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The initial sample included all 338 acute care hospitals in California that were in operation during both 1982 and 1989.
Severe dyspnea, whether acute or chronic, affects patients' functional status and quality of life as well as other psychosocial aspects of the patient's life.
If the chronic effects of a pollutant are considered more important than its acute effects, prospective cohort studies may also be preferable to longitudinal time series studies because the latter type of study is typically designed to detect the effects of short-term (e.g.
Patient variables included age, sex, primary and secondary ICD-9 diagnoses, severity of illness as measured by Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II, medical conditions resulting in difficult or complicated ventilation, admission source (home, emergency room, nursing home, hospital ward, or acute care facility), do not resuscitate (DNR) status, pay class or insurance coverage and discharge disposition (expired, home, skilled nursing facility, intermediate nursing care facility, other hospital and tertiary facility).
263 with a bullet, just below acute ischemic heart disease and delirium tremens, nosing ahead of various mental disorders, Tourette's syndrome, and rectal polyps.