To describe a significant but poorly understood public health problem, the authors compiled data on swimming pool drownings and near-drownings requiring hospitalization for California children ages 1 to 4.|Data from death certificates were used to an...

To determine population size, demographic characteristics, hospital utilization patterns, the specialties of physicians providing care, and costs for hospitalized adult sickle cell patients in Illinois.|A statewide, administrative dataset for the two...

Because geographic differences in health care have been found for many diseases, including those affecting children, there are probably geographic differences in the health care of young children with sickle cell disease. Consequently, survival of yo...

A prospective cohort study was performed to identify risk factors for seabather's eruption.|Study participants were recruited at four beaches in Palm Beach County, Florida, during three weekends of May and June 1993. Participants were interviewed by ...

This study estimated the number and cost of hospitalizations associated with sickle cell disease in the United States.|To estimate the number of hospitalizations per year in the United States of people with sickle cell disease, the authors used data ...

To determine the prevalence of testing for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the clinical management of primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma).|The authors reviewed the records of 78 patients treated for hepatocellular carcinoma in hospit...