Background: Over 6-months after the end of the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency, U.S. hospitals are still experiencing unprecedented levels of sustained stress with national hospital occupancy remaining 10 percentage points higher than before the pandemic. The demand for hospitalization is likely to increase over the next decade as the U.S. population ages, which will place [...]

Background: Despite having the highest health care spending, the US continues to have rates of maternal mortality over three times greater than similarly high-income countries. Generally, deaths occur in the days immediately following birth, and typically occur in hospital intensive care units (ICUs). As ICU utilization is often employed to identify indication of severe maternal [...]

Background: Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is the most common cause of wide complex tachycardia and a potentially fatal cardiac rhythm disorder. Ventricular arrhythmias, including VT, cause approximately 25% of sudden cardiac deaths. Some studies have proposed a dose-response relationship between VT burden and risk of mortality; however, these studies may have been limited by the inclusion [...]