Methods for individual participant data meta-analysis of survival outcomes commonly focus on the hazard ratio as a measure of treatment effect. Recently, Siannis et al. (2010, Statistics in Medicine 29:3030-3045) proposed the use of percentile ratios as an alternative to hazard ratios. We describe a novel two-stage method for the meta-analysis of percentile ratios that avoids distributional assumptions at the study level.
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Clin J Am Soc Nephrol
January 2025
Department of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
Background: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Environmental Justice Index Social-Environmental Ranking (EJI-SER) combines a Social Vulnerability Module (SV) with an Environmental Burden Module (EB) to characterize cumulative environmental and social burden at the census tract level. This analysis evaluates the association between EJI-SER and kidney outcomes in glomerular disease (GD) patients.
Methods: Cure Glomerulopathy (CureGN) is an observational cohort study of adults and children with biopsy-proven GD.
Ann Surg Oncol
January 2025
Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
Introduction: Approximately 61 million individuals in the United States have a disability and face unique challenges, resulting in healthcare disparities.
Objective: We aimed to evaluate the impact of disability on postoperative outcomes and number of healthy days at home (HDAH).
Methods: Patients who underwent surgery for gastrointestinal (GI) cancer between 2017 and 2020 were identified using the Medicare database.
Background: Historically, access to high-quality care has been a central challenge for Medicaid programs. Prior single-year analyses demonstrated that Medicaid beneficiaries account for disproportionately high patient volumes at low-quality hospitals. Given major Medicaid shifts including expansion and increased managed care, we examined recent trends in low-quality hospital use for Medicaid beneficiaries.
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December 2024
Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Background: Atrial septal defects (ASDs) are a common cause of congenital heart disease worldwide.
Objectives: The purpose of the study was to assess change over time in surgical outcomes for ASD repair and identify patient-level risk factors for adverse postoperative outcomes.
Methods: We analyzed cases of isolated ASD in patients <18 years from 2010 to 2020 from 71 sites participating in the International Quality Improvement Collaborative for Congenital Heart Disease.
Med J Malaysia
January 2025
Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Selangor Kampus Puncak Alam, Bandar Puncak Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.
Introduction: The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) predominantly impacts the pulmonary system; however, it also has harmful consequences for the cardiovascular system through the occurrence of myocardial injury.
Materials And Methods: This retrospective study analysed 119 COVID-19 patients admitted to Al-Sultan Abdullah Hospital (HASA) from March until December 2020. Demographics, medical histories, admission laboratory results, electrocardiogram (ECG), echocardiogram (echo), were captured from the hospitals' health records.
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