Exposures Initial cancer treatment category (chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy vs surgery or other treatment). Main Outcomes and Measures Post–cancer treatment longitudinal CD4 count, longitudinal HIV RNA level, and all-cause mortality. Results Among the 196 participants (135 [68.9%] male; median age...
8,9 This measure excludes admissions for medical treatment of cancer and uses ICD-9 codes to assign remaining hospitalizations to 1 of 5 cohorts: medicine, surgery/gynecology, cardiorespiratory, cardiovascular, or neurology. For this study, we removed hospitalizations for AMI, CHF, pneumonia, ...
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common and resource demanding birth defect managed in the United States, with approximately 40,000 children undergoing CHD surgery year. Researchers have compared high-volume to low-volume hospitals and found significant hospital-level variation in major ...
3. Japan CardioVascular Surgery Database (JCVSD) The JCVSD is divided into adult and congenital sections. The purpose of the JCVSD is to conduct nationwide research on the types and risks of cardiovascular surgery performed in Japan, and the degree of difference in the risks of surgery between...
10632222e15520#Background:Previous studies described lower mortality in teaching hospitals after colorectal surgery. Hispanics represent a growing minority in the USA. Given their scarcity of representation in clinical studies, it is imperative to study the impact of teaching status on hospital ...
post-diagnosis. For surgery, patients were classified as having received partial colectomy if they underwent segmental resection (cecectomy, appendectomy, sigmoidectomy, partial resection of transverse colon and flexures, ileocolectomy, enterocolectomy, and partial/subtotal colectomy), laser surgery, ...
1 Low back pain alone accounted for approximately 2% of all physician office visits; only routine examinations, hypertension, and diabetes resulted in more office visits. Rates of imaging, injections, opiate use, and surgery for spine problems have increased substantially over the past decade.2-5 ...
https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html 15. US Census Bureau Population Division. 2010 Census summary file 1 sex by age table. Issued September 2012. Accessed December 11, 2018. https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2010/dec/summary-file-1.html 16. Fiscella K, Tancredi D, Franks ...
7-10 Theories of a negative effect of larger surgery on recurrence rates and survival through the systemic release of growth factors and inflammatory effects have not been sufficiently corroborated, so Mx in itself may not be an independent factor for worse survival.13 Selection mechanisms and un...
Exposures Initial cancer treatment category (chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy vs surgery or other treatment). Main Outcomes and Measures Post–cancer treatment longitudinal CD4 count, longitudinal HIV RNA level, and all-cause mortality. Results Among the 196 participants (135 [68.9%] male; median age...