Anthony Nguyen

If you were lucky enough to attend one of their infamous South By Southwest day parties in the alley off South Congress’s Yard Dog Art Gallery, then you likely experienced the magic of Bloodshot Records. These beer-soaked parties were raucous and gloriously unhinged in the way that anyone who loves rock and roll can appreciate. Perhaps most importantly, they were a day of celebration and camaraderie for the bands and the fans behind Chicago’s “insurgent country” record label. Perhaps you caught the Waco Brothers in one of their debauched country-punk performances, or you experienced pioneering alt-country acts like the Old 97s and the Bottle Rockets during their breakout years. Or maybe you were late to the party, but you felt like you got there as fast as you could, falling in love with real-deal troubadours like Justin Townes Earle, Robbie Fulks, the Vandoliers, or Lydia Loveless, to name just a handful of the heavy-hitters who called this influential indie label home.

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Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate or synthesize clinical text for a wide range of applications, from improving clinical documentation to augmenting clinical text analytics.

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Objectives Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders limit the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation but are often interpreted more broadly. During COVID-19 surges, resource constraints may have increased variability in application, potentially affecting patients with DNR orders. We aimed to determine whether admission during COVID-19 surge months in 2020 versus non-surge months was associated with differences in use of life-sustaining treatments among hospitalised patients with DNR orders. Methods Using data from five states (Arizona, California, Iowa, Mississippi and New York), we identified non-surgical patients ≥40 years with early-DNR orders (within 24 hours of admission) admitted during COVID-19 surge versus non-surge months in 2020. In this retrospective cohort study, we determined patient-level odds of receiving mechanical ventilation (MV), renal replacement therapy (RRT) or central venous catheterisation (CVC) during COVID-19 surge versus non-surge periods and differences in hospital-level rates of each treatment. Results We identified 191 317 (13.3%) patients with early-DNR orders during COVID-19 surges and 149 022 (12.6%) in non-surge periods. Patient-level utilisation of MV, RRT and CVC was higher during surge periods (MV: 7.7% vs 5.9%, RRT: 4.1% vs 3.8%, CVC: 2.4% vs 2.0%) with similar results after accounting for case-mix differences. The range of risk-adjusted hospital rates for CVC and RRT was similar across time periods but higher for MV during surges. Conclusions Resource strains did not lead to more restrictive care for patients with early-DNR orders during COVID-19 surges. Rather, higher rates of MV, RRT and CVC during surge periods likely reflect greater illness severity. The increased prevalence of early-DNR orders during surges warrants further investigation. Data are available in a public, open access repository. Data are available upon reasonable request. Access to data used in this study is available from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the California Department of Health Care Access and Information. Statistical code for this project may be requested from the corresponding author.

Background and objective: Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) remain significant sources of morbidity and mortality in neurosurgical patients. Although chemoprophylaxis has been shown to reduce thromboembolic events, its routine use is controversial due to the potential risk of hemorrhagic complications. This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of DVT chemoprophylaxis compared with no chemoprophylaxis in postoperative neurosurgical patients.

Abstract: Context compression reduces inference cost by encoding inputs into compact representations while preserving semantic content.