Trends of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Inpatients Mortality and Financial Burden From 2011 to 2017: A Nationwide Analysis.

Introduction: Liver cancer, including Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the seventh most common tumor worldwide. Previously, the financial burden of HCC in the United States between 2002 and 2011 was noted to be continuously increasing. This study aims to evaluate temporal trends of hospitalizations due to HCC.

Semi-parametric time-to-event modelling of lengths of hospital stays.

Length of stay (LOS) is an essential metric for the quality of hospital care. Published works on LOS analysis have primarily focused on skewed LOS distributions and the influences of patient diagnostic characteristics. Few authors have considered the events that terminate a hospital stay: Both successful discharge and death could end a hospital stay but with completely different implications.

Characterization of predictors of ESBL-producing enterobacteriaceae in urine cultures of emergency department patients.

Study Objective: With increasing prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae (ESBLE), more reliable identification of predictors for ESBLE urinary tract infection (UTI) in the emergency department (ED) is needed. Our objective was to evaluate risk factors and their predictive ability for ED patients with ESBLE UTI.

Methods: This was a retrospective case-control study at an urban academic medical center.

Online and in-Person Violence, Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying in New Jersey: 2011-2016.

Background: New Jersey (NJ) Safe Schools Program, primarily funded by the NJ Department of Education, has aims concerning safety and health including helping to alleviate harassment, intimidation, and bullying (HIB) in secondary school because HIB can affect learning. We evaluated officially reported adolescent HIB total incidents and estimated rates in NJ public city and county school districts for the 2011-2016 school years.

Methods: A cross-sectional observational study using population-based state-reported public data.

A Convenient Prognostic Tool and Staging System for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

Background: Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) causes major disability, shortens life, and as yet has no disease-modifying and little symptomatic treatment. A convenient prognostic tool is needed to assist patients, families, and clinicians in planning care.

Objectives: We calculated times to acquisition of certain disease milestones and death.

Predicting long-term multicategory cause of death in patients with prostate cancer: random forest versus multinomial model.

The majority of patients with prostate cancer die of non-cancer causes of death (COD). It is thus important to accurately predict multi-category COD in these patients. Random forest (RF), a popular machine learning model, has been shown useful for predicting binary cancer-specific deaths.

Trends and prediction in daily incidence of novel coronavirus infection in China, Hubei Province and Wuhan City: an application of Farr's law.

Background: The recent outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has infected tens of thousands of patients in China. Studies have forecasted future trends of the incidence of 2019-nCoV infection, but appeared unsuccessful. Farr's law is a classic epidemiology theory/practice for predicting epidemics.

Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Gout at a University Hospital Emergency Department.

Background: Acute gout attacks account for a substantial number of visits to the emergency department (ED). Our aim was to evaluate acute gout diagnosis and treatment at a University Hospital ED.

Methods: Our study was a retrospective chart review of consecutive patients with a diagnosis of acute gout seen in the ED 1/01/2004 - 12/31/2010.