13 results match your criteria: "Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York[Affiliation]"
Ventriculostomy-related infections: The performance of different definitions for diagnosing infection.
Br J Neurosurg
January 2017
a Division of Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology , NYU Langone Medical Center, New York , NY , USA.
Introduction: Comparison of rates of ventriculostomy-related infections (VRIs) across institutions is difficult due to the lack of a standard definition. We sought to review published definitions of VRI and apply them to a test cohort to determine the degree of variability in VRI diagnosis.
Materials And Methods: We conducted a PubMed search for definitions of VRI using the search strings "ventriculostomy-related infection" and "ventriculostomy-associated infection.
Diagnosis and treatment of chronic hepatitis C in incarcerated patients.
Virtual Mentor
February 2008
Professor of medicine and pathology and cell biology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he lectures about the liver and liver disease to first- and second-year medical students and mentors gastroenterology fellows in the Liver Clinic.
Objective: To increase understanding of HIV infection risk among patients with severe mental illness, the study sought to identify predictors of injection drug use among patients who did not have a primary substance use disorder.
Methods: A total of 192 patients recruited from inpatient and outpatient public psychiatric facilities were interviewed by trained mental health professionals using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID), the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, and the Parenteral Drug Use High-Risk Questionnaire.
Results: Sixty percent of the sample met SCID criteria for lifetime substance abuse or dependence.