Dan Med Bull
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Nationwide analysis of prolonged hospital stay and readmission after elective ventral hernia repair.
Early outcome after elective ventral hernia repair is unsatisfactory, but detailed analyses are lacking. The aim of this study was to describe the aetiology of prolonged hospital stay (LOS), readmission and death < 30 days after elective ventral hernia repair. ⋯ The foundation of Engineer Johs. E. Ormstrup and wife Grete Ormstrup and Region Zealand"s foundation for health-care research provided funding for this study.
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The emergency departments (EDs) handle approximately 1,000,000 contacts annually. Danish health care is undergoing reorganization that involves the creation of fewer and larger EDs to handle these contacts. There is therefore a need to prioritize the use of resources to optimize treatment. We thus wanted to investigate if Danish EDs are using triage systems and, if so, which systems they are using. ⋯ not relevant.
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Formalized triage in the emergency department (ED) is not widely used in Denmark; this study explores the effects of introducing a five-level process triage system in a Danish ED. ⋯ not relevant.
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In late stage Parkinson's disease (PD), medical treatment may not control the symptoms adequately, and the patient may become eligible for bilateral high frequency deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the subthalamic nucleus (STN). The effect of STN DBS on gait and postural instability is not always as predictable as the effect on clinical symptoms tremor, rigidity and bradykinesia. This may relate to the type of gait disorder or the stimulating electrode localization in the STN. ⋯ The stimulation sites were grouped according to STN borders visualised on pre-operative MRI, and the active stimulation site was compared with clinical improvement and gait parameters. STN DBS is associated with improved movement amplitude while movement duration may be unaffected by both disease and stimulation. This may imply an improvement primarily on hypokinesia including gait hypokinesia.
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There are strong pragmatic and moral reasons for receiving societies to address access to healthcare for migrants. Receiving societies have a pragmatic interest in sustaining migrants' health to facilitate integration; they also have a moral obligation to ensure migrants' access to healthcare according to international human rights principles. The intention of this thesis is to increase the understanding of migrants' access to healthcare by exploring two study aims: 1) Are there differences in migrants' access to healthcare compared to that of non-migrants? (substudy I and II); and 2) Why are there possible differences in migrants' access to healthcare compared to that of non-migrants? (substudy III and IV). The thesis builds on different methodological approaches using both register-based retrospective cohort design, cross-sectional design and survey methods. Two different measures of access were used to explore differences: 1) cancer stage at diagnosis as a clinical outcome and 2) emergency room (ER) contacts as a utilisation measure. ⋯ Differences in utilisation and clinical outcome were identified between migrants and non-migrants. Reasons why disparities exist were also identified in relation to communication with primary care and on policy level. The thesis shows that various perspectives and scientific problems are important to get a full understanding of the process of access to healthcare for different migrant groups. Moreover, various complementary methodological approaches are needed when studying problems of migrants' access to healthcare.