Disease relevance of Hospitals, General

• Gentamicin-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Serratia marcescens in a general hospital [1].
• In our study MVP was present in six of 22 Duchenne dystrophy cases (27%) followed in the Maryland General Hospital Muscular Dystrophy Clinic. In addition, seven carriers of Duchenne and X-linked benign (Becker) dystrophy had evidence of MVP [2].
• PATIENTS AND METHODS: We undertook a retrospective chart review of 545 patients with SCLC seen at Toronto General Hospital between 1980 and 1990 and identified 23 patients (4.5%) with Cushing's syndrome and ectopic ACTH production [3].
• We conducted a cost identification analysis on 164 consecutive patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who entered the Montreal General Hospital Lupus Registry between January 1977 and January 1990, compared their costs to the population of Quebec, and determined the predictors of cost [4].
• Reemergence of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a general hospital associated with changing staphylococcal strains [5].

Psychiatry related information on Hospitals, General

• Patients in the BT group showed a significantly greater reduction in trichotillomania symptoms, higher effect sizes (Massachusetts General Hospital Hairpulling Scale: BT, 3.80; fluoxetine, 0.42; and WL, 1.09), and more clinically significant changes (BT, 64%; fluoxetine, 9%; and WL, 20%) than patients in the fluoxetine and WL groups [6].
• The purpose of this study was to determine if alcohol abuse affects muscarinic cholinergic and benzodiazepine receptors in histologically normal brains obtained at autopsy in a general hospital population [7].
• The type of EEG dysfunction largely depends on age and recognizable patterns in general hospital psychiatry include drug effects, epilepsy in mental retardation and organic brain syndromes in the elderly [8].
• SETTING: Seven admission wards at a Western Cape mental hospital and an emergency psychiatric service at a general hospital [9].
• The cognitive factors measured by the Allen Cognitive Level Test (ACL) (Allen, 1982) as well as the test's relationship to level of psychopathology were examined through a retrospective study of 71 patients from a general hospital psychiatry unit [10].

High impact information on Hospitals, General

• SETTING--San Francisco (Calif) General Hospital. PATIENTS--Pregnant women at 56 days' gestation or less seeking elective abortion [11].
• We identified children with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency from the medical records of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Children's Hospital, Boston, and investigated their early feeding history [12].
• 8. Most women were married, with religious affiliations reflecting those of the general hospital population, and most underwent tubal division because they felt they had had enough children [13].
• To evaluate the impact as well as the causes of ADRs, representative populations, including general hospital and ambulatory patients of all medical specialties, must be studied, and operationally defined criteria must be used to establish the presence of an ADR in a prospective study that incorporates appropriate control populations [14].
• PTHrP concentrations in plasma and PTH concentrations in serum were measured in 121 consecutive patients with hypercalcaemia (corrected serum calcium above 2.65 mmol/l) identified from routine biochemical profiles in a district general hospital [15].

Chemical compound and disease context of Hospitals, General

• A comparison between the NBT-PABA/14C-PABA test (NBT-PABA, n-benzoyl-tyrosyl para-aminobenzoic acid) using the PABA excretion index (PEI) and serum PABA estimation at 90 minutes has been made in 42 consecutive subjects attending for investigation of possible pancreatic disease to a District General Hospital (DGH) [16].
• Introduction of the Vitek GNS-506 susceptibility testing cards in the Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece, resulted in an apparently high prevalence of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii [17].
• A comparative, randomized trial of UFT and 5-fluorouracil in combination with cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin in the treatment of advanced breast cancer patients at The Philippines General Hospital [18].
• We studied 303 men who were partners in subfertile couples seeking infertility diagnosis from the andrology laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. Semen parameters were dichotomized based on World Health Organization reference values, and phthalate and PCB levels were dichotomized at their respective medians [19].
• Study of an outbreak of cefoxitin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a general hospital [20].

Biological context of Hospitals, General

• Leukocyte differential counting by flow cytochemistry has shown 28 subjects with partial or complete neutrophil myeloperoxidase (MPO) deficiency in a population of about 60 000 patients screened at a general hospital [21].
• Elevated serum levels of unsaturated folate binding protein: clinical correlates in a general hospital population [22].
• SETTING: The Baird Multiple Sclerosis Center, Millard Fillmore Hospital, and the Neurology Department, Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, NY [23].
• Various properties (specific activity, inducibility, substrate profile, and susceptibility to inhibitors) of the beta-lactamase activity present in 39 strains of Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated during a two-month period in the bacteriology laboratory of a large general hospital were investigated [24].
• The patients were recruited at the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, and the study was conducted at the Department of Endocrinology, Lund University Clinics, General Hospital, Malmö, Sweden [25].

Anatomical context of Hospitals, General

• SETTING: Infertility Medical Center at the CHA General Hospital, Seoul, Korea. PATIENT(S): Oocytes were obtained from patients undergoing gynecologic surgery [26].
• At the Toronto General Hospital 415 patients undergoing elective laparotomy were randomly allocated to receive bupivacaine 0.25% (2 ml/cm incision), infiltrated into the fascia evenly along both sides of the incision before wound closure (202 patients), or to have closure without infiltration (213 patients) [27].
• A study of serum vitamin A levels in burned patients at the Vancouver General Hospital (1972-1973) is reported in an attempt to relate hypovitaminosis A to acute stress erosions in the gastrointestinal tract [28].
• A multidisciplinary approach is used at the Step Disorder Center of Cincinnati General Hospital to evaluate the role of tonsils and adenoids in sleep apnea [29].
• Records of 323 patients with TNM Stage M0 sarcoma of soft tissue treated by the Radiation Medicine Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital over a 14-year period were reviewed to study the incidence and the implication of regional lymph node involvement [30].

Associations of Hospitals, General with chemical compounds

• In a general hospital periodic surveys showed a progressive decline in the proportions of patients with Staph. aureus in their noses which were resistant to tetracycline, erythromycin, and kanamycin [31].
• Gentamicin/amikacin-resistant gram-negative bacilli at Detroit General Hospital, 1975-1976 [32].
• Bedside capillary glucose measurement by staff nurses in a general hospital [33].
• Crack/cocaine abusers in the general hospital: assessment and initiation of care [34].
• Mean serum folate was significantly lower than in a general hospital group of 810 patients [35].

Gene context of Hospitals, General

• We compared the value of IL-6, IL-8, and PCT with C-reactive protein (CRP) in the diagnosis and treatment of late-onset sepsis among infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (group I) and febrile infants admitted to general hospitals from home (group II) [36].
• METHODS: Between August 2000 and June 2003, 134 pathologically-proven esophageal squamous cell carcinoma male patients and 237 male controls were recruited from Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital and Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital in southern Taiwan. ADH2 and ALDH2 polymorphisms were genotyped using PCR-RFLP [37].
• In this study, we determined if p53 and CD117 (c-kit) protein expression was predictive of behavior in a series of 335 phyllodes tumors diagnosed at the Singapore General Hospital, using immunohistochemistry on tissue microarrays [38].
• Cell cultures of excised keloids and biopsied normal skin were established from patients of the Plastic Surgery Department of Singapore General Hospital and their single cells quantitated for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) activity using microspectrophometry [39].
• Change from dual- to single-platform reporting of CD4/CD8 values: experience from a small district general hospital laboratory [40].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Hospitals, General

• BACKGROUND: This study is the clinical follow-up (20 +/- 12 months; range, 6 to 49 months) of 327 patients who had percutaneous mitral balloon valvotomy (PMV) at the Massachusetts General Hospital. METHODS AND RESULTS: There were seven in-hospital deaths [41].
• PATIENTS AND METHODS: This prospective cohort study was conducted in emergency room and outpatient facilities of Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in offices of participating family doctors based in Halifax [42].
• METHODS AND MATERIALS: Between 1979 and 1996, 172 patients treated at Massachusetts General Hospital received primary radiotherapy with curative intent for nasopharyngeal carcinoma [43].
• Total and corrected (for albumin) serum calcium levels were investigated in a cross-sectional study of 394 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 4490 healthy subjects, and 2609 inpatients at a district general hospital [44].
• Titers of serum antibodies to measles virus were measured by enzyme immunoassay of stored sera from a cohort of homosexual men who were studied at San Francisco General Hospital. Subjects underwent a baseline and follow-up measure of measles antibodies [45].

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