Tag: research
Hospital-Readmission Risk – Isolating Hospital Effects from Patient Effects
When the same patients were admitted with similar diagnoses to hospitals in the best-performing quartile as compared with the worst-performing quartile of hospital readmission performance, there was a significant difference... read more
Metformin and Aspirin Potential Key in Treating Inflammatory Diseases
Ingredient in aspirin combined with popular diabetes drug can turn off faulty protein that plays a key role in inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis. ... read more
Nutrition in Surgery and Critical Care
DCRI Perioperative Nutrition focuses on the study of hospital-based treatments to improve preparation and recovery from surgery, major illness, and critical care. We put real science into improving patients' lives with interventions... read more
Antibiotic Prescription Fill Rates Declining
Since 2010, antibiotic prescription rates in the U.S. have been declining among the commercially insured population, falling 9 percent during this period. In this report, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, in partnership... read more
Individualizing Thresholds of Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Using Estimated Limits of Autoregulation
Individualized autoregulation-guided cerebral perfusion pressure management may be a plausible alternative to fixed cerebral perfusion pressure threshold management in severe traumatic brain injury patients. Prospective randomized... read more
Most pediatric ICU physicians don’t use current guidelines to diagnose acute kidney injury
A study by University at Buffalo researchers has shown that physicians in pediatric intensive care units are not using the newest guidelines to diagnose acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill children, a practice that... read more
Hospitals with most heart patients in ICU have worse results: Study
Heart attack or heart failure patients are more likely to get worse or die at hospitals that are more likely to treat them in the ICU, a new study suggests.... read more
5-Year Trends of Critical Care Practice and Outcomes
According to researchers in the U.S., analyses of patients, practices, and outcomes from a large geographically dispersed sample of adult ICUs revealed trends of increasing age and acuity, higher rates of adherence to best... read more
An Alternative Consent Process for Minimal Risk Research in the ICU
Seeking consent for minimal risk research in the ICU poses challenges, especially when the research is time-sensitive. Our aim was to determine the extent to which ICU patients or surrogates support a deferred consent process... read more
NIH Herpesvirus Study Leads to Discovery of Potential Broad-Spectrum Antiviral
Scientists studying how regulated herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection unexpectedly found that inhibiting EZH2/1 suppressed viral infection. The research group, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases... read more
Increased ICU Costs for Opioid Overdoses
ICU costs for treating opioid overdose patients increased 58% in a seven-year span, and annual deaths almost doubled, according to a study that included 162 academic hospitals. ICU admissions increased 34% over the study... read more
COPD Patients Who Live Alone are Less Active
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who live with a spouse, partner, or other caregiver are more active than patients who live alone, and are also more likely to participate in pulmonary rehabilitation... read more
Most ICU Patients Underfed
A large international multicentre cohort study shows that most of the patients are underfed during their ICU stay. In their findings published in the journal Clinical Nutrition, researchers say most of the patients in intensive... read more
SOFA Effective Pediatric Version
An age-adjusted version of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score for sepsis has been found to be at least as good, if not better than, other pediatric organ dysfunction scores at predicting in-hospital mortality.... read more
