How Outpatient Diabetes Education Programs Can Support Local Hospitals to Reduce Emergency Department Visits for Adults With Diabetes.

Objectives: Our aim in this study was to assess the level of collaboration between a hospital-based outpatient diabetes education program (DEP) and emergency departments (EDs) for reducing number of ED revisits and hospital admissions by implementing intervention strategies to promote education services and streamlining referral and appointment intake processes.

Methods: Patients (≥18 years of age) with an ED visit for hyper- or hypoglycemia were analyzed in 2 cohorts based on their intervention exposure. We conducted a single-cohort analysis of the exposed cohort (exposure to the intervention strategies) and compared 2-year outcomes with those of the unexposed cohort.

Plasma corin decreases after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and is associated with postoperative heart failure: a pilot study.

Objective: Corin is a natriuretic peptide-converting enzyme that cleaves precursor pro-B-type natriuretic peptide to active B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) (diuretic, natriuretic, and vasodilatory properties). Increased plasma BNP is a known diagnostic and prognostic heart failure (HF) biomarker in ambulatory and surgical patients. Recent studies indicate that plasma corin is decreased significantly in chronic HF patients, yet perioperative plasma corin concentrations have not been assessed in cardiac surgical patients.

Surgery at the end of life: a pilot study comparing decedents and survivors at a tertiary care center.

Background: More than a quarter of medical costs for Medicare beneficiaries are incurred in the last year of life; surgical intensity during this time is significant. This study was performed to determine types of operations patients undergo in their terminal year, and compare characteristics of decedents with those of survivors.

Methods: Population of 747 consecutive all-payer patients seen at the preoperative assessment center of a tertiary care hospital.

A randomized trial of automated electronic alerts demonstrating improved reimbursable anesthesia time documentation.

Study Objective: To investigate whether alerting providers to errors results in improved documentation of reimbursable anesthesia care.

Design: Prospective randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Operating room (OR) of a university hospital.

Forward calculation for interferometers: method and validation.

An approach to approximating the instrument response for an unapodized interferometer is presented. The approach comprises functions that are local enough in frequency space (no more than five wave numbers) that one can use the Planck function at a single frequency to calculate the radiance at a given frequency and atmospheric pressure level, and it is well behaved (transmittances change monotonically from 1.0 to 0.