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The lack of effect of market structure on hospice use.
(Health Services Research, 2002-12)
OBJECTIVE: To describe the relative importance of health care market structure and county-level demographics in determining rates of hospice use. DATA SOURCES: Medicare claims data for a cohort of elderly patients newly ...
Critical care use during the course of serious illness.
(American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2004-11)
Despite its expense and importance, it is unknown how common critical care use is. We describe longitudinal patterns of critical care use among a nationally representative cohort of elderly patients monitored from the onset ...
Seduction and Insight from Cross-National Comparisons
(2009-11-01)
Editorial discussing the stregnths and limitations of crossnational comparisons of critical care, with particular reference to Use of Intensive Care Services during Terminal Hospitalizations in England and the United ...
Team Effect on Variation in Laboratory Utilization on Subspecialty Services
(2009-10)
Background: The objective was to determine whether variation in laboratory utilization exists and whether physicians were responsible for a portion of this variation.
Method: Variation in laboratory test ordering was ...
New insights into form and function of fibronectin splice variants No conflicts of interest were declared.
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-09)
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a highly dynamic structure that not only provides a physical framework for cells within connective tissues, but also imparts instructive signals for development, tissue homeostasis and ...
Racial, ethnic, and affluence differences in elderly patients' use of teaching hospitals.
(Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2002-09)
OBJECTIVE: To understand the role of race, ethnicity, and affluence in elderly patients' use of teaching hospitals when they have that option. METHODS: Using a novel data set of 787,587 Medicare patients newly diagnosed ...
The effect of an intensive care unit staffing model on tidal volume in patients with acute lung injury
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2008-11-03)
Introduction
Little is known about the mechanisms through which intensivist physician staffing influences patient outcomes. We aimed to assess the effect of closed-model intensive care on evidence-based ventilatory practice ...
Leptin modulates neutrophil phagocytosis of K. pneumoniae
(American Society for Microbiology, 2003)
Predictors of hospital mortality in a population-based cohort of patients with acute lung injury
(Society of Critical Care Medicine & Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008-05)
Objective: Studies describing predictors of mortality in patients with acute lung injury were primarily derived from selected academic centers. We sought to determine the predictors of mortality in a population-based cohort ...
Wegener's Granulomatosis: Evolving Concepts in Treatment
(Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 2004)