A5074011652- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Microscopic Colitis
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
- Health, Medicine and Society
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Eosinophilic Esophagitis
- Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Medical Coding and Health Information
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
University of Lausanne
2013-2023
Centre universitaire de médecine générale et santé publique, Lausanne
2019-2023
Swiss HIV Cohort Study
2023
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
2012-2022
University Hospital of Zurich
2018-2021
University of Zurich
2018-2021
Primary HealthCare
2020
Primary Health Care
2020
University Hospital of Lausanne
2008-2019
Immersion (United States)
2017-2019
Implementation of the International Statistical Classification Disease and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10) coding system presents challenges for using administrative data. Recognizing this, we conducted a multistep process to develop ICD-10 algorithms define Charlson Elixhauser comorbidities in data assess performance resulting algorithms.ICD-10 were developed by "translation" ICD-9-CM codes constituting Deyo's (for comorbidities) Elixhauser's physicians' assessment...
<h3>Importance</h3> The discontinuation of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) raises ethical concerns and often wastes scarce research resources. epidemiology discontinued RCTs, however, remains unclear. <h3>Objectives</h3> To determine the prevalence, characteristics, publication history RCTs to investigate factors associated with RCT due poor recruitment nonpublication. <h3>Design Setting</h3> Retrospective cohort based on archived protocols approved by 6 ethics committees in Switzerland,...
Januel, Jean-Marie*†; Chen, Guanmin‡; Ruffieux, Christiane*; Quan, Hude‡; Douketis, James D.§∥; Crowther, Mark A.§∥; Colin, Cyrille†; Ghali, William A.‡¶; Burnand, Bernard* for the IMECCHI (International Methodology Consortium Coded Health Information) Group Author Information
Background: The hospital readmission rate has been proposed as an important outcome indicator computable from routine statistics. However, most commonly used measures raise conceptual issues. Objectives: We sought to evaluate the usefulness of computerized algorithm for identifying avoidable readmissions on basis minimum bias, criterion validity, and measurement precision. Research Design Subjects: A total 131,809 hospitalizations patients discharged alive 49 hospitals were compare...
Objective: The Charlson comorbidity index has been widely used for risk adjustment in outcome studies using administrative health data. Recently, 3 International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) translations have published the comorbidities. This study was conducted to compare predictive performance these versions (the Halfon, Sundararajan, and Quan versions) ICD-10 coding algorithms data from 4 countries. Methods: Data Australia (N = 2000–2001, max 25...
Phenytoin (PHT), valproic acid (VPA), or levetiracetam (LEV) are commonly used as second-line treatment of status epilepticus (SE), but comparative studies not available.Among 279 adult SE episodes identified prospectively in our tertiary care hospital over 4 years, we retrospectively 187 which PHT, VPA, LEV were given after benzodiazepines. Patients with postanoxic included. Demographics, clinical features, failure to control SE, new handicap, and mortality at discharge assessed. Uni-...
Therapeutic coma is advocated in guidelines for management of refractory status epilepticus; this is, however, based on weak evidence. We here address the specific impact therapeutic epilepticus outcome.Retrospective assessment a prospectively collected cohort.Academic hospital.Consecutive adults with incident lasting greater than or equal to 30 minutes, admitted between 2006 and 2013.We recorded demographics, clinical features, treatment, outcome at discharge retrospectively medical...