... a significantly higher annual percentage increase rate than men (55 percent vs. 20 ... failure has shown a continuously significant increase in hospitalization rates since 1980.
Directly and indirectly, ...
... than men. Among the three major forms of cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease and stroke being the other two), only heart failure has shown a significant increase in hospitalization rates.
... a patient’s vital signs were outside normal parameters. Researchers also monitored patients’ re-hospitalization rates and emergency care use.
“Patients could see the fluctuation in their vitals and ...
... adults examines the number of Medicaid beneficiaries who experienced interrupted coverage and their hospitalization rates between 1998 and 2002.
During the study period, one in six Medicaid ...
Cardiovascular death and hospitalization rates in Canada have gone down, according to a new study on the treatment of high blood pressure, a decline that coincided with the introduction of the ...
... influence hospital treatment rate is still being conducted.
Researchers also compared the hospital rates of treatment to the population density by county, and found that 40 percent of the U.S. ...
... reported for years. While overall death rates for stroke are down, blacks bear a disproportionate ... Among the findings:
The age-adjusted stroke hospitalization rate for blacks was three times higher ...
... services, greater medication adherence, lower hospitalization rates, more appropriate end of life care, ... care across the transition from outpatient care to hospitalization.
Gulshan Sharma, M.D., M. ...
... U.S. community hospitals.
The researchers found that when comparing immediate postoperative, in-hospital rates of complications for the year 2006 among patients undergoing spinal fusion by BMP use ...
... that could increase the patient's risk of mortality or complication. The full study and individual hospital ratings for bariatric surgery and other procedures can be found at www.healthgrades.com.
Collaborative medication management between doctors and pharmacists cut the heart failure hospitalization rate by nearly half. The striking difference in hospitalization rates may have been ...
... each of the nation's 5,000 nonfederal hospitals found a wide gap in quality between the nation's best ... stroke-certified.
HealthGrades' Hospital Ratings
HealthGrades rates each of the nation's 5,000 ...
... increase of 42 percent in the head injury hospitalization rate and a 2 percent increase in the non- ... injured motorcyclists.
Total acute care hospital charges stemming from motorcycle-related head ...
... treatment in heart failure patients eliminates need for repeated cardioversions and reduces hospitalization rates The results of a major international clinical trial coordinated by the Montreal ...
... journals. In the United States and Europe, pneumonia hospitalization rates have increased 20 percent to 50 ... from 29,900 adults hospitalized with pneumonia between 1997 and 2004. Of these, 1,371 (4.6 ...
