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Intra-hospital correlations among 30-day mortality rates in 18 different clinical and surgical settings
Conclusions</div>The variability in 30-day mortality rates at hospital level and the correlation between risk mortality rates suggest that there may be common hospital-wide factors influencing short-term mortality.</span>
Source: International Journal for Quality in Health Care - January 31, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Prognosis of Cancer Patients with Aortic Stenosis Under Optimal Cancer Therapies and Conservative Cardiac Treatments.
Authors: Okura Y, Ishigaki S, Sakakibara S, Yumoto C, Hashitate M, Sekine C, Fujita T, Takayama T, Ozaki K, Sato N, Minamino T Abstract Aortic stenosis (AS) is a life-threatening comorbidity of cancer patients. Aortic valve replacement (AVR) should be considered for some cancer patients, but neither the characteristics nor prognosis under conservative therapy is well known.We searched our echocardiography log (years 2005-2014) for cancer patients with AS, and 92 patients (54% female) were included in the study. To compare the survival curves, 470 control patients without AS were selected from our cancer registry.Me...
Source: International Heart Journal - June 9, 2018 Category: Cardiology Tags: Int Heart J Source Type: research