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Costs of visiting babies in special care baby units.
Parents of babies who spend long periods in special care baby units are faced with the problem of developing a caring relationship with their baby. The journeys to and from the hospital pose additional financial and social stress on parents who are already under considerable emotional strain. A survey into the financial costs incurred by parents visiting their babies in six hospitals during a p...
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BACKGROUND: There are over 16 000 nursing homes in the United States (US), among which approximately 70% of residents are cognitively impaired. Reflecting this, approximately 20% of US nursing homes maintain Special Dementia Care Units (SCUs). SCUs supposedly provide more staff time and more specialized staff assignments to residents than do traditional care units. AIMS OF THE STUDY: This paper...
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An outbreak of meningitis due to Citrobacter koseri in a special care baby unit is described. The organism showed a high capacity for spread among the babies on the unit and although the intestinal carriage rate was high, the clinical case:carrier ratio was low.
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166 Purpose: As the Baby-Boom generation enters the ranks of the elderly adults over the next 4 decades, the United States will witness an unprecedented growth in racial/ethnic diversity among the older adult population. Hispanics will comprise 20% of the next generation of older adults, representing the largest minority population aged 65 years and older, with those of Mexican-origin comprisin...
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153 Purpose of the Study: Our study provides a national portrait of the Baby Boom generation, paying particular attention to the heterogeneity among unmarried Boomers and whether it operates similarly among women versus men. Design and Methods: We used the 1980, 1990, and 2000 Census 5% samples and the 2009 American Community Survey (ACS) to document the trends in the share and marital status c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.54.4.328