The Medical journal of Australia
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Case Reports Clinical Trial
Topical timolol for a chronic ulcer--a case with its own control.
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Observational Study
Do outlier inpatients experience more emergency calls in hospital? An observational cohort study.
To determine the effect of spending time as an outlier (ie, an inpatient who spends time away from his or her "home" ward) on the frequency of emergency calls for patients admitted to a tertiary referral hospital. ⋯ This study found a strong association between time spent away from a patient's home ward and the number of emergency calls. We postulate that outlier patients are at risk as they may have therapeutic and monitoring needs that are only available on their home ward. With increasing pressure to move patients out of the emergency department, the number of outlier patients may increase.