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Monday, November 23, 2009

Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry Surveillance - four states, 2005-2007.

4 Nov 2009 PROBLEM/CONDITION: Each year, approximately 795,000 persons in the United States experience a new or recurrent stroke. Data from the prototype phase (2001-2004) of the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry (PCNASR) suggested that numerous ... Read more...

Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Medical Home is an evolving concept of patient-centered care yet little information is available on its effect on health care expenditures for children. OBJECTIVES: To quantify differences in patterns of care and costs to the North ... Read more...

HIV-specific health care utilization and mortality among tuberculosis/HIV coinfected persons.

29 Sep 2009 Persons coinfected with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV are at high risk of death, in part due to suboptimal utilization of HIV-specific health care. We sought to better understand HIV-associated health care utilization and mortality in a retrospective ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'North Carolina'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry Surveillance - four states, 2005-2007. 4 Nov 2009
• Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma. 30 Oct 2009
• HIV-specific health care utilization and mortality among tuberculosis/HIV coinfected persons. 29 Sep 2009
• Detection of a large unnamed Babesia piroplasm originally identified in dogs in North Carolina in a dog with no history of travel to that state. 29 Sep 2009
• An evaluation of HIV testing among inmates in the North Carolina prison system. 29 Sep 2009
• Introducing infant oral health into dental curricula: a clinical intervention. 29 Sep 2009
• Mitral gradients and frequency of recurrence of mitral regurgitation after ring annuloplasty for ischemic mitral regurgitation. 29 Sep 2009
• Risk factors for morbidity after lobectomy for lung cancer in elderly patients. 29 Sep 2009
• FAK overexpression and p53 mutations are highly correlated in human breast cancer. 29 Sep 2009
• Temporal and spatial variability of trace metals in sediments of two adjacent tributaries of the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, USA. 13 Sep 2009
• Oseltamivir-resistant 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in two summer campers receiving prophylaxis--North Carolina, 2009. 9 Sep 2009
• Exercise during pregnancy and cesarean delivery: North Carolina PRAMS, 2004-2005. 30 Aug 2009
• Stress questionnaires and stress biomarkers during pregnancy. 30 Aug 2009
• Using telemetry to mitigate the bycatch of long-lived marine vertebrates. 30 Aug 2009
• 2009 quest for quality award winners. 30 Aug 2009
• Control of healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus: Survey of practices in North Carolina hospitals. 30 Aug 2009
• Adherence to self-quarantine recommendations during an outbreak of norovirus infection. 30 Aug 2009
• Wasted hospital days impair the value of length-of-stay variables in the quality assessment of trauma care. 30 Aug 2009
• Sexual mixing patterns and heterosexual HIV transmission among African Americans in the southeastern United States. 30 Aug 2009
• Recruitment and retention of Latino children in a lifestyle intervention. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'North Carolina'

Descriptor UI: D009657

Alternative terms: North Carolina;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; epidemiology;

Tree Number: Z01.107.567.875.075.475; Z01.107.567.875.750.530;