Zhang, Zhen Qiu, Hang Li, Weihao Chen, Yucheng
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
BackgroundAcute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a serious cardiovascular disease, followed by a high readmission rate within 30-days of discharge. Accurate prediction of AMI readmission is a crucial way to identify the high-risk group and optimize the distribution of medical resources.MethodsIn this study, we propose a stacking-based model to predic...
Griffin, Anne O’Neill, Aoife O’Connor, Margaret Ryan, Damien Tierney, Audrey Galvin, Rose
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BMC Geriatrics
BackgroundMalnutrition is common among older adults and is associated with adverse outcomes but remains undiagnosed on healthcare admissions. Older adults use emergency departments (EDs) more than any other age group. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and factors associated with malnutrition on admission and with adverse outcomes post-ad...
Hendren, Samantha Vu, Joceline Suwanabol, Pasithorn Kamdar, Neil Hardiman, Karin
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Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Ileostomy surgery is associated with a high readmission rate, and care pathways to prevent readmissions have been proposed. However, the extent to which readmission rates have improved is unknown. This study examined rates of readmission and emergency department visits ("return to hospital," or RTH) across hospitals in Michigan. This was a retrospe...
Brunelli, Alessandro Chapman, Kath Pompili, Cecilia Chaudhuri, Nilanjan Kefaloyannis, Emmanuel Milton, Richard Tcherveniakov, Peter Papagiannopoulos, Kostas Mitchell, Thomas Bassi, Vinod
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Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
Our goal was to assess the postoperative 90-day hospital costs of patients with prolonged air leak (PAL) including costs incurred after discharge from the initial index hospitalization. We performed a retrospective analysis of 982 patients undergoing lobectomy (898) or segmentectomy (78) (April 2014-August 2018). A total of 167 operations were open...
Wu, Qian Xu, Zhiwei Dan, Yi-Lin Cheng, Jian Zhao, Chan-Na Mao, Yan-Mei Xiang, Kun Hu, Yu-Qian He, Yi-Sheng Pan, Hai-Feng
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Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Air pollution is an important risk factor for autoimmune diseases, but its association with the recurrence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains unclear so far. This study aimed to investigate the short-term association between traffic-related air pollutants and hospital readmissions for RA in Hefei, China. Data on daily hospital readmissions for RA...
Tsoutsoulis, Katrina Maxwell, Anna Menon Tarur Padinjareveettil, Aparna Zivkovic, Frank Rogers, Jeffrey M
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Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England)
Background: Examination of readmission data is a standard method for evaluating health service outcomes. Limited work has evaluated the efficacy of mental health rehabilitation, despite the need for evidence-based approaches.Aims: To evaluate the impact of inpatient mental health rehabilitation using metrics of psychiatric readmissions routinely co...
Al Jeraisy, Majed AlFuraih, Maissa AlSaif, Raghad AlKhalifah, Bushra AlOtaibi, Hazza Abolfotouh, Mostafa A.
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BMC Pediatrics
BackgroundDrooling is common in children with neurological disorders, but its management is very challenging, Scopolamine transdermal patch (STP) appears to be useful in controlling drooling, although it is not approved for this indication and there are limited clinical studies about its effectiveness. This study aimed (1) to assess the impact of S...
Winter, Eric Dimentberg, Ryan Haldar, Debanjan Glauser, Gregory Caplan, Ian F Shultz, Kaitlyn McClintock, Scott D Chen, H Isaac Yoon, Jang W Malhotra, Neil R
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Clinical neurology and neurosurgery
The LACE+ index risk prediction tool has not been successfully used to predict short-term outcomes after neurosurgery. This study assessed the ability of LACE+ to predict 30-day (30D) adverse outcomes after supratentorial brain tumor surgery. LACE+ scores were retrospectively calculated for consecutive patients (n = 624) who received surgery for su...
Giunta, Diego Hernán Marquez Fosser, Santiago Boietti, Bruno Rafael Ación, Laura Pollan, Javier Alberto Martínez, Bernardo Luna, Daniel Bonella, Maria Belen Grande Ratti, María Florencia
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International Journal of Medical Informatics
Background and goal of study The scope of health in the Sustainable Development Goals is much broader than the Millennium Development Goals, spanning functions such as health-system access and quality of care. Hospital readmission rate and ED-visits within 30 days from discharge are considered low-cost quality indicators. This work assesses an indi...
Weinstein, Zoe M Cheng, Debbie M D'Amico, Maria J Forman, Leah S Regan, Danny Yurkovic, Alexandra Samet, Jeffrey H Walley, Alexander Y
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Drug and alcohol dependence
Addiction Consult Services care for hospitalized patients with substance use disorders (SUD), who frequently utilize costly medical services. This study evaluates whether an addiction consult is associated with 30-day acute care utilization. This was a retrospective cohort study of 3905 inpatients with SUD. Acute care utilization was defined as any...
