What characterizes 'the usual' preoperative education in clinical contexts?
, 2013 The literature on preoperative education is dominated by studies that employ experimental designs to measure the effects of structured programs on patient outcomes.
Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth, Hyde, Abbey
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Hospital Integration and Vertical Consolidation: An Analysis of Acquisitions in New York State [PDF]
While prior studies tend to view hospital integration through the lens of horizontal consolidation, I provide an analysis of its vertical aspects. I examine the effect of hospital acquisitions in New York State on the distribution of market share for ...
Robert S. Huckman
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Pulmonary Hypertension as a Rare Cause of Postopera- tive Chylothorax
Journal of Tehran University Heart Center, 2015 Chylothorax in adult occurs most commonly in the wake of cardiac and thoracic procedures. Injuries to the common thoracic duct in the thorax or its branches in the mediastinum, injuries to the thymus tissues, dissection of the superior vena cava or ...
Feridoun Sabzi +2 more
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Surgical treatment of cardiac metastatic melanoma
Melanoma is an aggressive neoplasm mainly affecting the skin. It has a predisposition to metastasis and it presents the highest propensity to spread to the heart, mostly through the hematologic route.
Katarzyna Kopcik, Robert Kwinta
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Regionalization of Cardiac Services and the Responsiveness of Treatment Choices [PDF]
Efforts to regionalize cardiac services can increase access costs for patients. This study is the first to quantify this trade off by estimating a demand model for surgery services that is used simulate the effect of centralization of cardiac services on
Justin G. Trogdon
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Inflammation and Perioperative Cardiovascular Events
CellsSurgery and anesthesia induce a stress response that provokes increased sympathetic stimulation, secretion of cortisol, hypercoagulability, and systemic inflammatory response.
Peter Poredos, Radko Komadina
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Postoperative Hypocalcemia following Non-Cardiac Surgical Procedures in Children with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2022 Arganbright JM +5 more
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Prediction of operative mortality for patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures without established risk scores. [PDF]
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 2023 Ong CS +13 more
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Cardiac anxiety in the perioperative period of patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures: an observational study. [PDF]
Rev Bras Enferm, 2022 Kazitani BS +5 more
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The Effects of Cardiac Specialty Hospitals on the Cost and Quality of Medical Care [PDF]
The recent rise of specialty hospitals -- typically for-profit firms that are at least partially owned by physicians -- has led to substantial debate about their effects on the cost and quality of care. Advocates of specialty hospitals claim they improve
Daniel P. Kessler +2 more
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