Factors associated with death or loss of function at hospital discharge were frailty, absence of agitation (hypoactive delirium), a cardiac cause and poor recognition of delirium by the treating service.
While the job market for Ph.D.-level scientists continued to be poor, recognition of the problem reached a new high, with an influential paper out in April, a meeting organized by Boston-area postdocs in October, and an important new report from the National Academies in December.
In this way we gained insight into the educational needs of this group with regard to genetics; general practitioners indicated that a paucity of knowledge can lead to poor recognition of and unresponsivess to genetic problems in daily patient care.
Physicians, caregivers, and patients all tend to overestimate the level of asthma control, particularly in children [ 10, 15– 18], resulting in poor recognition of deterioration until an acute exacerbation occurs.
This review has also identified that many psychological and physical demands can be made on people with CFS/ME and that major needs may be largely unmet due to poor recognition of CFS/ME as an illness or of its impact.
Poor recognition of critical illness combined with a lack of knowledge and failure to appreciate clinical urgency of a situation has been identified as a contributory factor.
Our findings suggest that poor recognition of delirium in hospitalized patients is a risk factor for mortality and poor functional outcomes.
Poor recognition of symptoms by young people creates a significant barrier to communicating, detecting, and receiving help for mental health problems [ 11].
Although a large proportion of the respondents (75%) indicated that they would visit the hospital in the event of a stroke attack, this could be affected unfavourably by the poor recognition of stroke warning signs observed.
