BACKGROUND There is no consensus about the possible relation between in-hospital mortality in surgery for gastric cancer and the hospital annual volume of interventions. The objectives were to identify factors associated to greater in-hospital mortality for surgery in gastric cancer and to analyze the possible independent relation between hospital annual volume and in-hospital mortality. METH...

introduction: several studies have evaluated the association of admission blood glucose levels and short and long term mortality after myocardial infarction and have had different results. the aim of this study was evaluation of association between admission blood glucose levels and in-hospital and one year mortality in non-diabetic patients with ami. methods: in this study, demographic, clinic...

Background: Administration of albumin for burn patients and its effects on mortality and morbidity has been debated for along time. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of albumin administration on wound healing, length of hospital stay, weight change, and mortality of burn patients. Methods: Two matched groups of patients from Shiraz Burn Care Center were randomly selected. The pa...

IMPORTANCE Federal efforts about public reporting and quality improvement programs for hospitals have focused primarily on a small number of medical conditions. Whether performance on these conditions accurately predicts the quality of broader hospital care is unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine whether mortality rates for publicly reported medical conditions are correlated with hospitals' overal...

OBJECTIVES To assess the consequences of applying different mortality timeframes on standardised mortality ratios of individual hospitals and, secondarily, to evaluate the association between in-hospital standardised mortality ratios and early post-discharge mortality rate, length of hospital stay, and transfer rate. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of routinely collected hospital data to compar...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors related to mortality within hospital after successful resuscitation from ventricular fibrillation outside hospital by a mobile coronary care unit manned by a physician. DESIGN Retrospective review of records of patients resuscitated and admitted to hospital between 1 January 1966 and 31 December 1987. SETTING Mobile coronary care unit, coronary care unit, and ...

background upper gastrointestinal bleeding (ugib) is a major healthcare problem and is the most frequent gastrointestinal reason for admission to hospital. we aimed to investigate the prognosis of patients with ugib referred to a referral hospital in northern iran in 2013. methods all patients with ugib who admitted to sayyad shirazi hospital, in gorgan, northern iran, in 2013 were enrolled. th...