Seth W. Glickman

TL;DR: Higher overall patient satisfaction and satisfaction with discharge planning are associated with lower 30-day risk-standardized hospital readmission rates after adjusting for clinical quality, suggesting that patient-centered information can have an important role in the evaluation and management of hospital performance.

TL;DR: Clear differences in host gene expression induced by bacterial and viral infection as well as by noninfectious illness are reported, creating an opportunity to develop and use host gene Expression classifiers as diagnostic platforms to combat inappropriate antibiotic use and emerging antibiotic resistance.

TL;DR: In this paper, an observational analysis of 37 634 ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction patients treated at 372 US hospitals participating in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry between January 2007 and September 2009, and examined independent patient factors associated with EMS transportation versus patient self-transportation.

TL;DR: A gene signature for symptomatic influenza capable of detecting 94% of infected cases was generated and applied to Emergency Department patients where it discriminates between swine-origin influenza A/H1N1 infected and non-infected individuals with 92% accuracy.

TL;DR: In adult emergency department patients with suspected sepsis, PCT, IL-6, and CRP highly correlate with several infection parameters, but are inadequately discriminating to be used independently as diagnostic tools.