Risk Factors for Emergency Department Short Time Readmission in Stratified Population.

Background: Emergency department (ED) readmissions are considered an indicator of healthcare quality that is particularly relevant in older adults. The primary objective of this study was to identify key factors for predicting patients returning to the ED within 30 days of being discharged.

Methods: We analysed patients who attended our ED in June 2014, stratified into four groups based on the Kaiser pyramid.

'Hospital at home' care model as an effective alternative in the management of decompensated chronic heart failure.

Aims: The 'Hospital at home' (HaH) model avoids hospital admission by transferring healthcare and treatment to the patient's home. We aimed to compare the effectiveness and direct healthcare costs of treating elderly patients with decompensated heart failure (HF) using HaH care vs. inpatient hospital care (IHC) in a cardiology unit.

Bovine brucellosis control and eradication programme in Chile: vaccine use as a tool within the programme.

In 1975 Chile began the bovine brucellosis control programme in the south central area of the country, where the 92% of the bovine population is located. In 1992 the programme was evaluated and the prevalence showed almost no change for the last nine years, Therefore, a comprehensive Brucellosis eradication programme began. Based on the information gathered by a surveillance system on cattle market and dairy herds from 1999 to 2003 the advances in the process are shown.

[Role of emergency departments in acute myocardial infarction care. EVICURE study].

No published information is available about myocardial infarction management in Spanish emergency departments. The EVICURE is a prospective, multicenter, observational study involving 35 hospitals that for a 3-week period collected all the cases of patients requiring care in which the final diagnosis of the cause of symptoms was ischemic heart disease. The study included 2,216 patients, of which 600 (27.

Different properties in lymphoblastoid cell lines from patients with Bloom syndrome.

In 3 lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from 3 patients with Bloom syndrome (BS), the baseline frequency of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs), chromosomal breakage, sensitivity to ethylmethane-sulfonate (EMS), and bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd) were examined. The SCE frequency of 2 BS lines (EB-BS-NoKi-2 and EB-BS-AkSak) was about 2 to 2.5 times those of the normal cell lines, while that of another BS line (EB-BS-2KA) was about 10 to 11 times.

Expression of varicella-zoster virus-related antigens in biochemically transformed cells.

L(O)cl 3 and L(K)cl 1 cells, biochemically transformed by varicella-zoster virus (VZV), were labelled with L-[35S]methionine and [32P]orthophosphate. Cell extracts were immunoprecipitated with anti-VZV monkey serum and analysed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Four polypeptides of apparent mol.

Deoxythymidine kinases in varicella-zoster virus infected and biochemically transformed cells.

Deoxythymidine kinase (TK) activity induced in varicella-zoster virus (VZV)-infected human embryonic fibroblast (HEF) cells was immunologically distinguishable from that in non infected HEF cells and also from that in herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infected HEF cells. The TKs in VZV-biochemically transformed cells were immunologically the same as that induced in VZV-infected human cells and immunologically different from that in Ltk- cells or in HSV-biochemically transformed cells. One peak of TK activity with an Rm value of 0.

Biochemical transformation of mouse cells by varicella-zoster virus.

Mouse L cells lacking the enzyme thymidine kinase (Ltk-) were infected with varicella-zoster virus (VZV). Even though virus did not replicate in Ltk- cells, the presence of virus antigen could be observed by use of an anti-complement immunofluorescent technique at 4 h post-infection and the VZV-specific thymidine kinase could be detected in VZV-infected Ltk- cells. Ltk-cells were converted to a tk+ phenotype (Ltk+) by infection with cell-associated VZV.