Heart failure represents a clinical syndrome that results from a constellation of disease
processes affecting myocardial function. Although recent studies have suggested a …

Background Non-White patients have higher rates of discharge to an extended care facility,
hospital readmission, and emergency department use after primary THA and TKA. The …

Background The environment in which a patient lives influences their health outcomes.
However, the degree to which community factors are associated with readmissions is …

Background Despite documented associations between social determinants of health and
outcomes post–congenital heart surgery, clinical risk models typically exclude these factors …

Background: Black patients have higher rates of hospitalization for acute heart failure than
other race/ethnic groups. We sought to determine whether diuretic efficiency is associated …

Rationale, aims and objectives Applying traditional industrial quality improvement (QI)
methodologies to primary care is often inappropriate because primary care and its …

Importance The Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) is associated
with reduced readmission rates, but it is unknown how this decrease occurred. Objective To …

Beyond access, proximity to care, and healthcare use: sustained racial disparities in perinatal
outcomes due to marginalization-related diminished returns and racism Beyond access, proximity …

Abstract Introduction The Area Deprivation Index (ADI) is a weighted index comprised of 17
census-based markers of material deprivation and poverty. The purpose of this study was to …

Background Socioeconomic status has been demonstrated to be an important prognostic
risk factor among patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty. We evaluated patients living …