Dietaries in Maternity Hospitals

Dietaries in maternity hospitals.

Several comprehensive studies of hospital feeding have been planned to show as precisely as possible the nutritive value of representative diets provided in hospitals for patients and staff. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Department of Health for Scotland has been carefully examining the problem of hospital diets and has made surveys and will publish a report in due course. The purpos...

Information for managers in hospitals: representing maternity unit statistics graphically.

Staff who organise and run maternity units contribute many statistics to their health authority but do not find it easy to obtain information about their unit from these statistics. Data that are collected routinely, however, can be used to provide each unit with a graphical profile of its activity and resources. The method described here was derived from the personality profiles used by psycho...

[Prevalence of congenital malformations at birth in Chilean maternity hospitals].

BACKGROUND The Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC) is an epidemiological surveillance system operating in 11 South American countries since 1969. AIM To analyze the Congenital Malformation prevalence rate at birth from 2001 to 2010 in Chilean Hospitals participating in ECLAMC. To compare these rates with those of the period 1982-1994. MATERIAL AND METHODS...

Overview of newborn hearing screening programs in Brazilian maternity hospitals.

INTRODUCTION Newborn hearing screening has as its main objective the early identification of hearing loss in newborns and infants. In order to guarantee good results, quality indicators for newborn hearing screening programs are used as benchmarks. OBJECTIVE To observe and describe the reality of national newborn hearing screening programs in Brazil, and to evaluate if they can be referred to...

Foods and Dietaries