Hospitals, Urban
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Subject Areas on Research
- A multivariate approach for classifying hospitals and computing blended payment rates.
- Acceptance of rapid HIV testing among medical inpatients in New York City.
- Airway obstruction is common but unsuspected in patients admitted to a general medicine service.
- An observation unit may help improve an institution's Press Ganey satisfaction score.
- Antimicrobial stewardship programs in community hospitals: the evidence base and case studies.
- Capturing the ebb and flow of psychiatric symptoms with dynamical systems models.
- Characteristics of hospital inpatient falls across clinical departments.
- Clinical and radiographic predictors of the etiology of pulmonary nodules in HIV-infected patients.
- Defining geographic markets for hospital care.
- Discrepant attitudes about teamwork among critical care nurses and physicians.
- 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.
- Factors associated with delay in giving thrombolytic therapy after arrival at hospital.
- Failure of the mandatory domestic violence reporting law to increase medical facility referral to police.
- Hip fracture outcomes: does surgeon or hospital volume really matter?
- Homelessness and discharge delays from an urban safety net hospital.
- Impact of Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care accreditation on quality: an ACTION Registry®-Get With The Guidelines™ analysis.
- Improving management of asthma: closing the loop or progressing along the audit spiral?
- Increased rate of central venous catheterization procedures in community EDs.
- Moderate consumption of white and fortified wine is associated with reduced odds of diabetic retinopathy.
- Patient Factors Associated with Extended Length of Stay in the Psychiatric Inpatient Units of a Large Urban County Hospital.
- Perceptions of safety culture vary across the intensive care units of a single institution.
- Physiological and Metabolic Changes During the Transition from Hyperthyroidism to Euthyroidism in Graves' Disease.
- Predictors of short-term mortality in patients undergoing percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy.
- Prevalence and risk factors associated with low back pain among health care providers in a Kuwait hospital.
- Quality of care and in-hospital outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease in rural and urban hospitals (from Get With the Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease Program).
- Reasons for after-hours calls by hospital floor nurses to on-call physicians.
- Reliability and validity of scores on The Emergency Severity Index version 3.
- Residents' and nurses' perceptions of team function in the medical intensive care unit.
- Retrospective analysis of cancer survival across South-Western Victoria in Australia.
- Risk stratification in chest pain patients undergoing nuclear stress testing: the Erlanger Stress Score.
- Screening older patients at risk for falling during hospitalization.
- Statewide Longitudinal Progression of the Whole-Patient Measure of Safety in South Carolina.
- The etiology of febrile illness in adults presenting to Patan hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- VA community-based outpatient clinics: cost performance measures.