Background and Objective: Due to the importance of acute kidney injury associated in patients with sepsis and the impact of various factors on mortality and hospital stay of these patients, this study was conducted to investigate the clinical features and risk factors for acute kidney injury in patients with sepsis. In addition, we examined whether the severity of acute kidney injury affected c...

OBJECTIVES This report presents 1999 national estimates and selected trend data on the use of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States. Estimates are provided by demographic characteristics of patients discharged, geographic region, ownership, and bed size of hospitals, principal expected source of payment, conditions diagnosed, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. Me...

“Football is a very simple game. For 90 minutes, 22 men go running after the ball, and at the end, the Germans win.” Although the game is simple, analyzing it can be hard. Just what makes one team better than another? How much difference do tactics make? Is there really such a thing as a “lucky win”? Here, we try to answer these questions in the context of RoboCup. We take the giant set of log ...

OBJECTIVE To describe newborn length of stay, postdischarge follow-up, and health care utilization in the context of Minnesota's early discharge legislation. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective study using claims data from a large managed care organization. PARTICIPANTS Term newborns born from January 1995 through February 1999 (N = 22 944). OUTCOME MEASURES Newborn length of stay, home or c...

A hospitalist-run medical short-stay unit (MSSU) was created at a university-affiliated teaching hospital in Montreal in 1989. Its primary aim was to provide efficient and high-quality care to patients requiring a brief stay in hospital for short-lived medical conditions. After evaluation in the emergency department (ED), patients judged to have acute conditions requiring a short hospital stay ...