Disease relevance of Hospitals, County

• Acetaminophen toxicity in an urban county hospital [1].
• To assess the effects of an educational program emphasizing detection and tight control of maternal glucose levels during pregnancy, the management and outcome of all pregnancies complicated by diabetes mellitus delivered at a county hospital during two time periods, 1978-1980 and 1981-1983, are compared [2].
• A pilot study is proposed to begin to translate these findings to explore the feasibility of early VPA delivery to severe head trauma patients admitted to Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY, a Level 1 trauma center [3].
• METHODS: We reviewed the medical records of Wishard Memorial Hospital, a county hospital serving metropolitan Indianapolis, Indiana, to perform a retrospective case-control study of 26 patients with PCT (as case) against 149,756 regional volunteer blood donors (as control-1) and 51 patients receiving methotrexate for psoriasis (as control-2) [4].
• Gunshot wounds seen at a county hospital before and after a riot and gang truce: Part Two [5].

Psychiatry related information on Hospitals, County

• Forty-one predominantly low-income Latina women, receiving prenatal services at a public county hospital, completed measures of stress and mood (depressive symptoms, positive and negative affect) and provided morning and evening saliva samples to measure cortisol prior to and after receiving SR instructions [6].
• Longitudinal data were collected on 202 HIV-infected women without AIDS who were receiving care at Kings County Hospital or SUNY Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn, New York. Internal consistency results showed acceptable reliability for the four multi-item MOS scales (role function, physical function, general health perceptions and mental health) [7].

High impact information on Hospitals, County

• Acetaminophen toxicity in an urban county hospital [8].
• From January 1986 through June 1988, we gave all infants born at Kings County Hospital Medical Center one of three prophylactic agents -- silver nitrate drops, erythromycin ophthalmic ointment, or tetracycline ophthalmic ointment [9].
• In a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study, 80 healthy women undergoing tubal sterilisation under general anaesthesia at the County Hospital, Lincoln, UK, were allocated to be sterilised by Flishie clips covered with 2% lignocaine gel or K-Y gel as placebo [10].
• METHODS: We collected clinical and demographic data and information on health status by using the Short Form 36 (SF-36) questionnaire in two populations: (a) 397 patients with confirmed epilepsy attending a county hospital during a 7-year period, and (b) 1,663 patients from a random sample representative of the entire national population [11].
• All patients evaluated for ARF between January 1984 and December 1993 by the Renal Division at Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY, were reviewed [12].

Biological context of Hospitals, County

• SETTING: Baylor College of Medicine Geriatrics Clinic at the Harris County Hospital District (Houston, Texas) [13].
• SETTING: Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Aarhus County Hospital. SUBJECTS: Eight NIDDM in-patients participated without drop-outs [14].

Associations of Hospitals, County with chemical compounds

• Activities of an employer independent Occupational Medicine Clinic, Cook County Hospital, 1979-1981 [15].
• To determine the appropriateness of use of omeprazole, all outpatient prescriptions over one year from a single county hospital pharmacy were analyzed [16].
• METHODS: We analyzed data from 1,021 ED intramuscular ketamine sedations in children 15 years of age or younger at a university medical center and an affiliated county hospital over a 9-year period [17].
• After adjusting for patient characteristics, utilization of three screening services at the county hospital remained significantly below the University-based clinics (Odds Ratios [95% CI]: mammogram 0.15 [0.06-0.35]; Pap smear 0.32 [0.21-0.50]; cholesterol 0.19 [0.09-0.38]; diabetes retinal exam10.68 [0.93-3.01]) [18].
• The unexpected massive appearance of a certain tumorous cluster in personnel exposed to ethylene oxide in a Hungarian county hospital focused attention on the effects of this toxic gas [19].

Gene context of Hospitals, County

• Over 80% of the cases were performed by the head and neck surgical service at Olive View County Hospital, Sylmar, Calif, with the remainder performed at UCLA-affiliated institutions [20].
• MATERIAL AND METHOD: All pregnancies in women with IDDM during the 12-year period, 1982-93, received their antenatal care from a 'diabetic team' at the County Hospital, Ostersund [21].
• The survival of 117 black and white patients treated by radiation for carcinoma of the prostate at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn (SUNY/HSCB) and Kings County Hospital Center (KCHC) was analyzed according to Gleason's grading system [22].
• From 1968-1985 a series of thirty-seven patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma was collected from the tumor registry of the Fairfax County Hospital, in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area [23].
• Conversely, the University hospital of Szeged and the County hospital of Békéscsaba use all three procedures i.e. OC, LC and MLC; as is the case in the authors' hospital [24].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Hospitals, County

• SETTING: The study was carried out as part of a cohort study of 4122 Danes at the Centre of Preventive Medicine (former the Glostrup Population Studies), Glostrup County Hospital, Denmark [25].
• Data on prescriptions of acyclovir were obtained from the Danish North Jutland Prescription Database and data on pregnancy outcomes from the Danish Medical Birth Registry and the County Hospital Discharge Registry [26].
• To compare the effects of heliox-driven (He 80:O2 20) to air-driven (N 79:O2 21) beta2-agonist aerosol therapy on pulmonary function tests (PFTs) in patients with asthma, a prospective randomized crossover study was undertaken in the asthma clinic of the university-affiliated county hospital in Houston, TX [27].

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