Patient Falls 
Patients are classified as high fall
risk based on a nursing assessment tool, which uses a point scale to identify
patients at high
risk of falling. ....
(993
4
)
Delivering Services to HIV/AIDs Patients
.... of HIV prevention services in correctional drug treatment programs (Lubelczyk, Friedmann, Lemon, Stein, & Gerstein, 2002); b) high-
risk behaviors of inmates ....
(1485
6
)
Safety Program for Elderly Patients
.... 7With respect to elderly
patients in institutional health care settings, institutional
risk of this type stems from (1) physi cal mishaps, such as falls, which ....
(1665
7
)
RISK ASSESSMENT & MIDWIFERY Introduction This
.... Since birth center settings handle only uncomplicated births, and are ill-equipped to handle high-
risk patients, ongoing
risk assessment is imperative. ....
(2071
8
)
Pressure Ulcers and Geriatric Patients
.... used between scheduled total body position changes every two hours is also seen as reducing the incidence of pressure ulcer formation in
patients at
risk. ....
(4358
17
)
In-Hospital Patient Care & Managed Care
.... Petersen et al. (1994) examined housestaff discontinuity of care and
patients'
risk for potentially preventable adverse events. ....
(2723
11
)
Rehabilition of Patients with Renal Disease Rehabilitation of ...
.... At one transplant center, high
risk patients (ie, older
patients, or those with diabetes, etc.) who received a cadaveric transplant had a 1-year functional ....
(3634
15
)
Discharging patients with prescriptions
.... This study indicates that pediatric
patients discharged from an academic medical center are at
risk of receiving erroneous prescriptions. ....
(3731
15
)
Care of elderly patients by Relatives
.... caregiving. Caregivers in this respect are as often the hidden
patients, in that they are at
risk for serious health problems. Primary ....
(2562
10
)
Tracking of Non-compliant TB Patients
.... individual, treatment non-compliance dramatically increases the
risk of premature .... is relevant to the tracking of treatment non-compliant tuberculosis
patients. ....
(1582
6
)
Mortality from a second myocardial infarction
.... Effect of beta-blockade on mortality among high-
risk and low-
risk patients after myocardial infarction. New England Journal of Medicine, 339, 489-497. ....
(1380
6
)
Breast Cancer Treatment in the Elderly
.... carcinoma. Such assessments might result in high
risk patients being screened out for more conservative therapy. Clinical trials ....
(845
3
)
Quality Assurance at Cedars Sinai Medical Center
.... In the second stage of the review, all complications occurring in low-
risk patients after they became low
risk were implicitly and independently reviewed by ....
(1464
6
)
Nursing Home Placement & Incontinence
.... conclude that rehabilitation efforts should target specific rehabilitation for those factors (including incontinence) that placed
patients at
risk for nursing ....
(1218
5
)
Dentistry for Special Needs
.... The special needs patient population presents with more
risk than other
patients. Messieha listed factors that increase this
risk ....
(908
4
)
Effectiveness of Coronary Bypass Surgery
.... middle age. Central nervous system dysfunction represents a significant
risk for CABG
patients [1:300]. Neurological dysfunction ....
(1624
6
)
Motor Skills of Elderly Alzheimer's Patients
.... 1995). The unpredictable behavior of Alzheimer's
patients causes the
risk of falls to rise among this patient group. Lord, Caplan ....
(1049
4
)
Mental Illness Diagnosis in Aging Patients
.... Implicit learning in
patients with probable Alzheimer's disease. .... Drug combinations and potential
risk of averse drug reaction among community-dwelling elderly. ....
(2362
9
)
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
.... a multitangential view of the arteries and aneurysm complex (2). High-
risk patients, such as those with a family history of aneurysms, may need to be screened. ....
(1559
6
)
Pacemakers and Antiarryhthmia Devices
.... survival by 50 percent compared to control
patients, and for
patients who have survived cardiac arrest outside the hospital by 28 percent for secondary
risk. ....
(1207
5
)
Scoliosis & Breast Cancer
.... Several studies done in the US have indicated female scoliosis
patients have an increased
risk of breast cancer later in life. One ....
(1144
5
)
What is an Aneurysm
.... Teaching
patients at
risk for an aneurysm about the signs and symptoms of aneurysm could result in better compliance with treatment for hypertension and faster ....
(2562
10
)
Pressure Ulcers
.... The AHCPR guidelines for the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers include assessment for at-
risk patients using an assessment tool like the Braden Scale ....
(1627
7
)
CORONARY HEART DISEASE Introduction Whitaker (2
.... If medical information and routine practices indicate a
risk for coronary heart disease,
patients should have at least two or more of several other tests. ....
(1293
5
)
therapeutic approaches to Alcoholism
.... model,
patients acquire a strong understanding of their drinking behavior, make adjustments to their environments and lifestyles to avert high-
risk situations ....
(946
4
)
Marfan Syndrome Description
.... While they pose no
risk to health, they can bother those that develop them. More serious,
patients with this disorder affecting their skin can also develop an ....
(1290
5
)
Community-Acquired Pneumonia
.... With the rise of HIV-positive
patients and other immunosuppressed individuals, the
risk for contracting either CAP or nosocomial pneumonia are rising. ....
(1745
7
)
AIDS: AN OVERVIEW
.... to note that not only do these disorders interfere with these
patients' ability to adhere to treatment, they also often place
patients at
risk for disordered ....
(1214
5
)
Healthcare Finance
....
Risk selection occurs when the health plan uses selective marketing strategies, or other means, to encourage good risks including seemingly healthy
patients to ....
(768
3
)
Blood Vessel Clots
....
Patients who have had a stroke, and other high
risk medical
patients, when treated with low-molecular-weight heparin, have their
risk of venous thrombosis ....
(1583
6
)
