Assessment of intimate partner violence abuse ratings by recently abused and never abused women.

Background: There are a paucity of directly reported intimate partner violence survivors' experiences, especially in women of color. This study measures recently/currently abused women's ratings of varied abuse events compared to ratings from never abused women.

Methods: Women in a single, urban, public hospital emergency department (ED) were screened for intimate partner violence using the Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS).

Comparison of 3 infrared thermal detection systems and self-report for mass fever screening.

Despite limited evidence regarding their utility, infrared thermal detection systems (ITDS) are increasingly being used for mass fever detection. We compared temperature measurements for 3 ITDS (FLIR ThermoVision A20M [FLIR Systems Inc., Boston, MA, USA], OptoTherm Thermoscreen [OptoTherm Thermal Imaging Systems and Infrared Cameras Inc.

Costs attributable to healthcare-acquired infection in hospitalized adults and a comparison of economic methods.

Background: Hospitals will increasingly bear the costs for healthcare-acquired conditions such as infection. Our goals were to estimate the costs attributable to healthcare-acquired infection (HAI) and conduct a sensitivity analysis comparing analytic methods.

Methods: A random sample of high-risk adults hospitalized in the year 2000 was selected.

Hospital and societal costs of antimicrobial-resistant infections in a Chicago teaching hospital: implications for antibiotic stewardship.

Background: Organisms resistant to antimicrobials continue to emerge and spread. This study was performed to measure the medical and societal cost attributable to antimicrobial-resistant infection (ARI).

Methods: A sample of high-risk hospitalized adult patients was selected.

The cost of care for patients with HIV from the provider economic perspective.

Health care costs for HIV infection are often reported from the economic perspective of third party payors and little data exist to show how total costs are distributed across specific health service categories. We used a retrospective cohort design to measure total medical costs for 1 year in a randomly selected sample of 280 patients treated for HIV infection at an urban health care facility. Inpatient and outpatient costs were measured from the economic perspective of the health care provider.

The use of economic modeling to determine the hospital costs associated with nosocomial infections.

Hospital-associated infection is well recognized as a patient safety concern requiring preventive interventions. However, hospitals are closely monitoring expenditures and need accurate estimates of potential cost savings from such prevention programs. We used a retrospective cohort design and economic modeling to determine the excess cost from the hospital perspective for hospital-associated infection in a random sample of adult medical patients.

Impact of a clinical decision rule on hospital triage of patients with suspected acute cardiac ischemia in the emergency department.

Context: Emergency department (ED) physicians often are uncertain about where in the hospital to triage patients with suspected acute cardiac ischemia. Many patients are triaged unnecessarily to intensive or intermediate cardiac care units.

Objective: To determine whether use of a clinical decision rule improves physicians' hospital triage decisions for patients with suspected acute cardiac ischemia.