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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. ...
Improved survival in tumor-bearing SCID mice treated with interferon-γ-inducible protein 10 (IP-10/CXCL10)
(Springer-Verlag, 2001-12)
Tumor growth requires angiogenesis, which in turn requires an imbalance in the presence of angiogenic and angiostatic factors. We have shown that the CXC chemokine family, consisting of members that are either angiogenic ...
Regulating leukotriene synthesis: The role of nuclear 5-lipoxygenase
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-12-15)
Leukotrienes are lipid messengers involved in autocrine and paracrine cellular signaling. They are synthesized from arachidonic acid by the 5-lipoxygenase pathway. Current models of this enzymatic pathway recognize that a ...
Sarcoidosis involving multiple systems: diagnostic and therapeutic challenges
(American College of Chest Physicians, 2001)
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 ...
Current and Emerging Strategies for the Management of Sarcoidosis
(Informa Healthcare USA (NY), 2007)
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 ...