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The Early Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hospital Finances.
J Healthc Manag
January 2023
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Goal: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both short- and long-term impacts on every aspect of society. Hospitals are among the most critical frontliners and have had to continually navigate the challenges caused by the pandemic. In this study, we examined hospitals' financial performance following the onset of the pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatterns of Upper Extremity Reconstruction for Patients With Tetraplegia Across the United States: A Retrospective Study.
J Hand Surg Am
November 2021
Section of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI. Electronic address:
Purpose: The rates of upper extremity reconstruction for patients with tetraplegia remain low. We performed a retrospective study to assess recent reconstruction rates and delineate factors associated with the occurrence of reconstruction.
Methods: We examined the National Inpatient Sample database (2012-2017) for the rate of reconstruction for patients with tetraplegia.
Telehealth in US hospitals: State-level reimbursement policies no longer influence adoption rates.
Int J Med Inform
September 2021
Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Objectives: Prior to COVID-19, levels of adoption of telehealth were low in the U.S., though they exploded during the pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImpact of surgeon and hospital factors on surgical decision-making for grade 1 degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis: a Quality Outcomes Database analysis.
J Neurosurg Spine
May 2021
1Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami, Florida.
Objective: Surgical treatment for degenerative spondylolisthesis has been proven to be clinically challenging and cost-effective. However, there is a range of thresholds that surgeons utilize for incorporating fusion in addition to decompressive laminectomy in these cases. This study investigates these surgeon- and site-specific factors by using the Quality Outcomes Database (QOD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effect of hospital characteristics on pediatric neuromuscular scoliosis fusion cost.
J Neurosurg Pediatr
December 2019
2Department of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; and.
Objective: Spinal fusion is used in the treatment of pediatric neuromuscular scoliosis (NMS) to improve spine alignment and delay disease progression. However, patients with NMS are often medically complex and require a higher level of care than those with other types of scoliosis, leading to higher treatment costs. The purpose of this study was to 1) characterize the cost of pediatric NMS fusion in the US and 2) determine hospital characteristics associated with changes in overall cost.
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