Healthcare utilization and costs of veterans health administration patients with schizophrenia treated with paliperidone palmitate long-acting injection or oral atypical antipsychotics

Abstract Authors: Baser O, Xie L, Pesa J, Durkin M. Objective: This study aimed to compare real world healthcare costs and resource utilization between patients with schizophrenia treated with paliperidone palmitate long-acting injection (PP) and oral atypical...

Smoking and postoperative complications in plastic and general surgical procedures: A propensity-score matched analysis of 294,903 patients from the NSQIP database from 2005-2014

Abstract Authors: Fu RH, Toyoda Y, Li L, Baser O, Rohde CH, Otterburn DM Background: Smoking as a risk factor for postoperative complications is more relevant in elective plastic surgery than in urgent general surgery. From 2005 to 2014, the U.S. smoking rate...