… Liudmila Husak, Annette Marcuzzi, Jeremy Herring, Eugene Wen, Ling Yin, Dragos
Daniel Capan and Geta Cernat … Eugene Wen, MD, DrPH, manager of health indicators at …

The authors also criticized the precision of the hospital standardized mortality ratio on the
basis that" random variation likely accounts for much of the observed differences in mortality …

Background: Delirium or acute confusion is characterized by a disturbance in consciousness
and change in cognition that develops over a short period of time and tends to fluctuate …

… Kosut MD Jannet Lee-Jayaram MD Tricia Mabellos DrPH Sarah Momilani Marshall PhD,
MSW Jacob T. Pennington MPH Fadi Youkhana MPH … Boland DrPH, RN, FAAN, School …

Background: Previous studies have shown that hospital readmission rates may differ
between higher and lower income patients. The purpose of this study was to examine the …

Lead in drinking water is still an important health issue in Germany. There is concern about
the association of lead exposure with neurologic and intellectual deficits as described by …

… 8:45 Increased Cesearean Section Rates and Emerging Patterns of Health Insurance in
Shanghai, China-Wen-Wei Cai, MD; James S. Marks, MD; Charles H. C. Chen, PhD; You-Xien …

Background Infants with bronchiolitis are at increased risk for developing asthma. Growing
evidence suggests bronchiolitis is a heterogeneous condition. Objectives We sought to …

After decades of focusing solely on prenatal care interventions; the CDC and the March of
Dimes convened a national summit in 2006 to discuss an agenda for preconception care …

Introduction Privacy protection is a core principle of genomic research but needs further
refinement for high-throughput proteomic platforms. Methods We identified independent single …