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Thirty-day readmission rates following hospitalization for pediatric sickle cell crisis at freestanding children's hospitals: risk factors and hospital variation.

Management of thallium poisoning in patients with delayed hospital admission.

Chronic pain in older adults.

Outbreaks spur measles vaccine studies.

Care adjustments for people with learning disabilities in hospitals.

Trends in pneumonia and influenza-associated hospitalizations in South Korea, 2002-2005.

Osteoporotic vertebral fractures: a disabling and expensive disease of our century. A minimally invasive surgical technique to reduce the pain, the hospitalization, and restore the function.

The economic burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the elderly

Two cases of hemorrhagic diarrhea caused by Cronobacter sakazakii in hospitalized nursing infants associated with the consumption of powdered infant formula.

Comparison of 70/30 biphasic insulin with glargine/lispro regimen in non-critically ill diabetic patients on continuous enteral nutrition therapy.

Politics and patient care

[The medical emergency department in a Swiss regional hospital: the important role of generalists].

Evidence-based performance measures: preventing unintended consequences of quality measurement.

Summaries for patients: Preventing venous thromboembolism in hospitalized patients: recommendations from the American College of Physicians.

[Treating COPD in chronic patients in a primary-care setting].

The diagnosis and management of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.

Characteristics and outcome after hospitalization for acute right heart failure in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Can hospitalization-associated disability be prevented?

Complications and failure to rescue after laparoscopic versus open radical nephrectomy.

A cross-sectional evaluation of venous thromboembolism risk and use of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in hospitalized patients in Senegal.