Psychosocial and nonclinical factors predicting hospital utilization in patients of a chronic disease management program: a prospective observational study

MW Tran, TJ Weiland, GA Phillips - The Journal of Ambulatory …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Psychosocial factors such as marital status (odds ratio, 3.52; 95% confidence interval, 1.43-
8.69; P=. 006) and nonclinical factors such as outpatient nonattendances (odds ratio, 2.52; …

Increasing adherence to scheduled outpatient dobutamine stress echocardiograms

GB Hefter, L Gerson - The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 2010 - Elsevier
In a large, urban teaching hospital over a 10-month period, 45% of dobutamine stress tests
were cancelled. The article discusses the results of a pilot study that was implemented to …