Combined Orthopaedic and Vascular Injuries With Ischemia: A Multicenter Analysis.

Objectives: To review a large, multicenter experience to identify the current salvage and amputation rates of these combined injuries and, where possible, the variables that predict amputation.

Design: Retrospective.

Setting: Nine trauma centers.

Newborn Screening Long Term Follow-Up in the Medical Home.

This demonstration project explored the feasibility of utilizing data from pediatric primary care providers to evaluate the long-term outcomes of children with disorders identified by newborn screening (NBS). Compliance with national guidelines for care and the morbidity for this population was also examined. Primary care practices were recruited and patients with sickle cell disease or who were deaf/hard of hearing were given the opportunity to enroll in the study.

Ebola Emergency Preparedness: Simulation Training for Frontline Health Care Professionals.

Introduction: At Brigham and Women's Hospital, we identified the need for a comprehensive training program designed to prepare frontline staff to safely manage a patient with Ebola viral disease (EVD). The primary goal of this program was to ensure the safety of staff, patients, and the general public by training staff in the correct use of personal protective equipment (PPE) before, during, and after care of patients with EVD.

Methods: We delivered a 4-hour experiential training program to frontline health care professionals who would be expected to care for a patient with EVD.

Projection of incidence rates to a larger population using ecologic variables.

There is wide acceptance of direct standardization of vital rates to adjust for differing age distributions according to the representation within age categories of some referent population. One can use a similar process to standardize, and subsequently project vital rates with respect to continuous, or ratio scale ecologic variables. We obtained from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) programme, a 10 per cent subset of the total U.