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Worksite medical home: health services use and claim costs.
(Am J Manag Care, 2015-07-01)
OBJECTIVES: To examine the relationship among use of an on-site employer-provided
primary care medical home, and health services use and health plan costs for inpatient
and outpatient services and pharmaceuticals. STUDY ...
Patterns of care quality and prognosis among hospitalized ischemic stroke patients with chronic kidney disease.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2014-06-05)
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 ...
Is chronic asthma associated with shorter leukocyte telomere length at midlife?
(Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2014-08-15)
RATIONALE: Asthma is prospectively associated with age-related chronic diseases and
mortality, suggesting the hypothesis that asthma may relate to a general, multisystem
phenotype of accelerated aging. OBJECTIVES: To test ...
Magic moment? Maternal marriage for children born out of wedlock.
(Demography, 2014-08)
To test the existence of the "magic moment" for parental marriage immediately post-birth
and to inform policies that preferentially encourage biological over step parent marriage,
this study estimates the incidence and stability ...
Nonmedical Opioid Pain Relievers and All-Cause Mortality: A 27-Year Follow-Up From the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study.
(American journal of public health, 2016-03)
We investigated whether nonmedical opioid pain reliever use is associated with higher
mortality in the general US population.We assessed the history of nonmedical opioid
pain reliever use among 9985 people interviewed at ...
Clinician judgment vs formal scales for predicting intracerebral hemorrhage outcomes.
(Neurology, 2016-01-12)
OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance of formal prognostic instruments vs subjective
clinical judgment with regards to predicting functional outcome in patients with spontaneous
intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). METHODS: This ...
Bloodstream Infections and Frequency of Pretreatment Associated With Age and Hospitalization Status in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Clin Infect Dis, 2015-11-01)
BACKGROUND: The clinical diagnosis of bacterial bloodstream infections (BSIs) in sub-Saharan
Africa is routinely confused with malaria due to overlapping symptoms. The Typhoid
Surveillance in Africa Program (TSAP) recruited ...
Traditional medicine practices among community members with chronic kidney disease in northern Tanzania: an ethnomedical survey.
(BMC Nephrol, 2015-10-23)
BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is being recognized
as a non-communicable disease (NCD) with high morbidity and mortality. In countries
like Tanzania, people access many sources, including ...
Mortality among heroin users and users of other internationally regulated drugs: A 27-year follow-up of users in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program household samples.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2015-11)
In contrast to research on more restricted samples of drug users, epidemiological
studies open up a view of death rates and survivorship of those who have tried heroin
a few times, with no acceleration toward sustained use ...
TNF rs1799964 as a Predictive Factor of Acute Toxicities in Chinese Rectal Cancer Patients Treated With Chemoradiotherapy.
(Medicine, 2015-11)
Acute toxicity is the main dose-limiting factor in the chemoradiotherapy of rectal
cancer patients and depends on several pro-inflammatory factors, including interleukin-1
(IL-1), IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α). ...