To Be or Not to Be (Inpatient Versus Observation): Improving Admission-Status Assignment.

Background: Observation care is frequently indistinguishable from inpatient care. However, the financial burden of inappropriate status assignment for hospitals and patients can be large. Increased awareness of the potential for financial hardships experienced by patients because of status designation spurred interest among physicians in this improvement project.

Association of Ancestral Genetic Admixture and Excess Weight at Twelve Months of Age.

Understanding the influence of genetically determined ancestry may give insight into the disparities of obesity seen in different ethnic groups beginning at a very early age. To investigate the relationship between children's ancestral genetic proportions and excess weight at 12 months of age. Eight hundred twenty-one 12-month-old children were included in this cross-sectional study.