Background Guidelines recommend the use of nutritional support during hospital stays for
medical patients (patients not critically ill and not undergoing surgical procedures) at risk of …

Importance Because effective interventions to reduce hospital readmissions are often expensive
to implement, a score to predict potentially avoidable readmissions may help target the …

Practice guidelines recommend outpatient care for selected patients with non-massive
pulmonary embolism (PE), but fail to specify how these low-risk patients should be identified. …

BACKGROUND: The risk of falls is the most commonly cited reason for not providing oral
anticoagulation, although the risk of bleeding associated with falls on oral anticoagulants is still …

Importance Identification of patients at a high risk of potentially avoidable readmission allows
hospitals to efficiently direct additional care transitions services to the patients most likely to …

Objective To evaluate the primary diagnoses and patterns of 30 day readmissions and
potentially avoidable readmissions in medical patients with each of the most common …

Background Nutritional support in patients with cancer aims at improving quality of life. Whether
use of nutritional support is also effective in improving clinical outcomes requires further …

Background Deterioration of nutritional status during hospitalization in patients with chronic
heart failure increases mortality. Whether nutritional support during hospitalization reduces …

BACKGROUND: Clinical scores may help physicians to better assess the individual risk/benefit
of oral anticoagulant therapy. We aimed to externally validate and compare the …

Background Historically, admission serum albumin concentrations have been considered
useful biochemical markers for nutrition assessment. However, there is a lack of randomised …