Majority of hospitalizations were of minor-moderate illness severity, were predominantly within urban hospitals, without significant variation in the overall frequency of hospitalizations by the teaching or children's hospital status of the treating hospitals.
Although occurring predominantly at hospitals located in urban areas, hospitalizations were evenly distributed among hospital types based on teaching and children's hospital status (Table 2).
Foundation-hospital status will in principle offer a way out of this bureaucratic nightmare.
The regression model controlled for age, sex, race, hospital ownership, ethnicity, hospital status, region, MSA status, payer, urgency at triage, alcohol, "high risk" associated diagnosis and whether neuroimaging was performed.
We evaluated the impact of patient characteristics, patient comorbidities, pathology, resection site, surgical technique, admission type, and teaching hospital status on the incidence of in-hospital bowel obstruction after colorectal surgery.
Location of an ED, whether by state, urban vs. rural, or critical access hospital did not have any impact on the composite score, nor did teaching hospital status or proportion of uninsured patients.
This problem was not encountered in this study because a health facility cannot attain hospital status in Ghana if it is not equipped to treat a minor case like mild malaria.
But an unexpected public uproar--more than 300,000 letters and e-mail comments calling for UKBF to keep its research hospital status were received by the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper alone--led to a change in strategy.
I am definitely updating my hospital status to No Visitors thanks to @aaronsayswhat1.
It is likely that viral infections were rarely thought of as the source of poor outcomes among patients whose pre-hospital status was not immunocompromised.
