Tertiary Care Centers

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A cost-effective analysis of postoperative goal-directed therapy for high-risk surgical patients: improved outcomes are not enough … you have to "show me the money". 
  • A study of factors influencing surgical cesarean delivery times in an academic tertiary center. 
  • Adult ophthalmology inpatient consults at a tertiary care teaching hospital. 
  • Aggressive Phenotype of Intravascular Lymphoma Relative to Other Malignant Intraabdominal Tumors Requiring Vascular Reconstruction. 
  • An evaluation of emergency general surgery transfers and a call for standardization of practices. 
  • Antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of outpatients and their physicians. 
  • Association between preoperative respiratory support and outcomes in paediatric cardiac surgery. 
  • Barriers to implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs in three low- and middle-income country tertiary care settings: findings from a multi-site qualitative study. 
  • Building health system capacity to improve maternal and newborn care: a pilot leadership program for frontline staff at a tertiary hospital in Ghana. 
  • Burden of Surgical Infections in a Tertiary-Care Pediatric Surgery Service in Uganda. 
  • Cancer in pregnancy: cross-sectional oncologic imaging utilization at a tertiary care center with an algorithmic approach to imaging. 
  • Cancer registration needs assessment at a tertiary medical centre in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. 
  • Central nervous system tumor distribution at a tertiary referral center in Uganda. 
  • Cerebrovascular Physiology During Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Multicenter Study Using Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography. 
  • Chest Radiographic Findings and Outcomes of Pneumonia Among Children in Botswana. 
  • Choice of Trial of Labor after Cesarean and Association with Likelihood of Success. 
  • Clinical Features and Treatment of Down Syndrome Arthropathy: Experience from Two US Tertiary Hospitals. 
  • Clinical, Imaging Findings, Responses, and Outcomes of Patients With Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Undergoing Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: A Single-Institution Experience. 
  • Comparison between melanoma gene expression score and fluorescence in situ hybridization for the classification of melanocytic lesions. 
  • Contemporary Demographic, Treatment, and Geographic Distribution Patterns for Disorders of Sex Development. 
  • Contemporary Outcomes of Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Refractory Cardiogenic Shock at a Large Tertiary Care Center. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/alert FA plus and FN plus blood culture media with BacT/alert FA and FN blood culture media. 
  • De-Escalation of Antibiotics Does Not Increase Mortality in Critically Ill Surgical Patients. 
  • Decontamination of targeted pathogens from patient rooms using an automated ultraviolet-C-emitting device. 
  • Detection of Multiple Respiratory Viruses Associated With Mortality and Severity of Illness in Children. 
  • Development and Assessment of an Interpretable Machine Learning Triage Tool for Estimating Mortality After Emergency Admissions. 
  • Development of heart and respiratory rate percentile curves for hospitalized children. 
  • Direct admission versus transfer to a tertiary hospital for definitive management of lower extremity injuries: Systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Does radiologic response correlate to pathologic response in patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy for borderline resectable pancreatic malignancy? 
  • Duration of untreated psychosis and the pathway to care in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 
  • Dysregulated mineral metabolism in patients with acute kidney injury and risk of adverse outcomes. 
  • Editorial: blood biomarkers for advanced liver fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease-not a simple choice? 
  • Effect of tracheostomy timing in premature infants. 
  • Effectiveness of the Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus protocol in enhancing the function of an Emergency Department in Qatar. 
  • Efficiency of colorectal cancer care among veterans: analysis of treatment wait times at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. 
  • Endogenous Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Endophthalmitis: A Six-year Series at a Tertiary Care Center. 
  • Endovascular Repair of Blunt Thoracic Aortic Trauma: Is Postimplant Hypertension an Incidental Finding? 
  • Endovascular and Open Repair of Ruptured Infrarenal Aortic Aneurysms at a Tertiary Care Center. 
  • Epidemiological and mycological characteristics of candidemia in patients with hematological malignancies attending a tertiary-care center in India. 
  • Evaluation of a Pharmacist-Led Penicillin Allergy Assessment Program and Allergy Delabeling in a Tertiary Care Hospital. 
  • Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Intervention That Eliminated Routine Use of Opioids After Cesarean Delivery. 
  • Evaluation of the WHO 2009 classification for diagnosis of acute dengue in a large cohort of adults and children in Sri Lanka during a dengue-1 epidemic. 
  • Evolving application of minimally invasive cancer operations at a tertiary cancer center. 
  • Factors influencing Oncotype DX use in the management of early breast cancer: a single centre experience. 
  • Frailty Assessment in Hospitalized Older Adults Using the Electronic Health Record. 
  • Glaucoma and associated visual acuity and field loss significantly affect glaucoma-specific psychosocial functioning. 
  • Guideline-based decision support has a small, non-sustained effect on transthoracic echocardiography ordering frequency. 
  • Heart Failure Clinical Trial Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From a Multicenter Survey. 
  • How accurate is the label "allergic to iodinated contrast agents"? 
  • Hyperlipasemia in absence of acute pancreatitis is associated with elevated D-dimer and adverse outcomes in COVID 19 disease. 
  • Impact of COVID-19 on Cardiovascular Disease Presentation, Emergency Department Triage and Inpatient Cardiology Services in a Low- to Middle-Income Country - Perspective from a Tertiary Care Hospital of Pakistan. 
  • Impact of changing indications and increased utilization of fetal echocardiography on prenatal detection of congenital heart disease. 
  • Implementation of a Blood Management Program at a Tertiary Care Hospital: Effect on Transfusion Practices and Clinical Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Surgery. 
  • Implementation of a Regional Network for ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Care and 30-Day Mortality in a Low- to Middle-Income City in Brazil: Findings From Salvador's STEMI Registry (RESISST). 
  • Improvements in sensorineural hearing loss after cord blood transplant in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis. 
  • Improving Obstetric Hypertensive Emergency Treatment in a Tertiary Care Women's Emergency Department. 
  • Improving the Safety of Teratogen Prescribing Practices in a Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic. 
  • In reference to "Managing superutilizers--staying patient centered is the solution". 
  • Inconsistencies in Colonic Tattooing Practice: Differences in Reported and Actual Practices at a Tertiary Medical Center. 
  • Increasing Nocardia Incidence Associated with Bronchiectasis at a Tertiary Care Center. 
  • Indian health care professionals' attitude towards spiritual healing and its role in alleviating stigma of psychiatric services. 
  • Injection laryngoplasty in children with cystic fibrosis and abnormal swallow. 
  • 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. 
  • Ischemic Stroke with Troponin Elevation: Patient Characteristics, Resource Utilization, and In-Hospital Outcomes. 
  • 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. 
  • Loss of Peristaltic Reserve, Determined by Multiple Rapid Swallows, Is the Most Frequent Esophageal Motility Abnormality in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis. 
  • Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma in patients with endometriosis. 
  • Management of hepatocellular adenoma: comparison of resection, embolization and observation. 
  • Metabolic syndrome and liver steatosis occur at lower body mass index in US Asian patients with chronic hepatitis B. 
  • Microhematuria in Postmenopausal Women: Adherence to Guidelines in a Tertiary Care Setting. 
  • Mycobacterium avium pseudo-outbreak associated with an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic: Lessons for reprocessing. 
  • Natural History of Iatrogenic Pediatric Femoral Artery Injury. 
  • Neural tube defects in Uganda: follow-up outcomes from a national referral hospital. 
  • Non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae septicemia at a tertiary care center in Beirut, Lebanon; a case report and review. 
  • Novel model for predicting inpatient mortality after emergency admission to hospital in Singapore: retrospective observational study. 
  • Omalizumab use during pregnancy for CIU: a tertiary care experience. 
  • Outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients With Severe ARDS Due to Influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 Virus. 
  • Outcomes of Children With Critical Bronchiolitis Meeting at Risk for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Criteria. 
  • Patient and Hospital Characteristics of Mitral Valve Surgery in the United States. 
  • Pediatric Neurosurgical Outcomes Following a Neurosurgery Health System Intervention at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • Pediatric Perioperative DNR Orders: A Case Series in a Children's Hospital. 
  • Point-prevalence survey of outpatient antibiotic prescription at a tertiary medical center in Sri Lanka: opportunities to improve prescribing practices for respiratory illnesses. 
  • Postoperative pain after cesarean section: assessment and management in a tertiary hospital in a low-income country. 
  • Poststroke hypertension in Africa. 
  • Practice patterns and clinical outcomes among non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) patients presenting to primary and tertiary hospitals: insights from the EARLY glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition in NSTE-ACS (EARLY-ACS) trial. 
  • Pre- and post-transplant bacterial infections in liver transplant recipients. 
  • Predicting mortality for paediatric inpatients where malaria is uncommon. 
  • Predicting non-home discharge in epithelial ovarian cancer patients: External validation of a predictive model. 
  • Predictors of ambulance transport to first health facility among injured patients in southern Sri Lanka. 
  • Predictors of non-adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV infected patients in northern Tanzania. 
  • Prevalence and distribution of late gadolinium enhancement in a large population of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: effect of age and left ventricular systolic function. 
  • Pulmonary Hypertension in Pregnancy: A Report of 49 Cases at Four Tertiary North American Sites. 
  • Quality improvement study on early recognition and intervention of caregiver burden in a tertiary hospital. 
  • Readmissions After Surgical Resection of Metastatic Tumors of the Spine at a Single Institution. 
  • Refining Angular Pregnancy Diagnosis in the First Trimester: A Case Series of Expectant Management. 
  • Reversal of warfarin associated coagulopathy with 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate in traumatic brain injury and intracranial hemorrhage. 
  • Revision Total Joint Arthroplasty: Final Stop Tertiary Referral Center. 
  • Securing a Network for a Research-Intensive, Referral Academic Medical Center: University of Kentucky HealthCare as a Case Study. 
  • Short-term risk of liver and renal injury in hospitalized patients using micafungin: a multicentre cohort study. 
  • Statins and delirium during critical illness: a multicenter, prospective cohort study. 
  • Subjective Assessment of Videofluoroscopic Swallow Studies. 
  • Supernatural Explanations of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Among Health Care Professionals at an Academic Tertiary Care Hospital in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Surgical outcome of pediatric dacryocystorhinostomy in Nepal. 
  • Sustained Reduction in Bloodstream Infections in Infants at a Large Tertiary Care Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Teaching quality essentials: the effectiveness of a team-based quality improvement curriculum in a tertiary health care institution. 
  • Temporal Delays Along the Neurosurgical Care Continuum for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. 
  • Temporal Trends in Disease Severity and Predicted Surgical Risk at the Time of Referral for Echocardiography in Patients Diagnosed with Aortic Stenosis. 
  • The Antimicrobial Scrub Contamination and Transmission (ASCOT) Trial: A Three-Arm, Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial With Crossover Design to Determine the Efficacy of Antimicrobial-Impregnated Scrubs in Preventing Healthcare Provider Contamination. 
  • The Impact of Increasing Surgical Capacity at a Tertiary Hospital in Southern Haiti. 
  • The Maternal Health Compact. 
  • The Role of Family Members in Providing Support For Malawian Women With Preterm Infants During Infant Hospitalization. 
  • The burden of hypertension in the emergency department and linkage to care: A prospective cohort study in Tanzania. 
  • The cost effectiveness of a quality improvement program to reduce maternal and fetal mortality in a regional referral hospital in Accra, Ghana. 
  • The highest utilizers of care: individualized care plans to coordinate care, improve healthcare service utilization, and reduce costs at an academic tertiary care center. 
  • The impact of health insurance status on the stage of cervical cancer diagnosis at a tertiary care center in Massachusetts. 
  • The natural history of type II endoleaks after endovascular aneurysm repair for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. 
  • The role of medical equipment in the spread of nosocomial infections: a cross-sectional study in four tertiary public health facilities in Uganda. 
  • Torsemide versus furosemide in heart failure patients: insights from Duke University Hospital. 
  • Transforming Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Tertiary Hospitals in Ghana: An Integrated Approach for Systems Change. 
  • Treatment Failures and Excess Mortality Among HIV-Exposed, Uninfected Children With Pneumonia. 
  • Use of WhatsApp messaging technology to strengthen obstetric referrals in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana: Findings from a feasibility study. 
  • Using Clinical Scenarios to Understand Preventability of Clostridium difficile Infections by Inpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Programs. 
  • Validity of low-intensity continuous renal replacement therapy*. 
  • Variability in determining sepsis time zero and bundle compliance rates for the centers for medicare and medicaid services SEP-1 measure. 
  • Vascular inflow control during hemi-hepatectomy: a comparison between intrahepatic pedicle ligation and extrahepatic vascular ligation.