The impact of hospital experience with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients on post cardiac arrest care.

Objective: Patient volume as a surrogate for institutional experience has been associated with quality of care indicators for a variety of illnesses. We evaluated the association between hospital experience with comatose out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients and important care processes.

Methods: This was a population-based, retrospective cohort study using data from 37 hospitals in Southern Ontario from 2007 to 2013.

Medication use and falls in community-dwelling older persons.

Background: The association between injurious falls requiring a visit to the emergency department and various classes of medications was examined in a case-control study of community living persons aged 66 years and older.

Methods: Administrative databases from an urban health region provided the information used. Five controls for each case were randomly selected from community dwelling older persons who had not reported an injurious fall to one of the six regional emergency departments in the study year.