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Muller and Schoneich (1992) also reported on favorable experience with intensive outpatient psychotherapy combined with antipsychotic drug treatment. On the basis of a before-and-after comparison over 2x5 years in a university outpatient clinic, they were able to show that the duration of rehospitalizations required by 89 patients could be reduced from a mean of 10 weeks to 2 weeks per year when a special schizophrenia outpatient service offering individualized psychotherapy and psychosocial treatment was available to the patients instead of the routine psychiatric outpatient service. A beneficial effect of psychotherapy was demonstrated both in those patients taking antipsvchotics continuously for long-term prophylaxis and in those taking the drugs intermittently when prodromal symptoms appeared in order to prevent relapse. 

On June 6, this patient developed severe loin pain after he participated in two 150-m sprints at a town athletics meeting. After 5 days, he was referred to the outpatient clinic of our department. His serum creatinine and uric acid levels and FEUA, were 2.9mg/dl, 2.1 mg/dl, and 49.7%, respectively. His creatine phosphokinase (CPK) level was normal. When his serum creatinine level decreased to 1.58 mg/dl, a contrast medium was administered. A delayed computed tomography (CT) scan after 24 and 48 h confirmed patchy wedge-shaped contrast enhancement (Fig. 58). Under a diagnosis of ALPE, his body water balance (hydration) was controlled. In this patient, recovery was achieved 4 weeks after onset, and his serum creatinine and uric acid levels were then 1.0 mg/dl and 0.6 mg/dl, respectively. Furthermore, load tests with a uric acid reabsorption inhibitor (benzbromarone) and a uric acid excretion inhibitor (pyrazinamide) suggested presecretory reabsorption defect-related renal hypouricemia. A kidney biopsy 16 days after onset confirmed the recovery from acute tubular necrosis. 

After successful treatment of the acute attack, the patient was referred to the outpatient clinic for follow-up treatment of her asthma. Successful strategies currently in use for asthma include all of the following EXCEPT... 

In a prospective study, we examined the long-term prognostic significance of BP along with other risk factors for all-cause mortality in type 1 diabetes. In 1977, a representative sample of 272 adult type 1 diabetic patients was identified through outpatient clinics and GPs. The main endpoint was mortality after 25 years. Follow-up was almost complete (98.8%). After 25 years, all-cause mortality was 37% (99/269) for the whole group. Figure 1 illustrates the cumulative survival in patients... 

In this section, results obtained in a case study (Itoh and Andersen 2008, 2010) will be reviewed to illustrate the contribution of safety culture to safety outcome. In a case study, a questioimaire-based survey concerning staff reactions after the adverse event introduced in the last section, was conducted in addition to the safety culture survey. At the same time, incident reports for three years (2004-06) submitted by nurses were obtained from one of the hospitals (Hospital M) that participated in the safety culture survey. Hospital M was a private, acute-type general hospital, located in Tokyo. This hospital covered almost all clinical specialties and, at the time of the survey in 2006, it had about 500 inpatient beds, 160 full-time doctors and 360 full-time nurses. Nurses belonged to any one of 18 clinical work units 14 inpatient wards, an outpatient clinic, operating room, kidney centre, and medical examination unit. 

After presenting evidence found in both published and unpublished sources, I reached several conclusions concerning Byzantine xenones, conclusions that challenged traditional notions of how medieval physicians practiced their profession. In place of a system based on private practitioners who charged fees to cure patients in their shops or to visit the sick in their own homes, the Byzantine health care service offered free medical care to aU, but provided this treatment through the wards and outpatient clinics of the xenones. ... 

Chapter 18 Outpatient clinics Preparation During After... 

To compare the epidemiological, clinical, and economic impacts of the HIV epidemic in Italy prior to and after the introduction of HAART, Tramarin et al. (2004) conducted a prospective and observational study with a multi-center design. They used data collected on an AIDS cohort from 1994 and updated data from a comparable cohort in 1998. Mortality and medical costs of 251 patients were measured in 1994 and in 1998, respectively. A considerable difference was observed in mortality (33.9% in 1994 vs. 3.9% in 1998). The cost per patient per year was US 15,515 in 1994 and US 10,312 in 1998. Based on the comparison of the two cohorts between both years, the authors concluded that after the introduction of HAART, hospital-based provision shifted from an inpatient-based to an outpatient-based service, with major focus on pharmaceutical care. 

Pneumonia is inflammation of the lung with consolidation. The cause of the inflammation is infection, which can result from a wide range of organisms. There are five classifications of pneumonia community-acquired, aspiration, hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, and health care-associated. Patients who develop pneumonia in the outpatient setting and have not been in any health care facilities, which include wound care and hemodialysis clinics, have community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Aspiration is of either oropharyngeal or gastrointestinal contents. Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is defined as pneumonia that occurs 48 hours or more after admission.1,2 Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) requires endotracheal intubation for at least 48 to 72 hours before the onset of... 

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