BACKGROUND Qualitative research appears to be gaining acceptability in medical journals. Yet, little is actually known about the proportion of qualitative research and factors affecting its publication. This study describes the proportion of qualitative research over a 10 year period and correlates associated with its publication. DESIGN A quantitative longitudinal examination of the proporti...

HYPOTHESIS An increase in national utilization of bariatric surgery correlates with the dissemination of laparoscopic bariatric surgery. DESIGN Evaluation of Nationwide Inpatient Sample data from 1998 through 2002. SETTING National database. PATIENTS A total of 188,599 patients underwent bariatric surgery for the treatment of morbid obesity. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Annual total number of ...

The booming U.S. economy of the 1990s has created the impression that all American households are doing well, particularly in terms of wealth acquisition. Our results show that this is decidedly not the case. In this paper, we develop several measures of “asset poverty” and use them to document changes from 1983 to 1998 in the extent to which American households are unable to rely on an asset c...

OBJECTIVES To propose a new standard for monitoring severe maternal morbidity, update previous estimates of severe maternal morbidity during both delivery and postpartum hospitalizations, and estimate trends in these events in the United States between 1998 and 2009. METHODS Delivery and postpartum hospitalizations were identified in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample for the period 1998-2009. I...

INTRODUCTION The objective of the study was to determine the trends of cancer cervix in Karachi South during an eight (1995-2002) year period. METHODOLOGY Cancer cervix cases recorded at Karachi Cancer Registry during 1st January 1995 to 31st December 2002 were analyzed. Trends were studied by analyzing the age standardized incidence rates (ASR)s in 2 time periods, 1995-97 and 1998-2002. RE...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To explore the impact of de-industrialisation over a 20 year period on working conditions and health among sawmill workers, in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. DESIGN AND SETTING This investigation is based on a sample of 3000 sawmill workers employed in 1979 (a year before the beginning de-industrialisation) and interviewed in 1998. The sample was obtained by ra...