Disease relevance of Hospitals, Urban

• To explore this issue, serum cholesterol measurements were collected from 244 patients with adenomatous polyps of the colon, 182 patients with Dukes' A or B colon cancer, and 688 hospital controls who were diagnosed between 1979 and 1981 at a New York City hospital [1].
• Infection with strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus occurred in 40 patients at time of admission to a large urban hospital from March to December 1980 [2].
• SETTING: Large metropolitan hospital where 20% of all patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Los Angeles are treated [3].
• The frequency of trimethoprim resistance among Escherichia coli isolates from urine samples collected at Turku City Hospital, Turku, Finland, remained at 40% during 1984 to 1988 [4].
• These probes were used to study the occurrence of Tn7 in bacterial strains isolated in the Turku City Hospital in Finland. Transposon Tn7 was present in 47.2% of 199 trimethoprim-resistant enterobacteria (MIC greater than or equal to 8 micrograms/ml) [5].

High impact information on Hospitals, Urban

• METHODS: Consecutive adult medical admissions to a large city hospital in Côte d'Ivoire were studied in 1991, and a sample of HIV-positive deaths autopsied [6].
• In 1980, the Boston City Hospital pharmacy made a bulk purchase of a brand of warfarin sodium that was different from the brand previously stocked [7].
• CONCLUSIONS: When treatment guidelines are carefully followed in an urban hospital setting, intravenous t-PA for acute ischemic stroke is feasible and shows safety and efficacy comparable to the results of the NINDS study [8].
• The study population consisted of 21 insulin-resistant and 25 insulin-sensitive black NIDDM patients and 89 normal, nondiabetic black control subjects from an urban hospital [9].
• This same proportion with an elevated thiamin pyrophosphate effect was found in an urban hospital patient group of 346 individuals [10].

Chemical compound and disease context of Hospitals, Urban

• Adverse health effects associated with intrauterine cocaine exposure (prematurity and its associated morbidity, intrauterine growth retardation, possible risk of sudden infant death syndrome) are based on studies from large urban hospitals, but few data exist from other sources [11].
• A total of 9,955 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus (SA) from an urban hospital and clinic and from rural office settings obtained during 1971 through 1978 were compared for susceptibility to penicillin G [12].
• Metronidazole and clarithromycin resistance amongst Helicobacter pylori isolates from a large metropolitan hospital in the United States [13].
• Methadone overdoses in a New York City hospital [14].
• METHODS: Retrospective investigation was made on 83 women with ovarian endometriomas who underwent transvaginal aspiration and ethanol sclerotherapy at Hiroshima City Hospital between 1993 and 1998 [15].

Biological context of Hospitals, Urban

• Bendectin and fetal development. A study of Boston City Hospital [16].
• CONCLUSIONS: The use of vaginal PGE2 suppositories for induction of labor and cervical ripening in term patients with PROM was accompanied by a high rate of vaginal delivery and a low rate of maternal and neonatal complications in a city hospital setting [17].
• METHODS: Overall 199 consecutive subjects seen in the Division of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Modena City Hospital, were enrolled [18].
• A portfolio analysis tool, the McKinsey/G.E. Business Screen, is presented and, using a large urban hospital as an example, discussed in detail relative to hospital administration [19].
• SITES: General practices across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.Day hospitals:Derbyshire Royal Infirmary (Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust)Sherwood Day Service (Nottingham City Hospital Trust)Leengate Day Hospital (Queen's Medical Centre Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust) [20].

Anatomical context of Hospitals, Urban

• Emergence of trimethoprim resistance among urinary tract Escherichia coli strains, isolated mostly from long-term patients in the Turku City Hospital, Turku, Finland, was studied from 1971 through 1984 [21].
• STUDY DESIGN: Meconium from 621 consecutive newborns delivered at two university-affiliated urban hospitals were assayed for benzoylecgonine [22].
• METHODS: A retrospective analysis of chest radiographs, CD4 T lymphocyte counts, and clinical history of 35 subjects from 3 urban hospitals was performed [23].
• The frequency of positive cord blood rapid plasma reagin (RPR) tests among newborns at an inner city hospital and associations with maternal cocaine use, prenatal care, and adequacy of syphilis therapy were retrospectively assessed [24].
• Early detection of central nervous system tuberculosis with the gen-probe nucleic Acid amplification assay: utility in an inner city hospital [25].

Associations of Hospitals, Urban with chemical compounds

• SETTING: Department of Emergency Medicine in a 2000-bed inner city hospital [26].
• All neonatal drug screens performed at Boston City Hospital during an 18-month period were reviewed (n = 554); for 214 (39%) screened high-risk neonates, results of toxicologic screens were positive for cocaine, and 340 (61%) neonates had no detectable cocaine [27].
• In the Turku City Hospital no changes occurred during this time in the frequency of strains highly-resistant to trimethoprim (MIC greater than 1000 mg/l) or of those in which transferable resistance was demonstrated [28].
• Strains of type 88 were received from 23 hospitals, representing 56% of all methicillin-resistant strains received from New York City hospitals [29].
• Acute isoniazid neurotoxicity in an urban hospital [30].

Gene context of Hospitals, Urban

• METHODS: Drug utilization evaluation and rheumatological assessment was conducted on 70 consecutive patients admitted on COX-2 inhibitors to a 480-bed metropolitan hospital [31].
• One person with predisposing risk factors was colonized with an MRSA, which was identified as the predominant clone found in New York City hospitals [32].
• Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity was assayed quantitatively in red cells from 100 consecutive G6PD-deficient newborn male babies born in a city hospital in Sassari, Sardinia [33].
• 46 participants with ADHD (M age=15.6, SD=1.4; 40 boys) and 44 control participants (M age=15.3, SD=1.4; 40 boys) were recruited through a metropolitan hospital [34].
• METHODS: The 185 epilepsy patients (94 adults, 91 children, aged 18 years or younger) were randomly selected from the database of a tertiary epilepsy center and the general neurological department of a metropolitan hospital (28 adults) [35].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Hospitals, Urban

• A rapid cocaine screening test, the Abuscreen OnTrak assay, was compared with the EMIT (enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique) screening test to determine relative accuracy in 450 newborn infants sequentially tested for urinary cocaine during a 6-week period at a large urban hospital [36].
• In the summer of 1988, dose-finding phase 1 trials of the efficacy and safety of didanosine were begun by investigators at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), by the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) at New York University School of Medicine and the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and by researchers at Boston City Hospital (BCH) [37].
• In a 60-week cross-over study on 5536 patients in 20 wards of three city hospitals (two general and one orthopaedic), pre-operative bathing with chlorhexidine-detergent failed to influence the incidence of postoperative infection, in spite of the relatively high incidence of infection with skin organisms [38].
• Moreover, since 1994 young Italian doctors from the University of Trieste, Italy, enrolled in the School of Specialization in Anesthesia, Intensive Care, have received training at the Service of Hyperbaric Medicine of the University of Reykjavik City Hospital, as part of their training [39].
• Wrist braces with, and without, thumb extensions (so-called "Futura" splints) were introduced into the Emergency Departments of Cork City Hospitals in July 2001 [40].

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