This suggests that there is a potential for increasing pre-hospital recognition of stroke further by including training for ambulance staff.
This important role of children's hospitals warrants recognition by hospital administrators and policy-makers.
Key enablers for establishing the service included the hospital's recognition of its value and acceptance among staff.
Headache burden can be reduced significantly by increasing awareness in the population, timely hospital visits, recognition of precipitating factors, and treatment.
Inappropriate and unplanned hospital admissions, recognition of unmet health needs, concerns about supporting patient dignity, end of life care and access to health services have triggered multiple care home specific policy initiatives and interventions [ 10, 11].
Ward staff were trained in the use of the EWS system when it was introduced or when they first started work on the ward using a structured training package developed by the hospital's Recognition of Acutely Ill and Deteriorating Patients committee.
To a lesser degree, these results reflect circumstances found in basic and regular care hospitals where recognition and standardized therapy of IAH and ACS seem to lead a miserable existence.
His support was crucial to the nearly 2000 nurses at the state's largest hospital winning union recognition, and to hundreds of federal contract workers winning millions in back pay after being systematically underpaid in violation of the federal Service Contract Act.
Even in that relatively short period, the post-discharge all cause mortality rate was found to be 14%, which the investigators attributed to suboptimal medical care during admission to hospital (poor disease recognition and inadequate treatment).
With so many deaths occurring shortly after hospital admission, improved recognition and case management of early sepsis may be important disease management goals.
Other existing questionnaires have focused on assessment of patients' experience of hospital discharge, in recognition that the risk of poor care coordination is particularly high at times of transition in care [ 11, 26].
