Background: Frequently hospitalized patients represent a vulnerable population due to discontinuity between episodes of inpatient, outpatient, and specialty care. This discontinuity puts patients at risk for unnecessary over-treatment, dangerous under-treatment, medication errors, and loss of trust due to conflicting messages from healthcare providers. Providers face rising clinical volumes, decreasing familiarity between providers, and ever more [...]

Background: Delirium prevention by multicomponent interventions is proven, with strong evidence confirming its effectiveness in both medical and surgical populations. Identifying high risk patients is very important for resource allocation and utilization. Risk factors for delirium are broadly classified into predisposing and precipitating factors. Combinations of these risk factors precipitate delirium and hence a prediction [...]

Background: Perioperative management of anticoagulant in mechanical valve patients is challenging, Current recommendations focus on management in patients undergoing elective surgery, while the data in patients hospitalized for emergency/urgency non-cardiac surgery is limited. We aimed to identify thromboembolic and bleeding events after anticoagulant interruption in patients with mechanical heart valves hospitalized for emergency/urgent non-cardiac surgery. [...]