Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
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Alcohol misuse by college students places resource demands on colleges and universities, including the provision of medical services for intoxicated students. We harvested archival data to document the prevalence of alcohol-related ambulance utilization and to explore factors associated with ambulance use. ⋯ Alcohol misuse is associated with one out of every six campus-based ambulance runs, a hidden cost of student alcohol misuse.
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J Public Health Manag Pract · Nov 2009
Should the pertussis case definition for public health reporting be refined?
The surveillance case definition for confirmed pertussis requires that an individual with a positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) result for Bordetella pertussis have 2 weeks or more of cough and at least one of the following: paroxysmal coughing, inspiratory "whoop," or posttussive vomiting. ⋯ Decreasing cough duration from 2 weeks or more to more than 1 week would result in 95 percent of those with positive PCR results meeting confirmation criteria for pertussis. Apnea should be considered an additional sign for pertussis confirmation in infants.