Emily R. Rogers

Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research | MMS

Hospital 30-day readmissions remain a major quality and cost indicator. Traditional readmission risk scores, such as LACE (length of stay, acuity of admission, Charlson comorbidity index, and emergency department visits), may be suboptimal in special patient populations, such as those with sepsis. As sepsis survivorship improves, there is a need to...

Objective To evaluate clinical and demographic factors of patients with neurologic disorders to determine which patient characteristics are significant for predicting 30-day hospital readmissions to develop a readmission risk predictor specific to patients with neurologic disorders. Methods We performed a retrospective single-center chart review f...

Ketamine is a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist with emerging evidence for use in medically refractory epilepsy. We describe the novel use of low-dose intravenous (IV) ketamine transitioning to enteral formulation in a patient with drug-resistant localization-related refractory epilepsy. We performed a National Library of Medicine (NLM...