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A multicenter, cluster (household)-randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, controlled trial was conducted in 812 patients (¡Ý 15 kg, and ¡Ý 2 years of age) from 376 households at seven study centers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Israel.
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The superiority of a particular surgical-site preparation regimen in preventing surgical-site infection (SSI) has not been determined.
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In this study, 496 adults and adolescents in Malawi, with history of recent documented invasive pneumococcal disease, were administered PCV7 or placebo in a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial, and were followed for 798 person-years. Eighty-eight percent of patients were HIV-infected.
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Clinical laboratories in Massachusetts are required to submit to the state all isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae cultured from blood, cerebrospinal fluid, or other normally sterile body fluids from children < 18 years of age.
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The Veterans Health Administration maintains a national automated information system (DSS) that contains hospital discharge and outpatient data for the entire system.
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As recently discussed in Infectious Disease Alert (January 2010), chronic Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has been described in solid-organ transplant recipients, and uncommonly in persons with HIV.
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"Good people who exercised poor judgment" recently took cell phone pictures of a shark attack victim who later died in the ED at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart, FL, according to a statement released by hospital officials. Although no staff members were fired, the hospital has disciplined several ED employees for taking the cell phone pictures and has asked anyone with copies of the photos to destroy them.
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Taking nearly seven months to transition from an ED staffing model of a contracted physician group to one that involved a partnership with a neighboring medical school might seem overly long, but the leadership at St. Joseph's Hospital in Buckhannon, WV, says they wanted to "do it right." That process included bringing on properly credentialed physicians, as well as doctors who would relate well with the surrounding community.
