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- adjective Occurring after
discharge (from a hospital etc)
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Examples
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The postdischarge period is when symptoms are most responsive to interventions such as behavioral techniques, medication, psychotherapy, family counseling or a combination.
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Then there was a thick sheaf of background information, Army postdischarge intelligence reports, extensive for some of the women, sketchy for others, but altogether enough for a basic conclusion.
Running Blind Child, Lee 2000
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Among 4783 excluded patients with AKI were those with no renal recovery at discharge (3481/8855, 39%), early postdischarge deaths (387/8855, 4%), and
JAMA current issue Bihorac, A., Schold, J. D., Hobson, C. E. 2010
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Among 4783 excluded patients with AKI were those with no renal recovery at discharge (3481/8855, 39%), early postdischarge deaths (387/8855, 4%), and
JAMA current issue 2010
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Among 4783 excluded patients with AKI were those with no renal recovery at discharge (3481/8855, 39%), early postdischarge deaths (387/8855, 4%), and
JAMA current issue 2010
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Among 682 consecutive patients treated for a first stroke in an Athens hospital, postdischarge statin therapy was associated with a 39\% reduction in the adjusted risk of recurrent stroke over the following 10 years, reported Sotirios Giannopoulos, MD, ScD., of the University of Ioannina in Ioannina, Greece, and colleagues.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009
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No patients reported adverse events over six months 'postdischarge, researchers noted, although May emphasized to heartwire that safety of using cardiac CT in low-risk emergency-department chest pain requires further documentation.
theHeart.org 2009
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In one study of hospital performance, 17% of all hospital days were classified as medically unnecessary 'delay' days, and the most important cause was unavailability of postdischarge facilities.
LaRouche's Latest 2009
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After adjusting for a large number of other factors -- including age, hypertension, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, smoking, initial stroke site, and other medications -- Dr. Giannopoulos and colleagues calculated a hazard ratio for recurrent stroke associated with postdischarge statin therapy of 0.61 (95\% CI 0.35 to 0.92).
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009
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• linking the mother and baby to appropriate community resources, including prenatal and postdischarge follow-up and breastfeeding support.
The Official Lamaze® Guide Judith Lothian RN 2010
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