STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study. OBJECTIVES To report the incremental hospital resource consumption associated with treating selected adverse events experienced by Medicare beneficiaries undergoing a two- or three-level lumbar spinal fusion. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Hospitals are increasingly at financial risk for the incremental resources consumed in treating patients experiencing adv...

Usual approaches for estimating the variance of a standardized rate may not be applicable to rates of recurrent events. Where individuals are prone to repeated health events, Greenwood and Yule (J R Stat Soc [A], 1920;83:255-79) advocated use of the negative binomial distribution to account for departures from the assumption of randomness of recurrent events required by the Poisson distribution...

background: despite the fact that being exposed to traumatic and stressful events could have severe consequences, studies have shown that even in the wake of negative events such as cancer diagnosis, we see some changes and positive impacts in scheme, philosophy of life and self-perception, a process which is called post traumatic growth (ptg). the aim of the current research is to define share...

BACKGROUND Women are at higher risk than men for adverse events with certain invasive cardiac procedures. Our objective was to compare rates of in-hospital adverse events in men and women receiving implantable cardioverter- defibrillator (ICD) therapy in community practice. METHODS AND RESULTS Using the National Cardiovascular Data Registry ICD Registry, we identified patients undergoing firs...

OBJECTIVE Antipsychotic (AP) utilization has grown significantly in long-term care (LTC) settings. Although a growing literature associates AP use with higher mortality in elderly with dementia, the association of APs with hospital events is unclear. The authors examine prevalence and trends in AP use by Medicare beneficiaries residing in LTC and the association of APs and other drug use variab...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the impact of increasing sample of records reviewed bi-weekly with the Global Trigger Tool method to identify adverse events in hospitalised patients. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. SETTING A Norwegian 524-bed general hospital trust. PARTICIPANTS 1920 medical records selected from 1 January to 31 December 2010. PRIMARY OUTCOMES Rate, type and severit...

PURPOSE To describe adverse events occurring during intrahospital transportation of adult patients hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and to evaluate the association with morbidity and mortality. METHOD Prospective cohort study from July 2014 to July 2015. Data collection comprised clinical data, prognostic scores, length of stay, and outcome at hospital discharge. Data was collecte...

objective: experiencing ‎pleasant events during daily life ‎has a significant positive role in ‎the personal mental health and ‎acts as a keystone for “behavioral ‎activation” (ba) interventions. ‎there are serious differences in ‎the pleasant event schedules in ‎different cultures and countries. ‎we aimed to develop a persian ‎checklist of pleasant events ‎‎(pcpe) to provide and validate a ‎cu...