2014
Readmissions after Hospitalization for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Pneumonia among Young and Middle-Aged Adults: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study
Ranasinghe I, Wang Y, Dharmarajan K, Hsieh AF, Bernheim SM, Krumholz HM. Readmissions after Hospitalization for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Pneumonia among Young and Middle-Aged Adults: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study. PLOS Medicine 2014, 11: e1001737. PMID: 25268126, PMCID: PMC4181962, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001737.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionMiddle-aged adultsTiming of readmissionHeart failureReadmission ratesAMI cohortReadmission diagnosesHF cohortReadmission riskMyocardial infarctionAge groupsRetrospective observational cohort studyIndex admission diagnosisObservational cohort studySimilar risk patternNon-cardiac diagnosisPneumonia cohortAdmission diagnosisElderly patientsCohort studyPatient characteristicsPrimary outcomePayer statusReadmissionHospitalization
2004
The association between emergency department crowding and time to antibiotic administration
Hwang U, Graff L, Radford M, Krumholz H. The association between emergency department crowding and time to antibiotic administration. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2004, 44: s6-s7. DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.07.022.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPneumonia severity indexCAP patientsED lengthEmergency departmentED censusED crowdingAntibiotic administrationMean ageCAP casesSignificant associationRetrospective observational cohort studyPatients' mean ageHospital discharge diagnosisMedium-sized community hospitalObservational cohort studyPneumocystis carinii pneumoniaMean ED lengthNational quality measuresNational Hospital Quality MeasuresEmergency department (ED) crowdingNational performance measuresHospital quality measuresNation's emergency departmentsStay criteriaCohort study