We use administrative data on a sample of births between 1978 and 1985 to investigate the
short-, medium-, and long-term consequences of poor infant health. Our findings offer …

Objective. To determine whether rates of physician visits for ambulatory care sensitive (ACS)
conditions are lower for people of low‐socioeconomic status than of high‐socioeconomic …

OBJECTIVES To develop and validate simple statistical models that can be used with
hospital discharge administrative databases to predict 30-day and one-year mortality after an …

Objective To document health-care utilization (ie, physician claims and hospitalizations) in
patients with obesity-hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), for 5 years prior to the diagnosis and …

Background Patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) use health-care resources
at higher rates than control subjects for years prior to diagnosis. Although obesity and …

Context Suicide bereavement remains understudied and poorly understood. Objectives To
examine outcomes of parents bereaved by the suicide death of their offspring and to compare …

Background Psychiatric comorbidity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is well known;
however, data from a truly representative sample are sparse. We aimed to estimate the …

OBJECTIVES: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic diseases associated with
considerable morbidity. This morbidity may have an impact on the ability of patients to remain …

Study Objectives: Patients with untreated obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) have
higher healthcare utilization than matched controls. However, the long-term impact of …

Objective Although psychiatric comorbidity is known to be more prevalent in immune-mediated
inflammatory diseases (IMID) than in the general population, the incidence of psychiatric …