Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "outcomes"

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    • Clinicopathologic Features and Long-term Outcomes of NUT Midline Carcinoma 

      Bauer, Daniel Evan; Mitchell, C. M.; Strait, K. M.; Lathan, Christopher Scott; Stelow, E. B.; Luer, S. C.; Muhammed, S.; Evans, A. G.; Sholl, Lynette Marie; Rosai, J.; Giraldi, E.; Oakley, R. P.; Rodriguez-Galindo, C; London, Wendy B; Sallan, Stephen Earl; Bradner, James Elliott; French, Christopher Alexander (American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 2012)
      Purpose NUT midline carcinoma (NMC) is a poorly differentiated squamous cancer characterized by rearrangement of the NUT gene. Research advances have provided opportunities for targeted therapy in NMC, yet the clinical ...

    • Discharge β-Blocker Use and Race after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting 

      O’Neal, Wesley T.; Efird, Jimmy T.; Davies, Stephen W.; O’Neal, Jason B.; Griffin, William F.; Ferguson, T. Bruce; Chitwood, W. Randolph; Kypson, Alan P. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)
      Introduction: The use of discharge β-blockers after cardiac surgery is associated with a long-term mortality benefit. β-Blockers have been suggested to be less effective in black cardiovascular patients compared with whites. ...

    • The effect of adopting the IADPSG screening guidelines on the risk profile and outcomes of the gestational diabetes population 

      March, Melissa I.; Modest, Anna M.; Ralston, Steven J.; Hacker, Michele R.; Gupta, Munish; Brown, Florence M. (Taylor & Francis, 2015)
      Abstract Objective:: To compare characteristics and outcomes of women diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) by the newer one-step glucose tolerance test and those diagnosed with the traditional two-step method. ...

    • Fundamentals of Clinical Outcomes Assessment for Spinal Disorders: Study Designs, Methodologies, and Analyses 

      Vavken, Patrick; Ganal-Antonio, Anne Kathleen B.; Shen, Francis H.; Chapman, Jens R.; Samartzis, Dino (Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2015)
      Study Design A broad narrative review. Objective: Management of spinal disorders is continuously evolving, with new technologies being constantly developed. Regardless, assessment of patient outcomes is key in understanding ...

    • A meta-analysis on efficacy and safety: single-balloon vs. double-balloon enteroscopy 

      Wadhwa, Vaibhav; Sethi, Saurabh; Tewani, Sumeet; Garg, Sushil Kumar; Pleskow, Douglas K.; Chuttani, Ram; Berzin, Tyler M.; Sethi, Nidhi; Sawhney, Mandeep S. (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      Background and aim: Double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) and single-balloon enteroscopy (SBE) are new techniques capable of providing deep enteroscopy. Results of individual studies comparing these techniques have not been ...

    • Opiate Use and Escalation of Care in Hospitalized Adults with Acute Heart Failure and Sleep-disordered Breathing (OpiatesHF Study) 

      Quan, Stuart; Niroula, Abesh; Garvia, Veronica; Rives-Sanchez, Marisela; Quintos, Abigail; Decker, Meredith; Willes, Leslee; Sharma, Sunil (American Thoracic Society, 2019-09)
      Rationale: Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is highly prevalent in adults hospitalized with acute heart failure. Data are limited on the implications of inadvertent opiate use in this population.Objectives: To determine ...

    • Outcomes Considered Most Important by Emergency Physicians When Determining Disposition of Patients with Pulmonary Embolism 

      Kabrhel, Christopher; Sacco, Weston; Liu, Shan Woo; Hariharan, Praveen (Springer-Verlag, 2010)
      Purpose: Clinical decision rules for the disposition of patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) are typically validated against an outcome of 30-day mortality or disease recurrence. There is little justification for this ...

    • Patient-reported financial barriers to adherence to treatment in neurology 

      Moura, Lidia MVR; Schwamm, Eli L; Moura Junior, Valdery; Seitz, Michael P; Hoch, Daniel B; Hsu, John; Schwamm, Lee H (Dove Medical Press, 2016)
      Objective: Many effective medical therapies are available for treating neurological diseases, but these therapies tend to be expensive and adherence is critical to their effectiveness. We used patient-reported data to ...

    • Patient–Provider Communication Data: Linking Process and Outcomes in Oncology Care 

      Sheldon, Lisa Kennedy; Hong, Fangxin; Berry, Donna L (Dove Medical Press, 2011)
      Overview: Patient–provider communication is vital to quality patient care in oncology settings and impacts health outcomes. Newer communication datasets contain patient symptom reports, real-time audiofiles of visits, coded ...

    • Patterns of Care Quality and Prognosis Among Hospitalized Ischemic Stroke Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease 

      Ovbiagele, Bruce; Schwamm, Lee H.; Smith, Eric E.; Grau‐Sepulveda, Maria V.; Saver, Jeffrey L.; Bhatt, Deepak L.; Hernandez, Adrian F.; Peterson, Eric D.; Fonarow, Gregg C. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014)
      Background: Relatively little is known about the quality of care and outcomes for hospitalized ischemic stroke patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We examined quality of care and in‐hospital prognoses among patients ...

    • Risk Prediction in Aortic Valve Replacement: Incremental Value of the Preoperative Echocardiogram 

      Tan, Timothy C.; Flynn, Aidan W.; Chen‐Tournoux, Annabel; Rudski, Lawrence G.; Mehrotra, Praveen; Nunes, Maria C.; Rincon, Luis M.; Shahian, David M.; Picard, Michael H.; Afilalo, Jonathan (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2015)
      Background: Risk prediction is a critical step in patient selection for aortic valve replacement (AVR), yet existing risk scores incorporate very few echocardiographic parameters. We sought to evaluate the incremental ...

    • Risk-Adjusted Survival after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Implications for Quality Improvement 

      Efird, Jimmy T.; O’Neal, Wesley T.; Davies, Stephen W.; O’Neal, Jason B.; Kindell, Linda C.; Anderson, Curtis A.; Chitwood, W. Randolph; Ferguson, T. Bruce; Kypson, Alan P. (MDPI, 2014)
      Mortality represents an important outcome measure following coronary artery bypass grafting. Shorter survival times may reflect poor surgical quality and an increased number of costly postoperative complications. Quality ...

    • Standardized Outcome Measurement for Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: Consensus From the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) 

      McNamara, Robert L; Spatz, Erica S; Kelley, Thomas A; Stowell, Caleb J; Beltrame, John; Heidenreich, Paul; Tresserras, Ricard; Jernberg, Tomas; Chua, Terrance; Morgan, Louise; Panigrahi, Bishnu; Rosas Ruiz, Alba; Rumsfeld, John S; Sadwin, Lawrence; Schoeberl, Mark; Shahian, David; Weston, Clive; Yeh, Robert; Lewin, Jack (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015)
      Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) outcomes consistently improve when they are routinely measured and provided back to physicians and hospitals. However, few centers around the world systematically track outcomes, ...

    • Young Hispanic Women Experience Higher In-Hospital Mortality Following an Acute Myocardial Infarction 

      Rodriguez, Fátima; Foody, JoAnne M; Wang, Yun; López, Lenny (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015)
      Background: Although mortality rates for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have declined for men and women, prior studies have reported a sex gap in mortality such that younger women were most likely to die after an AMI. ...