ABSTRACT
In summary, many options are available to hospitals in utilizing computers to study quality of care. One particular approach is not recommended; rather, each hospital is encouraged to investigate the available alternatives, discuss the relative merits of each, and implement the most cost-effective system possible.
Subject(s)
Computers , Quality of Health Care , Costs and Cost Analysis , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Hospitals , Humans , Length of Stay , Mortality , Utilization ReviewABSTRACT
Two cases of acute, fatal, hepatitis occurred in young, striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) trapped in southern Ontario. Histologically, lesions in the liver were similar to infectious canine hepatitis. A virus was isolated which produced large intranuclear inclusions in dog kidney cell cultures. These inclusions were Feulgen-positive and fluoresced green with acridine orange stain. The skunk hepatitis isolate was identified as the virus of infectious canine hepatitis by virus neutralization tests.
