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Inpatient Economic Burden of Postoperative Ileus Associated with Abdominal Surgery in the United States

pain, nausea, vomiting, and the inability to advance the diet during the postoperative period. Complications of POI include atelectasis and pneumonia. If POI is prolonged, poor wound healing can result, in part, from nutritional deficits. Although the duration of POI is partially dependent on the extent of surgical manipulation, the surgical site, and patient characteristics, a delay in return ...

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Hospital inpatient surgery: United States, 1983-87.

Estimated Burden of Keratitis — United States, 2010

Keratitis, inflammation of the cornea, can result in partial or total loss of vision and can result from infectious agents (e.g., microbes including bacteria, fungi, amebae, and viruses) or from noninfectious causes (e.g., eye trauma, chemical exposure, and ultraviolet exposure). Contact lens wear is the major risk factor for microbial keratitis; outbreaks of Fusarium and Acanthamoeba keratitis...

Public Diplomacy and its Institutions in United States of America

Although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. The most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the US, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as Public Diplomacy and to follow local and international ...