Publications by authors named "S Rasgon"
Article Synopsis
- The study examines how practicing physicians contributed to the early curriculum development and instruction at the new Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.
- The research involved surveys from first-year medical students and physician instructors, focusing on aspects like teaching preparation, collaboration with basic scientists, and overall satisfaction with the educational experience.
- Results showed high satisfaction ratings from both physicians and students, highlighting effective collaboration between clinical educators and basic scientists, suggesting a model that other medical schools might replicate.
Introduction: Lower early mortality observed in peritoneal dialysis (PD) compared with hemodialysis (HD) may be due to differential pre-end-stage renal disease (ESRD) care and the stable setting of transition to dialysis where PD starts are more frequently outpatient rather than during an unscheduled hospitalization. To account for these circumstances, we compared early mortality among a matched cohort of PD and HD patients who had optimal and outpatient starts.
Methods: Retrospective cohort study performed among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who transitioned to ESRD from 1 January 2002 to 31 March 2015 with an optimal start in an outpatient setting.
Background And Objective: We directly compared sleep apnoea (SA) rates and risk of cardiovascular and mortality outcomes among SA patients with resistant hypertension (RH) and non-RH within a large diverse hypertension population.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010 among hypertensive adults (age ≥ 18 years) was performed within an integrated health system. Rates of SA in RH and non-RH were determined.
Background: Although hypertension guidelines have utility in treating uncomplicated hypertension, they often overlook the pathophysiologic basis and heterogeneity of hypertension. This may explain the relatively poor hypertension control rates. A proposed approach is to guide addition and subtraction of medications using ambulatory plasma renin activity (PRA) values.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We sought to compare perioperative outcomes and 2-year survival in a cohort of peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients compared with matched hemodialysis (HD) patients who underwent cardiothoracic surgery at our institution.
Methods: We obtained a list of all dialysis-dependent patients who underwent cardiac surgery (coronary artery bypass grafting, valve replacement, or both) at our center between 1994 and 2008. All patients undergoing PD at the time of surgery were included in our analysis.