These data included age, date of hospital admission, working diagnosis, chronic medical problems, and any pain medications received.
More specifically, the following variables were collected from the medical records: Basic demographics, reason from admission, working diagnosis, admission date, history of TB prior to the current episode (yes/no), history of prior ATT (yes/no and dates).
Within Clinical Commissioning Groups, local general practitioners (GPs) often take on lead clinical roles within their areas of special interest (e.g. long-term conditions, unplanned hospital admissions), working closely with commissioning managers without clinical backgrounds.
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A couple of years ago, Jacques Steinberg, a national education correspondent for The New York Times, got permission from the admissions office at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Conn., to spend an academic year observing how college admissions work, and wrote a series of articles for the paper about what he saw.
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In my college admissions work, I work with high school students from every imaginable socio-economic, religious and racial background.
