Objective National consensus statements recommend that providers regularly assess the
transition readiness skills of adolescent and young adults (AYA). In 2010 we developed a 29-…

Study Objective To evaluate the observed incidence of acute kidney injury ( AKI ) in adult
patients receiving either piperacillin‐tazobactam and vancomycin or cefepime‐vancomycin for …

Purpose Sepsis can lead to poor outcomes when treatment is delayed or inadequate. The
purpose of this study was to evaluate outcomes after initiation of a hospital-wide sepsis alert …

BACKGROUND Sports-related concussion among professional, collegiate, and, more recently,
high school athletes has received much attention from the media and medical community…

Background We investigated the association of several air pollution measures with
postmenopausal breast cancer (BCa) risk. Methods This study included 155,235 postmenopausal …

Objective Approximately one-third of sepsis patients experience poor outcomes including
chronic critical illness (CCI, intensive care unit (ICU) stay > 14 days) or early death (in-hospital …

Background Liver biopsy through endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has become a novel approach
for tissue acquisition. We aim to evaluate the adequacy of EUS-guided liver biopsies in …

Background Lack of understanding of diagnosis and disease process remains a major
complaint of caregivers who bring their children to the pediatric emergency department (PED). …

Methods This prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at an urban safety-net
hospital. Study subjects were patients older than 18 admitted to the hospital stroke unit with a …

Introduction To decrease the complications related to central catheters there has been an
increasing utilization of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) and ultrasound-guided …