Toxic shock syndrome: incidence and geographic distribution from a hospital medical records reporting system.
A large database of hospital records maintained by the Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities Professional Activity Study (CPHA-PAS) was used to estimate the temporal incidence and geographic distribution of toxic shock syndrome (TSS). The CPHA-PAS hospital-diagnosed incidence was 3.5 times the reported TSS incidence, with a gradual decrease over the time period 1981-83. Marked differences in the regional occurrence of cases may provide clues to the etiology of this complex disease.
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Procter & Gamble Company, Corporate Research, Cincinnati, Ohio 45247.
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D003133:Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States