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Filter by:The investigator aimed to compare various pelvic floor repairs in female aged from 70 to 80 years old, to see which procedure in terms of treatment-related complications of SCP, VMR and NTR by comparing the operative and functional outcomes in this patient population.
The investigators aimed to evaluate the feasibility and safety of using ambient air to protect against thermal injury during RadioFrequency Ablation (RFA) for Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) based on data from cases at their institute.
Split dose bowel cleansing is recommended method for colonoscopy. For afternoon colonoscopy, same-day dose of bowel cleansing is alternative option. Recently, same-day bowel cleansing for morning colonoscopy was validated. To date, there was no study which compared the bowel cleansing efficacy between same-day dose and split dose regardless of colonoscopy time. The aim of current study is to compare the bowel cleansing efficacy, adverse events, and patient's tolerability between the two group. Subjects who underwent colonoscopy for various reasons were included. After agreeing to participate in the study, study participants were randomly assigned to split dose or same day dose group. Bowel cleansing is done using polyethylene glycol (PEG). All colonoscopy was done between 10 AM to 6 PM. Study participants were instructed to ingest 500ml PEG every 15 minutes. Subjects who were assigned to split dose group ingested 2L PEG from 9PM 1 day before colonoscopy. Remaining 2L PEG was ingested 3-5 hours before colonoscopy. In the same-day dose group, bowel cleansing was started from 5AM for subjects who were scheduled to receive colonoscopy in the morning. Afternoon colonoscopy group in the same-day dose group ingested 2L PEG from 5AM. Remaining 2L PEG was finished 3-5 hours before colonoscopy. Bowel cleansing efficacy was assessed using Boston bowel preparation scale. Vital signs and laboratory tests were checked before colonoscopy. Study participants completed questionnaire which contained patient's satisfaction, tolerability, and adverse event during bowel cleansing. Bowel cleansing efficacy, patient's tolerability, and safety profile were compared between the two groups. Successful bowel cleansing was estimated 85% for split dose group. The investigators set 10% for inferior margin. Considering 10% drop out, a total of 352 subjects will be recruited.
The project has a threefold aim: (i) Assessment of Home Hospitalization and Early Discharge (HH/ED) deployment at Hospital Clinic over a period of 10 years (2006-2015) as a preliminary analysis fo the second aim (ii) Large scale deployment of HH/ED and Transitional Care services; and, (iii) Population-based study on cost-effectiveness of integrated care services in the urban healthcare sector of Barcelona-Esquerra (540.000 inhabitants). The central hypothesis is that the approach will show safety and effectiveness with high level of user's acceptance and health value generation leading to sustainability of the service.The preliminary data indicate that HH/ED shows potential to strengthen care coordination between highly specialized hospital-based care and home-based services involving different levels of complexity. The need for appropriately designed transitional care services has been identified as the best option, not only for an efficient transference of patients from hospital to the community after hospital discharge, but as a way to overcome well identified limitations for generalization of community-based integrated care services. AISBE is a population-based health initiative aiming at deployment of integrated care in one urban healthcare sector (Barcelona-Esquerra, 540.000 inhabitants) in the city of Barcelona. Within this initiative, the HH/ED program carried out by Hospital Clinic provides home-based hospitalization. Moreover, the program aims to implement transitional care strategies for optimal discharge. The current document describes three studies: (Study 1) Analysis of the period 2006-2015; (Study 2) Program-based analysis of Home Hospitalization/Early Discharge (HH/ED) , and, (Study 3) Population-based analysis of cost-effectiveness of AISBE-based services. Study 2 is a program-based analysis of Home Hospitalization/Early Discharge (HH/ED). A quasi-experimental design. That is, a non-randomized intervention group (integrated care) will be compared with a control group (usual care) using propensity score matching wherein age, gender and health risk scoring will be main matching variables. The population-based evaluation will be done using registry data obtained from the Catalan Health Surveillance System (CHSS). The protocol evaluation follows a Triple Aim approach considering pre-defined outcome variables for: a) health and well-being, b) experience with care, and c) costs.
Although drug-eluting stents have reduced rates of restenosis and late lumen loss compared with bare metal stents, late stent thrombosis (LST), a life-threatening complication of this technology, has emerged as a major concern. Researches indicated incomplete neointimal coverage of stent struts as the most important morphometric predictor of LST. Pathological research showed stenting disruption of adjacent vulnerable plaques can precipitate LST, Meanwhile, thin-cap fibroatheromas (TCFA) as the most important predictor of Major Adverse Cardiovascular. Therefore, there is a hypothesis that TCFA may impair intimal healing which are prone to LST in vivo. Optical coherence tomography (OCT)is a high-resolution (<10 µm), catheter-based imaging modality capable of investigating detailed coronary plaque morphology in vivo.This study aimed to observe that TCFA will arise what of the effect on intimal healing of stent struts on the lesions which fractional flow reserve (FFR)≤0.75 after EXCEL biodegradable polymer-coated sirolimus-eluting stent was implanted at 9 months follow up: evaluated by OCT and FFR