INTRODUCTION—Discharging patients from the hospital is a complex process that is
fraught with challenges and involves over 35 million hospital discharges annually in the …

Objectives Patients leaving against medical advice (AMA) can be distressing for emergency
physicians trying to navigate the medical, social, psychological, and legal ramifications of …

Discharge against medical advice (DAMA) represents an increasingly burdensome public
health issue that leads to worse outcomes for patients and high costs to society. While the …

Methods| We obtained data from the Nationwide Readmissions Database, which
aggregates all-payer admissions from over 30 states and assigns weights to generate …

Background Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI) are common complications of injection
drug use. We aimed to determine if rehospitalization and recurrent SSTI differ among …

Background: Outpatient methadone guidelines recommend starting at a low dose and
titrating slowly. As fentanyl prevalence and opioid-related mortality increases, there is a …

Hospital readmission prediction is a study to learn models from historical medical data to
predict probability of a patient returning to hospital in a certain period, eg 30 or 90 days, after …

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have major and long-lasting impacts on
health care delivery and mental health. As health care shifted to telehealth, legislation was …

Objectives In this retrospective study, we aimed (1) to study the demographic, clinical, and
laboratory parameters of infective endocarditis (IE) patients leaving AMA. We also compared …

Abstract Background In the United States, there are no federal restrictions on the use of
methadone to manage opioid withdrawal symptoms when patients are hospitalized with a …