ObjectivesA large proportion of those who die by suicide present to an Emergency Department (ED) with self-harm (SH) in the year before death. This study examines ‘does risk death following ED presentation SH vary according hospital attended?’
 MethodsThe Northern Ireland Self-Harm Registry provided data on presentations 12 departments NI between 2012-2019. Linkage health and mortality rec...

Methods We retrospectively evaluated 140 consecutive patients with NICM who underwent delayed hyperenhancement cardiac MRI between 2002 and 2009. A Cox proportional hazards model was used to evaluate the association between RVEF and the composite outcome of death, left ventricular assist device implantation, or heart transplantation. Predictors of RVEF were evaluated using a multivariable linea...

background: although the cox proportional hazard regression is the most popular model for analyzing the prognostic factors on survival of cancer patients, under certain circumstances, parametric models estimate the parameter more efficiently than the cox model.  the aim of this study was to compare the cox regression model  with parametric models in patients with gastric cancer who registered a...

Introduction: We wished to compare the survival benefit associated with gross total resection (GTR) in World Health Organization (WHO) grade II astrocytomas (A2) to those of grade III (A3) and grade IV (glioblastoma) astrocytomas. Methods: Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program (1999-2010) database, we identified 4,113 A2 patients. Surgical resection was defined as...

Survival models for life-time data and other time-to-event data are widely used in many fields, including medicine, the environmental sciences, engineering etc., but they have still found less recognition in economics, however they are very helpful in the analysis of economic duration data. This paper provides a reanalysis of the Pennsylvania Reemployment Bonus Experiments, which were conducted...

OBJECTIVES To compare the patient characteristics, clinical conditions, and short-term recidivism rates of emergency department (ED) patients who leave against medical advice (AMA) with those who leave without being seen (LWBS) or complete their ED care. METHODS All eligible patients who visited the ED between July 1, 2004, and June 30, 2005 (N = 31,252) were classified into one of four group...