Costs of fracture-related infection: the impact on direct hospital costs and healthcare utilisation.

Purpose: Fracture-Related Infection (FRI) is associated with high medical costs and prolonged healthcare utilization. However, limited data is available on the financial impact. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of FRI on direct hospital costs and healthcare utilization.

Wrist actigraphy in anesthesia.

Study Objectives: To examine the use of wrist actigraphy during and following anesthesia or monitored sedation and its ability to objectively assess sleep-related events.

Design: Uncontrolled study.

Setting: 1100-bed tertiary care municipal, university-affiliated medical center.

Mortality in sleep apnea patients: a multivariate analysis of risk factors.

During 1976-1988 we diagnosed sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) in 1,620 adult men and women monitored in the Technion sleep laboratories. Their age at the time of diagnosis ranged between 21 and 79 years. Fifty-seven patients (53 men and 4 women) had died by 1990, 53% due to respiratory-cardiovascular causes.