Hospitals, Public
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy.

29 Sep 2009 Violence committed by acute psychiatric inpatients represents an important and challenging problem in clinical practice. Sociodemographic, clinical, and treatment information were collected for 1324 patients (677 men and 647 women) admitted to ... Read more...

Inspiratory muscle strength as a determinant of functional capacity early after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

29 Sep 2009 Stein R, Maia CP, Silveira AD, Chiappa GR, Myers J, Ribeiro JP. Inspiratory muscle strength as a determinant of functional capacity early after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of a 6-day postoperative ... Read more...

Improved hospital-level risk adjustment for surveillance of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections: a retrospective cohort study.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: To allow direct comparison of bloodstream infection (BSI) rates between hospitals for performance measurement, observed rates need to be risk adjusted according to the types of patients cared for by the hospital. However, attribute data ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hospitals, Public'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy. 29 Sep 2009
• Inspiratory muscle strength as a determinant of functional capacity early after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 29 Sep 2009
• Yes we can? Can all Americans join the imminent electronic health care revolution? A survey of patients receiving care at a public hospital. 12 Sep 2009
• Interventions to circumvent intensive care access block: a retrospective 2-year study across metropolitan Melbourne. 5 Sep 2009
• Glycaemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes after provision of public hospital-funded insulin pumps. 5 Sep 2009
• [Valuation of hospital innovation] 30 Aug 2009
• Improved hospital-level risk adjustment for surveillance of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections: a retrospective cohort study. 30 Aug 2009
• The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy: preliminary psychometrics and group comparisons in Italian physicians. 30 Aug 2009
• Prevalence of smoking assessed biochemically in an urban public hospital: a rationale for routine cotinine screening. 25 Aug 2009
• Willingness of Hong Kong healthcare workers to accept pre-pandemic influenza vaccination at different WHO alert levels: two questionnaire surveys. 23 Aug 2009
• Retirement. A career's worth of wisdom on tap. 18 Aug 2009
• Management stars need a leg-up to rise to the top. 18 Aug 2009
• Swine flu. Immunisation choices risk creating local variations. PCTs decide on vaccine priority. 18 Aug 2009
• CQC names high death-rate trusts. Patient safety. List sparks fears that organisations will be seen as 'bad apples'. 18 Aug 2009
• [French radiotherapy database: results of a survey of French radiation oncology centers in 2007] 17 Aug 2009
• Carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in home care settings: prevalence, duration, and transmission to household members. 8 Aug 2009
• From cultural cohesion to rules and competition: the trajectory of senior management culture in English NHS hospitals, 2001-2008. 30 Jul 2009
• Waiting time and assessment of patient satisfaction in a large reference emergency department: a prospective cohort study, France. 30 Jul 2009
• Size, location, and multiplicity of ruptured intracranial aneurysms in the Hong Kong Chinese population with subarachnoid haemorrhage. 30 Jul 2009
• Uses of tuberculosis mortality surveillance to identify programme errors and improve database reporting. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Hospitals, Public'

Definition: Hospitals controlled by various types of government, i.e., city, county, district, state or federal.

Descriptor UI: D006779

Alternative terms: Hospitals, Public; Public Hospitals; Hospital, Public; Public Hospital;

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

Tree Number: N02.278.421.510;

History Note: 78

Technical Notes: government-owned; coord IM with special hosp (e.g., HOSPITALS, CHRONIC DISEASE; HOSPITALS, MATERNITY; etc.) or med specialty (IM or NIM) if pertinent; specify geog