Abstract Background There is a growing interest in assessment of the quality hospital care, based on outcome measures. Many care comparisons rely binary outcomes, for example mortality rates. Due to low numbers, observed differences are partly subject chance. We aimed quantify gain efficiency by ordinal instead analyses comparisons. analyzed patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke...

Background: For all the reports on the association between seasons and coronary artery disease, there is a paucity of information on the possible effects of seasonal variations on the outcome of patients after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG). The aim of this study was to assess the short-term outcome of post-CABG patients in the four different seasons to find any correlation betw...

OBJECTIVE Measuring patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) is a challenge in Acute Admission Units (AAUs), where patients present with a variety of pathologies. Generic PROMs may be used to measure the quality of care in this population. The main objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of measuring generic PROMs in a Dutch AAU. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study Setting: An AAU...

Background and Aim: In-hospital rebleeding and early aneurysm rupture are major causes of mortality and morbidity in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Rebleeding may occur at the referring hospital, during transfer or at the referral neurovascular center prior to surgical or endovascular treatment. However, there has been no report regarding the rate of in-hospital rebleeding and early aneury...