Increased Sitting Time Linked to All-Cause Mortality in Cancer Survivors
“With the increasing population of cancer survivors, there is an urgent need to identify feasible...
mortality
COVID-19 Surges Linked With Higher Rates of Non-COVID In-Hospital Mortality
“During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals observed precipitous declines in ED visits and inpatient admissions,” says Amber K. Sabbatini, MD, MPH, FACEP. “There were sudden reductions in the number of patients...
Predicting Long-Term Complications After Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Disease
Sepsis is the most commonly identified risk factor for acute kidney injury (AKI), according to...
Ulcerative Colitis Treatments: Comparing Mortality
According to data from the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America, ulcerative colitis (UC) is...
Surgical Readmissions and Quality of Care
Throughout the United States, reducing the rates of hospital readmissions has become a top...
Reducing Readmissions in Community-Acquired Pneumonia
In the United States, community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of morbidity and...
How ED Crowding Affects Outcomes
Previous studies have sought to establish a definitive relationship between ED crowding and...
Analyzing Mortality in Critical Access Hospitals
The 30-day mortality rates among patients with acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, or pneumonia appear to be comparable at critical access hospitals (CAHs) and non-CAHs. Results of a retrospective study showed...
What Goes On At a Real M&M Conference
If you’ve read my reviews of the new medical TV show “Monday Mornings” (here, here and here), you’ll know I’ve been critical of many things about it. I was particularly disappointed with the way the show handled one of its...
Predicting Death From Pneumonia
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality and ranks...
How Not to Run an M&M Conference: Why I Don’t Watch Medical TV Shows
On my personal blog, I wrote about an incredibly bad medical television show called “Do No Harm” that premiered on NBC last week. I won’t reiterate here but if you want to know just how bad it was, here is the link to my blog....
Hospitalizations Ending in Death
CDC data show that the percentage of patients who died while hospitalized declined from 2000 to...
