Background—The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether women undergoing cardiac
surgery are more likely to suffer neurological complications than men and whether these …

BACKGROUND: Although 30day risk-adjusted operative mortality (ROM) has been used for
quality assessment, it is not sufficient to describe the outcomes after coronary artery bypass …

Purpose Cancer caregivers experience health challenges related to their caregiving role,
and self-efficacy can contribute to health outcomes through behavioral, environmental, and …

OBJECTIVES We sought to develop national benchmarks for valve replacement surgery by
developing statistical risk models of operative mortality. BACKGROUND National risk models …

The past decade has seen impressive advances in the types of neuroimaging information
that can be acquired in patients with traumatic brain injury. However, despite this increase in …

ContextThere have been recent calls for using hospital procedural volume as a quality
indicator for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, but further research into analysis and …

Purpose To develop diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) and achievable doses (ADs) for the
10 most common adult computed tomographic (CT) examinations in the United States as a …

Building robust deep learning-based models requires large quantities of diverse training
data. In this study, we investigate the use of federated learning (FL) to build medical imaging …

Contextβ-Blockade therapy has recently been shown to convey a survival benefit in preoperative
noncardiac vascular surgical settings. The effect of preoperative β-blocker therapy on …

Seventy patients with muscle-invading bladder carcinoma (clinical stages T2 to T4) who
werenotcandidates for cystectomy were treated with combined cisplatin and full-dose external-…