Publications by authors named "Michael D Humphrey"
Introduction: Although timely hospital discharge is a complex and multifactorial process, this metric is consistently a focus for hospitals and health care systems. It also has been a long practice that the American Urological Association (AUA) supports the use of advanced practice providers (APPs) as an integral member of the urological care team.
Materials And Methods: Here, we performed a preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of an inpatient APP in reducing hospital length of stay (LOS) following major urologic oncology procedures.
Obstetric risk score - revalidated for triaging high-risk pregnancies in rural areas.
Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol
February 2017
Background: A pregnancy risk score system in popular use in provincial and rural Queensland to assist with the triage decisions regarding the appropriate facility for pregnancy care has been upgraded with more recently recognised pregnancy risk factors.
Aims: To review the usefulness of the revised pregnancy risk score system and the integrity of its continuing use.
Materials And Methods: 459 women attending regional/rural hospitals and 1963 women attending a major specialist hospital for their pregnancy care had a prospective risk score assessed, and the resulting score was examined in relationship to pregnancy outcomes.
Objective: To examine reasons for women not accessing antenatal care, and subsequent pregnancy outcomes for this group of women.
Design: Retrospective observational study between 1992 and 2001.
Setting: Large public provincial referral obstetric unit.
Objective: To determine whether high maternal parity has any effect on pregnancy outcome independent of other maternal characteristics.
Design And Setting: Retrospective observational study using the database of a referral obstetric unit in a 280-bed regional hospital in far north Queensland.
Participants: All 15 908 women who had singleton births between 1992 and 2001, comprising 653 women with grand multiparity (>or= 5 previous births at gestation >or= 20 weeks) and 15 255 women with lower parity.