Prevention of Deterioration Center

Some of the subgroups which are of special interest are the Office of Scientific Personnel the Office of Documentation the Nuclear Data Project which publishes Nuclear Data Tables, Nuclear Reaction Graphs, and Nuclear Theory Cards Office of Critical Tables, which publishes the Directory of Continuing Numerical Data Projects and the Prevention of Deterioration Center which publishes Prevention of Deterioration Ahstracts, Environmental Effects on Materials and Equipment Abstracts, and PDC Newsletter. The Cardiovascular Literature Project which recently left NAS-NRC is now operating as the Washington office of the Institute for Advancement of Medical Communications. 

The Prevention of Deterioration Center, sponsored by the Department of Defense, functions within the National Research Council. It issues a monthly publication, Prevention of Deterioration Abstracts (13). It is the most comprehensive in the field and covers material from other sources in addition to government documents. One of the sections... 

Prevention of Deterioration Center, Prevention of Deterioration Abstracts. 

This center prepared a comprehensive book Introduction to the Prevention of Deterioration of Materials, published by a commercial publisher early in 1953. 

Because of the difficulty in accurately establishing the diagnosis of a hospital-acquired pneumonia or tracheitis in a critically ill child, a standardized approach for defining these infections offers the best opportunity for interhospital comparisons. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) definitions for lower respiratory tract infections in children are included in Tables 2 and 3 (27). However, pneumonia and tracheitis may still be diagnosed and treated in children who do not satisfy these criteria. Also, children who fulfill these criteria may not truly have a nosocomial LRI. This occurs most commonly when the child exhibits a deterioration in his or her underlying pulmonary condition. 

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