AIM To determine if hospital admission rates for diabetes complications (acute complications, chronic complications, no complications and hypoglycaemia) were associated with primary care diabetes management. METHODS We performed an observational study in the population in England during the period 2004-2009 (54 741 278 people registered with 8140 general practices). We used multivariable nega...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether the implementation of English smoke-free legislation in July 2007 was associated with a reduction in hospital admissions for childhood asthma. METHODS Interrupted time series study using Hospital Episodes Statistics data from April 2002 to November 2010. Sample consisted of all children (aged ≤14 years) having an emergency hospital admission with a principle diagno...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Hospital admission rates for patients with heart failure (HF) presenting for emergency department (ED) care vary, and the implications of direct discharge home from the ED are unknown. We examined whether patients treated in hospitals with low admission rates exhibit higher rates of repeat ED visits, hospital readmissions and death. METHODS We divided EDs into low-, medium- a...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of fundoplication on reflux related hospital admissions for children with neurological impairment. DESIGN Retrospective, observational cohort study. Setting 42 children's hospitals in the United States. PARTICIPANTS 3721 children with neurological impairment born between 2000 and 2005 who had at least one hospital admission at a study hospital before their fu...

For a semisimple Lie algebra admitting a good enumeration, we prove a parameterization for the elements in its Weyl group. As an application, we give coordinate-free comparison between the crystal graph description (when it is known) and the Lie-theoretic description of the Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series in the stable range.

Let Ω ⊂⊂ C n , n ≥ 3, be a smoothly bounded domain. Suppose that Ω admits a smooth defining function which is plurisubharmonic on the boundary of Ω. Then the Diederich-Fornaess exponent can be chosen arbitrarily close to 1, and the closure of Ω admits a Stein neighborhood basis.

Designs over finite fields arise by replacing finite sets by vector spaces and orders of sets by dimensions of vector spaces. More formally, a t− (v, k, λ; q) design is a collection of k-subspaces over Fq , called blocks, such that each t-subspace is contained in exactly λ blocks. Such a design over a finite field is called simple, if no repeated blocks occur in the collection. Otherwise, the d...