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Open AccessAssociation of tobacco product use with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) prevalence and incidence in Waves 1 through 5 (2013–2019) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study
We examined the association of non-cigarette tobacco use on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study.
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Mortality versus Municipal and State Government Spending in American Cities
The USA leads the world in healthcare spending but trails dozens of countries in life expectancy. Government spending may reduce overall mortality by redistributing resources from the rich to the poor. We link...
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Open AccessCharacterizing rescue performance in a tertiary care medical center: a systems approach to provide management decision support
Allocation of limited resources to improve quality, patient safety, and outcomes is a decision-making challenge health care leaders face every day. While much valuable health care management research has conce...
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Patterns in continuous pulse oximetry data prior to pulseless electrical activity arrest in the general care setting
The study objective was to understand if features derived from continuous pulse oximetry data can provide advanced warning of pulseless electrical activity arrest in the general care inpatient setting. Retrosp...
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Open AccessElevated preoperative Galectin-3 is associated with acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery
Previous research suggests that novel biomarkers may be used to identify patients at increased risk of acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship ...
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Patient-predicted sleep position vs. HST data: a tendency to underestimate supine sleep
The purpose of this study is to measure people’s accuracy when they estimate what proportion of their nightly sleep at home is supine vs. non-supine.
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The Presence of Ethics Programs in Critical Access Hospitals
The purpose of this study was to assess the presence of ethics committees in rural critical access hospitals across the United States. Several studies have investigated the presence of ethics committees in rur...
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Screening mammography intervals among postmenopausal hormone therapy users and nonusers
The recent decline in US breast cancer incidence rates has been attributed to the marked reduction in use of postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT). An alternative explanation is that women who are not routinely ...
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Marginal and hazard ratio specific random data generation: Applications to semi-parametric bootstrap**
Cox's partial likelihood for censored time-to-event data can be interpreted as a permutation probability, whereby covariate values are permuted to the observed times-to-event and censoring times. This interpre...
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Comparing the psychometric properties of preference-based and nonpreference-based health-related quality of life in coronary heart disease
A cross-sectional survey (n = 878) was conducted to compare the psychometric properties of three preference-based and one nonpreference-based health-related quality of life measures among healthy subjects with...
