Regular hospitalisations, usually for broken bones or hypothermia, fuelled its notoriety, and photographs of mudcaked runners crawling beneath barbed wire sometimes made it to the "fancy that" slots of national newspapers.
The onset is seemingly acute and may require a change in regular medication or hospitalisation" [ 1, 7].
These cards will track the various services each woman in the intervention group has received under the programme, including immunizations, participation in health groups, regular checkups and hospitalisation.
In turn, questions pertaining to a documented history of a previous attack of rheumatic fever had to be addressed using approximative closed questions about regular medication intake, hospitalisations or prolonged disease in the past, and joint pain.
Ethics approval includes provision of a single blood sample on admission, regular clinical reviews during hospitalisation and publication of de-indentified clinical data.
In high-income countries, pressure ulcers are either managed with hospitalisation or regular home nursing, and pressure relieving devices such as alternating pressure air mattresses.
The synergistic effect of factors including increased bronchial virus exposures associated with the reopening of school in September and fall aeroallergen exposures, is a possible explanation for the regular fall peaks in hospitalisations, although further research is required to demonstrate this.
Meningitis was defined as health care associated, if diagnosed < 48 hr. after hospitalisation in patients with regular contact with the hospital e.g. in an out-patients' clinic.
Looking back, he can even refer to his hospitalisation as "a rest cure".
Meningitis was defined as community acquired, if diagnosed with a positive blood culture < 48 hr. after hospitalisation in patients with no regular contact with the hospital, with clinical evidence of infection and if the patient had not received surgical intervention within the preceding four weeks.
