Patient Admission

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "The Patient Is Dying, Please Call the Chaplain": The Activities of Chaplains in One Medical Center's Intensive Care Units. 
  • A Novel In-hospital Congestion Score to Risk Stratify Patients Admitted for Worsening Heart Failure (from ASCEND-HF). 
  • A Pilot Randomized Trial of Ferric Citrate Coordination Complex for the Treatment of Advanced CKD. 
  • A short physical performance battery assessing lower extremity function: association with self-reported disability and prediction of mortality and nursing home admission. 
  • A survey-based study of diagnostic and treatment concordance in standardized cases of cellulitis and pseudocellulitis via teledermatology. 
  • A test-retest reliability study of child-reported psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (CAPA-C). 
  • A time-series analysis of the relation between unemployment rate and hospital admission for acute myocardial infarction and stroke in Brazil over more than a decade. 
  • Absence of July Phenomenon in Acute Ischemic Stroke Care Quality and Outcomes. 
  • Accuracy of ICD-9-CM Codes by Hospital Characteristics and Stroke Severity: Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program. 
  • Acute Coronary Syndromes and Heart Failure Critical Care Units Utilization and Outcomes in Teaching and Community Hospitals: A National Population-Based Analysis. 
  • Acute decompensated heart failure patients admitted to critical care units: insights from ASCEND-HF. 
  • Acute heart failure associated with high admission blood pressure--a distinct vascular disorder? 
  • Admission Temperature and Associated Mortality and Morbidity among Moderately and Extremely Preterm Infants. 
  • Admission high-sensitivity troponin T and NT-proBNP for outcome prediction in acute heart failure. 
  • Admission prediction of expected final myocardial infarct size using weighted ST-segment, Q wave, and T wave measurements. 
  • Admission to the intensive care unit and well-being in patients with advanced chronic illness. 
  • Admission, discharge, or change in B-type natriuretic peptide and long-term outcomes: data from Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF) linked to Medicare claims. 
  • Albuminuria in chronic heart failure: prevalence and prognostic importance. 
  • Alirocumab Reduces Total Hospitalizations and Increases Days Alive and Out of Hospital in the ODYSSEY OUTCOMES Trial. 
  • Are PRO discharge screens associated with postdischarge adverse outcomes? 
  • Assertive community treatment for people with severe mental illness: the effect on hospital use and costs. 
  • Association Between Hospital Volume, Processes of Care, and Outcomes in Patients Admitted With Heart Failure: Insights From Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • Association between admission white blood cell count and one-year mortality in patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Association of door-in to door-out time with reperfusion delays and outcomes among patients transferred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Blood transfusion during acute myocardial infarction: association with mortality and variability across hospitals. 
  • Boarding of Critically Ill Patients in the Emergency Department. 
  • Bronchiolitis management preferences and the influence of pulse oximetry and respiratory rate on the decision to admit. 
  • Care Transitions After Acute Myocardial Infarction for Transferred-In Versus Direct-Arrival Patients. 
  • Changing practice locations for upper urinary tract stone disease. 
  • Characteristics and current practice of parenteral nutrition in hospitalized patients. 
  • Characteristics of Acute Heart Failure Hospitalizations Based on Presenting Severity. 
  • Charges for Alcoholic Cirrhosis Exceed All Other Etiologies of Cirrhosis Combined: A National and State Inpatient Survey Analysis. 
  • Childhood respiratory symptoms, hospital admissions, and long-term exposure to airborne particulate matter. 
  • Clinical Practice Patterns in Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support for Shock in the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network (CCCTN) Registry. 
  • Clinical decision-making about inpatient violence risk at admission to a public-sector acute psychiatric hospital. 
  • Clinical profile and prognostic value of anemia at the time of admission and discharge among patients hospitalized for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: findings from the EVEREST trial. 
  • Clinical utilization of digital rectal examination and fecal occult blood testing upon hospital admission. 
  • Communitywide laboratory-based influenza surveillance focused on older persons, 1989-1992. 
  • Comparison of 30-day outcome, resource use, and coronary artery disease severity in patients with suspected coronary artery disease with and without diabetes mellitus assigned to chest pain units. 
  • Comparison of Acute Ischemic Stroke Care and Outcomes Between Comprehensive Stroke Centers and Primary Stroke Centers in the United States. 
  • Comparison of usefulness of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide as an independent predictor of cardiac function among admission cardiac serum biomarkers in patients with anterior wall versus nonanterior wall ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Concordance of Advance Care Plans With Inpatient Directives in the Electronic Medical Record for Older Patients Admitted From the Emergency Department. 
  • Day of admission and clinical outcomes for patients hospitalized for heart failure: findings from the Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF). 
  • Depression in hospitalized older patients with congestive heart failure. 
  • Design and implementation of an application and associated services to support interdisciplinary medication reconciliation efforts at an integrated healthcare delivery network. 
  • Differences Between Patients Enrolled Early and Late During Clinical Trial Recruitment: Insights From the HF-ACTION Trial. 
  • Differences between chest pain observation service patients and admitted "rule-out myocardial infarction" patients. 
  • Differences between depressed patients with heart failure and those with pulmonary disease. 
  • Differences in admission rates and outcomes between men and women presenting to emergency departments with coronary syndromes. 
  • Direct admission versus transfer to a tertiary hospital for definitive management of lower extremity injuries: Systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Diuretic response in acute heart failure-an analysis from ASCEND-HF. 
  • Do patients treated at academic hospitals have better longitudinal outcomes after admission for non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction? 
  • Do stable non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes require admission to coronary care units? 
  • Does the ownership of the admitting hospital make a difference? Outcomes and process of care of Medicare beneficiaries admitted with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Early Intervention during Acute Stone Admissions: Revealing "The Weekend Effect" in Urological Practice. 
  • Early acute lung injury: criteria for identifying lung injury prior to the need for positive pressure ventilation*. 
  • Effect of Once-Weekly Exenatide in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus With and Without Heart Failure and Heart Failure-Related Outcomes: Insights From the EXSCEL Trial. 
  • Effect of a Multidisciplinary Approach for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department on Hospital Admission Rate and Length of Stay. 
  • Effects of admission to a teaching hospital on the cost and quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Emergency Department Boarding: Nowhere Else to Go. 
  • Enrollment and events of hospice patients with heart failure vs. cancer. 
  • Expert Consensus on Metrics to Assess the Impact of Patient-Level Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions in Acute-Care Settings. 
  • Exploring patterns of health service use in older emergency department patients. 
  • Factors Associated With Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions After Invasive Outpatient Procedures in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Factors influencing ICU admission and associated outcome in patients undergoing radical cystectomy with enhanced recovery pathway. 
  • First-time suicide attempters, repeat attempters, and previous attempters on an adolescent inpatient psychiatry unit. 
  • Gender disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: large-scale observations from the CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines) National Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Getting cardiogenic shock patients to the right place-How initial intensive care unit triage decisions impact processes of care and outcomes. 
  • Global Survey of Outcomes of Neurocritical Care Patients: Analysis of the PRINCE Study Part 2. 
  • Health care utilization in HIV-infected patients: assessing the burden of hepatitis C virus coinfection. 
  • Health care utilization of carpenters with substance abuse-related diagnoses. 
  • High intensive care unit admission rate for 2013-2014 influenza is associated with a low rate of vaccination. 
  • Hospital stressors experienced by elderly medical inpatients: developing a Hospital Stress Index. 
  • How Many Midnights?: Admission Status for Elders With Small Bowel Obstruction. 
  • How to align evidence-based benefit design with the employer bottom-line: a case study. 
  • Hyperglycemia-related mortality in critically ill patients varies with admission diagnosis. 
  • Immediate unplanned hospital admission after outpatient ureteroscopy for stone disease. 
  • Impact of time of presentation on process performance and outcomes in ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction: a report from the American Heart Association: Mission Lifeline program. 
  • Improvements in signs and symptoms during hospitalization for acute heart failure follow different patterns and depend on the measurement scales used: an international, prospective registry to evaluate the evolution of measures of disease severity in acute heart failure (MEASURE-AHF). 
  • Incidence and predictors of microbiology results returning postdischarge and requiring follow-up. 
  • Incidence, predictors at admission, and impact of worsening renal function among patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Increasing Access to State Psychiatric Hospital Beds: Exploring Supply-Side Solutions. 
  • Increasing incidence of the neonatal abstinence syndrome in U.S. neonatal ICUs. 
  • Infection and noncardiovascular death in the elderly-Heart failure's dirty little secret. 
  • Influence of admission and discharge aspirin use on survival after primary coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Inpatient medication reconciliation at admission and discharge: A retrospective cohort study of age and other risk factors for medication discrepancies. 
  • Intensive care unit experience of haemopoietic stem cell transplant patients. 
  • Interprovincial Differences in Canadian Coronary Care Unit Resource Use and Outcomes. 
  • Is an Admission for Decompensated Heart Failure Inevitable? 
  • Loop diuretic dose adjustments after a hospitalization for heart failure: insights from ASCEND-HF. 
  • Management of Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System blockade in patients admitted to hospital with confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection (The McGill RAAS-COVID- 19): A structured summary of a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Management of observation units. American College of Emergency Physicians. 
  • Maternal Morbidity After Previable Prelabor Rupture of Membranes. 
  • Maternal super obesity and risk for intensive care unit admission in the MFMU Cesarean Registry. 
  • Maximizing the functional status of geriatric patients in an acute community hospital setting. 
  • Measurement of troponin and natriuretic peptides shortly after admission in patients with heart failure-does it add useful prognostic information? An analysis of the Value of Endothelin Receptor Inhibition with Tezosentan in Acute heart failure Studies (VERITAS). 
  • Measuring hospital mortality rates: are 30-day data enough? Ischemic Heart Disease Patient Outcomes Research Team. 
  • Medication Initiation Burden Required to Comply With Heart Failure Guideline Recommendations and Hospital Quality Measures. 
  • Medication performance measures and mortality following acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Modeling Emergency Department crowding: Restoring the balance between demand for and supply of emergency medicine. 
  • Multiple biomarkers at admission are associated with angiographic, electrocardiographic, and imaging cardiovascular mechanistic markers of outcomes in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Near-miss maternal mortality: cardiac dysfunction as the principal cause of obstetric intensive care unit admissions. 
  • Necessity of hospitalization and stress testing in low risk chest pain patients. 
  • New-onset atrial fibrillation after acute myocardial infarction and its relation to admission biomarkers (from the TRIUMPH registry). 
  • No need to wait: an analysis of the timing of cholecystectomy during admission for acute cholecystitis using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • Novel model for predicting inpatient mortality after emergency admission to hospital in Singapore: retrospective observational study. 
  • One question, two answers: do the two most commonly used methods of sampling describe the length of the prospective wait for admission to hospital? 
  • Opiate detoxification of methadone maintenance patients using lefetamine, clonidine and buprenorphine. 
  • Outcome in suspected acute myocardial infarction with normal or minimally abnormal admission electrocardiographic findings. 
  • Outcome of acute myocardial infarction according to the specialty of the admitting physician. 
  • Outcome of psychiatric hospitalization for very low-functioning demented patients. 
  • Palliative Care Consultation Is Underutilized in Critically Ill General Surgery Patients. 
  • Parental attitudes toward obesity and overweight screening and communication for hospitalized children. 
  • Patterns of leukocyte counts on admissions for acute heart failure--presentation and outcome--results from a community based registry. 
  • Potentially avoidable hospital admissions in older patients with acute myeloid leukaemia in the USA: a retrospective analysis. 
  • Predicting trauma admissions: the effect of weather, weekday, and other variables. 
  • Predictors of admission and shunt revision during emergency department visits for shunt-treated adult patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension. 
  • Predictors of depression outcomes in medical inpatients with chronic pulmonary disease. 
  • Predictors of nursing home admission in a biracial population. 
  • Prevalence of symptomatic diastolic heart failure in patients hospitalized with cerebral or peripheral vascular disease. 
  • Prognostic value of the admission electrocardiogram in acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Psychosocial and physical correlates of chronic depression. 
  • Quality of Care and Outcomes for Patients With Stroke in the United States Admitted During the International Stroke Conference. 
  • Randomized clinical trial of an emergency department observation syncope protocol versus routine inpatient admission. 
  • Rates, Characteristics, and Outcomes of Patients Transferred to Specialized Stroke Centers for Advanced Care. 
  • Relation of Admission Blood Pressure to In-hospital and 90-Day Outcomes in Patients Presenting With Transient Ischemic Attack. 
  • Relation of admission high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry). 
  • Relationship of vitamin D deficiency to clinical outcomes in critically ill patients. 
  • Reliability and validity of scores on The Emergency Severity Index version 3. 
  • Representativeness of the PIONEER-HF Clinical Trial Population in Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction. 
  • Resource use in the last 6 months of life among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, 2000-2007. 
  • Revascularization Trends in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus and Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease Presenting With Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Insights From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry-Get with the Guidelines (NCDR ACTION Registry-GWTG). 
  • Risk factors for mortality in patients admitted to intensive care units with pneumonia. 
  • Routine intensive care unit admission among patients undergoing major pancreatic surgery for cancer: No effect on failure to rescue. 
  • SARS-CoV-2 and Stroke in a New York Healthcare System. 
  • Same-day surgical admission. American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Surgery Committee. 
  • Sex-Based Differences in Presentation, Treatment, and Complications Among Older Adults Hospitalized for Acute Myocardial Infarction: The SILVER-AMI Study. 
  • Standardizing postoperative PICU handovers improves handover metrics and patient outcomes. 
  • State-mandated continuing medical education and the use of proven therapies in patients with an acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Sudden cardiac death after acute heart failure hospital admission: insights from ASCEND-HF. 
  • Systems of care for ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction: a report From the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline. 
  • Systolic blood pressure at admission, clinical characteristics, and outcomes in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure. 
  • Temporal Trends in the Risk Profile of Patients Undergoing Outpatient Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry's CathPCI Registry. 
  • The Association of Frailty With In-Hospital Bleeding Among Older Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights From the ACTION Registry. 
  • The Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Renal Colic across a Sample of US Hospitals: High CT Utilization Despite Low Rates of Admission and Inpatient Urologic Intervention. 
  • The Emergency Severity Index (version 3) 5-level triage system scores predict ED resource consumption. 
  • The Impact of Postoperative Intensive Care Unit Admission on Postoperative Hospital Length of Stay and Costs: A Prespecified Propensity-Matched Cohort Study. 
  • The Long-Term Oxygen Treatment Trial for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Rationale, Design, and Lessons Learned. 
  • The Quality in Australian Health Care Study. 
  • The ebb and flow of the NHS waiting list: how do recruitment and admission affect event-based measures of the length of 'time-to-admission'? 
  • The high cost of critical care unit over-utilization for patients with NSTE ACS. 
  • The patient centered medical home. A systematic review. 
  • Thirty-Day Readmission Risk Model for Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Time to reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction. It is time to reduce it! 
  • Trends in Hospitalizations and Survival of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure in Four US Communities (2005-2014): ARIC Study Community Surveillance. 
  • Trends in Sickle Cell Disease-related Priapism in U.S. Children's Hospitals. 
  • Trends in nonheroin opioid abuse admissions: 1992-2004. 
  • Trends in pathological vertebral fractures in the United States: 1993 to 2004. 
  • Trends in the use of evidence-based treatments for coronary artery disease among women and the elderly: findings from the get with the guidelines quality-improvement program. 
  • Triage to Observation: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Chest Pain Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department. 
  • Unplanned hospital admission after ambulatory surgery: a retrospective, single cohort study. 
  • Use of patient registries and administrative datasets for the study of pediatric cancer. 
  • Using intake and change in multiple psychosocial measures to predict functional status outcomes in people with lumbar spine syndromes: a preliminary analysis. 
  • Weekend admission and treatment of patients with renal colic: a case of avoidable variation? 
  • Will Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Admissions Warrant Appropriate Use Criteria in the Future? 
  • Working memory and schizophrenia: evidence for slowed encoding. 
  • Working with the family of a critically ill child. 
  • Worse outcomes in patients undergoing urgent surgery for left-sided diverticulitis admitted on weekends vs weekdays: a population-based study of 31 832 patients. 
  • Worsening heart failure, a critical event during hospital admission for acute heart failure: results from the VERITAS study. 
  • [Multicomponent therapy of fibromyalgia syndrome. Systematic review, meta-analysis and guideline]. 
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  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology