Disease relevance of American Hospital Association

• The American Hospital Association and the Center for Disease Control, together with other national bodies, have made major efforts in the past 20 years in calling attention to problems of nosocomial infection in U.S. hospitals [1].

High impact information on American Hospital Association

• We used 2 independent sets of criteria developed by the RAND Corporation and the American College of Cardiology/American Hospital Association (ACC/AHA) [2].
• The organization received 100,000 dollars from the sponsors, the American Hospital Association, The Baxter International Foundation and the Cardinal Health Foundation [3].
• The American Hospital Association 2004 NOVA Award winners [4].
• The latter survey had a 69% response rate and was a collaborative effort among the March of Dimes, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the American Hospital Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Ross Labs, and the National Perinatal Information Center (NPIC) [5].
• METHOD: The study is a secondary data analysis of data in the American Hospital Association 1993 Annual Survey of Hospitals Data Base. Two primary prevention variables (health promotion services to patients and to community members), and one secondary prevention variable (screening mammography) were included [6].

Associations of American Hospital Association with chemical compounds

• Only 28 percent of the approximately two million environmental cultures collected in U.S. hospitals in 1975 were indicated by recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and the American Hospital Association current at the time [7].
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with the co-sponsorship of the American Hospital Association and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, created Community Programs for Affordable Health Care to provide support to selected communities that recognize the problem and are able to mobilize community leadership to seek solutions [8].

Gene context of American Hospital Association

• Matthew Goodfellow's article on strategies for avoiding disturbances in labor relations follow on the heels of an injunction won by the American Hospital Association this April [9].
• The basic resource for this patient education effort is the Staff Manual for Teaching Patients about COPD, developed by the ALA and the American Hospital Association [10].

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