Forensic Analysis of Spin-off and Downstream Revenue in an Academic Vascular Surgery Practice at a Tertiary Care Medical Center

A Three-Year Experience of Medical Thoracoscopy at A Tertiary Care Center of Himalayan Region

Introduction: Medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure for diagnosing and treating pleural diseases. Despite its proven role in diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, it is infrequently used, which could be because of cost of equipment and lack of training. We analyzed our initial 3 years record of thoracoscopy at Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, a tertiary care center in Hi...

Open incisional hernia repair at an academic tertiary care medical center.

OBJECTIVE To describe the postoperative complication rates of a large consecutive series of patients who underwent open incisional ventral hernia repair. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review of an accumulated database. SETTING University tertiary care medical center. PATIENTS All patients who underwent open incisional ventral hernia repair from March 1, 2003, through February 28, 20...

Implementation of an Automated Electronic Medical Record “Antibiotic Timeout” Alert at a Tertiary, Academic Medical Center

Antimicrobial stewardship at a large tertiary care academic medical center: cost analysis before, during, and after a 7-year program.

BACKGROUND An antimicrobial stewardship program was fully implemented at the University of Maryland Medical Center in July 2001 (beginning of fiscal year [FY] 2002). Essential to the program was an antimicrobial monitoring team (AMT) consisting of an infectious diseases-trained clinical pharmacist and a part-time infectious diseases physician that provided real-time monitoring of antimicrobial ...

Knowledge and Practice of Diabetic Foot Care in an In- Patient Setting at a Tertiary Medical Center.

Good knowledge and practice regarding diabetic foot care will reduce the risk of diabetic foot complications and ultimately amputation. This study is conducted to assess patients' knowledge and compliance of diabetic foot care. A cross sectional study performed on patients who were admitted to HSNZ from the 1st September 2013 to 30th April 2014 for diabetic foot infections. They were interviewe...