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Hospitalization Discharge Rates
Lake County, Illinois —
Hospitalization Discharge Rates in Lake County, Illinois. Explanation of field attributes: Anxiety Disorder - Anxiety disorders are characterized by excessive fear or... -
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HCUP State Inpatient Databases (SID) - Restricted Access File
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Databases (SID) are a set of hospital databases that contain the universe of hospital inpatient... -
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome: estimated incidence and mortality rate in a 5 million-person population base
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Various estimates of the incidence and mortality rate of the acute (adult) respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have been published. The studies that led... -
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Sepsis-related organ failure assessment and withholding or withdrawing life support from critically ill patients
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: We studied the incidence of withholding or withdrawing therapeutic measures in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, as well as the possible implications of... -
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Acetaminophen toxicity: suicidal vs accidental
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Introduction Acetaminophen toxicity, which can lead to hepatotoxicity, is a burden on our health care system and contributes significantly to intensive care unit... -
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Survival of patients transferred to tertiary intensive care from rural community hospitals
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Accessibility to tertiary intensive care resources differs among hospitals within a rural region. Determining whether accessibility is associated with... -
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Mycobacterial and nonbacterial pulmonary complications in hospitalized patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection: A prospective, cohort study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background A prospective observational study was done to describe nonbacterial pulmonary complications in hospitalized patients with human immunodeficiency virus... -
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Performance of the score systems Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II and III at an interdisciplinary intensive care unit, after customization
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Mortality predictions calculated using scoring scales are often not accurate in populations other than those in which the scales were developed because of... -
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A comparison of hospital readmission rates between two general physicians with different outpatient review practices
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background There has been a relentless increase in emergency medical admissions in the UK over recent years. Many of these patients suffer with chronic conditions... -
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National Pregnancy and Health Survey: Drug Use Among Women Delivering Live Births (NPHS-1992)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The primary objective of the National Pregnancy and Health Survey (NPHS) was to produce national annual estimates of the percentages and numbers of mothers of live... -
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Impact of renal dysfunction on weaning from prolonged mechanical ventilation
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: In the intensive care unit (ICU) setting, the combination of mechanical ventilation and renal replacement therapy (RRT) has been associated with prolonged... -
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Clinical features of culture-proven
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Objective This retrospective chart review describes the epidemiology and clinical features of 40 patients with culture-proven Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections at King... -
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Hepatic adverse events during highly active antiretroviral therapy containing nevirapine: a case report
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Hepatotoxicity is one of the most serious complications of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). The aim of this report is to analyse an HIV... -
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Do bronchodilators have an effect on bronchiolitis?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Over the past 12 years there have been 12 randomised control trials, involving 843 infants, evaluating the effect of salbutamol or albuterol on bronchiolitis. Of... -
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Predisposing factors for delirium in the surgical intensive care unit
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Delirium is a sign of deterioration in the homeostasis and physical status of the patient. The objective of our study was to investigate the predisposing... -
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Infective endocarditis: too ill to be operated?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Infective endocarditis remains a disease associated with high mortality in certain groups of patients, with death resulting primarily from central nervous system... -
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Boston: Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits, 2004-2011 - Seeking Detox
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Excel file with estimates, rates, relative standard errors, trends and confidence intervals for all drug-related emergency department (ED) visits involving patients... -
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Paediatric referrals in rural Tanzania: the Kilombero District Study – a case series
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Referral is a critical part of appropriate primary care and of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy. We set out to study... -
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Comparison of APACHE II, MEES and Glasgow Coma Scale in patients with nontraumatic coma for prediction of mortality
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Introduction: There are numerous prehosital descriptive scoring systems, and it is uncertain whether they are efficient in assessing of the severity of illness and... -
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Characteristics of High and Low Efficiency Hospitals
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
We compared performance, operating characteristics, and market environments of low- and high-efficiency hospitals in the 37 states that supplied data to the...