Mortality risk stratification can identify patients with COVID-19 who are at higher risk of mortality, discharge to skilled nursing facility, and readmission, and may benefit from focused intervention strategies.
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Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes
January 2025
Institut für Medizinmanagement und Gesundheitswissenschaften (IMG) der Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Deutschland.
Introduction: Unmet health care needs are seen as a key indicator of equity in access to health care. With younger people, they can lead to poorer health outcomes in adulthood, and in older people they can be associated with an increased risk of mortality. The presence of a disability is considered a risk factor for unmet needs.
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December 2024
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.
Objective: To determine the association between concurrent statin use with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and lung cancer-specific and overall mortality in patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Materials And Methods: SEER-Medicare was used to conduct a retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries ≥65 years of age diagnosed with NSCLC between 2007 and 2017 treated with an ICI. Patients were followed from date of first ICI claim until death, 1 month from last ICI claim, or 12/31/2018, whichever came first.
Nefrologia (Engl Ed)
January 2025
Servicio de Nefrología, Hospital del Mar, Instituto Hospital del Mar de Investigaciones Médicas, RD16/0009/0013 (ISCIII FEDER REDinREN), Barcelona, Spain; Servicio de Nefrología, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.
Few studies have analyzed the freedom to choose their renal replacement treatment (RRT) modality in Spain. In a total of 673 patients with ACKD (stage 4 and 5) seen at the outpatient ACKD clinic of Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain) from 2009 to 2020, we retrospectively compared immigrant and Spanish patients in order to analyze the impact of migration on RRT decision-making and its subsequent evolution in advanced CKD (ACKD) consultation and identifies the social and economic needs of this population. One hundred thirteen (16.
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January 2025
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University/Second Faculty of Clinical Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China.
Objectives: Gastrointestinal bleeding, an emergency and critical disease, is affected by multiple factors. This study aims to systematically summarize and appraise various factors associated with gastrointestinal bleeding.
Design: Umbrella review.
J Cardiol
January 2025
Department of Cardiology, St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Electronic address:
Background: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common genetic disease with estimated prevalence of 0.2-0.5 %.
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