Aims: To capture the types and content of healthcare encounters following severe hypoglycemia requiring emergency medical services (EMS) and to correlate their features with subsequent risk of severe hypoglycemia.
Methods: A retrospective cohort was obtained by linking data from a multi-state health system and an advanced life support ambulance service. This identified 1977 EMS calls by 1028 adults with diabetes experiencing hypoglycemia between 1/1/2013-12/31/2019.
Malignant skin tumors in the setting of chronic leg ulcers (CLUs) are often underdiagnosed which may contribute to treatment delay and poor outcomes. The aims of our study were to determine the incidence and clinical characteristics of skin cancers in leg ulcers in the Olmsted County population from 1995 to 2020. We used the Rochester Epidemiology Project (a collaboration between health care providers) infrastructure to describe this epidemiology, allowing "population-based" research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: People living with dementia often have high care needs at the end-of-life. We compared care delivery in the last year of life for people living with dementia in the community (home or assisted living facilities [ALFs]) versus those in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
Methods: A retrospective study was performed of older adults with a dementia diagnosis who died in the community or SNFs from 2013 through 2018.
Objective: To determine whether the length of a telehealth visit predicted the risk of hospital readmission at 30 days in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in southeastern Minnesota during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Patients And Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study conducted in SNFs located in southeastern Minnesota from March 1, 2020 through July 15, 2020. The primary outcomes included hospitalization within 30 days of a video visit, and the secondary outcome was the number of provider video visits during the stay at an SNF.