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 workflow-oriented framework-driven implementation and local adaptation of clinical information systems: a case study of nursing documentation system implementation at a tertiary rehabilitation hospital. 
  • Activity of plazomicin (ACHN-490) against MDR clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, and Enterobacter spp. from Athens, Greece. 
  • Adult ophthalmology inpatient consults at a tertiary care teaching hospital. 
  • Antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of outpatients and their physicians. 
  • Building health system capacity to improve maternal and newborn care: a pilot leadership program for frontline staff at a tertiary hospital in Ghana. 
  • 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. 
  • Chest Radiographic Findings and Outcomes of Pneumonia Among Children in Botswana. 
  • Comparison between melanoma gene expression score and fluorescence in situ hybridization for the classification of melanocytic lesions. 
  • 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. 
  • Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy for peritoneal carcinomatosis: outcomes from a single tertiary institution. 
  • 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 of heart and respiratory rate percentile curves for hospitalized children. 
  • Diaphragmatic hernia after hepatic resection: case series at a single Western institution. 
  • 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. 
  • Effect of Vascular Access Site Choice on Radiation Exposure During Coronary Angiography: The REVERE Trial (Randomized Evaluation of Vascular Entry Site and Radiation Exposure). 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Five-year results for endovascular repair of acute complicated type B aortic dissection. 
  • 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. 
  • How accurate is the label "allergic to iodinated contrast agents"? 
  • Impact of changing indications and increased utilization of fetal echocardiography on prenatal detection of congenital heart disease. 
  • Improvements in sensorineural hearing loss after cord blood transplant in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis. 
  • In reference to "Managing superutilizers--staying patient centered is the solution". 
  • Increased environmental sample area and recovery of Clostridium difficile spores from hospital surfaces by quantitative PCR and enrichment culture. 
  • 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. 
  • Ischemic Stroke with Troponin Elevation: Patient Characteristics, Resource Utilization, and In-Hospital Outcomes. 
  • Long-term improvement in outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage in patients treated with statins. 
  • 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. 
  • Microhematuria in Postmenopausal Women: Adherence to Guidelines in a Tertiary Care Setting. 
  • Non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae septicemia at a tertiary care center in Beirut, Lebanon; a case report and review. 
  • Omalizumab use during pregnancy for CIU: a tertiary care experience. 
  • Pediatric Neurosurgical Outcomes Following a Neurosurgery Health System Intervention at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 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. 
  • Readmissions After Surgical Resection of Metastatic Tumors of the Spine at a Single Institution. 
  • Reversal of warfarin associated coagulopathy with 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate in traumatic brain injury and intracranial hemorrhage. 
  • 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. 
  • Surgical outcome of pediatric dacryocystorhinostomy in Nepal. 
  • Sustained Reduction in Bloodstream Infections in Infants at a Large Tertiary Care Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Symptomatic Postnatal Cytomegalovirus Testing among Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants: Indications and Outcomes. 
  • Teaching quality essentials: the effectiveness of a team-based quality improvement curriculum in a tertiary health care institution. 
  • 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 Maternal Health Compact. 
  • 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. 
  • Torsemide versus furosemide in heart failure patients: insights from Duke University Hospital. 
  • Transcatheter and Surgical Management of Mitral Paravalvular Leak: Long-Term Outcomes. 
  • 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. 
  • Umbilical Negative Pressure Dressing for Transumbilical Appendectomy in Childern. 
  • Using Clinical Scenarios to Understand Preventability of Clostridium difficile Infections by Inpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Programs. 
  • Vascular inflow control during hemi-hepatectomy: a comparison between intrahepatic pedicle ligation and extrahepatic vascular ligation. 
  • What is the fate of the cholecystostomy tube following percutaneous cholecystostomy?