Randomized controlled trials provide foundational evidence in clinical medicine. However, the quality of evidence generated by clinical trials depends on the quality of their design, conduct, and anal...

Elevated BMI was associated with lower inpatient mortality and higher routine discharge, although these associations varied across obesity severity. The association with reduced inpatient mortality wa...

SAT adherence was similar among patients who preferred non-English language and English. SAT adherence was observed to be lower among Black patients compared to White patients, but not when Black pati...

Personal pronoun use in ICU notes is primarily associated with author characteristics. Future studies should explore author intent and reader interpretation.

Central adjudication of the trial outcome of clinically important upper gastrointestinal bleeding may generate more credible outcome ascertainment, but reduced the overall event rate by 40%. If site-s...

Despite a slight reduction in patient-days spent in contact precautions during the targeted contact precautions periods, no statistically significant difference was found in hospital-acquired MRSA and...

AbstractImportance. In September 2021, Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB8) banned abortion after embryonic cardiac activity.Objective. To estimate the association of

The in-hospital PHQ-2 demonstrated moderate predictive performance as a screening tool for post-discharge depression symptoms among critical illness survivors. The addition of sociodemographic and cli...

In this study, skin pigmentation was not associated with pulse oximetry bias. Further investigation is required to understand additional factors that may cause the observed racial biases in pulse oxim...