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Atlantic Health System
Healthcare•Morristown, New Jersey, United States•
About: Atlantic Health System is a healthcare organization based out in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catheter ablation & Antiarrhythmic agent. The organization has 277 authors who have published 299 publications receiving 6594 citations.
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01 Jan 2002TL;DR: Analysis of the benefit of atrial pacing is complicated by the interactions of this apparently simple intervention with a heterogeneous AF population and the authors' limited knowledge of the natural history of the arrhythmia in its different substrates.
Abstract: Atrial pacing has been widely but intermittently reported to reduce the recurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF) and progression to permanent AF in a wide variety of observational reports, with the vast majority of these involving retrospective analyses [1–3]. In addition, a variable patient population with respect to AF and underlying cardiac disease has often characterized these reports. The subject has received substantial attention since the follow-up report of the Danish Trial of Physiologic Pacing in sick sinus syndrome reported reduction in the incidence of persistent or permanent AF with atrial-based pacing in patients with sick sinus syndrome [4]. Clinical investigation of atrial pacing techniques for management of AF in symptomatic or high-risk populations has been examined in a series of prospective clinical trials [5–9]. Serious investigative interest has now focused on the electrophysiologic effects of different atrial pacing methods in experimental and clinical laboratory AF models. Analysis of the benefit of atrial pacing is complicated by the interactions of this apparently simple intervention with a heterogeneous AF population and our limited knowledge of the natural history of the arrhythmia in its different substrates. Finally, the appropriate endpoints for demonstration of device clinical efficacy and safety have been unclear, leading to increasing difficulty in defining and quantifying clinical benefit [10, 11].
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14 Jan 2021TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated risk factors and their predictive ability for ED patients with ESBLE urinary tract infection (UTI) in the emergency department (ED) using case-control study at an urban academic medical center.
Abstract: Study objective With increasing prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae (ESBLE), more reliable identification of predictors for ESBLE urinary tract infection (UTI) in the emergency department (ED) is needed. Our objective was to evaluate risk factors and their predictive ability for ED patients with ESBLE UTI. Methods This was a retrospective case-control study at an urban academic medical center. Microbiology reports identified adult ED patients with positive urine cultures from 2015-2018. Inclusion criteria were diagnosis of UTI with monomicrobial enterobacteriaceae culture growth. Exclusions were cultures with carbapenemase-resistant enterobacteriaceae or urinary colonization. Collected variables included demographics, comorbidities, and recent medical history. Patient disposition, urine culture susceptibilities, presence of ESBLE, empiric antibiotics, and therapy modifications were collected. Patients were stratified based on ESBLE status and analyzed via descriptive statistics. The data were divided into 2 parts: the first used to identify possible predictors of ESBLE UTI and the second used to validate an additive scoring system. Results Of 466 patients, 16.3% had ESBLE urine culture growth and 83.7% did not; 39.5% of ESBLE patients required antibiotic therapy modification, as compared to 6.4% of ESBLE negative patients (odds ratio [OR] 9.5; confidence interval [CI] 8.9-10.1). Independent predictors of ESBLE UTI were IV antibiotics within 1 year (OR 5.4; CI 2.1-12.8), surgery within 90 days (OR 6.4; CI 1.5-27.8), and current refractory UTI (OR 8.5; CI 2.0-36.6). Conclusion Independent predictors of ESBLE UTI in emergency department patients included IV antibiotics within 1 year, surgery within 90 days, and current refractory UTI.
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TL;DR: A comparison of Urological Consultations in a private vs academic setting was made by Sandip M. Prasad et al. as discussed by the authors , who concluded that electronic preconsultation as a method of quality improvement for urological Referrals.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Kurt A. Jaeckle | 57 | 169 | 14597 |
Donald E. Casey | 56 | 102 | 62844 |
Sanjeev Saksena | 44 | 169 | 6463 |
John J. Halperin | 42 | 145 | 9806 |
Linda D. Gillam | 39 | 102 | 9249 |
Missak Haigentz | 39 | 129 | 4217 |
Ian J. Griffin | 35 | 107 | 3998 |
Philip T. Levy | 30 | 106 | 6823 |
Patrick J. Culligan | 29 | 72 | 2962 |
Joel R. Rosh | 27 | 92 | 5189 |
Michael L. Gruber | 24 | 45 | 4877 |
Linda D. Gillam | 20 | 61 | 1895 |
Eric D. Whitman | 19 | 48 | 2576 |
Elizabeth A. Eckman | 19 | 33 | 3743 |
Brian M. Slomovitz | 16 | 75 | 1595 |