Publications by authors named "M M Neuhauser"
Background: Feedback reports summarizing clinician performance are effective tools for improving antibiotic use in the ambulatory setting, but the effectiveness of feedback reports in the hospital setting is unknown.
Methods: Quasi-experimental study conducted between December 2021 and November 2023 within a pediatric health system measuring the impact of clinician feedback reports delivered by email and reviewed in a monthly meeting on appropriate antibiotic use in children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). We used an interrupted time series analysis (ITSA) to estimate the immediate change and change over time in the proportion of CAP encounters adherent to validated metrics of antibiotic choice and duration, then used Poisson regression to estimate intervention effect as a rate ratio (RR).
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- The ELIMINATE project aimed to reconnect individuals in Eastern Austria with previously documented hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections to medical care, supporting global elimination goals set by the WHO.
- Researchers reviewed lab records from 2008 to 2020, identifying 5,695 individuals, but faced challenges such as 34% having died and 13% lacking contact information.
- Ultimately, they successfully contacted 617 individuals, leading to a 64.3% treatment initiation rate, and confirmed an HCV cure in 326 people, demonstrating the effectiveness of targeted outreach strategies in addressing HCV.
Purpose: We present results of a retrospective population-based investigation of patterns of care and outcome of glioblastoma patients in Austria.
Patients And Methods: In this nation-wide cooperative project, all Austrian glioblastoma patients newly diagnosed between 2014 and 2018 and registered in the ABTR-SANOnet database were included. Histological typing used criteria of the WHO classification of CNS tumors, 4th edition 2016.
Recently, it was recommended to omit tied observations before applying the two-sample Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test McGee M. et al. (2018).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: The spleen serves as an important relay organ that releases cardioprotective factor(s) upon vagal activation during remote ischaemic conditioning (RIC) in rats and pigs. The translation of these findings to humans was attempted.
Methods: Remote ischaemic conditioning or electrical auricular tragus stimulation (ATS) were performed in 10 healthy young volunteers, 10 volunteers with splenectomy, and 20 matched controls.