Association of Interprofessional Discharge Planning Using an Electronic Health Record Tool With Hospital Length of Stay Among Patients with Multimorbidity: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial.

Importance: Whether interprofessional collaboration is effective and safe in decreasing hospital length of stay remains controversial.

Objective: To evaluate the outcomes and safety associated with an electronic interprofessional-led discharge planning tool vs standard discharge planning to safely reduce length of stay among medical inpatients with multimorbidity.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This multicenter prospective nonrandomized controlled trial used interrupted time series analysis to examine medical acute hospitalizations at 82 hospitals in Switzerland.

Glucose control after glucocorticoid administration in hospitalized patients - a retrospective analysis.

Background: Glucocorticoid (GC)-induced hyperglycemia is a frequent adverse effect in hospitalized patients. Guidelines recommend insulin treatment to a target range of 6-10 mmol/L (108-180 mg/dl), but efficacies of particular regimes have not been well-studied.

Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, hospitalized patients receiving GCs at the medical ward were analyzed by treatment (basal-bolus vs.

Sex-Specific Differences in Outcomes Following Thyroidectomy: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

Introduction: Numbers of thyroidectomies and awareness of postoperative quality measures have both increased. Potential sex-specific variations in clinical outcomes of patients undergoing thyroidectomy are controversial.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate sex-specific differences in outcomes following thyroidectomy.

Association of in-hospital multimorbidity with healthcare outcomes in Swiss medical inpatients.

Importance: Multimorbidity poses a worldwide health- and socio-economic challenge, exacerbated by changing demographics. The association of multimorbidity with healthcare outcomes in hospitalised medical inpatients remains incompletely understood.

Objective: To examine the prevalence and burden of in-hospital multimorbidity over a 6-year time period and its association with in-hospital mortality, intensive care unit admission, length of hospital stay and readmission rates.

Outcomes of Hospitalized Patients with Glucocorticoid-Induced Hyperglycemia-A Retrospective Analysis.

Background: Glucocorticoid (GC)-induced hyperglycemia is a frequent side effect in hospitalized patients. Guidelines recommend treat-to-target treatment between 6-10 mmol/L (108-180 mg/dL) with insulin, but data on outcome is scarce. We investigated the 30-day outcome in hospitalized patients receiving GCs.

Association of functional status and hospital-acquired functional decline with 30-day outcomes in medical inpatients: A prospective cohort study.

Background: There is growing evidence that patients with functional decline are at increased risk of readmission, mortality and institutionalization. Instruments to measure the status of self-care could provide important information for efficient care planning. The widely used Self Care Index serves as an indicator for the severity of nursing dependency.

Association of weekend admission and clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients with sepsis: An observational study.

Sepsis is associated with impaired clinical outcomes. It requires timely diagnosis and urgent therapeutic management. Because staffing during after-hours is limited, we explored whether after-hour admissions are associated with worse clinical outcomes in patients with sepsis.

Association of comorbidities with clinical outcomes in patients after acute myocardial infarction.

Background: Multimorbidity becomes more prevalent in patients admitted for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We investigated the association of an increasing number of comorbidities with the excess risk of in-hospital mortality and other clinically outcomes in hospitalized AMI patients.

Methods: In this population-based cohort study, we analyzed 104'906 admissions for AMI between 2012 and 2018 in Switzerland.

What Are They Worth? Six 30-Day Readmission Risk Scores for Medical Inpatients Externally Validated in a Swiss Cohort.

Background: Several clinical risk scores for unplanned 30-day readmission have been published, but there is a lack of external validation and head-to-head comparison.

Objective: Retrospective replication of six clinical risk scores (LACE, HOSPITAL, SEMI, RRS, PARA, Tsui et al.)f DESIGN: Models were fitted with the original intercept and beta coefficients as reported.

Integrative hospital treatment in older patients to benchmark and improve outcome and length of stay - the In-HospiTOOL study.

Background: A comprehensive in-hospital patient management with reasonable and economic resource allocation is arguably the major challenge of health-care systems worldwide, especially in elderly, frail, and polymorbid patients. The need for patient management tools to improve the transition process and allocation of health care resources in routine clinical care particularly for the inpatient setting is obvious. To address these issues, a large prospective trial is warranted.