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Johannesburg - The sight of their captain Schalk Burger being driven away from the field on a cart was the last thing the DHL Stormers needed in their first Vodacom Super Rugby match of the season, but stand-in skipper Jean de Villiers might have been truthful when he played the moment down afterwards.
"Obviously we will miss Schalk, but to do well in this competition you need to have 35 to 40 players capable of playing at the level, and we feel we have that," said De Villiers.
In other words, the loss of Burger might not be felt as badly as it might have been had he been ruled out at a similar stage a few years back. The injury is not as bad as might have been feared when he was helped onto the buggy early in the 39-26 win over the Hurricanes. He has twisted medial ligaments in his left knee, and will be back in the game six weeks from now.
That does mean he will miss some important dates on the Stormers calendar, not least of them being the immediate challenge posed by the massive derby match against the Sharks this coming Saturday. However, De Villiers may remember that the Stormers scored an important win without Burger in the team last year.
The flanker was only watching from the sidelines when the Cape team broke a long drought at Loftus by outplaying the Bulls. And he was also absent for some other notable wins early in the campaign in 2011. The problem of course is that the Stormers have already lost Francois Louw from last year's team, so fetching is a potential problem as the Stormers prepare to face a team that has Keegan Daniel and Bismarck du Plessis in it, but Siya Kolisi was good with his ball carrying when he came on as a replacement against the Hurricanes.
"Unfortunately we've lost the captain, but I must give credit to the leadership of the team," said coach Allister Coetzee after the game.
"In the past we've lost captains and things went pear-shaped (the first game of the 2009 campaign against the Sharks when De Villiers was injured). We've got a lot of young players in the side, but I was really satisfied with the way the senior players took control. We were pleased with that win."
But while a 13 point win first up may seem a good reason for the Stormers to be smiling, they are going to have to shift a gear if they hope to complete a similar result against the Sharks. For the truth is the Stormers, outside of the driving maul that has been their staple for the past year or two and is responsible for a big proportion of the tries they score, were far from convincing.
Peter Grant is on his way back from Japan but it may require more than the influence of Grant to get the attacking game to function. And for long periods of the Hurricanes match the Stormers kick-chase was woeful.
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When they were 23-9 up shortly before halftime and had an advantage in numbers after Jonker had turned the match into a version of musical chairs, with the Hurricanes players coming on and off the field as the yellow cards were flashed, the Stormers should have put the opposition away.
Instead they were allowed back into the game to the extent that they could have fallen behind in the 62nd minute had TMO Shaun Veldsman ruled in the Hurricanes' favour when they crossed beneath the uprights. It might have been a very different game then and against this opposition the Stormers really had no right to be in danger of losing.
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He's spent years researching stress. It stands to reason that Dr. Richard Earle would have a few suggestions about how to get joy, instead of angst, out of the holiday season.
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He's spent years researching stress. It stands to reason that Dr. Richard Earle would have a few suggestions about how to get joy, instead of angst, out of the holiday season.
(Earle is director of the Canadian Institute of Stress and of the Hans Selye Foundation.)
Like any other day, Christmas is pretty much what you make of it, he says.
Waiting for a great time to happen isn't the way to get it.
"My recipe is all about setting yourself up for and then creating several wonderful memories. After all, that's what life may be all about. Enjoy!"
You need only six ingredients, he advises: three prepared beforehand, and the next three folded in as you go.
1. As the holidays near, mentally sketch a clear portrait of what a "great" Christmas would look like for you. Based in your past experiences, actually conjure up three or four clear, technicolour snapshots of yourself and the people around you really enjoying yourselves. Without such pictures, it's blind luck if it ever happens.
2. Next, look a little deeper into each picture and try to put your finger on what it is about the experience you're actually enjoying. Perhaps it's laughing with others about funny or other memorable things that happened in the past, or possibly the eggnog enjoyed while wrapping gifts.
3. For each satisfying experience you identify, pinpoint what you can realistically do to help you capture that feeling. Perhaps you can pull out some old photos or just mentally revisit a few of those fun times, so you'll be prepared to share those experiences with others when the time is right.
4. As set of circumstances comes up that is a natural one to enjoy, such as baking or shopping with a friend, take two minutes to visualize yourself enjoying a very specific aspect of it. See yourself involved and enjoying it.
5. When you're in one of these satisfying circumstances, get intensely, fully involved with it. If your mind wanders to things such as preparing the turkey tomorrow, tell the idea of preparing the turkey to wait. Refocus on enjoying what's happening now, the music, the laughing children, whatever it is.
6. Finally, after the event is over, double your pleasure by reflecting for a moment on the most enjoyable elements in the satisfying circumstances. Talk to yourself about the highlights. And, better yet, tell someone else about them.
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January 5 2002
Crystal Palace's FA Cup dreams were ended by a 2-0 defeat to Newcastle at St James Park for the second time in three years.
The Eagles lost 2-1 at St James Park at the same stage of the competition in January 1999, with Lee Bradbury geting the Palace goal at the time.
This time, Alan Shearer scored his sixth goal in six games in the 40th minute to give the home side the lead going into the break.
Substitute Clarence Acuna made sure of victory when he added a second in the 76th minute.
But Palace were by no means disgraced at St James Park. They made Newcastle work hard for the victory and had chances of their own to score.
Shay Given made two exceptional saves from Aki Riihilahti and Clinton Morrison had a fine goal disallowed for offside. Television replays later showed the goal was perfectly legitimate.
Riihilahti's first chance came as early as the third minute. Julian Gray's cross from the right was cleared by Nikos Dabizas only as far as Riihilahti who saw his shot saved.
The Eagles took the game to the hosts early on, but Newcastle showed their quality and got back into it.
Alex Kolinko tipped away a Craig Bellamy shot and was called into action again, on the 23rd minute.
Bellamy was put through on the right with acres of space and the Latvian keeper rushed off his line to hold him off by the corner flag.
But Bellamy managed to go round him and put a cross in for Olivier Bernard, whose shot looked a certain goal, only for Kolinko to appear from nowhere and push away for a corner.
The home side kept the pressure on Palace and could have been awarded a penalty when David Hopkin appeared to trip Bernard.
Then five minutes before the break, after Tony Popovic conceded a free-kick at the edge of the box, up stepped Shearer who drove through the wall after a lay-off from Nolberto Solano to make it 1-0.
In the 54th minute, Morrison saw his goal disallowed by the linesman while the Toon pressed for another goal.
Dabizas had a header saved by Kolinko and Bellamy's return shot hit was blocked on the line. In the 63rd and 75th minutes, Newcastle too were victims of the linesman's flag when Shearer and Bernard respectively had goals disallowed.
Riihilahti then had a fierce header, which was destined for the back of the net, saved by Given. Down the other end with 14 minutes to go, sub Acuna lifted his shot over Kolinko which went in off the crossbar and was enough to put Newcastle's name in the hat for the fourth round.
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National estimates of adverse events during nonpsychiatric
hospitalizations for persons with schizophrenia☆,☆☆
Elizabeth Khaykin, Ph.D., M.H.S., S.M.a,⁎, Daniel E. Ford, M.D., M.P.H.b,
Peter J. Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D.c,d,e,f,g, Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H.h,
Gail L. Daumit, M.D., M.H.S.i
aDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
bDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
cDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
dDepartment of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
eDepartment of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
fDivision of Adult Critical Care, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
gCenter for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
hMental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), VA Capitol Health Care Network, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD, USA
iJohns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Baltimore, MD, USA
Received 5 February 2010; accepted 21 April 2010
Objective: Persons with schizophrenia comprise a vulnerable population that may be disproportionately susceptible to medical injuries. The
objective of this study was to determine the association between diagnosis of schizophrenia and adverse events during non-psychiatric
Methods: We studied U.S. hospital discharges from 2002-2007 using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. We determined the nationally
weighted association of schizophrenia with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicators after adjusting for
patient, hospitalization, and hospital characteristics.
Results: There were 269,387 non-psychiatric hospitalizations with schizophrenia, and 37,092,651 without. Hospitalizations with
schizophrenia had elevated adjusted odds ratios for PSIs compared with those without schizophrenia for decubitus ulcer (1.43, 95% CI: 1.36-
1.51); infection from medical care (1.19, 95% CI: 1.08-1.30); postoperative respiratory failure (1.96, 95% CI: 1.67-2.30); sepsis (1.59, 95%
CI: 1.25-2.02); and pulmonary embolism/deep venous thrombosis (1.23, 95% CI: 1.13-1.35). Adjusted odds ratios for iatrogenic
pneumothorax (1.12, 95% CI: 0.94-1.33) and postoperative hemorrhage (1.07, 95% CI: 0.88-1.31) were not significantly different in persons
with schizophrenia, while the adjusted OR for accidental puncture (OR=0.66, 95% CI: 0.58-0.74) was reduced in persons with schizophrenia.
Conclusions: Persons with schizophrenia are more likely to experience the most common types of medical injuries. Improved understanding
of factors related to hospital quality of care and outcomes in this group will be important to plan interventions to enhance patient safety for
persons with schizophrenia.
© 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Schizophrenia; Vulnerable populations; Patient safety; Medical errors; Administrative data
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com
General Hospital Psychiatry xx (2010) xxx–xxx
☆☆A version of "National Estimates of Adverse Events in Persons With Schizophrenia" was presented on April 8, 2009, in B14B Hampton House, Johns
Hopkins School of Public Health as part of a Department of Mental Health seminar. The data presented was not updated for the latest available year of the
Nationwide Inpatient Sample.
⁎Corresponding author. Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. Tel.: +1 410 502 8893; fax: +1
410 955 0476.
E-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.com (E. Khaykin).
0163-8343/$ – see front matter © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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1. Introduction
The publication of The Institute of Medicine Report on
medical errors a decade ago sparked a national dialogue
regarding patient safety by highlighting the effects of
medical mistakes on mortality and morbidity, and the
resulting economic costs [1]. Since then, focus on patient
safety has grown. In 2006, the President signed the Deficit
Reduction Act requiring the Secretary of Health and
Human Services to identify conditions that could reason-
ably have been prevented through the application of
evidence-based guidelines. As of October 1, 2008,
Medicare no longer pays hospitals for the care they
provide to treat some preventable injuries such as
decubitus ulcers, pulmonary emboli and objects left in a
patient during surgery [2].
While patient safety issues are receiving increased
attention, national estimates of adverse event rates for
certain vulnerable populations are still missing. Persons
with schizophrenia comprise an at-risk population with a
mortality rate three times higher than the general
population and a large burden of medical comorbid
conditions [3]. This group may be disproportionately
susceptible to medical injuries due to the need for multiple
medications, communication difficulties, cognitive impair-
ment and a relative lack of social support [4]. Hospitaliza-
tions for medical or surgical problems may be especially
risky for persons with schizophrenia if mental health
status hampers the ability to perceive and communicate
medical symptoms [5]. Health care provider and system
factors such as perceiving physical complaints as
psychosomatic and potential for errors with psychotropic
medications may also be responsible for adverse events in
persons with schizophrenia hospitalized for nonpsychiatric
conditions [6].
The Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) developed by the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
identify possible adverse events occurring during hospi-
talization by using readily available hospital inpatient
data. Because hospital administrative data are collected
routinely for billing purposes and are population
based, they provide an efficient source of information
on medical injuries.
The purpose of this study was to determine the
association between diagnosis of schizophrenia and
adverse events during nonpsychiatric hospitalizations.
This study used data from the Nationwide Inpatient
Sample (NIS) to determine whether the cumulative
incidence of PSIs differed by schizophrenia status in
nonpsychiatric hospitalizations after adjusting for patient,
hospitalization and hospital characteristics. We hypothe-
sized that adverse events would be more frequent in
hospitalizations for persons with schizophrenia than for the
general population, especially those indicators that may be
related to medication resulting in oversedation and
decreased mobility.
2. Methods
2.1. Study population and data sources
We conducted a study of United States hospital
discharges from 2002 to 2007 for adults 18 years and older
with and without a secondary diagnosis of schizophrenia
(ICDM-9 code 295). Eligible discharges included hospitali-
zations without a primary psychiatric diagnosis.
Six years of nonconfidential, deidentified data were
obtained from the NIS, one in a family of databases in the
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, a federal-state-
industry partnership sponsored by AHRQ [7]. The NIS is the
largest all-payer inpatient care database in the United States
with each year containing approximately 8 million hospital
stays from about 1000 hospitals in 35 states. One year of the
NIS approximates a 20% stratified sample of US community
hospitals. The NIS contains data on age, sex, length of stay,
hospital charges and ICD-9-CM codes for up to 15 diagnoses
and 15 procedures. The NIS also contains information on
hospital characteristics such as urban/rural location, teaching
status, control of hospital (public vs. private) and discharge
volume from the American Hospital Association's Annual
Survey Database.
We created variables for analyses from the NIS. First, we
used AHRQ software to create a set of discharge-level
indicators of adverse events or PSIs. We then used AHRQ's
Clinical Classifications Software [8] to consider the
following medical conditions from the Charlson Index as
measures of comorbidity: congestive heart failure, chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), liver disease, kidney
disease, diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS in addition to alcohol or
drug abuse, and other conditions known to be elevated in
persons with schizophrenia [9].
To protect patient confidentiality, the NIS does not have
identifiers to link hospitalizations to unique individuals. The
Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, MD) Institutional Review Board
deemed that this study, using secondary data, met criteria
for exemption.
2.2. Patient safety indicators
The PSIs comprised our primary outcomes to identify
adverse events occurring during hospitalization. These
include complications of surgery, medical negligence and
iatrogenic conditions; each indicator has inclusion and
exclusion criteria to identify appropriate risk pools and
minimize uncertainty as to whether an event was preventable
[10]. We used discharge-based PSIs to determine the
proportions of events with a denominator of a relevant
group of discharges. For example, for pulmonary embolism
or deep vein thrombosis (PE/DVT), the numerator is "cases
of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism" and the
denominator is "surgical discharges."
The development process for the PSIs included a detailed
evidence-based review of candidate indicators and their
reliability and validity followed by clinical and coding expert
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review, revision of the candidate indicators and empirical
testing with hospital administrative data for the indicators
rated as valuable by the expert review. The PSIs are thought
to have reasonable validity and specificity when used as
screening tools for examining incidence and risk factors
associated with medical adverse events [11,12]. However,
because the data are collected for billing purposes, the PSIs
are not meant to be used as authoritative measures of patient
safety, but to recognize areas where quality of care may need
more in-depth investigation.
To avoid unreliable statistical measures from indicators
with very low numbers of events, we decided a priori to
select a threshold of 70 events per cell to include a PSI in the
analysis [13]. From all 16 discharge-level nonobstetric PSIs
for years 2002 to 2007, the following had an adequate
number of events to be included: decubitus ulcers; infection
due to medical care; accidental puncture or laceration;
iatrogenic pneumothorax; postoperative respiratory failure;
postoperative sepsis; postoperative PE/DVT; and postoper-
ative hemorrhage or hematoma.
2.3. Statistical analysis
We determined the nationally weighted proportions of
patient, hospitalization and hospital characteristics in
hospitalizations for patients with and without a secondary
Table 1
Characteristics of US hospitalizations from 2002 to 2007 for patients with
and without secondary diagnosis of schizophreniaa,b
Mean age, years
Median age, years
(interquartile range)
Gender, %
Race, %
Primary payer, %
Median household income
(national quartile for
patient zip code), %c
Quartile 1 (lowest)
Quartile 2
Quartile 3
Quartile 4 (highest)
Region of country
for hospital, %
Teaching hospital
(vs. nonteaching)
Urban hospital location
(vs. rural)
Hospital bed sized
Hospital volume, %e
Quartile 1 (lowest)
Quartile 2
Quartile 3
Quartile 4 (highest)
characteristics, %
Elective admission
(vs. nonelective)f
Medical admission
(vs. surgical)
Death in hospital
Admission source, %
Another hospital
Another facility including
long-term care
Court/law enforcement
Comorbid illness, %
Congestive heart failure
Chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease
59.0 (38.7–75.1)
55.0 (49.0–66.9)
(continued on next page)
Table 1 (continued)
Liver disease
Renal failure
Diabetes mellitus
Any malignancy
Deficiency anemia
Alcohol abuse
Drug abuse
Any substance abuse
Median length of stay,
days (interquartile range)
Median total charge,
US$ (interquartile range)
3.6 (2.3–5.9)
4.6 (2.8–7.6)
13,538 (7319–26,868) 14,675 (7954–28,972)
aResults are nationally weighted and account for stratified sampling.
bAll characteristics are significantly different except renal failure.
cFor median income of patient zip code: Quartile 1 means the patients'
zip code is in the 0–25th percentile of all zip codes, Quartile 2 is in the
26–50th percentile, Quartile 3 is in the 51st to 75th percentile and Quartile 4
is in the 76–100th percentile.
dCutoff points for bed size were made so that approximately one-third
of the hospitals in a given region, location and teaching status combination
would fall within each bed size category.
eFor hospital volume quartile: Quartile 1 means the hospital has
between 0 and 9109 annual discharges, Quartile 2 has 9110 to 17,171
discharges, Quartile 3 has 17,172 to 26,442 and Quartile 4 has over 26,442
annual discharges.
fNonelective admissions include emergency, urgent, newborn, delivery
and trauma.
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diagnosis of schizophrenia. Differences in characteristics
between hospitalizations with and without schizophrenia
were tested using the Wilcoxon rank sum for continuous
variables and chi-squared tests for categorical variables.
We also determined the nationally weighted cumulative
incidences of PSIs in hospitalizations for patients with and
without a secondary diagnosis of schizophrenia.
To test the hypothesis that hospitalizations for patients
with a secondary diagnosis of schizophrenia are more
likely to have certain adverse events, we developed logistic
regression models to obtain odds ratios (ORs) for each PSI
taking into account the NIS sampling design and sample
discharge weights. In these weighted, logistic regression
models, we adjusted for the patient characteristics of age,
sex, payer (commercial insurance, Medicaid, Medicare,
self-pay); median income for zip code (quartiles); emer-
gency room admission and indicators of medical comorbid
conditions: disease of the circulatory system (congestive
heart failure, valvular disease, pulmonary circulation
disorders, peripheral vascular disorder and hypertension);
COPD; liver disease; diabetes/obesity; HIV/AIDS; and
substance abuse (drugs or alcohol). Nonpostoperative
adverse events were also adjusted for medical vs. surgical
diagnosis upon admission. Race was missing for approx-
imately 30% of observations, and known race did not
change effect sizes so it was not included in the models. In
the full models, we also adjusted for the hospital
characteristics of urban/rural location, teaching status,
hospital control (public, private, public and private
collapsed category) and hospital discharge volume quartile.
No interaction by year was found in regression models so
we pooled years 2002 to 2007.
Tests were two sided and P values were considered
significant at the .05 alpha level. Since the unit of
observation was hospitalization and not person, multiple
hospitalizations per patient were likely. Survey design-
based variance estimators used in the analyses take into
account this within-respondent correlation. All analyses
used SAS 9.2 (SAS Institute, Inc.) or SAS-Callable
SUDAAN 9.2 (Research Triangle Institute).
3. Results
3.1. Characteristics of hospital stays for patients with and
without schizophrenia
Between 2002 and 2007, the NIS contained 3605
hospitals, 269,387 nonpsychiatric hospitalizations for adult
patients with a secondary diagnosis of schizophrenia and
37,092,651 hospitalizations for those without a secondary
diagnosis of schizophrenia (Table 1). Weighted comparisons
between admissions for patients with and without schizo-
phrenia showed that those with schizophrenia were more
likely to be nonwhite, male, have a medical admission (vs.
surgical) and were over twice as likely to have a nonelective
admission (vs. elective). Almost 87% of admissions for
Table 2
Cumulative incidence of adverse events per 1000 US hospitalizations from
2002 to 2007 for patients with and without a secondary diagnosis of
Patient safety indicatorsIncidence with
Incidence without
Decubitus ulcer
Infection due to medical care
Accidental puncture or laceration
Iatrogenic pneumothorax
Respiratory failure
Pulmonary embolism or deep
venous thrombosis
Hemorrhage or hematoma
36.6 (34.8–38.6)
3.4 (3.1–3.7)
1.5 (1.4–1.7)
0.6 (0.5–0.7)
27.7 (26.9–28.5)
2.16 (2.09–2.2)
3.36 (3.2–3.5)
0.61 (0.59–0.6)
24.2 (21.1–27.7)
23.2 (18.7–28.8)
16.9 (15.5–18.5)
9.2 (8.8–9.5)
11.9 (11.4–12.4)
10.6 (10.2–11.0)
3.2 (2.6–3.8) 2.7 (2.6–2.8)
aResults are nationally weighted and account for stratified sampling.
Table 3
Odds ratios of adverse events in US hospitalizations from 2002 to 2007 for patients with and without a secondary diagnosis of schizophreniaa
Patient safety indicators Unadjusted OR
Patient characteristics,
adjusted OR (95% CI)b
Patient and hospital
adjusted OR (95% CI)c
Decubitus ulcer
Infection due to medical care
Accidental puncture or laceration
Iatrogenic pneumothorax
Respiratory failure
Pulmonary embolism or deep venous thrombosis
Hemorrhage or hematoma
1.34 (1.28–1.40)
1.57 (1.45–1.70)
0.45 (0.40– 0.49)
1.04 (0.88–1.21)
1.44 (1.37–1.52)
1.20 (1.10–1.32)
0.65 (0.58–0.73)
1.12 (0.94–1.34)
1.43 (1.36–1.51)
1.19 (1.08–1.30)
0.66 (0.58–0.74)
1.12 (0.94–1.33)
2.68 (2.33–3.09)
1.98 (1.60–2.46)
1.61 (1.48–1.75)
1.18 (0.98–1.42)
1.95 (1.66–2.28)
1.57 (1.23–1.99)
1.23 (1.13–1.34)
1.07 (0.88–1.31)
1.96 (1.67–2.30)
1.59 (1.25–2.02)
1.23 (1.13–1.35)
1.07 (0.88–1.31)
aResults are nationally weighted and account for stratified sampling.
bAdjusted for age, sex, primary payer, median income (national quartile for patient zip code), admission from emergency room, disease of the
circulatory system, COPD, liver, diabetes/obesity, HIV, substance abuse, surgical vs. medical admission. Postoperative adverse events not adjusted for medical
vs. surgical admission.
cAdjusted for urban vs. rural hospital location, hospital teaching status, hospital control and hospital volume quartile in addition to patient
characteristics above.
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patients with a secondary diagnosis of schizophrenia had
either Medicaid or Medicare as payers compared with about
58% in those without schizophrenia. Persons with schizo-
phrenia were more likely to live in a zip code with the lowest
quartile of median income. Reflecting the established burden
of comorbid medical conditions in persons with schizophre-
nia, admissions for patients with a secondary diagnosis of
schizophrenia had a substantially higher percentage of
congestive heart failure, COPD, liver disease, diabetes,
HIV/AIDS and substance abuse compared with those
without schizophrenia. In addition, discharges for persons
with schizophrenia were more likely to include an in-hospital
death and had higher median charges and length of stay than
discharges without schizophrenia.
3.2. Adverse events for patients with and without
schizophrenia during hospitalization
In both hospitalizations with and without schizophrenia,
the highest cumulative incidences of PSIs were for decubitus
ulcer, respiratory failure, pulmonary embolism/deep venous
thrombosis and sepsis (Table 2). After adjusting for patient
and hospital characteristics, the ORs of the following PSIs
were significantly higher for hospitalizations with a second-
ary diagnosis of schizophrenia compared to those without a
secondary diagnosis of schizophrenia: decubitus ulcer (1.43,
CI: 1.08–1.30), postoperative respiratory failure (1.96, 95%
CI: 1.67–2.30), sepsis (1.59, 95% CI: 1.25–2.02) and
pulmonary embolism/deep venous thrombosis (1.23, 95%
CI: 1.13–1.35) (Table 3). The PSIs of iatrogenic pneumo-
thorax (1.12, 95% CI: 0.94–1.33) and postoperative
elevated indischargesforpatientswithasecondarydiagnosis
of schizophrenia. Adjusted odds of accidental puncture were
significantly reduced in hospitalizations with a secondary
diagnosis of schizophrenia (OR=0.66, 95% CI: 0.58–0.74).
4. Discussion
In the United States from 2002 through 2007, we found
that hospitalizations for persons with a secondary diagnosis
of schizophrenia had increased odds of decubitus ulcer,
infection due to medical care, postoperative respiratory
failure, sepsis and pulmonary embolism/deep venous throm-
bosis when compared to the general population. Accidental
secondary diagnosis of schizophrenia. Adjusting for hospital
characteristics had little influence on these ORs.
Little is known about optimal perioperative management
of medications in patients with schizophrenia. However,
overdosing, underdosing and interactions between analge-
sics, anesthetics and patients' regular psychotropic medica-
tions may lead to postoperative delirium, confusion or
oversedation which could cause aspiration and other
respiratory complications following surgery [14,15]. The
odds of postoperative respiratory failure were almost twice
as high in hospitalizations for persons with schizophrenia
compared to those without schizophrenia, the most elevated
for all of the measured PSIs.
Postoperative delirium and other behavioral issues not
uncommonly result in sedation and restraints for patients
with schizophrenia [5]. By reducing mobility, sedation or
the use of restraints may increase the risk of decubitus
ulcers, venous thromboembolism, nosocomial infection and
postoperative respiratory failure in persons with schizo-
phrenia. In addition, behavioral aspects of the psychiatric
disorder [16], reduced pain sensitivity [17] and effects of
sedation may reduce the recognition of these complications
following surgery.
We also found that the adjusted odds of accidental
puncture or laceration were significantly decreased when
comparing hospitalizations with a secondary diagnosis of
schizophrenia to those without. This may be explained by the
potentiallylower rate ofriskysurgical proceduresforpersons
with schizophrenia. The denominator for this complication
includes all types of surgical discharges so that it does not
control for the seriousness of the procedure or the number of
procedures during hospitalization. A previous study found
that individuals with mental illnesses were substantially less
likely to obtain revascularization procedures following a
myocardial infarction than persons without SMI [18].
A previous study determined the ORs of various adverse
events associated with a secondary diagnosis of schizophre-
nia in Maryland hospitals for 2001 to 2002 [19]. Infections
due to medical care, postoperative respiratory failure, sepsis
and venous thromboembolism all had increased odds in
hospitalizations with schizophrenia; however, the magnitude
was higher for nosocomial infections and thromboembolism
compared to the results of this study. Unlike the current
study, the Maryland study did not find increased odds for
decubitus ulcers. These differences may be due to geograph-
ic differences, a smaller sample, differences in the variables
available in the Maryland hospital data or the earlier version
of the PSI software available at that time.
The relationship between schizophrenia and PSIs may be
subject to geographical variations because of differences in
the way persons with schizophrenia receive care in different
parts of the country. For example, a study conducted by
Betemps et al. [20] found that hospital geographic location
was significantly associated with differences in use of
seclusion and restraint, citing different standards of practice
or laws between states. In addition, the authors found the
group most often secluded or restrained was persons with
schizophrenia. Sample size limitations did not permit us to
examine the interaction between schizophrenia diagnosis
and state on the occurrence of adverse events.
4.1. Methodological strengths and limitations
The AHRQ PSIs provide a screen for a variety of
potential adverse events during hospitalizations. Many
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previous investigations of medical injuries rely on medical
record abstraction. These studies can provide information
on clinical variables during hospitalization and a better
understanding of the preventability of a patient safety
event. However, creating standard and accepted definitions
for preventability in patient safety is challenging. Chart
abstraction studies require medical expertise to perform and
are costly [21]. As a result, most of these studies are limited
to a relatively small sample of patients and cannot provide
a cost-effective way of screening for adverse events for
special populations, nor could they address the scope of the
problem on a national scale. This analysis uses data
stratified and weighted to the general US population of
patients attending community hospitals that are already
collected for management and billing purposes. The large
size of the dataset makes it suitable to study small
subgroups such as persons with schizophrenia that may
be more vulnerable to adverse events.
Residual confounding is a common limitation to using
large administrative databases. For example, since persons
with schizophrenia tend to be poorer and have only public
insurance, they may be more likely to be admitted to lower
quality hospitals. Although adjusting for hospital character-
istics thought to be associated with hospital quality did not
result in large changes to the ORs, we cannot rule out the
role hospital quality plays in the elevated rates of some of
the PSIs.
Residual confounding from undetected or unreported
medical disease in hospitalizations for patients with
schizophrenia could also explain part of the associations
we found between schizophrenia and the PSIs. Persons
with schizophrenia also have a higher rate of lifestyle risk
factors (e.g., obesity and smoking) which may not be fully
captured by the variables available in the data [4]. These
lifestyle factors may increase a patient's susceptibility to
experiencing an adverse event. For example, the extremely
high rates of smoking in people with SMI are likely to play
a role in respiratory function, infection and hypercoagula-
bility, making persons with schizophrenia at greater risk of
adverse events from respiratory failure, nosocomial infec-
tion and deep vein thrombosis, respectively.
Accuracy of clinical coding on hospital discharge
summary and medical billing records affects every variable
in our analysis, from the main exposure of schizophrenia to
patients' comorbidities, demographic characteristics and the
PSIs. Previous studies have found that administrative
database tools have had low sensitivity, but high specificity,
for adverse events; thus injuries are often underreported [22].
However, we do not believe coding should be systematically
different for hospitalizations for persons with schizophrenia
compared to the general population.
4.2. Implications
The AHRQ PSIs are not definitive measures of adverse
events, yet they emphasize areas of concern for quality of
care that warrant further study. This analysis suggests that
persons with schizophrenia may be more vulnerable to some
types of medical injuries that can occur during hospitaliza-
tion, and these differences often persist after controlling for
known patient, hospitalization and hospital characteristics.
Higher rates of adverse events for hospitalizations in
persons with schizophrenia raise questions about effective
communication among health care providers and between
health care providers and this vulnerable patient population.
Improved understanding of factors related to hospital
quality of care and outcomes in this group will be important
to plan interventions to enhance patient safety for persons
with schizophrenia.
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Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, doesn't want his country's "King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit to show at The O2 starting next year, if the venue has a casino, according to British and Middle Eastern press reports.
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Without a doubt, "tradition" is one of the most grossly overused words in the English language. We use it to describe everything from the changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknowns to the mayor of Punxsutawny pulling a giant rat out of the ground every February 2nd. My own in-laws use it to justify their passive-aggressive displays of disapproval of me during every major holiday.
And in the world of sports, Boston is as guilty as just about any city when it comes to taking silly nonsense and turning it into "tradition." Everything gets slapped with that status, from Gino at Celtics games to "Crazy Train" at Gillette to that National Anthem of Pink Hat Nation, "Sweet Caroline." Nothing we do in this town is so obscure and pointless that we're not willing to turn it from simple habit into something sacred.
The flip side of that is that no town anywhere knows better how to keep and cherish the really important stuff better than we do. And there's no better example than the New England Sports Museum's "The Tradition," held Tuesday night at the TD Garden to honor the achievements and legacies of six of Boston's greatest living sports legends. This was the 10th annual one of these, but my first, so I kept a running diary – which is to say I took as many notes as I could in between all the adult beverages, shrimp cocktails and gawking at celebrities like a giddy schoolgirl.
Pre-ceremony. The Tradition is held right at center ice/center court at the Garden. And hitting a buffet in the middle of the arena is, in a word, surreal. I mean how often does one get to stand there in the middle of the Garden looking up at the stands? Normally you'd have to be a pro athlete, circus performer or Rene Rancourt for that privilege, and none of those are happening in my lifetime.
This is a target-rich environment of celebrity sightings, not just this night's honorees but past inductees like Andre Tippett and Dave Cowens, shaking hands and posing for pictures with people twice their age and half their size.
And you can't swing shrimp cocktail tongs without hitting a media person. It's an awkward position for a full time blogger as you're forced to wrack your brain trying to remember which of them you've exchanged Tweets with and which you've ripped on the 'net and debate whether it's worth introducing yourself. Instead, I just look out at the seats and imagined myself as Brad Marchand or Tyler Seguin, scanning the crowd for the next special lady in my life… all while resisting the urge to grab the Stanley Cup ice sculpture off the buffet and skate around with it.
The ceremony. The Tradition is hosted by Glenn Ordway and Michael Holley. And I think I speak for everyone in the room when I say they immediately reminded me of Anne Hathaway and James Franco hosting the Oscars last year: same glitz and glamor, same deft comedic timing, same unmistakable sexual chemistry.
If 20 years of working the Boston stand-up comedy circuit has taught me anything, it's that you need to read your audience, and they do. Holley opens with a dig at the Vancouver Canucks and Ordway begins by mocking Lebron James: "In the last 10 years, Boston has won... not one... not two... not three..."
Well played, because the only thing Massholes like as much as winning is watching other teams lose and this is red meat for us. I slip into the VIP seats and hope not only that no one notices, but that I'm not sitting close enough to Mr. Kraft to violate any court-issued stay away orders.
Then it hits me that the guy who just sat down in front of me is Mickey Ward's brother, Dickie Eklund. Again, surreal. How many people can say they've been portrayed by Christian Bale in a movie? One, that's how many. (Batman is not walking through that door, people.) Dickie is briefly joined by a woman who gives him a gesture I take to mean, "Stay focused and behave yourself." I think. I assume she's a relative and make a note to ask if her character got her ass kicked by Amy Adams in the movie and if so what that was like. Because, believe me, this real lady would drop real Amy Adams like a Stanley Cup ice sculpture.
1st Honoree, Mike Lowell.
Lowell is presented by Rob Bradford, my boss at WEEI.com. Bradford's intro was almost exactly like Colin Firth's address at the beginning of "The King's Speech." Just painfully awkward for all involved.
Wait. I wrote that before he spoke. In reality, all the introductions are brief and to the point. The video board shows a highlight reel of Lowell's Sox career and the format is that Lowell joins Bradford, Ordway and Holley for a panel discussion.
To the surprise of no one, he's charming, articulate and self-effacing. Holley asks him about coming to Boston as the "throw-in" on the Josh Beckett trade and Lowell draws a laugh with, "Hey, I coined the term." His best moments are talking about being Manny Ramirez' teammate.
"Manny's got a 12-year-old's mind, but when it comes to hitting, he's Aristotle" brings down the house. He also mentions Ramirez wouldn't pick up the fare on a $6 cab ride and I make a note that there's a Manny tell-all book waiting to be written.
2nd Honoree, Willie O'Ree.
O'Ree became the NHL's first black player in 1958: 11 years after Jackie Robinson; 39 years before golf had its first black major winner; 50 years before the first black president; and 26 years before Ernie Hudson broke Ghostbusters' color barrier. No one says how old he is but he's in great shape. Move his hairline forward a little and he looks like he could kill a power play.
He's introduced by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, who's greeted by the crowd like he's Taylor Swift taking the stage at Gillette last weekend, just to twist the dagger in Vancouver's side a little more.
O'Ree talks about the racial taunts he endured and how he overcame the abuse by refusing to let it get to him. Huge applause. Then Bettman reveals that Willie played his entire career legally blind in one eye. Thunderous applause.
O'Ree tells the story about watching the Cup finals with his wife, who's from Vancouver, while wearing a B's jersey and a B's hat. And in Game 7, when they scored their second goal, Mrs. O'Ree looked at him and said, "Why don't you go watch the game down at the Holiday Inn?" Now we're in full-on adoration mode.
I knew very little about the man coming into this, but he's instantly one of my favorite Boston athletes ever – just a walking, talking lesson on triumphing over adversity instead of letting hatred and handicaps bring you down. He took the stage to LTD's "Back in Love Again." If I had to endure the crap he did, I would've picked The Heavys' "How You Like Me Now?" You're a better man than I, Willie O'Ree.
3rd Honoree: Ty Law.
Law's induction opens with a video of his great moments, not the least of which is his pick-6 off Kurt Warner and his inconceivable three-INT playoff game vs. Peyton Manning in the snow. Note to every emergency room doctor in the state: if you ever need to check my vital signs, show me that tape and if I don't get goosebumps, page the priest.
The amazing dynamic about Law's ceremony is the genuine warmth and affection between him and Kraft. All the bad blood that drove the discussion around here in the 2005 offseason is gone. Now it's something to joke about.
Ordway asks Law about his two stints with the Jets and he says, "Well, I wasn't too happy with this other guy...," gesturing to the Patriots owner. Kraft responds, "Money's not important to him." There are laughs all around, and all the angry words and public feuding are now water under the bridge like this is "The Bachelor: After the Final Rose." Law and Kraft share a sincere bond of friendship; that's obvious. As he takes the stage, Law stops and bows before his old boss. When they leave the stage, they hug. Reason no. 175,000 why the NFL lockout needs to end, TODAY: As soon as it does, Law can sign a one-day contract with the Pats and retire, because, as Kraft said more than once, "he's always been a Patriot."
4th Honoree: Bobbi Gibb
Walking in, I was convinced Bobbi Gibb did harmonies on "More Than a Woman." My bad. She was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon. And shame on me for not knowing that because her story is amazing.
In 1966 she took a Greyhound bus from San Diego to run the race. The trip took four days -- as in four days of staring out a bus window without an iPod or a DVD player or a smartphone, then climbing out of the bus and running 26 miles, which she did in 3:45. But not before she was told women couldn't enter the race because it's "physiologically impossible" for them to do so. So she pulled a hoodie over her head and passed as a man.
I respect Gibbs' story enough not to resent the fact that she still looks like she'd run laps around me. Or that the last time I drove from Hopkinton to Boston I was exhausted and wouldn't have made it if I didn't stop three times at the Burger Kings on the Pike. And of course it's always good to honor someone like Gibbs and her presenter Joan Benoit Samuelson, and not just remember the Marathon women who took the T or pooped themselves.
5th Honoree: Mickey Ward
Ward is everything you'd expect him to be. Genuine. Humble. Honest. Profane (he threw out the night's first and only F-bomb). The Pride of Lowell to the core.
Ron Borges presents him and the talk quickly turns to the things "The Fighter" didn't mention: The three epic Arturo Gatti fights. Borges tells the story of the last fight, when both fighters were taken to the ER, sharing a room separated only by a curtain. Ward is the first man on his feet, goes over to Gatti, hands him the painkillers the doctors have given him and says, "Here. You need these more than I do."
Hilarious. But the mutual respect between Ward and Gatti is obvious and he kills with a reference to how stopping Gatti is like trying to kill Jason from "Friday the 13th." Huge round of applause for Dickie. No terrible Hollywood Boston accents anywhere to be heard. They're saving those for "The Fighter II." Hopefully.
(On a personal note, afterward I approach Borges, one of those media guys I've always taken shots at. I have my speech all ready to go and it's along the lines of, "My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed by father. Prepare to die." Instead it comes out like this: "I'm Jerry Thornton. I write for Barstool Sports and WEEI. I'm a shameless Patriots suckup/fanboy who's ripped you a thousand times," to which he laughs and says, "Well, that's OK!" and says it's nice to meet me. So I tell him he did a great job presenting Ward and we part ways amicably. I can forgive many things, but not looking into the face of Dr. Evil and finding out he's a pleasant and gracious guy.)
6th Honoree: Larry Bird
With all due respect to the others... and God knows they are due all respect... Larry Legend is the Main Attraction. Like he's climbed down off the Boston sports' Mount Rushmore to come speak to us. They play a highlight tape with "Free Bird" as the sound track. And if I had my way, it would've lasted as long as the extended-play version of the song. Just the buzzer beaters and fully extended dives into the scorer's table plays alone would be enough to fill the guitar solo. It's mesmerizing. Anyone who can watch that tape and still compare Dirk Nowitzki to Larry should be banned from ever uttering an opinion in public ever again.
Bird is remarkably humble. He takes every opportunity to talk about his great teammates. He deflects a question about winning NBA Coach of the Year to talk about his assistant coaches and veteran team. Asked about his best game, he passes, leaving Bob Ryan to mention his other-worldly Game 5 Finals performance in the 97 degree heat of the old Garden when he went 15-20 with 34 points and 17 rebounds. If the other legends tonight were the historical figures Bill & Ted brought back for their history project, then Ward would be Genghis Khan, O'Ree would be So-krates, and Gibbs Miss d' Arc. But Bird is unquestionably Abe Lincoln. The greatest icon in a group of great icons.
The Tradition is a remarkable event. Truly. It hits just the right balance between reliving old glory days and honoring the ones who never really got honored enough. Even in the midst of an unprecedented run of success like we're currently enjoying, there's always time for that. And personally, I'm going to make The Tradition a... well, a tradition... because the ones they do 10, 20, 30 years from now are going to be unbelievable.
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Joe Kelly joined the Hot Stove show where he talked about being ready for his next spring training start after a biceps ailment forced him out of his last outing, he talks about his NCAA brackets and how teammate Wade Miley has a perfect bracket still.
Mut, Bradford, and Tomase kick off this weeks show by talking to Red Sox pitcher Joe Kelly about his biceps recovery, getting ready for the season and his NCAA brackets. They then talk about the Red Sox depth at closer with Koji Uehara questionable for the start of the season.
Jack Edwards of NESN joins Dale, Michael and Jerry. With 9 games left the Bruins don't have much if any margin of error, and Jack knows it.
DJ, Joe and Pete talk more playoff scenarios in hour 2 and if the Bruins can get in, they'll be a very dangerous team... to the point where DJ thinks teams would much rather face the Senators and are doing their best to oust the Bruins from the equation. It's become apparent now more than ever that Chiarelli probably needed to pull the trigger on a deal for a defenseman at the trade deadline. Also. Bruce Garrioch from the Ottawa Sun joins the boys to discuss the Hamburglar and the Senators and Bruins being neck-and-neck for a playoff spot.
With the Senators hot on the tail of the Bruins for a spot in the playoffs, Bruce Garrioch from the Ottawa Sun calls into Sunday Skate. He talks about "the Hamburglar" craze sweeping through the league as goalie Andrew Hammond has really stepped up for Ottawa. They discuss playoff chances, the fans' reaction in Ottawa and more.
The latest edition of the highly rated segment.
The great Lisa Scherber joined us to discuss today's trip to Fort Myers with 46 Jimmy Fund patients.
D&C's favorite author joined the show to discuss his new book.
Pierre McGuire of NBC Sports joins the show to talk about the struggling Bruins, the play of Zdeno Chara, and the future of Claude Julien and Peter Chiarelli
Rich Cimini of ESPN New York joined the show to talk about the ongoing tampering scandals between the Jets and the Patriots.
Christian does not impress the high school girls hockey team.
Dale and Michael discuss the collective egg laid by the Celtics against the Heat, and how the Bruins turnaround better begin tonight if they want it to begin at all.
We wrap up the day with the best in sound and more...
We discuss Shane Victorino's call-out of another local radio show, and debate the merits of Victorino's claims.
Chris Price joins Mut to talk about how Revis will heat up the Jets-Pats rivalry next season
Mut opens his show talking about the New York Jets filing tampering charges on the Patriots
Mikey, Mut, and Lucy are talking about all things New England sports, the Red Sox spring training, more Darrelle Revis and Jets talk, and some Bruins mixed in.
Mike Mulloy joins Chris in the studio to talk Raw and Wrestlemania.
Brow Buff's Sam Packard and Ben Kichen break down Marcus Smart's unfortunate ball tap, debate leadership in the Celtics locker room, and rehash the great Kevin Love to Boston rumors.
WEEI's Scott McLaughlin and College Hockey News' Adam Wodon preview this year's NCAA regionals and take a look at the chances for each of the Boston-area teams in the field. They also discuss BU's Jack Eichel, Harvard's Jimmy Vesey and the Hobey Baker Award.
Ben Volin joined the show live from the owners meetings in Phoenix.More from this show
Joe Benigno of WFAN joined us with his thoughts on the tampering charges.More from this show
The guys opened the show discussing the latest tampering charges.More from this show
We discuss the annual joke that is the New York Jets, and their latest Jets-like move. Plus how on earth could you possibly choose to be a Jets fan.More from this show
The guys opened the show by discussing the rumored profanity laced tirade by Bill Belichick.More from this show


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As the school year comes to a close, another Commerce and Engineering Environmental Conference year is only just beginning! We are looking to hire passionate and dedicated individuals to join the CEEC team and put together an exceptional conference for 2016.
Sunday, March 29, 2015 @ 07:01 pm
The QCCU is pleased to announce its newest members and looks forward to their success in representing the Queen's School of Business both nationally and internationally over the years to come! Alice Ma – Class of 2018 Charmaine Arellano-Chua – Class of 2018
Friday, March 27, 2015 @ 07:52 pm
We are happy to announce that the QCAR 2016/2017 Co-Chairs will be Graham Steele and Mason Laframboise! We have no doubt that they will do a fantastic job in leading the conference to new heights in its second year.
Friday, March 27, 2015 @ 05:27 pm
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