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The incomplete infrastructure for interhospital patient transfer
(2012-08)
OBJECTIVE:
Interhospital transfer of critically ill patients is a common part of their care. This article sought to review the data on the current patterns of use of interhospital transfer and identify systematic barriers ...
Neighborhoods matter: a population-based study of provision of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(Annals of Emergency Meidcine, 1999-10)
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Cardiorespiratory resuscitation (CPR) nonprovision-the failure of bystanders to provide CPR to cardiac arrest victims-remains a well-documented public health problem associated with significant mortality. ...
A methodology for identifying married couples in Medicare data: mortality, morbidity, and health care use among the married elderly
(Demography, 1998-11)
We describe a method for the development of cohorts of up to three quarters of the 14 million married couples aged 65 and over in the United States. The health care experiences, illness histories, and mortality of these ...
Trends in the incidence of noncardiogenic acute respiratory failure: the role of race
(2012-05)
Objective—We sought to examine trends in the race-specific incidence of acute respiratory
failure in the United States. Design—Retrospective cohort study.
Setting—We used the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) ...
The validity of using ICD-9 codes and pharmacy records to identify patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(BioMed Central, 2011-02)
Background: Administrative data is often used to identify patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), yet the validity of this approach is unclear. We sought to develop a predictive model utilizing ...
The Epidemiology of Acute Organ System Dysfunction From Severe Sepsis Outside of the Intensive Care Unit
(2013-02-08)
BACKGROUND: Severe sepsis is a common, costly, and complex problem, the epidemiology of which has only been well studied in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, nearly half of all patients with severe sepsis are cared ...
Population burden of long-term survivorship after severe sepsis in older Americans
(2012-06)
OBJECTIVES:
To ascertain the absolute number of Medicare beneficiaries surviving at least 3 years after severe sepsis and to estimate their burden of cognitive dysfunction and disability.
DESIGN:
Retrospective cohort ...
The Burdens of Survivorship: An Approach to Thinking about Long-Term Outcomes after Critical Illness.
(2012-08)
Internationally accepted approaches to the study of functioning and disability can inform critical care practitioners and scholars in their study of functional limitations, disability, and quality of life after critical ...
Predictors of Time to Death After Terminal Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU
(2010-04)
Little information exists about the expected time to death after terminal withdrawal of mechanical ventilation. We sought to determine the independent predictors of time to death after withdrawal of mechanical ventilatio ...
Depressive symptoms in spouses of older patients with severe sepsis
(2012-08)
OBJECTIVE:
To examine whether spouses of patients with severe sepsis are at increased risk for depression independent of the spouse's presepsis history, whether this risk differs by sex, and is associated with a sepsis ...