Distributions of healthcare utilization such as hospital length of stay and inpatient cost are generally right skewed. The extremes represent legitimate observations on patients who, because of the severity of their illness and need for medical intervention, have long in-stays and incur large costs. In this context we demonstrate the application of several parametric models for fitting heavy ta...

INTRODUCTION Increased rates of cardiovascular disease are implicated in several rheumatologic diseases. Our aim was to characterize dermatomyositis hospitalizations and evaluate cardiovascular-associated mortality in this patient population. METHODS We examined the frequency and mortality rates of several atherosclerotic cardiovascular diagnoses and procedures among hospitalized adult patien...

Hypocalcemia is a common complication following thyroidectomy. However, the incidence of postoperative hypocalcemia varies widely in the literature, and factors associated with hypocalcemia after thyroid surgery are not well established. We aimed to identify incidence trends and independent risk factors of postoperative hypocalcemia using the nationwide inpatient sample (NIS) database from 1998...

Data on in-hospital outcomes of octogenarians undergoing ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation are limited. We aimed to study the VT in United States. utilized Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) from 2016-2019 identify patients ablation. Octogenarians were defined as individuals aged ≥80 years.Primary outcome was mortality. Secondary acute kidney injury (AKI), new requirement dialysis, cardiac t...