Sec.A1431.001.AADEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1)AA"Anticipation note" means a note issued under this chapter. (2)AA"Eligible countywide district" means a flood control district or a hospital district the boundaries of which are substantially coterminous with the boundaries of a county with a population of three million or more or a hospital district created in a county with a population of mor...

Renqian Zhong*, Hao Wang, Zhihua Tao2, Qingfeng Chen3, Zheng Zhang4, Xiaoyun Pu4, Lianming Wang5, Wei Chen6, Hui Yuan7, Yingping Cao8, Xing Gao9, Yijie Zheng9, Peng Yin10 1Department of Laboratory, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, No. 415 Fengyang Road, Shanghai 200003, China 2Department of Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No. 88 Jiefang Road, H...

Reduction in maternal mortality has not been appreciable in most low-income countries. Improved access to transport for mothers is one way to improve maternal health. This study evaluated a free-of-charge 24-hour ambulance and communication services intervention in Oyam district using 'Caesarean section rate' (CSR) and compared with the neighbouring non-intervention district. Ecological data we...

Hospital-based surveillance for severe diarrhoea has been recommended to assess the burden of disease due to rotavirus. However, information on healthcare-seeking patterns of residents in the hospital catchment area is needed first to obtain the burden of disease in the community using the hospital data. A community-based cluster survey was conducted in two districts of Ghana, each served by a ...

*Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Klong luang District, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand. **Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Medicine, Chulalongkorn Hospital, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. Received for publication: June 22, 2005. Reprint request: Ratha-Korn Vilaichone, M.D., Ph.D., Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospita...

University of Tampere, Medical School, 33014 University of Tampere, Finland Tampere Mental Health Centre, Hallituskatu 8 B, 33200 Tampere, Finland Seinäjoki Hospital District, Department of Psychiatry, Seinäjoki, Finland. Department of Psychiatry, Satakunta Hospital District, Fi-28500 Pori , Finland Department of clinical chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, School of Medicine University of Tampere,...

(1) Assistant Professor, MBBS, MD, Department of Pharmacology, Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital, Village Ram Nagar, District Patiala, Punjab, India-140601 (2) Associate Professor, MBBS, MD, Department of Pharmacology, Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital, Village Ram Nagar, District Patiala, Punjab, India-140601 (3) Professor and Head, MBBS, MD, Department of Pharmacology, Maharishi M...

About one-third of the general practices in the Oxfordshire Health District have access to beds in community hospitals as well as district general hospitals. Hospital Activity Analysis data were used to calculate the average number of hospital beds occupied daily by patients registered with each general practice in the district. Practices with and without access to community hospitals were comp...

Ipswich Hospital Emergency Department played a vital role in the Post Acute Treatment in the Home Program (PATH) of West Moreton District Health Service. PATH used two strategies to reduce the district reliance on acute hospital beds: a short-stay unit for rapid assessment, treatment and early discharge of patients with simple conditions; and a hospital-in-the-home program utilising community h...

Object To determine the safety of laparoscopicassisted vaginal (LAVH) in a district general hospital. Design Retrospective analysis. Setting District general hospital in the UK. Subjects A total of 119 LAVH patients, who were unsuitable for vaginal hysterectomy according to conventional British criteria. Result The mean operating time taken was 91 min. Mean duration of stay was 2.2 days. The ov...