Acute care in neurosurgery: quantity, quality, and challenges

Acute care in neurosurgery: quantity, quality, and challenges.

OBJECTIVE Part of the daily routine in neurosurgery is the treatment of emergency room admissions, and acute cases from other departments or from outside hospitals. This acute care is not normally included in performance figures or budget management, nor analysed scientifically in respect of quantity and quality of care provided by neurosurgeons. METHOD Over a 1 year period, all acute care ca...

Improving the Quality and Quantity of HIV Data in the Middle East and North Africa: Key Challenges and Ways Forward

Although the HIV pandemic is witnessing a decline in the number of new infections in most regions of the world, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has a rapidly growing HIV problem. While generating HIV data has been consistently increasing since 2005, MENA’s contribution to the global HIV literature is just over 1% and the existing evidence often falls behind the academic standards. Sever...

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

What is quality in neurosurgery?

I have had the privilege to participate in many and varied aspects of organized neurosurgery over the past 30 years and defining quality in neurosurgical practice remains elusive. How do we define quality? How do we measure, certify, regulate, and report quality? How do we ensure that quality will happen? It is much like beauty. It is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. It is also ...

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