OBJECTIVE To examine the association between adherence to glucose-lowering agents and patient outcomes, including costs, acute-care resource utilization, and complications, in an older, type 2 diabetic population. DATA AND METHODS The study used Truven's Medicare Supplemental database from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2014. Patients aged 65 years or older were included if they had at least two ty...

Abstract Introduction The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is high in patients with systolic heart failure (HFrEF) and has been associated poor prognosis this patient population. impact positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy OSA HFrEF remains unclear. This retrospective study sought to investigate the association between 1-year adherence PAP healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) new...

KEY FINDINGS Data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2012 •Physician office visit rates for well care were lower for school-aged (those aged 6-11 years) children (31 per 100 population) and adolescents aged 12-17 years (29 per 100 population) than for younger children (349 and 74 per 100 population for children under age 1 year and 1-5 years, respectively). •Visit rates for well ...

PURPOSE This study described the incidence and predisposing, enabling, and need factors of outpatients in a pediatric ER who sought care for nontraumatic preventable dental disease and analyzed treatment rendered by attending physicians and associated hospital charges for treatment. METHODS Chart review of outpatients discharged from the ER of a children's hospital during 1996-97, using ICD-9...

Recent w ork (Gelfand, Zhu and Carlin, 2001) enables a hierarchical modeling solution to the general change of support problem (COSP), where we s e e k t o m a k e inferences about the values of a variable at either points or regions diierent from those at which it has been observed. The approach presumes an underlying continuous stationary spatial process X(s) for locations s 2 D, a region of ...

Background: Eosinophilic Disorders (EGIDs) are chronic inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract that are associated with intensive treatment and poor health outcomes. EGIDs diagnosed in children require extensive parent involvement in disease management. Previous research on parental-caregiver stress (PCS) suggests that parents of children with chronic illnesses may report increased psychol...

Vocal fold dystonia and total vocal fold paralysis in Xeroderma Pigmentosum Type-A (XPA) are rare clinical conditions that have been recently described in a few case reports from the Japanese literature. We report here an 11-year-old boy with XPA and seizures and a history of frequent emergency room (ER) visits to different local hospitals for recurrent inspiratory stridor that was treated as “...

estrogen (e2) has neuroprotective effects on blood-brain-barrier (bbb) after traumatic brain injury (tbi). in order to investigate the roles of estrogen receptors (ers) in these kind of effects, er-α antagonist (mpp) and, er-β antagonist (phtpp), or non-selective estrogen receptors antagonist (ici 182780) were administered as regulators of cns cytokines levels and neuroinflammation after tbi. m...