Publications by authors named "Tommy M Bird"
Article Synopsis
- The study looked at why some hospitals in the Mississippi Delta area have different rates of patients returning after being treated for pneumonia, heart failure, and heart attacks.
- Researchers found that hospitals in the Delta region had better improvements in keeping patients from coming back within 30 days compared to others.
- The findings suggest that factors about the communities around the hospitals should be considered when creating rules to help reduce patient readmissions.
Objective: To compare the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States with that of the non-Delta region states.
Methods: Analyzed data come from national birth certificate and death certificate data for 1999-2007. Data were aggregated for analysis by region, counties of the Delta Regional Authority, non-Delta regions of the eight Delta states, and the 42 non-Delta states.
Objective: To determine the rate of mode of delivery over 18 years in a military teaching hospital as compared to university and community hospitals.
Methods: From January 1992 to December 2009, we retrospectively calculated yearly rates for mode of delivery from a military hospital, two university hospitals, a community hospital in South Carolina and all community hospitals in Arkansas.
Results: Over the 18-year period, 803,249 deliveries occurred from all hospitals.
Background: The Arkansas Medicaid program for low-income women provides cervical cancer screening, in the form of Pap smears, and treatment but no diagnostic means of bridging the two, such as a procedure called "colposcopy." Telemedicine offers a viable means to bridging this gap. Previously telecolposcopy has been used in small demonstration projects as a means to deliver colposcopy services to at-risk rural populations at a comparable quality to in-person colposcopy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate the effect on all state Medicaid costs of a children's hospital-based multidisciplinary clinic that provides comprehensive and coordinated care for medically complex children.
Design: Before-after intervention study. Patients' health care costs for up to 1 year before enrollment in the clinic were compared with patients' health care costs for up to 1 year after enrollment in the clinic.
Objectives: The goals were to describe trends in pediatric traumatic brain injury hospitalizations in the United States and to provide national benchmarks for state and regional comparisons.
Methods: Analysis of existing data (1991-2005) from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, the largest longitudinal, all-payer, inpatient care database in the United States, was performed. Children 0 to 19 years of age were included.