Hospital volume and operative mortality in the modern era

BN Reames, AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer… - Annals of surgery, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To determine whether the relationship between hospital volume and mortality has
changed over time. Background: It is generally accepted that hospital volume is associated …

Hospital-based emergency department visits involving dental conditions: profile and predictors of poor outcomes and resource utilization

V Allareddy, S Rampa, MK Lee, V Allareddy… - The Journal of the …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Untreated dental conditions may progress to lesions that are severe enough to
necessitate emergency visits to hospitals. The authors conducted a study to investigate …

Risk assessment methods for cardiac surgery and intervention

NM Thalji, RM Suri, KL Greason… - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2014 - nature.com
Surgical risk models estimate operative outcomes while controlling for heterogeneity in'case
mix'within and between institutions. In cardiac surgery, risk models are used for patient …

Geographic variation in use of laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer

BN Reames, KH Sheetz, SA Waits… - Journal of Clinical …, 2014 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Emerging evidence supporting the use of laparoscopic colectomy in patients with
cancer has led to dramatic increases in utilization. Though certain patient and hospital …

Does preoperative American Society of Anesthesiologists score relate to complications after total shoulder arthroplasty?

CC Johnson, S Sodha, J Garzon-Muvdi… - Clinical Orthopaedics …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Background For hip and knee arthroplasties, an American Society of Anesthesiologists
(ASA) score greater than 2 is associated with an increased risk of medical and surgical …

[HTML][HTML] Care of patients undergoing vascular surgery at safety net public hospitals is associated with higher cost but similar mortality to nonsafety net hospitals

MH Eslami, D Rybin, G Doros, A Farber - Journal of vascular surgery, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective This study compared in-hospital mortality and resource utilization among vascular
surgical patients at safety net public hospitals (SNPHs) with those at nonsafety net public …

Impact of symptoms, gender, co-morbidities, and operator volume on outcome of carotid artery stenting (from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample [2006 to 2010])

AO Badheka, A Chothani, SS Panaich, K Mehta… - The American journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
The increase in the number of carotid artery stenting (CAS) procedures over the last decade
has necessitated critical appraisal of procedural outcomes and patterns of utilization …

Development of a linked perinatal data resource from state administrative and community-based program data

ES Hall, NK Goyal, RT Ammerman, MM Miller… - Maternal and child …, 2014 - Springer
To demonstrate a generalizable approach for developing maternal-child health data
resources using state administrative records and community-based program data. We used …

How many diagnosis fields are needed to capture safety events in administrative data? Findings and recommendations from the WHO ICD-11 Topic Advisory Group …

SE Drösler, PS Romano, V Sundararajan… - … journal for quality in …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Objective As part of the WHO ICD-11 development initiative, the Topic Advisory Group on
Quality and Safety explores meta-features of morbidity data sets, such as the optimal …

폐암환자에서의료구조와과정이결과에미치는영향

김묘경 - 2014 - s-space.snu.ac.kr
폐암은 높은 발생률과 사망률 및 높은 진료비 등으로 사회적 문제가 되고 있으며, 우리나라 폐암
환자의 의료 결과와 의료의 질 변이가 상당한 것으로 보고되고 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 폐암 …