Trends of Hypnotic Medication Use in A 2000-Bed Medical Center in Taiwan

Abstract

A 7 1 9 -A 8 1 3 A721 one year post-discharge and compared between cohorts who receive and did not receive guideline recommended care using a probit regression model with instrumental variables. Results: One-fourth (29%) of the patients with COPD-related hospitalizations/ED visits were identified as recipients of the guideline recommended care. Receiving guideline recommended care was associated with a reduction of 4.4 percentage points in the probability of having subsequent COPD exacerbation requiring hospital admission/ED visits (p-value = 0.837). Analysis focusing on the follow up visit alone shows that having follow up visits were significantly associated (p-value = 0.018) with a reduction in the probability (32.8 percentage points) of having subsequent COPD exacerbation requiring hospital admission/ED visits, while the use of maintenance medication was associated with an increase in the probability (19.5 percentage points) of having subsequent COPD exacerbation requiring hospital admission/ED visits (p-value = 0.337). ConClusions: The use of guideline recommended care, especially in the use of follow up care, was significantly associated with the reduction in the probability of having subsequent COPD exacerbation requiring hospital admission/ED. HS2

Multiple gridded‐based precipitation products' performance in Sudan's different topographical features and the influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on rainfall variability in recent decades

“…First, the stations' data were analysed using statistical linear regression (i.e., Regression analysis fitted a linear regression equation to the time series graphs). The regression slopes were tested for significance using the nonparametric Sen's slope and Mann–Kendall's test which is highly recommended by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) (Partal and Kahya, 2006; Lin et al ., 2014) in long‐term studies. It is useful in analysing the collected consistently monotonic increasing or decreasing tendencies time series (Zhang et al ., 2010).…”