Search Results - "Watts, Charles M."

Use of electronic alerts to enhance hand hygiene compliance and decrease transmission of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus in a hematology unit by Venkatesh, Arjun K., MBA, Lankford, Mary G., BSN, Rooney, Denise M., BSN, Blachford, Todd, BSIE, Watts, Charles M., MD, Noskin, Gary A., MD

“…Background Hand hygiene (HH) compliance among health care workers (HCWs) has been historically low and hampered by poor surveillance methods. This study…”
Get full text

Who bounces back? Physiologic and other predictors of intensive care unit readmission by Rosenberg, Andrew L, Hofer, Timothy P, Hayward, Rodney A, Strachan, Cathy, Watts, Charles M

“…OBJECTIVETo determine the influence of changes in acute physiology scores (APS) and other patient characteristics on predicting intensive care unit (ICU)…”
Get full text

Prompting Physicians to Address a Daily Checklist and Process of Care and Clinical Outcomes: A Single-Site Study by WEISS, Curtis H, MOAZED, Farzad, SZNAJDER, Jacob I, WUNDERINK, Richard G, MCEVOY, Colleen A, SINGER, Benjamin D, SZLEIFER, Igal, AMARAL, Luís A. N, KWASNY, Mary, WATTS, Charles M, PERSELL, Stephen D, BAKER, David W

“…Checklists may reduce errors of omission for critically ill patients. To determine whether prompting to use a checklist improves process of care and clinical…”
Get full text

Accepting critically III transfer patients: Adverse effect on a referral center's outcome and benchmark measures by ROSENBERG, Andrew L, HOFER, Timothy P, STRACHAN, Cathy, WATTS, Charles M, HAYWARD, Rodney A

Get full text

Accepting critically ill transfer patients: adverse effect on a referral center's outcome and benchmark measures by Rosenberg, Andrew L, Hofer, Timothy P, Strachan, Cathy, Watts, Charles M, Hayward, Rodney A

“…Common methods of benchmarking clinical performance rarely, if ever, account for admission source and, in particular, the effect of a patient being transferred…”
Get full text

Fever burden and functional recovery after subarachnoid hemorrhage by Naidech, Andrew M, Bendok, Bernard R, Bernstein, Richard A, Alberts, Mark J, Batjer, H Hunt, Watts, Charles M, Bleck, Thomas P

“…Fever is associated with worse outcome after subarachnoid hemorrhage, but there are few prospective data to quantify this relationship. We prospectively…”
Get full text

Medical Complications Drive Length of Stay After Brain Hemorrhage: A Cohort Study by Naidech, Andrew M., Bendok, Bernard R., Tamul, Paul, Bassin, Sarice L., Watts, Charles M., Batjer, H. Hunt, Bleck, Thomas P.

“…Introduction Longer length of stay (LOS) is associated with higher complications and costs in ICU patients, while hospital protocols may decrease complications…”
Get full text

Cardiac Troponin I and Acute Lung Injury After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage by Naidech, Andrew M., Bassin, Sarice L., Garg, Rajeev K., Ault, Michael L., Bendok, Bernard R., Batjer, H. Hunt, Watts, Charles M., Bleck, Thomas P.

“…Introduction There are few predictors of acute lung injury (ALI) or the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). We…”
Get full text

Trauma services: a profit center? by Taheri, Paul A, Butz, David A, Watts, Charles M, Griffes, Louisa C, Greenfield, Lazar J

“…Background: Previous studies have demonstrated inadequate reimbursement for severely injured patients with a resultant negative economic impact for the trauma…”
Get full text

FEVER BURDEN AND FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY AFTER SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE by Naidech, Andrew M., Bendok, Bernard R., Bernstein, Richard A., Alberts, Mark J., Batjer, H. Hunt, Watts, Charles M., Bleck, Thomas P.

Get full text

Reducing costs and improving outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions by Moscucci, Mauro, Muller, David W, Watts, Charles M, Bahl, Vinita, Bates, Eric R, Werns, Steven W, Kline-Rogers, Eva, Karavite, Dean, Eagle, Kim A

“…To describe cost reduction and quality improvement efforts in our percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) program and how risk adjustment was used to assess…”
Get full text

FEVER BURDEN AND FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY AFTER SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE. Commentaries by NAIDECH, Andrew M, BENDOK, Bernard R, SANDER CONNOLLY, E, FERNANDEZ-MIRANDA, Juan C, DUMONT, Aaron S, KASSELL, Neal F, BERNSTEIN, Richard A, ALBERTS, Mark J, HUNT BATJER, H, WATTS, Charles M, BLECK, Thomas P, FINDLAY, J. Max, HODGE, Charles J, KOMOTAR, Ricardo J

Get full text

Pneumoperitoneum: A Complication of Mechanical Ventilation by Stringfield, James T, Graham, James P, Watts, Charles M, Bentz, Rodney R, Weg, John G

“…Pneumoperltoneum occurred in three adults receiving mechanical ventilatory support. Since the presence of a perforated viscus could not be confirmed by…”
Get full text

THE INFLUENCE OF INCREASING SEVERITY OF ILLNESS ON ICU READMISSION RATES OVER TIME by Rosenberg, Andrew L., Hofer, Timothy P., Hayward, Rodney A., Strachan, Cathy, Watts, Charles M.

Get full text

THE INFLUENCE OF INCREASING SEVERITY OF ILLNESS ON ICU READMISSION RATES OVER TIME: B3 by Rosenberg, Andrew L., Hofer, Timothy P., Hayward, Rodney A., Strachan, Cathy, Watts, Charles M.

Get full text

ADMISSION SOURCE PREDICTS SURGICAL ICU OUTCOMES: IMPLICATIONS FOR TERTIARY REFERRAL CENTERS: B7 by Rosenberg, Andrew L., Hofer, Timothy P., Hayward, Rodney A., Strachan, Cathy, Watts, Charles M., Bartlett, Robert H.

Get full text

ADMISSION SOURCE PREDICTS SURGICAL ICU OUTCOMES: IMPLICATIONS FOR TERTIARY REFERRAL CENTERS by Rosenberg, Andrew L., Hofer, Timothy P., Hayward, Rodney A., Strachan, Cathy, Watts, Charles M., Bartlett, Robert H.

Get full text

The case for using objective scoring systems to predict intensive care unit outcome by Watts, C M, Knaus, W A

“…The acceptance and more widespread use of objective probability estimates will depend on addressing several practical issues. Physicians generally are…”
Get more information