Hospital Mortality

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2016 Annual Report of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • 28-Year Experience with Ruptured and Symptomatic Type I-III Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms at a Large Tertiary Referral Center. 
  • 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 "shocking" new code status. 
  • A Randomized Dose-Escalation Study of the Safety and Anti-Inflammatory Activity of the p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Inhibitor Dilmapimod in Severe Trauma Subjects at Risk for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. 
  • A comparison of acute coronary syndrome care at academic and nonacademic hospitals. 
  • A comparison of short- and long-term outcomes after off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery with sternotomy. 
  • A comparison of the Charlson comorbidity index derived from medical record data and administrative billing data. 
  • A contemporary view of diagnostic cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States: a report from the CathPCI Registry of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry, 2010 through June 2011. 
  • A machine learning approach to identify distinct subgroups of veterans at risk for hospitalization or death using administrative and electronic health record data. 
  • A multibiomarker-based outcome risk stratification model for adult septic shock*. 
  • A population-based study of inpatient outcomes after operative management of nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage in the United States. 
  • A population-level analysis of 5620 recipients of multiple in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation attempts. 
  • A predictive index for length of stay in the intensive care unit following cardiac surgery. 
  • A prospective, multicenter derivation of a biomarker panel to assess risk of organ dysfunction, shock, and death in emergency department patients with suspected sepsis. 
  • A randomized trial of glutamine and antioxidants in critically ill patients. 
  • A randomized trial of protocol-based care for early septic shock. 
  • A randomized trial of supplemental parenteral nutrition in underweight and overweight critically ill patients: the TOP-UP pilot trial. 
  • A retrospective review of gastroschisis epidemiology and referral patterns in northern Ghana. 
  • A retrospective study of in-hospital mortality in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis between 2015 and 2018. 
  • A risk score for in-hospital death in patients admitted with ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke. 
  • A risk score to predict bleeding in patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • A scoring system derived from electronic health records to identify patients at high risk for noninvasive ventilation failure. 
  • A smoker's paradox in patients hospitalized for heart failure: findings from OPTIMIZE-HF. 
  • A state-wide review of contemporary outcomes of gastric bypass in Florida: does provider volume impact outcomes? 
  • A validated risk score for in-hospital mortality in patients with heart failure from the American Heart Association get with the guidelines program. 
  • AIDS-related Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in older patients. 
  • AKI Treated with Renal Replacement Therapy in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19. 
  • Access to pediatric surgery delivered by general surgeons and anesthesia providers in Uganda: Results from 2 rural regional hospitals. 
  • Accuracy of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score for In-Hospital Mortality by Race and Relevance to Crisis Standards of Care. 
  • Accuracy of the aristotle basic complexity score for classifying the mortality and morbidity potential of congenital heart surgery operations. 
  • 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. 
  • Acquired infection during neonatal and pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. 
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke in Patients With COVID-19: An Analysis From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Acute Kidney Injury, Fluid Overload, and Outcomes in Children Supported With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for a Respiratory Indication. 
  • Acute cardiovascular hospitalizations and illness severity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Acute clopidogrel use and outcomes in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Acute coronary care in the elderly, part I: Non-ST-segment-elevation acute coronary syndromes: a scientific statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology: in collaboration with the Society of Geriatric Cardiology. 
  • Acute heart failure in the emergency department: short and long-term outcomes of elderly patients with heart failure. 
  • Acute heart failure: perspectives from a randomized trial and a simultaneous registry. 
  • Acute myocardial infarction complicated by atrial fibrillation in the elderly: prevalence and outcomes. 
  • Acute myocardial infarction: profile and management at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi. 
  • Acute renal failure after lung transplantation: incidence, predictors and impact on perioperative morbidity and mortality. 
  • Acute renal failure in hospitalized patients with HIV: risk factors and impact on in-hospital mortality. 
  • Acute stroke imaging research roadmap. 
  • Admission Temperature and Associated Mortality and Morbidity among Moderately and Extremely Preterm Infants. 
  • Admission cell free DNA levels predict 28-day mortality in patients with severe sepsis in intensive care. 
  • Admission heart rate and in-hospital outcomes in patients hospitalized for heart failure in sinus rhythm and in atrial fibrillation. 
  • Adrenalectomy in older Americans has increased morbidity and mortality: an analysis of 6,416 patients. 
  • Advanced Heart Failure in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: A Community-Based Study. 
  • Advantages of Bayesian monitoring methods in deciding whether and when to stop a clinical trial: an example of a neonatal cooling trial. 
  • Adverse cardiac events in children with Williams syndrome undergoing cardiovascular surgery: An analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Aetiology, timing and clinical predictors of early vs. late readmission following index hospitalization for acute heart failure: insights from ASCEND-HF. 
  • Age and gender differences in quality of care and outcomes for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Aggressive early crystalloid resuscitation adversely affects outcomes in adult blunt trauma patients: an analysis of the Glue Grant database. 
  • Aggressive versus conservative initiation of antimicrobial treatment in critically ill surgical patients with suspected intensive-care-unit-acquired infection: a quasi-experimental, before and after observational cohort study. 
  • Alabama coronary artery bypass grafting project: results of a statewide quality improvement initiative. 
  • Alirocumab Reduces Total Hospitalizations and Increases Days Alive and Out of Hospital in the ODYSSEY OUTCOMES Trial. 
  • Alternative pay-for-performance scoring methods: implications for quality improvement and patient outcomes. 
  • American College of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Parameters for Hemodynamic Support of Pediatric and Neonatal Septic Shock. 
  • An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter trial examining prehospital procedures in penetrating trauma patients. 
  • An analysis of the Association of Society of Chest Pain Centers Accreditation to American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction guideline adherence. 
  • An analysis of the cause of early mortality after administration of thrombolytic therapy. The Thrombolysis Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction Study Group. 
  • An empirically based tool for analyzing mortality associated with congenital heart surgery. 
  • An international perspective on heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction complicating myocardial infarction: the VALIANT registry. 
  • Analysis of Factors Associated With In-hospital Mortality in Lung Cancer Chemotherapy Patients With Neutropenia. 
  • Analysis of the impact of early surgery on in-hospital mortality of native valve endocarditis: use of propensity score and instrumental variable methods to adjust for treatment-selection bias. 
  • Anatomic distribution of the culprit lesion in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: findings from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Annual Outcomes With Transcatheter Valve Therapy: From the STS/ACC TVT Registry. 
  • Antegrade versus retrograde cerebral perfusion for hemiarch replacement with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest: does it matter? A propensity-matched analysis. 
  • Anticoagulant Use Among Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: An Analysis From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Antistaphylococcal β-Lactams versus Vancomycin for Treatment of Infective Endocarditis Due to Methicillin-Susceptible Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci: a Prospective Cohort Study from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis. 
  • Antithrombotic strategy in non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from the ACTION (Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network) Registry. 
  • Aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Aorto-cavitary fistulous tract formation in infective endocarditis: clinical and echocardiographic features of 76 cases and risk factors for mortality. 
  • Appropriate Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in Patients With Acute Dyspnea in Emergency Department or Inpatient Settings: A Clinical Guideline From the American College of Physicians. 
  • Are Trends in Hospitalization Prior to Hospice Use Associated With Hospice Episode Characteristics? 
  • Are for-profit hospital conversions harmful to patients and to Medicare? 
  • Are we targeting the right metric for heart failure? Comparison of hospital 30-day readmission rates and total episode of care inpatient days. 
  • Arrhythmias Requiring ECMO in Infants Without Structural Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • Assessment of temporal trends in mortality with implementation of a statewide ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) regionalization program. 
  • Association Between Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Pre-Activation and Reperfusion Timing Metrics and Outcomes in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Report From the ACTION Registry. 
  • 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 Hospital Volumes and Clinical Outcomes for Patients With Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. 
  • Association Between Inferior Vena Cava Filter Insertion in Trauma Patients and In-Hospital and Overall Mortality. 
  • Association Between Previous Use of Antiplatelet Therapy and Intracerebral Hemorrhage Outcomes. 
  • Association Between Prompt Defibrillation and Epinephrine Treatment With Long-Term Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Association Between Sitagliptin Use and Heart Failure Hospitalization and Related Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Association Between Therapeutic Hypothermia and Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Association between Initial Fluid Choice and Subsequent In-hospital Mortality during the Resuscitation of Adults with Septic Shock. 
  • Association between albumin administration and survival in cardiac surgery: a retrospective cohort study. 
  • Association between bleeding events and in-hospital mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Association between body mass index and in-hospital outcomes: Analysis of the nationwide inpatient database. 
  • Association between early postoperative nutritional supplement utilisation and length of stay in malnourished hip fracture patients. 
  • Association between hospital process performance and outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Association between intravenous chloride load during resuscitation and in-hospital mortality among patients with SIRS. 
  • Association between perioperative fluid management and patient outcomes: a multicentre retrospective study. 
  • Association between periprocedural bleeding and long-term outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention in older patients. 
  • Association between socioeconomic status and risk of hospitalization due to child maltreatment in the USA. 
  • Association between the choice of IV crystalloid and in-hospital mortality among critically ill adults with sepsis*. 
  • Association between valvular surgery and mortality among patients with infective endocarditis complicated by heart failure. 
  • Association of Appropriate Empirical Antimicrobial Therapy With In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With Bloodstream Infections in the US. 
  • Association of Cognitive Impairment With Treatment and Outcomes in Older Myocardial Infarction Patients: A Report From the NCDR Chest Pain-MI Registry. 
  • Association of Delivery System Integration and Outcomes for Major Cancer Surgery. 
  • Association of Early Aspirin Use With In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With Moderate COVID-19. 
  • Association of Early Myocardial Workload and Mortality Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Association of Electronic Health Record Use With Quality of Care and Outcomes in Heart Failure: An Analysis of Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • Association of Hospital Performance Based on 30-Day Risk-Standardized Mortality Rate With Long-term Survival After Heart Failure Hospitalization: An Analysis of the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. 
  • 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 Inpatient Use of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers With Mortality Among Patients With Hypertension Hospitalized With COVID-19. 
  • Association of Intracerebral Hemorrhage Among Patients Taking Non-Vitamin K Antagonist vs Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants With In-Hospital Mortality. 
  • Association of Preceding Antithrombotic Treatment With Acute Ischemic Stroke Severity and In-Hospital Outcomes Among Patients With Atrial Fibrillation. 
  • Association of Pulmonary Hypertension With Clinical Outcomes of Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair. 
  • Association of Rapid Care Process Implementation on Reperfusion Times Across Multiple ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Networks. 
  • Association of Smoking Status With Long-Term Mortality and Health Status After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • 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 beta-blocker use and selectivity with outcomes in patients with heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (from OPTIMIZE-HF). 
  • Association of bleeding and in-hospital mortality in black and white patients with st-segment-elevation myocardial infarction receiving reperfusion. 
  • Association of center volume with mortality and complications in pediatric heart surgery. 
  • Association of chronic lung disease with treatments and outcomes patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Association of door-in to door-out time with reperfusion delays and outcomes among patients transferred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Association of elevated fasting glucose with increased short-term and 6-month mortality in ST-segment elevation and non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events. 
  • Association of evidence-based care processes and outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndromes: performance matters. 
  • Association of gender with outcomes in critically ill patients. 
  • Association of guideline publication and delays to treatment in pediatric status epilepticus. 
  • Association of hospital coronary artery bypass volume with processes of care, mortality, morbidity, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons composite quality score. 
  • Association of hospital myocardial infarction volume with adherence to American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association performance measures: Insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Association of inpatient vs outpatient onset of ST-elevation myocardial infarction with treatment and clinical outcomes. 
  • Association of race/ethnicity with clinical risk factors, quality of care, and acute outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Association of statin therapy with outcomes of acute coronary syndromes: the GRACE study. 
  • Association of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion With Care Quality and Outcomes for Low-Income Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure. 
  • Association of troponin T, detected with highly sensitive assay, and outcomes in infective endocarditis. 
  • Associations Between Surgical Ablation and Operative Mortality After Mitral Valve Procedures. 
  • Associations between published quality ratings of skilled nursing facilities and outcomes of medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. 
  • Atrial fibrillation among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with sepsis: incidence and risk factors. 
  • Baricitinib plus Remdesivir for Hospitalized Adults with Covid-19. 
  • Benchmarks in Pancreatic Surgery: A Novel Tool for Unbiased Outcome Comparisons. 
  • Beta-blocker prophylaxis for total knee arthroplasty patients: a case series. 
  • Better outcomes for patients treated at hospitals that participate in clinical trials. 
  • Beyond volume: does hospital complexity matter?: an analysis of inpatient surgical mortality in the United States. 
  • Bleeding Complications in Lower-Extremity Peripheral Vascular Interventions: Insights From the NCDR PVI Registry. 
  • Bleeding outcomes of inpatients receiving therapeutic plasma exchange: A propensity-matched analysis of the National Inpatient Sample. 
  • Blood Pressure Thresholds and Mortality in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Blood pressure and in-hospital outcomes in patients presenting with ischaemic stroke. 
  • Blood transfusions, thrombosis, and mortality in hospitalized patients with cancer. 
  • Body temperature and mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. 
  • Burden and Outcomes of Neonatal Surgery in Uganda: Results of a Five-Year Prospective Study. 
  • Burden of Surgical Infections in a Tertiary-Care Pediatric Surgery Service in Uganda. 
  • Bypassing the emergency department and time to reperfusion in patients with prehospital ST-segment-elevation: findings from the reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction in Carolina Emergency Departments project. 
  • COPD in heart failure: are there long-term implications following acute heart failure hospitalization? 
  • CT perfusion-guided versus time-guided mechanical recanalization in acute ischemic stroke patients. 
  • Candida infective endocarditis: an observational cohort study with a focus on therapy. 
  • Cardiac Surgery in Patients With Trisomy 13 and 18: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Cardiac arrest among surgical patients: an analysis of incidence, patient characteristics, and outcomes in ACS-NSQIP. 
  • Cardiac arrest and clinical characteristics, treatments and outcomes among patients hospitalized with ST-elevation myocardial infarction in contemporary practice: A report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Cardiac biomarker measurement after elective percutaneous coronary interventions in older patients: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Cardiac surgery after mediastinal radiation: extent of exposure influences outcome. 
  • Cardiogenic Shock From Heart Failure Versus Acute Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Characteristics, Hospital Course, and 1-Year Outcomes. 
  • Care and outcomes of Hispanic patients admitted with heart failure with preserved or reduced ejection fraction: findings from get with the guidelines-heart failure. 
  • Cascade iatrogenesis: a case-control study to detect postoperative respiratory failure in hospitalized older adults. 
  • Cause, timing, and location of death in the Single Ventricle Reconstruction trial. 
  • Center variation and outcomes associated with delayed sternal closure after stage 1 palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Center variation in patient age and weight at Fontan operation and impact on postoperative outcomes. 
  • Central venous pressure after coronary artery bypass surgery: does it predict postoperative mortality or renal failure? 
  • Challenges in assessing hospital-level stroke mortality as a quality measure: comparison of ischemic, intracerebral hemorrhage, and total stroke mortality rates. 
  • Challenges in comparing risk-adjusted bypass surgery mortality results: results from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project. 
  • Changing pattern of organ dysfunction in early human sepsis is related to mortality. 
  • Characteristics and Outcomes of Individuals With Pre-existing Kidney Disease and COVID-19 Admitted to Intensive Care Units in the United States. 
  • Characteristics and current practice of parenteral nutrition in hospitalized patients. 
  • Characteristics and in-hospital outcomes for nonadherent patients with heart failure: findings from Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure (GWTG-HF). 
  • Characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of patients presenting with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction found to have significant coronary artery disease on coronary angiography and managed medically: stratification according to renal function. 
  • Characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and chronic kidney disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing an invasive strategy according to hemoglobin levels. 
  • Characteristics and outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention following cardiac arrest (from the NCDR). 
  • Characteristics of Acute Heart Failure Hospitalizations Based on Presenting Severity. 
  • Characteristics of nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage in the United States in 2003. 
  • Characteristics, management, and outcomes of 5,557 patients age > or =90 years with acute coronary syndromes: results from the CRUSADE Initiative. 
  • Characteristics, management, and outcomes of cocaine-positive patients with acute coronary syndrome (from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry). 
  • Characteristics, practice patterns, and outcomes in patients with acute hypertension: European registry for Studying the Treatment of Acute hyperTension (Euro-STAT). 
  • Characteristics, quality of care, and in-hospital outcomes of Asian-American heart failure patients: Findings from the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Program. 
  • Characterization of heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction: a comparison between ADHERE-US registry and ADHERE-International registry. 
  • Characterization of hemodynamically stable acute heart failure patients requiring a critical care unit admission: Derivation, validation, and refinement of a risk score. 
  • Characterization of myocardial infarction as an end point in two large trials of acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Characterizing major bleeding in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a pharmacovigilance study of 27 467 patients taking rivaroxaban. 
  • Children in the United States make close to 200,000 emergency department visits due to poisoning each year. 
  • Cholesterol levels and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute decompensated heart failure. 
  • Chronic kidney disease and bleeding complications after intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Chronic kidney disease in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Circulating Kidney Injury Molecule-1 Levels in Acute Heart Failure: Insights From the ASCEND-HF Trial (Acute Study of Clinical Effectiveness of Nesiritide in Decompensated Heart Failure). 
  • Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Associated With Oral Anticoagulant Use Among Patients Hospitalized With Intracerebral Hemorrhage. 
  • Clinical Characteristics, Management, and In-Hospital Outcomes in Patients With Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack in China. 
  • Clinical Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Clinical Implications of Serum Albumin Levels in Acute Heart Failure: Insights From DOSE-AHF and ROSE-AHF. 
  • Clinical and Echocardiographic Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized With Acute Versus Chronic Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (From the ARIC Study). 
  • Clinical characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of patients with cardiogenic shock undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery: insights from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Cardiac Database. 
  • Clinical characteristics and mortality after acute myocardial infarction-related hospitalization among Asians from a national population-based cohort study. 
  • Clinical characteristics and outcome of infective endocarditis due to Abiotrophia and Granulicatella compared to Viridans group streptococci. 
  • Clinical characteristics and outcome of infective endocarditis involving implantable cardiac devices. 
  • Clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized heart failure patients with systolic dysfunction and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: findings from OPTIMIZE-HF. 
  • Clinical characteristics, process of care, and outcomes of Hispanic patients presenting with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from Can Rapid risk stratification of Unstable angina patients Suppress ADverse outcomes with Early implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines (CRUSADE). 
  • Clinical importance of thrombocytopenia occurring in the hospital phase after administration of thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction. The Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction Study Group. 
  • Clinical outcomes among stroke patients receiving tissue plasminogen activator therapy beyond the 3-hour time window. 
  • Clinical outcomes of hybrid coronary revascularization versus coronary artery bypass surgery in patients with diabetes mellitus. 
  • Clinical significance of post-procedural TIMI flow in patients with cardiogenic shock undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Clinical trial--derived risk model may not generalize to real-world patients with acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Clinician and Algorithmic Application of the 2019 and 2022 Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention Shock Stages in the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network Registry. 
  • Coagulase-negative staphylococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis--a contemporary update based on the International Collaboration on Endocarditis: prospective cohort study. 
  • Collaborative quality improvement vs public reporting for percutaneous coronary intervention: A comparison of percutaneous coronary intervention in New York vs Michigan. 
  • Combined impact of age and estimated glomerular filtration rate on in-hospital mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction (from the American College of Cardiology National Cardiovascular Data Registry). 
  • Comfort Measures Only in Myocardial Infarction: Prevalence of This Status, Change Over Time, and Predictors From a Nationwide Study. 
  • Comparative analysis of antifibrinolytic medications in pediatric heart surgery. 
  • Comparative effectiveness of treatment strategies for severe splenic trauma in the pediatric population. 
  • Comparing Consumer-Directed Hospital Rankings With STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Outcomes. 
  • Comparing risk-adjustment methods for provider profiling. 
  • 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 Clinical Care and In-Hospital Outcomes of Asian American and White Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Comparison of Pediatric Severe Sepsis Managed in U.S. and European ICUs. 
  • Comparison of bleeding and in-hospital mortality in Asian-Americans versus Caucasian-Americans with ST-elevation myocardial infarction receiving reperfusion therapy. 
  • Comparison of cardiac surgery volumes and mortality rates between the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Medicare databases from 1993 through 2001. 
  • Comparison of clinical characteristics, treatments and outcomes of patients with ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction with versus without new or presumed new left bundle branch block (from NCDR®). 
  • Comparison of helicopter versus ground transport for the interfacility transport of isolated spinal injury. 
  • Comparison of open mitral commissurotomy with mitral valve replacement with or without chordal preservation in patients with mitral stenosis. 
  • Comparison of outcome after coronary angioplasty and coronary surgery for multivessel coronary artery disease in persons with diabetes. 
  • Comparison of percutaneous coronary intervention for previously treated versus de novo culprit lesions in acute myocardial infarction patients: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Comparison of primary coronary angioplasty versus thrombolysis in patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction and grade II and grade III myocardial ischemia on the enrollment electrocardiogram. 
  • Comparison of the prognostic value of peak creatine kinase-MB and troponin levels among patients with acute myocardial infarction: a report from the Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry-get with the guidelines. 
  • Complementary roles of open and hybrid approaches to thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair. 
  • Compliance With the National SEP-1 Quality Measure and Association With Sepsis Outcomes: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study. 
  • Complications and outcomes after spinal cord tumor resection in the United States from 1993 to 2002. 
  • 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. 
  • Concomitant aortic and renal artery reconstruction in patients on an intensive antihypertensive medical regimen: long-term outcome. 
  • Congenital Heart Disease in Premature Infants 25-32 Weeks' Gestational Age. 
  • Congenital Heart Surgery Case Mix Across North American Centers and Impact on Performance Assessment. 
  • Conscious Sedation Versus General Anesthesia for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Conscious Sedation Versus General Anesthesia for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Variation in Practice and Outcomes. 
  • Contemporary Demographic, Treatment, and Geographic Distribution Patterns for Disorders of Sex Development. 
  • Contemporary Outcomes of Surgical Repair of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection in Patients With Heterotaxy Syndrome. 
  • Contemporary clinical profile and outcome of prosthetic valve endocarditis. 
  • Contemporary incidence, predictors, and outcomes of acute kidney injury in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions: insights from the NCDR Cath-PCI registry. 
  • Contemporary mortality risk prediction for percutaneous coronary intervention: results from 588,398 procedures in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Contemporary outcomes of complete atrioventricular septal defect repair: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Contemporary utilization and outcomes of intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation in acute myocardial infarction: the benchmark registry. 
  • Contraindicated medication use in dialysis patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Contribution of bleeding and thromboembolic events to in-hospital mortality among patients with thrombocytopenia treated with heparin. 
  • Conversion From Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting to On-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. 
  • Coronary angioplasty versus fibrinolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Coronary artery bypass grafting after aprotinin: are we doing better? 
  • Coronary artery bypass in patients with severely depressed ventricular function. 
  • Correlation of angiographic findings and right (V1 to V3) versus left (V4 to V6) precordial ST-segment depression in inferior wall acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Corticosteroids improve survival of children with AIDS and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. 
  • Costs of periprocedural complications in patients treated with transcatheter aortic valve replacement: results from the Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valve trial. 
  • Costs of vasospasm in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Craniotomy for resection of meningioma in the elderly: a multicentre, prospective analysis from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. 
  • Creatine kinase-MB elevation after percutaneous coronary intervention predicts adverse outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Creation of state-level Medicare database for healthcare evaluation applications. 
  • Critical Care Enrichment During Advanced Heart Failure Training. 
  • Critical Care Nursing's Impact on Pediatric Patient Outcomes. 
  • Current landscape of hybrid revascularization: A report from the NCDR CathPCI Registry. 
  • Current management of mitral valve incompetence associated with coronary artery disease. 
  • Current use and outcomes of helicopter transport in pediatric trauma: a review of 18,291 transports. 
  • D-dimer assay predicts mortality in critically ill patients without disseminated intravascular coagulation or venous thromboembolic disease. 
  • Data from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery database: the surgical management of primary lung tumors. 
  • 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). 
  • De Novo vs Acute-on-Chronic Presentations of Heart Failure-Related Cardiogenic Shock: Insights from the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network Registry. 
  • Declining in-hospital mortality and increasing heart failure incidence in elderly patients with first myocardial infarction. 
  • Delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation for patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Delays in Door-to-Needle Times and Their Impact on Treatment Time and Outcomes in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Delays in fibrinolysis as primary reperfusion therapy for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Demographics, Care Patterns, and Outcomes of Patients Admitted to Cardiac Intensive Care Units: The Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network Prospective North American Multicenter Registry of Cardiac Critical Illness. 
  • Depression and clinical outcomes in heart failure: an OPTIMIZE-HF analysis. 
  • Description of an Association Between Leukocytosis and Clinical Outcomes in Large Hemispheric Infarctions. 
  • Design considerations and proposed template for clinical trials in hospitalized patients with decompensated chronic heart failure. 
  • Detection of Multiple Respiratory Viruses Associated With Mortality and Severity of Illness in Children. 
  • Determinants of Variation in Pneumonia Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. 
  • Determination of hospitalization type by investigator case report form or adjudication committee in a large heart failure clinical trial (β-Blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial [BEST]). 
  • Determining the Association Between End-of-Life Care Resources and Patient Outcomes in Pennsylvania ICUs. 
  • Development and Application of a Risk Prediction Model for In-Hospital Stroke After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Report From The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Development and Validation of a Mortality Prediction Model for Patients Receiving 14 Days of Mechanical Ventilation. 
  • Development and Validation of a Risk Prediction Model for In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients With Stevens-Johnson Syndrome/Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis-ABCD-10. 
  • Development and prognosis of non-Q-wave myocardial infarction in the thrombolytic era. 
  • Development and validation of a risk score using complete blood count to predict in-hospital mortality in COVID-19 patients. 
  • Development of a Metastatic Spinal Tumor Frailty Index (MSTFI) Using a Nationwide Database and Its Association with Inpatient Morbidity, Mortality, and Length of Stay After Spine Surgery. 
  • Development of a Pediatric Cardiac Mechanical Support Program. 
  • Diabetes and early postoperative outcomes following lumbar fusion. 
  • Diabetes mellitus and outcome after primary coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction: lessons from the GUSTO-IIb Angioplasty Substudy. Global Use of Strategies to Open Occluded Arteries in Acute Coronary Syndromes. 
  • Diabetes mellitus increases short-term mortality and morbidity in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Diabetes, quality of care, and in-hospital outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Diagnostic blood loss from phlebotomy and hospital-acquired anemia during acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury among hospitalized adults with documented hepatitis C Virus infection: a nationwide inpatient sample analysis. 
  • Differences in Characteristics and Outcome of Patients with Penetrating Injuries in the USA and the Netherlands: A Multi-institutional Comparison. 
  • Differences in baseline characteristics and in-hospital outcomes in patients with or without prior stroke undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Differences in clinical features and in-hospital outcomes of older adults with tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy. 
  • Differences in health care use and outcomes by the timing of in-hospital worsening heart failure. 
  • Differences in one-year health outcomes and resource utilization by definition of prolonged mechanical ventilation: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Differences in the profile, treatment, and prognosis of patients with cardiogenic shock by myocardial infarction classification: A report from NCDR. 
  • Direct Transport to a Percutaneous Cardiac Intervention Center and Outcomes in Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Direct oral anticoagulant- versus vitamin K antagonist-related gastrointestinal bleeding: Insights from a nationwide cohort. 
  • Discharge timing and outcomes after uncomplicated non-ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Diuretic response in acute heart failure-an analysis from ASCEND-HF. 
  • Do hospitals and surgeons with higher coronary artery bypass graft surgery volumes still have lower risk-adjusted mortality rates? 
  • 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 method of sternal repair influence long-term outcome of postoperative mediastinitis? 
  • Does the ownership of the admitting hospital make a difference? Outcomes and process of care of Medicare beneficiaries admitted with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • 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 time and mortality among patients undergoing primary PCI. 
  • Door-to-needle times for tissue plasminogen activator administration and clinical outcomes in acute ischemic stroke before and after a quality improvement initiative. 
  • Durability and clinical impact of tricuspid valve procedures in patients receiving a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device. 
  • Early CPAP versus surfactant in extremely preterm infants. 
  • Early acute lung injury: criteria for identifying lung injury prior to the need for positive pressure ventilation*. 
  • Early but not late convalescent plasma is associated with better survival in moderate-to-severe COVID-19. 
  • Early cavopulmonary anastomosis in very young infants after the Norwood procedure: impact on oxygenation, resource utilization, and mortality. 
  • Early intravenous heart failure therapy and outcomes among older patients hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure: findings from the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Registry Emergency Module (ADHERE-EM). 
  • Early mortality of acute myocardial infarction in patients with and without prior coronary revascularization surgery. A Coronary Artery Surgery Study Registry Study. 
  • Early predictors of in-hospital death in infective endocarditis. 
  • Early sustained ventricular arrhythmias complicating acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Early trauma induced coagulopathy (ETIC): prevalence across the injury spectrum. 
  • Early use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors in non-ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction: observations from the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction 4. 
  • Early, Goal-Directed Therapy for Septic Shock - A Patient-Level Meta-Analysis. 
  • Echocardiogram Utilization Patterns and Association With Mortality Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Echocardiographic Findings Predict In-Hospital and 1-Year Mortality in Left-Sided Native Valve Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis: Analysis From the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Prospective Echo Cohort Study. 
  • Economic impact of GPIIB/IIIA blockade after high-risk angioplasty: results from the RESTORE trial. Randomized Efficacy Study of Tirofiban for Outcomes and Restenosis. 
  • Effect of A1C and Glucose on Postoperative Mortality in Noncardiac and Cardiac Surgeries. 
  • Effect of Fresh vs Standard-issue Red Blood Cell Transfusions on Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of P2Y12 Inhibitors on Survival Free of Organ Support Among Non-Critically Ill Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of a 19-item surgical safety checklist during urgent operations in a global patient population. 
  • Effect of a Multifaceted Quality Improvement Intervention on Hospital Personnel Adherence to Performance Measures in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke in China: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of apolipoprotein E genotype on in-hospital mortality following intracerebral haemorrhage. 
  • Effect of defibrillation threshold testing on heart failure hospitalization or death in the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial-Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (MADIT-CRT). 
  • Effect of gender on the outcomes of contemporary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Effect of intensive care unit organizational model and structure on outcomes in patients with acute lung injury. 
  • Effect of levosimendan on survival and adverse events after cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis. 
  • Effect of meeting Leapfrog volume thresholds on complication rates following complex surgical procedures. 
  • Effect of the Deyo score on outcomes and costs in shoulder arthroplasty patients. 
  • Effect of tracheostomy timing in premature infants. 
  • Effective surgical safety checklist implementation. 
  • Effectiveness and safety of carotid artery stenting for significant carotid stenosis in patients with contralateral occlusion (from the German ALKK-CAS Registry experience). 
  • Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccination in Preventing COVID-19-Associated Invasive Mechanical Ventilation and Death - United States, March 2021-January 2022. 
  • Effects of institutional volumes on operative outcomes for aortic root replacement in North America. 
  • Efficacy and safety of dapagliflozin in acute heart failure: Rationale and design of the DICTATE-AHF trial. 
  • Efficacy of mediastinal lymph node dissection during lobectomy for lung cancer by thoracoscopy and thoracotomy. 
  • Electronic health record risk score provides earlier prognostication of clinical outcomes in patients admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit. 
  • Emergency department bypass for ST-Segment-elevation myocardial infarction patients identified with a prehospital electrocardiogram: a report from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline program. 
  • End-of-Life Care for Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma in the Era of Oral Anticancer Therapy. 
  • End-of-life Heart Failure Care in the United States. 
  • End-of-life care in the cardiac intensive care unit: a contemporary view from the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network (CCCTN) Registry. 
  • End-stage renal disease and intensive care unit prognosis: are current tools good enough? 
  • Enhanced mortality risk prediction with a focus on high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention: results from 1,208,137 procedures in the NCDR (National Cardiovascular Data Registry). 
  • Enrollment and events of hospice patients with heart failure vs. cancer. 
  • Epidemiology and Outcomes of Patients Readmitted to the Intensive Care Unit After Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Admission. 
  • Epidemiology and outcomes after in-hospital cardiac arrest after pediatric cardiac surgery. 
  • Epidemiology and outcomes of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the United States, 2000-2009. 
  • Epidemiology of Shock in Contemporary Cardiac Intensive Care Units. 
  • Epidemiology of new-onset atrial fibrillation following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • 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. 
  • Equitably Allocating Resources during Crises: Racial Differences in Mortality Prediction Models. 
  • Esophagectomy outcomes at low-volume hospitals: the association between systems characteristics and mortality. 
  • Estimating Mortality Risk for Adult Congenital Heart Surgery: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Etomidate, adrenal function, and mortality in critically ill patients. 
  • Evaluating High-Dimensional Machine Learning Models to Predict Hospital Mortality Among Older Patients With Cancer. 
  • Evaluating treatment efficacy by multiple end points in phase II acute heart failure clinical trials: analyzing data using a global method. 
  • Evaluation of failure to rescue as a quality metric in pediatric heart surgery: an analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Evaluation study of congestive heart failure and pulmonary artery catheterization effectiveness: the ESCAPE trial. 
  • Evolution of the coronary care unit: clinical characteristics and temporal trends in healthcare delivery and outcomes. 
  • Expectations and outcomes of prolonged mechanical ventilation. 
  • Exploring Factors Associated With Morbidity and Mortality in Patients With Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: A National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database Analysis Within Surgical Groups. 
  • Exploring the behavior of hospital composite performance measures: an example from coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • External Validation for Acute Kidney Injury Severity Scores: A Multicenter Retrospective Study in 14 Japanese ICUs. 
  • External fixation and surgical fusion for pediatric cervical spine injuries: Short-term outcomes. 
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Interfacility Transfer: A Regional Referral Experience. 
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Pediatric Trisomy 21: 30 Years of Experience from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Registry. 
  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation outcomes in children with Williams syndrome: a review of the ELSO registry. 
  • Extubation Failure after Neonatal Cardiac Surgery: A Multicenter Analysis. 
  • FGF-23 levels in patients with AKI and risk of adverse outcomes. 
  • Facial fractures of the upper craniofacial skeleton predict mortality and occult intracranial injury after blunt trauma: an analysis. 
  • Factors Associated With Death in Critically Ill Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the US. 
  • Factors Associated With and Prognostic Implications of Cardiac Troponin Elevation in Decompensated Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Findings From the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Program. 
  • Factors associated with long-term outcomes in pediatric refractory status epilepticus. 
  • Factors identified as precipitating hospital admissions for heart failure and clinical outcomes: findings from OPTIMIZE-HF. 
  • Factors related to heart rupture in acute coronary syndromes in the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events. 
  • Failure of Medicare health maintenance organizations to control the cost of colon resections in elderly patients. 
  • Failure to Rescue Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: An Analysis From The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Favorable impact of an infection control network on nosocomial infection rates in community hospitals. 
  • Feasibility and applicability of paramedic-based prehospital fibrinolysis in a large North American center. 
  • Feeding intolerance in critically ill patients with COVID-19. 
  • Fibrinolysis use among patients requiring interhospital transfer for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction care: a report from the US National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Five-year results for endovascular repair of acute complicated type B aortic dissection. 
  • Frailty Assessment in Hospitalized Older Adults Using the Electronic Health Record. 
  • Frailty and Outcomes After Myocardial Infarction: Insights From the CONCORDANCE Registry. 
  • Frequency and clinical implications of discordant creatine kinase-MB and troponin measurements in acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Frequency and predictors of drug-eluting stent use in saphenous vein bypass graft percutaneous coronary interventions: a report from the American College of Cardiology National Cardiovascular Data CathPCI registry. 
  • Frequency of use of thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction in Israel. 
  • Functional Status of Neonatal and Pediatric Patients After Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. 
  • Gait Speed Predicts 30-Day Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Results From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Gender Differences in Associations Between Intraprocedural Thrombotic Events During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Adverse Outcomes. 
  • Gender Disparities Among Adult Recipients of Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Public. 
  • Gender differences in mortality after mitral valve operation: evidence for higher mortality in perimenopausal women. 
  • Gender trends in the repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms and outcomes. 
  • Generalizability and longitudinal outcomes of a national heart failure clinical registry: Comparison of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE) and non-ADHERE Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Geographic Access to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Centers in the United States: Insights From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Gestational age at birth and outcomes after neonatal cardiac surgery: an analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Getting cardiogenic shock patients to the right place-How initial intensive care unit triage decisions impact processes of care and outcomes. 
  • Global Differences in Characteristics, Precipitants, and Initial Management of Patients Presenting With Acute Heart Failure. 
  • Global Survey of Outcomes of Neurocritical Care Patients: Analysis of the PRINCE Study Part 2. 
  • Global patient outcomes after elective surgery: prospective cohort study in 27 low-, middle- and high-income countries. 
  • Glutamine and antioxidants in the critically ill patient: a post hoc analysis of a large-scale randomized trial. 
  • Glycated Hemoglobin and Outcomes of Heart Failure (from Get With the Guidelines-Heart Failure). 
  • Going the Extra Mile: Improved Survival for Pancreatic Cancer Patients Traveling to High-volume Centers. 
  • Guideline implementation research: exploring the gap between evidence and practice in the CRUSADE Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Healthcare Resource Availability, Quality of Care, and Acute Ischemic Stroke Outcomes. 
  • Heart Failure "End Result Cards": Solid B. 
  • Heart transplantation for adults with congenital heart disease: analysis of the United network for organ sharing database. 
  • Heart transplantation in neonates and in children. 
  • Hemiarch replacement at 28°C: an analysis of mild and moderate hypothermia in 500 patients. 
  • Hepatic parenchymal preservation surgery: decreasing morbidity and mortality rates in 4,152 resections for malignancy. 
  • High Levels of Morbidity and Mortality Among Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients With Severe Sepsis: Insights From the Sepsis PRevalence, OUtcomes, and Therapies International Point Prevalence Study. 
  • High Postoperative Blood Pressure After Cardiac Surgery Is Associated With Acute Kidney Injury and Death. 
  • High-degree atrioventricular block, asystole, and electro-mechanical dissociation complicating non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Higher Use of Surgery Confers Superior Survival in Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. 
  • Higher mortality in pediatric and adult trauma patients with traumatic coagulopathy, using age-adjusted diagnostic criteria. 
  • Higher versus lower positive end-expiratory pressures in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome. 
  • Hip fracture outcomes: does surgeon or hospital volume really matter? 
  • History of AIDS in HIV-Infected Patients Is Associated With Higher In-Hospital Mortality Following Admission for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Stroke. 
  • Hospital Quality Metrics: "America's Best Hospitals" and Outcomes After Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Hospital Resource Utilization Before and After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: The STS/ACC TVT Registry. 
  • Hospital Surgical Volume and Associated Postoperative Complications of Pediatric Urological Surgery in the United States. 
  • Hospital based emergency department visits attributed to child physical abuse in United States: predictors of in-hospital mortality. 
  • Hospital case volume is associated with mortality in patients hospitalized with subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Hospital charges and length of stay associated with septicemia among children hospitalized for leukemia treatment in the United States. 
  • Hospital costs, incidence, and inhospital mortality rates of traumatic subdural hematoma in the United States. 
  • Hospital credentialing and quality of care. 
  • Hospital credentialing for laparoscopic cholecystectomy: is stricter better? 
  • Hospital length of stay and clinical outcomes in older STEMI patients after primary PCI: a report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Hospital mortality of patients aged 80 and older after surgical repair for type A acute aortic dissection in Japan. 
  • Hospital ownership and cost and quality of care: is there a dime's worth of difference? 
  • Hospital percutaneous coronary intervention appropriateness and in-hospital procedural outcomes: insights from the NCDR. 
  • Hospital readmission rates: are we measuring the right thing? 
  • Hospital readmissions reduction program. 
  • Hospital variability of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival. 
  • Hospital variation in intravenous inotrope use for patients hospitalized with heart failure: insights from Get With The Guidelines. 
  • Hospital-acquired anemia and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Hospitalization and case-fatality rates for stroke in Canada from 1982 through 1991. The Canadian Collaborative Study Group of Stroke Hospitalizations. 
  • Hospitalization and outcomes attributed to epidermal necrolysis in the United States: predictors of mortality. 
  • Hospitalization for Recently Diagnosed Versus Worsening Chronic Heart Failure: From the ASCEND-HF Trial. 
  • Hospitalizations in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 
  • Hospitalized hemorrhagic stroke patients with renal insufficiency: clinical characteristics, care patterns, and outcomes. 
  • Hybrid Palliation: Outcomes After the Comprehensive Stage 2 Procedure. 
  • Hybrid procedures in the treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: a systematic review. 
  • Hypercholesterolemia paradox in relation to mortality in acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Hyperoxia and Hypocapnia During Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Associations With Complications, Mortality, and Functional Status Among Survivors. 
  • Hypertension in the Young Adult Trauma Population: Rethinking the Traditional "Incidentaloma". 
  • Hypotension during hospitalization for acute heart failure is independently associated with 30-day mortality: findings from ASCEND-HF. 
  • Hypothermia and cerebral protection strategies in aortic arch surgery: a comparative effectiveness analysis from the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Identification of Emergency Department Patients With Acute Heart Failure at Low Risk for 30-Day Adverse Events: The STRATIFY Decision Tool. 
  • Identifying high-quality hospitals: consult the ratings or flip a coin? 
  • Identifying high-risk surgical patients: A study of older adults whose code status changed to Do-Not-Resuscitate. 
  • Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on In-Hospital Mortality and Thromboembolic Complications after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. 
  • Impact of Insurance Status on Outcomes and Use of Rehabilitation Services in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Impact of Retrograde Arch Extension in Acute Type B Aortic Dissection on Management and Outcomes. 
  • Impact of Sex and Contact-to-Device Time on Clinical Outcomes in Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction-Findings From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Impact of T status and N status on perioperative outcomes after thoracoscopic lobectomy for lung cancer. 
  • Impact of acute beta-blocker therapy for patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Impact of anemia in patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention: analysis from the Controlled Abciximab and Device Investigation to Lower Late Angioplasty Complications (CADILLAC) Trial. 
  • Impact of body weight and extreme obesity on the presentation, treatment, and in-hospital outcomes of 50,149 patients with ST-Segment elevation myocardial infarction results from the NCDR (National Cardiovascular Data Registry). 
  • Impact of center volume on outcomes of left ventricular assist device implantation as destination therapy: analysis of the Thoratec HeartMate Registry, 1998 to 2005. 
  • Impact of complications on outcomes following aortic and mitral valve replacements in the United States. 
  • Impact of diabetes mellitus on clinical characteristics, management, and in-hospital outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (from the NCDR). 
  • Impact of ethnicity and gender differences on angiographic coronary artery disease prevalence and in-hospital mortality in the American College of Cardiology-National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Impact of facial fractures and intracranial injuries on hospitalization outcomes following firearm injuries. 
  • Impact of home warfarin use on the treatment and outcomes of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Impact of left ventricular dysfunction on hospital mortality among patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Impact of percutaneous coronary intervention performance reporting on cardiac resuscitation centers: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Impact of preoperative renal dysfunction in patients undergoing off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass. 
  • Impact of preoperative renal dysfunction on long-term survival for patients undergoing aortic valve replacement. 
  • Impact of smoking on postoperative complications after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. 
  • Impact of specific postoperative complications on the outcomes of emergency general surgery patients. 
  • Impact of time of presentation on the care and outcomes of acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Impact of trauma centre capacity and volume on the mortality risk of incoming new admissions. 
  • Impact of tricuspid valve regurgitation in patients treated with implantable left ventricular assist devices. 
  • Implications and reasons for the lack of use of reperfusion therapy in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: findings from the CRUSADE initiative. 
  • Implications of prior myocardial infarction for patients presenting with an acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Improvement in Care and Outcomes for Emergency Medical Service-Transported Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) With and Without Prehospital Cardiac Arrest: A Mission: Lifeline STEMI Accelerator Study. 
  • Improvement in quality indicators using NCDR® registries: First international experience. 
  • Improvements in pulmonary and general critical care reduces mortality following ventilator-associated pneumonia. 
  • Improving Care of STEMI in the United States 2008 to 2012. 
  • Improving mortality in older adult trauma patients: Are we doing better? 
  • In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Practices and Outcomes in Maintenance Dialysis Patients. 
  • In-Hospital Mortality and Post-Surgical Complications Among Cancer Patients with Metabolic Syndrome. 
  • In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A US Cohort Study. 
  • In-Hospital and Postdischarge Mortality Among Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Hospitalizations Ending on the Weekend Versus Weekday: The ARIC Study Community Surveillance. 
  • In-Hospital and Three-Year Outcomes of Heart Failure Patients in South India: The Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry. 
  • In-hospital and 1-year mortality in patients undergoing early surgery for prosthetic valve endocarditis. 
  • In-hospital clinical outcomes after upper gastrointestinal surgery: Data from an international observational study. 
  • In-hospital death following inpatient surgical procedures in the United States, 1996-2006. 
  • In-hospital mortality and morbidity among extremely preterm infants in relation to maternal body mass index. 
  • In-hospital mortality associated with the use of intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation. 
  • In-hospital outcomes after bariatric surgery in patients with heart failure. 
  • In-hospital outcomes of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with cocaine use in the USA. 
  • In-hospital outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions in extremely obese and normal-weight patients: findings from the NCDR (National Cardiovascular Data Registry). 
  • In-hospital outcomes of thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke in patients with primary brain tumors. 
  • Incidence and Outcomes of Surgical Bailout During TAVR: Insights From the STS/ACC TVT Registry. 
  • Incidence and outcomes of emergent cardiac surgery during transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI): insights from the European Registry on Emergent Cardiac Surgery during TAVI (EuRECS-TAVI). 
  • Incidence and outcomes of no-reflow phenomenon during percutaneous coronary intervention among patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Incidence and prognostic significance of thrombocytopenia in patients treated with prolonged heparin therapy. 
  • Incidence and survival of hospitalized acute decompensated heart failure in four US communities (from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study). 
  • Incidence, Management, and Associated Clinical Outcomes of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: An Analysis From the STS/ACC TVT Registry. 
  • Incidence, Predictors, and Outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology National Cardiovascular Data Registry-Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Incidence, Temporal Trends, and Associated Outcomes of Vascular and Bleeding Complications in Patients Undergoing Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapies Registry. 
  • Incident stroke and mortality associated with new-onset atrial fibrillation in patients hospitalized with severe sepsis. 
  • Inclusion of Functional Status Measures in the Risk Adjustment of 30-Day Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Report From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology TVT Registry. 
  • Increase in tracheostomy for prolonged mechanical ventilation in North Carolina, 1993-2002. 
  • Increased Costs Associated with Bloodstream Infections Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria Are Due Primarily to Patients with Hospital-Acquired Infections. 
  • Increased mortality at low-volume orthotopic heart transplantation centers: should current standards change? 
  • Increased mortality with elevated plasma endothelin-1 in acute heart failure: an ASCEND-HF biomarker substudy. 
  • Increased number of coagulation products in relationship to red blood cell products transfused improves mortality in trauma patients. 
  • Increasing healthcare resource utilization after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in the United States. 
  • Individual and center-level factors affecting mortality among extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Infant and child deaths in acute care settings: implications for palliative care. 
  • Infective endocarditis and solid organ transplantation: Only worse outcomes during initial transplantation hospitalization. 
  • Influence of Patient Goals of Care on Performance Measures in Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure: An Analysis of the Enhanced Feedback For Effective Cardiac Treatment (EFFECT) Registry. 
  • Influence of age on the management of heart failure: findings from Get With the Guidelines-Heart Failure (GWTG-HF). 
  • Influence of clinical trial enrollment on the quality of care and outcomes for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Influence of diabetes mellitus on the clinical manifestations and prognosis of infective endocarditis: a report from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Merged Database. 
  • Influence of documented history of coronary artery disease on outcomes in patients admitted for worsening heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in the EVEREST trial. 
  • Influence of hospitalization for cardiovascular versus noncardiovascular reasons on subsequent mortality in patients with chronic heart failure across the spectrum of ejection fraction. 
  • Influence of insurance type on the use of procedures, medications and hospital outcome in patients with unstable angina: results from the GUARANTEE Registry. Global Unstable Angina Registry and Treatment Evaluation. 
  • Influence of presenting electrocardiographic findings on the treatment and outcomes of patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Influence of projected complication rates on estimated appropriate use rates for carotid endarterectomy. Appropriateness Project Investigators. Academic Medical Center Consortium. 
  • Influence of the timing of cardiac surgery on the outcome of patients with infective endocarditis and stroke. 
  • Influence of transfer-in rates on quality of care and outcomes at receiving hospitals in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Initial Experience With Commercial Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair in the United States. 
  • Institutional review of predictors of in-hospital and 30-day discharge mortality in neurosurgical patients. 
  • Insurance status and race affect treatment and outcome of traumatic brain injury. 
  • Intensive Care Outcomes and Mortality Prediction at a National Referral Hospital in Western Kenya. 
  • Intensive Care Unit Utilization and Mortality Among Medicare Patients Hospitalized With Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Intensive care unit safety culture and outcomes: a US multicenter study. 
  • Intensive insulin therapy and mortality in critically ill patients. 
  • Interactions between heparins, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonists, and coronary intervention. The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE). 
  • Interfacility Transfers Among Patients With Complex Chronic Conditions. 
  • Interhospital transport of children requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support for cardiac dysfunction. 
  • International variation in and factors associated with hospital readmission after myocardial infarction. 
  • Interprovincial Differences in Canadian Coronary Care Unit Resource Use and Outcomes. 
  • Intestinal Perforation in Renal Transplant Recipients: A Single Center Experience of 2123 Recipients. 
  • Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation in US and non-US centres: results of the Benchmark Registry. 
  • Intraoperative adherence to a low tidal volume ventilation strategy in critically ill patients with preexisting acute lung injury. 
  • Intraoperative fluid management and complications following pancreatectomy. 
  • Intraoperative physiologic variables and outcome in cardiac surgery: Part I. In-hospital mortality. 
  • Intraoperative physiologic variables and outcome in cardiac surgery: Part II. Neurologic outcome. 
  • Intraparenchymal vs extracranial ventricular drain intracranial pressure monitors in traumatic brain injury: less is more? 
  • Intravenous Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients With History of Stroke Plus Diabetes Mellitus. 
  • Invasive Mechanical Ventilation and Mortality in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Multicenter Study. 
  • Invasive bacterial and fungal infections among hospitalized HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children and infants in northern Tanzania. 
  • Investigating Mediators of the Poor Pneumonia Outcomes of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Exposed but Uninfected Children. 
  • Investigating SOFA, delta-SOFA and MPM-III for mortality prediction among critically ill patients at a private tertiary hospital ICU in Kenya: A retrospective cohort study. 
  • Invited commentary. 
  • 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 Time From Last Hospitalization for Heart Failure to Placement of a Primary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Associated With Patient Outcomes? 
  • Is perioperative COVID-19 really associated with worse surgical outcomes? A nationwide COVIDSurg propensity-matched analysis. 
  • Is the impact of hospital and surgeon volumes on the in-hospital mortality rate for coronary artery bypass graft surgery limited to patients at high risk? 
  • Is therapeutic hypothermia during neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation associated with intracranial hemorrhage? 
  • Is there a "July effect" for head and neck cancer surgery? 
  • Ischemic Stroke with Troponin Elevation: Patient Characteristics, Resource Utilization, and In-Hospital Outcomes. 
  • Isolated Mitral Valve Surgery: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Analysis. 
  • Jehovah's Witnesses and cardiac surgery: a single institution's experience. 
  • Lack of impact of electronic health records on quality of care and outcomes for ischemic stroke. 
  • Laparoscopic appendectomy in the elderly. 
  • Laparoscopic appendectomy outcomes on the weekend and during the week are no different: a national study of 151,774 patients. 
  • Late Consequences of Acute Coronary Syndromes: Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) Follow-up. 
  • Late survival after valve operation in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Left and codominant coronary artery circulations are associated with higher in-hospital mortality among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndromes: report From the National Cardiovascular Database Cath Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (CathPCI) Registry. 
  • Left bundle branch block in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. Incidence, angiographic characteristics, and clinical outcomes. 
  • Left circumflex occlusion in acute myocardial infarction (from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry). 
  • Length of Stay, Mortality, Cost, and Perceptions of Care Associated With Transition From an Open to Closed Staffing Model in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Length of stay and mortality associated with febrile neutropenia among children with cancer. 
  • Leveraging Clinical Digitized Data to Understand Temporal Characteristics and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarctions at a Tertiary Care Medical Centre in Pakistan from 1988-2018 - Methods and Results. 
  • Limitations of using cardiac catheterization rates to assess the quality of care for patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Liver transplantation at safety net hospitals: Potentially vulnerable patients with noninferior outcomes. 
  • Long-Term Clinical Outcomes of Silzone Era St. Jude Medical Mechanical Heart Valves. 
  • Long-term outcome and its predictors among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction complicated by shock: insights from the GUSTO-I trial. 
  • Long-term outcomes after isolated aortic valve replacement in octogenarians: a modern perspective. 
  • Long-term outcomes associated with hospital acquired thrombocytopenia among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Long-term results of endovascular repair for descending thoracic aortic aneurysms. 
  • Longitudinal Risk of Adverse Events in Patients With Acute Kidney Injury After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Low-risk acute heart failure patients: external validation of the Society of Chest Pain Center's recommendations. 
  • Lower serum sodium is associated with increased short-term mortality in hospitalized patients with worsening heart failure: results from the Outcomes of a Prospective Trial of Intravenous Milrinone for Exacerbations of Chronic Heart Failure (OPTIME-CHF) study. 
  • Machine Learning for Predicting In-Hospital Mortality After Traumatic Brain Injury in Both High-Income and Low- and Middle-Income Countries. 
  • Maintaining quality of care 24/7 in a nontrauma surgical intensive care unit. 
  • Management and outcomes of patients presenting with STEMI by use of chronic oral anticoagulation: results from the GRACE registry. 
  • Management guided by brain tissue oxygen monitoring and outcome following severe traumatic brain injury. 
  • Management of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a summary and appraisal of published evidence. 
  • Management of postoperative atrial fibrillation and subsequent outcomes in contemporary patients undergoing cardiac surgery: insights from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons CAPS-Care Atrial Fibrillation Registry. 
  • Marijuana use and inpatient outcomes among hospitalized patients: analysis of the nationwide inpatient sample database. 
  • Maternal sepsis mortality and morbidity during hospitalization for delivery: temporal trends and independent associations for severe sepsis. 
  • Mayo Clinic Risk Score for percutaneous coronary intervention predicts in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • 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. 
  • Measuring the effect of inappropriate initial antibiotic therapy on outcomes of patients with Gram-negative sepsis: An imprecise science. 
  • Mechanical Ventilation and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Observational Study. 
  • Mechanically ventilated pediatric stem cell transplant recipients: effect of cord blood transplant and organ dysfunction on outcome. 
  • Medical and Obstetric Outcomes Among Pregnant Women With Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • Medical records and quality of care in acute coronary syndromes: results from CRUSADE. 
  • Medical therapies and invasive treatments for coronary artery disease by body mass: the "obesity paradox" in the Get With The Guidelines database. 
  • Medicare HMO penetration and mortality outcomes of ischemic stroke. 
  • Metabolomic Fingerprinting of Infants Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Changes in Metabolic Pathways and Association With Mortality and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay. 
  • Metabolomic derangements are associated with mortality in critically ill adult patients. 
  • Middle-of-the-night percutaneous coronary intervention and its association with percutaneous coronary intervention outcomes performed the following day: an analysis from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Minimal Impact of Implemented Early Warning Score and Best Practice Alert for Patient Deterioration. 
  • Misclassification of Myocardial Injury as Myocardial Infarction: Implications for Assessing Outcomes in Value-Based Programs. 
  • Moderate Versus Deep Hypothermia With Unilateral Selective Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion for Acute Type A Dissection. 
  • Morbidity and Mortality Associated With Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty: A National Perspective. 
  • Morbidity and healthcare costs of vascular anomalies: a national study. 
  • Morbidity, mortality, and health care costs for patients undergoing spine surgery following the ACGME resident duty-hour reform: Clinical article. 
  • Mortality Trends After a Voluntary Checklist-based Surgical Safety Collaborative. 
  • Mortality Trends in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Mortality after myocardial infarction: the role of renal function and systolic and diastolic functions of the left ventricle. 
  • Mortality after total hip and knee arthroplasty in a medium-volume university practice. 
  • Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study. 
  • Mortality and timing of surgery for prosthetic valve endocarditis--reply. 
  • Mortality of Myocardial Infarction by Sex, Age, and Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease Status in the ACTION Registry-GWTG (Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry-Get With the Guidelines). 
  • Mortality, In-Hospital Morbidity, Care Practices, and 2-Year Outcomes for Extremely Preterm Infants in the US, 2013-2018. 
  • Mortality-Associated Characteristics of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali, Rwanda. 
  • Most Common Causes of Hospitalization Associated with Inpatient Mortality in the United States Between 2005-2018. 
  • Multicenter experience in revascularization of very elderly patients. 
  • Multicenter randomized trial and a systematic overview of lidocaine in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Multilevel Associations Between Patient- and Hospital-Level Factors and In-Hospital Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients With Head and Neck Cancer. 
  • Multistate 5-Year Initiative to Improve Care for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Primary Results From the HeartRescue Project. 
  • Multivessel vs culprit-only percutaneous coronary intervention among patients 65 years or older with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • National Benchmarks for Proportions of Patients Receiving Blood Transfusions During Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery: An Analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • National Trends and Outcomes in Isolated Tricuspid Valve Surgery. 
  • National Variation in Congenital Heart Surgery Outcomes. 
  • National estimates of the use of hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation in children with cancer in the United States. 
  • National inpatient complications and outcomes after surgery for spinal metastasis from 1993-2002. 
  • National trends in health care utilization and racial and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric pyogenic arthritis. 
  • National trends, complications, and outcomes following transsphenoidal surgery for Cushing's disease from 1993 to 2002. 
  • Nationwide trends and outcomes associated with neoadjuvant therapy in pancreatic cancer: An analysis of 18 243 patients. 
  • Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Care After Myocardial Infarction in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes following neonatal late-onset sepsis and blood culture-negative conditions. 
  • New or Progressive Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome in Pediatric Severe Sepsis: A Sepsis Phenotype With Higher Morbidity and Mortality. 
  • No Association of Early Postoperative Heart Rate With Outcomes After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. 
  • No association between hemoglobin A1c and in-hospital mortality in patients with diabetes and acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Noise versus signal: the clinical implications of an increasingly sensitive troponin assay for patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Non-evidence-based ICD implantations in the United States. 
  • Nonsystem reasons for delay in door-to-balloon time and associated in-hospital mortality: a report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Novel model for predicting inpatient mortality after emergency admission to hospital in Singapore: retrospective observational study. 
  • Number of rib fractures thresholds independently predict worse outcomes in older patients with blunt trauma. 
  • Nurse staffing and adverse events in hospitalized children. 
  • Nutritional Support Should Target the Cause of Malnutrition in Hospitalized Patients. 
  • Obesity and Outcomes Following Cardiogenic Shock Requiring Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support. 
  • Obesity and prostate cancer-specific mortality after radical prostatectomy: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) database. 
  • Occurrence and complications of tracheal reintubation in critically ill adults. 
  • Off-pump coronary bypass provides reduced mortality and morbidity and equivalent 10-year survival. 
  • Open versus endovascular repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Opioid and benzodiazepine use during therapeutic hypothermia in encephalopathic neonates. 
  • Opportunistic cutaneous fungal infections in the inpatient setting. 
  • Oral Anticoagulation in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease and Atrial Fibrillation: The Need to Evaluate Net Clinical Effect. 
  • Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Systems of Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Outcome of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in patients with prior coronary artery bypass surgery receiving thrombolytic therapy. 
  • Outcome of extremely preterm infants (<1,000 g) with congenital heart defects from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. 
  • Outcome of patients sustaining acute ischemic mitral regurgitation during myocardial infarction. 
  • Outcomes 1 Year After Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Lead Abandonment Versus Explantation for Unused or Malfunctioning Leads: A Report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock and unresponsive neurological state: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. 
  • Outcomes after massive transfusion in nontrauma patients in the era of damage control resuscitation. 
  • Outcomes before and after implementation of a pediatric rapid-response extracorporeal membrane oxygenation program. 
  • Outcomes following acute exacerbation of severe chronic obstructive lung disease. The SUPPORT investigators (Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments). 
  • Outcomes following interventions in small coronary arteries with the use of hand-crimped Palmaz-Schatz stents. 
  • Outcomes following redo sternotomy for aortic surgery. 
  • Outcomes following thyroid and parathyroid surgery in pregnant women. 
  • Outcomes following transcatheter aortic valve replacement in the United States. 
  • Outcomes for endocarditis surgery in North America: a simplified risk scoring system. 
  • Outcomes of Medicare beneficiaries undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. 
  • Outcomes of PCI in Relation to Procedural Characteristics and Operator Volumes in the United States. 
  • Outcomes of Planned Two-Stage Hybrid Aortic Repair With Dacron-Replaced Proximal Landing Zone. 
  • Outcomes of Reoperation After Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: Implications for Index Repair Strategy. 
  • Outcomes of Staphylococcus aureus infection in hemodialysis-dependent patients. 
  • Outcomes of Vascular and Endovascular Interventions Performed During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic. 
  • Outcomes of acute type a dissection repair before and after implementation of a multidisciplinary thoracic aortic surgery program. 
  • Outcomes of bariatric surgery in patients > or =65 years. 
  • Outcomes of cardiac surgery in patients > or = 80 years: results from the National Cardiovascular Network. 
  • Outcomes of carotid-subclavian bypass performed in the setting of thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 
  • Outcomes of cholecystectomy in US heart transplant recipients. 
  • Outcomes of endovascular and open treatment for chronic mesenteric ischemia. 
  • Outcomes of inpatients with and without sickle cell disease after high-volume surgical procedures. 
  • Outcomes of invasive mechanical ventilation in children and adolescents hospitalized due to status asthmaticus in United States: a population based study. 
  • Outcomes of left ventricular assist device implantation as destination therapy in the post-REMATCH era: implications for patient selection. 
  • Outcomes of off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: Impact of preoperative risk. 
  • Overcoming a travel burden to high-volume centers for treatment of retroperitoneal sarcomas is associated with improved survival. 
  • Oxygen-Saturation Targets for Critically Ill Adults Receiving Mechanical Ventilation. 
  • Parenteral glutamine supplementation in critical illness: a systematic review. 
  • Partial and transitional atrioventricular septal defect outcomes. 
  • Pathogenetic and prognostic significance of altered coagulation and fibrinolysis in acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome. 
  • Pathophysiology and Pathology of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients With COVID-19. 
  • Patient Trajectories Among Persons Hospitalized for COVID-19 : A Cohort Study. 
  • Patient and Hospital Characteristics of Mitral Valve Surgery in the United States. 
  • Patient and hospital characteristics associated with traditional measures of inpatient quality of care for patients with heart failure. 
  • Patient satisfaction and its relationship with clinical quality and inpatient mortality in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Patient socioeconomic status is an independent predictor of operative mortality. 
  • Patients Hospitalized for De Novo Versus Worsening Chronic Heart Failure in the United States. 
  • Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes Admitted to Contemporary Cardiac Intensive Care Units: Insights From the CCCTN Registry. 
  • Patterns and implications of B-type natriuretic peptide measurement in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Patterns and outcomes of red blood cell transfusion in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Patterns and prognostic implications of low high-density lipoprotein levels in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Patterns of care quality and prognosis among hospitalized ischemic stroke patients with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Patterns of transfer for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome from community to tertiary care hospitals. 
  • Patterns of use of perioperative angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in coronary artery bypass graft surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass: effects on in-hospital morbidity and mortality. 
  • Pay for performance, quality of care, and outcomes in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Pediatric traumatic brain injury at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda. 
  • Perception of Safety of Surgical Practice Among Operating Room Personnel From Survey Data Is Associated With All-cause 30-day Postoperative Death Rate in South Carolina. 
  • Percutaneous coronary intervention in native arteries versus bypass grafts in prior coronary artery bypass grafting patients: a report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass surgery for cardiogenic shock and multivessel coronary artery disease? 
  • Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty as a first revascularization procedure in single-, double- and triple-vessel coronary artery disease. 
  • Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in women compared with men. 
  • Performance Assessment of the Universal Vital Assessment Score vs Other Illness Severity Scores for Predicting Risk of In-Hospital Death Among Adult Febrile Inpatients in Northern Tanzania, 2016-2019. 
  • Performance of crisis standards of care guidelines in a cohort of critically ill COVID-19 patients in the United States. 
  • Performance of current risk stratification models for predicting mortality in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Performance of currently available risk models in a cohort of mechanically supported high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention--From the PROTECT II randomized trial. 
  • Performance of the Paediatric Index of Mortality 3 and Paediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction 2 Scores in Critically Ill Children. 
  • Periannular complications in infective endocarditis involving native aortic valves. 
  • Periannular complications in infective endocarditis involving prosthetic aortic valves. 
  • Perioperative Care Implementation: Evidence-Based Practice for Patients With Pancreaticoduodenectomy Using the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Guidelines 
. 
  • Perioperative complications influence recurrence and survival after resection of hepatic colorectal metastases. 
  • Perioperative methylprednisolone and outcome in neonates undergoing heart surgery. 
  • Perioperative outcomes among patients with end-stage renal disease following coronary artery bypass surgery in the USA. 
  • Persistence of evidence-based medication use after discharge from academic versus nonacademic hospitals among patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Place of death for patients with cancer in the United States, 1999 through 2015: Racial, age, and geographic disparities. 
  • Platelet Counts, Acute Kidney Injury, and Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery. 
  • Platelet Transfusion Practice and Related Outcomes in Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. 
  • Platelet Transfusion Practices in Critically Ill Children. 
  • Positive follow-up blood cultures identify high mortality risk among patients with Gram-negative bacteraemia. 
  • Post-Hospital Outcomes of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction With Cardiogenic Shock: Findings From the NCDR. 
  • Postendarterectomy mortality in octogenarians and nonagenarians in the USA from 1993 to 1999. 
  • Postoperative Hematocrit and Adverse Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society Database Collaboration. 
  • Postoperative Transcatheter Interventions in Children Undergoing Congenital Heart Surgery. 
  • Postoperative dysphagia correlates with increased morbidity, mortality, and costs in anterior cervical fusion. 
  • Postoperative inotrope and vasopressor use following CABG: outcome data from the CAPS-care study. 
  • Practice Patterns and In-Hospital Outcomes Associated With Bivalirudin Use Among Patients With Non-ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the United States. 
  • Practice Variation Among Hospitals in Revascularization Therapy and Its Association With Procedure-related Mortality. 
  • Practice patterns and clinical outcomes after hybrid coronary revascularization in the United States: an analysis from the society of thoracic surgeons adult cardiac database. 
  • Practice patterns, outcomes, and end-organ dysfunction for patients with acute severe hypertension: the Studying the Treatment of Acute hyperTension (STAT) registry. 
  • Pre- and in-hospital mortality for moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injuries: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank (2008-2014). 
  • Precipitating Clinical Factors, Heart Failure Characterization, and Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure With Reduced, Borderline, and Preserved Ejection Fraction. 
  • Predicted Risk of Mortality, Transfusion, and Postoperative Outcomes in Isolated Primary Valve Operations. 
  • Predicting Mortality for Adolescent and Adult Patients with Fever in Resource-Limited Settings. 
  • Predicting Mortality for Patients Eligible for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for COVID-19. 
  • Predicting Time From Metastasis to Overall Survival in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Results From SEARCH. 
  • Predicting mortality for paediatric inpatients where malaria is uncommon. 
  • Predicting poor outcome from acute upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. 
  • Predicting risk-adjusted mortality for CABG surgery: logistic versus hierarchical logistic models. 
  • Predicting survival after coronary revascularization for ischemic cardiomyopathy. 
  • Predictors and Associations With Outcomes of Length of Hospital Stay in Patients With Acute Heart Failure: Results From VERITAS. 
  • Predictors of 30-day cardiovascular events in patients with prior percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Predictors of electrocerebral inactivity with deep hypothermia. 
  • Predictors of hospital mortality in the global registry of acute coronary events. 
  • Predictors of in-hospital mortality in patients hospitalized for heart failure: insights from the Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF). 
  • Predictors of intra-aortic balloon pump hemodynamic failure in non-acute myocardial infarction cardiogenic shock. 
  • Predictors of mortality in patients with bloodstream infection due to ceftazidime-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. 
  • Preexisting frailty and outcomes in older patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Preference for place of death in a continuing care retirement community. 
  • Preoperative Evaluation Clinic Visit Is Associated with Decreased Risk of In-hospital Postoperative Mortality. 
  • Preoperative anti-PF4/heparin antibody level predicts adverse outcome after cardiac surgery. 
  • Preoperative determinants of postoperative costs associated with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Presence of atrial fibrillation is independently associated with adverse outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure: an analysis of get with the guidelines-heart failure. 
  • Prevalence and Outcomes of Mitral Stenosis in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Findings From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapies Registry. 
  • Prevalence and repair of intraoperatively diagnosed patent foramen ovale and association with perioperative outcomes and long-term survival. 
  • Prevalence, predictors, and impact of conservative medical management for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes who have angiographically documented significant coronary disease. 
  • Prevalence, predictors, and in-hospital outcomes of non-infarct artery intervention during primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry). 
  • Prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and insignificant coronary artery disease: results from the Can Rapid risk stratification of Unstable angina patients Suppress ADverse outcomes with Early implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines (CRUSADE) initiative. 
  • Prevention of Complications in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Preventive use of noninvasive ventilation after extubation: a prospective, multicenter randomized controlled trial. 
  • Primary brain tumor patients admitted to a US intensive care unit: a descriptive analysis. 
  • Prior Antithrombotic Use Is Associated With Favorable Mortality and Functional Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Prior polyvascular disease: risk factor for adverse ischaemic outcomes in acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Procedural Volume and Outcomes for Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement. 
  • Procedural volume as a marker of quality for CABG surgery. 
  • Prognosis and management of anterolateral myocardial infarction in patients with severe left main disease and cardiogenic shock. The left main shock syndrome. 
  • Prognosis in cardiogenic shock after acute myocardial infarction in the interventional era. 
  • Prognosis of mechanically ventilated patients. 
  • Prognostic Implications of Long-Chain Acylcarnitines in Heart Failure and Reversibility With Mechanical Circulatory Support. 
  • Prognostic Role of Prior Heart Failure Hospitalization Among Patients Hospitalized for Worsening Chronic Heart Failure. 
  • Prognostic accuracy of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II scores in critically ill cancer patients. 
  • Prognostic role of transesophageal echocardiography in acute type A aortic dissection. 
  • Prognostic significance of serum total cholesterol and triglyceride levels in patients hospitalized for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (from the EVEREST Trial). 
  • Prognostic significance of the change in glucose level in the first 24 h after acute myocardial infarction: results from the CARDINAL study. 
  • Prognostic value of monocyte count in patients hospitalized for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (from the EVEREST Trial). 
  • Prognostic value of troponins in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes and chronic kidney disease. 
  • Prolonged pulmonary support after cardiac surgery: incidence, risk factors and outcomes: a retrospective cohort study. 
  • Prophylactic lidocaine use in acute myocardial infarction: incidence and outcomes from two international trials. The GUSTO-I and GUSTO-IIb Investigators. 
  • Prospective and External Evaluation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict In-Hospital Mortality of Adults at Time of Admission. 
  • Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock (ProCESS) statistical analysis plan. 
  • Proton Pump Inhibitors vs Histamine-2 Receptor Blockers for Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis in Critically Ill Patients: Issues of Interpretability in Pragmatic Trials. 
  • Provider Volume of Total Knee Arthroplasties and Patient Outcomes in the HCUP-Nationwide Inpatient Sample. 
  • Pulmonary artery catheterization in patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Pulmonary endarterectomy: recent changes in a single institution's experience of more than 2,700 patients. 
  • Pulmonary hypertensive medical therapy in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension before pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. 
  • Pulse pressure and risk of adverse outcome in coronary bypass surgery. 
  • Putting the vascular back into cardiovascular research: ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction as a blueprint for improving care in patients with acute limb ischemia. 
  • Quality and Cost of Care by Hospital Teaching Status: What Are the Differences? 
  • Quality of acute myocardial infarction care and outcomes in 33,997 patients aged 80 years or older: findings from Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD). 
  • 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). 
  • Quality of care and outcomes among patients with acute myocardial infarction by level of kidney function at admission: report from the get with the guidelines coronary artery disease program. 
  • Quality of care and outcomes among patients with heart failure and chronic kidney disease: A Get With the Guidelines -- Heart Failure Program study. 
  • Quality of care and outcomes in women hospitalized for heart failure. 
  • Quality of care for acute coronary syndrome patients with known atherosclerotic disease: results from the Get With the Guidelines Program. 
  • Quality of care of and outcomes for African Americans hospitalized with heart failure: findings from the OPTIMIZE-HF (Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure) registry. 
  • Race and Insurance Status as Predictors of Bicycle Trauma Outcome in Adults. 
  • Race, insurance status, and traumatic brain injury outcomes before and after enactment of the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Race/ethnicity and socio-economic differences in colorectal cancer surgery outcomes: analysis of the nationwide inpatient sample. 
  • Racial Disparities in the Utilization and Outcomes of TAVR: TVT Registry Report. 
  • Racial Inequities in Sepsis Mortality Among Children in the United States. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Presentation and Outcomes for Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19: Findings From the American Heart Association's COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Prevalence of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders among Older Adults with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Racial and gender disparities and the role of primary tumor type on inpatient outcomes following craniotomy for brain metastases. 
  • Racial differences in mortality among patients with acute ischemic stroke: an observational study. 
  • Racial differences in the characteristics of patients admitted for acute decompensated heart failure and their relation to outcomes: results from the OPTIME-CHF trial. 
  • Racial disparities in clinical and economic outcomes from thyroidectomy. 
  • Racial variation in initial stroke severity. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Extremely Preterm Infants in the United States From 2002 to 2016. 
  • Randomized, blinded trial comparing fondaparinux with unfractionated heparin in patients undergoing contemporary percutaneous coronary intervention: Arixtra Study in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: a Randomized Evaluation (ASPIRE) Pilot Trial. 
  • Rapid adoption of drug-eluting stents: clinical practices and outcomes from the early drug-eluting stent era. 
  • Rates and causes of mortality associated with spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a review of the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality Database. 
  • Rates, Characteristics, and Outcomes of Patients Transferred to Specialized Stroke Centers for Advanced Care. 
  • Rationale and design of the OPTIME CHF trial: outcomes of a prospective trial of intravenous milrinone for exacerbations of chronic heart failure. 
  • Rationale, study design, and analysis plan of the Alveolar Recruitment for ARDS Trial (ART): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Readmission rates and long-term hospital costs among survivors of an in-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Real-World Comparative Effectiveness and Cost Comparison of Thromboprophylactic Use of Enoxaparin versus Unfractionated Heparin in 376,858 Medically Ill Hospitalized US Patients. 
  • Recalibration of the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events risk score in a multiethnic Asian population. 
  • Recent Myocardial Infarction is Associated With Increased Risk in Older Adults With Acute Ischemic Stroke Receiving Thrombolytic Therapy. 
  • Red blood cell transfusion threshold and mortality in cardiac intensive care unit patients. 
  • Reducing hospital morbidity and mortality following esophagectomy. 
  • Refining The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database Mortality Risk Model With Enhanced Risk Adjustment for Chromosomal Abnormalities, Syndromes, and Noncardiac Congenital Anatomic Abnormalities. 
  • Regional Systems of Care Demonstration Project: American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline STEMI Systems Accelerator. 
  • Regional differences in quality of care and outcomes for the treatment of acute coronary syndromes: an analysis from the get with the guidelines coronary artery disease program. 
  • Regional outcomes after admission for high-risk non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Regional variation in patient risk factors and mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Registry Assessment of Peripheral Interventional Devices objective performance goals for superficial femoral and popliteal artery peripheral vascular interventions. 
  • Relation between hospital intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation volume and mortality in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock. 
  • Relation between sulfonylurea therapy, complications, and outcome for elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Relation of Admission Blood Pressure to In-hospital and 90-Day Outcomes in Patients Presenting With Transient Ischemic Attack. 
  • Relation of Volume Overload to Clinical Outcomes in Acute Heart Failure (From ASCEND-HF). 
  • 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). 
  • Relation of low hemoglobin and anemia to morbidity and mortality in patients hospitalized with heart failure (insight from the OPTIMIZE-HF registry). 
  • Relation of mortality to failure to prescribe beta blockers acutely in patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation following acute myocardial infarction (from the VALsartan In Acute myocardial iNfarcTion trial [VALIANT] Registry). 
  • Relation of patient age and mortality to reported contraindications to early beta-blocker use for non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Relationship Between Adverse Tracheal Intubation Associated Events and PICU Outcomes. 
  • Relationship Between Hospital Characteristics and Early Adoption of Angiotensin-Receptor/Neprilysin Inhibitor Among Eligible Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure. 
  • Relationship Between Operator Volume and Long-Term Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • Relationship between B-type natriuretic peptide and adverse outcome in patients with clinical evidence of sepsis presenting to the emergency department. 
  • Relationship between Hospital 30-Day Mortality Rates for Heart Failure and Patterns of Early Inpatient Comfort Care. 
  • Relationship between provider volume and outcomes for orthotopic liver transplantation. 
  • Relationship between sex, ejection fraction, and B-type natriuretic peptide levels in patients hospitalized with heart failure and associations with inhospital outcomes: findings from the Get With The Guideline-Heart Failure Registry. 
  • Relationship of body mass index to subsequent mortality among seriously ill hospitalized patients. SUPPORT Investigators. The Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcome and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Relationship of race/ethnicity with door-to-balloon time and mortality in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction: findings from Get With the Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Relative impact of surgeon and center volume on early mortality after the Norwood operation. 
  • Relatively short diagnostic delays (<8 hours) produce morbidity and mortality in blunt small bowel injury: an analysis of time to operative intervention in 198 patients from a multicenter experience. 
  • Reliability and validity of scores on The Emergency Severity Index version 3. 
  • Renal Dysfunction Is Associated With Poststroke Discharge Disposition and In-Hospital Mortality: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Renal Dysfunction and In-Hospital Outcomes in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke After Intravenous Thrombolytic Therapy. 
  • Reperfusion strategies and quality of care in 5339 patients age 80 years or older presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: analysis from get with the guidelines-coronary artery disease. 
  • Reperfusion strategies in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a comprehensive review of contemporary management options. 
  • Reperfusion times and in-hospital outcomes among patients with an isolated posterior myocardial infarction: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR). 
  • Report from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database Workforce: clarifying the definition of operative mortality. 
  • Representativeness of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Registry: comparison of patient and hospital characteristics among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with ischemic stroke. 
  • Resection margin and survival in 2368 patients undergoing hepatic resection for metastatic colorectal cancer: surgical technique or biologic surrogate? 
  • Respiratory syncytial virus hospitalisation trends in children with haemodynamically significant heart disease, 1997-2012. 
  • Results with a selective revascularization strategy for left subclavian artery coverage during thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 
  • Results with an algorithmic approach to hybrid repair of the aortic arch. 
  • Rethinking the ross procedure in adults. 
  • Retrograde ascending aortic dissection as an early complication of thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 
  • Risk Adjusted Mortality Ratings and Public Reporting for High-Risk PCI. 
  • Risk Factors and In-Hospital Outcomes following Tracheostomy in Infants. 
  • Risk Factors for Mortality in Pediatric Postsurgical versus Medical Severe Sepsis. 
  • Risk adjustment for in-hospital mortality of contemporary patients with acute myocardial infarction: the acute coronary treatment and intervention outcomes network (ACTION) registry-get with the guidelines (GWTG) acute myocardial infarction mortality model and risk score. 
  • Risk assessment for continuous flow left ventricular assist devices: does the destination therapy risk score work? An analysis of over 1,000 patients. 
  • Risk factors and impact of major bleeding in critically ill patients receiving heparin thromboprophylaxis. 
  • Risk factors for 1-year mortality after thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 
  • Risk factors for in-hospital mortality and prolonged length of stay in older patients with solid tumor malignancies. 
  • Risk factors for mortality and morbidity after the neonatal Blalock-Taussig shunt procedure. 
  • Risk factors for mortality and progression to severe COVID-19 disease in the Southeast region in the United States: A report from the SEUS Study Group. 
  • Risk factors for mortality in patients admitted to intensive care units with pneumonia. 
  • Risk factors for prolonged length of stay after the stage 2 procedure in the single-ventricle reconstruction trial. 
  • Risk index for predicting in-hospital mortality for cardiac valve surgery. 
  • Risk of Adverse Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients With Autoimmune Disease and COVID-19: A Matched Cohort Study From New York City. 
  • Risk of Infective Endocarditis in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease. 
  • Risk of heart failure complication during hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction in a contemporary population: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data ACTION Registry. 
  • Risk score for in-hospital ischemic stroke mortality derived and validated within the Get With the Guidelines-Stroke Program. 
  • Risk stratification in the setting of non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes 1999-2007. 
  • Risk stratification of in-hospital mortality for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Risks of intracranial hemorrhage among patients with acute ischemic stroke receiving warfarin and treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator. 
  • Robotic Mitral Valve Repair in Older Individuals: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. 
  • Role of L-glutamine in critical illness: new insights. 
  • Root replacement surgery versus more conservative management during type A acute aortic dissection repair. 
  • SICQ Coping and the Health-Related Quality of Life and Recovery of Critically Ill ICU Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Safe application of a restrictive transfusion protocol in moderate-risk patients undergoing cardiac operations. 
  • Safety and Outcomes of Intravenous tPA in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients With Prior Stroke Within 3 Months: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Safety of aprotinin in congenital heart operations: results from a large multicenter database. 
  • Seasonal and circadian variations of acute myocardial infarction: Findings from the Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) program. 
  • Seasonal variation in 30-day mortality after stroke: teaching versus nonteaching hospitals. 
  • Seizure Correlates with Prolonged Hospital Stay, Increased Costs, and Increased Mortality in Nontraumatic Subdural Hematoma. 
  • Selective decontamination of digestive tract in intensive care. 
  • Sepsis may not be a risk factor for mortality in patients with acute kidney injury treated with continuous renal replacement therapy. 
  • Sequential matched analysis of racial disparities in breast cancer hospitalization outcomes among African American and White patients. 
  • Serum cystatin C- versus creatinine-based definitions of acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Sex Differences in Endovascular Therapy for Ischemic Stroke: Results From the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Registry. 
  • Sex Differences in the Management and Outcomes of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Heart Failure. 
  • Sex differences in early outcomes after lung cancer resection: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Database. 
  • Sex differences in in-hospital mortality in acute decompensated heart failure with reduced and preserved ejection fraction. 
  • Sex differences in medical care and early death after acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Sex-Based Differences in Left Ventricular Assist Device Utilization: Insights From the Nationwide Inpatient Sample 2004 to 2016. 
  • Sex-Based Differences in Outcomes With Transcatheter Aortic Valve Therapy: TVT Registry From 2011 to 2014. 
  • Sex-related differences in outcomes after transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis: Insights from the PARTNER Trial (Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valve). 
  • Shock Index Predicts Patient-Related Clinical Outcomes in Stroke. 
  • Short- and long-term outcomes in patients undergoing valve surgery with end-stage renal failure receiving chronic hemodialysis. 
  • Short- and long-term rehospitalization and mortality for heart failure in 4 racial/ethnic populations. 
  • 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. 
  • Short-term outcomes of acute myocardial infarction in patients with acute kidney injury: a report from the national cardiovascular data registry. 
  • Should reperfusion strategies in myocardial infarction be modified for the very elderly? 
  • Simultaneous diaphragm and liver resection: a propensity-matched analysis of postoperative morbidity. 
  • Single- Versus Multicenter Surgeons' Risk-Adjusted Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Procedural Outcomes. 
  • Six-month follow-up of patients with in-hospital thrombocytopenia during heparin-based anticoagulation (from the Complications After Thrombocytopenia Caused by Heparin [CATCH] registry). 
  • Small increases in serum creatinine are associated with prolonged ICU stay and increased hospital mortality in critically ill patients with cancer. 
  • Smoking Paradox in Patients Hospitalized With Coronary Artery Disease or Acute Ischemic Stroke: Findings From Get With The Guidelines. 
  • Smoking Status, Nicotine Medication, Vaccination, and COVID-19 Hospital Outcomes: Findings from the COVID EHR Cohort at the University of Wisconsin (CEC-UW) Study. 
  • Social determinants of health and their impact on rates of postoperative complications among patients undergoing vertical sleeve gastrectomy. 
  • Socioeconomic Status Affects Outcomes After Severity-Stratified Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Socioeconomic status and outcome following acute myocardial infarction in elderly patients. 
  • Specificity of procedure volume and in-hospital mortality association. 
  • Stage 1 hybrid palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome--assessment of contemporary patterns of use: an analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Staged total abdominal debranching and thoracic endovascular aortic repair for thoracoabdominal aneurysm. 
  • Standardised metrics for global surgical surveillance. 
  • Standardized management improves outcomes after the Norwood procedure. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: a consequence of medical progress. 
  • Storage age of transfused platelets and outcomes after cardiac surgery. 
  • Stress imaging use and repeat revascularization among medicare patients with high-risk coronary artery disease. 
  • Stretching for prediction: the case for brain natriuretic peptide. 
  • Strict hand hygiene and other practices shortened stays and cut costs and mortality in a pediatric intensive care unit. 
  • Stroke after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: timing, characteristics, and clinical outcomes. 
  • Stroke in young cannabis users (18-49 years): National trends in hospitalizations and outcomes. 
  • Stroke location, characterization, severity, and outcome in mitral vs aortic valve endocarditis. 
  • Stroke patient outcomes in US hospitals before the start of the Joint Commission Primary Stroke Center certification program. 
  • Substance use disorders and medical comorbidities among high-need, high-risk patients with diabetes. 
  • Successful nonoperative management of the most severe blunt renal injuries: a multicenter study of the research consortium of New England Centers for Trauma. 
  • Sudden Death After Hospitalization for Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (from the EVEREST Trial). 
  • Superior in-hospital and 30-day outcomes with abciximab versus eptifibatide: a contemporary analysis of 495 consecutive percutaneous coronary interventions. 
  • Surgeon and center volume influence on outcomes after arterial switch operation: analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Surgical Management and Outcomes of Ebstein Anomaly in Neonates and Infants: A Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database Analysis. 
  • Surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation trends and outcomes in North America. 
  • Surgical pulmonary embolectomy and catheter-based therapies for acute pulmonary embolism: A contemporary systematic review. 
  • Survival after adult liver transplantation does not correlate with transplant center case volume in the MELD era. 
  • Survival of patients undergoing rescue percutaneous coronary intervention: development and validation of a predictive tool. 
  • Survival, Morbidities, and Developmental Outcomes among Low Birth Weight Infants with Congenital Heart Defects. 
  • Sustained ventricular arrhythmias and mortality among patients with acute myocardial infarction: results from the GUSTO-III trial. 
  • Systolic blood pressure at admission, clinical characteristics, and outcomes in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure. 
  • Target ranges of oxygen saturation in extremely preterm infants. 
  • Telavancin hospital-acquired pneumonia trials: impact of Gram-negative infections and inadequate Gram-negative coverage on clinical efficacy and all-cause mortality. 
  • Temperature and Precipitation Associate With Ischemic Stroke Outcomes in the United States. 
  • Temporal Trends and Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Interventions for Cardiogenic Shock in the Setting of Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Report From the CathPCI Registry. 
  • Temporal Trends in Care and Outcomes of Patients Receiving Fibrinolytic Therapy Compared to Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the Get With The Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) Registry. 
  • Temporal Trends in Incidence and Outcomes of Acute Pancreatitis in Hospitalized Patients in the United States From 2002 to 2013. 
  • Temporal Trends in Utilization of Cardiac Therapies and Outcomes for Myocardial Infarction by Degree of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Report From the NCDR Chest Pain-MI Registry. 
  • Temporal and Provincial Variation in Ambulance Use Among Patients Who Present to Acute Care Hospitals With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Temporal evolution in the management of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction: the seven-year GUSTO experience from canada and the united states. The North American GUSTO-I and GUSTO-III investigators. 
  • Temporal trends and factors associated with diabetes mellitus among patients hospitalized with heart failure: Findings from Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure registry. 
  • Temporal trends in all-cause mortality according to smoking status: Insights from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events. 
  • Temporal trends in clinical characteristics and in-hospital mortality among patients with COVID-19 in Japan for waves 1, 2, and 3: A retrospective cohort study. 
  • Temporal trends in clinical characteristics of patients without known cardiovascular disease with a first episode of myocardial infarction. 
  • Temporal trends in early clinical outcomes and health care resource utilization for liver transplantation in the United States. 
  • Temporal trends in risk profiles among patients hospitalized for heart failure. 
  • Temporal variation in surgical mortality within French hospitals. 
  • The Association Between Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Hospital Case Volume and Mortality in a U.S. Cohort, 2002-2011. 
  • The Association of Advance Care Planning Documentation and End-of-Life Healthcare Use Among Patients With Multimorbidity. 
  • The Association of Previous Revascularization With In-Hospital Outcomes in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients: Results From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • The Association of Transfer Rate From Hospitals Without Revascularization Capabilities and Mortality Risk for Older Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients. 
  • The Burden of Congestion in Patients Hospitalized With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure. 
  • The Contemporary Use of Angiography and Revascularization Among Patients With Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the United States Compared With South Korea. 
  • The Dose Makes the Poison: Comparing Epinephrine With Dopamine in Pediatric Septic Shock. 
  • The Evolution of the ProVent Score from Medical to Surgical Applications. 
  • The Evolving Burden of Drug Use Associated Infective Endocarditis in the United States. 
  • The GENESIS project (GENeralized Early Sepsis Intervention Strategies): a multicenter quality improvement collaborative. 
  • The Impact of Increasing Surgical Capacity at a Tertiary Hospital in Southern Haiti. 
  • The Impact of Mitral Disease Etiology on Operative Mortality After Mitral Valve Operations. 
  • The Impact of Resident Holdover Admissions on Length of Hospital Stay and Risk of Transfer to an Intensive Care Unit. 
  • The Importance of Safety-Net Hospitals in Emergency General Surgery. 
  • The Incidence and Outcomes of Surgical Pulmonary Embolectomy in North America. 
  • The Prevalence and Impact of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Among Patients Undergoing Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • The ProVent model learns to speak French. 
  • The Racial Paradox in Multiarterial Conduit Utilization for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. 
  • The Range of Cardiogenic Shock Survival by Clinical Stage: Data From the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network Registry. 
  • The Role of Mean Blood Pressure at Admission in Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • The Romanian Acute Heart Failure Syndromes (RO-AHFS) registry. 
  • The STS AVR+CABG composite score: a report of the STS Quality Measurement Task Force. 
  • The SUPPORT prognostic model. Objective estimates of survival for seriously ill hospitalized adults. Study to understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database Mortality Risk Model: Part 1-Statistical Methodology. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database Mortality Risk Model: Part 2-Clinical Application. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons voluntary public reporting initiative: the first 4 years. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons: 30-day operative mortality and morbidity risk models. 
  • The Use of Oral Beta-Blockers and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes: a Long-Term Follow-Up Study. 
  • The Vitamin C, Thiamine and Steroids in Sepsis (VICTAS) Protocol: a prospective, multi-center, double-blind, adaptive sample size, randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial. 
  • The association between cardiac intensive care unit mechanical ventilation volumes and in-hospital mortality. 
  • The association between duration of storage of transfused red blood cells and morbidity and mortality after reoperative cardiac surgery. 
  • The association between fluid balance and outcomes after subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • The association of admission heart rate and in-hospital cardiovascular events in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from 135 164 patients in the CRUSADE quality improvement initiative. 
  • 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 transcatheter aortic valve replacement availability and hospital aortic valve replacement volume and mortality in the United States. 
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  • The clinical and prognostic importance of positive blood cultures in adults. 
  • The complex relationship between center volume and outcome in patients undergoing the Norwood operation. 
  • The complex relationship between pediatric cardiac surgical case volumes and mortality rates in a national clinical database. 
  • The current practice of intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation: results from the Benchmark Registry. 
  • The degree of bandemia in septic ED patients does not predict inpatient mortality. 
  • The diagnostic and prognostic impact of the redefinition of acute myocardial infarction: lessons from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE). 
  • The differential impact of preoperative comorbidity on perioperative outcomes following thoracoscopic and open lobectomies. 
  • The dissociation between door-to-balloon time improvement and improvements in other acute myocardial infarction care processes and patient outcomes. 
  • The effect of high-risk ST elevation myocardial infarction transfer patients on risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality: A report from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline program. 
  • The effect of tracheostomy delay time on outcome of patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation: A STROBE-compliant retrospective cohort study. 
  • The effectiveness of right heart catheterization in the initial care of critically ill patients. SUPPORT Investigators. 
  • The effects of protocolized use of recombinant factor VIIa within a massive transfusion protocol in a civilian level I trauma center. 
  • The elder patient with suspected acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department. 
  • The epidemiology of chronic critical illness in the United States*. 
  • The evolution of care improves outcome in blunt thoracic aortic injury: A Western Trauma Association multicenter study. 
  • The expanding role of mitral valve repair in triple valve operations: contemporary North American outcomes in 8,021 patients. 
  • The first 20 months of the COVID-19 pandemic: Mortality, intubation and ICU rates among 104,590 patients hospitalized at 21 United States health systems. 
  • The global health and economic burden of hospitalizations for heart failure: lessons learned from hospitalized heart failure registries. 
  • The impact of a failing right heart in patients supported by intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation. 
  • The impact of arrhythmias in acute heart failure. 
  • The impact of body mass index on morbidity and short- and long-term mortality in cardiac valvular surgery. 
  • The impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in patients hospitalized for worsening heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: an analysis of the EVEREST Trial. 
  • The impact of diabetes mellitus and renal insufficiency on the outcome of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. 
  • The impact of diabetes on patient outcomes after ankle fracture. 
  • The impact of extreme-risk cases on hospitals' risk-adjusted percutaneous coronary intervention mortality ratings. 
  • The impact of high-risk cases on hospitals' risk-adjusted coronary artery bypass grafting mortality rankings. 
  • The impact of place of enrollment and delay to reperfusion on 90-day post-infarction mortality in the ASSENT-4 PCI trial: assessment of the safety and efficacy of a new treatment strategy with percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • The impact of septicemia occurring during hospitalization for renal transplantation procedures on outcomes in adults in United States. 
  • The impact of specific preoperative organ dysfunction in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement. 
  • The importance of patient-specific preoperative factors: an analysis of the society of thoracic surgeons congenital heart surgery database. 
  • The learning curve for transradial percutaneous coronary intervention among operators in the United States: a study from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • The prognostic importance of different definitions of worsening renal function in congestive heart failure. 
  • The rapid impact on mortality rates of a dedicated care team including trauma and emergency physicians at an academic medical center. 
  • The relation between the volume of coronary angioplasty procedures at hospitals treating Medicare beneficiaries and short-term mortality. 
  • The relationship between workload and length of stay in Singapore. 
  • The relationship of hospital market concentration, costs, and quality for major surgical procedures. 
  • The role of risk models in upholding standards for percutaneous coronary interventions. 
  • The self-reported functional measure: Predictive validity for health care utilization in multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury. 
  • The society of thoracic surgeons 30-day predicted risk of mortality score also predicts long-term survival. 
  • The surgical intensive care unit optimal mobility score predicts mortality and length of stay. 
  • The surgical safety checklist and patient outcomes after surgery: a prospective observational cohort study, systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • The use and effect of surgical therapy for prosthetic valve infective endocarditis: a propensity analysis of a multicenter, international cohort. 
  • The value of patient-reported health status in predicting short-term outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • The volume-outcomes relationship for United States Level I trauma centers. 
  • Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19. 
  • Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Noncritically Ill Patients with Covid-19. 
  • Therapeutic use of granulocyte colony-stimulating factors for established febrile neutropenia: effect on costs from a hospital perspective. 
  • Thirty-Day Outcomes of Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement for Degenerated Mitral Bioprostheses (Valve-in-Valve), Failed Surgical Rings (Valve-in-Ring), and Native Valve With Severe Mitral Annular Calcification (Valve-in-Mitral Annular Calcification) in the United States: Data From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology/Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Thoracoscopic lobectomy: a safe and effective strategy for patients with stage I lung cancer. 
  • Thromboembolism in hospitalized neutropenic cancer patients. 
  • Thrombolysis in young adults with stroke: Findings from Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Thrombolysis is an Independent Risk Factor for Poor Outcome After Carotid Revascularization. 
  • Thrombolysis plus aortic counterpulsation: improved survival in patients who present to community hospitals with cardiogenic shock. 
  • Time to coronary angiography and outcomes among patients with high-risk non ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from the SYNERGY trial. 
  • Time to treatment as a quality metric for acute STEMI care. 
  • Time to treatment with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator and outcome from acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Timing and Causes of Readmission After Acute Heart Failure Hospitalization-Insights From the Heart Failure Network Trials. 
  • Timing of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor use and outcomes among patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (results from CRUSADE). 
  • Timing of in-hospital coronary artery bypass graft surgery for non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry ACTION Registry-GWTG (Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry-Get With The Guidelines). 
  • To heal and restore broken bodies: a retrospective, descriptive study of the role and impact of pastoral care in the treatment of patients with burn injury. 
  • Toward improved coronary artery revascularization: is this as good as it gets? 
  • Tracheostomy After Operations for Congenital Heart Disease: An Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Tracheostomy in mechanically ventilated patients: unanswered questions. 
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Population Density Areas: Assessing Healthcare Access for Older Adults With Severe Aortic Stenosis. 
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease. 
  • Transcatheter Mitral Valve Therapy in the United States: A Report From the STS-ACC TVT Registry. 
  • Transcatheter and Surgical Management of Mitral Paravalvular Leak: Long-Term Outcomes. 
  • Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in Germany 2008-2014: on its way to standard therapy for aortic valve stenosis in the elderly? 
  • Transition From an Open to Closed Staffing Model in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Improves Clinical Outcomes. 
  • Treatment Time and In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction, 2018-2021. 
  • Treatment of patients with myocardial infarction who present with a paced rhythm. 
  • Treatment with neuromuscular blocking agents and the risk of in-hospital mortality among mechanically ventilated patients with severe sepsis. 
  • Treatment with tissue plasminogen activator and inpatient mortality rates for patients with ischemic stroke treated in community hospitals. 
  • Trend and geographic analysis for traumatic brain injury mortality and cost based on MarketScan database. 
  • Trends and Factors Associated with Place of Death for Individuals with Dementia in the United States. 
  • Trends and Inpatient Outcomes of Primary Atrial Fibrillation Hospitalizations with Underlying Iron Deficiency Anemia: An Analysis of The National Inpatient Sample Database from 2004 -2018. 
  • Trends and Outcomes in Cardiac Arrest Among Heart Failure Admissions. 
  • Trends and characteristics of hospitalizations for heart failure in the United States from 2004 to 2018. 
  • Trends and outcomes of endovascular and open treatment for traumatic thoracic aortic injury. 
  • Trends in Characteristics and Outcomes in Primary Heart Failure Hospitalizations Among Older Population in the United States, 2004 to 2018. 
  • Trends in HF Hospitalizations Among Young Adults in the United States From 2004 to 2018. 
  • Trends in Hospitalizations and Survival of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure in Four US Communities (2005-2014): ARIC Study Community Surveillance. 
  • Trends in Noncardiovascular Comorbidities Among Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure: Insights From the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. 
  • Trends in Use and In-Hospital Outcomes of Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators in Patients Undergoing Long-Term Dialysis. 
  • Trends in acute reperfusion therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction from 1999 to 2006: we are getting better but we have got a long way to go. 
  • Trends in endovascular therapy and clinical outcomes within the nationwide Get With The Guidelines-Stroke registry. 
  • Trends in hospitalizations for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and stroke in the United States from 2004 to 2018. 
  • Trends in neurosurgical care in Western Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis. 
  • Trends in outcomes among older patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Trends in quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006. 
  • Trends in reperfusion strategies, door-to-needle and door-to-balloon times, and in-hospital mortality among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction enrolled in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006. 
  • Trends in the association between age and in-hospital mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention: National Cardiovascular Data Registry experience. 
  • Trends in the use and outcomes of ventricular assist devices among medicare beneficiaries, 2006 through 2011. 
  • Trends in use of anti-thrombotic agents and outcomes in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) managed with an invasive strategy. 
  • Triage after hospitalization with advanced heart failure: the ESCAPE (Evaluation Study of Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Artery Catheterization Effectiveness) risk model and discharge score. 
  • Troponin-positive, MB-negative patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction: An undertreated but high-risk patient group: Results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network-Get With The Guidelines (NCDR ACTION-GWTG) Registry. 
  • Tuberculosis management continues to utilize a large amount of hospital resources in the United States. 
  • Umbilical Cord Milking vs Delayed Cord Clamping and Associations with In-Hospital Outcomes among Extremely Premature Infants. 
  • Uncertainty-Gated Stochastic Sequential Model for EHR Mortality Prediction. 
  • Understanding the relationship between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital Compare star rating, surgical case volume, and short-term outcomes after major cancer surgery. 
  • Unplanned reoperations after vascular surgery. 
  • Updating an Empirically Based Tool for Analyzing Congenital Heart Surgery Mortality. 
  • Use and Effectiveness of Bivalirudin Versus Unfractionated Heparin for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Among Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the United States. 
  • Use and Outcomes of Intravenous Thrombolysis for Acute Ischemic Stroke in Patients ≥90 Years of Age. 
  • Use of Adjuncts Reduces Cardiopulmonary Bypass Time During Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement. 
  • Use of Intravenous Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke Who Take Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants Before Stroke. 
  • Use of Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support for Management of Cardiogenic Shock Before and After the United Network for Organ Sharing Donor Heart Allocation System Changes. 
  • Use of airway pressure release ventilation is associated with a reduced incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with pulmonary contusion. 
  • Use of and inhospital outcomes after early clopidogrel therapy in patients not undergoing an early invasive strategy for treatment of non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: results from 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). 
  • Use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and associated outcomes in children hospitalized for sepsis in the United States: A large population-based study. 
  • Use of failure-to-rescue to identify international variation in postoperative care in low-, middle- and high-income countries: a 7-day cohort study of elective surgery. 
  • Use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators for primary prevention in older patients: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis. 
  • Use of intraaortic balloon counterpulsation in patients presenting with cardiogenic shock: observations from the GUSTO-I Study. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and TPA for Occluded Coronary Arteries. 
  • Use, Temporal Trends, and Outcomes of Endovascular Therapy After Interhospital Transfer in the United States. 
  • Usefulness of anemia as a predictor of death and rehospitalization in patients with decompensated heart failure. 
  • Usefulness of spironolactone in a specialized heart failure clinic. 
  • Using Medicare claims data to assess provider quality for CABG surgery: does it work well enough? 
  • Utility of the Penn classification in predicting outcomes of surgery for acute type a aortic dissection. 
  • Utilization of early invasive management strategies for high-risk patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from the CRUSADE Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Utilization, Characteristics, and In-Hospital Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients With ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Results From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry-Get With The Guidelines. 
  • Vagotomy/drainage is superior to local oversew in patients who require emergency surgery for bleeding peptic ulcers. 
  • Validity of a risk-prediction tool for hospital mortality: the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events. 
  • Validity of low-intensity continuous renal replacement therapy*. 
  • Valve surgery in octogenarians: in-hospital and long-term outcomes. 
  • Variability in Standard Outcomes of Posterior Lumbar Fusion Determined by National Databases. 
  • Variability in blood transfusions after pancreaticoduodenectomy: A national analysis of the University HealthSystem Consortium. 
  • Variability in cost of coronary bypass surgery in New York State: potential for cost savings. 
  • Variability in survival and post-cardiac arrest care following successful resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Variation in Case-Mix Across Hospitals: Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Variation in Early Management Practices in Moderate-to-Severe ARDS in the United States: The Severe ARDS: Generating Evidence Study. 
  • 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 ventilation time after coronary artery bypass grafting: an analysis from the society of thoracic surgeons adult cardiac surgery database. 
  • Variations in practice and outcomes in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States and Canada: insights from the Assessment of Pexelizumab in Acute Myocardial Infarction (APEX AMI) trial. 
  • Vestibular schwannoma surgical volume and short-term outcomes in Maryland. 
  • Volume effect in paediatric brain tumour resection surgery: analysis of data from the Japanese national inpatient database. 
  • Volume of coronary angioplasty procedures and mortality rates. 
  • Volume-Outcome Association of Mitral Valve Surgery in the United States. 
  • Volume-outcome relationship in acute myocardial infarction: the balloon and the needle. 
  • Volume-outcome relationships for percutaneous coronary interventions in the stent era. 
  • Vorapaxar in acute coronary syndrome patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery: subgroup analysis from the TRACER trial (Thrombin Receptor Antagonist for Clinical Event Reduction in Acute Coronary Syndrome). 
  • WHipple-ABACUS, a simple, validated risk score for 30-day mortality after pancreaticoduodenectomy developed using the ACS-NSQIP database. 
  • Wake Forest University long-term follow-up of type 2 myocardial infarction: The Wake-Up T2MI Registry. 
  • Weekend hospital admission and discharge for heart failure: association with quality of care and clinical outcomes. 
  • What do we know about the safe surgery checklist now? 
  • What price for-profit hospitals? 
  • Where Children Die: Obstacles to Quality End-of-Life Care. 
  • Where patients with mild to moderate heart failure die: results from the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT). 
  • Worse outcomes for patients undergoing brain tumor and cerebrovascular procedures following the ACGME resident duty-hour restrictions. 
  • Worsening depressive symptoms are associated with adverse clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure. 
  • Worsening heart failure during hospitalization for acute heart failure: Insights from the Acute Study of Clinical Effectiveness of Nesiritide in Decompensated Heart Failure (ASCEND-HF). 
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