Geography frequently takes a back seat to history in the social studies classroom, but teaching geographic literacy is essential if students are going to understanding the challenges and opportunities of our complex world.
In an evaluation of The Computer Program for Diagnosing and Teaching Geographic Medicine, the system correctly identified 222 (75%) of 295 cases and 128 (64%) of 200 hypothetical cases (23).
Two infectious disease diagnostic decision support systems, The Computer Program for Diagnosing and Teaching Geographic Medicine and GIDEON, included most of the bioterrorism-related organisms in their knowledge bases (23, 28 ).
Hospital characteristics included in the study were: bed size tertile categories (small, medium, large), ownership/control (private investor-own, private non-profit, government nonfederal), setting/teaching status (rural, urban non-teaching, urban teaching), and geographic location (Northeast, Midwest, South, West).
The authors found that variation was not explained by hospital bed size, teaching status, geographic location, or clinical risk factors; rather, practice patterns are a likely driver of cesarean delivery variation.
Controlling for patient demographic and clinical characteristics, hospital characteristics (including hospital teaching status, geographic region, CABG volume, PCI volume, PCI/CABG volume ratio in 2003 2004 and number of performing surgeons and mean surgeon volume within hospital) were not associated with the likelihood of having CABG surgery for probable SEIs.
We assessed the association of hospital volume by quintiles with 30 day, standardized readmission rates, with and without adjustment for hospital characteristics (safety net status, teaching status, geographic region, urban/rural status, nurse to bed ratio, ownership, and cardiac procedure capability.
N.Y.U.'s president, Dr. Sexton, said yesterday that the new institute "will chart a new course that will transform the way antiquity is conceived and taught, without geographic or cultural boundaries".
Covariates included in the GEE models were age, sex, marital status, race, payer type, procedural approach, patient comorbidities, urban vs. rural hospital, hospital teaching status, hospital geographic region, hospital bed size and procedure volume, operating physician specialty, calendar year of surgery, and hospital procedural costing type.
In general, hospital bed-size, teaching status, and geographic region were well dispersed, except for a smaller proportion of hospitals in the Northeast.
Cross-sectional study at three large teaching hospitals in one geographic region.
