In our review of these 80 programs, our aim was to determine the types of measures programs are already reporting, to assess feasibility, while maintaining comparability by identifying common measures reported by a range of programs from different health areas with different models.
Dr. Goldberger and his colleagues gathered data from the world's largest registry of in-hospital cardiac arrest, maintained by the American Heart Association, identifying 64,339 patients who went into cardiac arrest at 435 hospitals in the United States from 2000 to 2008.
We consulted a database maintained by the Guizhou Provincial Office of Endemic Disease to identify populations exposed to As (Yang et al. 1998).
All survey responses were held confidential as respondents returned their completed questionnaires directly to the research group and confidentiality was maintained by using numbers to identify participants.
National drug codes, which are kept on a list maintained by the Food and Drug Administration, serve to identify medicines.
Using a computerized registry maintained by the Department of Radiology, we identified all patients who underwent EVT for cerebral AVMs and aneurysms at a tertiary referral center at Rigshospitalet (the Danish National Hospital), Copenhagen, Denmark between January 2012 and December 2014.
Entering the same terms in the clinical trials database maintained by the US National Library of Medicine (www.clinicaltrials.gov) identified 19 trials, but none evaluating pharmacological therapies in this population, and none being specifically for the elderly.
Vital status was determined for all participants, using the National Social Security Death Index, maintained by the U.S. Social Security Administration, to identify any participants deceased since their last contact with the research team.
Faced with the risk of loss of opportunity in the context of managed competition established at all stages of the chain of care, rehabilitation and supportive access will only be maintained by a classification of patient groups identifying complex medical care programs and required expected resource consumption.
