Breathe | June 2017 | Volume 13 | No 2 141 Association of borderline pulmonary hypertension with mortality and hospitalization in a large patient cohort: insights from the Veterans Affairs Clinical Assessment, Reporting, and Tracking program Authors: Maron BA, Hess E, Maddox TM, et al. Circulation 2016; 133: 1240–1248. Summary: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) diagnostic criteria are currently defin...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the possible differences in outcomes between patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who live in rural areas and those who live in urban areas of the United States. OBJECTIVE To determine whether COPD-related mortality is higher in persons living in rural areas, and to assess whether hospital characteristics influence any observed associatio...

Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University 615 North Wolfe Street Baltimore, Maryland 21205, U.S.A. Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University 615 North Wolfe Street Baltimore, Maryland 21205, U.S.A. Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10029, U.S.A. Department of Medicine, San Diego Veterans Affairs Medic...

Kuan-Wei Huang 1, Jen-Hung Huang 1 and Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng 2,3,* 1 Department of Management Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan; [email protected] (K.-W.H.); [email protected] (J.-H.H.) 2 Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, College of Public Affairs, National Taipei University, San Shia District, New Taipei City 23741, Taiwan 3 Institute of Management of Techn...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2015.09.009 2212-0955/ 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: National Institute of Urban Affairs, Core 4B, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003, India. Tel.: +91 11 24 24617517. E-mail addresses: [email protected], [email protected] (M. Sethi). 1 MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program. Mahendra Sethi a,d,⇑, ...

INTRODUCTION Hospital re-admissions for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) are relatively common and costly occurrences within the US health infrastructure, including the Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system. Little is known about CHF re-admissions among rural veteran patients, including the effects of socio-demographics and follow-up outpatient visits on these re-admissions. PUR...

In this study, Department of Veterans Affairs Fiscal Year 2006 national workload data are analyzed to determine use and intensity of outpatient individual and group psychotherapy and, using multivariate analysis, to identify sociodemographic and diagnostic correlates. Results show that among veterans receiving specialty mental health services (n=934,832), average visits numbered 7.9, 64.7% rece...

Over the past 10 years, urban regime theory has become the dominant paradigm for studying urban politics in liberal democracies. Yet there is disagreement about how far it can help us to understand urban political processes. This article argues that regime theory is best understood as a theory of structuring with limits in its analysis of the market economy. These limits undermine its ability t...