Colitis More Common in Hospitalized Patients
...tridium difficile more than doubled among patients hospitalized in the United States between 1993 and 2003, and th...tates each year: as many as 10 percent of patients hospitalized for at least two days are affected, the authors write. Anecdotal evidence and some case series sugge...Diabetes may Lead to More Complications
... Studies show that diabetics do worse after being hospitalized for stroke, heart attack and heart surgery, but li...to identify 12,489 patients with diabetes who were hospitalized at 27 trauma centers between 1984 and 2002. They then selected an additional 12,489 patients who w......s increase the chances that these patients will be hospitalized for pneumonia. In a large cohort of patients wit...gnificant 70 percent increase in the risk of being hospitalized for pneumonia, said the researchers. Furthermore, for the severest pneumonias leading to death wit......isorders were three to six times more likely to be hospitalized for psychiatric treatment during 1999 than were those with a mental health diagnosis alone. Arkansas was the one state in which co-occurring disorders did not reduce the odds that patients would receive community-based mental health treatment. The ...