Use of hospital clinical pathways to promote safe and effective imaging of hospitalized children with complicated pneumonia ... Pneumonia is one of the leading ...

Using electronic health record (EHR) data to dynamically target patients for Braden Scale risk assessment ... Pressure ulcers are an important issue for U.S. ...

Clinical benefits and harms of antimicrobial use in hospice care ... Infection is prevalent and often the ultimate cause of death among hospice patients. However, ...

An examination of how an avoided readmission affects hospitals financially ... Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), introduced under the ...

Developing shorter joint-specific patient-reported outcome measures to enhance clinical use in total joint replacement ... Total joint replacement (TJR) is ...

Development of outcome measures for hidradenitis suppurativa ... Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is an important inflammatory disease, which affects approximately ...

Associations between delivery hospital obstetric service level and selected maternal and perinatal outcomes for high-risk women ... Background: Evidence suggests ...

Valuation of a simple tool for chest pain patient risk stratification in North America ... A promising, new quantitative cardiac risk calculator, the HEART ...

Biofeedback and Urinary Incontinence in Older Women ... The broad, long-term aims of our research team are to determine the effectiveness of behavioral and ...

Processes of Care and Outcomes in Chronic Rhinosinusitis ... Dr. Chin is an otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon completing his second year at the UCLA/RAND ...

Pediatric emergency care -- Severity and quality ... Over 25 million children annually receive emergency care in the United States. Many types of practitioners ...

Improving Outcomes in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome ... The broad objective of Dr. Pamela Jenkins' career development program is to improve the health outcomes ...

Optimizing Risk-Adjustment for Measuring ICU Quality ... The purpose of this career development award is to develop a research and training program that will ...

Clinical Decision Rules to Pediatric Pneumonia ... Radiographic examination of the chest is done on patients with symptoms of a lower respiratory tract infection ( ...

Advancing Risk Adjustment for Schizophrenia ... The goal of this research application is to develop a new risk adjustment measure for indigent persons suffering ...

Hawaii Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program, SUBPROJECT TITLE: Breast and colorectal cancer among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders ... Asian ...

Medical management of children with chronic conditions ... Although it is frequently advocated that children with chronic or complex medical conditions should ...

Does patient severity affect variation in hospital use? ... In order to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon of small area variations and the reasons ...

Re-exploring racial disparities in hospital care. ... Eliminating racial disparities in health care is a national priority. Although many studies have examined ...

Cost-effectiveness of domestic violence interventions. ... It is estimated that one in five women between the ages of 18 and 45 who seek care in primary care ...