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  1. BURTON-BRADLEY BG
    Med J Malaya, 1959 Jun;13:269-75.
    PMID: 13806345
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization*
  2. Wagner NN
    Med J Malaya, 1967 Dec;22(2):79-81.
    PMID: 4231982
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization*
  3. Eng LS
    Med J Malaya, 1968 Jun;23(4):289-94.
    PMID: 4235592
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization*
  4. Bolton JM
    Br Med J, 1968 Jun 29;2(5608):818-23.
    PMID: 5658921
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  5. Dugdale AE, Puvan IS
    Med J Malaya, 1971 Dec;26(2):98-101.
    PMID: 4260868
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization*
  6. Roy RN
    N Z Med J, 1972 Aug;76(483):97-101.
    PMID: 4508817
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  7. Kinzie JD, Bolton JM
    Am J Psychiatry, 1973 Jul;130(7):769-73.
    PMID: 4712728
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  8. Iqbal QM
    Med J Malaysia, 1974 Sep;29(1):60-3.
    PMID: 4282633
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  9. Seong TE, Haq SM
    Med J Malaysia, 1974 Dec;29(2):126-30.
    PMID: 4282398
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  10. Chen ST
    Trop Geogr Med, 1975 Mar;27(1):103-8.
    PMID: 806152
    Pneumonia and diarrhoeas are an important cause of toddler mortality and morbidity in developing countries. Of the 147 children admitted to the University Hospital at Kuala Lumpur in 1971 for pneumonia and diarrhoeas 50 (34%) were found to be suffering from protein-calorie malnutrition of varying degrees of severity. The malnourished children tended to come from poorer homes, and to have a larger number of siblings born in rapid succession when compared with normal weight children. Anemia was more common among the malnourished children. The interaction of infection and malnutrition and the social implications of these diseases are important. It is vital that hospitals in developing countries promote health in addition to their traditional curative role.
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  11. Reid HA
    J Trop Med Hyg, 1975 May;78(5):106-13.
    PMID: 1152101
    Epidemiological features as reflected by 101 patients with unequivocal sea-snake bite received in north-west Malaya are reviewed. Enhydrina schistosa caused over half the bites, including seven of the eight fatal bites. It is the most dangerous sea-snake to man. Over 90 per cent of the victims were male and 80 of the 101 patients were fishermen bitten at their job. Most victims were bitten on the lower limb through treading on the snake, and this resulted in more cases of serious poisoning than upper limb bites (caused through handling nets, sorting fish and so on). Only 14 cathers were bitten (through treading on the sea-snake; no bathers were bitten while swimming). In patients coming to hospital more than six hours after the bite, there was a four-fold increase in serious poisoning compared with patients coming within six hours of the bite. Thus, as time elapses after the bite, the victim is less likely to seek medical help unless poisoning is severe. Despite the lethal toxicity of sea-snake venom, in patients seen during 1957-61 before sea-snake antivenom became available, the mortality was only 10 per cent. Trivial or no poisoning followed in 80 per cent of the bites. On the other hand, of 11 patients (20 per cent) with serious poisoning, over half (six patients) died despite supportive hospital treatment. These epidemiological features observed in Malaya probably apply to most fishing folk along Asian coastlines where sea-snakes abound. If this is so, sea-snake bite must be a common hazard feared by millions of fishing folk, and a common cause of illness and death. But it is unlikely that the extent of this problem will be revealed to orthodox medicine for many decades because most fishing villages are far from medical centres; and even if hospitals or medical centres are available, fishing folk are usually reluctant to attend them. Only one species of sea-snake, Pelamis platurus, extends to the east coasts of Africa and west coasts of the tropical Americas, but for various reasons this species does not appear to constitute much of a hazard to fishing folk in these areas. Although bathers are occasionally bitten along Asian coasts, when they inadvertently tread on a sea-snake, the risk of sea-snake bite in this area is extremely low. The prevention of sea-snake bite and poisoning is considered. Highly effective antivenom is now available for treating victims with serious poisoning; death should not occur provided adequate medical treatment is given within a few hours of the bite. The main problem is provision of adequate medical care at rural medical centres and overcoming the reluctance fishing folk often have in attending these centres.
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  12. Khan SM, Anuar AK
    PMID: 918716
    Faecal samples from patients admitted to the District Hospital in Balik, Pulau, Penang revealed high infection rates for Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworms. The prevalence rates were Trichuris trichiura 51.7%, Ascaris lumbricoides 31.9% and hookworm 37.2%. The overall highest infection is among the Malays (79%), the least being among the Chinese (61.1%). The prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides was highest in the 11-20 age group. The prevalence of Trichura was highest in the 51-60 age group, Ascaris and Trichuris infections is higher among the males but hookworm infection is higher among the females. 72.6% of the patients were infected with at least one type of helminth and 32.9% of the patients were infected with at least 2 types of helminths.
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  13. Yeoh OH
    Med J Malaysia, 1980 Jun;34(4):349-57.
    PMID: 7219262
    This paper describes the characteristics of Malay psychiatric inpatients, their attitudes towards hospitalisation and their practice of consulting traditional healers (bomohs). The behaviour patterns which prompted hospitalisation were: acute disorganised behaviour directed at the community, behaviour of a less acute nature distressing the family and life-threatening crises. The social interaction life styles of urban and rural Malays are discussed in relation to the differences observed between urban and rural hospitalised patients. When the traditional healers were consulted there was a delay before hospitalisation, but there was an awareness of the need for hospitalisation shown by a small number of the traditional healers. Some patients who had consulted the traditional healers had the tendency to continue the consultations after leaving the hospital, but this practice became less frequent after each discharge from hospital.
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  14. Nair V
    Med J Malaysia, 1980 Sep;35(1):77-85.
    PMID: 7254005
    This was a retrospective study of 177 patients above the age of 45 who were admitted to the Psychiatric Unit, University Hospital Petaling Jaya during the period October 1975 to October 1978. The available socio-demographic and clinical data from the case files were studied. The patients were divided into two groups - those with effective illnesses and those with non-affective illnesses. The differences in socio-demographic background and clinical symptomatology between the two groups and how the data compares with that in other studies was reported. The sick elderly person is an economic and psychological liagility to .his family and society. Absence of illness in the elderly not only fosters their continued independence but also improves the quality of their individual life. Though no definite correlations or conclusions could be arrived at, this study has sought to bring into awareness the necessity of delineating possible illness precipitating stress factors in the social and domestic environment of patients in later life.
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  15. Leng CH
    Int J Health Serv, 1982;12(3):397-417.
    PMID: 7118330
    The health of a population and the development of health services in a country at a particular time in history are directly linked to the socioeconomic system. This paper discusses health and health services in Malay Peninsula during the time that it was a British colony. Economic production under British colonialism, which is basically a capitalist system, is organized primarily for the purpose of realizing profits. The health of the population is in direct conflict with and generally subordinated to this main objective. The pattern of health that emerges reflects this general framework. Moreover, health services under the colonialist system are developed primarily to serve the economic interests of the colonialists. Hence, the structure of health services is biased toward curative medicine and centered mainly in the urban areas.
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  16. Tan CK
    Family Practitioner, 1983;6:67-70.
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  17. Jamal F, Pit S, Isahak I, Abdullah N, Zainal Z, Abdullah R, et al.
    PMID: 3660072
    A total of 90 cases of pneumococcal infections were identified at a major referral hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during a study period of four years. Pneumonia was the most common clinical presentation (41 cases) followed by meningitis (19 cases). Of 48 patients who were followed-up during the microbiology consultation round, 11 died, 9 were children below two years old. Capsular typing was carried out on 57 strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from blood and body fluids of 43 children and 14 adults. 38 strains isolated from pharyngeal specimens were also typed. Types 6A (11 strains), 6B (7 strains), 14 (8 strains) and 19A (8 strains) predominated in children. The strains from older patients comprised 3 isolates from cerebrospinal fluid (types 18B, 6B and 14), five from blood (4 strains, type 1 and 1 strain, type 4) and six from pus (1 strain, type 14, 3 strains type 23F and 2 strains type 34). The isolates from pharyngeal specimens belonged to capsular type similar to those implicated in infections. 90% of the types reported in this study are included in the 23 valent pneumococcal vaccines. Minimum inhibitory concentrations of penicillin, cefuroxime, chloramphenicol and rifampicin were determined for selected strains. 4.1% of isolates were resistant to penicillin (3/74), 4.5% to cefuroxime (2/44), 6.5% to chloramphenicol (3/46) and 14.6% to rifampicin (6/41).
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
  18. Lim KG
    Med J Malaysia, 1987 Jun;42(2):76-80.
    PMID: 3503193
    One-hundred-and-thirty-one female stroke patients were identified in a retrospective analysis of female medical admissions to the Penang General Hospital during 1983. The hospital medical admission rate of women with stroke was significantly higher amongst the Chinese than the Malays [p < 0.001) or the Indians (p < 0.001). A higher proportion of Indians than Chinese or Malays presented within 24 hours of the onset of illness. The case fatality rate at discharge was 34% when patients taken home moribund were included as fatal cases. Such cases where patients were taken home at their own risk (AOR) were common among the Malays and the Chinese but did not occur amongst the Indians.

    Study site: female medical wards, Penang General Hospital
    Matched MeSH terms: Hospitalization
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