A special conditions register.

Establishing a register of children with special needs.

The Court Report recommended that every health district should maintain a register of children with handicap.' These registers, however, rarely meet their stated objectives, cannot provide data readily, and even yield unlikely variations in incidence of conditions like Down's syndrome and spina bifida.2 The requirements of the 1981 Education Act and advances in desk top microcomputing have rene...

Treatment: special conditions: resistant hypertension.

One of the most common reasons that physicians and other health care providers refer a patient to a hypertension specialist is because that patient’s blood pressure (BP) is not at goal. The term that has become most commonly used now to classify and define these patients is ‘‘resistant hypertension,’’ but some still refer to these patients as having refractory hypertension. A resistant hyperten...

Catalog of 199 register-based definitions of chronic conditions

INTRODUCTION The aim of the current study was to present and discuss a broad range of register-based definitions of chronic conditions for use in register research, as well as the challenges and pitfalls when defining chronic conditions by the use of registers. MATERIALS AND METHODS The definitions were defined based on information from nationwide Danish public healthcare registers. Medical a...

A Power Aware Cache and Register File Design Space Exploration

The Auckland Breast Cancer Register: a special project of the Auckland Breast Cancer Study Group.

AIMS The Auckland Breast Cancer Register (ABCR) has been established in response to the need for a comprehensive database of breast cancer cases from the Auckland area. METHODS The database records patient demographics, diagnosis, treatment options, prognosis and long-term outcome (annual follow up). Data from 1204 cases, recorded between June 2000 and June 2002 are reported. RESULTS The ma...