Importance Although wait times for hip fracture surgery have been linked to mortality and are
being used as quality-of-care indicators worldwide, controversy exists about the duration of …

… Amit X Garg professor1 2 3, Aizhan Meirambayeva epidemiology student1 2, Anjie Huang
biostatistician3, Joseph Kim assistant professor3 4, GV Ramesh Prasad associate professor4, …

Objective To compare mortality rates, underlying causes of death, excess mortality, and years
of potential life lost ( YPLL ) among patients with rheumatoid arthritis ( RA ) relative to the …

Human activity recognition is an active research area in the computer science because it is
widely used in the fields of the security monitoring, health assessment, human machine …

Objective To measure the associations between newly initiated palliative care in the last six
months of life, healthcare use, and location of death in adults dying from non-cancer illness, …

Importance Palliative care improves health outcomes, but studies of the differences in the
delivery of palliative care to patients with different types of serious illness are lacking. Objective …

Importance Overlapping surgery, also known as double-booking, refers to a controversial
practice in which a single attending surgeon supervises 2 or more operations, in different …

Background: Opioid analgesics and benzodiazepines are often misused in clinical practice.
We determined whether implementation of a centralized prescription network offering real-…

Importance There is an urgent need for evidence to inform preoperative risk assessment for
the millions of people who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection and are awaiting elective surgery…

Background: The extent to which heightened distress during the COVID-19 pandemic
translated to increases in severe mental health outcomes is unknown. We examined trends in …