Disease relevance of Hospitals, Private

• Colorectal carcinomas from 462 consecutive patients resected in public or private hospitals were assessed for MSI status by two methods: MSI testing (with BAT-26 microsatellite) and IHC detection of hMLH1, hMSH2, and hMSH6 proteins [1].
• Estimates of the prevalence of FAS come from the Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program (MACDP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. RESULTS: The prevalence of first-trimester drinking was half that reported for the three previous months (private hospital: 72% vs. 35%; public hospital: 52% vs. 28%) [2].
• RESULTS: Preliminary results presented in audit and interim reports indicated an alarmingly high pressure sore rate across the two sites (17/172 [9.9%] NHS, 23/71 [32.4%] private hospital) [3].

High impact information on Hospitals, Private

• SETTING: Private hospital incorporating an established IVF center [4].
• SETTING: Mater Private Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. METHODS: Retreatment was defined as either lifting the previously created flap or when this was not possible, cutting a new flap [5].
• To obtain vaginal fluids for fern and nitrazine testing, the dry glove method (ie, insertion of a gloved hand or nitrazine strip into the vagina) was used significantly more often in private hospitals than in teaching or military facilities (P < .001) [6].
• SETTING: Large, metropolitan, private hospital, associated with a university [7].
• METHODS: Urine samples were collected anonymously during routine sampling from 1425 patients in six private hospitals and four private physicians' offices [8].

Biological context of Hospitals, Private

• According to postpartum self-report, 15% of a teaching hospital sample and 3% of a private hospital sample of mothers had used cocaine during pregnancy or in the previous month (total = 876) [9].
• With the increase in population and in colonial revenues after the discovery of diamonds and gold in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, public and private hospitals proliferated, particularly in larger centres such as Cape Town. The numbers of practitioners engaged in public health also increased [10].

Associations of Hospitals, Private with chemical compounds

• In addition, one of the children's hospitals and one of the private hospitals had a comprehensive range of urological latex-free equipment available [11].
• SETTINGS: Two teaching hospitals associated with Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and one private hospital [12].
• Evaluating the use of gentamicin in a small, private hospital [13].
• Susceptibility to imipenem among isolates from private hospitals was less but did not reach statistical significance [14].
• The incidence of DVT in patients undergoing spinal procedures was lower when low-molecular-weight heparin was used judiciously, but the incidence of PE in patients undergoing cranial procedures was lower with the private hospital protocol, which did not include prophylaxis with anticoagulating agents [15].

Gene context of Hospitals, Private

• We studied 83 MRSA strains isolated from patients hospitalized in 27 public and private hospitals in 19 cities located in 14 Brazilian states from September, 1995, to June, 1997 [16].
• Mary's Health Center (SMHC), a private hospital affiliated with St [17].
• There was no difference between the rate of SK vs tPA use in investor-owned and not-for-profit private hospitals [18].
• SETTING: Mater Private Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. METHODS: Corneal topography was used to analyze centration in two groups of patients with myopia of more than 6.0 diopters: 18 had PRK and 18, LASIK [19].
• Private hospital use complements lower levels of NHS service [20].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Hospitals, Private

• The most important determinants of variations in length of stay are access to NHS hospitals, access to private hospitals, waiting times for elective surgery, indicators of poverty, and indicators of the availability of informal care [21].
• SUBJECTS: All 8430 patients who underwent 11,148 colonoscopies performed by the author at the Mater Private Hospital (a community-based open-access colonoscopy service) between July 1985 and December 1996; those who were subsequently diagnosed with CRC, to January 1998; and all 476 residents diagnosed with colorectal cancer between 1994 and 1997 [22].
• To emphasize the possible effect of the aluminum-containing medication sucralfate on serum phosphorus levels, patients admitted to the intensive care unit of a small private hospital were monitored for a 4-week period [23].
• The HAP was administered pre-post pulmonary rehabilitation in 48 (14 male) outpatients with stable COPD (FEV1% pred = 35 +/- 15) at an outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation program at a large private hospital [24].

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