Does institution-wide QT alert system identify patients with a high risk of mortality?
This novel institution-wide QT alert system identified patients with a high risk of mortality. The pro-QTc score, reflecting patients' multimorbidity and multipharmacy, was an independent predictor of mortality. The QT alert system may increase a physician's awareness of a high-risk patient. Potentially lifesaving interventions can be facilitated by reducing the modifiable factors of the pro-QTc score.
The evidence from epidemiologic studies of secondhand smoke in 2005 for breast cancer in younger, primarily premenopausal women was stronger than for lung cancer in 1986.