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Filter by:In August 2021, the Italian Ministry of Health published the Ministerial Decree to define the "Criteria for the appropriateness concerning the access to hospital rehabilitation admission" (in neurological, respiratory, cardiological, and orthopedic Units), classifying patients by complexity, the severity of disability and the number of ICD-9 discharge codes. The Appropriateness Decree adopted some fundamental criteria used in the United Kingdom for over 10 years (2009) where the Ministry of Health defined 3 levels of specialized rehabilitation based on the different complexity of the patient's needs. Among the scales, the Rehabilitation Complexity Scale (RCS) has been proposed by the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine (BSRM), clearly oriented to patients with motor disabilities (neurological and orthopedic), of which the RCS-E (i.e. Extended version) is the more up to date. The Italian Ministry of Health has proposed the application of the RCS scale as a tool for measuring rehabilitation complexity based on the intensity and level of skills required in terms of nursing, medical and therapeutic care. In this Clinical Study the Investigators intend to 1. test the application of the new RCS scale to rehabilitation admissions in 16 Italian Pulmonary Rehabilitation Units 2. correlate this scale to the most universally used clinical and functional measures evaluated in the respiratory field 3. investigate the responsiveness of the RCS scale at the end of rehabilitation 4. promote an audit to revise the clinical and rehabilitation conditions -described by items of the RCS-E- to get a specific RCS referable to respiratory patients with MDC4.
This study will evaluate the clinical performance of the QIAstat-Dx® Respiratory Panel Plus (RPP) SARS-CoV-2 target with a validated comparator method
National guidelines make two recommendations for treatment of young children with mild pneumonia - one to avoid routine antibiotics and another to use narrow-spectrum antibiotics. No studies have compared the effectiveness of these two approaches. This pilot study will evaluate study processes and feasibility of a future clinical trial that proposes to test whether low-risk children managed as outpatients with mild community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) treated with supportive treatment without antibiotics will have a similar clinical response, with fewer adverse effects, compared with those treated with a supportive treatment plan that includes antibiotics.
EtCO2, or exhaled carbon dioxide, is a non-invasive and commonly used measure for respiratory rate and function. It can be easily monitored using a device called a capnograph, which consists of a sensor that is placed near the patient's mouth or nose and a monitor that displays the concentration of carbon dioxide in the respiratory gases in real-time. EtCO2 capnography is generally considered a reliable and accurate method for monitoring respiration and is often used as a gold standard for comparing the performance of other methods for measuring respiration. Therefore, the primary aim of this study is to provide a thorough comparison of the performance of Sleepiz One+ and EtCO2 Capnography for measuring respiration rate, in healthy adults and patients suffering from chronic conditions (e.g. hypertension, COPD, asthma, diabetes), at rest in a clinical setting. Additionally, the performance of heart rate estimation will be evaluated against ECG.
CUT COVID is a cohort study establised to collect information on patients hospitalized because or with infection by SARS-CoV-2. The cohort data includes clinical data and biological samples from multiple timepoints during hospitalization, as well as data from a followup consultation 3 months after discharge.
Clinical pharmacists in the healthcare system are experts in therapeutics and the use of drugs. They routinely provide medication reviews and recommendations to patients and healthcare professionals. Clinical pharmacists are a scientifically valid source of information and give advice on the safe and appropriate use of medicines and pharmacoeconomics. Clinical pharmacist researchers produce, distribute and apply new information that contributes to improving health and quality of life. Thus, it is ensured that many of the drug treatment errors that occur after inappropriate therapeutic decisions are made at the point of prescribing are prevented In this investigation, the effects of clinical pharmacists on respiratory would be investigated. This research area will cover lower respiratory tract infections and chronic lung disease exacerbations with ICD-10 codes J05, J9-22, J40-47, J69, J85 -J86. In this study, two groups, control and intervention groups, were identified. In the control group; There will be no intervention done by the Clinical Pharmacist. Hospital stay, antimicrobial suitability, microbial resistance development, antimicrobial induced nephrotoxicity, infection-related mortality, pharmacoeconomic evaluation, re-hospitalization within 30 days after discharged, medication reconciliation report will be created, patients will be monitored for the detection and management of drug-related problems will be recorded in both control and intervention groups. In the intervention group; recommendations will be given to the physicians by the Clinical Pharmacist on the selection of antibiotics, drug suitability, dosage and route of administration advice, and determination of drug-related problems related to drugs used simultaneously.
Due to ageing-related physiological changes, diagnosing older adults is challenging. Delayed disease recognition lead to adverse health outcomes and increased hospitalisation, which is why there is a need to develop new procedures for timely diagnosis and treatment of older adults. Point-of-care technology, e.g. focused lung ultrasound scan and bedside analysis of blood samples (leucocytes with differential count, electrolytes and creatinine) carried out in the patients' home may support clinical decision-making, and potentially reduce acute hospital admissions. The trial's overall aim is to investigate whether increased point-of-care technology, i.e. focused lung ultrasound scan and bedside blood analysis, used as in-home diagnostics in older adults with acute respiratory symptoms, can qualify the general practitioner's clinical decision-making for early treatment initiation and eventually reduce acute hospital admission.
Hypromellose-based nasal spray solution containing human IgG1 anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody cocktail is a medical device innovated to provide the dual-action physical barrier on nasal mucosa that aids the natural defence in which the mucus layer is fortified by a steric barrier-forming agent HPMC and invading viral particles of all major SARS-CoV-2 VOCs, including Delta and Omicron, are locally trapped and blocked from entering the cells by the highly-specific human IgG1 anti-SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibody cocktail.
Background and Objectives: Seizure attack is one of adverse effects of vaccination in epileptic patients, the risk of which after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) inoculation was elucidated in the present study. Methods: A self-controlled case series study was designed to examine the association between vaccination and epileptic seizure. A total of 240 epilepsy patients were included who were vaccinated with inactive SARS-CoV-2 vaccines (Sinovac Life Sciences and Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products) and admitted to outpatient clinics from July 2021 to December 2021. Poisson analysis was performed to estimate the relative incidence rate of epileptic seizure in risk periods (day 1-7, 8-21 and 1-21 after first-dose vaccination) compared to basal level in control period.
The purpose of the clinical study is to study the effect of health-related quality of Life of information aimed at reducing the impact of a personality trait (openness to experiences) identified as a risk of non-response to pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with chronic respiratory diseases. This study will determine if a specific information focusing on characteristics of openness to experiences personality trait will lead to better benefits than a general information.