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Oregon Oregon, city, United States
Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products.
 hospitals will share stroke info

PORTLAND Portland, town, England
Portland, town (1991 pop. 12,945), Dorset, S England. It is on the Isle of Portland, a small rocky peninsula. Portland stone has been used in St. Paul's Cathedral and other important London buildings. Lobsters and crabs are harvested.
 - In a new effort to improve care for stroke victims in a state with the third-highest death rate from the affliction in the country, Oregon hospitals will soon begin sharing detailed medical records for stroke treatment.

The project reflects the increasingly collaborative efforts among hospitals to improve performance and reduce wide variations in medical practice.

Sixteen Oregon hospitals were recently awarded a $700,000 federal grant to help pay for the stroke registry The configuration database in all 32-bit versions of Windows that contains settings for the hardware and software in the PC it is installed in. The Registry is made up of the SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT files. Many settings previously stored in the WIN.INI and SYSTEM. .

Stroke is the third-highest cause of death in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  and a leading cause of permanent disability. The most recent federal study ranks Oregon's death rate as the third-highest in the nation.

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 of the registry, says the data could reveal whether gaps in the health care system are partly to blame for the state's high death rate.

- From news service reports
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Title Annotation:General News
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Geographic Code:1U9OR
Date:Jun 26, 2002
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