What's the difference between hospital and nosocomial?
Hospital
Definition:
(n.) A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.
(n.) A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for.
(a.) Hospitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(3) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(4) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(5) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(6) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
(7) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(8) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
(9) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(10) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
(11) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(12) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(13) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(14) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
(15) In a random sample of 1,000 neonates from a Delhi Hospital the incidence of jaundice was 53% and of hyperbilirubinaemia (HB) 6%.
(16) The hospital mortality was 2.4% in group A and 2.6% in group B.
(17) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
(18) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(19) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
(20) None of the children in the study showed clinical symptoms of acquired subglottic stenosis before discharge from hospital, and none has been readmitted for this condition subsequently.
Nosocomial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a hospital; as, nosocomial atmosphere.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(2) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
(3) The purpose of this study was to define risk factors for nosocomial candidemia in adult patients without leukemia at a tertiary care medical center.
(4) Patients treated with ciprofloxacin may need added coverage for anaerobes, but the drug's excellent activity against nosocomial pathogens and its availability in oral form allow for an early change to oral therapy without compromising effectiveness coupled with added savings and convenience.
(5) (18.4%) were the pathogens most frequently associated with nosocomial infections.
(6) Cure rates for nosocomial pneumonias from gram-negative bacilli treated with these 2 therapies also were similar (70% versus 60%, respectively).
(7) Nosocomial acquisition of C. difficile has been documented.
(8) Staphylococcus epidermidis is a recognized cause of nosocomial meningitis in low-birth-weight infants and frequently occurs without CSF abnormalities.
(9) Additionally the most strains of Salmonella subspecies I from nosocomial infections produced aerobactin, in the most cases determined by plasmids.
(10) Workmen's Compensation claims from 193 licensed Florida hospitals were reviewed for 1970 to 1972, to seek possible nosocomial infection, and 55 claims for infection were found.
(11) Survival analysis demonstrated that the probability of survival without developing nosocomial pneumonia was greater among closed-suctioning patients vs. open-suctioned patients (p less than .03).
(12) Growth characteristics of the epidemic strain of S. marcescens were compared with those of control strains of S. marcescens which had been obtained from unrelated nosocomial outbreaks.
(13) Risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia include host variables, colonization with nosocomial pathogens, and impaired response of pulmonary defenses to the microbial challenge.
(14) Our university hospital reports a 20 month experience in which numerator data was collected as per the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System criteria for hospital-wide, high-risk nursery and ICU surveillance.
(15) Nosocomial and other severe infections are able to cause life-threatening complications in organ transplant recipients.
(16) Every head and neck patient with nosocomial pneumonia had specialized tests performed.
(17) 67% of the septicaemias due to group B streptococcus were nosocomial, whereas the group A, C or G septicaemias were in most cases community-acquired.
(18) Nosocomial influenza infections were identified in 14% of the high-risk and 4% of the low-risk patients.
(19) Microbiology laboratory reports are the principal data source for nosocomial infection surveillance in most European countries.
(20) There were mainly nosocomial infections resulting from too generously administered antibiotics.