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Interhospital Transfers Among Medicare Beneficiaries Admitted for Acute Myocardial Infarction at Nonrevascularization Hospitals
(American Heart Asociation, 2010-09)
Background—Patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who are admitted to hospitals without coronary
revascularization are frequently transferred to hospitals with this capability, yet we know little about the basis ...
Cost-effectiveness of Implementing Low-Tidal Volume Ventilation in Patients With Acute Lung Injury
(American College of Chest Physicians, 2009)
Background: Despite widespread guidelines recommending the use of lung-protective ventilation (LPV) in patients with acute lung injury (ALI), many patients do not receive this lifesaving therapy. We sought to estimate the ...
A simple clinical predictive index for objective estimates of mortality in acute lung injury
(Society of Critical Care Medicine & Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009-06)
Objective: We sought to develop a simple point score that would accurately capture the risk of hospital death for patients with acute lung injury (ALI).
Design: This is a secondary analysis of data from two randomized ...
Red blood cell transfusion and outcomes in patients with acute lung injury, sepsis and shock
(2011-09-21)
Introduction
To determine the association between red blood cell (RBC) transfusion and outcomes in patients with acute lung injury (ALI), sepsis, and shock.
Methods
We performed a secondary analysis of new-onset ALI ...
Prediction of Critical Illness During Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care
(2010-08)
CONTEXT: Early identification of nontrauma patients in need of critical care services in the emergency setting may improve triage decisions and facilitate regionalization of critical care.
OBJECTIVES:
To determine the ...
In Sickness and In Health: Understanding the Effects of Marriage on Health
(2001-08)
Despite substantial research, how marriage reduces mortality remains unclear.
Using a novel data set of over 150,000 elderly couples developed from the Medicare
claims and examining the impact of widowhood vs. marriage ...
Using existing data to address important clinical questions in critical care
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2013-03)
Objective: With important technological advances in healthcare delivery and the internet, clinicians and scientists now have access to overwhelming number of available databases capturing patients with critical illness. ...
Marriage, widowhood, and health-care use
(Social Science & Medicine, 2003-12)
Despite suggestive evidence, there has been no adequately powered systematic study of the ways in which marital status influences health care consumption. Using a novel data set of 609016 newly diagnosed, seriously ill ...
Attitude and Self-reported Practice Regarding Prognostication in a National Sample of Internists
(Archives of Internal Medicine, 1998-11-23)
Background Since prognostication appears increasingly important in clinical practice, especially in end-of-life care, we examined physicians' experiences and attitudes regarding it.
Methods We mailed a survey to a ...
Increased ICU workload is not associated with increased inpatient mortality
(American Thoracic Society International Conference, 2008-05)
Rationale: Although ICUs with higher overall patient volume may achieve better outcomes, there are few data on the effects of increasing patient loads on patients within the ICU.
Methods: We examined 198,877 patients in ...