Search Results - "Tompkins, P."

Incidence and Cost of Pneumonia in Medicare Beneficiaries by Thomas, Cindy Parks, PhD, Ryan, Marian, PhD, Chapman, John D., PhD, Stason, William B., MD, Tompkins, Christopher P., PhD, Suaya, Jose A., MD, PhD, Polsky, Daniel, PhD, Mannino, David M., MD, FCCP, Shepard, Donald S., PhD

“…Background Pneumonia is a frequent and serious illness in elderly people, with a significant impact on mortality and health-care costs. Lingering effects may…”
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Radiographic and Clinical Evidence for Osteoarthritis at Medium-Term Follow-up after Arthroscopic Partial Medial Meniscectomy by Lamplot, Joseph D., Tompkins, William P., Friedman, Michael V., Nguyen, Joseph T., Rai, Muhammad Farooq, Brophy, Robert H.

“…Objective The purpose of this study is to assess if incident radiographic osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with clinical OA symptoms at midterm follow-up…”
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Development and Evaluation of an Immunoinformatics-Based Multi-Peptide Vaccine against Acinetobacter baumannii Infection by Jeffreys, Sean, Tompkins, Megan P, Aki, Jadelynn, Papp, Sara B, Chambers, James P, Guentzel, M Neal, Hung, Chiung-Yu, Yu, Jieh-Juen, Arulanandam, Bernard P

“…Multi-drug-resistant (MDR) is an opportunistic pathogen associated with hospital-acquired infections. Due to its environmental persistence, virulence, and…”
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Length-weight relationship of the Pacific goliath grouper, Epinephelus quinquefasciatus (Bocourt, 1868) by Baos, R., Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Chong-Montenegro, C., Tompkins, P., Zapata, L. A.

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The effect of carbon impurities on lightly doped MOCVD GaN Schottky diodes by Tompkins, Randy P., Walsh, Timothy A., Derenge, Michael A., Kirchner, Kevin W., Zhou, Shuai, Nguyen, Cuong B., Jones, Kenneth A., Suvarna, Puneet, Tungare, Mihir, Tripathi, Neeraj, Shahedipour-Sandvik, Fatemeh (Shadi)

“…Schottky diodes have been fabricated on metalorganic chemical vapor deposition GaN epitaxial layers grown on sapphire substrates. Carbon impurities limit the…”
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DLTS and MCTS analysis of the influence of growth pressure on trap generation in MOCVD GaN by Shah, P.B., Dedhia, R.H., Tompkins, R.P., Viveiros, E.A., Jones, K.A.

“…► DLTS, MCTS and SIMS analyses were performed on MOCVD grown GaN. ► Four majority carrier traps and two minority carrier traps are identified. ► Carbon related…”
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The Precarious Pricing System For Hospital Services by Tompkins, Christopher P, Altman, Stuart H, Eilat, Efrat

“…Over the past twenty-five years, the average ratio of hospital charges for services (gross revenues) to payments received (net revenues) has grown from 1.1 to…”
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Investigation of multiple carrier effects in InN epilayers using variable magnetic field Hall measurements by Swartz, Craig H, Tompkins, Randy P, Giles, Nancy C, Myers, Thomas H, Lu, Hai, Schaff, William J, Eastman, Lester F

“…Variable magnetic field Hall effect measurements were performed on InN samples grown by molecular beam epitaxy. Since mixed conduction effects due to both the…”
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GaN Power Schottky Diodes with Drift Layers Grown on Four Substrates by Tompkins, R. P., Smith, J. R., Kirchner, K. W., Jones, K. A., Leach, J. H., Udwary, K., Preble, E., Suvarna, P., Leathersich, J.M., Shahedipour-Sandvik, F.

“…We have examined the performance of gallium nitride (GaN) high-power Schottky diodes fabricated on unintentionally doped (UID) metalorganic chemical vapor…”
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The Relationship between Medicare's Process of Care Quality Measures and Mortality by Ryan, Andrew M., Burgess, James F., Tompkins, Christopher P., Wallack, Stanley S.

“…Using Medicare inpatient claims and Hospital Compare process of care quality data from the period 2004—2006, we estimate two model specifications to test for…”
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Evidence that macrophages in atherosclerotic lesions contain angiotensin II by POTTER, D. D, SOBEY, C. G, TOMPKINS, P. K, ROSSEN, J. D, HEISTAD, D. D

“…We have reported that human mononuclear leukocytes contain large amounts of angiotensin II (Ang II). The goal of the present study was to test the hypothesis…”
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Selective Area Epitaxial Growth of Stretchable Geometry AlGaN-GaN Heterostructures by Mahaboob, Isra, Marini, Jonathan, Hogan, Kasey, Rocco, Emma, Tompkins, Randy P., Lazarus, Nathan, Shahedipour-Sandvik, Fatemeh

“…We report on the selective area epitaxy (SAE) of AlGaN/GaN microstructures in stretchable geometric patterns. We have investigated dependence of Al…”
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Leveraging an Innovation Model to Facilitate ICD-11 Implementation by Giannangelo, Kathy L, Pine, Michael B, Tompkins, Christopher P

“…ICD-11, ICD-10, ICD-10-CM, International Classification of Diseases, ontology, morbidity, interoperability, health information exchange, episode of care,…”
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Meaningful Use and Hospital Performance on Post‐Acute Utilization Indicators by Brice, Yanick N., Joynt, Karen E., Tompkins, Christopher P., Ritter, Grant A.

“…Objectives To examine trends in hospital post‐acute utilization indicators and to determine whether improvement in these indicators is associated with…”
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Living carbonate habitats in temperate California (USA) waters: distribution, growth, and disturbance of Santa Catalina Island rhodoliths by Tompkins, Paul A., Steller, Diana L.

“…Rhodoliths are globally widespread, free-living coralline red algal nodules (Rhodophyta). Living beds of rhodoliths create carbonate-based biogenic benthic…”
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Brief Report: Second-line treatment outcomes in patients with advanced NSCLC previously treated with first-line immunotherapy regimens by Tompkins, William P., Hwang, Wei-Ting, Yang, Yu-Xiao, Singh, Aditi, Ciunci, Christine, D'Avella, Christopher, Aggarwal, Charu, Cohen, Roger B., Langer, Corey J., Mamtani, Ronac, Marmarelis, Melina E.

“…In the United States of America, nearly all patients with advanced NSCLC, absent oncogenic drivers, receive some form of immunotherapy (IO) as part of initial…”
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Patient Experience With Communication in Hospitals: Real Differences or Measurement Errors? by Zhu, Junya, Weingart, Saul N., Ritter, Grant A., Tompkins, Christopher P., Garnick, Deborah W.

“…BACKGROUND:An important aspect of medical care is clear and effective communication, which can be particularly challenging for individuals based on…”
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Linking Spending and Quality Indicators to Measure Value and Efficiency in Health Care by Ryan, Andrew M., Tompkins, Christopher P., Markovitz, Adam A., Burstin, Helen R.

“…Policy makers and stakeholders have reached a consensus that both quality and spending or resource use indicators should be jointly measured and prioritized to…”
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Molecular beam epitaxy growth of high-quality arsenic-doped HgCdTe by EDWALL, D, PIQUETTE, E, ELLSWORTH, J, ARIAS, J, SWARTZ, C. H, BAI, L, TOMPKINS, R. P, GILES, N. C, MYERS, T. H, BERDING, M

“…We have initiated a joint effort to better elucidate the fundamental mechanisms underlying As-doping in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)-grown HgCdTe. We have…”
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IVT measurements of GaN power Schottky diodes with drift layers grown by HVPE on HVPE GaN substrates by Tompkins, R. P., Khan, M. R., Green, R., Jones, K. A., Leach, J. H.

“…To date, a majority of epitaxial layers for vertical gallium nitride (GaN) power Schottky diodes have been grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. In…”
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