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Mostrando 25-28 de 28 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. The financial effect of physician practice style on hospital resource use.
Several specifications of a statistical model were used to measure the effect that internal medicine attending physicians had on inpatient charges and length of stay at a large urban teaching hospital. The study was based on a sample of 1,458 patients discharged during 1985-1987 with 12 common principal diagnosis clusters. The relationship between 31 physici
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26. Who is at increased risk for acute kidney injury following noncardiac surgery?
Abelha and colleagues evaluated the incidence and determinants of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) after major noncardiac surgery in patients with previously normal renal function. In this retrospective study of 1,166 patients with no previous renal insufficiency, who were admitted to a postsurgical intensive care unit (ICU) over a 2-year period, the
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27. Candida colonization and subsequent infections in critically ill surgical patients.
OBJECTIVE. The authors determined the role of Candida colonization in the development of subsequent infection in critically ill patients. DESIGN. A 6-month prospective cohort study was given to patients admitted to the surgical and neonatal intensive care units in a 1600-bed university medical center. METHODS. Patients having predetermined criteria for signi
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28. Delayed surgical repair and ECMO improves survival in congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
One hundred ten infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) developed life-threatening respiratory distress in the first 6 hours of life. Associated anomalies were present in 33%. Twenty-eight of 65 infants (43%) treated before 1987 (pre-extracorporeal membrane oxygenation [ECMO] era) survived after immediate CDH repair, and mechanical ventilation wit