The phrase "acute patient" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in a medical context to refer to a patient who is experiencing a sudden onset of a severe condition or illness.
Example: "The emergency room was busy with several acute patients requiring immediate attention."
Alternatives: "critical patient" or "serious patient".
This is an excellent report which uncovers a number of acute patient safety failings and also provides a clear road map of communication patient safety challenges.
Today, MakerHealth makerspaces include custom designed modules, tools, and machines geared toward the challenges facing clinicians, such as issues with telemedicine and acute patient care.
In order to improve acute patient flow and quality of care through hospitals, an acute medical unit (AMU) might be a solution, as demonstrated in the UK.
More than 100 pediatric patients will be moved from the existing hospital (now called the West building) across to the new Main building and into new acute patient care units and pediatric and cardiovascular intensive care units.
The literature reports several benefits (including reductions in in-patient mortality and in the length of stay), with these conclusions mostly based on empirical findings from studies focused on acute patient performance only.
The profile of chronically critically ill is different from the acute patient.
In each hospital, we recruited at least four services: a chronic patient-centred care service, an acute patient-centred care service, a chronic non-patient-centred care service, and an acute non-patient-centred care service [ 37- 39].
The potential factors considered were volume of services; variability in acute-patient separations and bed days; number of DRGs with five or more acute patients per year; differences in the average cost per weighted separation; road distance to nearest regional hospital; and Remoteness Region of the Statistical Local Area in which the hospital is located.
Patients transferred to a long term care facility or reclassified as a non-acute patient awaiting placement or chronic care were considered discharged.
Among them, 99 were excluded due to medical records that could not be retrieved, initial erysipelas diagnose that changed to other diagnose during the episode and non-acute patient visits.
An important duality in anaphylaxis management must be considered first providing first aid when required, and second engaging the non-acute patient in discussion so they may be prepared for future events.
