Susan Matesanz, MD (Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) An outpatient subspecialty care utilization study recently published in Neurology showed a low rate of annual neurology follow-up among pediatric patients with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DBMD), suggesting that identific...
Objectives: Our previous Medicaid analysis showed that 76.5% of hospitalization- or ED visit-associated acute asthma events (AAE) occurred in patients who were not receiving inhaled corticosteroids (ICS). We retrospectively examined 90-day post-AAE outpatient provider follow-up, ICS and beta agonist...
All hospital facility visiting information from the Korean NHIS database were categorised under the standardised protocol of the Korea Classification of Diseases and Causes of Death 4th edition, which corresponds to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10). All diagnoses wer...
Subsequently, segregation and integration network graph theory indicators were calculated to explore the abnormal development of SCNs in young adults with HCU over three years, from baseline (BL) to the follow-up (FU) assessment. The primary goals of this study were twofold: (i) to discern ...
Remote monitoring (RM) is accepted as a reliable option to standard follow-up (sFU) for ICD, but little is known about its additional value for implantable loop recorders (ILR). We analyzed clinical outcomes and device-related data of 69 patients (pts) with ILR followed in two centers. ...
First, how often do Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the ED have an ambulatory follow-up visit within 7 and 30 days? Second, are certain patient or hospital characteristics associated with higher rates of ambulatory follow-up after ED discharge? Third, is ambulatory follow-up after ED ...
The following ICD-10 codes were used for diagnosis of all-cause dementia: F00x-F03x, F05.1, and G30x-G31.0. APOE genotyping DNA was extracted from whole blood samples, drawn at the 1997–1999 clinical examination. Two TaqMan assays (Rs429358 and Rs7412, Assay-On-Demand, Applied ...
A prospective follow-up study of a previously published randomized controlled clinical study was conducted26. The Ethics in Research Committee of the Hospital Sirio-Libanes/Brazil Platform approved the project (CAAE 48721715.0.0000.5461), it is registered at Registro Brasileiro de Ensaios Clinicos (ReBEC...
Other events were ascertained according to the principal diagnosis of hospital admissions on the basis of ICD-10 codes (for MI, I21, I22; stroke, I61–I69; ischemic stroke, I63, I64). Revascularization was defined when the medical records of percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary ...
This means that in spite of the high number of remote alerts received, most were remotely managed without inhospital visits. Our findings are consistent with those of previous studies in the field.5, 11, 13 Unlike the ECOST (The Effectiveness and Cost of ICD followup Schedule with Tele...