The Evolution of national health policy and the Illinois health care delivery system.

Prepared by the Illinois Health Care Cost Containment Council.

An audit of first-aid treatment of pediatric burns patients and their clinical outcome

This study describes the first aid used and clinical outcomes of all patients who presented to the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia in 2005 with an acute burn injury. A retrospective audit was performed with the charts of 459 patients and information concerning burn injury, first-aid treatment, and clinical outcomes was collected. First aid was used on 86.1% of patients, with 8.7% receiving no first aid and unknown treatment in 5.2% of cases. A majority of patients had cold water as first aid (80.2%), however, only 12.1% applied the cold water for the recommended 20 minutes or longer. Recommended first aid (cold water for >or=20 minutes) was associated with significantly reduced reepithelialization time for children with contact injuries (P=.011). Superficial depth burns were significantly more likely to be associated with the use of recommended first aid (P=.03). Suboptimal treatment was more common for children younger than 3.5 years (P<.001) and for children with friction burns. This report is one of the few publications to relate first-aid treatment to clinical outcomes. Some positive clinical outcomes were associated with recommended first-aid use; however, wound outcomes were more strongly associated with burn depth and mechanism of injury. There is also a need for more public awareness of recommended first-aid treatment.

Tracking healthy people 2010 : Healthy people 2010.

"This edition of Tracking healthy people 2010 supersedes the version contained in the January 2000 conference edition of Healthy people 2010. It includes revised information and the operational definitions for the Healthy people 2010 objectives. Updates to the operational definitions will be available periodically"--P. 2 of cover.

Controlling rising hospital costs /

"September 1979"--Cover.

Summary of proceedings and testimony from the Public Forum for the Development of a National Research Strategy for Neurological and Communicative Disorders /

"June 1, 1979."

National research strategy for neurological and communicative disorders.

"June 1, 1979."

Healthy people 2010 : understanding and improving health.

"January 2000."

The future of health care in America [microform] : hearings before the Subcommittee on Education and Health of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundredth Congress, second session.

"June 14, 16, 21, and 23, 1988"--Pt. 2.

Health Security Act.

Shipping list no.: 93-0618-P.

Health care in the 21st century [microform] : who will be there to care? : hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, September 20, 1988.

"Comm. pub. no. 100-689."

Basic health care for the medically indigent /

"January, 1989."

Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Task Force : preliminary report to the Illinois General Assembly, January 2000.

"Senate Joint Resolution 37."