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Med Care
February 2025
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health, Philadelphia, PA.
Objective: To examine the characteristics and risk factors associated with 30-day readmissions, including the impact of home health care (HHC), among older sepsis survivors transitioning from hospital to home.
Research Design: Retrospective cohort study of the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC)-IV data (2008-2019), using generalized estimating equations (GEE) models adjusting for patient sociodemographic and clinical characteristics.
Subjects: Sepsis admission episodes with in-hospital stays, aged over 65, and discharged home with or without HHC were included.
J Hosp Med
January 2025
Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
BMJ Open
January 2025
Department of Public Health and Primary Care - Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.
Objectives: To study between-hospital variation in mortality, readmissions and prolonged length of stay across Belgian hospitals.
Design: A retrospective nationwide observational study.
Setting: Secondary and tertiary acute-care hospitals in Belgium.
Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi
January 2025
Department of Pacing Electrophysiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi830000, China.
The aim of this study was to assess the frailty status of patients with heart failure undergoing CRT-D and then explore the predictive value of frailty for all-cause mortality and heart failure-related readmissions in these patients. We retrospectively included 374 patients with chronic heart failure who underwent CRT-D treatment at the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University between June 2020 and June 2024. Based on the Tilburg Debilitation Assessment Scale, 175 patients (46.
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January 2025
Department of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, Shreveport, LA, USA; Department of Cardiovascular sciences, Louisiana State University Health Science Center at Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA.
Background: Catheter-directed interventions (CDIs) for pulmonary embolism (PE) continue to evolve. However, due to the paucity of data, their use has been limited in patients with underlying kidney disease.
Methods: The National Readmission Database (2016-2020) was utilized to identify intermediate to high-risk PE (IHR-PE) patients requiring CDI (thrombectomy, thrombolysis, and ultrasound-assisted thrombolysis).
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