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Chicago - Epidemiology
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Monday, November 23, 2009
30 Aug 2009 
BACKGROUND: We describe our experience using a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) during a period of active surveillance in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) from March 2007 ... Read more...
Outbreak of life-threatening coxsackievirus B1 myocarditis in neonates.
30 Aug 2009 In the summer and fall of 2007, we observed a unique cluster of cases of severe coxsackievirus B1 (CVB1) infection among Chicago area neonates. Eight neonates had closely related strains of CVB1 that were typed at the Centers of Disease Control and ... Read more...
Implementing an "always practice" to redefine skin care management.
30 Aug 2009 With a nosocomial pressure ulcer rate higher than national benchmarks, leaders convened a quality improvement team to address the issue. The authors discuss the implementation of a new skin "always practice" initiative across the continuum of care ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Chicago - Epidemiology'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Active surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the neonatal intensive care unit. 30 Aug 2009
- Outbreak of life-threatening coxsackievirus B1 myocarditis in neonates. 30 Aug 2009
- Implementing an "always practice" to redefine skin care management. 30 Aug 2009
- 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infections - Chicago, Illinois, April-July 2009. 26 Aug 2009
- The long-term health consequences of relationship violence in adulthood: an examination of low-income women from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio. 14 Jul 2009
- Acute fungal sinusitis: natural history and the role of frozen section. 29 Jun 2009
- Genotypic identification of Acanthamoeba sp. isolates associated with an outbreak of acanthamoeba keratitis. 29 Jun 2009
- Identifying hidden sexual bridging communities in Chicago. 17 Jun 2009
- Ethnic disparities in asthma morbidity in Chicago. 30 May 2009
- The Well Woman Program: a community-based randomized trial to prevent sexually transmitted infections in low-income African American women. 30 May 2009
- Differences in sexual identity, risk practices, and sex partners between bisexual men and other men among a low-income drug-using sample. 27 May 2009
- Using cases and parents to study multiplicative gene-by-environment interaction.
27 May 2009 - Laypersons' responses to the communication of uncertainty regarding cancer risk estimates. 19 May 2009
- The protective effect of community factors on childhood asthma. 15 May 2009
- Psychiatric morbidity following electrical injury and its effects on cognitive functioning. 7 May 2009
- Mediational pathways through which positive and negative emotionality contribute to anhedonic symptoms of depression: a prospective study of adolescents. 29 Apr 2009
- The epidemiology of necrotizing fasciitis including factors associated with death and amputation. 5 Apr 2009
- Evaluation of the application of the ACCF/ASE appropriateness criteria for transesophageal echocardiography in an academic medical center. 31 Mar 2009
- Does outdoor alcohol advertising around elementary schools vary by the ethnicity of students in the school? 30 Mar 2009
- Hepatitis B seroprevalence and disease characteristics in an urban Chinatown community. 29 Mar 2009
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Technical information about 'Chicago'
Descriptor UI: D002641
Alternative terms: Chicago;
Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; epidemiology;
Tree Number: Z01.107.567.875.350.350.200; Z01.107.567.875.510.350.200; Z01.433.305;