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M Cervero Jiménez

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PubMed2000

[Retrospective study of early readmissions at an internal medicine service].

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of hospital re-admissions to an Internal Medicine Department at a Community General Hospital as well as variables associated with them. METHODS: Analysis of hospital discharges during 1997. Data were provided by the Coding and Filing Service, and included sociodemographic data and aspects related to medical care to each patient, as well as discharge DRF according to the HCFA version. A logistic regression model was developed to identify variables independently associated with early re-admission risk (less than 30 days after discharge). RESULTS: The rate of early re-admission was 7.4%. The variables associated with a higher risk of admission included age, a hospital stay longer than the mean at first admission, and AIDS-associated conditions and heart diseases as main discharge diagnoses. CONCLUSIONS: Based on our data, we cannot consider the readmission rates as a reliable index in itself to be assessed negatively, as some re-admissions come unexpectedly and/or are unavoidable.

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PubMed1991

[Uric acid calculi: infrequent cause of acute renal failure].

We reviewed the clinical histories of 14 patients diagnosed of acute obstructive renal failure due to bilateral or unilateral uric calculi in patients with only one functioning kidney for a period of 14 years (1974-1987). Urine was alkalinized in all patients. The increase in urine pH was effective in resolving the obstruction in 12 patients. The alkalinizing methods which succeeded in permeabilizing the urinary tract, considering each functioning kidney independently were: intravenous in 5/21, upstream urethral catheterism in 9/21 and by nephrostomy catheter in 5/21. Surgery was performed in 2 patients. In the later the calculi were of double composition. The most frequent complications were: urinary infection in 7/14 patients, chronic renal failure in 4/14 patients, sepsis in 3/14 patients and bacteremia in 2/14 patients. None of the patients died.

Acute Kidney Injury↗