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acute illness

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acute illness,
any illness characterized by signs and symptoms of rapid onset and short duration. It may be severe and impair normal functioning.


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The newsletter carries abstracts and commentary from a variety of medical journals on such topics as: safety, infection control and quality improvement practices; diagnosis and treatment of acute illness in a hospital setting; and, diagnostic and therapeutic models for common inpatient problems.
Students will be able to choose from a range of papers, eg children in context, management of children with acute illness, chronic illness and disability in childhood, primary health care, mother and baby nutrition and/or use a special topic paper to follow an area of specialist child health practice.
Short-term medical treatment, usually in a hospital, for patients having an acute illness or injury or recovering from surgery.
 
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