MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL REPORTS

Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital offers first-trimester screening across Ontario.

Ophthalmia neonatorum: study of a decade of experience at the Mount Sinai Hospital.

We reviewed the charts of neonates who received a diagnosis of conjunctivitis or ophthalmia neonatorum during a 10-year period at the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City. Ninety-five cases were discovered, four of these were born elsewhere and were not subject to our protocol, which at present consists of intramuscular penicillin and topical tetracycline ointment (1%). The 91 cases represent an...

Mount Sinai Hospital Uses Integer Programming to Allocate Operating Room Time

I n most developed countries, except the United States, strategies for providing universal access to health care while containing costs involve formal or informal caps on health-care spending (Pierskalla and Brailer 1994, p. 470). As a result of centrally constrained funds, resource-allocation problems in which a central authority must plan for and allocate limited resources to competing groups...

Mount Sinai Hospital dental program for persons with disabilities: role in undergraduate dental education.

Access to dental care for persons with special needs or disabilities continues to be a problem. This population is known to have a high incidence of dental disease, but unfortunately oral health is a significant unmet health need in many cases. To address this need, the Mount Sinai Hospital Dental Program for Persons with Disabilities was developed over 30 years ago by staff within the discipli...

From Mount Sinai to Mount Scopus: differences in the role and value of fine needle aspiration for evaluating thyroid nodules.

BACKGROUND Fine needle aspiration is the main diagnostic tool used to assess thyroid nodules. OBJECTIVES To correlate FNA cytology results with surgical pathological findings in two teaching medical centers across the Atlantic. METHODS We retrospectively identified 484 patients at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem and Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, by means of both preop...