National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Viet Nam; School of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia; School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia; Medical, Molecular and Forensic Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia; PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Nedlands, WA, Australia. Electronic address: thomas.riley@uwa.edu.au.
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Over the past 30 years, outpatient surgery has developed into an indispensable pillar of patient care in Germany, without its full potential coming to light....
What are the reasons for the stagnation of further development of outpatient surgery and its suboptimal status quo?...
Presentation and comparison of outpatient surgery numbers from clinics and practices, and a critical analysis of their development....
After reaching a maximum number of outpatient operations in practices and clinics in 2015, there has been a location-independent decrease and stagnation due to underfunding of outpatient surgical stru...
Outpatient surgery represents a patient-friendly and cost-effective alternative to inpatient interventions, provided that that medical and social indications rule out an increased risk. The expansion ...
Burn injuries are common; most burn injuries may be considered minor and are suitable for outpatient management. Steps should be taken to ensure that patients managed in this way still retain access t...
Total joint arthroplasty is rapidly shifting to the outpatient space. One of the challenges of same-day discharge adoption has been determining which patients are suitable candidates. Risk assessment ...
A retrospective review was performed on all total joint arthroplasties performed at a single ambulatory surgery center in 2018, yielding a cohort of 1,105 patients (1,332 arthroplasties). The institut...
There were 81.6% of patients who had an acceptable OARA score (<60). In addition, 97% of patients who had an "unacceptable" OARA score were successfully discharged the same day. There were 23 patients...
The OARA score was accurate in predicting patients who successfully had same-day discharge but poor at predicting who would not. This system is time consuming and may be too restrictive on which patie...
Patient perspectives have an important role in improving the quality of outpatient hysteroscopy (OPH) services. Understanding women's experiences can help provide important insights regarding the OPH ...
Over a two-month period, 5151 women took part in the national OPH survey. Free text comments relating to women's OPH experience, collected as part of the survey, were subjected to qualitative analysis...
1720 (33.3%) women provided comments on their OPH experience. Qualitative thematic analysis generated themes that were divided into positive (82%) and negative (7%) experiences of care. Potential area...
Qualitative data supports the usefulness, safety, tolerability, and acceptance of hysteroscopy in an outpatient setting by most women. However, the reasons for high procedural pain, poor tolerability ...
Heart failure (HF) is associated with significant alterations in body composition, including malnutrition due to insufficient intake, chronic inflammation and increased energy expenditure. Identifying...
This cross-sectional, single-center, observational study involved 121 outpatients diagnosed with HF. Nutritional status was assessed using the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), the Malnutrition Unive...
The study found that 10.7% had cardiac cachexia and 45.4% of deceased patients had been in this condition (...
There is a high prevalence of malnutrition among outpatients with HF, which is associated with worse prognosis, increased risk of sarcopenia, and greater frailty. These findings underscore the importa...
Although urological specialist practices are central pillars of outpatient care, there is a lack of current data on the care structure of these practices. A description of the structures in large citi...
The survey includes data from the physician directory of the Stiftung Gesundheit as well as from the German Medical Association and the Federal Statistical Office. Colleagues were divided into subgrou...
While the majority of urologists in larger cities work in professional practice groups and care for fewer patients on average, in rural areas there is a particularly high proportion of individual prac...
This study is the first to describe the current structure of outpatient urology care in Germany. Future trends are already emerging that will significantly influence our way of working and the care of...
Inguinal hernia operations represent the most frequent operations overall with 300,000 interventions annually in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH region). Despite the announced political willing...
Chronic vulvar pain (CVP) is pain in the vulvar area exceeding three months of duration. Previous studies have reported a prevalence of 7-8% in the general population and observed an association betwe...
We conducted a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study among consecutive women attending an unselected general gynecological outpatient clinic at St Olav's University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway, du...
Of 1,125 questionnaires distributed, 810 (72%) were returned, and 762 (68%) included in final analyses. Among these, 130 (17.1%) reported CVP within the previous year and 92 (16.7%) were classified as...
Chronic vulvar pain is common among women in a gynecological outpatient clinic and associated with child sexual abuse, comorbid fibromyalgia and worse mental health. Ethical committee number: REK Midt...
Serum creatinine is the traditional biomarker for estimating glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). Cystatin C is an alternative biomarker for which estimating equations exist. The use of cystatin C testi...
Cystatin C results reported on adults between November 2011 and June 2018 by Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings were examined, with classification of ordering providers and diagnostic codes. U...
There were 87,803 serum cystatin C levels among 55,360 patients; mean age 58 ± 17 years; 50% women. Cystatin C usage increased over time and was ordered for many indications. Among 73,367 samples with...
Use of Cystatin C is increasing and has moved beyond the nephrology community and the original indications from the 2012 KDIGO guidelines. Community utilization of cystatin C measurement is likely to ...
In the course of the implementation of the German Hospice and Palliative Care Act of 2015, an agreement was reached to establish an intermediate level of outpatient palliative care (BQKPMV) in Germany...
Between May and August 2021, the project team developed and tested a questionnaire for SAPV teams about their experiences with and views on BQKPMV as a care approach at the interface to SAPV. In Septe...
With 52 participants (78% female; mean age of 50 years), a participation rate of 89.7 % was achieved. Twenty-eight participants indicated that they were aware of BQKPMV and its content, and 10 had rec...
These results show that the participating SAPV teams know little about BQKPMV and that there has been little cooperation at the interface between SAPV and BQKPMV. In day-to-day care, there is a clear ...
It remains unclear whether and to what extent the close cooperation envisaged in the framework of BQKPMV can be put into practice at the interface between general practitioners and SAPV teams in their...
