scholarly journals Clinical Decisions in Acute Patients: ACS-POCT-Hypertension and Biomarkers

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Martin Möckel ◽  
Christian Hamm ◽  
Evangelos Giannitsis ◽  
Abdelouahab Bellou ◽  
Julia Searle
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Decisions ◽  
Acute Patients

Much Ado About Fried Chicken: Abetting Aspiration or Respecting Autonomy?

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1356-1362
Author(s):  
Laurence Tan Lean Chin ◽  
Yu Jun Lim ◽  
Wan Ling Choo
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Multidisciplinary Team ◽  
Biopsychosocial Model ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Clinical Decisions ◽  
Goals Of Care ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Aspiration Risk ◽  
Patient Centric

Purpose Palliative care is a philosophy of care that encompasses holistic, patient-centric care involving patients and their family members and loved ones. Palliative care patients often have complex needs. A common challenge in managing patients near their end of life is the complexity of navigating clinical decisions and finding achievable and realistic goals of care that are in line with the values and wishes of patients. This often results in differing opinions and conflicts within the multidisciplinary team. Conclusion This article describes a tool derived from the biopsychosocial model and the 4-quadrant ethical model. The authors describe the use of this tool in managing a patient who wishes to have fried chicken despite aspiration risk and how this tool was used to encourage discussions and reduce conflict and distress within the multidisciplinary team.

Modelling In-Patient Bed Usage Behaviour in a Department of Geriatric Medicine

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (01) ◽  
pp. 79-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Millard ◽  
S. McClean
Keyword(s):  
Census Data ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Exponential Model ◽  
Bed Occupancy ◽  
Lengths Of Stay ◽  
Geriatric Hospital ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Acute Patients

Abstract:The flow of patients through geriatric hospitals has been previously described in terms of acute and long-stay states where the bed occupancy at a census point is modelled by a mixed exponential model. Using data for sixteen years the model was fitted to successive annual census points, in order to provide a description of temporal trends. While the number of acute patients has remained fairly stable during the period, the model shows that there has been a decrease in the number of long-stay patients. Mean lengths of stay in our geriatric hospital before death or discharge have decreased during the study period for both acute and long-stay patients.Using these fits of the mixed exponential model to census data, a method is provided for predicting future turnover of patients. These predictions are reasonably good, except when the turnover patterns go through a period of flux in which assumption of stability no longer holds. Overall, a methodology is presented which relates census analysis to the behaviour of admission cohorts, thus producing a means of predicting future behaviour of patients and identifying where there is a change in patterns.

Design and Implementing Cancer Data Warehouse to Support Clinical Decisions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa Almansory ◽  
Hasan Adday ◽  
Taleb Obaid ◽  
Rabab Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Clinical Decisions ◽  
Cancer Data

scholarly journals Physiotherapists’ attitudes and beliefs about low back pain influence their clinical decisions and advice

2021 ◽  
pp. 102382
Author(s):  
Guillaume Christe ◽  
Jessica Nzamba ◽  
Ludovic Desarzens ◽  
Arnaud Leuba ◽  
Ben Darlow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Clinical Decisions

scholarly journals How to use imperfect tests for COVID‐19 (SARS‐CoV‐2) to make clinical decisions

2021 ◽  
Vol 214 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Katy JL Bell ◽  
Fiona F Stanaway ◽  
Les M Irwig ◽  
Andrea R Horvath ◽  
Armando Teixeira‐Pinto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Decisions
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