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I – Investigated condition (e.g. intervention, exposure, risk/ prognostic factor, or test result) C – Comparison condition (e.g. intervention, exposure, risk/ prognostic factor, or test result respectively) O – Outcome(s) (e.g. symptom, syndrome, or disease of interest) Alternatives such as SPICE and PECO (among many others) can also be used.
A Risk Class I or Risk Class II pneumonia patient can be sent home on oral antibiotics. [4] A Risk Class III patient, after evaluation of other factors including home environment and follow-up, may either: [5] be sent home with oral antibiotics [4] be admitted for a short hospital stay with antibiotics and monitoring. [4]
A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnoses foster the nurse's independent practice (e.g., patient comfort or relief) compared to dependent interventions driven by physician ...
One point is assigned for each of the following risk factors: [citation needed] Age greater than 60 years; Stage III or IV disease; Elevated serum LDH; ECOG/Zubrod performance status of 2, 3, or 4; More than 1 extranodal site; The sum of the points allotted correlates with the following risk groups: Low risk (0-1 points) - 5-year survival of 73%
The score is an acronym for each of the risk factors measured. Each risk factor scores one point, for a maximum score of 5: Confusion of new onset (defined as an AMTS of 8 or less) Blood Urea nitrogen greater than 7 mmol/L (19 mg/dL) Respiratory rate of 30 breaths per minute or greater
APACHE II ("Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II") is a severity-of-disease classification system, [1] one of several ICU scoring systems.It is applied within 24 hours of admission of a patient to an intensive care unit (ICU): an integer score from 0 to 71 is computed based on several measurements; higher scores correspond to more severe disease and a higher risk of death.
The International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS), originally published in 1997, is used by many doctors to help assess the severity of a patient's myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Based on the IPSS score, the patient's history, and the physician's own personal observations, the physician will design a treatment plan to address the MDS.
Risk of infection is a nursing diagnosis which is defined as the state in which an individual is at risk to be infected by an opportunistic or pathogenic agent (e.g., viruses, fungi, bacteria, protozoa, or other parasites) from endogenous or exogenous sources. [1] The diagnosis was approved by NANDA in 1986. Although anyone can become infected ...