Background: Patients commonly present to emergency rooms and primary care clinics with cellulitic skin infections with or without abscess formation. In military operational units, non-physician medical personnel provide most primary and initial emergency medical care. The objective of this study was to determine if, after minimal training, Army physician assistants and medics could use portable ultrasound (US) machines to detect superficial soft tissue abscesses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This report presents national estimates of the use of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States during 1995. Estimates are provided by demographic characteristics of patients discharged, geographic region of hospitals, conditions diagnosed, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. Measurements of hospital use include number and rate of discharges and days of care, and the average length of stay.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVital Health Stat 13
November 1997
Objectives: This report presents national estimates of the use of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States during 1995. Estimates of first-listed diagnoses, all-listed diagnoses, days of care for first-listed diagnoses, and all-listed procedures are shown by sex and age of patient and geographic region of hospital.
Methods: The estimates are based on data collected through the National Hospital Discharge Survey for 1995.
In 1994, 27.7 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures were performed during 18.4 million visits to ambulatory surgery settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: We sought to determine whether racial differences in rates of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and cardiac catheterization decreased after 1980.
Background: Many reports of racial differences in utilization of CABG have been published since 1982. However, changes in the relative utilization of revascularization over time have received little attention.