BACKGROUND Adolescents with early psychiatric hospitalization are likely to be at a significant risk for long-term difficulties. OBJECTIVE To examine early adulthood outcomes of psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents. DESIGN Inception cohort recruited from 1978 to 1981 and observed until 2002. SETTING Northeastern United States. PARTICIPANTS Adolescents (aged 12-15 years) from 2 match...

BACKGROUND The Brain Trauma Foundation (BTF) guidelines published in 2007 suggest some indications for intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring in severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, some studies had not shown clinical benefit in patients with severe TBI; several studies had even reported that ICP monitoring was associated with an increased mortality rate. The effect of ICP monitoring h...

AIM To estimate the proportional contribution of influenza viruses (IV), parainfluenza viruses (PIV), adenoviruses (AV), and coronaviruses (CV) to the burden of severe acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI). METHODS The review of the literature followed PRISMA guidelines. We included studies of hospitalized children aged 0-4 years with confirmed ALRI published between 1995 and 2011. A tota...

OBJECTIVE There are extremely limited data on minority populations, especially Hispanics, describing the clinical epidemiology of acute coronary disease. The aim of this study is to examine the incidence rate of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), in-hospital case-fatality rate (CFR), and management practices among residents of greater San Juan (Puerto Rico) who were hospitalized with an initial...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE This case-control study was carried out to estimate risk factors associated with hospitalizations and severe outcomes [intensive care unit (ICU) admission or death] among patients with illness because of laboratory-confirmed 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 virus (pH1N1) during the first wave of pH1N1 activity in the province of Quebec, Canada. PATIENTS/METHODS We collected epidemiol...

BACKGROUND The national incidence of and risk factors for hospitalized poisonings in renal transplant recipients has not been reported. METHODS Historical cohort study of 39,628 renal transplant recipients in the United States Renal Data System between 1 July 1994 and 30 June 1998. Associations with time to hospitalizations for a primary diagnosis of poisonings (ICD-9 codes 960.x-989.x) withi...

BACKGROUND Patients hospitalized with influenza may require extended care on discharge. We aimed to explore predictors for extended care needs and the potential mitigating effect of antiviral treatment among community-dwelling adults aged ≥ 65 years hospitalized with influenza. METHODS We used laboratory-confirmed influenza hospitalizations from 3 influenza seasons. Extended care was defined ...

BACKGROUND Several case-control studies have shown associations between the risk of different cancers and self-reported opium use. Inquiring into relatively sensitive issues, such as the history of drug use, is usually prone to information bias. However, in order to justify the findings of these types of studies, we have to quantify the level of such a negative bias. In current study, we aimed ...

Background: Hospitalization can significantly disrupt sleeping patterns. Insomnia in the hospitalized patient leads to increased fatigue. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare sleep quality and fatigue of the hospitalized patients and match healthy controls. Methodology: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. A total of 150 hospitalized patients (internal ...