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Study shows high rates, rising costs of alcohol/drug disorders in hospitalized patients
Jun 25, 2008 |
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[B]Alcohol abuse more common in insured patients, drug abuse in uninsured[/B] Fourteen percent of patients admitted to the hospital have alcohol/drug abuse and addiction (ADAA) disorders, costs for which have risen sha ...
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Can Family Therapy Help The Depressed Patient?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 07, 2009 |
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A study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics suggests that single-family and multi-family therapy may benefit hospitalized patients with major depression, and may help the partners of the patients ...
Most heart attack patients' cholesterol levels did not indicate cardiac risk
Jan 12, 2009 |
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A new national study has shown that nearly 75 percent of patients hospitalized for a heart attack had cholesterol levels that would indicate they were not at high risk for a cardiovascular event, according to current national ...
Transfusions increase clot risk in hospitalized cancer patients
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Blood transfusions used to treat anemia in patients with cancer are associated with an increased risk of life-threatening blood clots, at a similar rate as other treatments for cancer-induced anemia, according to scientists ...
Low blood sugar in hospital linked to higher death risk
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) found that diabetics hospitalized for noncritical illnesses who develop hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) during hospitalization have ...
Death rate decreases following hospitalization for heart attack
Aug 18, 2009 |
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From 1995 to 2006, hospital 30-day death rates decreased significantly for Medicare patients hospitalized for a heart attack, as did the variation in the rate between hospitals, according to a study in the August 19 issue ...
Black young adults hospitalized for stroke at much higher rate than whites, Hispanics
Mar 13, 2009 |
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In Florida, black young adults are hospitalized for stroke at a rate three times higher than their white and Hispanic peers, a new study by University of South Florida researchers reports. The study was presented today at ...
Study examines burden of diabetes on US hospitals
Jan 13, 2009 |
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A new study published in Value in Health estimates the extent of hospital admissions for individuals with diabetes and its economic burden in the U.S. The results show that, during 2005, Americans with diabetes had 3.5 ti ...
Heart failure patients with kidney dysfunction don't recover well after hospital discharge
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Most heart failure patients who develop kidney failure in the hospital do not recover from it before going home and are at increased risk of either being re-hospitalized or dying within the year, according to a Henry Ford ...
Fewer deaths with preventive antibiotic use
Jan 01, 2009 |
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Administering antibiotics as a preventive measure to patients in intensive care units (ICUs) increases their chances of survival. This has emerged from a study involving nearly sixthousand Dutch patients in thirteen hospitals. ...
Depressed dialysis patients more likely to be hospitalized or die
Sep 12, 2008 |
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Dialysis patients diagnosed with depression are nearly twice as likely to be hospitalized or die within a year than those who are not depressed, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found.
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