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Variation in academic medical centers' coding practices for postoperative respiratory complications: implications for the AHRQ postoperative respiratory failure Patient Safety IndicatorGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Med Care 50:792-800. 2012..We sought to determine whether hospitals vary in the use of 518.81 versus 518.5 and whether such variation correlates with coder beliefs...
Transfusion-associated microchimerismG H Utter
Department of Surgery, UC, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Vox Sang 93:188-95. 2007..Further study of this topic may reveal important information regarding potential clinical consequences of TA-MC, as well as basic haematologic and immunologic processes...- The risk of transmitting cancer with transfusionGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Lancet 369:1670-1. 2007 - Microchimerism decades after transfusion among combat-injured US veterans from the Vietnam, Korean, and World War II conflictsGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Transfusion 48:1609-15. 2008..The purpose of this study was to determine how long transfusion-associated MC lasts after traumatic injury... - Leukoreduction of blood transfusions does not diminish transfusion-associated microchimerism in trauma patientsGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Transfusion 46:1863-9. 2006..The aim was to determine whether leukoreduction of blood transfusions, advocated to reduce the immunomodulatory effect of transfusion, decreases the likelihood of developing TA-MC... - Outcomes after ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms: the "halo effect" of trauma center designationGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 203:498-505. 2006..We set out to determine whether patients hospitalized with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms experience lower morbidity and mortality at regional trauma centers than at other acute care hospitals... - Inclusive trauma systems: do they improve triage or outcomes of the severely injured?Garth H Utter
Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, and the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Trauma 60:529-35; discussion 535-37. 2006..We postulate that inclusive systems assure that severely injured patients are more likely to be triaged to a level I or II regional trauma center, and this greater degree of participation would lead to lower mortality... - Detection of postoperative respiratory failure: how predictive is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicator?Garth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 211:347-354.e1-29. 2010..We sought to determine the positive predictive value (PPV) of this indicator... - Anemia in the setting of traumatic brain injury: the arguments for and against liberal transfusionGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
J Neurotrauma 28:155-65. 2011.... - Designing an abstraction instrument: lessons from efforts to validate the AHRQ patient safety indicatorsGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 37:20-8. 2011.... - Blood transfusion is associated with donor leukocyte microchimerism in trauma patientsGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Blood Centers of the Pacific, San Francisco, California 95817, USA
J Trauma 57:702-7; discussion 707-8. 2004..Because the median time from transfusion to sampling for PCR analysis was not longer in the group without microchimerism, it is unlikely microchimerism is due merely to failure of the recipient to clear transfused donor leukocytes... - Transfusion practices for acute traumatic brain injury: a survey of physicians at US trauma centersMatthew J Sena
Department of Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Intensive Care Med 35:480-8. 2009..To determine whether physician specialty influences transfusion threshold in patients with acute severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)... - Methamphetamine use is associated with increased hospital resource consumption among minimally injured trauma patientsJason A London
Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
J Trauma 66:485-90. 2009..We hypothesize that minimally injured (MI) patients testing positive for MA consume more resources than patients testing negative for MA... - Lack of Insurance is Associated With Increased Risk for Hernia ComplicationsJason A London
Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Ann Surg 250:331-7. 2009..We sought to determine whether lack of insurance is associated with an increased likelihood of presenting to a hospital with a complicated hernia, and whether insurance status might be associated with clinical outcomes... - Positive predictive value of the AHRQ accidental puncture or laceration patient safety indicatorGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817
Ann Surg 250:1041-5. 2009..We sought to determine the positive predictive value (PPV) of this indicator... - How valid is the ICD-9-CM based AHRQ patient safety indicator for postoperative venous thromboembolism?Richard H White
Division of General Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95817, USA
Med Care 47:1237-43. 2009..However, few studies have evaluated the accuracy of these ICD-9-CM codes across multiple hospitals... - Cases of iatrogenic pneumothorax can be identified from ICD-9-CM coded dataBanafsheh Sadeghi
University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Am J Med Qual 25:218-24. 2010..At least 1725 hospital-acquired pneumothoraxes could have been prevented in 2004 through universal use of ultrasound guidance during internal jugular cannulation... - Interhospital transfer occurs more slowly for elderly acute trauma patientsGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
J Emerg Med 35:415-20. 2008..We conclude that interhospital transfer of elderly acutely injured trauma patients takes longer than for younger patients. Providers may be less aggressive in treating elderly trauma patients... - Microchimerism in transfused trauma patients is associated with diminished donor-specific lymphocyte responseGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
J Trauma 58:925-31; discussion 931-2. 2005..The blood donor associated with this diminished alloantigenic lymphocyte response may be the source of microchimeric cells present in the recipient... - High-level long-term white blood cell microchimerism after transfusion of leukoreduced blood components to patients resuscitated after severe traumatic injuryTzong Hae Lee
Blood Systems Research Institute, Department of Pathology, University of California, Davis, California 94118, USA
Transfusion 45:1280-90. 2005..Twenty-seven patients transfused with LR and non-LR blood products were studied after severe traumatic injury. A secondary aim was to explore donor-recipient mixed lymphocyte reactivity in vitro... 
The TNF (-308A) polymorphism is associated with microchimerism in transfused trauma patientsRyan M Gill
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Blood 111:3880-3. 2008..Hence predisposing genetic factors may explain, in part, why only a subset of trauma patients develops transfusion-associated microchimerism...- Injury induces increased monocyte expression of tissue factor: factors associated with head injury attenuate the injury-related monocyte expression of tissue factorGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, 95817, USA
J Trauma 52:1071-7; discussion 1077. 2002..The correlation of TF expression with platelet-monocyte binding suggests that platelet binding may lead to monocyte activation... - Early supplemental parenteral nutrition is associated with increased infectious complications in critically ill trauma patientsMatthew J Sena
Department of Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 207:459-67. 2008..The purpose of this study is to determine whether early administration of parenteral nutrition is associated with an increased risk for infection after severe injury... - Blunt cardiac rupture in a patient with prior ventricular septal defect repair: a case reportGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA
J Trauma 57:635-7. 2004 - Sixteen-slice CT angiography in patients with suspected blunt carotid and vertebral artery injuriesGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 203:838-48. 2006..Radiologists should maintain a high degree of suspicion in patients who meet screening criteria. Optimal imaging strategies should focus on the most predictive criteria... - Transfusion-associated microchimerism: a new complication of blood transfusions in severely injured patientsWilliam Reed
Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Semin Hematol 44:24-31. 2007.... - Enhanced ascertainment of microchimerism with real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction amplification of insertion-deletion polymorphismsTzong Hae Lee
Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
Transfusion 46:1870-8. 2006..To address this, a panel of 12 MC assays based on insertion-deletion (InDel) polymorphisms had been optimized... - Evaluating anemia as a risk factor for worse neurologic outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI)Garth H Utter
J Trauma 62:1065-6; author reply 1066. 2007