To maintain internal validity, we attempted to match the gender ratio of participants in our study with that of the general university population.
The objective of our study was to determine the mortality risk factors in patients that required MV in the ICU of a general university hospital in southern Brazil.
A prospective cohort study enrolled all patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a general university hospital that remained for more than 24 hours at the ICU.
The objectives of our study were to determine the characteristics, frequency of MV, overall and specific mortality rates and mortality risk factors in patients who required MV in the ICU of a general university hospital in southern Brazil.
A pediatric nurse used to working with sophisticated neonatal intensive-care equipment at Harlem Hospital Center, she found herself in the ruins of Haiti's general university hospital, trying to treat children with crushed limbs and breathing trouble, but lacking adequate anesthetics, sterile equipment or clear lines of hospital authority.
The purpose of Germany's new general university code, Hochschulrahmengesetz (HRG), is to create legal certainty for all affected scientists.
Eight years of "Gymnasium" provide pupils with a general university entrance qualification.
We made a distinction between the costs of general and university hospitals.
Substantial demographic and/or social selection bias of patients could be excluded since all contributing centres are part of general or university hospitals.
In contrast to studies of out-of-OU birth in general, university- or college-educated women constituted only a minority in this study, while women with no post-secondary education or vocational training comprised the majority.
