While the majority of people in need of medical care go to community hospitals, much of the existing research on bloodstream infections focuses
on tertiary care centers, or hospitals offering highly specialized care.
Not exact matches
By the late 1970s, a woman arriving
on the labor and delivery floor of a U.S.
tertiary care hospital with a nonmalformed, living, singleton fetus at term had a risk of intrapartum fetal death of 1 in 1000.1 At that time the U.S. cesarean delivery rate was approaching 15 %.2 Since then, the rate of cesarean sections has more than doubled, 3 but the intrapartum fetal death rate in major U.S.
centers remains unchanged.
«Our study provides a much - needed update
on what we're seeing in community hospitals, and ultimately, we're finding similar types of infections in these hospitals as in
tertiary care centers,» said Deverick Anderson, M.D., MPH, associate professor of medicine at Duke and the study's lead author.
Pack the severed piece
on a bed of ice as you travel to the hospital, or a nearby
tertiary care center with a plastic surgeon or ear / nose / throat surgeon who may be able to suture it back into place.
The effect of regular physical exercise
on the thyroid function of treated hypothyroid patients: an interventional study at a
tertiary care center in Bastar region of India.