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Autor:
Anne M, Egbert
Publikováno v:
Postgraduate medicine. 94(5)
Preview Elderly patients who for no immediately obvious reason lose weight, decline in physical and psychological function, and withdraw socially are said to have failure to thrive. Dr Egbert analyzes the factors that can contribute to this condition
Autor:
Anne M. Egbert
Publikováno v:
Nutrition Reviews. 54:S25-S30
Geriatric failure to thrive has three elements: (1) deterioration in the biologic, psychologic, and social domains; (2) weight loss or undernutrition; and (3) lack of any obvious explanation for the condition. It results from the combined effects of
Autor:
Gerard Brungardt, Anne M. Egbert
Publikováno v:
The Linacre Quarterly. 61:72-81
Autor:
Anne M. Egbert
Publikováno v:
Postgraduate Medicine. 89:217-228
PreviewPrescribing drugs for pain in the elderly is difficult. Older patients are much more likely than younger ones to experience gastrointestinal and other problems from drug use and to be taking other necessary agents that interact with analgesics
Publikováno v:
Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 16:12-17
Studies show that pain management in postoperative patients often results in undertreatment of pain. Because elderly postoperative patients receive less of the prescribed narcotic dose than their younger counterparts, there may be significant undertr
Autor:
Anne M. Egbert
Publikováno v:
Postgraduate medicine. 90(5)
Gallstones are very common, but at least two thirds of detected stones are asymptomatic and a large number undoubtedly go undetected. The presence of symptoms or complications is the indication for surgery. It is important to accurately identify whic
Autor:
Anne M. Egbert, Anne D. Walling, Christopher A. Smith, Anita B. Varkey, Arthur T. Evans, Brendan M. Reilly
Publikováno v:
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 20:98-98
Instruments available to evaluate attending physicians fail to address their diverse roles and responsibilities in current inpatient practice. We developed a new instrument to evaluate attending physicians on medical inpatient services and tested its
Publikováno v:
Archives of Internal Medicine. 150:1897
• Postoperative use of as-needed intramuscular narcotics is potentially hazardous in frail elderly patients. Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) allows patients to self-administer small boluses of narcotic, allowing better dose titration, enhanced r
Publikováno v:
Alcohol and Alcoholism.
A one-year prospective study was conducted to describe nonbeverage alcohol (NBA) consumption (the use of substitutes for traditional forms of ethanol) among alcoholics. It was found that 11% of inpatient alcoholics at a veterans' hospital and 8.6% of