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Primary outcome measure: Incidence of hospital-identified Clostridium difficile infection (HI-CDI) – identified according to the national definition of diarrhoea symptoms and a stool tests showing C. difficile toxin A, B or C – was “defined as CDI diagnosed in a patient attending any area of an acute public hospital” (Slimings et al, 2014). Time of analysis: From the 1st of January 2011 to 31st December 2012. Analyses were conducted in patient-days, which was defined as “number of days of…

Incidence of difficult intubation Difficult tracheal intubation contributes greatly to anaesthesia related morbidity and mortality. The principal adverse outcomes associated with the difficult airway include brain injury, cardiopulmonary arrest, unnecessary tracheostomy, airway trauma, damage to teeth and death8,9 The incidence of failed tracheal intubation ranges from 1 in 1000–2000 cases in the elective setting10,3. Failed and difficult tracheal intubations are associated with…

pitching moment. Variations of these parameters with incidence and flap deflection were investigated. Thin aerofoil theoretical prediction of a 2π/radian lift curve, aerodynamic hysteresis and theoretical aerodynamic centre at 0.25C were examined. 1 Introduction The experiment investigates the characteristics of an aerofoil in a 2D incompressible viscous…

Pressure ulcers (PU) are painful, common, costly, often preventable, and potentially fatal. (1-4) Reducing the incidence of PUs has been an important part of quality improvement efforts in healthcare facilities for many years. These efforts increased in 2008 due to an announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding denying payments related to stage III and IV hospital-acquired PUs. (5) Typically, PU rates in general hospital units are lower than those in…

experiences of the pertinent individuals are considered in relation to the results of the studies establishing the correlation between high social media usage and incidence of depression, it appears that it is depression that contributes high usage patterns rather than the inverse. This paper seeks to investigate this causation between incidence of depression and social media usage and accomplishes this by investigating the correlation between the two, looking into the experiences of depressed…

grinder has increased the incidences of reported sexually transmitted infections (STI’s)? Since these app have become available to virtually everyone who has a smart phone, encounters leading to sexual intercourse through the use of technology, has been on the rise due to how easy it has become to interact with people that may have similar interests as you. Furthermore I will hypothesize that due to the increase of proximity locating apps, there have been an increase in incidences of STI’s,…

Healthy People Diabetes Healthy People 2020 is a10-year agenda that focuses on improving health for all Americans. Healthy People 2020 prioritizes public health issues within the nation, sets goals to address them, and monitors the progress of the initiatives taken on individuals and communities in order to see the impact of their prevention. This paper will focus on the public health issue of diabetes within the United States adult population. According to Healthy People 2020, diabetes is a…

Acute Pancreatitis Clinical Presentation Clinical presentation can be classified into three main categories. The categories include the patients’ major complaints, which are those signs and symptoms which are easily identifiable, finding based on physical examinations as well as those that manifest themselves as a result of complications. The clinical presentation of the disease tends to be dependent on the severity of the inflammation occurring in the pancreas as well as the possibility of…

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2014a), the incidence of breast cancer in the state of Kentucky is 127.3 per every 100,000 females. The death rate of women in Kentucky who are diagnosed with breast cancer is noted to be 20.8 per every 100,000 (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014a). Survival rates are largely dependent on when and what stage the cancer is when diagnosed. A woman diagnosed with stage two breast cancer has a national survival rate of 93%,…

diabetes mellitus, and this incidence is more common among some ethnic groups than the other. Due to many complications associated with this disorder, many factors such as lifestyle, societal factors, aging, genetics, ethnicity, etc. have been shown to be the culprit. Some of these factors are modifiable and can be controlled early by intervening appropriately at both the individual and the community level to decrease the rising incidence. Interventions The increasing incidence of type 2…