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Ronald G. Kaczmarek
Researcher at Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Publications - 32
Citations - 1230
Ronald G. Kaczmarek is an academic researcher from Center for Devices and Radiological Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & National Health Interview Survey. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 32 publications receiving 1175 citations. Previous affiliations of Ronald G. Kaczmarek include Food and Drug Administration.
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Incidence and short-term outcomes of primary and revision hip replacement in the United States.
TL;DR: Perioperative complications, readmissions, and the association between these outcomes and certain patient and hospital variables were analyzed and it was found advanced age, comorbidities, and nonelective admissions are associated with inferior outcomes.
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Reported Complications of Silicone Gel Breast Implants: An Epidemiologic Review
Barbara G. Silverman,S. L. Brown,Roselie A. Bright,Ronald G. Kaczmarek,J B Arrowsmith-Lowe,D A Kessler +5 more
TL;DR: This review presents an overview of the most common adverse outcomes that have been reported with silicone gel breast implants and focuses on silicone breast implants rather than saline-filled implants, which have been the focus of the greatest health concerns.
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Mortality after aortic valve replacement: results from a nationally representative database.
TL;DR: The in-hospital mortality rates observed in this study are very similar to those reported from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons database, and procedure-specific hospital volume must be considered in applying these results to individual institutions.
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Multi-state investigation of the actual disinfection/sterilization of endoscopes in health care facilities.
Ronald G. Kaczmarek,Roscoe M. Moore,J L McCrohan,Donald A. Goldmann,Charles F. Reynolds,Carolyn Caquelin,Ebenezer Israel +6 more
TL;DR: Data indicate that actual disinfection/sterilization procedures for endoscopes are not always optimal, and high-level disinfection of gastrointestinal endoscope is not always achieved.
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Sex and Risk of Hip Implant Failure: Assessing Total Hip Arthroplasty Outcomes in the United States
Maria C.S. Inacio,Christopher F. Ake,Elizabeth W. Paxton,Monti Khatod,Cunlin Wang,Thomas P. Gross,Ronald G. Kaczmarek,Danica Marinac-Dabic,Art Sedrakyan +8 more
TL;DR: After considering patient-, surgery-, surgeon-, volume-, and implant-specific risk factors, women had a 29% higher risk of implant failure than men after THA in this community-based sample.