health-care provider
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provider
noun[C]
uk/prəˈvaɪ.dər/us/prəˈvaɪ.dɚ/
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Of persons who did visit ahealth-careprovider, 70 % had abdominal cramps, 55 % had fever, 31 % had vomiting, and 1 % had blood in the stool.
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Calling and visiting ahealth-careproviderwere more common in respondents living in urban areas than in respondents living in rural areas.
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Eight percent of persons who visited ahealth-careproviderwere hospitalized.
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During the spring outbreak reported here, only 29 % of the case-patients had visited ahealth-careprovider.
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Among the persons who took antibiotics, 32 % took antibiotics without visiting ahealth-careprovider.
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Of the 31 ill students, nine visited ahealth-careprovider, and two had stool samples submitted for enteric pathogen testing by their providers.
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These findings may help resolve conflictinghealth-careproviderviews of the infection.
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Securing the collaboration ofhealth-careprovideror patient associations could help achieve such enlightenment in the policy arena.
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This report illustrates how a series of events, from the level of the food processor to the treatinghealth-careprovider, can potentiate an outbreak.
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One adult belonged to a group considered at risk (health-careproviderworking with children).
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The median time between onset of illness and seeing ahealth-careproviderwas 2 days (range 0-30).
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Of persons who visited ahealth-careprovider, 14 % also had a subsequent visit to anotherhealth-careproviderfor their illness.
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Persons with diarrhoea who visited ahealth-careproviderwere also asked whether they were hospitalized because of their illness.
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