A5009830655- Infant Nutrition and Health
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Statistical Methods and Inference
- Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology
- Liver Disease and Transplantation
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Hepatitis C virus research
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
- Organizational Change and Leadership
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Hepatitis B Virus Studies
- Law, Rights, and Freedoms
- Body Composition Measurement Techniques
- Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Leadership and Management in Organizations
Kennesaw State University
2015-2024
University of Louisville
2011
Preterm infants experience disproportionate growth failure postnatally and may be large weight for length despite being small age by hospital discharge. The objective of this study was to create validate intrauterine weight-for-length curves using the contemporary, large, racially diverse US birth parameters sample used Olsen weight-, length-, head-circumference-for-age curves.Data from 391 681 (Pediatrix Medical Group) born at 22 42 weeks' gestational (born in 1998-2006) included weight,...
We present an R package, <b>msSurv</b>, to calculate the marginal (that is, not conditional on any covariates) state occupation probabilities, entry and exit time distributions, integrated transition hazard for a general, possibly non-Markov, multistate system under left-truncation right censoring. For Markov model, msSurv also calculates returns probability matrix between two states. Dependent censoring is handled via modeling through observable covariates. Pointwise confidence intervals...
Multiple studies have demonstrated an advantage for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients under the current liver allocation system, such that United Network Organ Sharing (UNOS) recently voted in support of a proposal to delay granting Model End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) exception points all HCC 6 months, independently candidate's native MELD score or alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) level. We obtained UNOS data on adult who were added wait list between January 22, 2005 and September 30, 2009, we...
Clinicians have observed preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit growing disproportionally; however, only growth charts that been available were from born 1950s which utilized ponderal index. Prior to creating recently published BMI curves, we found 1 reference justifying use of index.To determine best measure body proportionality for assessing US infants.Using a dataset 391,681 infants, determined was most correlated with weight and least length. We examined sex-specific overall...
Background Clinicians and researchers use a variety of intrauterine growth curves to classify NICU infants as small (SGA), appropriate (AGA), or large for gestational age (LGA). Since curve creation methods samples vary, SGA/AGA/LGA cut-offs resulting subgroups vary among impact outcome study findings - limiting generalisability.Aim Determine how two international US-specific classified US infants.Subjects Classified 192,888 from NICUs (2013–2016) SGA LGA birthweight, length, head...
<b><i>Introduction:</i></b> Three widely referenced growth curves classify infant birth anthropometric measurements as small (SGA), appropriate (AGA), or large (LGA) for gestational age (GA) differently. We assessed how these differences in assignment affect the identification and prediction of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) mortality risk US preterm infants. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> Birth data infants admitted to NICUs from Pediatrix...
Objective The objectives of this study were to describe (1) body mass indexes (BMIs) using weight and length for gestational age (GA) classifications, (2) the additional information BMI, as a measure proportionality, provides preterm infant growth assessment care plans at birth. Study Design Birth weight, length, BMI 188,646 infants (24–36 weeks gestation) admitted U.S. neonatal intensive units (Pediatrix Clinical Data Warehouse, 2013–2018) classified (Olsen curves) small, appropriate, or...