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Chronic wounds adversely affect patient quality of life, increase the risk of mortality, and impose high costs on healthcare systems. Since protein-energy malnutrition or specific nutrient deficiencies can delay wound healing, nutritionally focused care is a key strategy to help prevent or treat the occurrence of non-healing wounds. The objective of our study of inpatients in a rehabilitation hospital was to quantify the effect of daily wound-specific oral nutritional supplementation (WS-ONS) on healing chronic wounds. Using electronic medical records, we conducted a retrospective analysis of patients with chronic wounds. We identified records for (a) a treatment group who received standard wound care + usual hospital diet + daily WS-ONS for ≥14 days, and (b) a control group who received standard wound care + a usual hospital diet. We collected data for demographics, nutritional status, and wound-relevant health characteristics. We examined weekly measurements of wound number and sizes (surface area for superficial wounds or volume for non-superficial wounds). There were 341 patients identified, 114 with 322 wounds in the treatment group and 227 patients with 420 wounds in the control group. We found that rehabilitation inpatients who were given nutritional support had larger wounds and lower functional independence on admission. At discharge, wound area reduction (percent) was nearly two-fold better in patients who were given daily WS-ONS + usual hospital diet compared to those who consumed usual diet only (61.1% vs 34.5%). Overall, weekly wound improvement (lowered wound area or wound volume) was more likely in the WS-ONS group than in the Control group, particularly from the start of care to week 2. Inpatients with largest wounds and lowest functional independence on admission were most likely to be given WS-ONS, an indication that caregivers recognised the need for supplementation. Week-to-week improvement in wound size was more likely in patients who received WS-ONS than in those who did not. Specifically, wound areas and wound volumes were significantly lower at discharge among patients who were given specialised nutritional support. More research in this field is needed to improve care and reduce healthcare costs.
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Suplementos Nutricionais , Desnutrição , Humanos , Qualidade de Vida , Estudos Retrospectivos , Cicatrização , Estado NutricionalRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition in older hip fracture patients is associated with increased complication rates and mortality. As postoperative nutrition delivery is essential to surgical recovery, postoperative nutritional supplements including oral nutritional supplements or tube feeding formulas can improve postoperative outcomes in malnourished hip/femur fracture patients. The association between early postoperative nutritional supplements utilisation and hospital length of stay was assessed in malnourished hip/femur fracture patients. METHODS: This is a retrospective cohort study of malnourished hip/femur fracture patients undergoing surgery from 2008 to 2018. Patients were identified through International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) and Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes and nutritional supplement utilisation via hospital charge codes. The primary outcome was hospital length of stay. Secondary outcomes included infectious complications, hospital mortality, ICU admission, and costs. Propensity matching (1:1) and univariable analysis were performed. RESULTS: Overall, 160 151 hip/femur fracture surgeries were identified with a coded-malnutrition prevalence of 8.7%. Early postoperative nutritional supplementation (by hospital day 1) occurred in 1.9% of all patients and only 4.9% of malnourished patients. Propensity score matching demonstrated early nutritional supplements were associated with significantly shorter length of stay (5.8 [6.6] days vs 7.6 [5.8] days; P<0.001) without increasing hospital costs. No association was observed between early nutritional supplementation and secondary outcomes. CONCLUSION: Malnutrition is underdiagnosed in hip/femur fracture patients, and nutritional supplementation is underutilised. Early nutritional supplementation was associated with a significantly shorter hospital stay without an increase in costs. Nutritional supplementation in malnourished hip/femur fracture patients could serve as a key target for perioperative quality improvement.
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Fraturas do Quadril/cirurgia , Desnutrição/terapia , Apoio Nutricional/métodos , Cuidados Pós-Operatórios/métodos , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Estudos de Coortes , Feminino , Fraturas do Quadril/complicações , Fraturas do Quadril/epidemiologia , Mortalidade Hospitalar/tendências , Humanos , Tempo de Internação , Masculino , Desnutrição/complicações , Desnutrição/epidemiologia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estado Nutricional , Apoio Nutricional/estatística & dados numéricos , Cuidados Pós-Operatórios/estatística & dados numéricos , Pontuação de Propensão , Estudos Retrospectivos , Prevenção Secundária , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of nutritional risk among an ethnically diverse group of urban community-dwelling older adults and to explore if risk varied by race/ethnicity. DESIGN: Demographic characteristics, Katz's activities of daily living and health-care resource utilization were ascertained cross-sectionally via telephone surveys with trained interviewers. Nutrition risk and nutrition symptomology were assessed via the abridged Patient Generated Subjective Global Assessment (abPG-SGA); scores of ≥6 points delineated 'high' nutrition risk. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analyses were conducted. SETTING: Urban.ParticipantsWhite, Black or Hispanic community-dwelling adults, ≥55 years of age, fluent in English or Spanish, residing in the city limits of Chicago, IL, USA. RESULTS: A total of 1001 participants (37 % white, 37 % Black, 26 % Hispanic) were surveyed. On average, participants were 66·9 years old, predominantly female and overweight/obese. Twenty-six per cent (n 263) of participants were classified as 'high' nutrition risk with 24, 14 and 31 % endorsing decreased oral intake, weight loss and compromised functioning, respectively. Black respondents constituted the greatest proportion of those with high risk scores, yet Hispanic participants displayed the most concerning nutrition risk profiles. Younger age, female sex, Black or Hispanic race/ethnicity, emergency room visits, eating alone and taking three or more different prescribed or over-the-counter drugs daily were significantly associated with high risk scores (P<0·05). CONCLUSIONS: One in four older adults living in an urban community prone to health disparities was classified as 'high' nutrition risk. Targeted interventions to promote healthy ageing are needed, especially for overweight/obese and minority community members.
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Envelhecimento , Negro ou Afro-Americano , Hispânico ou Latino , Desnutrição/epidemiologia , Estado Nutricional , População Urbana , População Branca , Atividades Cotidianas , Idoso , Chicago , Ingestão de Energia , Feminino , Avaliação Geriátrica , Disparidades nos Níveis de Saúde , Humanos , Vida Independente , Masculino , Desnutrição/complicações , Desnutrição/diagnóstico , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Grupos Minoritários , Obesidade/complicações , Sobrepeso , Prevalência , Medição de Risco , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to compare the outcomes of single-site robotic cholecystectomy with multi-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy within a high-volume tertiary health care center. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of prospectively maintained data was conducted on patients undergoing single-site robotic cholecystectomy or multi-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy between October 2011 and July 2014. A single surgeon performed all the surgeries included in the study. RESULTS: A total of 678 cholecystectomies were performed. Of these, 415 (61%) were single-site robotic cholecystectomies and 263 (39%) were multi-port laparoscopic cholecystectomies. Laparoscopic patients had a greater mean BMI (30.5 vs. 29.0 kg/m2; p = 0.008), were more likely to have undergone prior abdominal surgery (83.3 vs. 41.4%; p < 0.001) and had a higher incidence of preexisting comorbidities (76.1 vs. 67.2%; p = 0.014) as compared to the robotic group. There was no statistical difference in the total operative time, rate of conversion to open procedure and mean length of follow-up between the two groups. The mean length of hospital stay was shorter for patients within the robotic group (1.9 vs. 2.4 days; p = 0.012). Single-site robotic cholecystectomy was associated with a higher rate of wound infection (3.9 vs. 1.1%; p = 0.037) and incisional hernia (6.5 vs. 1.9%; p = 0.006). CONCLUSION: Multi-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy should remain the gold standard therapy for gallbladder disease. Single-site robotic cholecystectomy is an effective alternative procedure for uncomplicated benign gallbladder disease in properly selected patients. This must be carefully balanced against a high rate of surgical site infection and incisional hernia, and patients should be informed of these risks.
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Colecistectomia Laparoscópica/métodos , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Robóticos/métodos , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Colecistectomia Laparoscópica/efeitos adversos , Feminino , Doenças da Vesícula Biliar/cirurgia , Humanos , Hérnia Incisional/etiologia , Tempo de Internação , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Duração da Cirurgia , Estudos Retrospectivos , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Robóticos/efeitos adversos , Infecção da Ferida Cirúrgica/etiologia , Centros de Atenção Terciária , Resultado do Tratamento , Adulto JovemRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The extralevator approach to abdominoperineal resection is associated with a decreased incidence of rectal perforation and circumferential resection margin positivity translating to lower recurrence rates. The abdominoperineal resection, as such, is an operation associated with poorer outcomes in comparison with low anterior resections, and any improvements in short-term outcomes are likely to be related to surgical technique. Robot assistance in extralevator abdominoperineal resection has shown improvement in these pathologic outcomes. Because these are surrogate markers for local recurrence and disease-free survival, long-term survival data are needed to assess the efficacy of this robot-assisted technique, exclusively in a dedicated abdominoperineal resection cohort. OBJECTIVE: We assessed the perioperative, pathologic, and oncologic outcomes of the robot-assisted extralevator abdominoperineal resection for rectal cancer. DESIGN: This study was a review of a prospective database of patients over a 5-year period. SETTING: Procedures were performed in the colorectal division of a tertiary hospital from April 2007 to July 2012. PATIENTS: Patients with rectal cancer were operated on robotically. Indications for abdominoperineal resection were low rectal cancers invading the sphincter complex or location in the anal canal precluding anastomosis. INTERVENTIONS: All patients received a robot-assisted extralevator abdominoperineal resection. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Operative and perioperative measures, pathologic outcomes, and disease-free survival and overall survival were documented and assessed. RESULTS: Twenty-two patients (15 men) with a mean age of 65.5 years and mean BMI of 28.6 kg/m underwent robotic abdominoperineal resection. Circumferential resection margin was positive in 13.6%. There was 1 tumor/rectal perforation. At a mean follow-up of 33.9 months, overall survival was 81.8% with a disease-free survival of 72.7%. Local recurrence was 4.5%. LIMITATIONS: This was a single-institution study with no comparative open or laparoscopic group. CONCLUSION: Robot-assisted abdominoperineal resection is safe, feasible, and oncologically sound with short-term and long-term outcomes comparable to open and laparoscopic surgery.
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Abdome/cirurgia , Adenocarcinoma/cirurgia , Períneo/cirurgia , Neoplasias Retais/cirurgia , Reto/cirurgia , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Robóticos/métodos , Adenocarcinoma/mortalidade , Adulto , Idoso , Bases de Dados Factuais , Feminino , Seguimentos , Humanos , Modelos Logísticos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Neoplasias Retais/mortalidade , Análise de Sobrevida , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Colonoscopy is sensitive at detecting large polyps; however, a significant polyp miss rate is still recognized. Indicators such as the adenoma detection rate (ADR) and, more recently, the adenoma per colonoscopy rate (APC) are increasingly used to ensure quality in colonoscopy. We carried out a prospective, randomized, controlled study evaluating improvement in adenoma detection between wide-screen, high-definition (WSHD) monitors compared to standard monitors (SD). METHODS: Patients undergoing screening or surveillance colonoscopy were randomized to a WSHD room or SD. Polyp size, location, shape, and histology were recorded. Right-sided polyps were considered to be those proximal to the splenic flexure. RESULTS: A total of 152 patients were enrolled in the study, with 78 (51.3%) and 74 (48.7%) enrolled in the WSHD and SD groups, respectively. A 10% absolute difference in favor of the WSHD group was noted for the ADR (41% vs 31% patients); however, the difference was statistically not significant. In the WSHD and SD groups, APC of 0.9 ± 1.4 versus 0.7 ± 1.4 (P = 0.49) were noted, respectively. For polyps <5 mm, an ADR of 0.3 ± 0.4 versus 0.2 ± 0.4 (P = 0.34) and APC of 0.5 ± 1.1 versus 0.2 ± 0.5 (P = 0.06) were seen in the WSHD and SD groups. CONCLUSION: This study shows a trend toward improvement in ADR, with an increase in APC for small adenomas that approaches statistical significance. WSHD monitors are a one-time, low-cost intervention for improving the quality of colonoscopy with potentially favorable outcomes.
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Adenoma/diagnóstico , Adenoma/cirurgia , Neoplasias do Colo/diagnóstico , Neoplasias do Colo/cirurgia , Colonoscopia/instrumentação , Aumento da Imagem/instrumentação , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Prospectivos , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive rectal cancer surgery is challenging and technically difficult. Robotic technology offers a stable surgical platform with magnified 3-dimensional vision and endowristed instruments, which may facilitate the minimally invasive procedure. Data on short-term and long-term outcomes indicate results comparable to laparoscopic and open surgery. OBJECTIVE: We assessed the perioperative, clinicopathologic, and oncologic outcomes of robotic surgery for rectal cancer. DESIGN: This study was a review of a prospective database of patients over a 7-year period. SETTINGS: Procedures took place in the colorectal division at a tertiary hospital. PATIENTS: From August 2005 to October 2012, 101 patients with rectal cancer were operated on using the robotic approach. Rectal cancers were defined as tumors within 15 cm from the anal verge. INTERVENTIONS: Patients received either a totally robotic or a hybrid laparoscopic-robotic operation with rectal dissection performed robotically. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Operative and perioperative data, pathologic outcomes, and disease-free and overall survival were examined. RESULTS: There were 63 men (62.4%) and 38 women (37.6%) in the study; the mean age was 61.5 years. Mid rectal and low rectal cancers composed 74.2% of cases. Preoperative chemoradiation was given to 74.3% of patients. Four conversions to open surgery occurred. Circumferential margin positivity was 5%, and median lymph node yield was 15. At a mean follow-up of 34.9 months, the disease-free survival was 79.2% and overall survival 90.1%. The mean cost of robotic surgery was $22,640 versus $18,330 for the hand-assisted laparoscopic approach (p = 0.005). LIMITATIONS: This was a single-institution study with no head-to-head comparative group. CONCLUSIONS: Robotic surgery for rectal cancer extirpation is safe and feasible. It has a low conversion rate, satisfies all measures of pathologic adequacy, and offers acceptable oncologic outcomes. Robotic surgery is significantly more expensive than hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery. The absence of randomized data limits recommending it as the standard of care at present.
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Adenocarcinoma/cirurgia , Laparoscopia , Neoplasias Retais/cirurgia , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Robóticos , Adenocarcinoma/mortalidade , Adenocarcinoma/patologia , Idoso , Análise Custo-Benefício , Intervalo Livre de Doença , Estudos de Viabilidade , Feminino , Humanos , Laparoscopia/economia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Neoplasias Retais/mortalidade , Neoplasias Retais/patologia , Estudos Retrospectivos , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Robóticos/economia , Taxa de Sobrevida , Fatores de Tempo , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Management of blunt cardiac injury is often discussed in trauma literature due to the lack of a "gold standard" for early identification and cost-effective care. The effectiveness of an evidence-based trauma protocol was assessed by comparing patients treated with the new protocol to those managed with prior practice. METHODS: The data of 80 patients prospectively managed using the new trauma protocol were compared with the medical records of 80 former patients treated according to existing practice. RESULTS: Implementing the new protocol improved detection of abnormal troponin I levels and resulted in cost savings. The length of time inpatients required continuous electrocardiographic monitoring decreased by 4.23 days and echocardiography use dropped by 70%. CONCLUSION: Implementation of the evidence-based trauma protocol at our facility improved the early identification of patients with blunt cardiac injury and reduced the number of laboratory and diagnostic tests.
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Redução de Custos , Prática Clínica Baseada em Evidências/economia , Traumatismos Cardíacos/diagnóstico , Tempo de Internação/economia , Ferimentos não Penetrantes/diagnóstico , Adulto , Idoso , Terapia Combinada , Eletrocardiografia/métodos , Feminino , Traumatismos Cardíacos/economia , Traumatismos Cardíacos/terapia , Custos Hospitalares , Humanos , Escala de Gravidade do Ferimento , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Monitorização Fisiológica/economia , Prognóstico , Estudos Prospectivos , Estudos Retrospectivos , Medição de Risco , Centros de Traumatologia/organização & administração , Troponina I/sangue , Ferimentos não Penetrantes/economia , Ferimentos não Penetrantes/terapiaAssuntos
Neoplasias da Mama , Modificador do Efeito Epidemiológico , Letramento em Saúde , Atitude Frente a Saúde , Neoplasias da Mama/epidemiologia , Neoplasias da Mama/prevenção & controle , Neoplasias da Mama/psicologia , Feminino , Humanos , Illinois/epidemiologia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Avaliação das Necessidades , Fatores de Risco , Percepção Social , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
Objective: Historically, mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) has been instrumental to identifying malnutrition in children under 5 years living in resource restricted settings. Less attention is directed to at-risk, school-aged youth. Updated and validated pediatric age- and gender-specific MUAC growth curves expand malnutrition screening opportunities (2 months-18 years) including overweight/obesity. An innovative partnership was created to integrate MUAC z-score measurement trainings and screenings in the Real Madrid Foundation's (RMF) Social Sports Schools (S3) program, which provide sports and wellness programming to under-resourced communities. This work aimed to investigate the feasibility of leveraging non-healthcare professionals (non-HCPs) to identify malnutrition risk as part of RMF S3. Methods: This global, two-part program on malnutrition risk identification included training adult facilitators and screening children attending RMF S3. RMF facilitators were trained with didactic lectures on malnutrition, and practical hands-on learning of proper MUAC z-score tape measurement. Aggregate data on facilitators and the number of times to correctly administer the MUAC z-tape were recorded. Aggregate data on child malnutrition risk screenings were collected. Results: Nine countries participated representing Europe, Pacific Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America. In total, 143 RMF facilitators were trained, and 318 children were screened across 11 sites. More than half of facilitators were male (56%, n = 80), and majority were coaches (41.3%, n = 59), followed by staff (25.2%, n = 36), and volunteers (16.1%, n = 23). Facilitator attempts ranged from 1 to 4 times for proper MUAC z-score administration with mean 2.12 (± 0.86). There were no significant differences for attempts among RMF facilitator types (p = 0.10). Sixteen percent (n = 51) of children screened were recommended for HCP referral, with concentrations in Pacific Asia (68%, n = 35), Latin America (24%, n = 12), and Africa (8%, n = 4). Conclusions: Findings from our sample demonstrate that integration of MUAC z-score based malnutrition risk screening within community sports and wellness programming among non-HCPs is feasible, and that some regions with less frequent access to routine health care may experience greater benefit from these programs. Equipping non-HCP facilitators in community sports and wellness programs with training on malnutrition screening provides a means to meet under-resourced families where they live to begin conversations around malnutrition risk with the hope of establishing additional pathways to care.
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Data suggest that guidelines for enteral nutrition (EN) initiation are not closely followed in clinical practice. In addition, critically ill mechanically ventilated (MV) patients have varying metabolic needs, which often increase and persist over time, requiring personalized nutrition intervention. While both over- and under-nutrition can impact patient outcomes, recent data suggest that targeted early EN delivery may reduce mortality and improve clinical outcomes. This study examined if early EN improves clinical outcomes and decreases costs in critically ill patients on MV. METHODS: Data from a nationwide administrative-financial database between 2018 and 2020 was utilized to identify eligible adult critical care patients. Patients who received EN within 3 days after intubation (early EN) were compared to patients who started EN after 3 days of intubation (late EN). Outcomes of interest included hospital mortality, discharge disposition, hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay (LOS), MV days, and total cost. After inverse-probability-of-treatment weighting, outcomes were modeled using a nominal logistic regression model for hospital mortality and discharge disposition, a linear regression model for cost, and Cox proportional-hazards model for MV days, hospital and ICU LOS. RESULTS: A total of 27,887 adult patients with early MV were identified, of which 16,772 (60.1%) received early EN. Regression analyses showed that the early EN group had lower hospital mortality (OR = 0.88, 95% CI, 0.82 to 0.94), were more likely to be discharged home (OR = 1.47, 95% CI 1.38 to 1.56), had fewer MV days (HR = 1.23, 95% CI, 1.11 to 1.37), shorter hospital LOS (HR = 1.43, 95% CI, 1.33 to 1.54) and ICU LOS (HR = 1.36, 95% CI, 1.27 to 1.46), and lower cost (-$21,226; 95% CI, -$23,605 to -$18,848) compared to the late EN group. CONCLUSIONS: Early EN within 3 days of MV initiation in real-world practice demonstrated improved clinical and economic outcomes. These data suggest that early EN is associated with decreased hospital mortality, increased discharge to home, and decreased hospital and ICU LOS, time on MV, and cost compared to delayed initiation of EN; highlighting the importance of early EN to optimize utcomes ando support the recovery of critically ill patients on MV.
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Estado Terminal , Nutrição Enteral , Adulto , Humanos , Estado Terminal/terapia , Respiração Artificial , Pacientes , CogniçãoRESUMO
Background: Arterial stiffness leads to several adverse events in the older population, but there is a lack of data on its association with frailty, disability, and mortality in the same population. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of arterial stiffness in the loss of functional ability (frailty and disability) and mortality. Methods: Data were taken from community-dwelling aged 65 years participants without diabetes in the Toledo Study of Healthy Ageing cohort. Pulse wave velocity (PWV), assessed through SphygmoCor, was recorded at baseline. Median follow-up time were 2.99 years for frailty (frailty phenotype [FP] and Frailty Trait Scale-5 [FTS5]) and disability (Katz Index) and 6.2 for mortality. Logistic regressions models were built for disability and frailty and Cox proportional hazards model for death, adjusted by age and sex, comorbidity, cardiovascular risk factors, asymmetric dimethylarginine levels, and polypharmacy. Results: Overall, 978 (mean age 74.5 ± 5.6 years, 56.7% female) participants were included. Different cut-off points were shown for each outcome. PWV >11.5 m/s was cross-sectionally associated with frailty (FP: OR fully-adjusted model: 1.69, 95% CI: 1.45-1.97; FTS5: OR: 1.51, 95% CI: 1.22-1.87) and disability (OR: 1.51, 95% CI: 1.26-1.79); PWV >10 m/s with incident frailty by FP (OR: 1.36, 95% CI: 1.10-1.68) and FTS5 (OR: 1.40, 95% CI: 1.12-1.75), and PWV >11 m/s with death (HR: 1.28, 95% CI: 1.09-1.50). For incident (OR: 1.28, 95% CI: 1.06-1.55) and worsening disability (OR: 1.21, 95% CI: 1.02-1.45) the threshold was 12.5 m/s. Below these cut-off points, age was the best predictor of adverse outcomes. Conclusions: Arterial stiffness predicts frailty, disability, and mortality in older people, with different cut-off points, ie,severity degrees, for each of the assessed outcomes.
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Pain associated with intravenous (IV) catheter insertion commonly causes fear and anxiety in presurgical patients. To reduce pain, a common procedure is intradermal injection of a local anesthesia. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is a significant difference in a patient's pain level after intradermal injection and IV catheter insertion when comparing intradermally injected bacteriostatic normal saline with 0.9% benzyl alcohol (a preservative added with an anesthetic component) with buffered 1% lidocaine to numb the IV line site. Using a double-blinded experimental design, 376 patients were randomly assigned to a bacteriostatic normal saline group or buffered 1% lidocaine group. Patients were given two needle sticks but rated only one pain score of either post-intradermal or post-IV injection using a 10-point numeric rating scale. A statistically significant difference was found in the IV pain scores, with subjects who received buffered 1% lidocaine reporting less pain than those who received bacteriostatic normal saline (P=.025). However, no significant difference was found in the intradermal pain scores (P=.792). Females reported higher IV pain scores than males only in the buffered 1% lidocaine group (P=.001). No statistically significant differences were found between the two anesthetics with intradermal and IV pain scores for IV placement side, site, IV within 30 days, needle gauge, previous IV experience or problems, vein visibility, or study nurse. This study determined that buffered 1% lidocaine was more effective than bacteriostatic normal saline in reducing pain during IV catheter insertion.
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Anestésicos Locais/administração & dosagem , Antibacterianos/administração & dosagem , Cateterismo/efeitos adversos , Lidocaína/administração & dosagem , Dor/prevenção & controle , Cloreto de Sódio/administração & dosagem , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Humanos , Injeções Intradérmicas , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Meio-Oeste dos Estados Unidos , Dor/etiologia , Adulto JovemRESUMO
School nurses provide an important role in the continuity of health care especially for adolescents who are at high risk for significant health concerns. The purpose of this study was to assess adolescents' health information needs and identify their preferences for accessing health information. Using an inductive qualitative research design, 11 focus groups were conducted with a convenience sample of 101 junior high and high school students in suburban northeastern Illinois. The students identified a variety of health concerns and emphasized the need for accessible, high-quality, and personally relevant information. Most students favored taking an active role in learning about their health. They preferred to directly access information from qualified individuals within comfortable, trusting, and respectful relationships or to indirectly retrieve information from reliable resources. Finally, students emphasized the need for privacy and a variety of learning options depending on the specific health topic.
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Comunicação , Educação em Saúde/métodos , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Disseminação de Informação , Avaliação das Necessidades , Adolescente , Fatores Etários , Defesa do Consumidor , Feminino , Grupos Focais , Humanos , Illinois , Aprendizagem , Masculino , Pesquisa Qualitativa , Serviços de Enfermagem EscolarRESUMO
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing across the age spectrum are essential to sustainable development. Nutrition is at the heart of the World Health Organization (WHO) Sustainable Development Goals, particularly for Sustainable Development Goal 2/Subgoal 2, which is to End all forms of malnutrition by 2030. This subgoal addresses people of all ages, including targeted groups like young children and older adults. In recent decades, there have been marked advances in the tools and methods used to screen for risk of malnutrition and to conduct nutritional assessments. There have also been innovations in nutritional interventions and outcome measures related to malnutrition. What has been less common is research on how nutritional interventions can impact healthy aging. Our Perspective article thus takes a life-course approach to consider what is needed to address risk of malnutrition and why, and to examine how good nutrition across the lifespan can contribute to healthy aging. We discuss broad-ranging yet interdependent ways to improve nutritional status worldwide-development of nutritional programs and policies, incorporation of the best nutrition-care tools and methods into practice, provision of professional training for quality nutritional care, and monitoring health and economic benefits of such changes. Taken together, our Perspective aims to (i) identify current challenges to meeting these ideals of nutritional care, and to (ii) discover enabling strategies for the improvement of nutrition care across the lifespan. In harmony with the WHO goal of sustainable development, we underscore roles of nutrition to foster healthy human development and healthy aging worldwide.
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Objective: Among patients with cancer, malnutrition remains common and is a key challenge in oncology practice today. A prior study from our group revealed that malnourished cancer inpatients who got nutritional treatment (intervention group) had lower mortality and improved functional and quality of life outcomes compared to inpatients without nutritional support (control group). Our present analysis aimed to determine whether the improved patient recovery by nutritional support was paralleled by cost-effectiveness of this nutritional care. Methods: We analyzed hospital costs and health outcomes in patients with cancer, using a Markov simulation model with daily cycles to analyze the economic impact of nutritional support in malnourished inpatients with malignancies. We compared results for a nutritional intervention group and a control group across a 30-day timeframe. Five health states were designated (malnourished but stable, complications, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, discharge, death). Costs for the different health states were based on publicly available data for the Swiss medical system. Total patient cost categories included in-hospital nutrition, days spent in the normal ward, days in the ICU, and medical complications. Results: Total per-patient costs for in-hospital supportive nutrition was Swiss francs (CHF) 129. Across a 30-day post-admission interval, our model determined average overall costs of care of CHF 46,420 per-patient in the intervention group versus CHF 43,711 in the control group-a difference of CHF 2,709 per patient. Modeled results showed a cost of CHF 1,788 to prevent one major complication, CHF 4,464 to prevent one day in the ICU, and CHF 3,345 to prevent one death. Recovery benefits of nutritional care were thus paralleled by cost-effectiveness of this care. Conclusion: In-hospital nutritional support for oncology patients at nutritional risk is a low-cost intervention that has both clinical and financial benefits.
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BACKGROUND: Gaps in hospital-based nutrition care practices and opportunities to improve care of patients at risk of malnutrition or malnourished have been demonstrated by several US hospitals implementing quality improvement (QI) projects. This study examined the impact of nutrition care process improvements focused on better documentation of identification and diagnosis of malnutrition in 5 hospital services and differences between nutritionally targeted vs nontargeted services. METHODS: Data on malnutrition risk screening, nutrition assessment, malnutrition diagnosis, and nutrition care plan delivery were collected from 32,723 hospital encounters for patients admitted to the intensive care unit, pulmonology, oncology, urology, and general medicine services (targeted) as well as the rest of the nontargeted hospital services between 2017 and 2019. RESULTS: Higher rates of morbidity in targeted service patients compared with those in the patient population admitted in the nontargeted services were observed, including higher rates of malnutrition risk (37.43% vs 19.16%, P < .001), higher rates of moderate and severe malnutrition first identified by a registered dietitian nutritionist (20.27% vs 9.67%, P < .001), and malnutrition diagnosis confirmed by an admitting physician (16.72% vs 6.74%, P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest sustained improvements in confirmed rates of malnutrition identification and diagnosis are achievable. Targeting malnutrition QI efforts to hospital services with higher patient morbidity is an effective method for improving malnutrition diagnosis, in particular in hospitals with limited resources, which in turn can result in improved nutrition care delivery.
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Desnutrição , Terapia Nutricional , Hospitalização , Humanos , Desnutrição/diagnóstico , Desnutrição/epidemiologia , Desnutrição/terapia , Avaliação Nutricional , Estado Nutricional , Melhoria de QualidadeRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global public health crisis. Egypt presents the highest HCV global prevalence. Recently, three different HCV screening/testing/therapy programs were implemented: In 2014 (wave 1), major decisions on HCV therapy were enacted, accompanied by a 99% discount for the HCV therapy sofosbuvir. In 2016 (wave 2), a first testing program was launched to identify patients for free treatment. In 2018 (wave 3), population-wide screening was conducted using a WHO-prequalified finger prick rapid diagnostic test (RDT) to identify/treat all Egyptians with HCV. The financial advantages of HCV screening programs (wave 1-3 results) were estimated vs a baseline period of limited Egyptian HCV testing/therapeutic intervention (2008-2014). METHODS: Using published evidence and model-based estimates from real-world data, we evaluated the direct costs of the different HCV programs, accompanied by a conservative simulation of major HCV health consequences (i.e., liver-related deaths/life years lost) and related indirect costs. Total economic consequences of each HCV program were compared to each other and baseline from a societal perspective. Future costs and health effects were discounted by 3.5% per year. RESULTS: Discounted total costs (in US dollars) were $1,057 billion (baseline), $913 million (wave 1), $457 million (wave 2), and $396 million (wave 3). Discounted HCV-related life years lost were 418,000 (baseline), 377,000 (wave 1), 142,000 (wave 2), and 62,000 (wave 3). With each successive Egyptian HCV screening/testing/therapy wave, total costs and HCV-related mortality were reduced. CONCLUSION: Use of the community-applied, WHO-prequalified RDT was the most dominant approach to cost-effectiveness. These results provide rationale for worldwide scalability of similar HCV elimination programs.
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Background Malnutrition is a highly prevalent risk factor in hospitalized patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). A recent randomized trial found lower mortality and improved health outcomes when CHF patients with nutritional risk received individualized nutritional treatment. Objective To estimate the cost-effectiveness of individualized nutritional support in hospitalized patients with CHF. Methods This analysis used data from CHF patients at risk of malnutrition (N = 645) who were part of the Effect of Early Nutritional Therapy on Frailty, Functional Outcomes and Recovery of Undernourished Medical Inpatients Trial (EFFORT). Study patients with CHF were randomized into (i) an intervention group (individualized nutritional support to reach energy, protein, and micronutrient goals) or (ii) a control group (receiving standard hospital food). We used a Markov model with daily cycles (over a 6-month interval) to estimate hospital costs and health outcomes in the comparator groups, thus modeling cost-effectiveness ratios of nutritional interventions. Results With nutritional support, the modeled total additional cost over the 6-month interval was 15,159 Swiss Francs (SF). With an additional 5.77 life days, the overall incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for nutritional support vs. no nutritional support was 2625 SF per life day gained. In terms of complications, patients receiving nutritional support had a cost savings of 6214 SF and an additional 4.11 life days without complications, yielding an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for avoided complications of 1513 SF per life day gained. Conclusions On the basis of a Markov model, this economic analysis found that in-hospital nutritional support for CHF patients increased life expectancy at an acceptable incremental cost-effectiveness ratio.
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Insuficiência Cardíaca , Desnutrição , Doença Crônica , Análise Custo-Benefício , Insuficiência Cardíaca/complicações , Insuficiência Cardíaca/terapia , Humanos , Desnutrição/terapia , Apoio NutricionalRESUMO
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Among older adults, malnutrition or its risk is common and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality plus increased need for healthcare utilization. We aimed to identify and treat malnutrition risk among older adults who received care at an outpatient clinic after a recent hospitalization and/or for management of a chronic disease. METHODS: From the outpatient clinic of Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá, Colombia, we recruited older adults (>60 years) with malnutrition or its risk according to the Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form (MNA-SF). Patients were excluded if they had dementia or were not expected to live 90 days or more. Intervention was a nutrition-focused quality improvement program (QIP) including: i) education of patients and caregivers about the health importance of complete and balanced macro- and micronutrient intake plus physical exercise; and ii) nutritional intervention with dietary counseling and provision of oral nutritional supplements (ONS) for daily intake. To assess the effect of our intervention, we collected nutritional outcome data pre- and post-participation of patients in the nutrition-focused QIP. For pre-post comparisons, we used MNA-SF scores and calf circumference (a proxy for leg muscle mass) measures along with nutrition-related anthropometric determinations of body weight and body mass index (BMI). The ONS treatment phase was 60 days, with follow-up measurements up to 30 days after ONS treatment ended (90 days after intervention start). RESULTS: Of 677 enrolled patients, 618 completed the QIP, while 565 had complete anthropometric data. Patients had a mean age of 74.1 ± 8.7 years, an average of 2.6 comorbidities, included a high proportion of females (69.4%), with medium socioeconomic status (76%). After QIP intervention, 324 (52.4%) patients had improvement in nutritional outcomes; improvement was significant in all four measures (P-values < 0.001). Higher ONS adherence was associated with the highest improvement in nutritional status. CONCLUSIONS: For community-living older adults receiving outpatient care, comprehensive nutritional care offered via a nutrition-focused QIP was associated with significant improvements in indicators of nutritional status (MNA-SF scores and calf circumference) and maintenance or improvements in nutrition-related anthropometric measures (body weight and BMI). GOV IDENTIFIER: NCT04042987.