Hannah Tiu, MD

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Observation-Status Patients Are Clinically Heterogeneous, Costly to Hospitals

Author:: Hannah Tiu, MD

Publish date: November 1, 2013

What are the characteristics of a large cohort of patients under observation status?

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Early Surgery Might Not Provide Survival Benefit in All Patients with Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis

Author:: Hannah Tiu, MD

Publish date: November 1, 2013

Is early surgery associated with better survival in patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE)?

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Hospital Strategies for Decreasing Readmissions for Heart Failure Patients

Author:: Hannah Tiu, MD

Publish date: November 1, 2013

What steps can hospitals take to reduce readmission rates in patients with heart failure?

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If Delivered Systematically, In-Hospital Smoking Cessation Strategies Are Effective

Author:: Hannah Tiu, MD

Publish date: November 1, 2013

Do programs that systematically provide smoking cessation support to admitted patients improve smoking cessation rates?

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Rise in Fatal Drug Overdoses and Drug Misuse- or Abuse-Related ED Visits among Women

Author:: Hannah Tiu, MD

Publish date: November 1, 2013

How have opioid pain reliever (OPR) prescriptions affected drug misuse or abuse and drug overdose deaths for women in the past decade?

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“I Cough” Could Reduce Post-Operative Pulmonary Complications among Non-Ventilated Patients

Author:: Hannah Tiu, MD

Publish date: November 1, 2013

Does the use of a standardized suite of post-operative pulmonary care guidelines decrease the incidence of adverse pulmonary outcomes in non-ventilate...

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Physicians Feel Responsibility to Address Healthcare Costs

Author:: Hannah Tiu, MD

Publish date: November 1, 2013

What are physicians’ attitudes toward addressing healthcare costs and which strategies do they most enthusiastically support?

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Superficial and Deep/Organ-Space Surgical Site Infections Should Not Be Combined for Quality Measurement

Author:: Hannah Tiu, MD

Publish date: November 1, 2013

What patient-risk factors predict superficial and deep/organ-space surgical site infections (SSIs) following colectomy procedures?

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Apixaban Non-Inferior to Standard Therapy to Treat Acute VTE with Favorable Bleeding Risk

Author:: Hannah Tiu, MD

Publish date: November 1, 2013

Is apixaban non-inferior to standard therapy for treating acute VTE?

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Adding Clopidogrel to Aspirin Prevents Recurrent CVA in a Defined Population

Author:: Hannah Tiu, MD

Publish date: November 1, 2013

Does loading clopidogrel with aspirin reduce recurrent stroke after moderate to high-risk transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke if started w...