Background. Few data are available on the outcome of neonatal sepsis evaluations in an
era when intrapartum antibiotic therapy is common. Methods. We identified all newborns …

Aim: To analyse rehospitalisation of newborns of all gestations. Methods: A total of 33 276
surviving infants of all gestations born between 1 October 1998 and 31 March 2000 at seven …

Objectives: To develop a risk-adjustment methodology that maximizes the use of automated
physiology and diagnosis data from the time period preceding hospitalization. Design …

Objective. To determine the frequency and interhospital variation of bilirubin testing and
identified hyperbilirubinemia in a large health maintenance organization. Design …

Objective: Using a comprehensive inpatient electronic medical record, we sought to develop
a risk-adjustment methodology applicable to all hospitalized patients. Further, we assessed …

Background. High-risk newborns are known to have higher than average utilization of
services after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Most studies on this …

In the 1930s and 1940s, smoking became the norm for both men and women in the United
States, and a majority of physicians smoked. At the same time, there was rising public …

Behavioral markers measured through neuropsychological testing in mild cognitive
impairment (MCI) were analyzed and combined in multivariate ways to predict conversion to …

BACKGROUND: Patients who experience intra‐hospital transfers to a higher level of care
(eg, ward to intensive care unit [ICU]) are known to have high mortality. However, these …

BACKGROUND: Emergency department (ED) ward admissions subsequently transferred to
the intensive care unit (ICU) within 24 hours have higher mortality than direct ICU …