4. Impact of Amending Medical Service Fees about Countermeasures against Hospital Infection

Impact of prescription-term deregulation with revised medical service fees on drug therapy management.

The proclamation of April 2002 of a Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare ordinance has enabled doctors to prescribe drugs for an outpatient without a limit on the length of prescription terms except for a few drugs. There is a concern that the prescription-term deregulation could cause careless drug therapy management in order to extend the interval between patient hospital visits. The purpose...

Immunisation of armed service medical personnel against hepatitis B infection.

Clinical and laboratory staff of the Army and RAF medical services at risk of acquiring infection with hepatitis B were immunised against the virus with a recombinant vaccine. Vaccine was administered in Service hospitals and medical centres located throughout the world. After a primary course of vaccine, 73% of personnel developed anti-HBs titres > or = 100 IU/L to hepatitis B surface antigen ...

Violence Against Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Service Personnel in Guilan Province, Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study

Countermeasures against Distributed Denial of Service A Literature Review

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is carried out by simultaneously by compromised systems against targets causing system and service unavailability. Regardless of industry and size, companies worldwide are increasingly becoming target of DDOS attacks. The sophistication and intensity of these attacks are exponentially rising due to increase in number of compromised systems, unpatche...

Isolation Hospital Consultants' Fees