Michael J. Fine

TL;DR: Among older patients hospitalized with pneumonia, treatment that included azithromycin compared with other antibiotics was associated with a lower risk of 90-day mortality and a smaller increased risk of myocardial infarction, consistent with a net benefit associated with azithroitcin use.

TL;DR: Although current waterpipe use was reported across all individual and institutional characteristics, fully adjusted multivariable models showed that it was most strongly associated with younger age, male gender, White race, fraternity/sorority membership, and nonreligious institutions in large cities in the western United States.

TL;DR: It is indicated that, after adjustment, black patients have significantly higher rates of infection-related and non-infection-related complications following knee arthroplasty, compared with white patients, and adjusted rates of infected patients are higher in Hispanic patients than in white patients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the onset and timing of severe sepsis during the hospital course for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and determine the ability of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and other proposed risk stratification scores measured at emergency department (ED) presentation to predict progression to severe SE, septic shock, or death.

TL;DR: The Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) is a clinical prognostic model which identifies low‐risk patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) and is validated to validate the PESI.