Ultrasound Detection of Soft Tissue Abscesses Performed by Non-Physician U.S. Army Medical Providers Naïve to Diagnostic Sonography.

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.

National hospital discharge survey.

Objectives: 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.

Detailed diagnoses and procedures, National Hospital Discharge Survey, 1995.

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.

National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery: 1994.

In 1994, 27.7 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures were performed during 18.4 million visits to ambulatory surgery settings.

Coronary revascularization and cardiac catheterization in the United States: trends in racial differences.

Objectives: 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.

National hospital discharge survey: annual summary, 1994.

Objectives: This report presents national estimates of the use of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States during 1994. 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.

Detailed diagnoses and procedures, National Hospital Discharge Survey, 1994.

Objectives: This report presents national estimates of the use of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States during 1994. 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 1994.

1994 summary: National Hospital Discharge Survey.

Objectives: This report presents national estimates of the use of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States during 1994. Numbers and rates of discharges, diagnoses, and procedures are shown by age and sex. Discharges are also shown by geographic region of hospital.

Trends in hospital utilization: united states, 1988-92.

This report presents statistics on the utilization of non-Federal short-stay hospitals based on data collected through the National Hospital Discharge Survey for the years 1988 through 1992. The survey is a national sample of hospital records of discharged patients. Estimates are provided by the demographic characteristics of patients discharged, by geographic region of hospitals, and by selected conditions diagnosed and procedures performed.

Life stress and dimensions of functioning in old age.

The present investigation studied the current life adjustment and social and physical activity patterns of a group of 96 elderly men (mean age = 77) who had been initially evaluated 30 years previously. The dimension of functioning of this group in old age also were delineated. A second focus of the investigation was an evaluation of the effect of past personality and current life stresses on present adjustment.