September 2011

September 09, 2011

Medical comanagement of patients who had perioperative complications was associated with lower mortality, suggesting that comanagement may facilitate effective rescue.

September 09, 2011

Patient characteristics such as psychiatric diagnosis were associated with variations in adherence, although physician characteristics were not.

September 09, 2011

Predictive models for hospital admissions and readmissions in persons aged >65 years have been developed through a combination of comorbidity and previous healthcare use.

September 09, 2011

Different patient characteristics predict adequate antidepressant treatment after hospitalization, received by 58.7% of patients, versus adequate psychotherapy, received by 12.9% of patients.

September 08, 2011

Treatment of glaucoma with bimatoprost is associated with cost savings compared with treatment with latanoprost or travoprost because of greater intraocular pressure reduction.

September 07, 2011

Shifting from claims to integrated electronic health records to calculate quality metrics will improve reported quality attributable to data capture changes, not true quality improvements.

September 07, 2011

Physician use of EHRs with CDS is associated with increased blood pressure control and lower mean systolic blood pressure across US primary care visits.

September 06, 2011

This drug-utilization study in a prescription database of more than 50,000 patients analyzed compliance, persistence, and switching behavior for ACE inhibitors and ARBs.

September 06, 2011

Atrial fibrillation patients with mental illness are less likely to receive warfarin anticoagulation; those who do receive warfarin have excess risk of over-anticoagulation.

September 06, 2011

Retrospective analysis of the US Impact National Benchmark Database indicated that 80% of antibiotics prescribed in subjects with influenza were inappropriate.