JMIR Med Inform
June 2024
Background: Biomedical data warehouses (BDWs) have become an essential tool to facilitate the reuse of health data for both research and decisional applications. Beyond technical issues, the implementation of BDWs requires strong institutional data governance and operational knowledge of the European and national legal framework for the management of research data access and use.
Objective: In this paper, we describe the compound process of implementation and the contents of a regional university hospital BDW.
Sepsis induces immune alterations, which last for months after the resolution of illness. The effect of this immunological reprogramming on the risk of developing cancer is unclear. Here we use a national claims database to show that sepsis survivors had a lower cumulative incidence of cancers than matched nonsevere infection survivors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Objectives: Postoperative administration of dexamethasone has been proposed to reduce morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing major non-cardiac surgery. In this ancillary study of the PACMAN trial, we aimed to evaluate the cost effectiveness of dexamethasone in patients undergoing major non-cardiac surgery.
Methods: Patients included in the multicentric randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled PACMAN trial were followed up for 12 months after their surgical procedure.
Ann Burns Fire Disasters
December 2022
Thanks to the Medical Information Service of our institution, we obtained the data on burns during 2019, saved in the national database. We found 10,913 reports, among them 10,347 metropolitan and 566 overseas. When compared to the French population on January 1 2020, the incidences were 16 (global population); 15.
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