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A retrospective cohort study was conducted of all children age birth to five years enrolled at a Department of Defense treatment facility between January 1998 and December 2005, who were diagnosed with bacterial enteritis.
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A two-year prospective cohort study of children less than five years of age presenting with a febrile illness (¡Ý 38.0¡ã C) to a single emergency department in Australia, used a standardized clinical evaluation with a mandatory entry for 40 clinical features between July 1, 2004, and June 30, 2006.
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In this study, 8,402 patients from seven case-control series were examined in this trial. The series included Kenyan children with bacteremia, patients with tuberculosis (TB) in Malawi, Hong Kong, and Gambia, and patients with severe malaria in Gambia, Kenya, and Vietnam. Standard methods for genotyping selected genes in PBMCs were employed.
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A couple enters the emergency department the wife with a black eye and fresh bruises on her arm. She tells registration she fell down the stairs.
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STATEMENT: Healthcare Facilities (HCF's) will implement an interdisciplinary protocol addressing workplace violence prevention and response.
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With its latest survey, beginning May 25, 2010, and ending May 27, Holy Family Memorial had the most surveyors it ever had seven and its first life safety survey. Mary M. Schilder, quality management, accreditation/CME coordinator, and privacy specialist, says the surveyors, who visited "every single clinic and department," were "very educational."
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As of July 1, The Joint Commission's interim staffing effectiveness requirements are in effect for hospital and long-term care organizations, as it continues to research the issues associated with the standards.
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Experts Hospital Peer Review spoke with say some of the most common criminal activity in hospitals involves assaults by patients on other patients or staff; patients in psychiatric units; patients on drugs; prisoner patients; acts prompted by domestic violence; patients on drugs; and gang members or VIP patients. All present unique challenges.
