Of 6,424 unique patient hospitalizations with aspergillosis abstracted from the dataset, after exclusion criteria were applied, 412 (6.4%) ICU patients with IA were identified and analyzed.
Of the over 1.3 million unique annual hospitalizations for ACS in the United States in 2006, over 800,000 were for myocardial infarction (MI) (approximately two-thirds of these were NSTEMI) and almost 540,000 were for UA [ 1].
We found a total of 32,280 unique diarrhea-associated hospitalizations in Denmark among children <5 years of age from 1994 through 2004.
The characteristic and unique age-specific hospitalization curves are consistent with published observations that describe infant DHF/DSS occurrence during primary DENV infections.
The case-case study design is also a strength in that it isolates diarrhea risk factors unique to cholera hospitalization [ 17].
To protect patient confidentiality, the NIS does not have identifiers to link hospitalizations to unique individuals.
Our objective was to determine whether multiply admitted patients, particularly dual users of both VA and non-VA hospitalizations, have unique characteristics that policymakers should consider in resource allocation or for designing targeted care coordination efforts.
This hospitalization pattern may reflect sub-optimal utilisation of specialized neonatal care and may not to be unique for this hospital.
Due to the fact that children's hospitalizations have a unique geography [ 9] Pediatric hospital service areas (HSAP) were created with standard methods according to the Dartmouth atlas of healthcare [ 7, 8, 10] and the detailed descriptions by Klauss [ 10].
The number of unique first claims for avoidable hospitalizations ranged from 9,092 in 1990 to 9,642 in 2000.
