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Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Support for Health Care Interventions Targeted at Level of Risk
(2009-09)
The mental health correlates of male aggression or violence against an intimate partner (IPV) are examined using exploratory cluster analysis for 81 men who self-reported risk factors for IPV perpetration on a computer-based ...
Chemotherapy was not associated with cognitive decline in older adults with breast and colorectal cancer: findings from a prospective cohort study
(2012-10)
OBJECTIVES:
: This study tested 2 hypotheses: (1) chemotherapy increases the rate of cognitive decline in breast and colorectal cancer patients beyond what is typical of normal aging and (2) chemotherapy results in ...
The network structure of critical care transfers, 1993
(Society for Critical Care Medicine Annual Meeting, 2007-02)
Background: In light of wide variations between
hospitals in their quality of critical care, some
have proposed moving patients to better
quality. A system of critical care transfers
already exists, but it is little ...
Automated Classification of Radiology Reports for Acute Lung Injury: Comparison of Keyword and Machine Learning Based Natural Language Processing Approaches.
(2009-11)
This paper compares the performance of keyword and machine learning-based chest x-ray report classification for Acute Lung Injury (ALI). ALI mortality is approximately 30 percent. High mortality is, in part, a consequence ...
Refinements of a methodology for detecting married couples in the Medicare data.
(Demography, 2000-05)
Intensive care unit occupancy and patient outcomes
(Critical Care Medicine, 2009-05)
Principle: Although intensive care units (ICUs) with higher overall patient volume may achieve better outcomes than lower volume ICUs, there are few data on the effects of increasing patient loads on patients within the ...
Racial and ethnic differences in place of death: United States, 1993.
(Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), 2002-06)
OBJECTIVES: To examine racial and ethnic differences in place of death, adjusting for likely confounders. DESIGN: A retrospective cohort analyzed using multinomial logistic regression. SETTING: United States in 1993. ...
The Structure of Critical Care Transfer Networks
(Medical Care, 2009-07)
Rationale: Moving patients from low-performing hospitals to high-performing hospitals may improve patient outcomes. These transfers may be particularly important in critical care, where small relative improvements can yield ...
Uncharted Paths: Hospital Networks in Critical Care
(Chest, 2009-03)
Wide variation between hospitals in the quality of critical care lead to many potentially avoidable
deaths. Regionalization of critical care is a possible solution; regionalization has been implemented
for trauma and ...
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 ...