Background Although it has been shown that anxiety and depression are associated with
increased complications after total joint arthroplasty (TJA), the outcomes of TJA in patients …

Background: Infectious complications lead to worse post-operative outcomes and are used
to compare hospital performance in pay-for-performance programs. However, the impact of …

Background The lack of a widely-used tool for predicting early cricothyroidotomy in trauma
patients prompted us to develop the Cricothyroidotomy After Trauma (CAT) score. We aimed …

Background Many outcome studies capture the presence of mental health, drug and alcohol
comorbidities from administrative datasets and medical records. How these sources …

Purpose Little is known about the association between psychiatric illness and the risk for
postoperative complications following outpatient oral and maxillofacial surgery treatment …

I am grateful to the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for giving me the
opportunity to participate in the scientific research process. Additionally, this work would not …

Mental health, drug and alcohol conditions are factors that increase the risk of poor recovery
outcomes after injury. Administrative data coded from medical records are commonly relied …