When heart-failure patients were re-hospitalized within a month, those who returned to the same hospital were discharged quicker and were more likely to survive than those who were taken to a different facility, according to new Canadian research in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American… Continue reading A Crucial Factor in Heart-Failure Survival
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A Crucial Benefit of Testosterone Therapy
Older men using testosterone therapy were less likely to have complications that require them to go back to the hospital within a month of being discharged than men not using this therapy, according to a new study. The research was published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Using nationally representative Medicare linked data, the investigators, from the… Continue reading A Crucial Benefit of Testosterone Therapy
Better Care Needed for Sepsis Patients
Health-care practitioners need to provide more individualized care to patients who have suffered sepsis so they won’t have to be readmitted to a hospital, researchers said. A study published in JAMA looked at data from 2,6000 survivors of sepsis, a critical illness that shuts down internal organs following an infection. About 42 percent of the… Continue reading Better Care Needed for Sepsis Patients
Caregiver Involvement in Hospital Discharge Is Beneficial
Results of a study published in November 2014 in The American Journal of Managed Care show that the presence of a family caregiver during patient discharge is associated with a greater rate of completion of post hospital transitional care coaching intervention, particularly among men. Discharge is a crucial component of the hospitalization process. Patients’ understanding… Continue reading Caregiver Involvement in Hospital Discharge Is Beneficial