Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundGiven the scarcity of resources, the increasing use of emergency departments (ED) represents a major challenge for the care of emergency patients.
Jennifer Hitzek +5 more
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Changes in the Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Disaggregated Analysis by Region and Hospital Type in Korea [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2023 Objectives The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a global shortage of medical resources; therefore, we investigated whether COVID-19 impacted the quality of non-COVID-19 hospital care in Korea by comparing hospital standardized ...
EunKyo Kang +4 more
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Performance of in-hospital mortality prediction models for acute hospitalization: Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio in Japan [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2008 In-hospital mortality is an important performance measure for quality improvement, although it requires proper risk adjustment. We set out to develop in-hospital mortality prediction models for acute hospitalization using a nation-wide electronic administrative record system in Japan.Administrative records of 224,207 patients (patients discharged from ...
Shinichi Takamoto +5 more
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Early mobilisation reduces the risk of in-hospital mortality following hip fracture
European Geriatric Medicine, 2020 Aim To identify the determinants of in-hospital mortality post-hip fracture in Ireland 2013–2017. Findings Older males with poor pre-fracture mobility who were not mobilised on the day of/after surgery had the highest risk of in-hospital mortality ...
H. Ferris, L. Brent, T. Coughlan
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Trauma complications and in-hospital mortality: failure-to-rescue
Critical Care, 2020 Background Reducing medical errors and minimizing complications have become the focus of quality improvement in medicine. Failure-to-rescue (FTR) is defined as death after a surgical complication, which is an institution-level surgical safety and quality
T. Abe +6 more
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, 2021 Aim We aimed to investigate whether later weekdays are related to worse short‐term outcomes after elective right hemicolectomy for colon cancer. Methods We retrospectively analyzed adult patients who underwent elective right hemicolectomy for colon ...
Hiromichi Maeda +13 more
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The impact of each action in the Surviving Sepsis Campaign measures on hospital mortality of patients with severe sepsis/septic shock [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2008 Objective: To assess the impact of each measure in the six and 24-hour bundles of a Managed Care Program in the care of a cohort of hospitalized severe sepsis / septic shock patients.
Alexandre Gonçalves de Sousa +7 more
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A simple prognostic index in acute heart failure [PDF]
, 2018 Background Rapid effective triage is integral to emergency care in patients hospitalized for heart failure, to guide the type and intensity of therapy.
Cristina MOLLICA +3 more
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Comparison of Outcomes in Level I vs Level II Trauma Centers in Patients Undergoing Craniotomy or Craniectomy for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. [PDF]
, 2020 BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) carries a devastatingly high rate of morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE: To assess whether patients undergoing craniotomy/craniectomy for severe TBI fare better at level I than level II trauma centers in a mature ...
Alali +24 more
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Mortality after the Hospitalization of a Spouse [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 2006 The illness of a spouse can affect the health of a caregiving partner. We examined the association between the hospitalization of a spouse and a partner's risk of death among elderly people.We studied 518,240 couples who were enrolled in Medicare in 1993.
Paul D. Allison, Nicholas A. Christakis
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