Acute kidney injury (AKI) severe enough to require dialysis is increasing and associated with
high mortality, yet robust information about temporal epidemiology of AKI requiring dialysis …

Objectives To provide an overview of statewide hospital discharge databases (HDD),
including their uses in health services research and limitations, and to describe Agency for …

Objectives: Proximal humerus fractures are very common in infirm elderly patients and are
associated with appreciable inpatient mortality. We sought to compare the discriminative …

Objectives Comorbidity measures are widely used in administrative databases to predict
mortality. The Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination database is unique in that …

Background To quantify racial/ethnic differences in outcome after emergency general
surgery (EGS). Methods Patients receiving a representative EGS (colectomy, small bowel …

Study Design. Retrospective analysis of nationally representative data collected for the
National Hospital Discharge Survey. Objective. To compare the performance of the Charlson …

Background: In appropriately selected patients with severe carotid stenosis, carotid
revascularization reduces ischemic stroke. Prior clinical research has focused on the …

Purpose Adequate comorbidity risk adjustment is central for reliable outcome prediction and
provider performance evaluation. The two most commonly employed risk-adjustment …

Background: Surgical checklists are increasingly used to improve compliance with evidence-
based processes in the perioperative period. Although enthusiasm exists for using checklists …

Objective To describe use of the emergency department (ED) among late preterm versus
term infants enrolled in a home visiting program and to determine whether home visiting …