Rates of imaging, injections, opiate use, and surgery for spine problems have increased substantially over the past decade.2-5 Such increases would likely result in increased health care expenditures, but it is uncertain how much expenditures have increased or how national expenditures for spine ...
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, ...
Delay of surgery for melanoma among Medicare beneficiaries. JAMA Dermatol. 2015;151(7):731–41. Article PubMed Google Scholar Lyon SM, Douglas IS, Cooke CR. Medicaid expansion under the affordable care act. Implications for insurance-related disparities in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep. ...
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 ...
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 ...
For patients with complex congenital malformations, the availability of hybrid cardiovascular suite undoubtedly brings renewed hope; as this approach integrates the interventional techniques into thoracic operations; it is likely to play a vital role for cardiovascular surgery [58]. From 2009 to 2010, ...
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, ...
Post-discharge depression scores for patients who received VV-ECMO (n = 67) was significantly higher (p = 0.018) compared with participants who received VA-ECMO (n = 75). In addition, the mode of ECMO was a predictor of post-discharge depression (p = 0.008) for participants who received...
surgery and to establish the member's ability to comply with post-operative medical care and dietary restrictions: a.Pre-operative and post-operative dietary plan; AND b.Behavior modification strategies; AND c.Counseling and instruction on exercise and increased physical activity; AND ...
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