PATIENT REFERRAL PATTERNS AND THE SPREAD OF HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS THROUGH NATIONAL HEALTH CARE NETWORKS.

Patient referral patterns and the spread of hospital-acquired infections through national health care networks.

Rates of hospital-acquired infections, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are increasingly used as quality indicators for hospital hygiene.Alternatively, these rates may vary between hospitals, because hospitals differ in admission and referral of potentially colonized patients.We assessed if different referral patterns bet

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Damage mechanism of existing RC slabs with reinforcing steel plate

The purpose of this study was to clarify the damage mechanisms of existing reinforced concrete (RC) slabs with reinforcing steel plates through the use of a three-dimensional nonlinear finite element analysis.An actual wheel load running test was simulated.Two panels of RC slab were cut from existing bridges and were used as the test specimens.Simu

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Effects of frozen of marula fruits (Sclerocarya birrea) on chemical, antioxidant activities, and sensory properties of marula fruit juice

This study read more determined the effects of frozen storage on physicochemical, phenolic content and antioxidant activities of fruit juice extracted from frozen marula fruits.The marula fruits were frozen for zero to eight weeks after which the frozen marula fruits were thawed between 10 and 12 h and the juice extracted manually.There was 36.35%

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