Hospitals - History
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

'When the city is a great field hospital': the influenza pandemic of 1918 and the New York city nursing response.

29 Sep 2009 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To describe and analyse the nurses' role in responding to the influenza epidemic in New York City in 1918. BACKGROUND: Today the world is facing the threat of pandemic avian influenza and there is renewed interest in lessons ... Read more...

Dr GD Monteith: an unobtrusive Wellington surgeon who became coroner, provincial surgeon and hospital superintendent.

29 Jun 2009 The first general surgical operation performed on an etherised patient in New Zealand took place early on the afternoon of Monday, 27 September 1847, at the recently opened Wellington Colonial Hospital. The surgeon Dr JP Fitzgerald, M.D. was ... Read more...

[Centenary of the Fontilles Sanitorium]

30 May 2009 In recognition of the centenary of the Fontilles Sanitorium, we present some details of its history. The article discusses the foundation of the sanitorium by some of the numerous lepers with no health coverage in the region of Valencia, and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hospitals - History'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• 'When the city is a great field hospital': the influenza pandemic of 1918 and the New York city nursing response. 29 Sep 2009
• [Report from the 2009 scientific meeting of the Környey Society] 28 Sep 2009
• [János Balassa memorial lecture] 30 Jul 2009
• [Female doctors in the early history of European medicine] 29 Jun 2009
• AW Melville, a pioneer in New Zealand medical electronics and inventor of the Fisher & Paykel Humidifier. 29 Jun 2009
• Dr GD Monteith: an unobtrusive Wellington surgeon who became coroner, provincial surgeon and hospital superintendent. 29 Jun 2009
• [Centenary of the Fontilles Sanitorium] 30 May 2009
• McCord--100-year-old beacon of hope in turbulent health care seas. 30 May 2009
• [Patients' diet in "Town" and "City" hospitals in Belgrade] 29 Apr 2009
• In commemoration of Haj Mohammad Nemazee (1895-1972): the founder of Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz. 29 Apr 2009
• [The birth of ENT happened in Rostock] 29 Apr 2009
• [In blessed times of good hospitable broths] 20 Apr 2009
• [History of neurosurgery at the provincial hospital of Guipuzcoa] 30 Mar 2009
• [History of hospitals in Africa] 30 Jan 2009
• [History of the hospital building activity in the late XIX and early XX centuries] 30 Dec 2008
• [100 years of skin hospital in Heidelberg] 30 Dec 2008
• Neurological surgery at the Cleveland Clinic: a historical perspective. 30 Dec 2008
• Establishment of the USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in 1978. 2 Dec 2008
• [Epidemics aat the Notre-Dame à la Rose hospital at Lessines in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries] 29 Nov 2008
• [Quarantine, at the cross of heterogeneous architectural traditions] 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Hospitals'

Definition: Institutions with an organized medical staff which provide medical care to patients.

Descriptor UI: D006761

Alternative terms: Hospitals; Hospital;

Related Mesh Headings: Economics, Hospital; Equipment and Supplies, Hospital; Hospital Administration;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; manpower; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.278.421;

Technical Notes: /legis = LEGISLATION, HOSPITAL or HOSPITALS (IM) + JURISPRUDENCE (IM); note specific hosp depts & specific types of hosp available; hosp admission, discharge & readmiss are available as PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE & PATIENT READMISSION (see notes under each); specify geog: Manual 36.19