In the 50 years since the expansion of the legal definition of charity for tax-exempt hospitals, there have been periodic regulatory actions at the municipal, state, and federal level to quantify charitable contributions and justify the deferral of tax revenues. The movement toward risk-based reimbursement in the last decade creates an incentive…[Read more]

The respective clusters occupied (mean ± SD including all studied conditions) 29.3 ± 12.9%, 47.6 ± 11.4%, and 23.1 ± 8.3% of total lung mass, with similar distributions before and after lung injury. Reinflation was slightly greater at higher PEEP after injury. Larger proportions of the reinflation cluster were contained in the dorsal versus ven…[Read more]

We examined the effect of psychiatric comorbidities on perioperative surgical outcomes and the leading causes of readmissions in patients who underwent thyroid and parathyroid operations.

Patient information was retrieved from the Nationwide Readmission Database (2010-2017). Multivariate analysis was used to identify predictors for…[Read more]