Physicians in distress.
Published in New York state journal of medicine
Published in New York state journal of medicine
Published in New York state journal of medicine
Published in New York state journal of medicine
The Island Peer Review Organization is the peer review organization in New York State and is under contract with the Health Care Financing Administration to monitor the quality of care rendered to Medicare patients. A severity level III is assigned when a confirmed quality problem with significant adverse effects for the patient is confirmed. A sev...
Published in New York state journal of medicine
Published in New York state journal of medicine
We reviewed the case records of 141 patients (134 with cancer and seven with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) who died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center between July 11 and September 19, 1991. Do-not-resuscitate orders had been written on 115 (85.8%) of the patients with cancer and all of the patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndr...
Published in New York state journal of medicine
Published in New York state journal of medicine
Perioperative cerebrovascular accidents after general surgical procedures are rare, but devastating and often fatal. The purpose of this study was to identify the perioperative, intraoperative, and postoperative factors associated with perioperative strokes after general surgical procedures. Over a five-year period, 19 patients of 24,641 general an...
Published in New York state journal of medicine
Published in New York state journal of medicine
Published in New York state journal of medicine