To investigate and describe the content, dissemination and effects of case management interventions for informal caregivers of older adults, focusing on outcomes related to patients' activities of daily living, nutrition assessment, pain measurement, depression, length of stay and to caregivers' satisfaction and difficulties.
There were no differences between groups for a diagnosis of depression, length of stay at facility or mean number of recent unplanned hospital visits.
Total days of delirium, APACHE II scores, baseline depression, hospital length of stay, and mechanical ventilation status were not significantly associated with change in disability.
For a wide variety of social outcomes, such as happiness, divorce, depression, sleep length, marijuana use, Christakis and Fowler [6] reported assortative correlations to up to 4 and 6 steps from the ego.
age gender ethnicity depression (severity, length, type) other health conditions service use self-defined management of depression.
The following characteristics were used for sampling: age gender ethnicity depression (severity, length, type) other health conditions service use self-defined management of depression.
To test the association between baseline depression and length of hospital stay, we analysed baseline depression as a binary variable using the BDI standard cut-off of 10, and modelled associations between pre-operative depression and post-operative length of stay using logistic regressions.
We have also provided evidence that change in hs-CRP from baseline to the 4 8 days after surgery partially mediated the relationship between pre-operative depression and length of post-CABG hospital stay.
In this study we aimed to examine the role of CRP in the relationship between pre-operative depression and length of post-operative hospital stay in patients undergoing elective CABG surgery.
The role of depression on length of hospital stay has been previously examined by Oxlad and colleagues (Oxlad et al., 2006) who reported similar findings to the associations presented here, in that greater pre-operative depression symptoms were associated with longer hospitalisation.
Moreover, in elderly patient several benefits were reported, in term of fewer cardiopulmonary complications, less necessity of blood transfusion, reduced surgical stress, reduced post-operative immune depression, reduced length of ileus, less operative pain, rapid turn to physical activities and shortened hospital stay.
