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Hiten Naik1, Daniel Daly-Grafstein2, Xiao Hu2

  • 1Departments of Medicine (Naik, Daly-Grafstein, Hu, Khan, Nasmith, Staples), Statistics (Daly-Grafstein, Hu), Emergency Medicine (Brubacher, Moe), Pathology, and Laboratory Medicine (Slaunwhite), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Kaasa), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Internal Medicine (Lyden), Denver Health, Denver, Colo.; Department of Internal Medicine (Lyden), University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colo.; British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (Moe, Crabtree); School of Population and Public Health (Crabtree, Slaunwhite), University of British Columbia; British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (Crabtree); BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services (Slaunwhite), Provincial Health Services Authority; Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation (Staples), Vancouver, BC. hiten.naik@ubc.ca.

概括

在"医疗建议" (BMA) 之前出院的患者面临死亡和药物过量服用的风险更高. 新的预测模型可以识别高风险个体,使得有针对性的支持可以改善BMA医院出院后的结果.

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