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Definition of 'Hospital Units'

Those areas of the hospital organization not considered departments which provide specialized patient care. They include various hospital special care wards.

Common names: Hospital Units; Hospital Unit; Unit, Hospital; Units, Hospital

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Impact of a comanaged Geriatric Fracture Center on short-term hip fracture outcomes.

10 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Hip fractures are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality for older adults. Patients sustaining hip fractures usually have comorbid conditions that may benefit from comanagement by geriatricians and orthopedic surgeons. ... Read more...


Meeting the needs of young people and adults with childhood-onset conditions: Gillette Lifetime Specialty Healthcare.

29 Sep 2009 This paper describes how Gillette Specialty Healthcare developed a program to meet the specialty-care outpatient and in-patient needs of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and other serious congenital disabilities as they made the transition to early ... Read more...


Glycaemic control in hospitalised diabetic patients at the University Hospital Basel in 2002 and in 2005.

17 Sep 2009 INTRODUCTION: Hyperglycaemia has been shown to be detrimental in severely ill patients. Prospective randomized controlled trials in ICU patients demonstrated the benefit of near-normoglycaemia in reducing morbidity and mortality. Recommendations of ... Read more...

 

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Definition: Those areas of the hospital organization not considered departments which provide specialized patient care. They include various hospital special care wards.

Descriptor UI: D006757

Alternative terms: Hospital Units; Hospital Unit; Unit, Hospital; Units, Hospital;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.278.388;

Online Note: use HOSPITAL UNITS to search WARDS, HOSPITAL 1974-78

History Note: 74; WARDS, HOSPITAL was see under HOSPITAL UNITS 1974-78

Technical Notes: special care wards go here or specific unit; consider also PATIENTS' ROOMS & see X refs there

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