Specialty hospitals have lower mortality rates for cardiac revascularization than general hospitals, but previous studies have found that this advantage disappears after adjusting for patient characteristics and hospital procedural volume. Questions have been raised about whether simultaneous...

Context: Nurse staffing is not constant across an entire hospital. Nursing care is delivered in geographically-based units, with wide variation in staffing levels. This is particularly true of intensive care compared with other acute care units. Objective: To evaluate the association of...

Objective: Traditional cost–utility analysis assumes that all benefits from health-related interventions are captured by the quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained by the few individuals whose outcome is improved by the intervention. However, it is possible that many individuals who do not...

Objcetives:  Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are highly effective at preventing cardiac arrest, but their availability is limited by high cost. Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are likely to be less effective, but also less expensive. We used decision analysis to...

Online communities may provide information about topics that are a concern to patients and that may not be discernible in clinical trials, such as medication side effects, proper use, and safety. Our data also highlighted potential topics that may not be a priority to researchers but are...