate eating or excessive exercising results in severe weight loss. the exact cause of anorexia nervosa is not known, but social attit...

BACKGROUND Delayed diagnosis of scabies can cause an institutional outbreak, which causes considerably economic burden to control. This study was to find the risk factors for delayed diagnosis of scabies in hospitalized patients from long-term care facilities. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of the hospitalized patients from long-term care facilities, diagnosed to have scabies b...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of oseltamivir prophylaxis in the management and control of influenza outbreaks in long-term care facilities in Alberta, Canada. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Long-term care facilities where 127 influenza outbreaks were reported to public health authorities in Alberta, Canada, during two influenza seasons from 2013 to 2015. DESIGN AND OUTCOME MEASURES Using rout...

The increase in the elderly population, in spite of being a conquest, carries with it a series of personal, social and economical consequences. Aging is a natural process that involves a series of losses, among which we can mention the decrease in the ability to withstand the overloads of the environment and not necessarily a synonym for disease. The elderly, with greater or lesser degree of im...

BACKGROUND This paper considers approaches to the question "Which long-term care facilities have residents with high use of acute hospitalisations?" It compares four methods of identifying long-term care facilities with high use of acute hospitalisations by demonstrating four selection methods, identifies key factors to be resolved when deciding which methods to employ, and discusses their appr...

BACKGROUND Physician-led home visit care with medical teams (Zaitaku care) has been developed on a national scale to support those who wish to stay at home at the end of life, and promote a system of community-based integrated care in Japan. Medical care at the end of life can be expensive, and is an urgent socioeconomic issue for aging societies. However medical costs of physician-led home vis...