Discharged medical patients are at risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE). It is difficult to identify which discharged patients would benefit from extended duration thromboprophylaxis. The Intermountain Risk Score is a prediction score derived from discrete components of the complete blood cell count and basic metabolic panel and is highly predictive of 1-year mortality. We sought to ascertain if the Intermountain Risk Score might also be predictive of 90-day postdischarge hospital-associated VTE (HA-VTE).
Elderly patients undergoing hip or knee arthroplasty are at a risk for myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS). We evaluated the ability of five common cardiac risk scores, alone or combined with baseline high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI), in predicting MINS and postoperative day 2 (POD2) hs-cTnI levels in patients undergoing elective total hip or knee arthroplasty.This study is ancillary to the Genetics-InFormatics Trial (GIFT) of Warfarin Therapy to Prevent Deep Venous Thrombosis, which enrolled patients 65 years and older undergoing elective total hip or knee arthroplasty. The five cardiac risk scores evaluated were the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease calculator (ASCVD), the Framingham risk score (FRS), the American College of Surgeon's National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) calculator, the revised cardiac risk index (RCRI), and the reconstructed RCRI (R-RCRI).None of the scores predicted MINS in women. Among men, the ASCVD (C-statistic of 0.66; p=0.04), ACS-NSQIP (C-statistic of 0.69; p=0.01), and RCRI (C-statistic of 0.64; p=0.04) predicted MINS. Among all patients, spearman correlations (rs) of the risk scores with the POD2 hs-cTnI levels were 0.24, 0.20, 0.11, 0.11, and 0.08 for the ASCVD, Framingham, ACS-NSQIP, RCRI, and R-RCRI scores, respectively, with p values of <0.001, <0.001, <0.001, 0.006, and 0.025. Baseline hs-cTnI predicted MINS (C-statistics: 0.63 in women and 0.72 in men) and postoperative hs-cTnI (rs = 0.51, p=0.001).In elderly patients undergoing elective hip or knee arthroplasty, several of the scores modestly predicted MINS in men and correlated with POD2 hs-cTnI.
Journal Article Report on the Colonial Nesting Birds of Great Salt Lake, 1947-49 Get access William H. Behle William H. Behle University of Utah, Salt Luke City, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Condor, Volume 51, Issue 6, 1 November 1949, Pages 268–270, https://doi.org/10.2307/1364809 Published: 01 November 1949
Journal Article Clark Nutcracker in Nuevo Leon, Mexico Get access A. Starker Leopold A. Starker Leopold Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Condor, Volume 48, Issue 6, 1 November 1946, Page 278, https://doi.org/10.2307/1364081 Published: 01 November 1946
COVID-NET conducts population-based surveillance for laboratory-confirmed COVID-19-associated hospitalizations in 99 counties † in 14 states (California, Connecticut, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, and Utah), representing all 10 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regions (2,3).Laboratory-confirmed COVID-19associated hospitalizations among residents in a predefined surveillance catchment area who had a positive SARS-CoV-2 molecular test during hospitalization or up to 14 days before admission are included in surveillance.SARS-CoV-2 tests are ordered at the discretion of the treating health care provider.Trained surveillance officers perform medical chart abstractions for all identified cases.Patients aged <18 years hospitalized with COVID-19 during March 1-July 25, 2020, were included in this analysis.Weekly and cumulative COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates were calculated using the number of catchment area residents hospitalized with COVID-19 as the numerator and the National Center for Health Statistics vintage 2019 bridged-race postcensal population estimates as the denominator.§ Descriptive analyses were conducted using all Please Note: This report has been corrected.The definition of pediatric obesity was incorrectly stated in the text of the report and in the Table footnote; however, the analysis was correct and used the CDC definition of pediatric obesity for children aged ≥2 years (body mass index [kg/m2] ≥95th percentile for age and sex based on CDC growth charts).US Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Abbreviation: COVID-NET = Coronavirus Disease 2019-Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network.* Number of children in each age group hospitalized with COVID-19 per 100,000 population.† Figure B shows the 3-week moving average of weekly hospitalization rates for children in each age group hospitalized with COVID-19 per 100,000 population.A trend test was conducted using weighted linear regression, where the weight for each MMWR week was the inverse of the variance.Trend test overall (<18 years): p-value <0.001.
