The Relationship Between an Individual's Birthday and Admission for Traumatic Injury.

Background: Birthdays provide an opportunity to celebrate; however, they can also be associated with various adverse medical events. This is the first study to examine the association between birthdays and in-hospital trauma team evaluation.

Methods: This retrospective study analyzed trauma registry patients 19-89 years of age, who were evaluated by in-hospital trauma services from 1/1/2011 to 12/31/2021.

The Impact of Relocating a Trauma Center: Retrospective Observations on Payer Demographics and Cost-Analysis.

Background: Standardization of trauma centers improves quality of care, yet that comes with financial challenges. The decision to designate a trauma center typically focuses on access, quality of care, and the needs of the local community, but less often considers the financial viability of the trauma center. A level-1 trauma center was relocated in 2017 and this presented an opportunity to compare financial data at two separate locations in the same city.

The Impact of Relocating a Trauma Center: Observations on Patient Injury Demographics and Resident Volumes.

Introduction Changing the physical zip code location of an academic trauma center may affect the distribution and surgical volume of its trauma patients. General surgical residency case log requirements may also be affected. This study describes the impact of moving a level I trauma center to a different zip code location, on the hospital and resident trauma case volumes.

Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and Trauma: The Role of Injuries as Physical Stressors.

Introduction: Physical stressors are common predisposing factors for takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC). However, the role of traumatic injuries in TTC has not been well defined. This study describes the characteristics of TTC in the broad spectrum of traumatic injuries using the information available in the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB).

In-hospital outcomes of intercostal nerve cryoablation and surgical stabilization of rib fractures.

Background: Severe pain and pulmonary complications commonly follow rib fractures, both of which may be improved by surgical stabilization of rib fractures (SSRFs). However, significant postoperative pain still persists which may negatively impact in-hospital outcomes. Combining intercostal nerve cryoablation (INCA) with SSRF may improve those outcomes by further decreasing postoperative pain, opioid consumption, and pulmonary complications.

Scaling alignment of large ontologies.

In recent years, the number of shared biomedical ontologies has increased dramatically, resulting in a need for integration of these knowledge sources. Automated solutions to aligning ontologies address this growing need. However, only very recently, solutions for scalability of ontology alignment have begun to emerge.