CCI in Medical News

Health Care Without Harm Partners With Clinton Climate Initiative to Help Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities Reduce Environmental Impact

...the area of carbon reduction. HCWH will work with cci to develop building energy efficiency retrofit pro...rgy efficiency building technologies negotiated by cci will also be made available to HCWH affiliated hos... are economically and environmentally sustainable, cci focuses on three strategic program areas: increasi...

NYP/Weill Cornell physician-scientists present at 2009 American Transplant Congress in Boston

...scores may be a novel tool to assess whether kidney transplant candidates will do well after transplant. The authors found that patients with a higher cci score have a higher risk of death and graft loss if they receive a donor organ from someone older and/or with comorbidties, but do well if they receiv...

SCAI Releases Consensus Statement on Length of Stay Following Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

...g the Length of Stay Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention," was published online today in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions ( cci ; e-publication ahead of print, June 2009, vol. 73, issue 7) and has been endorsed by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. Elective PC...

Predicting survival after liver transplantation

...tive tissue disease, and renal insufficiency were all independent predictors of poorer post-transplant survival. The researchers then recalibrated the cci using this information, to create the CCI-OLT. This new index predicted post-transplant survival as well or better than other available models which u...

World Cities Join Hands to Combat Climate Change

...ould double the market for energy retrofit in buildings. The five banks will work with energy efficiency specialists like Hannon Armstrong and cci to work out a mechanism to deploy their capital worldwide. Honeywell, Johnson Controls Inc., Siemens and Trane will conduct energy audits and ...