BACKGROUND Spine operations may be indicated for treatment of diseases including vertebral injuries, degenerative spinal conditions, disk disease, spinal misalignments, or malformations. Surgical site infection (SSI) is a clinically important complication of spine surgery. Staphylococcus aureus, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), is a leading cause of post-spinal SSIs...

OBJECTIVE To estimate generalist, pediatric subspecialist, and any subspecialist use by Medicaid-enrolled children with chronic conditions and to determine the correlates of use. METHODS We analyzed Medicaid claims data collected from 1989 to 1992 from 4 states for 57 328 children and adolescents with 11 chronic conditions. We calculated annual rates of generalist, subspecialist, and pediatri...

OBJECTIVE To assess the cost-effectiveness of perioperative intranasal application of mupirocin calcium ointment in cardiothoracic surgery. DESIGN Cost-effectiveness analysis based on results of an intervention study with historical controls. SETTING University Hospital Rotterdam, a tertiary referral center for cardiac and pulmonary surgery. PATIENTS Consecutive patients undergoing cardio...

BACKGROUND Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a well known complication of gastrointestinal surgery and associated with an increased morbidity, mortality and overall cost. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a risk factor for SSI. However, there is no clear consensus as to which other risk factors play a significant role. The goal of this study was to identify risk factors associated with SSI in patient...

Older women who, even if they do receive Social Security benefits, are still eligible for Supplemental Security Income payments are certainly among the most vulnerable segments of our society. At the end of 1996, there were more than 1.5 million such women aged 65 or older who were receiving SSI payments. It is likely that these women have been poor for much of their lives, as they appear to be...

There is a great deal in this issue for serious Sartre scholars. Without initially intending to, we have put together an focussing on translation: translation of Grégory Cormann's article that first appeared 2021 Études sartriennes 25 (‘Autour du mémoire sur l'image (1927)’), and one Sartre's 1947 presentation to the Société Française de Philosophie, ‘Conscience soi et connaissance soi’ (‘Self-...

The efficacy of the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) enteric medium for isolation and direct identification of enteric pathogens was evaluated. Six different biochemical reactions can be read by using the SSI enteric medium, allowing direct identification of a range of enteric pathogens. All 248 gram-negative bacterial species that were tested grew on the SSI enteric medium. Only 10 of 248 bacteria...

INTRODUCTION Caesarean section (CS) rates have increased globally during the past three decades. Surgical site infection (SSI) following CS is a common cause of morbidity with reported rates of 3-15%. SSI represents a substantial burden to the health system including increased length of hospitalisation and costs of postdischarge care. The definition of SSI varies with the postoperative follow-u...

OBJECTIVE SSI rates after gynecologic oncology surgery vary from 5% to 35%, but are up to 45% in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Strict postoperative glucose control by insulin infusion has been shown to lower morbidity, but not specifically SSI rates. Our project studied continuous postoperative insulin infusion for 24h for gynecologic oncology patients with DM and hyperglycemia with a t...

This article reports on a study undertaken to evaluate the Social Security Administration's (SSA) methods for estimating the number of persons eligible for Federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments. SSA estimates that 65-70 percent of the aged eligible for SSI actually participate in the program. It has been argued that the actual participation rate may be either higher or lower than ...