To determine if an educational intervention provided during postpartum hospitalization is effective in decreasing the symptoms of postpartum depression (PPD) as measured by the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) at 6‐weeks, 3‐months, and 6‐months postpartum.
Confusion, suicidality and aggression represent psychiatric emergencies in the elderly and may require hospitalization for effective management.
This theme, composed of four sub-themes, reflected perceptions that care by an NP resulted in improved availability and timeliness of care, prevention of unnecessary hospitalization and more effective professional working relationships.
Heart failure (HF) is a chronic, progressive disease affecting approximately six million Americans, mostly older adults, and is often characterized by frequent hospitalizations. 1 Effective outpatient management of HF requires extensive patient self-care to control symptoms and prevent hospitalization.
Targeting patients with prolonged hospitalizations may represent an effective strategy for reducing average hospital length of stay (LOS).
In a study evaluating changes in health behaviors, health status, and hospitalizations, CDSMP was found effective in improving health generally and resulted in lower hospitalization rates [ 13].
†1 dose achieves 0% effectiveness against clinical cases, hospitalizations, and deaths; 2nd dose 4 wk later is 62% effective against hospitalizations and deaths 2 weeks after administration.
According to our study, 62.5% of children were younger than one year old, suggesting that illnesses caused by RSV can be severe in this age group, thus requiring hospitalization with prompt and effective medical intervention [ 5, 24].
In addition, the LOS in Italian part, which is similar to the LOS of the French region, could indicate that the high hospitalization rates represent an effective need for problems of respiratory diseases assuming that LOS indicates in some degree the seriousness of disease.
The interRAI Hospitalization-ED Risk Index offers an effective approach to predicting hospitalization utilization among community dwelling older adults.
With the delineation of HSAP we propose the use of pediatric health service areas which are only partially related to cantonal borders [ 13, 14], but represent, due to the complete data set of all hospitalizations in 4 years, effective user-based health markets for children, which is reflected in a fairly high localization index [ 9].
