Hospitals

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "If You Have No Money, You Might Die": A Qualitative Study of Sociocultural and Health System Barriers to Care for Decedent Febrile Inpatients in Northern Tanzania. 
  • 2012 ACCF/AATS/SCAI/STS expert consensus document on transcatheter aortic valve replacement. 
  • 2012 ACCF/AATS/SCAI/STS expert consensus document on transcatheter aortic valve replacement: developed in collaboration with the American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Heart Failure Society of America, Mended Hearts, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 
  • 2012 ACCF/AATS/SCAI/STS expert consensus document on transcatheter aortic valve replacement: developed in collaboration with the American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Heart Failure Society of America, Mended Hearts, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 
  • 30-Day risk-standardized mortality and readmission rates after ischemic stroke in critical access hospitals. 
  • 30-day mortality and readmission after hemorrhagic stroke among Medicare beneficiaries in Joint Commission primary stroke center-certified and noncertified hospitals. 
  • A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Updates. 
  • A Continued Professional Development Nursing Partnership in a Remote Bolivian Hospital. 
  • A Hospital Level Analysis of 30-Day Readmission Performance for Heart Failure Patients and Long-Term Survival: Findings from Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • A Hospital and Postdischarge Quality Improvement Intervention and Outcomes and Care for Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction-Reply. 
  • A Person-Centered Approach to Poststroke Care: The COMprehensive Post-Acute Stroke Services Model. 
  • A comparison of models for predicting early hospital readmissions. 
  • A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates. 
  • A discrete event simulation tool to support and predict hospital and clinic staffing. 
  • A framework for quality improvement: an analysis of factors responsible for improvement at hospitals participating in the Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines (CRUSADE) quality improvement initiative. 
  • A hemorrhage of off-label use. 
  • A multivariate approach for classifying hospitals and computing blended payment rates. 
  • A nationwide survey on perception, experience, and expectations of hybrid coronary revascularization among top-ranked US hospitals. 
  • A pragmatic randomized trial of cardiopulmonary resuscitation training for families of cardiac patients before hospital discharge using a mobile application. 
  • A prospective neurosurgical registry evaluating the clinical care of traumatic brain injury patients presenting to Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitor management in patients admitted in hospital with COVID-19. 
  • A virtual clinic improves pneumococcal vaccination coverage among patients living with HIV at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. 
  • ACA Marketplace premiums and competition among hospitals and physician practices. 
  • ACCF/AHA consensus conference report on professionalism and ethics. 
  • Access to emergency care services: a transversal ecological study about Brazilian emergency health care network. 
  • Accuracy of ICD-9-CM Codes by Hospital Characteristics and Stroke Severity: Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program. 
  • Achievement of guideline-concordant care and in-hospital outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease in teaching and nonteaching hospitals: results from the Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease program. 
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke in Patients With COVID-19: An Analysis From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Adapting to CONNECT: modifying a nursing home-based team-building intervention to improve hospital care team interactions, functioning, and implementation readiness. 
  • Addressing geographic access barriers to emergency care services: a national ecologic study of hospitals in Brazil. 
  • Administrative Data Are Unreliable for Ranking Hospital Performance Based on Serious Complications After Spine Fusion. 
  • Adopting a surgical safety checklist could save money and improve the quality of care in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Adoption of New Risk Stratification Technologies Within US Hospital Referral Regions and Association With Prostate Cancer Management. 
  • Advancing obstetric and neonatal care in a regional hospital in Ghana via continuous quality improvement. 
  • Affective Journeys: The Emotional Structuring of Medical Tourism in India 
  • Alternative pay-for-performance scoring methods: implications for quality improvement and patient outcomes. 
  • Amputation Rates in More Than 175,000 Open Tibia Fractures in the United States. 
  • An Enhanced Strategy for Daily Disinfection in Acute Care Hospital Rooms: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • An analysis of emergency care delays experienced by traumatic brain injury patients presenting to a regional referral hospital in a low-income country. 
  • An economic and linear model of the hospital. 
  • An evaluation of metrics for assessing catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs): A statewide comparison. 
  • An international cluster-randomized quality improvement trial to increase the adherence to evidence-based therapies for acute ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack patients: Rationale and design of the BRIDGE STROKE Trial. 
  • An urgent need to understand and address the safety and well-being of hospital "sitters". 
  • Analysis of Temporal Trends and Variation in the Use of Defibrillation Testing in Contemporary Practice. 
  • Antiplatelet therapy use after discharge among acute myocardial infarction patients with in-hospital bleeding. 
  • Antipsychotic Use Is Associated With Longer In-hospital Lengths of Stay and Higher Rates of Venous Thromboembolism and Costs of Care After Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty. 
  • Appropriateness of expectorated sputum cultures in the hospital setting. 
  • Appropriateness of percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Aprotinin use during cardiac surgery: recent alterations and effects on blood product utilization. 
  • Are acute stroke-ready hospitals ready? 
  • Are quality improvements associated with the Get With the Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) program sustained over time? A longitudinal comparison of GWTG-CAD hospitals versus non-GWTG-CAD hospitals. 
  • Assessing feasibility of establishing antimicrobial stewardship programmes in two provincial-level hospitals in Vietnam: an implementation research study. 
  • Assessing safety culture: guidelines and recommendations. 
  • Assessment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease surveillance definitions, North Carolina, 2005. 
  • Association Between Hospital Private Equity Acquisition and Outcomes of Acute Medical Conditions Among Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • Association between hospital volume and network membership and an analgesia, sedation and delirium order set quality score: a cohort study. 
  • Association between race and in-hospital outcomes in children with spina bifida following inpatient urologic surgery. 
  • Association of 30-Day Readmission Metric for Heart Failure Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program With Quality of Care and Outcomes. 
  • Association of Chronic Renal Insufficiency With In-Hospital Outcomes in Primary Atrial Fibrillation Hospitalizations. 
  • Association of Delivery System Integration and Outcomes for Major Cancer Surgery. 
  • Association of Dual Eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid With Heart Failure Quality and Outcomes Among Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Hospitals. 
  • Association of Hospital and Physician Characteristics and Care Processes With Racial Disparities in Procedural Outcomes Among Contemporary Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery. 
  • Association of Interprofessional Discharge Planning Using an Electronic Health Record Tool With Hospital Length of Stay Among Patients with Multimorbidity: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Association of acute myocardial infarction cardiac arrest patient volume and in-hospital mortality in the United States: Insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Acute Coronary Treatment And Intervention Outcomes Network Registry. 
  • Association of early physician follow-up and 30-day readmission after non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction among older patients. 
  • Association of evidence-based care processes and outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndromes: performance matters. 
  • Association of hospital coronary artery bypass volume with processes of care, mortality, morbidity, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons composite quality score. 
  • Association of in-hospital depression and anxiety symptoms following stroke with 3 months- depression, anxiety and functional outcome. 
  • Association of patient case-mix adjustment, hospital process performance rankings, and eligibility for financial incentives. 
  • Better outcomes for patients treated at hospitals that participate in clinical trials. 
  • Bipolar Disorder and Comorbid Borderline Personality Disorder: Patient Characteristics and Outcomes in US Hospitals. 
  • Bleeding After Musculoskeletal Surgery in Hospitals That Switched From Hydroxyethyl Starch to Albumin Following a Food and Drug Administration Warning. 
  • Blood pressure paradox in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from 139,194 patients in the Can Rapid risk stratification of Unstable angina patients Suppress ADverse outcomes with Early implementation of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines (CRUSADE) quality improvement initiative. 
  • Boda Bodas and Road Traffic Injuries in Uganda: An Overview of Traffic Safety Trends from 2009 to 2017. 
  • Calculating an institutional personal protective equipment (PPE) burn rate to project future usage patterns during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Can we understand population healthcare needs using electronic medical records? 
  • Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcome Reports: Update of the Utstein Resuscitation Registry Template for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Consensus Report From a Task Force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (American Heart Association, European Resuscitation Council, Australian and New Zealand Council on Resuscitation, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, InterAmerican Heart Foundation, Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa, Resuscitation Council of Asia). 
  • Cardiac arrest in the paediatric intensive care unit: defining the problem and developing solutions. 
  • Cardiac biomarker measurement after elective percutaneous coronary interventions in older patients: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Cardiogenic Shock From Heart Failure Versus Acute Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Characteristics, Hospital Course, and 1-Year Outcomes. 
  • Case mix controlled service use and expenditures in the social/health maintenance organization demonstration. 
  • Case shifting and the Medicare Prospective Payment System. 
  • Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation With and Without On-Site Cardiothoracic Surgery. 
  • Causes of Maternal Mortality in Rwanda, 2017-2019. 
  • Center variation and outcomes associated with delayed sternal closure after stage 1 palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Center variation in hospital costs for patients undergoing congenital heart surgery. 
  • Cervical Cancer-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices and Self-Screening Acceptance Among Patients, Employees, and Social Media Followers of Major Brazilian Hospital. 
  • Challenges in comparing risk-adjusted bypass surgery mortality results: results from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project. 
  • Challenges in hospital-acquired coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) surveillance and attribution of infection source. 
  • Changes in health service use and mortality among U.S. elderly in 1980-1986. 
  • Changes in plasma unit distributions to hospitals over a 10-year period. 
  • Characteristics and current practice of parenteral nutrition in hospitalized patients. 
  • Characteristics of men reporting for prostate cancer screening. 
  • Clinical decision support: a tool of the hospital trade. 
  • Cluster of oseltamivir-resistant 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infections on a hospital ward among immunocompromised patients--North Carolina, 2009. 
  • Cluster-Randomized Trial of Personalized Site Performance Feedback in Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • Cognitive function and acute care utilization. 
  • Commentary on the 2021 ASH Guidelines on use of anticoagulation in patients with COVID-19 being discharged from the hospital. 
  • Community-level socioeconomic status and the role of the hospital: Does where you have an arrest affect receipt of post-arrest care? 
  • Comparing Consumer-Directed Hospital Rankings With STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Outcomes. 
  • Comparison of 30-day mortality models for profiling hospital performance in acute ischemic stroke with vs without adjustment for stroke severity. 
  • Comparison of Acute Ischemic Stroke Care and Outcomes Between Comprehensive Stroke Centers and Primary Stroke Centers in the United States. 
  • Comparison of composite measure methodologies for rewarding quality of care: an analysis from the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines program. 
  • Comparison of cost and complication rates for profiling hospital performance in lumbar fusion for spondylolisthesis. 
  • Comparison of methods for recovery of Clostridium difficile from an environmental surface. 
  • Comparison of performance achievement award recognition with primary stroke center certification for acute ischemic stroke care. 
  • Comparison of performance on Hospital Compare process measures and patient outcomes between hospitals that do and do not participate in Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry-Get With The Guidelines. 
  • Comparison of the appropriateness of coronary angiography and coronary artery bypass graft surgery between Canada and New York State. 
  • Competition in Outpatient Procedure Markets. 
  • Compliance with acute stroke care quality measures in hospitals with and without primary stroke center certification: the North Carolina Stroke Care Collaborative. 
  • Comprehending the lack of access to maternal and neonatal emergency care: Designing solutions based on a space-time approach. 
  • Comprehensive Reform Urgently Needed in Hospital Shackling Policy for Incarcerated Patients in the United States. 
  • Comprehensive electrocardiogram-to-device time for primary percutaneous coronary intervention in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A report from the American Heart Association mission: Lifeline program. 
  • Consent for organ donation after circulatory death at U.S. transplant centers. 
  • Constant Lethality of Gunshot Injuries From Firearm Assault: United States, 2003-2012. 
  • Continuous chest compression cardiopulmonary resuscitation training promotes rescuer self-confidence and increased secondary training: a hospital-based randomized controlled trial*. 
  • Continuous room decontamination technologies. 
  • Controlling antimicrobial resistance in the hospital. 
  • Conversion vs Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty: Increased Cost of Care and Perioperative Complications. 
  • Coping with critical drug shortages: an ethical approach for allocating scarce resources in hospitals. 
  • Coronary care in New York City hospitals. 
  • Cost Drivers of a Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia and Ventilator-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia Phase 3 Clinical Trial. 
  • Cost of Aseptic Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty at a Tertiary Medical Center. 
  • Data quality in the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Stroke (GWTG-Stroke): results from a national data validation audit. 
  • Deciding for Others 
  • Defibrillation time intervals and outcomes of cardiac arrest in hospital: retrospective cohort study from Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation registry. 
  • Defining the Value Proposition for Specialist Palliative Care Delivered in Intensive Care Units. 
  • Delays Experienced by Patients With Pediatric Cancer During the Health Facility Referral Process: A Study in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Denominator Matters in Estimating Antimicrobial Use: A Comparison of Days Present and Patient Days. 
  • Dentists in the US should be integrated into the hospital team. 
  • Design and Implementation of a Comprehensive Surveillance System for Venous Thromboembolism in a Defined Region Using Electronic and Manual Approaches. 
  • Development and Performance of a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Inform Resource Utilization for Elective Operations. 
  • Development of Quality Measures for Acute Pancreatitis: A Model for Hospital-Based Measures in Gastroenterology. 
  • Development of systems of care for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: evaluation and outcomes. 
  • Differences in Hospital Readmission Risk across All Payer Groups in South Carolina. 
  • Differential case ascertainment in clinical registry versus administrative data and impact on outcomes assessment for pediatric cardiac operations. 
  • Direct Transfer From the Referring Hospitals to the Catheterization Laboratory to Minimize Reperfusion Delays for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Disparities in surgical care for children across Brazil: Use of geospatial analysis. 
  • Dissociation between hospital performance of the smoking cessation counseling quality metric and cessation outcomes after myocardial infarction. 
  • Distribution and characteristics of severe traumatic brain injury at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • Do Patients with Paget's Disease Have Worse Outcomes following Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty? 
  • Do You Get What You Pay For? The Relationship of Price and Quality in Hospital Provided Procedures. 
  • Does Age Influence Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Use and Outcome? 
  • Does nonpayment for hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections lead to overtesting and increased antimicrobial prescribing? 
  • Does the multidisciplinary approach improve oncological outcomes in men undergoing surgical treatment for prostate cancer? 
  • Doing the right things and doing them the right way: association between hospital guideline adherence, dosing safety, and outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Door-to-balloon times in hospitals within the get-with-the-guidelines registry after initiation of the door-to-balloon (D2B) Alliance. 
  • Door-to-needle times for tissue plasminogen activator administration and clinical outcomes in acute ischemic stroke before and after a quality improvement initiative. 
  • Editorial comment. 
  • Effect of Regional Hospital Market Competition on Use Patterns of Free Flap Breast Reconstruction. 
  • Effect of inborn vs. outborn delivery on neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: secondary analyses of the NICHD whole-body cooling trial. 
  • Effectiveness of targeted enhanced terminal room disinfection on hospital-wide acquisition and infection with multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridium difficile: a secondary analysis of a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with crossover design (BETR Disinfection). 
  • Effects of regulation on hospital costs and input use. 
  • Elective surgery system strengthening: development, measurement, and validation of the surgical preparedness index across 1632 hospitals in 119 countries. 
  • Electronic Cigarettes on Hospital Campuses. 
  • Electronically Available Patient Claims Data Improve Models for Comparing Antibiotic Use Across Hospitals: Results From 576 US Facilities. 
  • Elevator talk: observational study of inappropriate comments in a public space. 
  • Emergency Department (ED), ED Observation, Day Hospital, and Hospital Admissions for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • Emergency Department and Hospital Use Among Adolescents With Justice System Involvement. 
  • Emergency medical service hospital prenotification is associated with improved evaluation and treatment of acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Epidemiology, Clinical and Microbiologic Profile and Risk Factors for Inpatient Mortality in Pediatric Severe Sepsis in the United States From 2003 to 2014: A Large Population Analysis. 
  • Equivalent Treatment and Survival after Resection of Pancreatic Cancer at Safety-Net Hospitals. 
  • Estimating leptospirosis incidence using hospital-based surveillance and a population-based health care utilization survey in Tanzania. 
  • Evaluating Out-of-Hospital 30-Day Mortality After Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: An STS/ACC TVT Analysis. 
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Community and Hospital Medical Record Integration on Management of Behavioral Health in the Emergency Department. 
  • Evaluating the generalizability of a large streamlined cardiovascular trial: comparing hospitals and patients in the dual antiplatelet therapy study versus the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Evaluation of a tailored epilepsy training program for healthcare providers in Uganda. 
  • Evaluation of dilute hydrogen peroxide technology for continuous room decontamination of multidrug-resistant organisms. 
  • Evolving the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: A Call for Peace, Happiness, and Improved Patient-Centered Outcomes. 
  • Excess costs of hospital care associated with neonatal candidemia. 
  • Expanded hospital role for family physicians. 
  • Exploring expanded interdisciplinary roles in goals of care conversations in a national goals of care initiative: A qualitative approach. 
  • Exploring the behavior of hospital composite performance measures: an example from coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Eye dose assessment and management: overview. 
  • Factors associated with high hospital resource use in a population-based study of children with orofacial clefts. 
  • Fast-Tracking Patients in an Academic Hospital to Increase Efficiency and Decrease Discharge Delays: A Process Improvement Plan. 
  • Fatal Mycobacterium tuberculosis bloodstream infections in febrile hospitalized adults in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 
  • Financial Impacts And Operational Implications Of Private Equity Acquisition Of US Hospitals. 
  • From confusion to clarity: RAS blockade in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. 
  • Genomic Analysis of a Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Implications on Transmission. 
  • Geographic variation in resource use for coronary artery bypass surgery. IHD Port Investigators. 
  • Geospatial analysis of pediatric surgical need and geographical access to care in Somaliland: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Get With The Guidelines program participation, process of care, and outcome for Medicare patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Global initiative for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (GLIMP): an international, observational cohort study. 
  • Greater Compliance With Early Sepsis Management is Associated With Safer Care and Shorter Hospital Stay. 
  • Guideline adherence after ST-segment elevation versus non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Has Public Reporting of Hospital Readmission Rates Affected Patient Outcomes?: Analysis of Medicare Claims Data. 
  • Health Optimization Program for Elders: Improving the Transition From Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility. 
  • Health care insurance, financial concerns in accessing care, and delays to hospital presentation in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Heart Failure and Hospital Utilization Trajectories Before and After Hip Fracture Surgery. 
  • Heart failure quality of care and in-hospital outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure registry. 
  • Higher socioeconomic status is associated with lower in-hospital cardiac arrest: How can we address this socioeconomic inequality? 
  • Home vs hospital treatment of low-risk venous thromboembolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Hospital Factors Associated With Interhospital Transfer Destination for Stroke in the Northeast United States. 
  • Hospital Ownership of Physicians: Hospital Versus Physician Perspectives. 
  • Hospital Practice of Direct-Home Discharge and 30-Day Readmission After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy (STS/ACC TVT) Registry. 
  • Hospital Quality Metrics: "America's Best Hospitals" and Outcomes After Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Hospital Standards to Promote Optimal Surgical Care of the Older Adult: A Report From the Coalition for Quality in Geriatric Surgery. 
  • Hospital Variation in Adherence Rates to Secondary Prevention Medications and the Implications on Quality. 
  • Hospital Variation in Functional Recovery After Stroke. 
  • Hospital Variation in Home-Time After Acute Ischemic Stroke: Insights From the PROSPER Study (Patient-Centered Research Into Outcomes Stroke Patients Prefer and Effectiveness Research). 
  • Hospital acquired pressure injury prediction in surgical critical care patients. 
  • Hospital case volume is associated with mortality in patients hospitalized with subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Hospital change to mixed lipid emulsion from soybean oil-based lipid emulsion for parenteral nutrition in hospitalized and critically ill adults improves outcomes: a pre-post-comparative study. 
  • Hospital discharge communications during care transitions for patients with acute kidney injury: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Hospital distance, socioeconomic status, and timely treatment of ischemic stroke. 
  • Hospital epidemiologists' and infection preventionists' opinions regarding hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia as a potential healthcare-associated infection metric. 
  • Hospital evaluation of health literacy and associated outcomes in patients after acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Hospital patterns of medical management strategy use for patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction and 3-vessel or left main coronary artery disease. 
  • Hospital percutaneous coronary intervention appropriateness and in-hospital procedural outcomes: insights from the NCDR. 
  • Hospital performance and differences by kidney function in the use of recommended therapies after non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Hospital red blood cell and platelet supply and utilization from March to December of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: The BEST collaborative study. 
  • Hospital variability in the rate of finding obstructive coronary artery disease at elective, diagnostic coronary angiography. 
  • Hospital variability in use of anticoagulant strategies during acute myocardial infarction treated with an early invasive strategy. 
  • Hospital variation and characteristics of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator use in patients with heart failure: data from the GWTG-HF (Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure) registry. 
  • Hospital variation in intravenous inotrope use for patients hospitalized with heart failure: insights from Get With The Guidelines. 
  • Hospital variation in treatment and outcomes in acute coronary syndromes: Insights from the Alberta Contemporary Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Invasive Treatment Strategies (COAPT) study. 
  • Hospital workers bypass traditional occupational injury reporting systems when reporting patient and visitor perpetrated (type II) violence. 
  • Hospital-Based Palliative Care with Medicare Claims: Evidence From Colorado. 
  • Hospital-based epilepsy care in Uganda: A prospective study of three major public referral hospitals. 
  • Hospital-level compliance with the commission on cancer's quality of care measures and the association with patient survival. 
  • How North Carolina Hospitals, Health Systems, and Care Providers are Uniting to Fight the Opioid Epidemic. 
  • How U.S. children's hospitals use social media: A mixed methods study. 
  • Hypercholesterolemia and prostate cancer: a hospital-based case-control study. 
  • Identification of hospital outliers in bleeding complications after percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Identification of population at risk for future Clostridium difficile infection following hospital discharge to be targeted for vaccine trials. 
  • Identifying high-quality hospitals: consult the ratings or flip a coin? 
  • Impact of Patient Characteristics on Hospital-Level Outcomes Assessment in Congenital Heart Surgery. 
  • Impact of an Expanded Hospital Recognition Program for Stroke Quality of Care. 
  • Impact of case volume on hospital performance assessment. 
  • Impact of change to molecular testing for Clostridium difficile infection on healthcare facility-associated incidence rates. 
  • Impact of hospital procedure volume on surgical operation and long-term outcomes in high-risk curatively resected rectal cancer: findings from the Intergroup 0114 Study. 
  • Impact of hospital type II violent events: use of psychotropic drugs and mental health services. 
  • Impact of molecular testing on reported Clostridoides difficile infection rates. 
  • Impact of the three COVID-19 surges in 2020 on in-hospital cardiac arrest survival in the United States. 
  • Implementation Lessons Learned From the Benefits of Enhanced Terminal Room (BETR) Disinfection Study: Process and Perceptions of Enhanced Disinfection with Ultraviolet Disinfection Devices. 
  • Implementation and Evaluation of Self-Scheduling in a Hospital System. 
  • Implementation of a Recovery-Oriented Training Program for Psychiatric Nurses in the Inpatient Setting: A Mixed-Methods Hospital Quality Improvement Study. 
  • Implementation of a billable transitional care model for stroke patients: the COMPASS study. 
  • Implementation of a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial to evaluate a hospital mobility program. 
  • Implementation of a telehealth videoconference to improve hospital-to-skilled nursing care transitions: Preliminary data. 
  • Implementation of strategies to prevent and control the emergence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist in South Carolina Hospitals Is Associated with Improvement in Perceived Perioperative Safety. 
  • Importance of the Circumferential Resection Margin. 
  • Improvements in quality improvement. 
  • Improving In-Hospital Diuretic Therapy for Heart Failure: The Need for High-Quality Evidence. 
  • Improving end-of-life care for patients with leukemia: is inpatient death the right measure? 
  • In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival in the United States During and After the Initial Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Surge. 
  • In-Hospital Outcomes in Pregnancy After Heart Transplantation. 
  • In-Hospital and Three-Year Outcomes of Heart Failure Patients in South India: The Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry. 
  • In-hospital initiation of quadruple medical therapy for heart failure: making the post-discharge vulnerable phase far less vulnerable. 
  • Incidence, correlates, and outcomes of acute, hospital-acquired anemia in patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Incorporating Patient Preferences Into Hospital Quality Metrics for Heart Failure. 
  • Increased environmental sample area and recovery of Clostridium difficile spores from hospital surfaces by quantitative PCR and enrichment culture. 
  • Indications for Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion in the United States and Associated In-Hospital Outcomes: Results From the NCDR LAAO Registry. 
  • Infection control in the Russian Federation: review of a tertiary care hospital. 
  • Influence of race, insurance, socioeconomic status, and hospital type on receipt of guideline-concordant adjuvant systemic therapy for locoregional breast cancers. 
  • Influence of stroke subtype on quality of care in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program. 
  • Influence of transfer-in rates on quality of care and outcomes at receiving hospitals in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Influenza vaccination of household contacts of newborns: a hospital-based strategy to increase vaccination rates. 
  • Initial Modified Pulmonary Index Score Predicts Hospital Length of Stay for Asthma Subjects Admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Inpatient Consults and Complications During Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty in a Bundled Care Model. 
  • International aid and natural disasters: a pre- and post-earthquake longitudinal study of the healthcare infrastructure in Leogane, Haiti. 
  • Interrater Reliability of Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events and Pneumonia. 
  • Interventions to improve transitional care between nursing homes and hospitals: a systematic review. 
  • Interview by Marilyn H. Oermann with Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, executive director of The Leapfrog Group. 
  • Introducing personalized health for the family: the experience of a single hospital system. 
  • Investigating the relationship between rosacea and use of vasodilatory medications in a hospital-wide population. 
  • Invited Commentary. 
  • Is Risk-Standardized In-Hospital Stroke Mortality an Adequate Proxy for Risk-Standardized 30-Day Stroke Mortality Data? Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures? 
  • Is lack of health insurance a predictor of worsening of heart failure among adult patients attending referral hospitals in Northwestern Tanzania? 
  • Is more better? 
  • It's how you say it: Systematic A/B testing of digital messaging cut hospital no-show rates. 
  • Juries and justice: are malpractice and other personal injuries created equal? 
  • Lessons learned from hospital Ebola preparation. 
  • Liver transplantation at safety net hospitals: Potentially vulnerable patients with noninferior outcomes. 
  • Making Meaningful Use of Price Transparency Data: Describing Price Variation of Spine Surgery and Imaging in a Single System. 
  • Managing to improve quality: the relationship between accreditation standards, safety practices, and patient outcomes. 
  • Medical chart validation of inpatient diagnosis codes for transfusion-related acute lung injury 2013-2015. 
  • Medicare data transparency may confuse consumers comparing hospitals for total joint arthroplasty. 
  • Medication Initiation Burden Required to Comply With Heart Failure Guideline Recommendations and Hospital Quality Measures. 
  • Medication errors in acute cardiovascular and stroke patients: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Medications and in-hospital outcomes in infants born at 22-24 weeks of gestation. 
  • Meeting Medicare requirements for transitional care: Do stroke care and policy align? 
  • Metrics for quantifying antibiotic use in the hospital setting: results from a systematic review and international multidisciplinary consensus procedure. 
  • Mobilizing Hospitals to Mobilize Patients. 
  • Modeling the Potential Economic Impact of the Medicare Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Episode-Based Payment Model. 
  • Modest Associations Between Electronic Health Record Use and Acute Myocardial Infarction Quality of Care and Outcomes: Results From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • More on Scylla and Charybdis. 
  • Mortality and time to extubation in severe hospital-acquired pneumonia. 
  • Multi-faceted strategies improve collection compliance and sample acceptance rate for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) active surveillance testing. 
  • Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: Survey of Protocols for Early Hospital Evaluation and Management. 
  • NHAMCS Validation of Emergency Severity Index as an Indicator of Emergency Department Resource Utilization. 
  • NP and PA Privileging in Acute Care Settings: Do Scope of Practice Laws Matter? 
  • Narrative feedback from OR personnel about the safety of their surgical practice before and after a surgical safety checklist intervention. 
  • National Hospital Quality Rankings: Improving the Value of Information in Hospital Rating Systems. 
  • National trends in vertebral augmentation procedures for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures. 
  • Natural ventilation for the prevention of airborne contagion. 
  • New source of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a nursery. 
  • No Changes in Patient Selection and Value-Based Metrics for Total Hip Arthroplasty After Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Bundle Implementation at a Single Center. 
  • No association between hospital-reported perioperative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis and outcome rates in publicly reported data. 
  • Occupational Risk Factors for Tuberculosis Among Healthcare Workers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 
  • Open versus minimally-invasive surgical techniques in pediatric renal tumors: A population-level analysis of in-hospital outcomes. 
  • Organ procurement: expenditures and financial incentives. 
  • Organizational characteristics and patient experiences with hospital care: a survey study of hospital chief patient experience officers. 
  • Outcomes after ischemic stroke for hospitals with and without Joint Commission-certified primary stroke centers. 
  • Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation Between Veterans Affairs and Civilian Hospitals: Considerations in the Context of the MISSION Act. 
  • Paediatric bacterial meningitis in the USA: outcomes and healthcare resource utilization of nosocomial versus community-acquired infection. 
  • Paget's Disease in Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty Is Associated With Greater In-Hospital Lengths of Stay, Costs, and Complications. 
  • Palliative Care Specialist Access is Associated With Rankings of Hospital Quality. 
  • Patient, provider, and hospital factors associated with oral anti-neoplastic agent initiation and adherence in older patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. 
  • Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation and Improved Chronic Disease Quality: A Longitudinal Observational Study. 
  • Patients', Staff, and Providers' Factual Knowledge About Hospital Chaplains and Association with Desire for Chaplain Services. 
  • Patterns and outcomes of red blood cell transfusion in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Patterns of care quality and prognosis among hospitalized ischemic stroke patients with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Pay for performance, quality of care, and outcomes in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: a nationwide study. 
  • Pennsylvania's Focus on Heart Attack--grading the scorecard. 
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Utilization and Appropriateness across the United States. 
  • Perpetrator, worker and workplace characteristics associated with patient and visitor perpetrated violence (Type II) on hospital workers: a review of the literature and existing occupational injury data. 
  • Persistent diarrhoea in Nigerian children aged less than five years: a hospital-based study. 
  • Pharmacodynamic Effects of Pre-Hospital Administered Crushed Prasugrel in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Pharmacoepidemiology of Ceftazidime-Avibactam Use: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis of 210 US Hospitals. 
  • Physical Activity in the Hospital: Documentation and Influence on Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis. 
  • Physical assault, physical threat, and verbal abuse perpetrated against hospital workers by patients or visitors in six U.S. hospitals. 
  • Physician Networks and Ambulatory Care-sensitive Admissions. 
  • Plasma Volume Status and Its Association With In-Hospital and Postdischarge Outcomes in Decompensated Heart Failure. 
  • Policies and practices of SHEA Research Network hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Post-acute care use patterns among Hospital Service Areas by older adults in the United States: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Postoperative Utilization of Oral Nutrition Supplements in Surgical Patients in US Hospitals. 
  • Poststroke hypertension in Africa. 
  • Practical and Evidence-Based Approaches to In-Hospital Decongestion for Heart Failure: Are We There Yet? 
  • Practice Variation Among Hospitals in Revascularization Therapy and Its Association With Procedure-related Mortality. 
  • Practice pattern variability for myocardial revascularization: impact on resource use across 24 centers. 
  • Predicting Inpatient Dissatisfaction Following Total Joint Arthroplasty: An Analysis of 3,593 Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey Responses. 
  • Predicting in-hospital length of stay: a two-stage modeling approach to account for highly skewed data. 
  • Predictors and Cost Comparison of Subsequent Urinary Stone Care at Index Versus Non-Index Hospitals. 
  • Predictors of ICU admission and patient outcome for traumatic brain injury in a Tanzanian referral hospital: Implications for improving treatment guidelines. 
  • Predictors of delivery of hospital-based heart failure patient education: a report from OPTIMIZE-HF. 
  • Prehospital notification by emergency medical services reduces delays in stroke evaluation: findings from the North Carolina stroke care collaborative. 
  • Prehospital system delay in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction care: a novel linkage of emergency medicine services and in hospital registry data. 
  • Preoperative Optimization Checklists Within the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Bundle Have Not Decreased Hospital Returns for Total Knee Arthroplasty. 
  • Preoperative pain level and patient expectation predict hospital length of stay after total hip arthroplasty. 
  • Prevalence and Predictors of Gastrostomy Tube and Tracheostomy Placement in Anoxic/Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathic Survivors of In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the United States. 
  • Price and income effects of hospital reimbursements. 
  • Prospective and External Evaluation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict In-Hospital Mortality of Adults at Time of Admission. 
  • Provider Bias in prescribing opioid analgesics: a study of electronic medical Records at a Hospital Emergency Department. 
  • Provision of Surgical Care for Children Across Somaliland: Challenges and Policy Guidance. 
  • Psychiatric emergency room: a resource for the eighties. 
  • Qualitative Analysis of Palliative Care for Pediatric Patients With Cancer at Bugando Medical Center: An Evaluation of Barriers to Providing End-of-Life Care in a Resource-Limited Setting. 
  • Quality in Australian Health Care Study. 
  • Quality of care for patients with acute coronary syndromes as a function of hospital revascularization capability: Insights from get with the guidelines-CAD. 
  • Race and trust in the health care system. 
  • Racial Disparities in Partial Nephrectomy Persist Across Hospital Types: Results From a Population-based Cohort. 
  • Racial differences in survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Racial variations in treatment and outcomes of black and white patients with high-risk non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: insights from CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines?). 
  • Radiology Stereotypes, Application Barriers, and Hospital Integration: A Mixed-methods Study of Medical Student Perceptions of Radiology. 
  • Rationale and design of a cluster-randomized multifaceted intervention trial to improve stroke care quality in China: The GOLDEN BRIDGE-Acute Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Reaching the medicare allowable threshold in adult spinal deformity surgery: multicenter cost analysis comparing actual direct hospital costs versus what the government will pay. 
  • Reducing Fluoroquinolone Use and Clostridioides difficile Infections in Community Nursing Homes Through Hospital-Nursing Home Collaboration. 
  • Reducing Overuse of Proton Pump Inhibitors for Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis and Nonvariceal Gastrointestinal Bleeding in the Hospital: A Narrative Review and Implementation Guide. 
  • Regarding Collaboration in Antimicrobial Stewardship. 
  • Regional Variation in 30-Day Ischemic Stroke Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries Treated in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Hospitals. 
  • Regional variation in identified cancer care needs of early-career oncologists in China, India, and Pakistan. 
  • Regionalization of hepatic resections is associated with increasing disparities among some patient populations in use of high-volume providers. 
  • Relation of dyspnea severity on admission for acute heart failure with outcomes and costs. 
  • Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes. 
  • Relationship between hospital performance measures and outcomes in patients with acute ischaemic stroke: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Relationship of health-related quality of life to health care utilization and mortality among older adults. 
  • Relationship of the distance between non-PCI hospitals and primary PCI centers, mode of transport, and reperfusion time among ground and air interhospital transfers using NCDR's ACTION Registry-GWTG: a report from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline Program. 
  • Removing a constraint on hospital utilization: a natural experiment in Maryland. 
  • Reperfusion paradox in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Resolving Malpractice Disputes: Imaging the Jury's Shadow 
  • Response by Kumbhani et al to Letters Regarding Article, "Association Between Hospital Volume, Processes of Care, and Outcomes in Patients Admitted With Heart Failure: Insights From Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure". 
  • Risk Adjusted Mortality Ratings and Public Reporting for High-Risk PCI. 
  • Risk adjustment of ischemic stroke outcomes for comparing hospital performance: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • Risk score for intracranial hemorrhage in patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator. 
  • SARS-CoV-2 RNA persists on surfaces following terminal disinfection of COVID-19 hospital isolation rooms. 
  • Safely Practicing in a New Environment: A Qualitative Study to Inform Physician Onboarding Practices. 
  • Same-day Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty Did Not Increase 90-day Hospital Returns. 
  • Scaling Safety: The South Carolina Surgical Safety Checklist Experience. 
  • Scoring system for risk stratification of viral reactivation during prophylactic antiviral treatment in Korean patients with hepatitis B undergoing anticancer chemotherapy: A multicenter study. 
  • Selection of Stent Type in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Presenting With Acute Myocardial Infarction: An Analysis From the ACTION (Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network) Registry-Get With the Guidelines. 
  • Self-monitoring by Environmental Services May Not Accurately Measure Thoroughness of Hospital Room Cleaning. 
  • Self-regulation in the era of big data: appropriate use of appropriate use criteria. 
  • Seriously ill hospitalized adults: do we spend less on older patients? Support Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preference for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 environmental contamination in hospital rooms is uncommon using viral culture techniques. 
  • Sex Differences in Procedural Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: Insights From the NCDR LAAO Registry. 
  • Shifting Medicare patients out of the hospital. 
  • Short-Stay Arthroplasty is Not Associated With Increased Risk of 90-Day Hospital Returns. 
  • Short-term outcomes after esophagectomy at 164 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program hospitals: effect of operative approach and hospital-level variation. 
  • Significant Regional Differences in Antibiotic Use Across 576 US Hospitals and 11 701 326 Adult Admissions, 2016-2017. 
  • Socioeconomic trends in hospitalization for multiple sclerosis. 
  • Spatial methods for evaluating critical care and trauma transport: A scoping review. 
  • Statewide costs of health care-associated infections: estimates for acute care hospitals in North Carolina. 
  • Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. 
  • Strategies to prevent transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies used by hospitals to improve speed of tissue-type plasminogen activator treatment in acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Stroke patient outcomes in US hospitals before the start of the Joint Commission Primary Stroke Center certification program. 
  • Summary of evidence regarding hospital strategies to reduce door-to-balloon times for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Surgeon Variability Impacts Costs in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: the Volume-Cost Relationship. 
  • Surgeons' perceptions of public reporting of hospital and individual surgeon quality. 
  • Surgical Factors and Treatment Severity for Perioperative Complications Predict Hospital Length of Stay in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Surgical candidacy and treatment initiation among women with cervical cancer at public referral hospitals in Kampala, Uganda: a descriptive cohort study. 
  • Surgical safety checklists in ontario, Canada. 
  • Synthesising evidence regarding hospital to home transitions supported by volunteers of third sector organisations: a scoping review protocol. 
  • Tap Water Avoidance Decreases Rates of Hospital-onset Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria. 
  • Targeted versus standard feedback: results from a randomized quality improvement trial. 
  • Technical considerations for evaluating clinical prediction indices: a case study for predicting code blue events with MEWS. 
  • Temporal Trends in and Factors Associated With Use of Single- Versus Dual-Coil Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Leads: Data From the NCDR ICD Registry. 
  • Temporal changes in the use of drug-eluting stents for patients with non-ST-Segment-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention from 2006 to 2008: results from the can rapid risk stratification of unstable angina patients supress ADverse outcomes with early implementation of the ACC/AHA guidelines (CRUSADE) and acute coronary treatment and intervention outcomes network-get with the guidelines (ACTION-GWTG) registries. 
  • Temporal trends in lung transplant center volume and outcomes in the United States. 
  • Textbook outcomes in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. 
  • The Association Between Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Hospital Case Volume and Mortality in a U.S. Cohort, 2002-2011. 
  • The Association of Duration of participation in get with the guidelines-resuscitation with quality of Care for in-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • The Association of Transfer Rate From Hospitals Without Revascularization Capabilities and Mortality Risk for Older Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients. 
  • The Educational Innovations Project: a community of practice. 
  • The Effect of Adding Comorbidities to Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Central-Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Risk-Adjustment Methodology. 
  • The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: Nationwide Perspectives and Recommendations: A JACC: Heart Failure Position Paper. 
  • The Impact of Bleeding Avoidance Strategies on Hospital-Level Variation in Bleeding Rates Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry. 
  • The Importance of Safety-Net Hospitals in Emergency General Surgery. 
  • The Magnitude of Blood Pressure Reduction Predicts Poor In-Hospital Outcome in Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage. 
  • The New York State Primary Angioplasty Registry and procedural volume. 
  • The Preservation and Handling of Vein Grafts in Current Surgical Practice: Findings of a Survey Among Cardiovascular Surgeons of Top-Ranked US Hospitals. 
  • The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research. 
  • The Surgical Safety Checklist and Teamwork Coaching Tools: a study of inter-rater reliability. 
  • The association between hospital characteristics and rates of preventable complications and adverse events. 
  • The association of in-hospital guideline adherence and longitudinal postdischarge mortality in older patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • The association of myocardial infarction process of care measures and in-hospital mortality: a report from the NCDR®. 
  • The association of race with CPR quality following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • The association of strategic group and organizational culture with hospital performance in China. 
  • The complex relationship between center volume and outcome in patients undergoing the Norwood operation. 
  • The contribution of sociodemographic, medical, and attitudinal factors to blood donation among the general public. 
  • The deadly toll of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in community hospitals. 
  • The devil is in the details: the need for integrated cardiovascular data for performance measures and feedback. 
  • The economic costs to United States hospitals of invasive fungal infections in transplant patients. 
  • The effect of hospital/physician integration on hospital choice. 
  • The effects of New York's bypass surgery provider profiling on access to care and patient outcomes in the elderly. 
  • The evolution of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI): Is it time for more inclusive metrics? 
  • The future of the hospital: an economist's perspective. 
  • The impact of a statewide pre-hospital STEMI strategy to bypass hospitals without percutaneous coronary intervention capability on treatment times. 
  • The impact of clinical vs administrative claims coding on hospital risk-adjusted outcomes. 
  • The impact of extreme-risk cases on hospitals' risk-adjusted percutaneous coronary intervention mortality ratings. 
  • The impact of high-deductible health plans on men and women: an analysis of emergency department care. 
  • The importance of consistent, high-quality acute myocardial infarction and heart failure care results from the American Heart Association's Get with the Guidelines Program. 
  • The limited influence of neurosurgeons' behavior on inpatient satisfaction: a retrospective multihospital analysis. 
  • The need for multiple measures of hospital quality: results from the Get with the Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry of the American Heart Association. 
  • The relationship of hospital market concentration, costs, and quality for major surgical procedures. 
  • The relationship of patient satisfaction with care and clinical outcomes. 
  • The risk of risk-adjustment measures for perioperative spine infection after spinal surgery. 
  • The role of patient primary language in access to brain tumor resection: Evaluating emergent admission and hospital volume. 
  • The role of the surface environment in healthcare-associated infections. 
  • The status of air medical quality assurance. 
  • The third delay: understanding waiting time for obstetric referrals at a large regional hospital in Ghana. 
  • Thinking Outside the Box: Treating Acute Heart Failure Outside the Hospital to Improve Care and Reduce Admissions. 
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the Era of Quality Assessment. 
  • Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound During Critical Illness in Children: Survey of Practices in Pediatric Neurocritical Care Centers. 
  • Treating Acute Medical Conditions Outside the Hospital: Streamlining Care During a Pandemic. 
  • Treatment Patterns and Outcomes for Patients with Adrenocortical Carcinoma Associated with Hospital Case Volume in the United States: A Reply. 
  • Treatment of chronic conditions with traditional Chinese medicine: findings from traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in Hubei, China. 
  • Trends and Demographics in the Utilization of Total Wrist Arthroplasty. 
  • Trends in endovascular therapy and clinical outcomes within the nationwide Get With The Guidelines-Stroke registry. 
  • Trends in management of ureteral urothelial carcinoma and effects on survival: a hospital-based registry study. 
  • Trends in neurosurgical care in Western Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis. 
  • Trends in postoperative length of stay after bypass surgery. 
  • Trends in the use of diagnostic coronary angiography, percutaneous coronary intervention, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery across North Carolina. 
  • Trends in the use of feeding tubes in North Carolina hospitals. 
  • Trends in the utilization of high-volume hospitals by minority and underinsured surgical patients. 
  • Tuberculosis among health care workers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a retrospective cohort analysis. 
  • Two-Phase Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Investigation and Mitigation. 
  • Unplanned hospital admission after ambulatory surgery: a retrospective, single cohort study. 
  • Unpredictable drug shortages: an ethical framework for short-term rationing in hospitals. 
  • Untapped Potential for Emergency Department Observation Unit Use: A National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) Study. 
  • Use of Appropriate Use Criteria Is Increasing, but What Are Their Effects on Medical Care? 
  • Use of Contact Networks to Estimate Potential Pathogen Risk Exposure in Hospitals. 
  • Use, Temporal Trends, and Outcomes of Endovascular Therapy After Interhospital Transfer in the United States. 
  • Using a society database to evaluate a patient safety collaborative: the Cardiovascular Surgical Translational Study. 
  • Utility of an obstacle-crossing test to classify future fallers and non-fallers at hospital discharge after stroke: A pilot study. 
  • Value-Based Care Has Not Resulted in Biased Patient Selection: Analysis of a Single Center's Experience in the Care for Joint Replacement Bundle. 
  • Variability in determining sepsis time zero and bundle compliance rates for the centers for medicare and medicaid services SEP-1 measure. 
  • Variability in survival and post-cardiac arrest care following successful resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Variation in Hospital Risk-Adjusted Mortality Rates Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the United States: A Report From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Variation in community and ambulance care processes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Variation in surgical management of vesicoureteral reflux: influence of hospital and patient factors. 
  • Variation in the type and frequency of postoperative invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections according to type of surgical procedure. 
  • Variation in use of blood transfusion in coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention and diagnosis in COVID-19: Practice patterns and outcomes at 33 hospitals. 
  • Vestibular schwannoma surgical volume and short-term outcomes in Maryland. 
  • Volume-outcome relationship in acute myocardial infarction: the balloon and the needle. 
  • Web Exclusive. Annals for Hospitalists Inpatient Notes - Taking Ownership of the Care of Patients With Opioid Use Disorder in the Hospital. 
  • Weekend/holiday versus weekday hospital discharge and guideline adherence (from the American Heart Association's Get with the Guidelines--Coronary Artery Disease database). 
  • What Factors Drive Inpatient Satisfaction After Knee Arthroplasty? 
  • Where do continuing care retirement community residents die? 
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