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Serum potassium levels and outcome in acute heart failure (data from the PROTECT and COACH trials) [PDF]
, 2017 Serum potassium is routinely measured at admission for acute heart failure (AHF), but information on association with clinical variables and prognosis is limited.
Bloomfield, Daniel M. +18 more
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Estimating Risk-Adjusted Hospital Performance [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The quality of healthcare provided by hospitals is subject to considerable variability. Consequently, accurate measurements of hospital performance are essential for various decision-makers, including patients, hospital managers and health insurers. Hospital performance is assessed via the health outcomes of their patients.
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Hospital Quality Risk Standardization via Approximate Balancing Weights [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Comparing outcomes across hospitals, often to identify underperforming hospitals, is a critical task in health services research. However, naive comparisons of average outcomes, such as surgery complication rates, can be misleading because hospital case mixes differ -- a hospital's overall complication rate may be lower due to more effective treatments
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 Background: The lockdown strategies adopted to limit the spread of COVID-19 infection may lead to adopt unhealthy lifestyles which may impact on the mental well-being and future risk of dementia.
Simona Gabriella Di Santo +6 more
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Ecological correlation between diabetes hospitalizations and fine particulate matter in Italian provinces [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Exposure to particulate matter has been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. We evaluated the ecological correlation between standardized hospital discharges with diabetes in Italian provinces and fine ...
D'ADDARIO, MADDALENA +2 more
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Mortality Rate Estimation and Standardization for Public Reporting: Medicare's Hospital Compare [PDF]
Journal of the American Statistical Association (2017), 112:519,
933-947, 2015 Bayesian models are increasing fit to large administrative data sets and then used to make individualized recommendations. For instance, Medicare's Hospital Compare webpage provides information to patients about specific hospital mortality rates for a heart attack or Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI).
arxiv +1 more source
Frontiers in ImmunologyBullous pemphigoid (BP) is the most common autoimmune bullous disease: it most commonly affects individuals over 70 years old and impacts severely on their quality of life.
Filomena Russo +6 more
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Oocytes - Maternal Information and Functions
European Journal of Histochemistry, 2017 This book presents different aspects of oocytes maturation in several animal models as the interactions oocyte-environment, the specific functions of oocytes molecules and organelles regulated by epigenetic and translational mechanisms and the evolution ...
Manuela Monti
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 BackgroundThe aim of the present study was to examine the short-term changes in body composition and physical capabilities in subjects with obesity during a multidisciplinary inpatient body weight reduction program (BWRP).MethodsOne hundred thirty-nine ...
Stefano Lazzer +9 more
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