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BACKGROUND
Hospital at Home (HH) provides specialized care at the patients’ homes. Keeping patients in familial surroundings can result in better outcomes reducing readmission to hospital, mortality, and costs of care. Home transfusion (HT) can be a key element in HH management but is scarcely deployed due to concerns about safety and cost. We have reviewed our HT practice to assess its feasibility...
Objective The objective of the study was to analyze surgical site infection (SSI) frequency with different duration antibiotic courses to establish the minimum necessary duration. Methods This is an observational study of prospective surveillance of 287 consecutive patients (mean age 67.8 years) operated on for acute cholecystitis of grade II severity in the first 72 h. Postoperative antibiotics...
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