Research Topics
| Melanie ArthurSummaryAffiliation: University of Alaska Country: USA Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Racial disparities in mortality among adults hospitalized after injuryMelanie Arthur
Department of Sociology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Med Care 46:192-9. 2008..Although racial disparities in healthcare access and health outcomes are well documented for medical conditions, the influence of race on access to emergent care after injury has received little scrutiny...- Early neurosurgical procedures enhance survival in blunt head injury: propensity score analysisJerris R Hedges
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
J Emerg Med 37:115-23. 2009..Traditional observational outcome studies have been biased because injury severity and clinical prognosis are associated with use of such interventions... - Regional differences in outcomes for hospitalized injured patientsRichard J Mullins
Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, 97239, USA
J Trauma 60:691-8; discussion 699-700. 2006..Our goal was to use a hospital population-based data set that was a sample of all injured patients admitted to a hospital in the United States to develop universal measures of outcome and processes of care... - Mortality benefit of transfer to level I versus level II trauma centers for head-injured patientsK John McConnell
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Health Serv Res 40:435-57. 2005..2%) compared with transfer to level II trauma centers. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with severe head injuries transferred from rural trauma centers to level I centers are likely to have improved survival relative to transfer to level II centers... - A population-based survival assessment of categorizing level III and IV rural hospitals as trauma centersMelanie Arthur
Department of Sociology, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA
J Rural Health 25:182-8. 2009..Patients injured in rural areas are hypothesized to have improved outcomes if statewide trauma systems categorize rural hospitals as Level III and IV trauma centers, though evidence to support this belief is sparse... - Proportion of seriously injured patients admitted to hospitals in the US with a high annual injured patient volume: a metric of regionalized trauma careBrian S Diggs
Department of Surgery, Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
J Am Coll Surg 206:212-9. 2008..Reliable measures are needed to evaluate the implementation of regionalized care nationally. The goal of this study was to measure the proportion of seriously injured patients treated at high injury-volume hospitals... - Advanced statistics: the propensity score--a method for estimating treatment effect in observational researchCraig D Newgard
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Acad Emerg Med 11:953-61. 2004..Graphical representations of the analyses are provided as well... - The incidence and burden of ladder, structure, and scaffolding fallsBrian S Diggs
Department of Surgery, L223A, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239 3098, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:267-70. 2005..The national morbidity and mortality associated with falls from a height is incompletely described. The authors estimated the rates of injury, hospitalization, and mortality due to these falls for subgroups of the U.S. population... - Variability in rates of arthrodesis for patients with thoracolumbar spine fractures with and without associated neurologic injuryAlan H Daniels
Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97201, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 32:2334-8. 2007..Retrospective cohort study using a large clinical database... - Survival of seriously injured patients first treated in rural hospitalsRichard J Mullins
Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97201 3098, USA
J Trauma 52:1019-29. 2002..Patients injured in rural counties are hypothesized to have improved survival if local hospitals are categorized as Level III, Level IV, and Level V trauma centers... - Rib fracture pain and disability: can we do better?Mahlon A Kerr-Valentic
Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA
J Trauma 54:1058-63; discussion 1063-4. 2003..Developing new therapies to accelerate pain relief and healing would substantially improve the outcome of patients with rib fractures... - Variability in rates of arthrodesis procedures for patients with cervical spine injuries with and without associated spinal cord injuryAlan H Daniels
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97201, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Am 89:317-23. 2007..We assessed the rates of cervical spinal arthrodesis for patients who had a cervical spine injury with or without an associated spinal cord injury... - Explaining racial differences in receipt of coronary angiography: the role of physician referral and physician specialtyThomas A LaVeist
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Med Care Res Rev 60:453-67; discussion 496-508. 2003..4, p < .05). Researchers must eliminate racial differences in access to specialty care and variation in referral patterns by physician specialty, and efforts must be targeted to those specialties where greater disparities exist... - Variations in injury patterns, treatment, and outcome for spinal fracture and paralysis in adult versus geriatric patientsZareth N Irwin
Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland 97201, USA
Spine 29:796-802. 2004..While the possibility of selection bias exists, both geriatricand adult patients had reduced 60-day mortality associated with surgical intervention... - The cardiac access longitudinal study. A study of access to invasive cardiology among African American and white patientsThomas A LaVeist
Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 41:1159-66. 2003..We sought to identify factors contributing to racial disparity in the receipt of coronary angiography (CA)... - Physician referral patterns and race differences in receipt of coronary angiographyThomas A LaVeist
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 37:949-62. 2002..Thus, future research should seek to better understand the process by which the decision is made to refer or not refer patients... - Injury mortality following the loss of air medical support for rural interhospital transportN Clay Mann
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:694-8. 2002..This study evaluated variation in mortality among interfacility transfers three years before and after discontinuation of a rotor-wing transport service... - Hospital factors associated with splenectomy for splenic injury: a national perspectiveS Rob Todd
The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, Texas. USA
J Trauma 57:1065-71. 2004..Surgeons at urban teaching hospitals appear more willing to attempt splenic salvage by means of nonoperative management...