Background Hospital mortality rate is a common measure of healthcare quality. Morbidity
and mortality meetings are common but there are few reports of hospital-wide mortality-review …

Laboratory and radiographic tests are often ordered unnecessarily. This excess testing has
financial costs and is a burden on patients. We performed a systematic review to determine …

Aim Our aim was to determine the association of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for in
hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) with quality of life after discharge. Methods We performed a …

… Author links open overlay panel Daniel M. Kobewka MD, MSc a b c , Elizabeth Kunkel
MScPH a , Amy Hsu PhD a d , Robert Talarico MSc e , Peter Tanuseputro MD, MHSc a b c d e …

Importance It is uncertain whether preoperative medical consultation reduces adverse
postoperative clinical outcomes. Objective To investigate the association of preoperative medical …

Background A small proportion of patients account for the majority of health care spending.
We used detailed clinical and administrative data to explore clinical characteristics, patterns …

Background. ICU care is costly, and there is a large variation in cost among patients.
Methods. This is an observational study conducted at two ICUs in an academic centre. We …

Background Patients who engage in Advance Care Planning (ACP) are more likely to get
care consistent with their values. We sought to determine the barriers and facilitators to ACP …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of hospital admission, the
fifth leading cause of death in North America, and is estimated to cost $49 billion annually …

Objectif Utiliser un modele théorique pour estimer les effets d’une baisse de la durée de
séjour (DS) en unité de soins intensifs (USI) sur l’ensemble des coûts hospitaliers d’un centre …