Ulcerative Colitis Treatments: Comparing Mortality
According to data from the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America, ulcerative colitis (UC) is...
mortality
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...
Analyzing Operative Outcomes for Proximal Aortic Replacement
Morbidity and mortality from proximal aortic replacement remain high when compared with other...
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...
Predicting NSCLC Survival
A Mayo Clinic study has found that overall quality of life (QOL) measured at the time of a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) diagnosis appears to significantly and independently predict survival. For patients with poor baseline...
Surprise Findings: Satisfied Patients Pay More, Die Sooner
Unexpected findings from a new study published in Archives of Internal Medicine found that higher...
