Objective To describe rates and risk factors for prolonged postoperative use of opioids in
patients who had not previously used opioids and undergoing major elective surgery. Design …

Background— Guidelines recommend that noncardiac surgery be delayed until 30 to 45
days after bare-metal stent implantation and 1 year after drug-eluting stent implantation. …

Study objective We aimed to describe the demographics, care, and outcomes of patients with
atrial fibrillation in the emergency department (ED), as well as temporal changes over time. …

BACKGROUND: There is increasing evidence linking breast cancer and diabetes; however,
few studies have explored the association between cancer treatments and risk of diabetes. …

BACKGROUND: The array of outcomes according to longitudinal furosemide doses in heart
failure (HF) have not been evaluated. We examined the relationship of dynamic furosemide …

BACKGROUND: Poor medication-taking behaviors are important considerations in the
management of hypertension. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study addressing …

The risk of cardiac hospitalization (CH) in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients with preexisting
heart disease was evaluated. Patients with HL were identified from a population-based …

Background— Previous data on bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
have been obtained primarily from randomized trials that focused on in-hospital bleeding. The …

Purpose: Adjuvant chemotherapy is considered standard care for patients with lymph node (LN)
–positive and high-risk LN-negative early breast cancer (EBC). Although chemotherapy-…

Background: A higher risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in patients with diabetes has been well
documented. However, little is known regarding diabetes incidence in CRC survivors. This …