African immigrants and refugees—almost half of them from Somalia—account for one of the fastest-growing groups in the United States. There is reason to suspect that Somali-Americans may be at risk… (More)
The antithrombotic benefits of warfarin are countered by a narrow therapeutic index that contributes to excessive bleeding or cerebrovascular clotting and stroke in some patients. This article… (More)
BACKGROUND
Screening mammography is recommended for early detection of breast cancer but screening rates remain suboptimal.
METHODS
A primary care portal for a large academic primary practice was… (More)
BACKGROUND
The prevention of recurrent hospitalizations in the frail elderly requires the implementation of high-intensity interventions such as case management. In order to be practically and… (More)
We evaluated the accuracy of capillary whole blood international normalized ratio (INR) on the CoaguChek S (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN), CoaguChek XS (Roche Diagnostics), and i-STAT 1… (More)
The concept of optimizing health care by understanding and generating knowledge from previous evidence, ie, the Learning Health-care System (LHS), has gained momentum and now has national prominence.… (More)
The risk for development of diabetes and associated complications among immigrants increases in the years after arrival to the United States. Somali immigrants and refugees represent the largest… (More)
OBJECTIVES
We previously developed and reported on a prototype clinical decision support system (CDSS) for cervical cancer screening. However, the system is complex as it is based on multiple… (More)
OBJECTIVE
To develop a computerized clinical decision support system (CDSS) for cervical cancer screening that can interpret free-text Papanicolaou (Pap) reports.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The CDSS was… (More)
Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer…
2014
CytoSorb(®) (CytoSorbents Corporation, USA) is a novel sorbent hemoadsorption device for cytokine removal. The aim of this study was to examine the clinical use of CytoSorb(®) in the management of… (More)