The past 2 decades have seen consistent racial and ethnic differences in hospital arrival times, with Black individuals and, to a lesser degree, Asian and Hispanic individuals disproportionately presenting after 4.5 hours, which excludes them from thrombolysis. Presentation after 4.5 hours may have ...
This study also demonstrates the degree to which observed associations between consumption and mortality are highly dependent on the modeling strategy used and the degree to which efforts are made to minimize confounding and other threats to validity....
Admissions to in-hospital observation units (ie, <24 hours), although often seen as an outpatient visit (for billing purposes), were considered inpatient due to similarities in the protocols. We reported the outcomes of each setting within 2, 7, 30, and 90 days....
Patients in BA were encouraged to be physically active to a degree that patients in the MEDS condition may not have been. This may have contributed to their tendency to have fewer ED visits and hospital days, in contrast to hospital readmissions that are more related to poor general health, ...
Through decision trees, the risk of complications according to the degree of compliance with the ERAS programs during the first postoperative day was established. Patients with no tolerance to oral feeding on the first postoperative day showed a 73% higher risk of postoperative complications. If earl...